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18:39 - Ahh, good old User Friendly.
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20020201
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You know, I'm kinda surprised-- User Friendly has actually been fairly Mac-positive for the past few months. There's been very little of the usual invective, even some positive vibes toward Mac OS X. Certainly nothing like the ridicule it heaped upon the iMac back in 1998, when Erwin was reincarnated into the body of a Bondi Blue original-- horror of horrors. There hasn't been a peep yet about the new "Luxo" iMac, controversial as its design is. No, it would almost seem as though Illiad has turned over a new--
... Okay, well, never mind then.
Sometimes I feel like I'm the only geek on Earth who doesn't really think terribly highly of User Friendly (this is a general-purpose tangent I'm going off on here, not one sparked by the above, in case you're wondering). The art has never really improved since Day 1; and while unschooled artistry can become an engaging visual style (as in Dilbert or The Far Side), it just hasn't done that in UF. To say nothing of the subject matter, which at least has lately seemed to stay away from the protracted spell of "I hate Microsoft!" reiterations that made up its first two or three years of existence. But the storylines from recent months are so dull as to reveal that there's really not much there without the Microsoft-bashing and Linux heraldry to buoy it.
So go on, revoke my Geek Cabal membership, because I guess I'm just not part of the target audience. Which is a shame, really-- I'd quite like to be.
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