Mat Bowles

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Are these guys for real?

So, I’m doing some Googling [1], and I find this:
The Texas Independence Movement

They appear to be linked to a bunch of conspiraloons, and the website is so tortuously bad I had to boot up IE to figure out what it was trying to do in some places (really badly coded javascript navigation panel), but, y’know, Texan independence?

I prefer the subdivision option myself.

[1] Texan Independence, to see how long Texas had been independent from Mexico before annexation to the US, for a discussion on US immigration and that stupid wall they’re building.

October 20th, 2006 Posted by MatGB | Uncategorized | 3 comments

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  1. Why do conspiraloon sites always look like webpages that have fallen through a wormhole from 1999?

    I particularly enjoyed the option to view all of the pages as a scrolling marquee. Genius.

    I like the idea of the US seceding into 50 independent states - no more “world superpower” to chuck it’s weight around. Makes it safer for us all - until Texas gets the bomb, that is.

    Comment by 0ct0pus | October 20, 2006

  2. I suspect Texas already has a number of bombs stationed there, and they would just divide them up, so they’d have one already.

    As it happens, unless things sort themselves out big time, or the culture wars are “won”, I don’t give the USofA as is more than 20 years anyway, there are already enough people with little maps showing Canada absorbing both seaboards, etc.

    But yeah, the marquee scrolling was painful, switching to the non-scroll was all I could do to keep there. What browser d’you use? In IE, it’s even managing weird transition/loading effects, so very wrong.

    And the big chunks of centralised text, just horrible. Ah well, someday, every loony out there will discover the wonders of basic CMS packages. Then they’ll decide that spam comments are a Govt plan or something…

    Comment by matgb | October 20, 2006

  3. What browser d’you use? In IE, it’s even managing weird transition/loading effects, so very wrong.

    I’m on Opera (windows) here at work - seemed fine apart from the design issues and content.

    Ah well, someday, every loony out there will discover the wonders of basic CMS packages

    Discovering the subtle use of stylesheets would be a start.

    Comment by 0ct0pus | October 20, 2006

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