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The top 10 unintentionally worst company URLs

Everyone knows that if you are going to operate a business in today’s world you need a domain name. It is advisable to look at the domain name selected as other see it and not just as you think it looks. Failure to do this may result in situations such as the following (legitimate) companies who deal in everyday humdrum products and services but clearly didn’t give their domain names enough consideration:

1. A site called ‘Who Represents‘ where you can find the name of the agent that represents a celebrity. Their domain name… wait for it… is…
www.whorepresents.com

2. Experts Exchange, a knowledge base where programmers can exchange advice and views at
www.expertsexchange.com

3. Looking for a pen? Look no further than Pen Island at
www.penisland.net

4. Need a therapist? Try Therapist Finder at
www.therapistfinder.com

5. Then of course, there’s the Italian Power Generator company…
www.powergenitalia.com

6. And now, we have the Mole Station Native Nursery, based in New South Wales:
www.molestationnursery.com

7. If you’re looking for computer software, there’s always
www.ipanywhere.com

8. Welcome to the First Cumming Methodist Church. Their website is
www.cummingfirst.com

9. Then, of course, there’s these brainless art designers, and their whacky website:
www.speedofart.com

10. Want to holiday in Lake Tahoe? Try their brochure website at
www.gotahoe.com

You know you are a graphic design when #2

1. You are pro-facebook because 95% of the myspace accounts burn your retinas
2. You can name more than 200 fonts in under five minutes
3. You are completely immune to subliminal advertising
4. You look upon a well-designed project with either: sympathy OR extreme jealousy
5. Your hand is permanently stuck in the shape of a mouse
6. You tell stories of exacto-knife inflicted wounds with grizzled sort of pride
7. You practically take caffeine intravenously
8. You have an appreciation for everything unique
9. You don’t wear black to look cool, you wear it to hide the gauche.
10. You have a thing for chairs. You don’t know why.
11. You giggle whenever you use the colors F0CCED, EFF0FF and 44DDDD
12. You’re in the sun and you look around for a Drop Shadow to sit under.
13. You give your relatives a lecture about color spaces and profiles when you email them your vacation photos.
14. Seeing someone use Lens Flare or Comic Sans adversely affects your blood-pressure
15. You maintain a grid system for your refrigerator magnets.
16. You organize your CD collection according to the Pantone chart.
17. You’re up ’til 5am because you came up with the best idea ever while brushing your teeth.
18. The hottest dream you ever had was “Trace contour… Find Edges… Pinch… Extrude… Smudge Stick… Motion Blur…. Sprayed Strokes…”
19. You know Lorem Ipsum by heart.
20. Your kid knows Lorem Ipsum by heart.
21. The preschool teacher complains your child won’t color inside or outside the lines – only indicate colors on a separate sheet.
22. Activating your entire font collection makes your computer crash
23. Looking at a menu make you go “hmmm, ITC Baskerville italic” rather than “mmmm, lunch!”
24. And when you finally order, you go for Layer Based Slices with Grain Texture…
25. You use words about fonts you dislike that other normal people reserve for fascist dictators and serial killers.
26. Apple+Z is the first thing that goes through your mind if you drop and break something.
27. You’ve considered naming your children things like ‘Kern’, ‘Pica’, ‘Bézier’, and ‘Serif’.
28. You can understand everything on this list.

You Know You are a Graphic Designer When…

1. You’ve almost rear-ended the car in front of you because you were analyzing a font on a billboard.

2. You get pissed when a free Photoshop brush you download is less than 1000px in size.

3. You’d rather study the paisley pattern on your boyfriend/girlfriend’s shirt than listen to what he/she has to say.

4. You can use keyboard shortcuts at light speed, blindfolded, but you can’t type a paragraph of text without staring at the keyboard.

5. You’ve had “Software Nightmares,” when you’ve been working way too much.

6. You consider meals interruptions.

7. You’ve learned your lesson and stopped using the word “final” in any file name when saving.

8. You clean your keyboard more often than you wash your car.

9. You’ve intentionally given up trying to explain your projects to non-designers.

10. You see CMYK and RGB like Neo sees the Matrix.

11. You’d rather organize your desktop than your sock drawer.

12. When you heard that Adobe was aquiring Macromedia, you had a Design Orgasm.

13. When you look at Album art all you see are grunge Photoshop Brushes. (Then you see the album art a couple minutes later)

14. You’ve Photoshopped out a watermark for a comp or mock-up.

15. You’ve actually $paid for a font.

16. You’ve totally slaughtered a great design concept because the client thinks he/she knows best. (everyone thinks they are a designer)

17. The amount of words you’ve written with a sharpie labeling burned discs total more than the amount of words you’ve read in novels.

18. You’ve had to explain to a client that a layered file wasn’t part of the deal.

19. You’ve kept a ragged concert ticket just so you could scan it.

20. You’ve nicknamed the OSX spinning wheel. (and not affectionately)spinning beachball o’ death

21. You bookmark a resource more often than you have a fun night out on the town.

22. You’ve intentionally overbid a project because you can sniff out a bad client from a mile away.

23. You can’t go to a restaurant without secretly critiquing the menu design.

24. You have an amazingly huge font collection, and an amazingly short temper.

25. If you had a penny for every mouse click, you would have been a trillionaire 3 years ago.

26. You have removed the arrows and cleaned up the fonts on a forwarded mail before forwarding on.