Another triumph for e-commerce

Anyone you know?

The website is total eye candy, complete with flash animations and sounds for darn near every movement of your mouse pointer.   Annoying.  The "off" switch for all the dancing baloney is buried 'way down at the bottom, too.  To add insult to injury, navigation is murky if you're looking for a specific tidbit of information...  Apparently, unless it's hidden very well on the main site someplace, the only way to get this chart is to download the .pdf of the 2008 catalog; which is not a simple black-on-white document, either, oh no.  The catalog is a 55-page monstrosity with photographic backgrounds for every page, and even with a decent computer and a DSL connection, it's like taking Lake Michigan through a drinking straw.  On the index page the very last graphic to load was... can you guess? That's right, the page numbers.  Nice work, that.

Speaking of firing webmasters, keep your sanity: Stay away from the Wall Street Journal's website today.

Seems they’re having an “open house.”  Well, between the broken javascript and the repeatedly-loading popups, the site’s just about unusable (even via the usually-free opinionjournal.com URL).

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