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PC World's 25 Worst Web Sites
Cilibrin writes "PC World has posted a story on the 25 dumbest dot-coms and silliest sites. Among those to make the list are the pet-related Neuticles — a site for testicular implants for pets — and every child's favorite, Rabies for Kids." From the article: "As venture capitalists scramble to throw money at anything labeled Ajax or Web 2.0, and Web publishing becomes so simple that anyone with a working mouse hand can put up a site, we offer our list of the 25 worst Web sites of all time. Many of our bottom 25 date from the dot-com boom, when no bad idea went unfunded. Some sites were outright scams — at least two of our featured Net entrepreneurs spent some time in the pokey. Others are just examples of bad design, or sites that got a little too careless with users' information, or tried to demand far too much personal data for too little benefit. And to prove we're not afraid to pick on somebody much bigger than us, our pick for the worst Web site may be the hottest cyberspot on the planet right now. "
Should've taken all 25 spots.
So these sites are better than goatse, lemon party, and hai2u?
Bumper Bawls(bawlz? something like that) beat Neuticles I think; they were fake testicles for CARS.
I hope they were a joke.
I'm glad it made number one. I work in a computer lab as a student at a university, and Myspace is responsible for more browser hangs than everything else combined. That site is a festering cyst on the asshole of the internet.
25. Rentmychest.com.
24. IKissYou.org
23. InmatesForYou.com
22. Digital entertainment network (den.com)
21. Golden Palace Casino
20. Hotmail.com
19. WebVan
18. Beenz.com and Flooz.com (tie)
17. Boo.com
16. Microsoft Windows Update
15. Neuticles.com
14. BidForSurgery.com
13. Whitehouse.com
12. The Dancing Baby
11. Rabies for Kids
10. MyLackey.com.
9. HamsterDance.com
8. BonziBuddy
7. Pets.com
6. Pixelon.com
5. AllAdvantage
4. CD Universe
3. Cartoonnetwok.com
2. CyberRebate
1. MySpace.com
People need to get basic information from somewhere, what's so terrible for this particular source?
Of course, there are much worse out there. How do I know, I see it every time a new person wants to start a fan site about something stupid.
On the other hand, there are lots of cool sites. www.stickdeath.com used to be cool, until they started using annoying pop ups (yay for blockers) and what not. Funny site though. There are tons of others... so, my suggestion, when you come to talk some trash about how bad those sites are and add your list, throw out a site you think is cool as well.
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Justin - Don't be afraid of my blog, it won't bite.
In a story with 1500+ votes, Digg users acknowledged THIS to be the worst web site ever:
http://www.kwota.net/cdc/default.htm
A quote: "I feel like I lost a part of my web design soul just by viewing this site."
I don't know whether to be gratified or insulted that Ninja Burger didn't make the cut, as silly as it is.
Though looking at their list, it appears they really weren't interested in silly anyway; sites that were intentionally silly number only 5 (by my count), the bulk qualifying as dumb (which I read as unintentional silliness or lack of quality):
Dumb
23. InmatesForYou.com
22. Digital entertainment network (den.com)
21. Golden Palace Casino
20. Hotmail.com
19. WebVan
18. Beenz.com and Flooz.com (tie)
17. Boo.com
16. Microsoft Windows Update
15. Neuticles.com
14. BidForSurgery.com
13. Whitehouse.com
11. Rabies for Kids
10. MyLackey.com.
7. Pets.com
6. Pixelon.com
5. AllAdvantage
4. CD Universe
3. Cartoonnetwok.com
2. CyberRebate
1. MySpace.com
Silly
25. Rentmychest.com.
24. IKissYou.org
12. The Dancing Baby
9. HamsterDance.com
8. BonziBuddy
"23. InmatesForYou.com
This site helps you find that special someone, even if you have to wait 13 years for her parole to come up."
I tried clicking on the link but it says "Service Unavailable."
I hope this wasn't slashdotted.
Neuticles are more than cosmetic. Dogs that are shown need to be intact--which is to say, they need both nuts. If they're lacking one, they're disqualified. A fake nut is cheating, but it's pervasive.
An intact dog is also required for breeding.
The best part is PCWorld's site sucks.
I don't know what their minimum requirement is, but I don't like to maximize my browser window, so I can see what's going on in the background. I have a large screen though, so most sites will fit in a window that's roughly 1024 across...not this site though!
And who doesn't love an article that's broken down into at least 5 separate pages? I know there's nothing I love more than clicking and waiting 5 times, just to read a single article.
Had you bothered to read TFA, you might have noticed that myspace did, in fact, get #1 as the worst website.
This list is completely wrong, Hamster Dance is the de facto standard of excellence in web design. Ive modeled almost all of my geocities sites after it, and nowadays I try to implement its design features the my personal, and friends, myspace pages.
They have the stpuidest ad campaign and PC World described it best as buy as much crap as they can. They bought the naming rights to a monkey. A freaking monkey for $600,000. On the one hand it is good for the monkeys because it's going to help them. On the other hand why???
Ooo man the floppy drive is broken. No wait. The computer is just upside down.
I know that Hamsterdance's animated GIFs and sped-up Roger Miller laugh predates Badger Badger Badger, All Your Base Are Belong To Us, and whatever other Flash goodies are out there, but it's really a matter of taste whether Hamsterdance is more annoying, eh?
Laughter is the Spackle of the Soul.
I guess that nobody has ever seen rent-a-hacker.com What a freak'n chump John Klein "Cobra", AKA, Snidley Whiplash AHHAHAHA
Hmmm. Right. Just saw it now. And with all the ads I had to go thru to read that, PC World should be part of the list.
Clearly there is something wrong when "modestapparelchristianclothinglydiaofpurpledresse scustomsewing.com" does not make it in the top 5 of worst .com lists.
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What was funny is that the people couldn't tell it was a joke... bah! Digg, humbug, etc.
These guys have the cheapest hardware in Australia but their web page definitely doesn't have a budget at all :P http://www.msy.com.au/
This must be a list of the 25 worst websites that don't list themselves.
Of the 60 million active websites out there, they're trying to tell me that I've even heard of any of the worst 25? I was expecting 25 on par with "neuticles" or "rabies for kids," not another baseless rant against Windows Update. And don't nobody mention Dancing Baby, which is so good that 7 years later I just showed it to my wife a week ago (who's too young to have seen it--25.) Moral of the story: no major magazine has ever put out a legit list (besides the Fortune 500.) PC World's list of the worst websites was as much of a letdown as every time you get suckered into reading those "PC World's 25 ways to speed up your computer!"
--Colin Jensen
colinandbethany.com
I love Neuticles. I think they are one of the best products on the market for dogs. I can picture this endorsement:
Customer: After I had my first dog, Scamp, snipped, he just didn't lick himself with the same enthusiasm. When we were going to get our second dog, Arny, snipped we heard about neuticles. After they removed his manhood, we had the install a big ole pair of neuticles. He was unsure of himself for a few days. He sniffed at them tentatively, gave them a lick and he was hooked. I decided to get a pair for Scamp installed. And boy was he happy. Now, both dogs lick themselves with the same enthusiasm as if they had real balls.
Arny & Scamp: (in unison) Woof! Woof!
"You'll get nothing, and you'll like it!"
It looks like a 15-year-old girl designed that site. Poor Canada. :-(
I've never known anyone to have trouble with it. How is it difficult to click the "update" button and let it do everything for you?
This sounds more like a lame attempt to bash "Micro$oft" yet again.
Some of the website look nice and have lots of traffic come to their site. But some are really looks not professional. Maybe the PC Worlds rate based on the 'Seriousness' about the content. But maybe it also can be used a place to hang out :P
Luckily my old websites not in the worst 25 list.... Hahahaha :D
(Maybe they don't found it :P)
What? No zombo.com?
This guy's the limit!
Resistance is afoot:
http://code.google.com/p/moshi/
Innovation makes enemies of all those who prospered under the old regime... -- Machiavelli
Its probably too late to convince this AC's mother to abort him, eh? Anyone have any suggestions?
They missed www.realultimatepower.net/
*runs*
gauche and gawdy is right for business.
seems silly to US people, I wonder if it seems so silly to Turkish people.
How on earth did Alex Chiu not make it?
Commodore64_love: I don't comprehend people who're so frightened of death that they'll bankrupt themselves to stay alive
Their brick and mortar probably looks about the same, and it's probably about right for the customers they are targeting.
We talk about Mom and Pop businesses on the web, well, that's what it will often look like.
I think this one is the worst of them all...
http://www.japanorama.com/ugliest.html
can be seen on a 4th season episode of "Penn & Teller: Bullshit!" You can hear and see the inventor sum up his invention in his own words, accompanied by Penn's chiding commentary. If it's not enough for you to just *read* about artificial pet testicles, and you're more the type who wants to *see* them, then feel free to get ahold of the episode. It's episode 406 from season 4, entitled "Pet Love". You can probably get it right now using your favorite p2p program.
:) Although it would be pretty awesome to make some kind of "not only the president, I'm also a client remark" and whip out a second "supplemental" pair as proof positive of my commitment to the product.
And no, I am not Penn Gillette, nor do I have some kind of vested interest in selling you a pair of fake doggie balls.
I nominate PC World as the dumbest site on the web. They actually spent time researching and compiling a list with absolutely no practical use. Ok, if they are going to make fun of the people who thought up these sites, why don't they include the two chair jockeys that wasted time compiling this? Like there was nothing better to do? By the way, although these are pretty dumb sites, they overlook the fact that the site operators/creators are making *much* more money with their "dumb" ideas than are the people who worked on compiling the list, who evidently thought that the list was a good idea. Kinda ironic.
By the way, I don't buy into the whole "MySpace Popularity" thing at all, but if it is such a dumb idea, how come the two creators have made $$$,$$$,$$$ off of it? If someone was making that much off of a "bad idea", maybe it wasn't sucvh a bad idea in the first place. Maybe wasting otherwise productive time compiling a list calling multimillion dollar website bad ideas was the read bad idea. Maybe the lists' creators' only MySpace friend is Tom.
However, I *will* concede that some of the websited really were idiotic (read: Neuticles), but you should take into account the fact that if they manage to stay in business, then maybe they are actually making money off of a dumb idea, and that deserves some thought.
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Sig Sauer
Knowing Google's lust for data collection, the Soviet Union is still alive and well inside the psyche of Sergey Brin....
haha it's horrible!
No joke, I've seen them hanging from the back of large, powerful trucks on the expressways around me.
I've not seen them very often, mind you, but every couple months or so I see another one (or pair, as it were).
Pi Ran Out
Here's one of my favorites -- this one deserves a mention for its sheer volume of nonsense and horrible design. A lawsuit against Bill Gates? Good luck finding a coherent paragraph anywhere on this page: http://www.geocities.com/redmondrose/
tom doesn't want to be my friend oh boo hoo, his sites listed as the worst website "evAr!" suck it up myspace luser!
I think their "worst" calculation is acutally a composite measure, like (badness * max(popularity,notoriety)).
Pi Ran Out
The list should have included treeloot.com, one of the oldest scams on the Internet.
Website #3, Cartoonnetwok.com:
"FTC investigators visiting one of his sites found their screens filled with 29 new browser windows for instant credit, online psychics, gambling, and porn sites. When they hit the Back button, another 7 windows opened--a technique known as "mousetrapping.""
Well, it's their fault for not using Firefox!
(Yes, I know firefox didn't exist back then, it's a joke)
You're an idiot. 1: It's not my site as if I would make something that bad 2: I have no care about "that Crocodile guy", never watched a show of his or had his life interact with mine. 3: Getting attention from America is about last of my list of "to do's" And to hide under "Anonymous Coward", I think I'd do that if I wanted to spam any stuff of mine on here.
I say this as someone who both loathes myspace, and has an account (granted w/o any information filled in), but how is signing up for a myspace account resistance? The problem with moshi conceptually, is that people don't care whether their code or their CSS is kosher, they just care that it looks the way they want it to. I guess i just fail to see how moshi encourages people to be better. Even if you give a proof of concept, that doesn't mean that anybody is going to jump on the bandwagon.
There are lives at stake here!
Strap a bomb to yourself and run into his house?
"Ladies and gentlemen, my killbot features Lotus Notes and a machine gun. It is the finest available."
At $699 a pair for a custom size, they probably aren't even going to need venture funding!
They are not a joke.
See: http://www.bullsballs.com/suv/accessories.html
"Ladies and gentlemen, my killbot features Lotus Notes and a machine gun. It is the finest available."
I was expecting to see 25 websites that were actually crappy, not another rehash of .com business models that blew chunks.
PC Magazine has become the US Weekly of tech. They should be embarrassed of the crappy article.
Thanks for nothing.
Saving the World: One Drink at a Time
> I hope they were a joke.
I don't care if this is a guaranteed (+5, WTF?), there's no fucking way I'm admitting I know about these things under my real ID. Bad enough to admit I've seen them. But to admit I remember reading about them. No fuckin' way.
http://www.bumpernuts.com/
Jesus tittyfucking Christ. Jesus. Tittyfu*BLAM*
FTA: "In 2003 Zuccarini pleaded guilty to violating the Truth in Domain Names Act and was sentenced to 2.5 years in the federal pen."
What? Truth in Domain Names Act? So if I create a site about rocket launchers and register it to fuzzybunnies.com I can go to jail? Can fuzzybunnies be a porn site?
Sweet!
I'm thinking a set of Truck Nuts would look nice on my desktop and maybe Neuticles UltraPlus with Epididymus would boost my laptop's self-esteem.
I think this might be a good candidate: http://www.rhodes.k12.il.us/
s tats/mac_quadra_950.html )
note: http://www.rhodes.k12.il.us/website/tech.html
"A Major component of our Computer lab is our Desktop Publishing Center. Included is a scanner, Quad 950, complete sound system including a woofer, 20" monitor and access to the Internet." ( stats of the major component: http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_quadra/
the youth of America speeding into the future with a computer discontinued 11 years ago.
On a side note, the "inmates for you" site seems to have been slashdotted already..
And when you gaze long enough into the code, the code will also gaze into you.
I used to work at the hosting company that John Zuccarini used for all these squatting domains. He would just buy thousands of domains at a time and point them to his different porn sites. When he got sued, he had no idea what domains he even owned, and I had to write scripts to find all the domain names that were pointed to his IPs.
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http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/kidsrabies/WarningI wonder if it includes parrots.
Like perhaps most people, I skipped first to #1.
The ease with which anyone of any age can create a page, upload photos, share deeply personal details of their lives, and make new "friends" quickly turned MySpace into a one-stop shopping mall for online predators.
I lost interest in the article right about here. thinkofthechildren, etc.
(Come to think of it, aren't shopping malls one-stop shopping malls for "predators"? Oh, teh irony!)
Property is theft.
No, this is the worst site ever. Crackpot city http://www.wongo.com/
... gets my vote, for having articles spanned across 20+ pages of advertising filth.
Myspace: where blink tags go to die
Myspace: It's like being trapped in geocities, during 1996.
Anyone else?
henry -- the human evolution news relay
FTA: "It's the only reason to ever use Internet Explorer."
Amen to that!
Since nobody pointed it out--fake dog testicles do have a market.
When a breeder has an animal that delivers a litter, the breeder picks the best examples and leaves them reproductively-intact and either keeps them for their own use or sells them for lots of money. The ones that already look flawed get spayed or neutered and sold for a lot less money, as "pet-quality" animals.
The problem here is that sometimes the flaws in a pet-quality pup will grow out as it gets older--they'll disappear. And so some of these owners will want to enter them into shows,,,, -but most major pet-show sanctioning organizations have a rule that states that a show animal must be fully intact. For females, they just look for scars as there's no other visual difference; for males, they look for scars and (obviously) if any original pieces are missing.
And thus, the market for implant dog testicles is born.
Ain't capitalism wonderful?
Fun Fact: During a dog show, at least one of the judges is supposed to feel every male dog's testicles and inspect them for scars, in an effort to disqualify any silicone entries. They don't do this during the "main" judging, but it does get done by someone. So if you ever get invited to be a judge any "hoity-toity" dog shows, be sure to bring your rubber gloves....
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Someone at my research group (HCI) startet a little experiment called "Usability shoutbox" where everyone can send in data about usefulness, usability and design of sites and applications with a little tool. The data is collected and presented on the projects page. ;-)
It's windows only at the moment, but it's open source, so feel free to implement the dashboard widget and the firefox plugin
It just started, so there aren't many people (~50) at the moment, though.
This confuses the hell out of me for a few reasons.
First of all, any stylesheets on myspace - or any other sites for that matter - are essentially open... I've never heard of proprietary stylesheets.
Second, short of an SQL injection that would comment out all of the mark-up on a given page and let you write your own from scratch, I can't see anything web-standardsy ever happening. Hell, you'll never get a page to validate for the simple fact that they use neither a !DOCTYPE nor a char-set. I suppose if you want to just hide all their ugly code you could do to your profile what I did (I z-index a layer on top of all that table crap) (and I only use myspace to redirect folks to my personal site) but then why bother having a page there in the first place, when you clearly have the skills to run your own damn site?
There are just far too many problems with myspace's code to be resolved cleanly, and none of the major ones can be fixed without completely ruining all the hard work of all the greasy megadeth fans that had to find 19 pictures of skulls to spider into the layout generator... (and we wouldn't want to piss off my good pal Andy - he's real fat!)
There are other, prettier, cleaner social network sites out there, if myspace isn't for you and you still feel that you need that network, try shopping around. A guerilla-style standardista attack on this site would just amount to a joke.
But hey, it's late on an exceptionally drunk Friday night for me, so I may be completely full of shit.
All in all, I do wish you good luck dear friend, and may the internets be with you.
Paul: If you're reading this, pick your shoes up out of the hallway. I keep tripping over them. Slob.
By the way, I just checked out your other projects, and I have to say that the css swatches one looks pretty neat. I think I'd like to help out with that!
Paul: If you're reading this, pick your shoes up out of the hallway. I keep tripping over them. Slob.
also known as the DPRK website. You have to see it to believe it
"If you think you have things under control, you're not going fast enough." --Mario Andretti
Surely there is a place for Time Cube on this list?
I cannot believe that this site was created with serious intent. My guess is that someone had a lot of time on their hands, or that it was some kind of group-html-masturbation.
I mean, hade you read some of the stuff?
Some choice nuggets:
"i have written, consulted and co-written many various and numerous plugins for MSPAINT, including the "ALIASER" (a de-anti-aliaser), the innovative and hi-tech "Tree Fattener v2.0", and the "Lens Flare Drop Shadower" (if you've ever seen a lens flare with a drop shadow, and who hasn't, chances are it was done with the "Lens Flare Drop Shadower")."
"OUR PAGES LOAD IN ONE MINUTE OR LESS OR IT IS FREE"
"new cdc product
TRANSPARENT BACKGROUND TATTOOS
ALL OF OUR TATTOOS ARE FROM THE 216 COLOR WEBSAFE PALETTE"
I mean, come on! Some of the images are just f'ing hilarious.
I enjoy large posteriors and I cannot prevaricate.
I now have to go to goatse to get that melange of hideous images out of my mind. As far as I can tell, hosanna1.com is a site for born again afghan dogs.
You have to see the popunder (that was blocked when I used Firefox) for the full effect. The filename for the popunder picture is "CDC_SPAM_AD.gif".
My vote is that the site is a spoof.
people don't care whether their code or their CSS is kosher, they just care that it looks the way they want it to.
Also, the way they want it to look is often terrible - most of the MySpace sites are either completely unreadable because of some background the site owner has decided to apply, or just plain annoying because they've decided that absolutely everyone must hear their favorite piece of music so they push it upon you as soon as you open the page.
From what I can see, the one good thing MySpace has done is group a large amount of crap in one place so it's easier to avoid.
(And I'm not even going to get started on the number of MySpace people who have taken to whoring my bandwidth by linking full size 6MP photos off my web server as their background images without permission).
http://blog.nexusuk.org
What I'm wondering is how many of their potential customer will actually be surfing the web? We all know the internet is the root of all good porn^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hevil, and so do they.
- We are the slashdot. Resistance is futile. Prepare to be moderated -
Especially the ones that don't provide non-flash alternatives and completely fail to deliver the information the developers were paid to communicate.
So I click "Worst Site #1" link directly.
And what opens? PC World. With a bunch of floating flash ads over the article. No wonder.
~...but on the list of websites for which this entity is culpable, there is one that is a little different, one that sticks out - sticks out its toungue for tasty BBQ bugs, in fact:
[trumpet fanfare]
The Toad Club of America!!!!
From:
"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?" - Patrick Henry
Maybe Hotmail has its problems (advertisements, banners etc) but should it really be in a list together with the greatest crap ever produced? Either they have lost a large userbase or many hypocrites participated in the voting.
When I saw rentmychest.com I was expecting a prostitute or a porn site.
And when the summary said sites that "tried to demand far too much personal data for too little benefit." I was expectign the New York Times
I know of at least one large workplace where they spread through the parking lot for several months -- until the morning the boss saw a pair...;-)
rj
I'm sorry, but the worst website I have ever seen has to be http://hosanna1.com/
:P
It's pretty hard to disagree with you. And as a guy who has built a lot of dog-related web content for and about dog breeders, I can tell you that the design sensibilities that result in outbreaks like this is more of an epidemic than a fluke.
That being said, I have to wonder: why, when, and how did you find that spectacular web site? Yes, I'm looking for SEO tips.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
Without a doubt this is the Internet's worst web site.
MySpace is the epitome of poor design and bad taste. It's a microcosm for everything wrong with today's younger (and, in many cases, older) generation.
So the boss saw a pair . . and then? Are you really implying that the boss felt he had the right to order his workers to remove these "decorative" objects AND that the workers all acted like good little sheep and obeyed him? P.S. This is not an endorsement for those stupid dog balls. I think they are rediculous and, well . . stupid.
Three days from now?? Thats tomorrow!! ~Peter Griffin
Where is pcworld.com? I went to read the article and was bombarded by flash ads taking up the entire browser's view. And where's eBay?
Chewbacon
The Bible is like Wikipedia: written by a bunch of people and verifiable by questionable sources.
...than this?
http://www.paedophilia.com/
Or maybe that's just creepy, not bad?
Seriously, though, I know I'd be suspicious of a champion dog/bitch with no offspring, and there are also, *ahem,* behavioral cues to help one differentiate between an intact and an altered animal. Then too, you can enter an altered or even an unregistered dog in most forms of dog sport through AKC's Indefinite Listing Privilege system. You just can't be in a conformation show (which, depending on who you ask, may just be an overblown beauty contest anyway).
The other major selling point, that the dog has psychological issues from the loss of his original parts that can be cured by installing a pair of silicone fakes, ranks right up with pet psychology and pet homeopathy - stupid stuff that bored, rich humans torment their pets with.
First rule of trauma: Bleeding always stops.
What? No Hello my future girlfriend?
I want know how the hell Myspace always crashes my browsers. I've never had FF or Opera crash if I recall correctly. Myspace has been the only site to do so. And when it doesn't crash my browser, it slows it down to what appears like an infinite loop (with at most 3 tabs of user pages active). You then don't get FF (or Opera) responsiveness back until a minute or so. *And* not only this, but somehow it gets around my settings in FF (tools>options>downloads>view & edit actions button) where I have any sort of media or plugin action be to save, yet it still opens and plays the file without my permission! You know a website is bad if this is the case.
/. community, how do u prevent all of the above? It's almost as if it violates all browser protection mechanisms.
More importantly, and these answers serve the
No, if you scroll down to the bottom of the page you will see they have a picture of a dog with the words "great site award".
this proves without any doubt that it is actually a top quality web site.
Annoying background and special award for gratuitous compression of text, not even for the purpose of squeezing it in between ads.
The content is amusing for about 30 seconds, though.
"Hello, police? Yes, there's a dead horse on the front page of Slashdot. It appears to have extensive whip injuries..."
Seriously, how many times do we need to have the corpse of boo.com et al exhumed and pissed on by some lazy journalist? And how many times do we need yet another of these dull rehashes on Slashdot?
Call me a curmudgeon, but this brings no new insight or humour to things, and I really see no justification in splashing it on here.
Each time you enter private property, it's like entering a mini Communist Soviet Union. Check your rights at the door, please. If you don't like it, don't enter private property. Constitutional rights only protect you from the government, not private parties.
DRM 'manages access' in the same way that a prison 'manages freedom'
Who knows? Perhaps he created a market for retractable truck balls.
rj
http://www.vpro.nl/
The best part is PCWorld's site sucks.
Yes, and that goes a long way to foil the author's baseless elitism. A recurrent theme of the article is snobbery. MySpace looks bad because people are stupid and evil is their central message:
Let's take out the cluebat.
Blaming the users is stupid. Other sites look better because users have been given better tools. Facebook, YouTube, Blogger and others all look good and work well. Do those sites raise the "level of discourse"? Yes, better than this flamebait article from PCWorld.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
Someone has to mention ZeFrank's "I knows me some ugly MySpace" contest. Just listen to that theme song!
o st_3.html7 1406.html7 1806.html
http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2006/06/p
http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2006/07/0
http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2006/07/0
The ______ Agenda
I'll bet they own lots of stock in an aspirin company somewhere.
Replace the images with goatse! >:-)
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo!
That site just has to be a joke.
Surely someone has made that site as bad as possible as a joke to show their friends. No one could be that truly awful and still claim to have "the most beautiful pages on the www".
Check out the "Why we suggest you use IE" page: http://www.hosanna1.com/AAAWWW/why/index.html
Tell me that's not a joke. It's just impossible to take seriously. The inaccuracies sprinkled with a hint of misunderstood technical info is just impossible to believe!
The point of confirmation is breeding. You show a beautiful dog, and when it gets 15 points(and at least two majors) he gets the title of Champion, which is basically a permission to breed.(You can breed dogs that aren't champions as long as their line is good, but you really want to breed champions)
A dog missing one or more of his testicles is disqualified, but they don't actually check how well his equipment works, but rather, they just feel up the dog to make sure he's intact. Fake nuts are sometimes used when a dog is missing their equipment. This is not only against what confirmation should be about, but a neutered dog has the advantage, because they're not distracted by females and they're usually calmer overall.
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Click here, you know you wanna!
Why waste time with a single lone PCMag article that attempts to do what Vincent Flanders and his site (and books) webpagesthatsuck.com has been doing for an entire decade?
Shouldn't this be on the list? It has a bunch of dating ads on the bottom now, but it didn't use to. I love the music!
I like my coffee the way I like my women - roasted and ground up into little tiny pieces.
and now try to argue with him about the quality of his website ;-)
Bye egghat
-- "As a human being I claim the right to be widely inconsistent", John Peel
Well I for one am glad to see my site listed... I put alot of work into learning how the hell to make a web database strictly from FREE tutorials on the internet and some personal knowledge from what I use at my FT work. It took me 6 or so months to create the .ASP pages from scratch and provide a website NONE of the other inmate pen pal websites can compare to.
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Personally I think my site runs better and looks better than MySpace.com LOL!
BTW, what the heck does 'slash dotted' mean? backed out?
-= Abel B Ramirez II =-
Owner of InmatesForYou.com
Peter Pan's Home Page?
Another site that sucks: http://www.mtv.lt/ ... like the channel it self.
And that's the site of MTV Baltic...