Horrible Websites Of 2010, Part 1
Going onto Digg is quite dangerous for your eyes at times. Especially when you have links to such places as Yvette’s, which is a bridal and formal-wear store somewhere in the world. Sometimes it’s scarily bad, and hopefully the Dugg Mirror’s version will work whilst all the Diggers kill the original. I’m not sure if it’s the weird medieval woman holding dog thing that makes it awesomely bad, or the random selection of food as you scroll down…
In direct competition is the online store Arngren which appears to have not understood the concepts of search boxes, tables of content, sections or other ways of dividing stock and content to avoid having a single page with absolutely everything they damn well sell on it. Props for trying…
And finally, there’s the animated rainbow background of THIS PAGE from Dokimos.org, which includes other horrible examples inside it’s scary nineties designs. I just love the fake IE security bar at the top of the page. Just needs more spinning hamsters…
Seizure Special – MIA UK just in case you weren’t blind enough today, and I’m sure we’re going to revisit this trend in the future…
[Digg]
Charlie Brooker Reporting The Language Of News
Fact 1: Charlie Brooker’s Word is LAW
Fact 2: Screenwipe and Newswipe are examples of the best TV about TV in the world.
Fact 3: He really nails the typical BBC News report to a scary level…
Happy Monday! – Japanese Smiling Dogs
Admittedly, this isn’t new to me (having already experienced this myself with the dogs on a farm I was brought up on), but at least there’s video evidence that this actually happens. Thanks Japan!
[via Japan Probe]
TV Presenters Stopped By UK Anti-Terror Laws For Carrying Hairdryers
We live in a terrifying world, where terrorism lurks around every corner. No-one is safe… from children’s TV presenters…
As read in the Guardian
ITV children’s TV presenters Anna Williamson and Jamie Rickers have revealed that they were once questioned by police under anti-terrorism powers – for carrying glittery hairdryers.
Yes… Glittery hairdryers…
“Jamie and I were kitted out in fake utility belts, we had the whole bulletproof flak jacket thing, we’ve got hairdryers in our belt, a kids’ £1.99 walkie-talkie, hairbrushes and all that kind of stuff, and we were being followed by a camera crew and a boom mike and we get literally pulled over by four policemen and we were issued with a warning ‘under the act of terrorism’.”
Rickers added: “We were stopped, not arrested, but they had to say ‘we are holding you under the Anti-Terrorism Act because you’re running around in flak jackets and a utility belt’, and I said ‘and please put spangly blue hairdryer’ and he was, like, ‘all right’.”
So, just to clarify, kids TV show people with camera crew and sparkling hairdressing paraphernalia warrants the police to investigate, yet a local shop I visit had a ton of damage done to the back of their building and the police don’t investigate?
Intriguing…
Happy Monday! Bonus! – Even More From Hudson
Just in case the Happy Monday clip didn’t make you think the world is weird, here’s one from the same guys. Thinking it now? Thanks Hudson…
Happy Monday! – Bomber-Maaaaan!
I don’t know exactly what this video is saying, but it’s something to do with Bomber… Man… and dancing…
Bill Gates Is On Twitter – Follow Him?
The big BillG is now on Twitter. His name? @BillGates of course. He’s even verified, so it’s not some moron pretending to be a stupidly rich software developer. Two questions arise:
One – Will Bill tweet like there’s no tomorrow, like the Twitter Godfather in current isolation from society @StephenFry? Or will he end up posting occasionally, with links to charitable causes?
Two – Would it be a good thing or a bad thing to be seen following Bill Gates on Twitter? I mean, I know I’m geeky, but am I THAT geeky?
