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This is the apex of website design.

(Heck, it's the most memorable site I've seen today.)

And I can't help but think this looks like some weird cult. Will anyone put $41 down to see what we're getting in for?

It is a sublime example of the good old-fashioned “motherfucking website” of 20-odd years ago. http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

I would buy one, but I live in California, where I cynically expect it never to rain again.

It's more like an example of what happened when people started deciding a motherfucking website wasn't good enough.

It doesn't have parallax scrolling or underscore.js or whatever it is the young people are digging in 2015, but it does have an entry tunnel, a disgusting colourscheme and an ineptly embedded soundtrack.

Edit: That said, if you want to find out about Protective Rain Hats and maybe buy one, this website probably provides an above average user experience for a 2015 website. Loads fast, tells you what you need to know, probably works (well enough) on anything.

You are amazingly right. For all of the horrible things it is doing it does function pretty well.

On the biz side this might be a solution in search of a problem. I would go and ask my mailman (in person with the product, not show him the website) if such a product would be useful. If he/she said no (probably with some good reason) then it would be dead. Out in the rain or out in the desert/sun all day were my first two thoughts.

In China, I see custodians/tradesmen/anyone whose job is primarily outdoors wearing hats like this [1] in concert with a plastic poncho all the time. Seems to work quite well.

1. http://www.amazon.com/Loftus-SW-0014-Umbrella-Hat/dp/B0006GK...

> For all of the horrible things it is doing it does function pretty well.

"The irony ... the irony ..."

Thanks for that link.

I just looked at it from my laptop and from my phone, and it reflows on my phone so that I don't have to scroll, or embiggen and then scroll, just to read it.

Why have people forgotten how to do that?

Making a website like that takes maybe ten minutes. There's no way a designer can make a living from the markup on that.

I loved the dual sense of "markup" here.

But a designer could still do all the value-add that they currently practice, and make the text reflow. Not everyone uses the same screen that the designer uses.

I consider a site that does not reflow text to exhibit a similar attitude that "Best viewed in Internet Explorer" used to imply.

For my small business, I have a supplier who's website looks like it was created by a teenager in the 90s. For instance all of the navigation buttons are weird little animations. And yes, there's colored, blinking text.

But it always puts a smile on my face when I use it, because it's perfectly functional yet tacky in a good way.

I believe this was the apex: http://www.lingscars.com/

I wondering if they're really still located in Hunter's Point, San Francisco.

I'm tempted to just for laughs, but I'm not sure they ship to Canada.

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