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Regards, Anthony P.S. Can you recommend a good eye-bleach? > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Bob W > Sent: Friday, 19 December 2008 6:56 AM > To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' > Subject: OT: Shakespeare sucketh, yea, even like unto a Hoover > > Shall I compare thee to a pile of poo? > > This is nothing to do with photography, but I know there are many here among > us who enjoy a gloriously bad website, so here's one: > http://www.shakespeares-sonnets.com/ > > It's about Shakespeare's sonnets, right? That's what the title says, and > it's written in big curly letters at the top; it describes itself as 'The > amazing web site of Shakespeare's sonnets', and starts 'All the sonnets are > provided here...'. > > So the first challenge, after you've dismissed the pop-ups, is to find a > sonnet. > > To do that you have to scroll past a whole load of thumbnails of attractive > but not obviously relevant, or even inter-related, paintings. When you do > finally get to the end of them, there are some links to other pages about > the painters. None of them have anything to do with Shakespeare. > > Then a picture and description of a book of our Billy's sonnets, but no link > to an online bookshop. > > Then, several pages down, a section entitled 'Advice on using this site'. I > repeat, several pages down. Of course any site which needs to offer such > advice is already in big trouble, so why not hide the advice anyway? > > It begins "For those who have difficulty reading these pages because of the > background colour, I suggest the following.". Hmm. How about removing the > difficulty, dude? > > Still no sonnets, by the way. > > But soft, what light through yonder web page breaks? Is this a description > of how to search I see before me? Yes, and the instructions are only 256 > words long, spread out across the whole width of the page. But no search > box. > > He has thoughtfully included, in the middle of the description 'If you are > in difficulty, go to the Map of the site, which should help to give you your > bearings.". Er, where is the map? > > I could go on. For pages. For days. But I don't want to spoil it for you. > Have a look. It's a treasure. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
