Once upon a time, way back in the misty depths of the past, there was a movie called STARGATE. You may remember it. It had aliens and spaceships, and explosions, and army men, and a big rotating metal ring that flushed sideways.

Sometime later, a TV series happened, Stargate SG-1. And Ten years of this show got made, and it was such a hit that five more years of a second show, Stargate: Atlantis got made as well.

Now, I'd seen the movie when it first came out. I saw it in the theater, and though I didn't remember too much about it, I do remember seeing it, and being suitably wowed by all the fancy flying pyramids and stuff.

I'd only caught a few sporadic episodes of the two subsequent series, though. So I decided, it was time. I would sit down and watch the whole shebang in one big marathon. It took quite a long time. But, once again I was wowed. That was some really good TV there.

Then I went back and watched the movie again, because I realized I hadn't actually seen it since lo, those many years ago. And I was somewhat shocked so see how different it was from the TV series. There's no Goa'uld. RA is some kind of big-headed grey alien, similar to the Asgard disguising himself as a human. There's no Jaffa. There's guys who could be Jaffa, but they don't have the forehead symbols, and are walking around in vaguely Egyptian-motif raveboy costumes. Oh, and RA is surrounded by shotacon boitoys in skimpy little harem costumes, too. Not sure how I missed remembering that. I rarely forget a harem costume.

But ya know what? I was entertained. Even as weird and as different as it was from the fifteen seasons of TV that followed it, it was still a pretty decent film. Right on!

Stargate. Great sci-fi franchise. Some damned tasty stuff. I wanted more!

And so... like an idiot. I decided to go watch Stargate Universe.

What an absolute shitstain of a tv show.

No main character - just a lot of annoying people, none of whom ever rose to the top of the pile as a protagonist.

No good guys. No bad guys. No excitement. No adventure. No thrilling escapades of derring-do. Nothing and nobody to cheer for.

Just lots and lots of violent misery, lots of episodes that drag on and on and eventually go nowhere, a slow annoying slog that drains the energy out of any room unfortunate enough to have it playing within, and a few token references to the franchise that this thing is supposed to be a part of.

This is the kind of dreck you get, when people without a creative thought in their heads gather together in boardrooms, and start tossing around phrases like "high concept" and "adult" and "depth" This one's not going to be cheesy, no siree. It's going to be "real" and "gritty" and "dark."

I'd be willing to bet that at least once during that back-patting session, the name Battlestar Galactica passed through the air, too. This stinker has all the same things wrong with it that the Galactica reboot missed the boat on. Namely, that they forgot to include any actual entertainment value. THIS ISN'T FUN.

I can totally see why it died so quickly. What amazes me is it wasn't stillborn. There's almost no THERE there.

We're talking 98% filler. 2% end credits.

If you're going to stamp a brand name on your production, then you god-damned better make sure that the production you're stamping it on is worthy of the name. You better capture the tone, and the atmosphere. You better capture the quality of the concept, and You better capture the things that made people want to watch in the first place.

Because if you don't, you're not going to get an audience. You're going to chase any potential audience away. You'll be cancelled and forgotten as quickly as that Knight Rider reboot that blipped by a while back.

Or Stargate Universe, may it rot in hell forever.

I've been complaining about Doctor Who's recent run, so I think it's only fair that I should also note the times it got good. It is for these times (for those of you who asked why I still watch it) that I still watch it.

Last week's episode was pretty good. The first proper monster story we've had in a long time. Though I'm docking it a few points for having it be another "impossible girl to the rescue / useless Doctor" episode.

I also rather enjoyed this week's episode. To the idiot that wrote Kill The Moon - this is what you wish you had written. But you didn't. Go be embarrassed for yourself, all over again.

I'm a tad let down that they ended the story with the forest simply dissipating into sparkly bits after the fact, as a sort of status quo reset button. Bit weak, kind of a cop-out, there. Might have been more dramatic to have the extra trees go sparkly during the solar flare hitting the earth - make it a bit more "surrendering their lives to save the planet" and all.

And did anybody catch the meta-moment in-joke?

When the kids exit the museum, there's a shot of a red London bus choked with weeds. Go take a good close look at the advertisement on the side.

Ok, here's the situation.

I have a webcomic called Evil Twin (which you've probably seen) - the content is PG-rated. A little silly, a little sexy. Nothing too extreme.

I also have a Patreon, which I had been using as a donation box for Evil Twin - however, in a recent poll of my patrons, I learned that what they want from me, overwhelmingly, is porn.

I've proposed the following solution to this disparity: That I should create a second Patreon account (You can do this, provided you have more than one email address, which I do.), which will be ONLY for Evil Twin, and which will not contain any material of a rating level higher than the comic itself. (In fact, at the moment, the comic is the only thing I can even think of as a potential upload there)

So, One Patreon for clean stuff, one Patreon for Adult stuff.

The adult one (the current cobalt Patreon) would remain as-is, on a monthly campaign. The content there would range from Mature to Adults Only.

At a suggestion from another artist, the clean one - the Evil Twin one, would be set up per upload, so every time I finished a comic, and uploaded it to the Patreon, I'd get paid for it. At one comic per week, that would work out to being a weekly campaign, which was what I had intended for Evil Twin to begin with.

I would also still upload Evil Twin here (because I love the feedback it gets here), and to Comic Genesis.

So what do you folks think? Good Idea / bad idea?

Would you donate to an "Evil Twin only" Patreon?

Earlier this evening, I decided to go ahead, and heed the little red "You Have Updates!" bubble on my App Store icon, on my ipad 2. I clicked the Update All button, and sat and watched it churn for a few minutes as it started downloading all the various app updates that were backed up and waiting.

And then the App Store crashed.

And the unit went into an infinite startup loop. It would go to the white apple. It would try to start up and crash again.. over and over and over.

Only one way to fix that - Plug it into itunes and run recovery.

Whereupon iTunes tells me, I can no longer install ios7. I have to update to ios8, before I can recover.

Ok, fine. I didn't want ios8. But I really wanted my ipad working again, so...

After the update finished, iTunes now told me that recovery couldn't be run, because my copy of iTunes was now too outdated for my shiny new iOS software. Got to update iTunes. So, that's the second forced software upgrade Apple stuck me with in one day.

Grit my teeth. Updated itunes.

So - recovery runs. iPad is now working again. Although... now it's kind of not good. They pre-installed some stupid "emoji" smilies thing that had to be deleted to remove the annoying extra button on the keyboard. They've made changes to the safari web browser, so that it now hides the controls while you're trying to use them, and for some reason it seems to really hate loading Google.

Load Google's site. try to type a search request. get one letter typed, and BAM, forced page reload. EVERY SINGLE TIME.

Apart from the added aggravations, there aren't any new features here worth calling this an upgrade. It eats a huge chunk of my storage space. It's ios7 only worse. And while that really is no small feat, it's not something to be proud of.

I'm wondering if anybody else has had this happen to them.

Is this how Apple is going to artificially inflate the number of ios8 installs, now that the post-release upgrades have slowed to practically nil? By force-crashing devices and not allowing anything but 8 to be installed before recovery? Got to pump those numbers up, got to keep feeding the lie that people actually want this stinker. Appearance is everything!

Folks, I've been a loyal apple user since the early 1980s. I've used everything from the old black Bell & Howell apple II to the original macintosh, to the latest power macs. I own an apple TV, two ipod touches, an imac, and an ipad.

I am telling you - never buy anything from apple. Not anymore. If you're looking to upgrade, buy something else. Anyone who knew what they were doing at Apple is either dead or working for their competitors. There's nothing left there of any value. They are coasting on name recognition.

Do not waste your time. Do not waste your money. Shop someplace else.

APPLE IS OVER.

There has to be a limit, a medical limit, on the number of times one can safely face-palm during a 45 minute window. I've no idea what that limit is, but I suspect I came close to it while witnessing this week's episode of Doctor Who.

I say witnessing, rather than watching, because television drama is something you watch, and this felt more like driving by the scene of a road accident. It was upside down. it was on fire. The wheels were still spinning. There were bodies everywhere.

Ok, I get that this was the whole "The Doctor finally makes a big enough ass of himself that Clara tells him to piss off" episode. I got that.

I also get that Doctor Who hasn't always been the most rigorous, when dealing with the science part of science-fiction - especially lately. But I can only suspend my disbelief for so long, before it starts to develop stretch marks.

Alright.... So - the moon is a giant egg, with a creature growing inside it. And now the creature is about to hatch, and because of this the moon has developed earth-like gravity.

So many problems there.

Things like the moon stay in orbit around Earth because their forward momentum is balanced against the gravity pull from earth. That's just how it works. It's balanced, one force against another in equal parts. So, If The Moon had changed it's mass - developed a gravity well of earth-strength, guess where it's not going to stay?

Ok, so - a creature was growing inside the moon. Thus the moon slowly, over time, developed earth-like gravity (yet somehow didn't fall out of Orbit, destroying the world) It was gradual. Gravity increased as the creature inside the moon grew. That's how it worked, right?

No, apparently the moon's new gravity was an instant-on. Flip a switch, tah-dah, gravity. One day normal. Next day Gravity. And we know this because one of the astronauts mentioned "One day, it was just high-tide everywhere."

Oh for the love of fucking god.

Keeping aside the point that if the moon did suddenly, overnight instantly develop Earth-like gravity that this would result in the Earth's tectonic plates being torn open like a ripe tomato in a vice and that this would only be the opening act for the fiery collision of moon and Earth. Keeping all that completely aside, HIGH TIDE DOES NOT WORK LIKE THAT.

Water is a finite resource. when it's high tide here, it's low tide someplace else. The only way you can have it be high tide everywhere at once is to add more water.

Y'know, I haven't even got to the scene where they have a Windex bottle work in a fucking vacuum and I'm already fed up.

I don't know who wrote this episode. I didn't bother to notice. But whoever it was, consider your high school diploma revoked. In fact, consider your entire educational history revoked.

You have flunked basic intelligence.

Go back to grade one and start over.

And this time pay some attention in science class.

Apple have become the company that Dilbert works for. I'm pretty sure of it.

POINTY HAIRED BOSS: We're giving away a free album as part of our product launch.

DILBERT: That might be good. Will I get to pick the album?

POINTY HAIRED BOSS: No, and we've chosen a whiny political band that was popular twenty years ago.

DILBERT: I Guess I won't bother downloading it then.

POINTY HAIRED BOSS: Too late! We already installed it on your phone! Enjoy!

The season so far:

Episode 1) Deep Breath: Leftover Matt Smith script with some regeneration references edited into it as an afterthought.

Episode 2) Into The Dalek: 2005's story "Dalek" re-written just enough to avoid a lawsuit. Good, but then they wrote them better back then.

Episode 3) Robot Of Sherwood: Very funny. Quite good. Shame the story conclusion makes no sense.

Episode 4) Listen: A collection of random ideas edited together in a way that doesn't explore any of them adequately, nor adds up to an entire story, topped off with self-referential fanwank for an ending.

This has not been a good season so far.

I knew his health was way beyond the point that might normally be considered "bad" - but it still came as a bit of a shock to read that Jim Hardiman had finally gone.

Judging by the last few Journals he wrote, he got more advance notice of it than most of us are likely to get, though.

I didn't really know him that well, but the few times I met him in person, he wasn't at all what I expected.

What's the phrase?

"He seemed such a nice, quiet boy."

I'd also be remiss if I didn't mention that he once did me a huge favor.

One year, a certain convention (which shall remain nameless) decided not to hold an artist's alley, and didn't bother telling anyone about this until after artists, equipment in hand, had lined up to get a space. Since I had made the trip to this convention entirely based on the idea that I'd be able to afford the trip by selling things, this left me in a pretty bad bind. After finding out from a mutual friend just how screwed I was, Jim let me share his table in the dealer's room. He gave me half his space, and that saved the whole weekend for me.

Whatever happens from here on out, I trust that his legacy is intact. I'm hoping that whoever ends up holding his rights will respect the sheer number of fans the man had, and keep his art out where people can still get at it. Even the icky stuff, (if that's the sort of thing you're into.)

Here's to ya Jim.

This is here purely as a reminder to myself.

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Ok. you know what a Root Beer Float is, yes?

Vanilla Ice cream, floating in root beer. Classic.

Picture it.

Hold the image in your mind.

Now, make these adjustments to the picture.

Replace the Vanilla ice cream with chocolate ice cream.

Then Replace the Root Beer with orange soda.

Sounds horrible doesn't it? But it's absolutely amazing.

I have no idea what to call this drink, but it's my new favorite thing.

Give it a try, before your local ice cream stand closes for the summer.

So, yesterday I watched Deep Breath, the new Doctor Who, starring Peter Capaldi, the new Doctor Who.

I was somewhat let down by it. Maybe they just tried to sell the "New, Darker, More Serious Doctor" thing a bit too much, but what I saw yesterday was just Matt Smith's dialogue, coming out of a different actor. They hadn't made any effort to write a new Doctor. As a result, the whole "Oh no, he's suddenly different" thing fell completely flat. He might as well have mugged his way through the story in a rubber Matt Smith mask.

The other problem was Capaldi's voice. And it's not just that he's got a Scottish accent now. His voice wavered between dry croak and a whisper, especially in his earlier scenes, to the point that it was difficult to tell what he was supposed to be saying. Ok - newly regenerated. still a bit wobbly. I get that, but if you take a character who can barely talk and try to fill his mouth with a wall of Goofy Banter ™ the end result is going to be unintelligible at best.

He did get better as the episode progressed, but only to a point.

I dunno. Maybe I'll get used to it in time, and maybe it is the croaky voice, mixed with the accent that makes it hard to understand. Maybe they just didn't mix his voice right - needs a lot more bass and a lot less treble.

But he completely failed to put his stamp on the character, in the way that his predecessors managed to in their first appearances. I'm not exactly a huge Matt Smith fan, but Eleventh Hour knocked it out of the park. This felt like a bunch of placeholders reading someone else's dialogue.

I saw nothing new in him. It was the same road we've been down too many times already, delivered in a way that was difficult to follow, let alone enjoy.

Also, the new theme tune brings back bad memories of the late 80's, cheap, plastic, no time or effort wasted on it, I-did-it-on-my-CASIO, cusp-of-cancellation theme tunes.

This is a bad start.

Ok, so...

Has anyone else noticed that this "horrifying" game is basically just A Mundane's View Of Furry Fandom: The Videogame ?

Lock your doors! Be on your guard! Or the furries are gonna getcha! And they're gonna make you wear a fursuit!!

...and then...

....you'll be one of them...

...FOREVER! *lightning*thunder*ominous music*




Oh no. They got me.

So, recently The Moff has made statements that The Master will never return, because "what RTD did with the character was final, his story is done."

To this I say, Screw You Moff. The Master always has a plan, and will always return, right when you least expect him to.

So - with that in mind, this is how I would bring the character back, in a way nobody would expect (and in a way which is sure to piss off a certain type of fan - in fact, this is going to be one of those love it or hate it ideas.)

Here goes.

Write a 2-parter adventure.

In the first part, right in the middle of the story, as The Doctor is trying to come to grips with events unfolding around him, and he's running around dealing with the various characters in the episode, we discover that John Simm, as the blonde-haired, giggly version of The Master (basically, as we last saw him) Is behind everything. He is the mastermind, and The Doctor has been playing his game.

At this point, the audience will be all "Been There, Done That."

The Doctor and the Simm Master square off, and it all leads to a climactic battle at the climax of the episode, but as the cliffhanger - and just for the sake of added shock value, let's do it right in the middle of his badguy monologue - a gunshot comes out of nowhere. As we watch The John Simm master suddenly, and unexpectedly dies. Compressed to the size of a doll right before our eyes, and quite definitively dead.

And, as The Doctor stands there in shock, one of the other characters from the story steps forward, makes a casual remark about The Doctor always being three steps behind, and pulls off a mask to reveal the (Roger Delgado/Anthony Ainley) master (or as near as we can come up with actor-and-makeup-wise)

CLIFFHANGER SCREECH GOES HERE

In part 2 we discover that Johnn Simm was never The Master - he was the timelord equivalent of a body double. In this case, a mind double. The Master had imprinted his brainwave patterns into some random timelord dupe, who then ran around the universe thinking he was The Master. It was an extra level of obfuscation put into play when The Master decided to go into hiding during The Timewar. Anyone who tried to follow his trail would stumble over the impostor first, believe they had found him, and would search no further.

And since The Doctor has now effectively ended the Time War, The Master - the REAL master, has emerged from hiding to take back his name.

And even though The Doctor manages to shut down his plan, (It is revealed that the Simm Master's plan was just a single cog in a much larger scheme by the real Master) The Master escapes at the end. Because of course he does.

Because, being the real Master, he actually has a TARDIS of his own to escape in.

And thus the character returns, refreshed and renewed, and ready to continue being a random thorn in The Doctor's side.

Take that, Moff.

I just opened a new 12 pack of Coca-Cola, cracked open a can and sat down to watch a video.

That was when I noticed that this was one of those new cutesy Coke cans with the "Share a Coke With..." messages printed on it.

My can says "Share a Coke with a FRIEND."

So now, I feel bad about drinking it. Like I was supposed to save this one for somebody, and didn't.

Nice going Coke, you assholes.

Amazing, I think I've finally discovered a show with Hugh Laurie in it that I won't watch.

That being House M.D - I just tried to sit through an episode of it and failed. Went in with an open mind - and found it completely unwatchable.

I don't know if it's the wooden acting, that any semblance of drama has been replaced with pointless CGI sequences, or the annoying fake "american" accent Hugh Laurie is parading around in, but it was an absolute trial to make it through to the first commercial break, where I finally managed to escape.

It wavered between boring, pretentious, and annoying. The CGI scenes were like a constant thwack across the back of the neck "We think you're an idiot, so here's some big pretty pictures to look at, because we really do think you're too dumb to figure out what's going on just from having everybody in camera frame saying exactly what's going on, over and over and over."

How in the hell did this stinkjob last for eight seasons? Has American television really fallen so far that this is what passes for good?

I can only think of one way this show could be saved - fire everyone involved except for Hugh Laurie, and remount it as an 80's workplace sitcom. Night Court style. With a laugh track, because good god will it need one.

My last name is Sutor.

Apparently at some point in my family's history, the spelling of our name was altered, and it used to be spelled Sutro.

If any of you folks are familiar with the ruins of the Sutro baths near San Francisco? That was my family.

My dad's been doing genealogical research, and found that Adoplh Sutro, who built and ran the place, was an ancestor of ours. (and aparrently some of the records actually spelled his last name Sutor.)

Wiki page about the place:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutro_Baths

Kind of shame it's not in the family anymore. It would be kinda kewl to own my own bathhouse.

In my previous Journal, I took a shot at The Muppets - specifically with what's happened to them since they became a Disney Property™

Rather than write a huge explanation, I think it'd be easier to sum the problem up with one video clip:



This sequence would never be approved by Disney.

Not the content, Not the tone... none of it. Too adult. (that line about Rowlf having a few beers? The lawyers would have a fit.)

This become especially poignant, when you stop for a moment and realize that this scene is basically Jim Henson having a duet with himself.

The Muppets used to work on multiple levels. They had a depth.

Disney's cut them back to nothing but surface.

So, here's the trailer for Star Wars Rebels, the first new Star Wars production to come out of the Disney purchase. And I have to admit, that after a few moments of watching it, I started getting really into it.

It actually, oddly, kinda looks like Star Wars. Not more prequel bullshit, - actual gods-honest brand new Star Wars, which is something that hasn't been available anywhere since 1983.

...and then it all went wrong.

Oh look, a spunky force-sensitive. And a Jedi to train him.

Begging your pardon, but isn't this supposed to be the era when the Jedi are ALL BUT EXTINCT? Didn't they just waste millions of dollars making three of the worst films in history, just to deliver the message that the Jedi are are all fucking DEAD!? (Well, except Darth Vader, Kenobi and Yoda, of course.)

They're supposed to be a dim, and fading memory now. Regarded as a hokey ancient religion that nobody remembers or takes seriously. Forgotten. A myth.

But no, time to stamp out another clone. It's Luke Skywalker Mark III, the saga recycled yet again. Because telling the same goddamned story over and over is really REALLY exciting.

Y'know - A spunky, underpowered bunch of Rebels fighting against overwhelming odds and an all-powerful Empire, surviving only upon their luck and rudimentary skillsets... No magic. No Jedi. No easy out. That's a show. That I would watch. It might even, perish the thought, allow us to explore the world of this franchise a little more deeply (in the way that DS9 did for Star Trek)

And all of this begs the question: when will we be seeing these two get murdered, so that they aren't around by the time STAR WARS takes place? Because that does have to happen. The plot of the film requires it.

I suppose I shouldn't have expected better, after seeing what Disney did to the Muppets. Regurgitation and imitation seem to be the entirety of their modus operandi.

After a back and forth with the Patreon site admins, it appears that I set my page there up incorrectly. The payment setting consists of a text box marked "what are you getting paid for" and a radio button that says "monthly campaign."

I wanted to be paid per week, so I typed "week" into the textbox, and ignored the radio button. Viola, my page gets set up, and it appears that I'm being paid per week. And I get several patrons pledging weekly amounts.

But, it turns out that there's actually no mechanism on Patreon to be paid via the week. You can be paid per-creation-uploaded, or monthly. Type anything into that text box and the system decides you're paid per upload.

So, I've had to go in and redo all my settings, changing them from weekly cost to monthly cost. And now I have to hope that people are willing to update their pledge quantities accordingly.

I sent the admins a note suggesting they change the design of that bit, to avoid people making the same mistake that I did.

SKIPPER DAN

based on the song
by Weird Al Yankovic

A Film Pitch by
Cobalt


Daniel Scott is not happy with his life. Growing up, he had directed all his energy toward one goal: becoming a great actor. But somehow, even after winning awards, and the approval of the critics, the Hollywood lifestyle he had expected to achieve never came to be.

Passed over for stardom, he now works as the tour guide on the Jungle Cruise line at Happyland, a Disney-style amusement park.

His days are spent in the role of a gruff ship's captain, where he is required to repeat the same scripted lines over and over, day in and day out, against a backdrop of animatronics and fake foliage. He has become the thing he feared most becoming, a working stiff in a repetitive, uncreative, dead-end job, which is slowly sucking the life out of him.

But one day as he comes to work, he finds himself being taken aside by his boss and ordered to take a very special group on a very special Jungle Cruise. Happyland's engineers have been tinkering with a new computer system utilizing advanced Artificial Intelligence, and computer-generatated, holographic effects. And the Jungle Cruise is going to be their test-bed for the system.

But as the cruise sets off, the system, having been sabotaged, goes haywire.

Now, Dan and his boatload of passengers are trapped somewhere between fantasy and reality, where the rules of logic don't apply - the rules of fiction do. Specifically, hollywood adventure fiction.

And where, to uncover the identity of the saboteur and rescue not just his passengers, but his career, Dan must give the greatest acting performance of his entire life - He will lead them through the perilous jungles, past death traps and wild animal attacks - ceasing to be merely Daniel Scott, and becoming instead, the action hero that this computer-generated reality requires.

He will become SKIPPER DAN.

Here's something to remember, next time you're out buying music.

Remastered is record company lingo for Ruined.

I need to scrounge up some quickie cash, and fast.

So, I'm going to try and stream tonight, doing some ultra-cheapie sketches. These would only be sketches tho, with the idea that I can crank out a lot of them. I'm thinking probably $5 a pop.

I'll probably begin around sevenish, Eastern Standard Time.

Please come, please bring five bux, please get a picture.

See you then, I hope.

I decided to make myself a cup of tea.

This involved rinsing the coffee residue out of the k-cup machine's cup holder.

As I stood at the sink, there in the darkened kitchen, I wished that there was a light above the sink so I could see what I was doing.

When I looked up, there was a light above the sink. And as I hit the switch to turn it on, I realized it had been there for the entire 20+ years I had been living in this house.

But now I'm not sure if that light has really always been there, or if I just wasted a wish on a lighting fixture.

I really meant to do this earlier in the month, but things have been a little hectic over here, and it kept slipping my mind..

Anyway...

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A privacy fee ($20) applies if you do not want your commission uploaded to my gallery.

Also - These will be DIGITAL ONLY. I don't have a printer. However, I will be happy to send you the full-size file, if requested.

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Apple has recently released their "human interface guidelines" bible for iOS7.

It's almost a textbook example of how not to do interface design.

Included, are such brilliant ideas as:

Use plenty of negative space: really, don't fit your interface to the screen in any way shape or form. Just float it in a huge sea of dead whitespace.

Embrace borderless buttons: because not letting your users know where they're supposed to click is a great way to inspire a sense of adventure, as they hunt and hunt for a button. Imagine their squeals of delight when they accidentally find it.

Let color simplify the UI: hey, here's a cutting edge idea from that world wide web thing, circa 1995. Text and hyperlinks! It's the fucking future!

Reconsider the use of insets and visual frames and—instead—let the content extend to the edges of the screen: Don't use formatting tools of any kind, in order to organize your information or make it easier to comprehend. And for god's sake keep design out of it! Have everything looking bland and empty. Don't forget - empty white space is cruise control for cool this week.


If this is the thought process that went into iOS7, it's no wonder the entire OS looks like shit. Honestly, this thing reads like the mutant offspring of a middle manager's pointy-haired corporatespeak, and a child attempting to justify handing in a history report about the time that Abraham Lincoln punched out Hitler.

You can cringe your way through the whole thing here:
https://developer.apple.com/library.....uid/TP40006556

I pity anyone who actually uses this guide to design their software.