stop the insanity

on perusing theteaparty.net, while trying to find out just what it is that they stand for(still can't figure it out), i came across this page. i noticed the page loading very, very slow and decided to do a little investigating. turns out that the "thumbnail" at the bottom of the page is a whopping 4.5mb. the thumbnail at the top of the page, ironically named govwasteroad.jpg is a mere 16k. the offending image(Constitution22x281.jpg?a=77) is nearly 300 times larger than govwasteroad.jpg.

what this means is that the more successful this blog is, the more they will be paying in unnecessary bandwidth. talk about wasteful spending!

not to mention this is a total ux fail. only users who can afford the fastest connections can even load this page in a timely manner. at my job, with it's t-whatever, it took over 15 seconds to load this one page. if i was using dsl, fuggedaboutit. seems funny that a political "movement" that parades and parrots the founding fathers' ideas of things like equality and stuff would fuck americans who can't afford such a connection.

as an aside, the post that this image is inside of is the blog's introductory post. it describes the author as a woman named donna wiesner keene. this woman apparently worked in the 2nd bush administration. i wonder where her tea party hat was when he was writing blank checks for his deficit busting trillion dollar wars.

link | rss rss | share | posted: 2011-09-19 09:45:33

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