On simplicity

As I read through my blog to look at things I've covered, I realized that my blog is pretty sparsely decorated. At first, I thought about adding some pictures, and then decided against it simply because I find it unnecessary. That's not to say they might not help my blog look more zippy, but it's a slippery slope. One day it's pictures, the next it's annoying background images and crappy Tool/Atreyu music. After that, you're not far off from using Comic Sans text and adding annoying mouse-cursors shaped like meteors or ravioli or whatever the hell else the Internet has managed to come up with.

I've had people ask me before if I had a Myspace account, and I answered no, because of just this kind of stuff. You find me a Myspace account that is tastefully done and doesn't want to make the human eye implode in a desperate attempt at escape, and I'll show you what represents the vast minority of blog/Myspace accounts.

If you're incapable of expressing yourself on these kinds of pages without looping some country song in the background to let people know just how you feel about the Iraq War, then you're doing a poor job. For proof, does anyone remember the early 90's and the annoying but prevalent trend of looping awful .midi files on webpages? It was bad. So bad. Anyone who remembers this probably just looked nervously around their room and hoped none of their webpages from back then still exist.

I'm not saying it's impossible to tastefully implement these sorts of things, but I dare anyone here to take the Myspace challenge and find more than 10 pages from their friends list that aren't capable of being compiled into a list of crimes against humanity.