Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Time Cube

http://timecube.com/

Intended Audience
Anyone who wishes to view the universe in alternative manners. This website might also be a cry for help.

Usefulness of Content
This is awful beyond belief.
  • It's really hard to follow anything that "Dr." Gene Ray has to say because his writing is incoherent, although he proclaims himself the greatest philosopher and mathematician to ever live.
  • He calls his detractors stupid and evil, not a great way to facilitate meaningful dialogue.
  • He makes various racial insults.
  • He tells his own audience that they deserve to be killed unless they subscribe to his theories.

Consistency of Design
The best thing about this site is that there is not much to it, just a single page containing the rantings of a man I would judge to have a few marbles loose.
  • On a positive note, the background paper with the distorted grid fits nicely with the author's distorted view of time and reality.
  • He sticks to four primary colors in his text, but I don't think the color used actually has any meaning.
  • He varies font sizes, all caps, bold font, italics and underlining, ostensibly to stress his point. This is annoying, especially as a comprehensible point likely does not exist.

Ease of Navigation
  • Because there is only one long page, it's a difficult site to navigate. I would recommend breaking his timecube philosophy into multiple facets that actually make some sense, and organizing the text in a manner which would support his point.
  • On the other hand, one could refer to this organizational approach as "straightforward." And let's face it, the worst problem here is definitely the content.

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