In addition to having some fine websites, I have recently discovered that Prince Edward Island is also home to some fine tunes courtesy of windom earle.
On an unrelated note, I have stumbled across a full length, high quality streaming Catherine Wheel concert.
Imagine a website where you could:
Then imagine that it’s all easy to find and navigate, quick to load, and resists the temptation of self-indulgent multimedia.
If you are lucky enough to live on Prince Edward Island then you already have a website like this: www.gov.pe.ca. “Website architecture and construction by Reinvented Inc. for the Government of Prince Edward Island, Canada”. I build websites and I fancy myself a fine critic of effective sites. This one is insanely great.
Thanks to some pervasive media campaigns (most significantly that of Mothers Against Drunk Driving) our generation has done a pretty good job of stigmatizing drunk driving. You’ll still encounter a few nuts and jackasses that insist they’re “<drunkspeak>ok to drive</drunkspeak>” but in general it’s understood that driving drunk is really stupid.
Having grown up with tag-lines like ‘Friends don’t let friends drink and drive’ burned into my subconscious I find it very odd to hear an oldie-olson1 talk about how drunk driving was common when they were growing up. This is the same generation that claims they didn’t know smoking was bad for you2.
This got me thinking: Old people are stupid and I am smart.
Upon further thinking, this premise seemed somewhat unlikely. Then it dawned on me: What do I do that that is so stupid it will make my kids wonder how we even managed to reproduce? The answer: Sleep deprived driving.
Having just gotten back from an all night drive to Halifax and back to deliver a “friend a co-worker” to the airport on his trip to New Zealand (the bastard), I can attest to the stupidity of driving while over-tired. Fortunately I had a fellow aov author to share the driving duties.
Bottom line is, driving while over tired is really stupid3.
Taglines from what is possibly one of the worst marketing campaings I have ever witnessed:
Because .com is for old people.
The global MUsic Domain has launched! Declare your independence now!
The screamin’ streamin’ Domain for people who love music, movies, hot cars, sports and lots of partyin!
It goes on, but I’ll spare you the rest. If you haven’t guessed already (and why would you?) the above cheese is in support of the new .mu domain. Go here to get the full experience complete with guitars, cars and cleavage. I don’t have adequate words or bile to describe how unbelieable god-awful this site and ad campaign are. This guy apparently has two more top level domains appearing soon. Live in fear.
Amazing! A former writer for Letterman marched into a dot-com company’s offices, claimed a desk and started ‘working’. He was there for three weeks before he got busted. Then he wrote about his stunt for The New Yorker.
That is art. TheStandard.com tells the rest of the story.
What is it about non-profit and bureaucratic organizations that possesses them to get mugs, pens, pads, and t-shirts branded with their logo. Admittedly, I have an inordinately large collection of mugs. In my defense, however, I didn’t pay for any of them. They just appear.
The Four Neighborhoods Community Health Centre is a good example of a typical mug producing organization. They are an organization that provides supplemental health care to the local residents to take the strain off the hospital (at least that’s what I think they do, don’t take my word for it). This sounds good enough to me. My question: Where the hell do mugs come in to the picture?
The best I can figure is that when people are put on committees and don’t know what to do, this is when it happens: “Oh, I know, let’s get mugs!”. The world continues to mystify me.
Oh, Alanis Morisette, you are so very wise! You’re high but you’re grounded, you’re sad but your laughing. Oh, you are so wise (but at the same time green)! You’re this, but then you aren’t! What a paradox you are Alanis! What a contradiction you are. You are the thesis and the antithesis. You are a fucking conundrum.
Ok, I’m done. I feel much better now. Sorry.
Jezebel’s Mirror is a collection of photographs people have taken of themselves projected on various reflective surfi.
This site made me wonder why I don’t have a digital camera. Not sure. I’ll get back to you on that one.
Spend a few minutes perusing. It’s surprisingly interesting. Also, you can submit a photo of your own.
Too lazy to write an actual post on this myself, I will quote relevant pieces of a story which appeared in Suck:
Through a process that was both years too long and miles too stupid, the ICANN board approved – drum roll, please – .biz, .name, .pro, .museum, .info, .aero and .coop. Yes, the thundering demand for a .museum domain has finally been met.
The only possible explanation for making such mediocre additions to a badly over-taxed system – while the well-regarded .web and .xxx domains were ignored – is that ICANN, often regarded as the sycophantic toady of trademark holders, had no intention of diluting the worth of the One True TLD, .com.
There is no technical reason why .web, .xxx, .sucks, .nom or .rectalleakage couldn’t be added tomorrow, save the fact that Disney would then have to hire someone to go register disney.rectalleakage, to keep it out of the hands of pranksters.
Oh, we could never just let anything be a top-level domain. No, because then we would have to decide who had the authority to invent and sell new ones. Well, they couldn’t just be free, could they? This is the Internet after all.
What follows is from the cover of an actual magazine that is produced, I think, by the Government of New Brunswick.
“Exports are running hot
Ecommerce is way cool”
It concerns me that someone could actually write that. I can only hope that it was either a joke or an accident, but I fear it was neither. But maybe I shouldn’t be so negative. Maybe I should try to “¢ash in on e¢ommerce”.
