Charlottesville.org Part 2
The first part of the investigation provided a wealth of hilarity, so after having not viewed the site for a day I hit it again this evening (is this the new sitcom in C-Ville?).
I decided to check out the Privacy Policy and Disclaimer and noticed a few good snippets of information. First off let me just say I’ll paraphrase, since in the spirit of freedom of this village the page says all the text is copyrighted by C-Ville and I can’t use any of the text without obtaining a permit. Feel free to go read it yourself.
Supported browsers: Internet Explorer 4 or greater.
Site was tested with: Windows 98 and Windows XP.
To use site: Windows 95 or greater.
Usage: The village can ban you from viewing or using the site at any time, and will use ANY MEANS NECESSARY UNDER THE LAW to prevent you from using it.
OK…so that was fun. They have never before viewed their own site on a Mac, and if you do they might decide that is a bad thing so they might send a lawyer after you. Ouch. Luckily I can contact the Office of Communication to discuss this issue.
I’ll be honest, the site has a bit of Newspeak written in to it, and I wonder if Office of Communication was meant to say Ministry of Truth. Perhaps that was a typo.
As others have pointed out, the funniest part about this sitcom is that in this supposedly best city in America, which has a lot of web-based companies, the city hired a company in California to do all the work. I guess local residents don’t know how to set up a web site…or maybe they don’t have time to do such things with all the breeder results they have to deal with.
Running a site through a web validator is often a fun thing to do. For the company that got hired (and took lots of money away from this village) they have 38 errors on the front page of their site. The city site has 36 errors on their front page. This site only has 29..and I don’t even care about having a valid site.
Enough for tonight. I have to stop watching this show since all this laughing is making my ribs hurt.
[...] Outskirts’ “DocMultimedia” has, to everybody’s great surprise, found much to dislike in the City of Charlottesville’s new website [1,2]. (To be fair, I’m not thrilled with it, either.) Of course, even if it were a really great website, he’d just be angry that it’s too good and that the city should have spent its money on something of greater import, like freeing us from the evil clutches of CRT-based ATMs. [...]