This page looks awful in Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP

Two days ago I looked at geekable.com on a PC for the first time, and I must say bleh! It looks nothing like I'm used to seeing it. Here are some comparison images in PNG format. First, geekable.com as intended, on Apple's Safari browser on Mac OS X.

And the eyesore, once Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP manhandles it:

First notice the extra-large space IE sticks between the title "geekable.com" and the subtitle "Jeff's journal..." The Safari renderer puts these lines of text much closer together, giving a more compact design and adding more vertical symmetry. Also notice the borders between different sections, such as the dots surrounding the date headers and the main page header. These are defined via CSS as "dotted" borders. Internet Explorer interprets "dotted" very liberally, using dashes in most areas, and sometimes even little crosses! I mean, what the fuck, Microsoft?

What's a blog reader with functioning vision and taste in design supposed to do? If you're a Mac OS X Panther user, you're lucky, because you have both Safari (which renders beautifully), and a copy of Internet Explorer 5.2.3 that does a slightly less crappy job than IE 6 on XP. (IE on the Mac uses real dots, but unfortunately messes up their spacing.) If you're a Windows user, you should immediately switch to Mozilla Firebird. It will render geekable.com as I intended it to look, plus it has the capability to block unwanted pop-ups at other web sites! Fight the power!