I'm a cypher, wrapped in an enigma, smothered in secret sauce. Also, my name is Kev and I own this here website.
Due to the overwhelming response Special Kind of Stupid, a humor blog, has received for its new “cork message board” design, dozens of Fortune 500 companies announced today they soon will be implementing similar designs for their websites.
Dubbed “Web 2 Point Awesome” by experts, this revolutionary theme layers the site’s content over a cork image. This gives the content, which has a white background, the illusion of being a piece of paper “attached” to a message board.
“It is nothing short of remarkable,” remarked Apple CEO Steve Jobs. “I look at that site and I swear I’m looking at a real message board.
“At one point, I got confused and tried to put a sticky note on it.”
Google, trying to beat Microsoft and Yahoo to the punch, has already launched its beta version of the cork theme.
“We had our entire web development department drop what they were doing so we could cram a typical 12-month design process into one weekend,” said Google co-founder Larry Page as he tried to remove a thumbtack he accidentally embedded into his computer monitor.
“There is going to be a flurry of sites switching over to this cork theme in the coming months, and we wanted to be at the forefront of this revolution.
“The result, I believe, speaks for itself.”
Microsoft’s Bill Gates agreed. “This is the future, and the future is going to be awesome.”
Experts in the industry predict by the year 2010 all websites will be using the cork message board theme.
“It’s inevitable,” noted Al Gore, founder of the Internet. “People love sticky notes and they love using thumbtacks. Bringing that love over to the Internet is nothing short of genius.
“I wish I had invented it.”
;-) 3.3.08 at 2:59 pm:
Viva la revolution!
(Nice blog by the way, Rickey digs.)
;-) 3.3.08 at 4:43 pm:
@Rickey: Thanks! My hope is this revolution will be much better than that awful Matrix: Revolutions movie. Of course, it’d just about have to be.
;-) 3.3.08 at 4:49 pm:
wow great new look! Nice job!
will there be food and drink served at this revolution? I heard there were cookies.
;-) 3.3.08 at 5:37 pm:
Way to go, Kev. Scoring a quote from our PowerPointing friend Al Gore. You so deserve a cookie for that. And a monkey. Look for them in a box on your porch by Friday. Watch your face, though. The monkey’s gonna be hungry and probably not real happy.
;-) 3.3.08 at 6:00 pm:
@Chris: Thank you! Designing my own theme was long overdue. Hey, I finally put that degree to use!
There will be cookies, brownies, Coke Zero and onion rings. All of earth’s finest things!
@Kathy: Thank you, thank you. Ol’ Al owed me a favor (for not putting his mug shot in my cascade of stupid in the banner logo at the top), so getting that quote wasn’t too big a deal. He’s also supposed to dedicate his next documentary to me.
Thanks for the warning. I’ll be sure to answer the door in my protective monkey mask when the UPS man comes by.
;-) 3.3.08 at 6:39 pm:
Sweeeet corkboard.
Are you absolutely sure Al Gore didn’t invent it?
;-) 3.4.08 at 12:13 pm:
Dan: If Hitler wrote a blog it would still be better than that Matrix Revolutions flick.
;-) 3.4.08 at 1:06 pm:
I KNEW I missed the train when I didn’t design my blog using this corkboard theme…dangit!!!
;-) 3.4.08 at 5:40 pm:
@Damon: Yep, definitely sure. I checked on Wikipedia.
@Rickey: If Hitler wrote a blog and he asked me to trade links with him, I would say no. That’s how anti-Hitler I am.
@Angi: It’s not too late. Join the revolution!
;-) 3.4.08 at 8:51 pm:
LOVE the new site Kev. It’s Classy!!!! So peggy, so boardy, (drooool), ahem, excuse me. Move along!
;-) 3.12.08 at 1:08 pm:
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;-) 3.26.08 at 4:28 pm:
I was so shocked when I finally found my way back to your site! It looks great.
;-) 5.9.08 at 3:56 am:
it is nice post look great
;-) 6.9.08 at 6:52 pm:
Corkboard utopia at last! This is what we’ve all been waiting for! Look out though, Al Gore might put a hit out on you. He’s always wantin to take all the credit you know…just sayin’.
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