archGFX » idiocy http://archgfx.net Austin web designer - Adam Freetly Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:50:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Sarah Marshall is evil http://archgfx.net/blog/2008/geek/sarah-marshall-is-evil http://archgfx.net/blog/2008/geek/sarah-marshall-is-evil#comments Wed, 26 Mar 2008 01:09:33 +0000 adam http://archgfx.net/blog/2008/geek/sarah-marshall-is-evil Chicago's been overrun with the faux-ARG billboards about Sarah Marshall, which point to the faux-blog for one of the characters. From there, you'll land on the site for the trailer:

DL validation
The most shocking thing is that they're not kidding: they're actually validating against your driver's license or something close to it. For sites that don't require any sort of "real life" presence, I don't use my real name. I usually use sunburntkamel as a last name. This time, the site wouldn't let me enter without using my real last name. Don't believe me? Here's a thread full of people sorting it out.

I don't know who sold that list, but I'm shocked that people aren't more upset about it. Not only does it teach people to be phished1, It doesn't even come close to protecting minors. C'mon, how many kids don't know their parent's names and birthdays?


  1. Providing private data across unencrypted channels to untrustworthy parties
]]> http://archgfx.net/blog/2008/geek/sarah-marshall-is-evil/feed 0 More Jesus in the Dashboard http://archgfx.net/blog/2007/soapboxing/more-jesus-in-the-dashboard http://archgfx.net/blog/2007/soapboxing/more-jesus-in-the-dashboard#comments Sun, 15 Jul 2007 13:36:36 +0000 adam http://archgfx.net/blog/2007/soapboxing/more-jesus-in-the-dashboard via Matt, I'm again subjected to religious blathering in my wordpress install. In the interest of disclosure, I am agnostic. I find the discussion of origin myths, god, or the afterlife to be primitive and irrelevant.

One of the benefits of using open source software is supposed to be the freedom to modify it to meet you needs.  But by using SVN to upgrade, I can no longer hack core files without making upgrading far more painful.  All it takes to fix this is an option to not syndicate this crap.  Or even a hook, so that a plugin could disable it.

]]> http://archgfx.net/blog/2007/soapboxing/more-jesus-in-the-dashboard/feed 6 Naked 2.0 http://archgfx.net/blog/2007/geek/blogging/naked-20 http://archgfx.net/blog/2007/geek/blogging/naked-20#comments Wed, 04 Apr 2007 14:00:54 +0000 adam http://archgfx.net/blog/2007/asides/naked-20

dunstin's site has a new web2.0 looking logo this year. so that your site isn't as ugly as last year. it's not really important, though. the whole concept is still

self serving, confusing and disenfranchising to users

so no, i'm still not doing it.

standards are nothing if they're not also best practices.

]]> http://archgfx.net/blog/2007/geek/blogging/naked-20/feed 2 Ah HA! http://archgfx.net/blog/2007/geek/blogging/ah-ha http://archgfx.net/blog/2007/geek/blogging/ah-ha#comments Tue, 20 Mar 2007 19:54:35 +0000 adam http://archgfx.net/blog/2007/asides/ah-ha we can now blame t3h b0rg's stupid ass backwater developers for the continued existence of autoplaying music on the internets. i'd say that putting this is VWD's start page was the worst evar, but it's not. so we'll just give you a jesus award for broadcasting your bassackwardness to the world.

/wiki/Image:Jesus2andahalf.jpg You have been awarded the Jesus Award by SunBurntKamel
for dashboard abuse.
]]> http://archgfx.net/blog/2007/geek/blogging/ah-ha/feed 0 surely the horse is dead http://archgfx.net/blog/2007/asides/surely-the-horse-is-dead http://archgfx.net/blog/2007/asides/surely-the-horse-is-dead#comments Tue, 27 Feb 2007 20:09:31 +0000 adam http://archgfx.net/blog/2007/asides/surely-the-horse-is-dead i thought we beat this thing pretty good the last time we had it out?  i guess not.  When the producers of halo: the movie hire the skins factory to design them a wordpress theme, can we sell tickets to watch garry conn's head explode?
h/t themey

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