• Kyle Z. (unregistered)

    So, "Pat-rick" is an "opportune Rick"?

  • wtf (unregistered) in reply to Kevin
    Kevin:
    Quite right you are. 'Rick' is actually short for Richard - nothing to do with Patrick

    If your name is "Patrick" and you don't like "Pat", you'd pretty much gravitate towards "Rick" as the short form, out of self-defense if nothing else. It's your name, you can do what you want with it. I used to know a guy who called himself "Sun" - short for Jason. I guess he preferred it to "Jay" or "Jason"...

  • Uhhh (unregistered)

    I've had to clean up this kind of thing in the past. It was caused be older versions of Dreamweaver when using the WYSIWYG editor. Really crazy stuff could happen. Dreamweaver eventually added a remove duplicate tags tool that helped a lot. I found it easier to just migrate to a new look and feel version of the site instead.

  • Xenon Xavior (unregistered) in reply to MuTaTeD
    MuTaTeD:
    Opps found it

    I am really blind, actually I have gone blind after seeing the code

    My Bad

    That Opps is one helpful fellow. He's the guy who helped me when I lost my car keys.

  • The Nerve (unregistered)

    That IS pretty strong. How did they get a polygon to display in their source? Mine just looks like text.

  • (cs) in reply to Richard P.
    Richard P.:
    Okay, this might sound weird... but could we help them making a better website?

    Nice try North Korean CIO.

  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to Mason Wheeler
    Mason Wheeler:
    Anonymous:
    I take it that "Rick O'Shay" is a pseudonym? I can do you one better: I've done some work in the past for Hanson Aggregates and their CEO is called Patrick O Shea. "Patrick" naturally contracts to "Rick" so his honest-to-God name is "Rick O Shea". Best name ever.

    I thought Patrick naturally contracts to "Pat"...

    Err... maybe. I know 4 Patricks in total (in addition to Mr. O Shea) and they all go by the short name of Rick. I know one Patricia and she goes by Pat. So in my mind, Rick is the natural contraction of Patrick but maybe that's just down to my particular circle of friends.

  • Mike (unregistered)

    This looks like something /b/ would do...

  • Mike (unregistered) in reply to Uhhh
    Uhhh:
    I've had to clean up this kind of thing in the past. It was caused be older versions of Dreamweaver when using the WYSIWYG editor. Really crazy stuff could happen. Dreamweaver eventually added a remove duplicate tags tool that helped a lot. I found it easier to just migrate to a new look and feel version of the site instead.

    Not just Dreamweaver... Frontpage, Pagemill, they all did it. I refused to use any html editors except notepad and vi until about 2005.

  • (cs) in reply to gramie
    gramie:
    Some Wonk:
    You must want the Popular Judean Front. We're the People's Front for Judea.

    I thought we were the Judean Popular People's Front?

    (btw it's "People's front of Judea)

    You are in a maze of twisty liberation fronts, all alike.

  • Aaron harun (unregistered)

    Annnnd, on the "membership" page; they have an old friend:

    Fill in your phone numbers [<blink>use this format:</blink> +countrycode phonenumber]

  • Anon (unregistered) in reply to The Nerve

    That IS pretty strong. How did they get a polyhedron to display in their source? Mine just looks like text.

    FTFY

  • Troy (unregistered)
    nobulate:
    frist page 2 :D (sorry for the obnoxious triple post. I clicked and clicked and clicked submit, the Seacom outage is screwing with our DSL here in South Africa)

    Yes, the only obnoxious part of that was the triple post. Apology accepted.

  • OldCoder (unregistered) in reply to Kyle Z.
    Kyle Z.:
    They showed their "strong" in the South Africa World Cup losing to Portugal with a great score: 7x0.
    Hey! This site is about IT matters. Don't you mean 0x07?
  • shash (unregistered) in reply to I disagree
    I disagree:
    Knux2:
    <head><head><head>monkey</head></head></head>
    It's a three-headed monkey!

    This is a three headed monkey:

    <monkey> <head /> <head /> <head /> </monkey>

    What you describe is a erm... Monkey-headed-headed head?

    And look! All those heads are empty!

  • shash (unregistered) in reply to I disagree
    I disagree:
    Knux2:
    <head><head><head>monkey</head></head></head>
    It's a three-headed monkey!

    This is a three headed monkey:

    <monkey> <head /> <head /> <head /> </monkey>

    What you describe is a erm... Monkey-headed-headed head?

    And look! All those heads are empty!

  • (cs) in reply to Troy
    Troy:
    nobulate:
    frist page 2 :D (sorry for the obnoxious triple post. I clicked and clicked and clicked submit, the Seacom outage is screwing with our DSL here in South Africa)

    Yes, the only obnoxious part of that was the triple post. Apology accepted.

    I love sarcasm.

  • CoderDan (unregistered) in reply to gramie
    gramie:
    Some Wonk:
    You must want the Popular Judean Front. We're the People's Front for Judea.

    I thought we were the Judean Popular People's Front?

    (btw it's "People's front of Judea)

    I misread and thought you said "People's Font". Suddenly my font substitutions quit working

    Incassum - Acient Incan math bib call

  • davee123 (unregistered)

    "Dear Leader is, after all, an internet expert"

    I'll bet it says "Tier-3 supporting internets explorer" right there on his resume.

    DaveE

  • Calli Arcale (unregistered) in reply to D-Coder
    D-Coder:
    gramie:
    Some Wonk:
    You must want the Popular Judean Front. We're the People's Front for Judea.

    I thought we were the Judean Popular People's Front?

    (btw it's "People's front of Judea)

    You are in a maze of twisty liberation fronts, all alike.

    Ahhhh, Monty Python and Zork, two great tastes that now taste great together. ;-)

  • The Nerve (unregistered)

    I don't see what the problem is. Did you really expect North Korea to have <weak><weak><weak><weak><weak><weak><weak><weak><weak><weak><weak><weak><weak><weak><weak><weak><weak><weak>... tags in their webpages?

  • uuu (unregistered)

    If you look at the site, there appears to be only one section that is <superstrong> so it probably was made by some crummy inbrowser WYSIWYG editor.

  • Ben (unregistered) in reply to D-Coder
    D-Coder:
    gramie:
    Some Wonk:
    You must want the Popular Judean Front. We're the People's Front for Judea.

    I thought we were the Judean Popular People's Front?

    (btw it's "People's front of Judea)

    You are in a maze of twisty liberation fronts, all alike.

    > look on the bright side of life

  • The Nerve (unregistered)

    Is there a Wii version of Mass Games?

  • James OBoston (unregistered) in reply to The Nerve
    The Nerve:
    This is just an English translation of The Leader's speech. It goes: "less than, strong, greater than, less than, forward slash, strong, greater than, less than, strong, greater than, less than..."

    Has kind of a musical quality to it, but you should hear it in the original Klingon, I mean, Korean.

    I can't wait to hear it.

    I think i went something like this:

    Fitter, happier, more productive, comfortable, not drinking too much Regular exercise at the gym, 3 days a week Getting on better with your associate employee contemporaries at ease Eating well, no more microwave dinners and saturated fats A patient, better driver, a safer car, baby smiling in back seat Sleeping well, no bad dreams, no paranoia Careful to all animals, never washing spiders down the plughole Keep in contact with old friends, enjoy a drink now and then Will frequently check credit at moral bank, hole in wall Favors for favors, fond but not in love Charity standing orders on Sundays ring road supermarket No killing moths or putting boiling water on the ants Car wash, also on Sundays, no longer afraid of the dark or mid-day shadows Nothing so ridiculously teenage and desperate, nothing so childish At a better pace, slower and more calculated, no chance of escape Now self-employed, concerned, but powerless An empowered and informed member of society, pragmatism not idealism Will not cry in public, less chance of illness, tires that grip in the wet Shot of baby strapped in back seat, a good memory, still cries at a good film Still kisses with saliva, no longer empty and frantic like a cat tied to a stick That's driven into frozen winter shit, the ability to laugh at weakness Calm fitter, healthier and more productive, a pig in a cage on antibiotics

  • ParkinT (unregistered)

    Would a screen reader speak that site to me really, really loud!!??

  • me (unregistered) in reply to Knux2
    Knux2:
    <head><head><head>monkey</head></head></head>
    It's a three-headed monkey!
    +3 for reference
  • fgsfds (unregistered)

    It's now apparently been removed. Feel sorry for the poor developer who did that, who is probably never to be seen again now.

  • Ouch! (unregistered) in reply to fgsfds
    fgsfds:
    It's now apparently been removed. Feel sorry for the poor developer who did that, who is probably never to be seen again now.
    No, North Korea is still strong. It's pretty far down in the source.
  • Herby (unregistered)

    It just came to me:

    Strength through Joy. Or is it Joy through strength?

    Take your pick, North Korea!

  • Jim Munro (unregistered)

    I guess this is what WYSIWYG gets you. Must have just kept clicking the big B button. They really are barbaric if they force their web designers to use FrontPage. The humanity!

    I'm curious if Kim Jong Il is a Social Media expert or an SEO expert?

  • AlexV (unregistered)

    For some background:

    The Spanish guy who owns the site is a crazy bastard who is essentially the propaganda mouthpiece of the DPRK. He occasionally organizes excursions to North Korea for "Friends of North Korea" to parade around Pyongyang and show the people how much the west loves the Dear Leader. There's an excellent video of one such trip on YouTube, you can find it here:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C76HqPaA6kw

    It's simply awesome to watch all these deluded idealists get introduced to the true horrors of an oppressive dictatorship. Although the video was intentionally meant to be pro-north-korea, it ended up being rather different. As for the Spanish Dear-Leader-wannabe ... well, let's just say his enthusiasm for this Communist Paradise continues unabated. I suggest everyone check out the video - it's definitely worth watching.

  • Dan F (unregistered)

    More bonus WTFness from the code - the onload image preloader jiggery thing tries to preload file:///C|/Users/MAna/Documents/news1.gif.

    Good job MAna, you rock at this web stuff.

    Capcha: saluto - what you do to Dear Leader if you see him in the street

  • (cs)

    .com, as in short for .communist??

  • IV (unregistered) in reply to Dan F
    Dan F:
    More bonus WTFness from the code - the onload image preloader jiggery thing tries to preload file:///C|/Users/MAna/Documents/news1.gif.

    Good job MAna, you rock at this web stuff.

    Capcha: saluto - what you do to Dear Leader if you see him in the street

    And another. They end a span right in the middle of the word section. Well, maybe not right in the middle, but right of middle and still in the word.

  • Xythar (unregistered)

    Maybe they made it in an old version of Dreamweaver. My first job, back in university, was developing a webpage (which I did by hand in a text editor). Unfortunately, there was someone else at the place I worked for who also liked to take my carefully crafted webpage and edit it directly in Dreamweaver. One day, as I was going through and fixing up all the nice little code presents that Dreamweaver left me, I spotted a piece of text enclosed in multiple s just like in the article. Well, not quite as many, but you get the idea.

    And no, I wasn't working for North Korea >_>
  • Infltating Em (unregistered)

    While they may be extra strong the have been infiltrated the the Italicsians.

  • tim (unregistered)
    Though, in fairness, who are we to question such STRONG web design? Dear Leader is, after all, an internet expert.

    The W3C HTML validator disagrees.

  • AlexV (unregistered) in reply to tim
    tim:
    The W3C HTML validator disagrees.

    The WC3 validator is retardedly strict. Type in "google.com" and see how many errors you get.

  • k1 (unregistered) in reply to Matt Westwood
    Matt Westwood:
    10 LET I = 0 20 LET I = 0 30 LET I = 0 40 LET I = 0 50 LET I = 0
    10 LEET I = 0 20 LEET I = 0 30 LEET I = 0 40 LEET I = 0 50 LEET I = 0

    FTFY

  • oheso (unregistered) in reply to Dan F
    Dan F:
    More bonus WTFness from the code - the onload image preloader jiggery thing tries to preload file:///C|/Users/MAna/Documents/news1.gif.

    Definitely FrontPage then. It's nearly impossible to get FrontPage not to source images by the local reference instead of the URL. I have no idea ... apart from the fact the whole thing is an amazing pile of radioactive, infectious excreta.

  • oheso (unregistered) in reply to AlexV
    AlexV:
    The WC3 validator is retardedly strict. Type in "google.com" and see how many errors you get.

    What you get is the validator pointing out a lot of errors in Google's HTML. Was your point that the code must be correct because it's Google?

  • beentheredonethat (unregistered) in reply to AlexV
    AlexV:
    tim:
    The W3C HTML validator disagrees.

    The WC3 validator is retardedly strict. Type in "google.com" and see how many errors you get.

    And Google is of course the epiphany of correct web-design and never makes errors? I didn't know the glorious dear leader coded for Google ...

  • (cs) in reply to Calli Arcale
    Calli Arcale:
    Ahhhh, Monty Python and Zork, two great tastes that now taste great together. ;-)
    Ignorant people should not post as if they know what they are talking about. The twisty mazes predate Zork by at least a decade...
  • dqd (unregistered) in reply to nobulate
    nobulate:
    Python Code 
    ...

    r = re.compile(r"")
print "open strongs: %s" % len(r.findall(text))
    

    >>> 904
    

    r = re.compile(r"")
print "close strongs: %s" % len(r.findall(text))
    

    >>> 904

    Better avoid the regular expressions:

    >>> print "open strongs: %s" % text.count('')
open strongs: 904
>>> print "close strongs: %s" % text.count('')
close strongs: 904
  • JulianR (unregistered)

    Fun things about that site:

    • The site was built with the Imperalist's Adobe Dreamweaver
    • The "forum" (a WordPress blog with comments turned off, how fitting) references jQuery from the Google CDN.
    • The forum has ads for handbags and such on it, but they've been "cleverly" hidden by a style override, setting their height to 1px.
  • (cs) in reply to I disagree
    I disagree:
    Knux2:
    <head><head><head>monkey</head></head></head>
    It's a three-headed monkey!

    This is a three headed monkey:

    <monkey> <head /> <head /> <head /> </monkey>

    What you describe is a erm... Monkey-headed-headed head?

    Maybe they used too many nested tags, but isn't it enough to know that they ruined a website making a joke for you?

  • AlexV (unregistered) in reply to oheso
    oheso:
    AlexV:
    The WC3 validator is retardedly strict. Type in "google.com" and see how many errors you get.
    What you get is the validator pointing out a lot of errors in Google's HTML. Was your point that the code must be correct because it's Google?

    No, my point was that the WC3 validator is retardedly strict. Duh.

  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to AlexV
    AlexV:
    No, my point was that the WC3 validator is retardedly strict. Duh.
    That must be an oxymoron because I have never met a strict retard. They always seem very chilled out to me, not to mention happy judging by that simpering smile on their faces. In fact, I can't even think of a group who are less strict than retards. Totally inappropriate metaphor.
  • TimG (unregistered) in reply to NSCoder
    I disagree:
    Knux2:
    <head><head><head>monkey</head></head></head>
    It's a three-headed monkey!

    This is a three headed monkey:

    <monkey> <head /> <head /> <head /> </monkey>

    What you describe is a erm... Monkey-headed-headed head?

    They're nested tags, so it's clearly nested heads. Like those Russian dolls. Except with heads. And a monkey inside.

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