Evolution of Icons

We just recently bumped up to Office 2013 at work, and something about it just really irked me. Then I realized it was the styling; the command icons, the little graphics in the menus and tabs, whatever you wanna call it. It made me think about how things have changed over the years - obviously the technology has evolved, but interestingly, the philosophy behind designing the graphics seems to have changed too. And not always for the better... well, here's how I see it.

Necronomi-Conned

This is an anecdote that's existed within my circle of friends for almost a decade now. Since it was technically made mostly in Paint, I guess I'll post it here too

Scumbag Pride

Wow, I got really lazy with this one. It's an oldish topic by now, and most of this strip consists of hastily shopped clip-art from around the web. Eh, screw it.

words to live by

just cuz~

Warped Perceptions

You know I've got issues when my looking-glass-self looks like this.

Dubstep Rating System

I hate dubstep. Well, generally. But recently I heard <this> track, and I thought, "Hmm, it actually pays lip service to the genre's distant Reggae roots, it has a rhythm to it, and it's on the Breaking Bad soundtrack... I'll give it a pass.

Then I caught wind that praising Knife Party as quality dubstep is actually frowned upon by most whomp-head purists.

So I created the following rating system and gave it the highest score of Yellow.

I'd say about 10% falls into the top category, with 30% in the very lowest rank and the remaining majority being just "typical." It's kinda like the DHS's Terror Alert scale in reverse. And with no green or blue levels, because we're talking about dubstep here, folks.

The Town Memecrier

The Town Memecrier

Fun fact: these panels are 420x420.