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Wish you had a personal assistant to go through numerous news sources for you and pick and choose what they thought were the better ones? More than likely all the news links that is on Curmudgeonly & Skeptical is what you would be looking for.

Everyday there are posts about what is going on, all different news topics. The author gives us a little spin on the news by throwing in some personal quotes and thoughts on the entire process. Every post will have a link to the article in question, which is very helpful if you aren’t keeping up on everything.

The design of this site is a blogger template, and it is my least favorite of the semi-popular templates. I don’t know why I dislike the template, I have since it first was released. However, the author does make good use of the different sections that are created with the template.

Going through the archives is an interesting thing in and of itself. Because this is a news site, you don’t really need to go back to the beginning of the sites debut to understand the idea behind the blog. Instead, picking up today and reading it, is just as good as if you had read it from the start. This is one of the better news weblogs that makes full use of this effect.

Over all I have to give the site a 4.5 out of 5 because it is deserving of that score. It is well worth the read, and is very good for keeping up with current events. I would like to see the author invest in getting his own domain for the site, as well as a different design. But those couple of things don’t distract from the goal of this site.
Curmudgeonly & Skeptical

New link to the actual site: http://guilty.oh-yeah.org

My first impression of this site was that I really liked the layout. It was unlike any I’d seen before, and I have always respected originality. But unfortunately, that good first impression did not last long.

Under Content, one of the links worked. There was a Javascript error each time I clicked on any of the internal links, so the only method I had of finding out about the author was through the weblog.

There wasn’t much to the weblog at all. There were less than 10 entries, and I’m assuming there’s an archives hiding somewhere, but it wasn’t linked anywhere for me to find.

The 10 entires that ARE there are not to exciting or entertaining to the average reader. I lost count of how many times I read words wah, bah, LMAO, and the likes. Not exactly highly entertaining.lemily

This blog seems dead. No entries are new since February. Not that it wasn’t dead to begin with–whomever created this blog laid waste to the entire time devoted to hastily constructing it. Which might be the best thing about this blog, because it appears to be a loss of only 4 minutes.

With regard to design: There doesn’t seem to be any title header, a–‘this is me and who I am’ introductory type ‘o sentence, or ANY FOOL THING, not even a syllable–to give the reader a clue about the blog or the blogger. Aside from that, the page colors gave me a headache. Red, mind you, is a wonderful color! For roses. Drops of blood. Miniature hearts. All small things. This persona apparently wanted me to get out the Exedrin. Graphics? Yes, very nice thank you, I love Luther Vandross and Donna Summer, but this blogger has apparently not gotten over her February holiday glee.

Setting all of this aside, I tried to read the 6 entries therein, and found your typical teenager blogger’s thoughts and daily updates, which would be fine, except for some poor grammar here and there, which gave way to just plain silly, almost worthless entries.

Don’t read this blog. I tried. It has no potential whatsoever. It seems that the author agrees to this, on a certain level (because her AOL Instant Messenger greeting subject invites her readers to tell her how much it sucks) but has apparently adhered to the terrible, red, method, instead.

All I can *hope* for about this blog is that I hope that it was done as some kind of school project, or better yet–a dare.I feel the Gruv

The name, in case you’re curious, comes from an early episode of
Buffy (Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered), so bonus points right
away.

As far as content goes, there’s plenty of it: a biography, Q&A,
quotes, photographs, so on and so forth. The design is crisp and
clean without stretching to “attractive”. I suppose you could call
it functional. Looking okay so far then. Well, except for that
fact that most of the pictures don’t work. But I’m sure that will be
sorted soon, so let’s move on. Who, then, is our host?

Well, he’s a student. A British student, no less. For those of you
unfamiliar with the average British student, allow me to briefly
explain that they are usually preoccupied with their ‘hilarious’
student antics. Including (but by no means limited to) getting very
drunk, boasting about how little work they do, being pompous and dull
and shunning the company of non-students.

Michael is a typical British student. Those of us who have to put up
with them every day will appreciate how irritating and uninteresting
they can be. This one is, sadly, no different. Definitely a blog
not to bother with.TripleB

If you are into the wonderful world of Anime (pronounced AH-nee-may, meaning a style of Japanese comic book and video cartoon animation in which the main characters have large doe-like eyes) then this is the place for you to be. If you are not into these characters, then don’t worry because you are still more than welcome to drop by.



At the main entrance of ‘Afterhorizon’ [today is always tomorrow], you are welcomed by a reclining figure bent over a pendant that illuminates the night in a mysterious way. Hmmm, this is interesting. You have the choice of either going directly to the blog via a link or clicking on one of two other digits (1 and 2). I feel daring and go for the less obvious route.



Number one leads to a Dutch poem entitled ‘Nacht’ which means night. “Laat me dromen, Laat me gaan, Voor altijd hier, blijven staan.” Let me dream, let me go, for always here, standing still.



Alright, now let’s try number two. This link leads to another short poem, but this time in good old English, so no need to translate. The title is ‘Small’ and it goes like this: “soft music, unable to hear, I will hold my breath, try to taste and feed my pain, lie awake and stay insane.”



Already a lot of impressions and I haven’t even seen the blog yet. I like this, I like it alot. It has put me in the appropriate mood, perked my curiosity. Not quite knowing what to expect, I click the link to let myself go into the after horizon, for always here, standing still.



Corona is 19 years old and speaks a combination of Dutch, English and other self-made words (as she describes them). She has two cats, a mouse, and don’t forget her mother now. And of course she is really into Animes.



Many Web sites are devoted to Animes, often to an obscene extreme. However, this site has a nice design, and the use of anime figures is tastefully used to provide a balanced site, unlike the usual anime website which plaster these figurines all over the place. She has regular updates, not long entries, but consistent, to the point and sharp, often expressing herself with poetry or references to Animes or fairy tales. There are even occasional pictures one can click on to enlarge (a bit boring for me though). You don’t have to be into Animes to enjoy this site, though if you are you will definitely find this world Corona is starting to create and elaborate a very interesting one.



One area of attention would be the small print which makes difficult reading (seems everyone is hooked to this small font-size) and the regular spelling errors can be distracting for those more demanding readers like myself.



There are not a whole lot of comments to her entries, but just enough to keep things going and making it interactive enough with short and choppy exchange of ideas.



Looking through the archives, I came across the following entry: “There’s something nagging me about this log, It’s not that personal and at the same time maybe it is. Because I dont think i’m that different in real life. What you read is what you get. I’ll change conversation subjects while your not looking. I’ll ignore when I don’t want to hear something and I always have to do the dishes. In a step to make this log more personal I added poetry to the main page.” Pretty neat idea, I thought as I went back and reread the poems with this in mind. Makes sense.



If you like Animes then come to this world after the horizon, and even if you are not familiar with these creatures drop by anyway for inspiration. Let me dream, let me go.afterhorizon.com