Friday, 30 of July of 2010

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Geek voyeurism


I was getting a few laughs from abusing people with made-up text strings from cooltext when I started nosing around.

Sure, there’s some obvious fun to be had here, and I’m sure you can think of many, but one that is especially noteworthy is to just go looking through the base directory of the renderer output server.

Just start scanning through and you can see what other people are using cooltext for. It’s like getting a sneak preview of graphics you know are destined for such prestigious destinations as:

Warez sites written by people who can’t correctly choose between “your” and “you’re” 90% of the time.

Crappily thrown together web pages for businesses which never actually draw hits from anyone interested in buying their products.

Countless pages on free web servers such as welcome.to, geocities, angelfire, tripod, and yahoo.

Corporate pages by companies who think that letting the geek in billing put together a page for free is better than paying a design firm to do it right.

Innumerable pages that are “promoted” mainly by spamming people’s guestbooks.

All in all, good clean fun.