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The author of #1451 has a video of it on his blog. Oddly, it does appear to be working on my Browser (Chrome 26.0.1410.43 on Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit) but it is slower than the video and for some reason, the bee's wings don't show!

Never the less, it's really impressive!

Román Cortés has written a nice, detailed explanation of how he made his Furbee demo:

http://www.romancortes.com/blog/furbee-my-js1k-spring-13-entry/

Very interesting read.

The persistence relies on physical objects

You are confusing the concept with the implementation. There's the abstract concept of a song. That abstract concept could be implemented as a videoclip, as a set of guitar chords, or in many other ways. But in the end it's the same concept. Different physical implementations, same abstract concept.

Then please allow me to fix the joke: Someone visits a web site, maybe related to Pokemon or Milton Bradley's Simon, that appears broken in an old version of Internet Explorer. (If Chromon weren't Flash, I'd use it as an example.) He's instructed to download Google Chrome to play; the icon looks close enough to be related to the subject of the original site. So he downloads it, installs it, and sets it as the default web browser. Start > Internet still goes to the Internet, but now it's generating Chrome hits on Net Applications.

Reminds me of the CSS Soda Can that hit the charts a few months ago.

Sure it will.

Beyond that, I don't understand the point of the question? If you're turning on NoScript, you doubtless have NoFlash or something similar anyway.

While it is nice that you can resise the page text and see it grow, it does take up more space to store the CSS version than the original JPG.

The software author's example with image.jpg goes from 13322 to 42564 as CSS output.

Less resolution, bigger size, doesn't make sense to me, other than a cool hack. It's a step above, but much like the mplayer + aalib ascii output for video. It's really not that useful, unless you want to play videos on a 486 or something ;-p

Try checking his blog http://www.romancortes.com/blog/homer-css/ and rescind your foul commentary, cur!

It needs Verdana from MS TrueType core fonts, so it doesn't work across multiple platforms. The link is slashdotted anyway. Here's a version that's still available: http://www.romancortes.com/blog/homer-css/

Here's how i see it: http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/9183/homeraz4.png

As the Homer link doesn't seem to work for me, try: http://www.romancortes.com/blog/homer-css/

Homer still available on the original author's site without the animation here: http://www.romancortes.com/blog/homer-css/

Actually, this is a bit different - and much more unique and impressive, IMHO. I can't get to the first link (slashdotted already), but the Bush portrait and this Homer are both made using overlapping bits of various font characters, sized and colored using CSS, to make the curves and lines of the picture.

View source on that Homer "image" to see what I mean - the artist basically used font characters as a palette of vectors, and clipped out just the partial shape of each character that he wanted, using CSS properties.

As a result, instead of bloating to many MB, that Homer picture is only ~16KB. Bush is only ~32KB.

Translating pixels into an HTML table is not that interesting now.. I mean, I was excited when my brother wrote an app to do that about 8 years ago, and I even wrote a little companion app that parsed ANSI escape sequences and turned ANSI art into HTML tables too, but that was back then. :)

This, on the other hand, is really original and unique. I'm pretty impressed by it.

link in summary to some blog doesn't work already.. here's the original link:

http://www.romancortes.com/blog/homer-css/