I just love the Ombudsman’s commitment to accessibility: Tacking on a corrected TTY number using not only the wrong font but Is for 1s.

Now, honey, that is big type.

I’d certainly feel jollier ridin’ the range (or UofT) in a tractor this colour. Wouldn’t you?

Richard “All I Need to Know About the Internet I Learned By Top-Posting with Outlook and Surfing with IE” Morochove writes, in the Toronto Star, 2004.07.18, p. D2 (not online):

When it became as good as Netscape’s browser… Explorer killed off competing Web browsers. Or did it? […] Netscape 7.1 is loaded with features – overloaded for my tastes…. Unless your ISP is AOL, you won’t make use of all the features of this sluggish, bloated browser. However… Mozilla [is] a full-featured Internet application that’s better suited than Netscape for non–AOL users….

If the thought of picking and choosing from a long list of browser extensions for downloading makes your eyes glaze over, Firefox is not for you.

Except it works fine right out of the box. What extensions do you actually need?

Opera has been around for years…. [I]t comes with useful features Internet Explorer lacks… you can save a collection of Web pages, opening the group later. […]

The open-in-tabs feature is easily found, even in Moz and Firefox. (No mention of tabs per se, mind – one of several features sufficient unto themselves to justify switching.)

Some Web sites will not display properly unless they’re viewed using Internet Explorer. That’s more a function of the Web-site designer than the browser.

Correct!

Internet Explorer is more forgiving of Web sites that don’t conform to the World Wide Web consortium’s (W3) [sic] standards.

No, that’s not true. The Gecko- and KDE-based browsers have a better implementation of quirks mode vs. standards-compliance mode. (So does IE for Macintosh, actually.) Compliant pages look better on those browsers and noncompliant pages generally do not look any worse, save for the counterexample Morochove notes:

Some Web sites are specifically designed [not to] work well with other browsers. Some of the worst offenders are the Web sites of financial institutions.

Indeed. But isn’t it curious how tiny North Shore Credit Union could produce a fully-compliant site using only two developers? (Go, Scott Baldwin – and mazel tov on the new baby.)

Wouldn’t it be interesting for this esteemed columnist to actually tackle – and coherently explain – Web standards to his readership? Could be a challenge, given that his column is entitled Computer Watch and barely ever mentions a device that doesn’t run Microsoft system software. But he’s halfway there.

Want to come out to our next Webstandards.TO boozeup, Richard? You’re buying.

(Cf.: Dump Explorer; Fisking Paul Boutin.)

Hideous both. But only one of them should be eradicated from the earth all the way to the last molecule.

Due to the rather outrageous renovations at OCA, the shitty old automatic door has suddenly levitated six feet off the ground. Check the enlargement.

I’M SHIT BUT I HAVE A BIG DICK

“Arse,” shurely?!

FRANÇOIS-XAVIER COURRÈGES

FRENCH ARTIST MAKES VIDEO WITH BOYS SAYING I LOVE YOU

JÓNSI þOR BIRGISSON

SINGER OF POPGROUP SIGUR RÓS IS LOOKING FOR A STRAIGHT GUY TO HAVE SEX WITH IN ICELAND

DANIEL BJÖRK

SCANDINAVIAN WRITER IS FED UP WITH SWEDEN AND FAGDOM

ROB STEPHENSON

HOMO FROM QUEENS DOESN’T WRITE FILTH ON VIAGRA

ROGER PAYNE

INTERESTING ARTIST IS EXTREMELY WELL HUNG AND LIVES NEXT DOOR TO BOY GEORGE

BAUKE KORTLEVE

HOMOSEXUAL PARTY HOST AND AMATEUR ARTIST USED TO HAVE A HORSE

KENI VALENTI

FABULOUS VINTAGE COUTURE ENTREPRENEUR AND EX–FASHION STAR KNEW THE NEW YORK DOLLS QUITE WELL

THOMAS ENGEL HART

IS A NON-VEGETARIAN AMERICAN MENSWEAR FASHION DESIGNER LIVING IN PARIS WHO LOVES TO BE BEATEN UP EVERY NOW AND THEN AND IS MARRIED TO A LESBIAN

MARTIN DEGVILLE

HORSE-HUNG FORMER SINGER OF SIGUE SIGUE SPUTNIK HAD HIS FANTASTIC LOOKS NICKED BY GAULTIER IN THE EIGHTIES

STEPHIN MERRITT

CHAIN-SMOKING FAG FROM THE MAGNETIC FIELDS WRITES SONGS IN GROTTY GAY BAR

NARD WIEGMANS

AMAZING FLORIST AND EX-FARMER SELLS FIRECRACKERS IN BORING DUTCH VILLAGE AND COLLECTS PORN

MICHAEL STIPE

NON-GAY QUEER POPSTAR FROM R.E.M. COLLECTS SUGAR PACKETS AND WAS DEVIRGINISED AT AGE SEVEN

Plus they’ve got personals.

Mena Trott:

This mess was around for months until one day Barak came to work with a T-shirt, some tool belt–type thing, and some device to do phone wiring. During the course of the afternoon, Barak installed our phone lines and cleaned up the office.

Incidentally, while he was doing this, Maile, our administrative assistant, came in for her first interview with us and saw Barak…. After we hired Maile and explained who Barak was, she laughed and said “Oh, I thought he was the handyman and that this company really liked to get everyone involved!”

The fact that Barak will do this sort of grunt work is why he fits in at Six Apart.

Big fucking deal, Mena! It’s the norm in startups to do your own cleanup, and you already told us Barak drives a BMW convertible with a shoephone glued to his ear. And upgrades himself to fly business to Japan.

Dem vulture capitalists – dey’s just folks.