Crazy person font...

Today I came across 622 lines of the worst HTML I have ever encountered. I'm talking about the coupling of the craziness with poor design. It is the text of the main site of

The non-moving Earth

& anti-evolution web page of

The Fair Education Foundation, Inc.

(actual fonts/formatting)

While in art there are no "mistakes" that you can't rationalize away, the flat, stationary Earth page lacks all art. Indeed, it lacks even the semblance of design principles, which is humorous considering the fact that the owner would tell me that he could tell the world was designed intelligently!

And this rotten website gets me wondering because David Mabus was back depositing his leavings in my last post. Here's what he wrote:

you FIGHT PAPER MONSTERS...

the blood and bodies of the atheist movement...

you mofos killed MICKEY MOUSE!!!!

they tried to BULLDOZE the entire METAPHYSICAL DIMENSION...

they LOST THE WAR......

you have FORFEIT YOUR SOUL, shermer... you have become an object in the material world, as you WISHED...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUB4j0n2UDU

[img]http://farm1.static.flickr.com/7/11792994_ffaaee87fa.jpg[/img]

we're gonna smash that TV...

They had become ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE AND OF GOD...
you pushed too much and *CROSSED THE LINE*

degenerates (PZ) or children (HEMANT) - ATHEISTS!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRRg2tWGDSY

do you have anything to say, you STUPID LITTLE F*CKER?

how about I tell you, Mr. Shermer, EVERYTHING YOU THINK ABOUT THE WORLD is

*WRONG*

THE BOOBQUAKE - 911!

http://dissidentphilosophy.lifediscussion.net/philosophy-f1/the-boobquake-911-t1310.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx7XNb3Q9Ek

RUN, ATHEISTS, RUN!!!

Killed Mickey Mouse?

When my father was in private practice, he told me about how he could tell whether some patients were crazy just by their appearance. The example he gave was of women whose makeup was...off. What that signaled to him was that they had a distorted image of themselves, so what looked good to them seemed facacta to we the sane. (Totally untested, by the way, but plausible.)

In the case of the first website, which allows you to

Read all about the Copernican and Darwinian Myths

(and their many ramifications going all the way to Kabbala-based Big Bangism!)

IN OVER ONE HUNDRED LINKS BELOW.....

...the design reminds me of the frontispiece of an early printed book.

Everything is centered, but the design is not exactly what we'd expect. The hyphenation of words that run onto two lines does not follow the syllabic conventions that we have internalized. Nonetheless, the page is at least designed. I mean, you have:

UPPERCASE LETTERS AT THE TOP

FOLLOWED BY SMALLER ONES

followed by fmaller onef ftill.

AND THE PATTERN STARTS AGAIN IN THE NEXT STANZA

If a word runs over, force it to fit so it upholds the visual design of the page. So goes the thinking

The unhinged, however, and I truly believe Dennis Markuze is truly mentally ill and not entirely responsible for his actions (which is the only thing keeping him off of the HJHOP short bus), and the irrational, seem not to realize that there are design conventions.

And it's not like the motionless earth people didn't have the tools to make a better looking page--according to the source page, it was done in Frontpage, so they could have made a regular human page.

I wonder if there is any research linking crazy font to crazy people and how they perceive (or fail to perceive) the world.

HJ