I was sitting in the green room with Hugi Þórðarson waiting to go on Icelandic TV live (apparently the video will be up in a Flash player eventually) when we decided to check out the press coverage, in Fréttablaðið (emphasis added):
Sjö fyrirlesarar flytja tíu erindi á ráðstefnunni. Fyrirlesararnir eru Molly Holzschlag, Kelly Goto, Dave Shea, Andy Clarke, Joke Clarke og Shaun Inman…. kanadíski greinahöfundurinn og rithöfundurinn Joe Clarke fjalla um AJAX, AHAH og aðra tækni sem gert hefur forriturum kleift að þróa gagnvirka vefi.
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The nominees are published on page that uses tables for layout and has three HTML validation errors. At that rate, it should be a nominee in its own awards show. Let’s fact-check some arses.
cbc.ca/kidscbc: Flash (I did some work for them this year)
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The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2006.04.17 15:12. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. (If you are seeing this on a screen, then the page stylesheet was not loaded or not loaded properly.) The permanent link is: https://blog.fawny.org/2006/04/17/cnma/
I know I shouldn’t be picking on widdle Andy Wysocki and Bill Sanderson, the husband-and-husband team behind BigMuscle(Bears) and another “dating” site with an Orwellian name, NormalGay. They’re just average guys with man-sized appetites trying to give back to the community – via a genteel porn site that wages a campaign of atrocities against Web standards. I know it’s mean of me to nag at these small-time operators, whose hearts are pure and their edition of Microsoft FrontPage fully licensed.
Or is it? An online interview (NSFW) gives us a superexclusive peek inside the Magic Kingdom, where, as no dessert is complete without whipped cream, no Web site is complete without tables and frames. (Some copy errors corrected, others mocked.)
I can only say how it effected our life [sic], how its effected the gay community [sic] is only second hand from the e-mails we receive…. I Andy was in technical Sales [sic] and Bill was a manager in an IT department…. We figured the donations from the members were paying the [I]nternet bill and that anything he could get from selling ad space he could live off of, and my full-time job would cover the rest….
In July of 2005 we re-ran the numbers and figured I (Andy) could leave my full-time job with a pay cut, but the quality of life would offer us so much more. So what started as a fun project turned into a full-time job for both of us…. Bill and I are just the janitors keeping the site clean and sparkling.
So I guess I needn’t feel sorry for this couple, as they are debt-free proprietors of profitable Web sites that will shortly expand to further “boutique” markets. I note the gushing exclamation “Thanks, Andy and Bill!” on many an obsequious BigMuscle(Bears) profile; shouldn’t they be thanking us? How, exactly, is a site full of photos of shirtless and/or naked homosexualists (“I think voyeurism is what makes BigMuscle work in some ways”) in any sense “clean and sparkling”? (Never mind what’s under the hood.)
I think the [W]ayback [M]achine has some very funny old graphics of [QOD.com] when I really didn’t know about HTML coding. Not that I do still, but have learned a few things by now.
Straight guys know more about gay sex than these two know about HTML.
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I find it entertaining to watch heterosexualists and their primitive mating rituals, like telephone chatlines and <airquotes>hookup</airquotes> Web sites. I’m sorry, but we were doing that in the mid-’90s. It seems you people needed to develop your own parallel vocabulary before you could permit yourselves to do what we already found passé.
I was going to write a whole post on this, but what the hell, let’s sum up: Gay guys have a basket but straight guys have a package. We have fuck buddies (indelicate, but that is the term) and you have friends with benefits. You have two concepts unknown to us, dating and going out with, which never seem to be defined or to have prerequisites. (A Mormon and a stripper could both claim to be “dating” – possibly each other.)
There’s also that incomprehensible scarlet letter A of the heterosexualist argot, to hit on. It seems that any display of interest, real or imagined, constitutes hitting on someone. The term flirt having apparently been forgotten, so much as a glance or standing too close to a stranger on the subway can be and is interpreted as “hitting on.” I was once accused of hitting on someone when, at a party, I sat down on a sofa a foot and a half away from him. He was the hostess’s teenage son, and I was just chatting.
These days, of course, you’re all terribly au courant and so very Aughties. You consider yourselves bundles of risqué, envelope-pushing naughtiness whenever you cruise Nerve or Craigslist. (Or, G-d help us, Jdate – admittedly less of a joke than GayJews.) You puny heterosexualists, you. What’s it like to have only a couple of sites? We’ve got so many that the kottkeist job posting for an assistant to keep one’s social-networking-site profiles synced and up to date is a position we actually need to fill.
And here is the best part: I read these sites for amusement. This is literally true. I met one fellow once as a result of these things. Of course “ordering in” is ostensibly convenient, but even that is a hurdle I do not wish to surmount. Merely ordering in is itself too much trouble. I do, however, like to track, and frequently mock, people’s personal ads in the comfort and privacy of my home. I will send a note with an occasional compliment, always meant sincerely and generally interpreted as the opposite. I do occasionally correct their spelling, as there are really only so many ads for guys declaring themselves “discrete” that one can stand before going ballistic. (Then there’s the logical inconsistency of posting an ad on the Web calling for discretion.)
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