Check it out :

“Thank you for great web site, i have discovered it recently, lots of good read.”

Hmm…interesting. Complimentary, which is good. Strangely vague, which is bad. No mention of gambling, which is good. But still..hmmm. Better follow the link in the comment

Interesting. Doesn’t immediately look illegitimate, but on closer inspection, I notice “articles” like the following:

1. California traffic skills: “later on a few hours! Riding excursions.”
2. With arthritis.: “Indeed, the benefits of program also include the agency. attack heart stroke vioxx”
3. It sector led: “the Net on line judiciary. cable internet versus dsl. There is the rules and overcrowded backbone links can be it up to get to recruit an important part of the better offer but with them out on your home to the home surfer sat at to buy the it packets travelling to those of any offer a poorly lubricated snail: way in the next March.”
4. Endorse the most: “of approximately less job. somerset school of massage”

So spam it is. It is baffling though…I mean, who would order Vioxx from someone who couldn’t string two words together coherently?

(Note: this article is not meant to be ironically topical, but I guess it is. )

The following ten occupations and classifications can be easily improved with Robert Palmerization.

How does one “Robert Palmer”-ize something? Simply describe it in the style of the verses in Simply Irresistible, appending -ible as necessary, and taking care to emote properly.

1. System Administrator: “Your PC’s become unbootable / It isn’t troubleshootable!”
2. Tennis Instructor: “Your elbow is tennis-able / Because your form is reprehensible!”
3. Customer, addressing a barista: “This latte’s unremarkable / but it’s heat is quite combustible!”
4. Parole Officer: “Your freedom’s unobtainable / Your behavior’s far too maimable!”
5. Mechanic: “Your car’s no longer drivable / because your clutch is far too grindable!”
6. Australian: “This dingo is unmovable / because your baby was too edible!”
7. Steve Jobs: “My wealth is quite uncountable / because these ipods are fashionable!”
8. Star Wars Kid: “I am an individual / whose fame’s become unbearable!”
9. Blogger: “This post post is now editable / because this blog’s Wordpressable!”
10. President: “These Weapons are unfindable / My approval is declinable!”

Add your own.

Another Wordpress-enabled site enters the vast, untamed wilds of the internet. Well, perhaps they’re not that vast any more, and they’re certainly tamed (at least mostly.)

What was I saying again?

Anyway, now there exists but one challenge left to accomplish. It is a familiar challenge to any would-be blogger: I must take what I written before this point, and shoehorn it into this space, eliminating the vast, unfriendly, empty white space, thereby creating several entries before this current one. Huzzah!

And that is what I shall do.

Slashdot – an online community for geeks worldwide – is suffering from a crisis. An ugliness crisis.

This is my answer to the recent onslaught of distasteful slashdot color schemes. Take this “favelet” (with apologies to Tantek Celik, of favelets.com, and drag it to your browser’s bookmark bar. Let it idle their…biding its time. But then! One day…when you have to read a story in games.slashdot.org, or suffer through it.slashdot.org, it will be there. Simply click it, and whatever slashdot page you’re viewing will reload in slashdot’s default color scheme.

It should handle most pages that Slashdot serves up, even the the pseudo-static ones like the following:

http://it.slashdot.org/it/04/04/04/237820.shtml

This should check to see if you’re viewing a page like that, and, if you are, it’ll replace that with a valid sid, and then move you on over to a less freaky ui.

Drag the favelet to your bookmarks bar, and defuglify!

200 Market Building

An attractive, understated site for a Portland, OR office building, 200marketplace.com features a really keen animated menu, and some cool JavaScript-based layer trickery. If you need any office space in downtown, this is the place to go.

www.200marketplace.com

...Ohh…who am I kidding? You know why this page is here? It’s to provide another link to the aforementioned website. I swear, if you type “200 market building” or “200 market place” into Google, you get every damn site on the block (including this one), except the actual website. We can’t figure out why that is. I imagine it’s because Google looks at the site, sees mostly images, and raises its middle finger in disgust. We even tried to create a custom landing page, with nicely formatted text links, and submit that to Google, but no dice.

I guess, if all else fails, I’ll just redirect 200marketplace.com to Slashdot , and that should fix it.