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So the FSF still seems to be able to find ways to make themselves more loony and fringe. Nice job guys!

Yes, this is pretty pathetic. There are plenty of areas where free software is very important, such as basic computing infrastructure like compilers, operating systems, networking, web standards, and audio/video decoders. But instead they are focusing on the script that makes text blink on some random website.

Javascript is widely used for form validation. It is also more general-public facing than a compiler or any other infrastructure will ever be.

Blinking text? That was mildly funny nearly 20 years ago and didn't require javascript.

If Zombo is not enough, I visit superbad

http://www.superbad.com/1/cigarettes/index.html

Looks a bit like the world's most disturbing website, Superbad.

Sorta reminds me of Radiohead's equally strange website.

Matt

http://www.111111111111111111111111111111111111111 111111111111111111111.com/
http://www.yhchang.com/
http://entropy8zuper.org/
The classic http://www.superbad.com/
and, I guess: www.once-upon-a-forest.com

And, more like resources and such:
rhizome.org/
http://www.netartreview.net/
http://www.michaelmedia.org/michel/

Check his website man. I think he means it.

I've always been quite a fan of Superbad.

My all time favorite art site is: here What's yours?

superbad

Art is more about the final product than how it is built. Its what it does that matters not How its done.

Superbad has been knocking around since 1997, and is a pretty decent attempt at web art.

>There are far, far more artistic sites then zombo.com

Indeed. Someone's alreday mentioned dextro.org; also check out turux.org which I think is by the same people.

But those are mostly Flash. There used to be a site at message.sk that had alot of actual html art, but there isn't now; but the person behind the message site also has a site at zden.localhost.sk that has some interesting stuff, such as this and this. And the of course there's always superbad.com... and I'm sure there are lots more besides; I hope I get to hear about some new ones from this story.

There's a frequent poster here (forgot who) that has superbad as his website URL. I kinda like it. Infinite clicks. Good with a beer om a late lonesome friday night.

(sorry for double post, should have previewed first, here they are linked)

http://www.once-upon-a-forest.com/
http://www.snarg.net/
http://www.entropy8zuper.org/
http://www.redsmoke.com/
http://www.absurd.org/
http://www.fakeshop.com/
http://snudd.sil.at/
http://www.jodi.org/
http://www.superbad.com/
http://www.d2b.org/
http://www.silverserver.co.at/lia/

Not to mention the cost of genetic manipulation. Restriction enzymes are expensive (like more expensive than gold or weapons grade plutionium gramme for gramme). One might envisage a speciation event, where the super rich who can afford these things become Homo sapiens ssp. arrogantetloadeditius whilst the rest of us mere mortals stay Homo sapiens. More likely the rich go extinct, except for the progeny they sire from extra-test tube liasons which hide in the normal human gene pool. However, here it seems likely that the rich people's Y chromosome would be passed on into the normal population at an equal frequency to the X chromosome rather than at half the frequency as normal Population genetics off the top of your head is fun!
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http://www.superbad.com

Bill Gates: Windows Was An Accident
from the packaging-pure-evil dept.

Bill Gates writes: "Microsoft® Windows® wasn't originally intended to be an operating system at all. We were trying to put pure evil into a software form. After we finally got a working build, we executed it. First nothing seemed to happen. Then the PC rebooted - and loaded Windows®. Our precious had replaced the operating system on the disk with itself, and immediately we realized we had succeeded in our mission. This was going to make us rich, rich, RICH!"

( Read More... )

http://www.superbad.com/robots.txt

It has come to my attention that the person posting under the name of 'Michael Sims' (who's user account is simply 'michael') is in fact, Osama Bin Laden. Now before you say anything, and start ranting "Trollburger, you forgot to take your medication", or "Trollburger, you smoke too much crack" (which raises the question of 'how much crack can one smoke before it is too much'? but thats the topic of another thread somewhere in a distant galaxy.) Please allow me a minute to explain my perfect logic here.

Firstly, we can draw parallels with the two "different people"'s names. If you remove any occurrence of the letters "o" "s" "a" "b" "n" "d" from Osama Bin Laden's full name (except for the third 'a') and replace 'L' with 'ch', you get "Michael".

Coincidence? I think not. He is trying to send us subliminal messages.

Secondly, as you may or may not know, the person pretending to be "Michael Sims" works at a 7-11 shop, in downtown new york. I have seen him working there several times. You can find the particular shop, as it is quite noticable because of the large posters kept in the front window which read "1SL4M R0X0R UR B0XoR" and "W1ND0S 1S F0R F4GGETS". Now, Ive also managed to track down a picture of him working there, for the undeniable proof that "Michael Sims" is in fact, Osama Bin Laden.

Now, you will notice that Osama Bin Laden hates capitalism, this was part of the whole september 11 thing. Well, its easy to realise that "Michael Sims" is Osamba Bin Laden too, because he hates capitalism also. Duh.

George Bush says we're fighting a war on terror. And he's right. We're fighting a war against terrorists. We're fighting a war against l4m3rs who use linux. We're fighting a war against guns and stuff. We're fighting a war against taco snotting and the proponents of this filthy habbit.

What started out as me posting an article i found on an Anti Michael Sims website, has turned out into a revelation. They (Osamba In Laden and Michael Sims) are the same person.

superbad.com probably the best no-content site out there!

Pre-WWW:
Multimedia existed from early on this century: from the 1920s: look up the Futurists: George Antheil's Ballet Mechanique was one of the first orchestral pieces paired with mechanical sounds: it included bells, sirens, airplane propellors...

From the 1970s on: Nam Jun Paik is a good example, one of the first artists to get their hands on video cameras. His, and others' video art, are available to rent from Electronic Arts Intermix.

If you live in NYC you can just drop by and watch whatever you want. Post-WWW:
(and don't dis it because these sites use flash, okay? Some of the most adventurous webart out there uses flash...)

Superbad, Praystation, Modify Me, and Y0UNG-HAE CHANG are interesting and completely different new media works. Check out the anti-banner ads at Soul Bath.
And finally, a site that links to a whole lotta pages, with some adventurous, forward-looking design. (some good, some bad) rb

Now you owe me $5 for doing your research for you.

Back in 1997, we made fan sites and protest sites, for and against "Cyberdiversion" for Heat.net. The fact that we were doing it got more press than the sites themselves ever did...

The funny thing is that one of the sites, "Mothers Against Cyberdiversion" has since been quoted and incorporated into culture several years later by people who had no idea that it was nothing more than a reverse-psychology guerilla marketing effort.

A few years later I was the webmaster for levi.com and its associated domains. While at that time we didn't do any direct misdirection, we would create one-off rough-cut promo sites, including one for redline, designed by the folks at superbad. I left before the age of Mahir, and so didn't have anything to do with those...

Kevin Fox
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To continue the off-topic thread... I completely agree. While I occasionally find cookies to make life much better (Slashdot preferences, for examples) and occasionally find java(script) to be fundamentally cool on some sites (like superbad) and absolutely adore some of the Flash/Shockwave/Whatever-that-is animation I've seen, I find it completely annoying when the site breaks down because of dependence on these things-- a properly designed CGI backend should be able to check for browser version or a prefs cookie and build HTML for your needs. Unfortunately this isn't a standards issue. There is no standard that says that a site or page should be usable without cookies or javascript. The standards merely govern implementation of those things so that they are annoying in the same way on every site.

Is it just me, or does alot of that shredded stuff end up looking like something from Superbad?

Agreed. The information in superbad.com
contains more truth than slate. What is the purpose of slate?
I just don't understand it? For years they thought people would
pay to read pro-microsoft views of the world and other slanted
non-sense when they can get that for free elsewhere on the net.
It's too bad Bill Gates subsidizes slate; it would have gone under
long ago.