My routine: wake up, check Drudge Report, shut down laptop, bike to work, power on laptop, check Drudge Report, shower, work, check Drudge Report, bike home, work, sleep. I check Drudge at least 4-5 times a day, maybe more depending on what's going on. I've completely given up on other news outlets; anything I would or should care about anyways is on the Drudge Report. In any event, I always knew the Drudge Report is one of the most primitively designed sites on the web, but I never actually stopped to reflect on it until I read this: Why the Drudge Report is one of the BEST designed sites on the web. This guy makes a lot of good points: it's "good clutter", one guy can run it, it's fast, etc.One thing I did find surprising is how primitively pathetic the Drudge Report actually is. Looking at the source, Drudge is still using the <FONT> tag, circa 1997. Dude, Drudge, three letters for you: C-S-S. Using CSS, Drudge could eliminate redundancies, improve page loading time, and save money on wasted bandwidth. Given that Drudge is probably paying his hosting provider for bandwidth, eliminating redundancies in the HTML with CSS would reduce the overall page size. Hence, reducing the amount of data sent from the server the web-browser on each page-view. Less data sent per page-view directly results in reduced bandwidth costs.
Other tid-bits of interest on the Drudge Report may include: Drudge's hosting provider is HA Hosting, the HTTP Server running the Drudge Report is a custom build of Lighttpd, his domain registrar is Network Solutions, and you can block all of the ads on the Drudge Report using the Adblock Plus Extension in Firefox.
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