madeline

Have all users received this notice? Not sure whether this is an April Fools joke. I personally don't see a benefit of paying for a LJ account aside from my journal being able to have a paid theme. Do paid accounts not show ads? If a site that makes money on displaying ads offers to upgrade their most active users and their formerly active users to an account type where those don't appear, what is the logic in that?

In a few hours the winners of the 2010 Webby Awards will be announced. I had the geeky pleasure of going through each of the categories and selecting my favorites. This took me days and I didn't even get to all the entries that were parked on YouTube. It was easy to see which sites were front-runners in a category, with the leader board appearing immediately after pressing the vote button. What I found is that the sites that I liked best were generally in fourth place or dead last. Oh well. Clearly I have different tastes (and a significantly slower internet connection) than most other voters.

Toward the end I got sick of the obligatory Flash tickers counting slowly to 100% only to show some sort of ~edgy~ but confusing navigation. I gave votes to ones that tended to load site content right away.  First impressions count for a lot, and the sooner the website can make that impression, the better. Not that I have dial-up or anything but websites should  consider that not everyone has G3/ T3 connectivity all the time.

The sites that I found particularly interesting are listed after the cut. ( and the notables are...Collapse )

Originally posted on madeline.vox.com

Once upon a time there was a little girl with little veins who had to get her teeth of (little) wisdom removed. The doctor had a little trouble locating her little vains, and so he had to poke her little arm several times with an needle so that she would take a little nap. He's also put a little mask over her noise which was a little weird for her to get used to breathing with because she knew it was not normal breathing air. He got a little tired of poking my arm but not getting a vein, so he told her that the veins tended roll to roll a little.

He tied the little rubber thing around her forearm and reached for her hand, telling her that she would feel a another little pinch. She was feeling a little catatonic from the Nitrous Oxide around her nose so she said in a little voice, "ok," although she was really in the midst of a little monologue with him in her head where she told him all about how the doctors usually had trouble drawing a little blood from her veins so this wasn't the first time she had to become a push pin. She offered to pump her fist a little if that would help, but the doctor declined. She doesn't remember much more after this point because she took a little nap.

Guess what though? Now she only has 24 teeth in her mouth which is a little bit fewer than the average adult... She is taking a couple pills on a little schedule now, one of which started with a "V" and ends in "codin substitute" which contains a little codine.

Um, she thinks she's a little vampire because her throat is sore, and in the post-op pamphlet there was a little paragraph where it said that sore throat was probably due to swallowing blood.

*grawr*

My mom made me some lime jello. It will be set in a little while. I mean her mom.

I need to go lie down for a little bit.