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Murder in the Lucky Holiday Hotel
- kmfrk 10y agoThere's also the podcast with the same name for those who'd rather listen to that than to read this ... presentation of it.
- bshimmin 10y agoPerhaps this is just gratuitous bike-shedding, but somewhere between the font [1], the line-height, the general layout (narrow columns shifting about, sometimes transparently on top of imagery), I found this article quite unpleasant to read. Given they have clearly made an effort with the layout and appearance of these long-form pieces, this surely must be a rather disappointing result. [1] Basically the default sans-serif, depending on your operating system: "Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif". If you turn this off, you get PT Serif, which feels considerably easier on the eye, frankly.
- meowface 10y agoThat was my immediate impression, too. Very irritating design. Seems like they were going for something like Bloomberg's "rich" longform articles, but without knowledge of good design principles.
- caoilte 10y agoThere's some equally off-putting gimmickry in the podcast series too. I think they're trying to compensate for the lack of on the record interviews. Should have just hired Adam Curtis...
- lloydde 10y agoI also found this distracting. The worst is trying to scroll up a little bit and have the text jump in Brave on iOS.
- throw2016 10y agoThis is the kind of story that raises far more questions than it answers. There is way too much murkiness and innuendo to discern fact from speculation, opinion and fiction. I mean was the whole thing a setup to frame Bo? Because it seems right from the beginning he had tremendous support and clout to get away with what he did, you just can't run a city the way you want and take down powerful interests without top level support. He was part of the 25 member party politburo all the way through and minister of commerce. So this is one of the top guys in China. At the end it looks more like political intrigue than something personal.
- mcguire 10y agoIt's as crazy as medieval English history.
- gjkood 10y agoI didn't expect to wake up and read a John Le Carre novel first thing in the morning. How interesting that the author is named 'Carrie Gracie', solely for the Carre vs. Carrie name reference. Life imitates art.
- Paul_S 10y agoWho makes these hateful websites? For the love of god at least provide a "printer friendly" version. It's like reading a roll of toilet paper that randomly jerks and spins. You're supposed to be more convenient than a paper magazine! I do recommend the radio programme broadcast on BBC radio 4 (still up on iPlayer).
- true_religion 10y agoI was expecting to see something terrible, instead I saw a really basic parallax site without any gimicks beyond fixed images. To be honest the whole thing just reminded me of a paper magazine, not anything 'hateful'.
- mcguire 10y agoI kept getting weird jumps on Chrome mobile, like ads were appearing at different sizes.