Seth Godin on bad website design

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Seth Godin tears apart the order forms at Jet Blue' website.

Ben the Bodyguard

I'm not clear on what the iPod app Ben the Bodyguard does, but the website is very clever. Just scroll down. Via.

*Buy iPods at Amazon.

Link roundup

1. Mojo supposedly lets websites easily create achievement type badges for their visitors to earn. Via these sites.

2. Cute photos of koalas.

3. Sexy talk.

*Buy koalas at Amazon.

Websites for famous SciFi movie companies

Websites for Rekall, Weyland-Yutani, and Tyrell - - some of Mikko Vartio's Evil Movie Corporations As Modern Websites. Via.

*Buy Blade Runner posters at Amazon.

Alice in Wonderland-themed restaurant and more by The Asylum

A few projects by The Asylum:




Business cards and pop-up book-style website for the White Rabbit restaurant (surprisingly fun to navigate).









Chocolate Research Facility (in Singapore, alas).






Kaiju-themed mailer for Blackjack fashion.










The Salad Shop (in Singapore). Via these sites.

*Buy chocolate at Amazon.

Mutt Marketing

The new home page for Mutt Marketing (designed by the uprising) is great, but the color of their blog is stunningly hard to look at.

Bat getting a cleaning (link roundup)

Bat and brush spotted here.

And a few more links:

1. Great photos of spiders and bridges here.

2. Thorough explanation for why City of Angels might be the worst movie ever. Here's a sample:

Meg Ryan's weird narcissistic appreciation for an invisible peeping ghost, and Nicolas Cage loves her because...one time she ate a pear? They go on a date, you see, and Nicolas Cage asks her to describe the pear she is eating, and now the movie is basically City of Pears.

3. Tumblr's super succinct sign up page compared to Posterous'.

*Previously: Vampire bat poster.

*Buy pears at Amazon and maybe you can seduce an angel.

Cleopatra in Space (link roundup)

Mike Maihack has a new webcomic called Cleopatra in Space.

And a few more links:

1. Slick interface for reading a comic. Via.

2. Lovecraftian-themed ARG site for upcoming game The Secret World.

3. Huge percentage of runners in a recent marathon in China were caught cheating (hopping in cars, using stand ins to run for them). The winners had a better chance of getting into higher education. Via.

*Previously: Anthony and Cleopatra were ugly.

*Buy Cthulhu toys at eBay.

Vintage comic book adaptation of Alien (link roundup)

Go here for a full scan of Archie Goodwin's and Walt Simonson's adaptation of Alien that appeared in Heavy Metal. Via.

And a few more links:

1. The above link is kind of a drag to read due to all the clicking. This site shows off a great way for reading lots of pages online. Via.

2. Brent shares 10 funny/interesting facts (including that he's a descendant of gypsies).

3. Lawyer who advertised himself as "The Thug's Lawyer" is now facing criminal charges.

*Previously: Aliens parody by SNL and James Cameron.

*Buy Alien toys at Entertainment Earth.

Minimalist start pages (link roundup)

Go here for soothingly minimalist start pages for Google, Wikipedia, Youtube, and Twitter (although the Twitter page doesn't make sense to me). Via.

And a few more links:

1. Very serious wedding in a forest.

2. The NBA tried to disappear the recently-taken photo of Gilbert Arenas making a shooting gesture at a recent game.

3. Destructoid received a huge sword from the makers of Darksiders, and is giving one away. Destructoid also posted the first ten minutes of Darksiders here.

4. And finally, Mike Krahulik defended Darksiders today:

Luke Plunkett over at Kotaku called Darksiders a "Creative Mess" In his review and laments Joe Madureira's input. This statement alone is enough to make me think that he should probably never write game reviews again. Perhaps he should be relegated to stories about cakes that look like 1up mushrooms or cufflinks shaped like the Triforce.

*Previously: Albert Einstein with Cloud's buster sword.

*Buy swords at eBay.

Good luck (link roundup)

One of several sarcastic congratulations on your newborn cakes posted here.

And a few more links:

1. Gallery of login forms. Via.

2. Marshall Alexander's business card is a papercraft man holding up Marshall's business card.

3. Another GYAKUSHU! teaser from Dan Hipp.

*Previously: More sarcastic cakes.

*Buy business card collections at Amazon.

Funny unsubscribe link (link roundup)

Unsubscribing from Groupon brings up this funny webpage where you can punish Derrick (or watch him being punished) for sending out unsatisfactory emails.

And a few more links:

1. ROM, Space Knight by Ben Stenbeck.

2. Another ROM pin-up.

3. Draw a mermaid, win original art.

*Previously: ROM Lego CubeDude.

*Buy ROM toys at eBay.

Them Crooked Vultures

I like the website for Them Crooked Vultures - - stylish, all the links are obvious, and the creepy vulture guy moves just enough to be unsettling. (It's also funny that they have a t-shirt on sale, but no music posted.) The group consists of drummer Dave Grohl, vocalist and guitarist Josh Homme, bassist and keyboardist John Paul Jones, and Alain Johannes as a live rhythm guitarist.

Here's a few short clips showing off the group's classic guitar rock sound:





And here's the band performing Nobody Loves Me And Neither Do I live:



Dave Grohl lives pretty close to me - - I've seen him and his kid at the park.

*Previously: Nice splash page at Kimsooja's site.

*Buy concert posters at eBay.

Megan Fox as Catwoman desktop wallpaper (link roundup)

Megan Fox as Catwoman desktop wallpaper, made with an image found here.

And a few more links:

1. What do you do when your 6-year-old is schizophrenic:

"Is the Moban working?" her mother asks Jani during a visit.

"No. I have more friends."

Read on and feel way better about your life. You can read her father's blog about fighting Blue Shield for coverage, too.

2. Wired asked various designers to redesign Craigslist.

3. Funny post trying to figure out what Oprah's next book club pick will be.

*Previously: Catwoman Cosbaby.

*Buy Catwoman toys at eBay.

Keyboard Cat automata (link roundup)

Download the Keyboard Cat papercraft automata here. And don't miss the papercraft "high school boss girl." Via.

And a few more links:

1. Good news for Blogger users - - there's now an option to create a label cloud (as displayed in my sidebar). You can choose the tags you want displayed. This is particularly good news for me since my tag cloud was totally overgrown. Now I can once again tag with impunity.

2. If you're looking for a fancier site, Nancy Dorsner is now designing sites.

3. James Bond sketch card by Andi Watson.

*Previously: "Don't Tase Me Bro" automata.

*Buy vintage James Bond novels at eBay.