Akkam’s Razor

I read the Politics section of Original Signal, which means I get the finest both hemispheres of the political blogs have to offer, including those to which I am diametrically opposed.

I've noticed quite a bit of "upgrades" and "updates" at LGF (that's Little Green Footballs, and well, I'm not linking to them), and I wonder what they're up to?  The most reason one that caught my eye was a redirect so that visitors from LGF Watch would instead go to the homepage of the Israeli Defense Force.  It's tempting to contemplate skullduggery, but as LGF is a high-traffic site, I was wondering what they were up to.

"Pagination":  For the sake of slimming down posts, comments are presented More pageviews equals a more popular blog equals higher revenue-per-click.

"Manage your Account": If you browst to LGF and sign-in, and then leave, that cookie is active that entire session.  I wonder what effect this has on what a server would record as time-on-the-site?

"Encryption":  Strongly encrypted cookies?  What are these people expecting? 

 I am so not looking forward to this long election season…