Friday Q&A

Questionable Ration

Greetings, crickets and trolls. Welcome back to another edition of the Friday Q&A. In this regular feature, I explore issues facing Fark's Photoshop community, and the world in general. What a week! This is truly an exciting time to be vaguely aware of the news. Bomb scares, floods, earthquakes, volcanoes and good old fashioned man-made pollution have conspired to give us years of Photoshop contest fodder. If you don't mind the impending doom of humanity, this is a pretty good time to mangle a few images. At least it would be, if the queue wasn't shorter than my attention span.
or TSZ's penis.
Q: Are we in the midst of another theme drought?

A: It's really more of an everything drought. No themes, Iron Photoshops, or challenges all week. And only a handful of approved images to fill the queue. Despite what the Dick Van Patten vehicle of the late 70's would have you believe, eight is not enough. I know Fark's management must be pretty tied up with the world ending and all, but that's no need to be stingy with the Photoshop contests.

Q: Why can't there be a standard for the length of the queue?

A: I'm afraid I'll never fully understand the mystical processes involved in forming Fark's Photoshop queue. Sometimes quality "O"s abound, other times it's a real wasteland. This week was more of the latter than the former. I hope things clear up soon, because watching our planet's ecosystem degrade into a pile of greasy filth has really worked up my creative juices.

Q: What happened to Google?

A: The forces of unimprovement have been hard at work on Google. You can tell because their search pages are now butt ugly. The whole mess looks like a clone of Bing, which is in no way a compliment. Whilst we can't hope to understand the forces behind such an idiotic decision, a handy tool has emerged which allows us to cope with the aftermath of flawed web design. Add this user-created style to your Firefox browser using the Stylish plugin (same one we use to remove ads from TotalFark). This only applies to Firefox, of course. If you're using IE or Chrome, best of luck to you.

That's all for this time, gentle reader. Let me close this post by offering my sympathy to anyone affected by the Tennessee flooding, the Greek credit crisis, or that terrifying unattended cooler that shutdown most of the Eastern seaboard today. Actually, I take it back about Greece. You can't tell me you didn't see their problems coming a mile away. The whole country has been in desperate need of renovation for years now. Have you ever seen the Parthenon? That place is practically falling apart.

Stay tuned for more structural evaluations from the Doctor!