[WSG] Oh, the humanity!

[Rev. Bob 'Bob' Crispen]

Just in case anybody asks you, "but how do you *know* the Allmusic Guide 
is lame?" and you don't have one of Scott Yanow's reviews handy, now you 
have the definitive answer. Just click! <http://www.allmusic.com/>. 
Besides being insanely slow and buggy, the new AMG site has this notice 
in bright yellow at the top of every page:

Notice: You are accessing allmusic.com with a browser that is not 
currently supported. The appearance and functionality of the site could 
be impacted. allmusic.com is optimized for Internet Explorer 5.5 and 
above for Windows.

I mean, it's bad enough that they're launching an MSIE-preferred site at 
the very moment that everybody and his dog are jumping *off* MSIE.  It's 
bad enough that for more than a year everybody has been going standards 
and accessibility and these guys spent perfectly good money and what 
they got was an old-school tag-soup site.  But browser checking??? 
That's *so* 1997!

Does it validate? you ask. (You are Stoner Smurf, aren't you?)  You must 
be mad.  Is it accessible?  Let's ask Cynthia (you'll have to type it in 
yourself, but trust me, it's spectacular).

OK, slow, invalid, unaccessible.  All we need is the lava lamps.  Way to 
go, AMG!

The original of this article (with a few more links -- you can tell what 
they are from the context) is on my blog, which, lacking all sense of 
common decency, I now shamelessly promote: 
<http://blog.crispen.org/archives/000514.html>
--
Rev. Bob "Bob" Crispen
bob at crispen dot org
Ex Cathedra Weblog: http://blog.crispen.org/

Don't ask yourself what the world needs - ask yourself what makes you
come alive, and then go do it. Because what the world needs is people
who have come alive. -- Howard Thurman
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