<bold>THIS IS SO ABSOLUTELY ASTONISHINGLY TRUE! </bold>

Uh, I don't even see a video. Like, not even a spot for the video to exist. Anyone else observing this?

Looks like embeds from CBC aren't showing up.

You can click the link to see the video at CBC's website.


e: I made a sift talk about this.

Ditto.

@dag and @lucky760 -- help please?


At least my old web pages are simple and light -- friendly to slow connections.

While I may not be fully embracing web brutalism, I am in the process of redesigning my website to simplify everything. Going from 4 main pages + several sub pages to a single page. From a CMS with a bunch of ASP and PHP to a few HTML files I could upload and run basically anywhere.

Seems to fit with the theme then.

This video is brutal, it is made of NOTHING.

</dethklok>

So to address the actual video/concept....

First up, brutalist architecture is fucking awful. There was a bunch of it in Christchurch and if the earthquake did one good thing, it was to get rid of most of those god-awful buildings.

Second, the web isn't about words; it's about information.
How that information is conveyed depends on the target audience and the information being presented.

Sometimes the information is simple and the target audience is actually a machine, in which case we have things like REST and SOAP.

Other times the information is complex, and best represented visually. Can anyone honestly tell me that a site like this (http://thetruesize.com) would be better brutalised?

That's not to say there aren't problems with web bloat. Of course there are. But let's not throw the baby out with the bath water.

I agree, there are definitely sites like the one you linked to that can get an idea across with visuals / media / flash / whatever that would be impossible or drastically less efficient with pure text.

To me, uBlock Origin or Adblock with Element Hiding Helper is capable of finding a happy medium around 90% of the time.

I like Dilbert. Up until about a year or so ago, there was a URL to go to a page that had the latest comic with simple links to back/forward navigation. No comments or other extraneous stuff. Then Scott Adams did a site redesign and added a fuckload of ads, a "blog" about Adams' political opinions that I don't give 2 shits about, social media links, tags, comments, a star rating, and a "BUY" button. If I'm not running my browser maximized, all that crap pushes the single bit of content that I actually DO want (the comic image) so far out of frame that I have to scroll down to see it. F that.

uBlock itself takes care of the ads. Everything else that annoys me is gone by using the "element picker", which filters out sections or bits of HTML that I can choose. So now, when I visit dilbert.com I get the 3 most recent comic images with a title/date line and *nothing* else.

Videosift isn't immune on my PC either. The "social panel" for each video? Gone. Facebook "likebox"? Gone.

I've run into a few pages that detect custom filtering in a way similar to ad blocking detection. Sometimes, I can just select those "warning" elements and hide them -- especially if they are in a floating frame that simply loads on top of the actual page content. Sometimes those warnings actually prevent the page content from loading. Something from wired did that recently. I haven't clicked through to a wired article since.

Moving this video to notarobot's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

It seems CBC doesn't support SSL, so their content can't load on our secure pages.

Their server accepts the secure request but then it redirects the request to the insecure version of the URL.