The fricking hamburger menu on desktop applications. I don’t care if there’s an option to use it or even if it’s the default option as long as there’s a way to get a traditional menu bar. But when it’s the only option the designers can fuck right off. Monopoly and privacy aside, I’ll never use Chrome just because I have to use a stupid hamburger menu.

I completely understand why it’s used on mobile devices, and thus I get why it’s used for non-mobile devices. People who are used to it from mobile want it on the desktop. Or maybe your vertical screen space is limited and it lets you get back a line of space for other stuff. But it’s really just poorly re-creating the menu bar while requiring (at least) an additional click. When there’s no good reason for it, it just sucks. Give me an option to use it or not!

Screaming Trees is criminally underrated. They’re one of the earliest grunge bands, and it’s a crying shame that they were never able to reach the success that the more well-known Seattle bands did.

If epic English poetry doesn’t scare you, Edmund Spencer’s The Faerie Queene is great. It’s like Arthurian legend on acid. Check out the version with the Walter Crane illustrations, which are also excellent.

Most of the roads in Ireland, at least for my 'Murrican sensibilities. My wife and I took our honeymoon in Ireland and rented a car to get around. Aside from driving on the opposite side of the road, we were unprepared for how narrow all but the main highways were. The typical road there is comparable to a small country road here, is often lined with hedges right up to the edges, and often lacks a center line. The sheer terror of going past a large truck going the opposite way on one of those for the first time was very, very memorable. We eventually got used to it, but that first day or two of driving was definitely white-knuckled.

Kilmister.