Silly Web Sites
Some web pages only seem to exists to get incredibly serious repsonses to a joke. Take a quick look at http://www.realultimatepower.net/. This silly page is amateurish to the nth degree. The author clearly knows nothing about Ninjas other than bad video games, bad movies, and porn. The best part of this page are the letters he has recieved. Assuming that these are real letters the purpose of this site is not for the writer to look like a jackass, but for readers to look like jackasses.
The problem these letter writers have seems to me that they have no sense of information. They see it on a web site and believe that it is either a) factual or b) the authors 'expert' opinion. In the latter case they happily write "You are such a dumb ass for creating this web site" and think that they're helping raise the average intelligence level of web browsers. The sad truth is that they make themselves appear dumber than the author appears to be.
This whole site seems to be the work of a teenager who simply doesn't know anything about Ninjas, film making, or public decency. This being the internet and so clearly a joke site I'm sure the writer has published exactly what he wanted to present: ramblings from an amateurish teenage boy who doesn't know anything but reacts to things as 'cool' or 'not cool.' I'll give him credit that he doesn't use 'kewl' to describe things.
The people who write in, however, are idiots. This site is clearly satirical, just like the great web site of Landover Baptist. The ability to tell that Landover Baptist is satire, but Jim Kress's site-which spouts the same "christian" crap-is serious is important in the information age. Hell, I wrote my Masters research project about this stuff. The people who write about how much someone doesn't know about ninjas need to learn about information more than they need information.
The problem these letter writers have seems to me that they have no sense of information. They see it on a web site and believe that it is either a) factual or b) the authors 'expert' opinion. In the latter case they happily write "You are such a dumb ass for creating this web site" and think that they're helping raise the average intelligence level of web browsers. The sad truth is that they make themselves appear dumber than the author appears to be.
This whole site seems to be the work of a teenager who simply doesn't know anything about Ninjas, film making, or public decency. This being the internet and so clearly a joke site I'm sure the writer has published exactly what he wanted to present: ramblings from an amateurish teenage boy who doesn't know anything but reacts to things as 'cool' or 'not cool.' I'll give him credit that he doesn't use 'kewl' to describe things.
The people who write in, however, are idiots. This site is clearly satirical, just like the great web site of Landover Baptist. The ability to tell that Landover Baptist is satire, but Jim Kress's site-which spouts the same "christian" crap-is serious is important in the information age. Hell, I wrote my Masters research project about this stuff. The people who write about how much someone doesn't know about ninjas need to learn about information more than they need information.
posted by Josh English @ 8:24 AM
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