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But did any of them manage to play Whistle Stop?

I assume you mean this. (If it doesn't look quite right, it seems the original hampsterdance.com has been buought out.. :/

but dance too.

Hampsterdance isn't dead- it's just gone commercial (even has, believe it or not, CDs and Videos from Sony- some of them pretty good).

Yes, and their product demo page is especially unhelpful. There's not a single photo of the actual case, just a bunch of animated figures. I wonder if they even have the product ready, or if this is just a cheap attempt to sell pre-ordered vaporware.

It needs a misspelling.

it's hamPsters.

Actually, in this situation it IS Hampster. "hamster" is the animal itself, but "Hampster" is the name of the particular hamster in this case. So since it is a proper name, and not the animal, "Hampster" is in fact correct. His actual name is Hampton Hampster I believe.

Yes, I do have too much time on my hands at work.

Most of these are Windows-specific. Call it a hunch.

Take a screenshot and make it their desktop, then close all windows, hide the taskbar, and move some (only some) of the desktop contents to somewhere other than the desktop.

If you use VNC, then set up a full-screen vncviewer to a secondary victim's desktop. Watch them fight it out. (Be very careful; privacy issues crop up in this one.)

Download the original hampster dance. (Note: website makes sound.) Use the ActiveDesktop feature to make a copy of that as the victim's desktop. Turn the volume to max, and immediately shut down or suspend. For maximum effect, do this on a laptop just before the victim leaves for a flight.

Depending on the OS version, add about eighty folders at the top and bottom of the "Programs" menu. Doesn't matter what you name them; some versions of Windows make it a pain to open a folder in the middle.

Set their Internet connection to, instead of using the LAN, auto-dial their phone.

If you can get an X server running on their box, then run greasymouse against their display. (You mentioned not downloading anything, but since it's on the X contrib tape, you may already have it on a local Unix box.) I find a factor of 1.8 or so works well. The good news is, this works on some rootless X servers for Windows. Of course, if your victim runs Unix, no such need.

Fun with fonts. Set the fonts and colors to something terribly garish, and just barely useable. Then export the relevant parts of the registry, and set things up to merge that in every boot.

Setting sounds is a good one, and there's a lot of ideas already posted to get you started.

All this is assuming your friend isn't a coder. There's much better ways to get at coders, such as #define struct union or other ideas from here for more ideas.

And the number one way to ensure to drive them mad at the office computer:

Force the victim to use Windows.

See e.g. HERE.
Hampster have nothing to do with HAM.
If you can't spell right then don't post here.

This site is NOTHING like Hampster Dance!!

Walt Disney Company was the biggest corporate backer of the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act (both the EU and the USA versions) and one of the biggest voices in favor of the DMCA, next to Time Warner. See also Influence Inc.

Disney steals from the public domain and gives to its shareholders. Does this make Disney some sort of perverted Robin Hood?

Good news.

Both Hamsterdance and Mr. Winkle are safe for now from pro-Osama Bin Laden forces.

Phew!

try http://www.hampsterdance2.com/

dave

The new RFC 3456 is about dead Nietzsches !
Here is a link.

I think, above and beyond all other success stories on the Internet, one stands out above all others. Highly innovative, technically superior, ingeneous, furry, and misspelled.

View the incarnation of true social innovation on the Internet.

cardoso sent us a ridiculous flash app where you can control dancers

On the same note, yerricde hereby sends you another ridiculous shockwave app where you can control dancers.

or you play the (mostly) crap games that you CAN get under the GPL.

You downplay the "mostly." I admit, many GPL'd games are crap, but most commercial games are crap too. You just have to find the diamonds in the rough. For instance, have you ever experienced tetris... on LSD? Or have you raced down a mountain as a penguin? Or taken out your frustration by killing those annoying little hampsters?

Of course, you need experts. Experts who are willing to judge any fact on its correctness, to do the research, and who have a gift for sniffing out a hoax. Obviously, the best system would be to run the whole internet on slashcode, and let the moderators decide what is interesting and/or true.

As you've probably observed, Slashdot users are generally good at filtering out nonsense. We don't try to make money quick, we don't believe there are AIDS infested needles everywhere or many unwilling kidney donors, and we've all seen hamsters dancing.

Occasionally, something will pass under the radar, when a false story passes the editor's bullshit detectors, and quite a few of the slashdot readers. This is usually because the story attacks us where we are most vunerable, promising free computing power, revealing a new Microsoft problem, or announcing that Linux and BSD have been ported to the central nervous system. There are enough sceptics amoung us, however, that the hoax is eventually found out. We quickly learn our lesson - In God We Trust, and all others require verification.

Of course, if all the Internet was on slashcode, the trolls would outnumber the virtuous by 10000 to 1. And that's why I keep getting forwards about Microsoft, AOL, and Disney teaming up to offer cash to folks who forward emails, etc. But I'm sure the next version of the slashcode will have an even more powerful moderation system.

As an added bonus, every web site will have its spelling, punctutation, and grammer reviewed / berated at no extra cost!!!

Hampster is a surname; hamster is a species.
Pearson is a surname; person is a species.

But by now, you probably think Hampsterdance is annoying. Very annoying. If so, go play Hampsterdeath, a game based on the Grand Unified Whack-A-Mole Engine for *nix, DOS, and Windows.

First there was Hampsterdance, then GUWAME Hampsterdeath, now this? Damn.

Here ya go: http://www.hampsterdance2.com/hamp sterdance.html. :-)

Inner Child Productions (mehampster@aol.com) owns Hampsterdance. Funny, the music was copied from Disney's Robin Hood, and the graphics reportedly came from Harvard hamster web sites, but the <html> is mehampster's. A different implementation (like Assassin's Hamster Blast) is a new work, not covered by mehampster's copyright. And a parody game written in C (such as my GUWAME Hampsterdeath) is definitely not a copy, right?.