Pointless Technology
Internet Age Verification
Maybe it's taken me a bit too long to realize, but after all this is a BLOG and is therefore the perfect vehicle for driving my semi-truck of carefully tuned e-pinions into your new installed stained glass web-browser. That or I've been watching to much Zero Punctuation and feel the need to regurgitate my technological angst in into little cascadingly styled <div> statements. Either way, tonight's, or today's, target for verbal bludgeoning is the woefully (woah-fully?) useless and yet omnipresent "age verification" dialogs that pop-up when you are trying to watching the trailer for the latest release of the "Age of Killination" series or any movie starring Sacha Baron Cohen. They are in fact completely pointless and startlingly under-designed, and here's why...
Dustin Anglin