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Fugly Friday - The Most Amazing Website on The Internet
The site -- apparently designed in answer to a school project which offered no concern as to visual appeal, or safety for epileptics -- nails the concept. An auto-starting MIDI file, dancing cats, an oddly disembodied and highly mobile Mel Gibson, and a (late season) full cast photo from Full House are all used to spectacular effect.
Regular readers of Fugly Friday might accuse me of taking the easy way out this week. Hitting a low hanging piece of fruit with a cheap shot before turning to run. I beg to differ with those naysayers and hand-wringers. This is indeed low hanging fruit, but it also may be the absolute ugliest site on the web, and that in and of itself is an amazingly difficult task.
Click through. I dare you. But first, let me warn; There are some things in life that, once seen, cannot be unseen.
[Thanks to Oldmanhorton for the tip]
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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rokubungi said 6:13PM on 7-17-2009
CLICK THE MEL GIBSON!!
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kevjohn said 9:54AM on 7-20-2009
BATS!!!!
grlofthecity said 6:45PM on 7-17-2009
My eyes, my eyes! While I sometimes love me some good nostalgia of 90's-era design, this would have been considered bad even back then!
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Munky said 6:52PM on 7-17-2009
I just can't get enough! I just can't get enough!
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sRc said 7:10PM on 7-17-2009
oh god im having flashbacks to 1999 and junior high HTML class...
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oldmanhorton said 7:35PM on 7-17-2009
HEY. THAT’S ME! I GAVE THAT TIP! yay!!!!!! as soon as i saw this, i was appalled
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nasunorahl said 12:41AM on 7-18-2009
Great find.
Also the Mel Gibson mini-game is fantastic.
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Kenn.keeper said 9:41PM on 7-17-2009
As a Retired Mental Health Therapist I can attest to the fact that schizophrenics see this on a daily basis if not on medication...
Free is good......
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Erik Stroud said 12:28AM on 7-18-2009
What... the... hell...
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Pallab De said 12:28AM on 7-18-2009
I am positive it wasnt really done by someone for school project.
It looks to me like a satire @ the 90s style of web designing.
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wrabbit said 12:28AM on 7-18-2009
My god I need to wash my eyes! This is terrible!
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Calagan said 2:11AM on 7-18-2009
LOL @ "(hope you like)"
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b aizaz said 4:08AM on 7-18-2009
LOL, i almost died on click the mel gibson
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turu said 7:42AM on 7-18-2009
well, after look through the HTML source (it's not fun, but good for my eyes ) , I start to wonder was that really made by some teen for school assignment during late 90s as it looks like.
First of all, according to the answer for the questionnaire on that page, it was made in last year (2008). and the author knows somehow that he can host all the images for that website by flickr, and he didn't forget to get new e-mail account for website from gmail, especially one has strong anti spam filter, so good to be left on the website without special coding.
In addition to this, he seems to know how to host his own domain.
I'm wondering now, perhaps this website was just created to get attention from you, DLS.
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Vicks said 10:29AM on 7-18-2009
OH MAN! Its a horror show!
Show it to a website or graphics designer, He would surely have a heart attack! Damn....I gotto go to the doctor to have my eyes checked....
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Butters said 12:49PM on 7-18-2009
Love the Gary Busey photo that comes up when you click the mail box near the end!
And the random bat information when you click Mel!
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applehater said 5:35PM on 7-18-2009
You almost have to try to suck that bad....
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Joe said 8:43PM on 7-18-2009
and he was like "wut"
I think:
a) this is the funniest website I've seen all week
b) some of you guys need your sarcasm / irony sensors tuned up
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Niels van Dijk said 5:49PM on 7-19-2009
This is awesome. There even is a printscreen from a WordArt!
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