This weeks Website Spotlight (or should I say the newest Website Spotlight as I haven’t really been keeping with the weekly format.) is: Review in Haiku

Like a Haiku, its a pretty brief and simple site. Elegantly put together with a papery muted tone. Even the one ad on the page doesn’t jump at you as it blends nicely but noticeably in the page. The only things that jump off the page are the color-coded entries rated on a scale of five from great to awful. Yes they are the writer’s opinions as I don’t agree with some of the author’s ratings but nevertheless the color codes are a great choice because before I read a haiku review I already know what its rated.

And the haikus are pretty great as well, some being funny (like the Good Luck Chuck review), others being detailed in brevity, and others barely relating to the movie. So in the spirit of the site, here goes my haiku in review:

with movie review

this site gets an A plus plus

same grade for design

This weeks Website Spotlight (or should I say the newest Website Spotlight as I haven’t really been keeping with the weekly format.) is: Failblog.org

FAIL became the shorthand way to gloat about any humiliation, major or minor. Failblog.org gathers these user submitted pictures and videos in an easy to laugh at format. The only thing I don’t recommend doing is going to the comments on the site. It definitely is full of FAIL with Douchebags yelling "first!" or other internet idiots.

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This weeks Website Spotlight (or should I say the newest Website Spotlight as I haven’t really been keeping with the weekly format.) is: xkcd.com/

Blending many human elements like romance and sarcasm together with mathematics and language makes for some really funny, charming, and thought provoking web comics. (more…)