mac's weekly disposables..

Urteil der Fachjury: Die Site schafft es, sich von den blichen Tourismusangeboten abzuheben. Sie ist grosszgig und gepflegt gestaltet, ohne Schnickschnack oder unntige Spielereien. Das Gefhl des Winterurlaubs erfasst einen beim ersten Besuch der Website. Laax.com spricht sicher trotz oder gerade wegen des modernen Auftritts ein breites Publikum an und ist fr andere Ferienregionen in puncto Gestaltung und Konsistenz sicher ein Vorbild.

Uhm.. seriously.. What page did you visit? Did you guys visit the site or did you just skim through the screenshots?!
Damn, this is ridiculous and pathetic..

Today, I had to decide what project to vote for in the best of swiss web contest..

Well.. They all look kinda fancy, kinda blingbling, kinda oh-here-we-go-make-it-bumbumbumpengpeng, kinda give the user the chocolate they want..
Have these boys EVER used a shell? I don't really think so.. If you grew up with a shell then you would NEVER turn into that hamptidampti mode, for sure.
Anyways.. hampdidampdi pages are nice for hampdidampdi blingbling style people.. What about disabled people? what about richard stallman? what about THE FRIGGIN IPHONE USERS?!
Sometimes you really have to lose faith in this world..
Just a quick review:

radio 105tv: not usable w/o js/flash.. [Diese Seite benötigt Flash Player 8.0. Bitte laden Sie den Flash Player hier.] .. at least you'll get rid of all the ads (which is about 50% of the page)

cmsbox: works FLAWLESS! (nice job :) I prefer haskell, but who cares..)

freitag: at least you get some content.. but nothing is working.. [ To see the content of this page correctly, you need to upgrade your Flash Player.] at least pictures in the background..

oSkope: yeah, well.. this is of course not working, but flash is kinda the heart of that thing - it wouldn't really work without :) - of course the searching would be possible..

capricorn/remix graubuenden: http://screencast.com/t/PBUWgHlUxEv - that's it :) not even a hint that you need flash

kpt einzeltraining: no personal trainer without flash.. awwwwwww.. but not even a page.. you need flash or get fat! (which is odd, since flash makes everything fat and slow.. usually)

le menu: works flawless.. and even very very nice and usable content.. the register thing bugged me though.. but nevermind

laax.com: MY FAVORITE.. there is not even a comment needed: screencast.com/t/EQiG7eSof

tvprogramm.sf.tv: first I thought: this will never work w/o js.. well, it does! this is quite cool. (i like the project anyway.. nice job) but you don't have the full functionality (you can't add stations and stuff)

iconomix.ch: yeah well, I worked on that thing day in - day out, I can't really rate it.. But.. (facts now) All the content is available without flash/js, except the games.. (people w/o js probably won't care about games anyway)

So boys of the web2.0.. what's wrong with you? This web thing was about information, not about hampdidampdi.. but I guess publicity has a bigger money-weight than usability.. Go on make stuff fancy and useless..

UPDATE:
lejoe_> marca: didn't you mean accessibility instead of usability in your last sentence (blog post)?

- I actually meant both..

computer science is fun..
when you think about application design and you want to do such things:
[[[foo add:@"blah"] add:@"blubb"] add:@"bar"]

this can be interpreted as an ordered list.. How would you return it? blah, blubb, bar? - sure.
along comes the computer scientist and says: this is more like a stack, so what I add at the end should be on top.
(it just crossed my mind, when I thought about little-endian / big-endian stuff)

In the very end, everyone's right.. THIS IS SCIENCE!

I live in Zurich.. (the city..)

Usually, I don't make political comments since I don't understand that much of politics.. but I have to live with their decisions so I may ask questions..
Today, I stumbled upon that:
http://www.onlinereports.ch/News.117+M56ece57baa5.0.html
Well.. I'm scared.. I think one day, the authorities will find out, that men shake hands with the very same hand they jerk off and hold their little buddy while on the toilet.. This could be interpreted both as offensive and a health issue since we all know, that about 50% of all men don't wash their hands properly after [chose either].. So maybe tomorrow they come up with the idea that all men must pee (and other things) with their left hand (which is not desirable)! And on another day they will forbid the right to have sex because this could lead to pregnancy which will lead to pain for women..
I wonder what day they start to prohibit bullshitlaws.. since it leads to brain damage.. (which implies more bullshitlaws..)