nektros - Cynicism in a Hot Dish

I enjoy watching new blogs die a slow, agonising death.

Since joining the so-and-so times interesting yet rarely often engaging enough to warrant a sphere branding-osphere two years ago, I have seen a multitude of very good and very bad blogs crash and burn in a manner comparable to throwing a match onto a gasoline-soaked tyre swing harbouring a newborn puppy and fastened to a branch overhanging a radioactive-powered shark-infested whirlpool.

Steering clear of the usual tradition established around these parts of introductory showcase paragraphs demanding no excessive attention be paid to them (though happily this has been somewhat compensated for with excessively long and punctuation-free clauses), the weekly Design Bites series on this site will from this point on become a fortnightly affair.

The best kinds of egocentrics oblivious to their inept, self-overblown skills are the kinds predisposed to reverse psychology. Oh, you don’t want to read the rest of this post? Fine. Your facile comprehension skills skyrocket spectacularly into a new stratosphere of idiocy, anyway. Scoot, moron!

Stupid mistakes coated with a blinding sheen of immaturity are an inevitable part of youth. The difference in the particular case which had attracted Tanya’s spite was that my stupidity had fallen on the wrong side of malicious, careening into a pit of downright contemptuousness for growing right the hell up.

The crowd was – as is only possible for the main lobby of a university in the throes of midday break – packed to the point of seducing a tantrum out of the most stalwart claustrophobic. Reaching the apex of the throng and preparing to enter the library by way of converting the books in my arms into flying battering rams, my jugular-targeting plans died in my head as they were overtaken by something else.

Marking our second weekly descent into five inspiring snippets of site designs impressive by and large, we’ll be focusing on interesting usage of colour and imagery, and a few examples of the spurning of conventional layout dimensions applicable to a personally-held sentiment of “Aye, ye sootheth my frickin’ return sweep synapses”.

The ubiquitous spiel of gushing words outlining one’s exact depth of adoration for their blogging platform of choice is one of the more useless forms blog posts are able to take on. In my earliest blogging days just under two years ago, my first Wordpress rant managed to incorporate enough new and useful information to collectively enlighten the noggin of a lone blueberry scone.