I just caught up with my Daily WTF reading.
This post clearly illustrates the soul-destroying concept of layered stupidity. It's a simple version, with only three interlocking idiocies, but it has a certain poetic charm.
Continuation of a theme
8 December 2006 — danApropos my previous mentions of this sort of thing, I couldn't resist piling on about this Lifehacker post. It's headlined by a simply excellent example of a user interface exploding into a Wain mandala of peripheral detail.
(My answer: A mere 15 active extensions, including of course the excellent ClumsyFingers. Plus a few zombies that don't work with Firefox 2, none of which I've found myself actually missing.)
Persistence of incomprehensibility
8 December 2006 — danIt takes some serious stamina for a page that was a Cruel Site of the Day in May, 2002 for the spectacular violence it has perpetrated upon the English language to still be up, and still exactly the same, more than four years later.
That's, like, a century, in Internet time.
But the Zhejiang Yuyao Jinlida electric appliance company, Limited has achieved this feat.
Respect.
Your Seal of Shopping Excellence
6 December 2006 — danThe sure sign of a quality eBay store:
I'd like to see a "Misc" category as well, but I suppose I'll settle for this.
Just in case you missed it
1 December 2006 — danWhaddaya know - games made by Christian fantasists are better than games made by white supremacists.
But that's apparently about all you can say for them.
(Oh, and If that ain't enough schadenfreuderrific reviewage for you, and you've already enjoyed the Chicago Sun-Times review of the Zune, allow me to recommend you stay on that site and peruse any or all of Roger Ebert's zero star movie reviews.)
I wonder what kind of game John Shelby Spong would design?
I don't think it really does
5 November 2006 — danApparently, "this page requires additional images."
The point goes unremarked on the discussion page, which is as lengthy as can be expected for such a weighty topic.
I love Wikipedia talk pages. They're not just more entertaining than most of the main entries (with certain obvious exceptions), but can be more informative too.
Hang a lantern on the magical computer
30 October 2006 — danToday, I have spent quite a while reading the TV Tropes Wiki.
It is informative and hilarious.
Thank you.
Super-Fun-Pack Comix
24 October 2006 — danThe chap who's doing DM Of The Rings, which I've linked to a couple of times recently, is really pumping 'em out at the moment - one every day or so. The comics are just posts on his blog at the moment with no index, but the Next and Previous links will get you through.
Some other amusing art you may have overlooked:
Ursula Vernon's Metal and Magic (How can so many fantasy artists take themselves so seriously?)
Mike Reed's A Netizen's Guide to Flame Warriors (I am several of these people)
Jorge Rivas and Dave Trischuk's Under Power (which has been in placeholder-art mode for a while now, but which has lots of beautifully drawn ultra-violence waiting for those who read from the beginning)
Tim Kreider's The Pain - When Will It End? (probably not James Lileks' favourite place)
This post's title is, of course, a Tom the Dancing Bug reference.
Tom's one of the Salon comics; if you're not one of Salon's uncountable multitudes of subscribers, remember that the magic-cookie URL to persuade the Salon site that you've already sat through their ad-of-the-day has for some time now been this.
You can't just direct-link to the Salon comic image files any more, but the old ones are still live because Salon are not a bunch of link-breaking jackwads. Here's an index page for those old TTDBs, including several editions of the always-good Comix.