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Hank Williams busts out the brutal honesty: UI Guru Jakob Nielsen’s site is unreadable. And John Gruber concurs. Every time I end up there, I wonder idly why I’ve never gotten around to reading through what looks like great content. And after a few moments I close the window because the colors are so awful.

And why doesn’t his 10 Best Application UIs of 2008 awards announcement actually link to the winner’s sites? Seven of them are web applications, but if I want to know about any of them, I have to copy the product name, open a new tab, and look it up in Google. There’s a reason it was called “hypertext,” and the ability to have yellow and teal backgrounds isn’t it.

Website and preview. Looks like some impressive, informative graphics.

Adam Wulf, of the modestly named welcome.totheinter.net, has drunk the Browser-side MVC kool-aid! You too can drink this flavorful kool-aid here, here and here.

I’ve found two nifty “I drink your milkshake” t-shirts. This one is the best:

And this one deserves an honorable mention.

While you’re at it, buying this shirt will go towards saving the historic Hill Valley Clocktower.

Plus, this is a particularly nice execution of angels having the phone box.

Zed Shaw disses on every Linux feedreader you’ve ever heard of and some you haven’t, and then finds his holy grail in Newsbeuter. I’ll have to try it.

Update 2008-08-12: I’ve tried it. It seems good, but it doesn’t seem to automatically update my feeds.

This is a great, thoughtful article about Garrett Lisi, the reluctantly famous author of the ballyhooed An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything.

Attention: Henceforth Facebook shall be referred to by its new and proper name, “Facey-Bee.” Alternatively, “th’ ol’ Facey-Bee” will also be accepted. Thanks for your attention to this urgent matter.

A forty-six page comic-strip explanation of the sub-prime mortgage crisis.

I was attempting to sign up for a housing-swap website today, when I came across this gem:

The only thing that would make Hank Williams’ I am so sick of social better would be if he actually used fuckin’ instead of friggin’ and damned instead of darned. Anyway, that’s all from me for now; I have to go to a social meeting soon.