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I may be the wrong age-group, sex, level of intelligence or just sense of humour, but most of Homestar Runner seems pretty crap to me.

However.

One of the all-time truely great things on the Internet is Trogdor the Burninator.

~Cederic

How is this flamebait? Seriously, if what this poor bloke says is true, then his roommate deserves at least *one million* punches-in-the-face.

(link for the humour impaired)

No, that one would be one more cool Halloween URL.

One more cool Halloween link would be this: Homestar Runner's pumpkin stencils

Homestar Runner has stencils for anyone who is a fan without creativity in their body.

My girlfriend thinks they're cute ... yeah ...

Happy Halloween ... I'll start of with a little humor...

Look at this cartoon at HomeStarRunner.com. When Steve Jobs introduced Jaguar he pronounced it "JagWire" - seems he needs to take a lesson from the HomeStar gang.

So, if I were CEO of Apple or if my job was in product development here's what I would be developing/releasing:

A bluetooth "one/two" button scroll mouse - I say "one/two" because the scroll button could be the 2nd button - this would satisfy Steve's simplicity rule (and his ongoing contract not to make fancy mice with Logitech) - this would also satisfy those that finally want two buttons. The scroll wheel should be like the scroller found on new Microsoft mice that can move from side to side as well as up & down a page. Scrolling is overdue on Apple mice. I really don't think Apple should innovate beyond this, but I am aware of a very interesting mouse that's in development that will combine a Griffin PowerMate and a mouse - sounds odd, but it will be interesting to see.

Along the same lines, Apple needs to put this same scroller on PowerBooks - an up & down and side to side scroller

Here's the big one - a TV tuner in everything except the iBook - all 15" & 17" PowerBooks, the high end 15" & 17" iMacs, the high end G5's, and the high end eMac should all have TV Tuners - a TV/FM/AM tuner would be awesome. Make the svideo port on the back an i/o rather than just output. This would make macs not just computers but entertainment centers as well. This is Steve's vision isn't it? Mac Users would go APES to have a Mac TV in their bedrooms - and it would be an immense value to the consumer as 17" LCD TVs are premium priced at $799 - a TV integration should cost no more than $30 in volume production. Sell a bluetooth remote, get a company like Griffin, Macally, XtremeMac in on the idea, ask them if they want to produce a premium remote. One that could say control an iPod OR the TV. Now get this - here's a side advantage - have a retractable antenna that can act as a 802.11g signal booster OR an over the air antenna!!! Apple could already have something similar to this if they'd just integrate a PCMCIA slot into iMacs & G5s. But still, I'd rather it be Apple's total solution, integrated and slick.

Next: The iSight needs a line in - this would cost pennies to integrate - the back should just screw off or a little popout svideo port would be cool - a $149 camera/firewire digitizer would SHAKE that entire market - the current firewire/analog converters are VERY expensive.

Next Up: The iPod - it needs to be this. Apple could have the iMovie store - what about Movies in Mp4 for $1.99 !! Burn once to DVD capable, authorized on 3 computers or the iPod. Think of it!!. Truthfully, I'd rather my car passengers have something like a video iPod than one of those integrated DVD/TVs that are popping up in minivans now. I saw an accident happen on the highway the other day because the driver behind a minivan with a TV was watching the TV and not the road/car in front of him. (The guy behind the minivan was actually watching the TV!!) Photo & video sharing, iPhoto integration, wow. Then, somebody with better design thinking than Belkin ("what the hell" was my reaction when I saw this) could make a media dock that could transfer photos to a Mac OR to the iPod. The media reader Belkin made was VERY short sighted. They should have made it firewire, then ALL Mac users might have been interested as well as some PC

The issues with safari and flash are not new to panther - I get the same issue regularly on jaguar, where the cursor doesn't update properly. Occasionally, with large flash files (streaming music in particular seems to do it, like cbc radio 3), Safari will unexpectedly quit.

It makes it difficult to find easter eggs in homestarrunner animations without resorting to the tab key.

Mp3s4free.com: It's dot net!

Okay so maybe legally they can't call it spyware. So lets come up with anew name that honestly describes Gator. AnotherReasonToUseLinuxware. This could be the new poll, but I would hate to see Gator come down on /. like the scientologists did. Maybe we should email Strong Bad and see what he has to say.

Blue hair. Gotta have blue hair.

Not to the limit? Come ON, fhqwghads.

Besides, who writes a phrase like, "tax the GameCube to the limit"? What are the developers, the Government?

I prefer to use Homsar, the captain of the gravy train. It's a song form the sixties.

Maybe?

Web developers face the possibility of having to significantly rewrite their pages or strip them of commonly used technologies like Macromedia's Flash.

Surely this can only be a good thing?

Fine, as long as Eolas pays to cure me of my addiction to...... (sb voice) EEEEEEEMAIL! (/sb voice)

Because I love Homestar Runner more than I hate flash ads. That's why it's a bad thing.

Come on, I thought it was spelled fhqwghads!

fire-breathing legion of IP lawyers

Wow, they're actually making a Teen Girl Squad game? I'm totally crushing.

--riney

Apparently you've never seen teen girl squad (Flash required). The only way to pronounce "VoIP" is exactly as you have it: "voyp!"

Check out www.tomax.com (i know a few people who work there) with a browser without flash. Completely and totally useless.

I think it's things like this that turn off people to flash. I refuse to install the plugin for Mozilla, as a site as bad as this one (without a non-Flash option) doesn't deserve my traffic.

At least some sites offer a more vanilla version of their site.

Yes, this is what the other poster was getting at, and the problem is you are throwing the baby out with the bathwater here just as s/he was saying. After all, there are legitemate uses for flash... nitrozac and homestarrunner cartoons, for example. And pr0n.

I am in fact soon to start work on an animated online series for which I could not come up with a better technology than flash. After all, it allows one to have animation, sound, music, and hyperlinks. I was pretty bummed when I found out Macromedia wanted like $800-$1000 for the tools to make flash cartoons, as I was not sure I would even be able to use them effectively. But I am hoping StarOffice will be enough for this purpose for the $80 it cost.

You maybe thought you saw what you saw, but you should have been seeing AWEXOME CROSS 98!! which totaly kicks but dude!

H*R Fanboy

Did I see Population: Tire in the screenshots?

Yes, I have karma to burn. :-) VOIP!! Arrowed!

And, for assistance, here is the direct link to the source!

H*R Rocks!

Bill

Strongbad: Hey The Cheat. I did not make you your own light switch so you can throw light switch raves. I made you a light switch so you can turns the light switch on, and off.
Link

On my x86 machines, I choose not to install Flash at all.

My default browser is Mozilla (on W2K). I do not install Flash on it.

If I come across a site that I absolutely have to see, and it uses Flash, then I cut-and-paste the URL into IE.

Two examples: The Homestarrunner.com site, with the initial FHQWHGADS (fuh-who-goo-gads) email and the song they created as a riff on it. It's hilarious -- watch them both, in order.

"I'm buying you a pizza."

On my x86 machines, I choose not to install Flash at all.

My default browser is Mozilla (on W2K). I do not install Flash on it.

If I come across a site that I absolutely have to see, and it uses Flash, then I cut-and-paste the URL into IE.

Two examples: The Homestarrunner.com site, with the initial FHQWHGADS (fuh-who-goo-gads) email and the song they created as a riff on it. It's hilarious -- watch them both, in order.

"I'm buying you a pizza."

Some sites are unusable WITHOUT having Flash. That's not the way we should be going.

While a nice, extremely far-fetched thought that would work in theory, when you figure out how to replicate the content of Homestar Runner in text, let me know!

That's just by people who register common typos to point to their sites. Another example is homestarruner.com, as opposed to homestarrunner.com.

There's also a great extension for Mozilla Firebird where all Flash is displayed as a grey box, and if you want to see it just click on the box. This means you can avoid seizure-inducing crazy blinking ads, but be able to view great sites like Homestar Runner.

... get this freakin' duck away from me!

Murder! arson! theft!.

Then, in the absence of Abe Lincoln, we brought back a Speak N Spell

I like the hack Bubs did when he made a Strong Bad robot out of a Grape Nuts box with a Speak N Spell

Homestar Runner.

So is that why you missed the barbeque?

Whatchoo talkin' bout fool? No more flash means no more Strong Bad! And I'd rather fight a shark-wielding bear than be forced to give up my fix of Lookin' at a Thing in a Bag.

We all know it doesn't hurt to throw a few technical illustrations into papers we may be writing...

http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail64.html

Oh come on, everyone knows that CGNU is the best university.

At the AT&T site put in:

"come on fu-who-goo-gauze" and it sounds pretty decent in Mike's voice; Cindy draws it out a bit too long.

This is fun for a Sunday afternoon. ;-)

COME ON FHQWHGADS

I was just shown the HomeStarRunner site last night and it's rather amusing. In case anyone else wanted to know what it's from, here are two links. The first is of Strongbad reading an "I Love You" email (ostensibly the virus, but that's not mentioned and I don't know how old the clip is). The second is a "music video" he made called "Everybody to the Limit" where he says "come on Fhqwhgads" a lot in it.

Strongbad reading email

Everybody to the Limit (Come On Fhqwhgads)

COME ON FHQWHGADS

I was just shown the HomeStarRunner site last night and it's rather amusing. In case anyone else wanted to know what it's from, here are two links. The first is of Strongbad reading an "I Love You" email (ostensibly the virus, but that's not mentioned and I don't know how old the clip is). The second is a "music video" he made called "Everybody to the Limit" where he says "come on Fhqwhgads" a lot in it.

Strongbad reading email

Everybody to the Limit (Come On Fhqwhgads)

Check this page out

Scroll down the list to one of the funniest ones (in my opinion), which is "Techno"

Check this page out

Scroll down the list to one of the funniest ones (in my opinion), which is "Techno"

You're kidding right? And you call yourself a geek.

(shakes head)

OK, Go here.

This product is developed by the folks at empeg. I've been using a car player they built (now discontinued) that was marketed by sonic blue (Incidentally, I got the 60GB version for just over $400 when Sonic Blue was cleaning out their inventory!).

I haven't played with a whole lot of digital audio players, but the player software in the Rio Car (Player software 2.0) is simply awesome. The Karma will be using the next version (3.0 -- then us Rio Car owners should get it too!). With 2.0, everything is organized how you expect it to be. Playlist management is easy, yet highly customizable. Playlists organization allows nesting (I think this is pretty common) and allows files or playlists to reside in multiple places, so when I rip the new Plumb album, I create a playlist at "Rock\Plumb\Beautiful Lumps of Coal" and also "New Albums\Plumb\Beautiful Lumps of Coal", but of course there is only one copy of the audio on the drive(s).

There are plenty of "wouldn't it be cool if..." features like: multiple insert modes (Insert, append, enqueue) while queueing up music, multiple (customizable) randomizer algorithms (Least recently played, Least often played, Newest additions, Just plain random), plenty of shortcuts (Navigate 5 playlists down to find some album and queue it up... re-enter playlists and hold the button down; it re-navigates the 5 playlists so you can choose one of its siblings), 10-band parametric EQ, "Wendy" filters (filter all gangsta rap from the playlists when your girlfriend is in the car), Bookmarks (Store your current queue of music/audiobooks to one of three "bookmark" positions, play something else when your friends are in the car on Friday night, then jump back to exactly where you were within your original music/audiobook queue), and a bunch of nifty visuals.

Then, install Mark Lord's Hijack kernel, install Debian (if you want) and other apps that use Hijack, you get stuff like telnet access, ftp access, khttpd for web-based streaming (over ethernet) of .m3u/.mp3s, text-to-speech audio clocks, pacman, compression (not the space-saving kind... the audio level adjusting kind), and a bunch of other user-developed stuff.

The designers are regular posters on the bulletin board. You may have noticed a couple of them posting in this thread.

Homsar? Is that you?

Comedy is an art form.

Getch'er beta here.

As far as I can tell, it works as well as the Windows version. A little too well, in fact, so I downloaded this helpful little extension.

Once it's installed, go ahead and test it out.

Homestarrunner.com left their WS_FTP.LOG files up for a while...
#1 #2 #3

At least they took the one out of their root directory.

Homestarrunner.com left their WS_FTP.LOG files up for a while...
#1 #2 #3

At least they took the one out of their root directory.

Homestarrunner.com left their WS_FTP.LOG files up for a while...
#1 #2 #3

At least they took the one out of their root directory.