ThunderNerd

I had this great idea of creating a webpage that would not render properly in that piece of shit called Internet Explorer. You know, deliberately exploiting the areas where it just plain doesn't work – wouldn't that be fun?

Then it suddenly dawned on me – half the Internet has already beaten me to it...

Amazingly, convicted monopolists Microsoft insist on pushing their obsolete rendering engine. Yes, that one, the one that they were found guilty of stealing. Fifteen years and a change of name later, Mosaic/Trident/IEn doesn't yet work like a real browser.

Unless, of course, you are a pimply Bulgarian teenager interested in credit card numbers. For, although it still doesn't render properly, Internet Explorer has more security holes than a tea strainer:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7787445.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/dec/16/internet

And then there was Acid3... and an explanation

Who or what is this phenomenon? ThunderNerd is a throwback to a new breed of Superhero, the type of leading-edge ubermensch the world kneads more than ever.

ThunderNerd is blessed with good looks, intelligence, sensitivity and the kind of raw sensual animal magnetism that comes only from writing one's own description.

ThunderNerd is one-third Native, one third SuperHero and at least two thirds bread puddding. As a child he was twice bitten by a shy radioactive budgie. The damaged chromosomes later morphed into the one we know as ThunderNerd.