Q.I. Productions – a wombat, the sink, and how it got there

[From Coding Horror: You're Doing It Wrong]
Jeff Atwood talks about templating engines (for generating html) being wrong… and I agree, with code like this:

<%foreach (var User in Users) { %>
<div class=”action-time”><%= ActionSpan(User)%></div>
<% if (User.IsAnonymous) { %>
<div class=”gravatar32″><%= RenderGravatar(User)%></div>
<div class=”details”><%= RepSpan(User)%><br/><%= Flair(User)%></div>
<% } else { %>
<div class=”anon”>anonymous</div>
<% } %>
<% } %>

But, and I might be biased [...]

[W]hat sort of message does Candy Land send to our kids? (And I’m not just talking about all the implicit advertisements for cane sugar products.) It says you are powerless, that your destiny is entirely determined by the luck of the draw, that the only chance you have of winning the game lies in following [...]