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Anthony Sloan
Guest
<rant>
Supposedly this vast world wide web is in place so that absolute scads of information will be
right at our fingertips. As we sit at our ease, we can imagine the teeming bits of data out there
hoping, praying that they will be allowed to grace our screens and enlighten us. Bearing this in
mind I set out this morning in search of info on a new fork and disc brakes for the new frame I
have on the way.
What I have found is that there is so much Flash and other nonsense cluttering up various
manufactor's websites that the actual information is either lost in the clutter or not even extant.
Sometimes, when a website is feeling particularly zesty and willful, it will lock up your system,
just as an added flourish.
I don't want animated graphics and logos. i don't want brief snippets of obnoxious metalhead music.
I want data. The Hayes site loads up and ever so nifty animated logo of a spinning disc. Kewl. Disc
brakes spin, AND their logo spins! I get it! Unfortunately none of the links around it work. (and is
it just me or do they have the most confusing lineup of product names. hmfx mag + xc dh... Just call
them fred, wilma barney and betty so I can tell 'em apart!!! (This is an added dig at hayes just
because their site annoys me so much))
It shouldn't be this hard. The web is it's own medium. These folks need to quit tryin to make it
emulate the television.
</rant
Supposedly this vast world wide web is in place so that absolute scads of information will be
right at our fingertips. As we sit at our ease, we can imagine the teeming bits of data out there
hoping, praying that they will be allowed to grace our screens and enlighten us. Bearing this in
mind I set out this morning in search of info on a new fork and disc brakes for the new frame I
have on the way.
What I have found is that there is so much Flash and other nonsense cluttering up various
manufactor's websites that the actual information is either lost in the clutter or not even extant.
Sometimes, when a website is feeling particularly zesty and willful, it will lock up your system,
just as an added flourish.
I don't want animated graphics and logos. i don't want brief snippets of obnoxious metalhead music.
I want data. The Hayes site loads up and ever so nifty animated logo of a spinning disc. Kewl. Disc
brakes spin, AND their logo spins! I get it! Unfortunately none of the links around it work. (and is
it just me or do they have the most confusing lineup of product names. hmfx mag + xc dh... Just call
them fred, wilma barney and betty so I can tell 'em apart!!! (This is an added dig at hayes just
because their site annoys me so much))
It shouldn't be this hard. The web is it's own medium. These folks need to quit tryin to make it
emulate the television.
</rant