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Smell Mail to Replace E-mail?
Christianfreak, one of the two people not to submit a new lawsuit today, writes "My boss pointed me to a website describing a new technology that will allow people to add scent to their web pages or email. The site claims they use Java and a better understanding of the human genome to create scents through a device called the "iSmell"." These folks appear to be serious. The mind boggles. Will people start complaining about overuse of the <STINK> tag? All right, a slashdot contest: name some internet experience (including URL if appropriate), and the smell that should accompany it. Funniest entry gets a slashdot t-shirt.
Update: 01/23 10:20 by michael : Okay, I've selected a winner. An honorable mention goes to comment 26, the perfect amount of shock value. But unfortunately, not funny enough to take the shirt. However, the comments following it are extremely funny. :)
But the first comment to make me laugh out loud was this one, with pirated smelz and snifz. Maybe I've just been reading too much about the RIAA and mp3's lately... Congratulations to the user known as Tim Behrendsen.
Imagine ex-girlfriends suing their ex-boyfriends for posting their scent on alt.binaries.scents.erotica.female without their consent. Imagine the FBI cracking down on sites carrying the scent of underage girls and boys. Imagine the SRIAA (Scent Reproduction Industry Association of America) going to court to ask the judge for a preliminary injunction against the manufacturer of the Stinko portable smell player. Lovely world, ain't it?
Death to all the digital audio/video people... they're all hosers!! gimmie my DVD back!
This is something the military might look into. I'm sure they'd really value a soldier that was already used to smells usually found in battle, instead of a guy that might leave his guard down while he puked/otherwise. Gruesome thought, but a different perspective.
I guess this would make porn on the web that much more interesting!
Yes, thats right, you too can smell that fishy aroma without the thighs over your ears.
If you thought the music on this site was annoying think about the smells possible :) hubrix@hotmail.com (hey slashdot people fix my account 'hubrix') it seems to not have my email address set up and my password doesnt work!
SLASHDOTTAS IS YOU BOUT IT BOUT IT?
IS YOU BOUT NOTHIN BUT HOES WEED AND PAPER?
ALL MY ROWDY NIGGAS THROW YOUR HANDS UP IN THA AIR CUZ YOU NIGGAS IS BOUT IT BOUT IT!
And when a site hasn't been updated recently (or when you're reading old email), it smells musty (or rotten).
Also,
Your debugger smells like Mortein (a brand of Insect repellent).
Easter eggs smell like chocolate.
Web errors (especially the Web Server 5xx errors) smell like "burnt" transistors.
Amateurs who write their own web pages will insist on using almost every single smell on a single page (because they can).
I would imagine that iSmell technology would instantly make Java a hit with late-night programmers.
First person shooters! If we could smell rotting flesh, perhaps we wouldn't be so inclined to go to work/school with guns and play there! :)
B Vicks bjvicks@home.com
(little drunk, sorry bout the last one :) http://3dshack.com/cgi-bin/pic.cgi?iotd/ms.jpg B Vicks bjvicks@home.com
stink type="sulfur"? :)
[That's sulphur to all us non-American English speakers].
I couldn't resist the small dig at Microsoft, however unfair
The US Patent office doesn't allow smells to be patented.
This idea's so old that there's mold growing on it.
Smell-o-phones....
Bah!
www.farts.com has to be the winner....they do fart reviews and have a new fart every day. It Stinks!
Can't really place this smell... I know one thing for sure..... IT STINKS!!!
I think I speak for all of the /. readers when I say: "We want to see YOU naked and petrified."
Thanks
Munky_v2
Good God man! You must have a quite a bounty of free time to find that crap!
I guess we better start asking for linux drivers for the ismell?
"It smells like: ASPARAGUS AND CABBAGE! It smells like: PORK AND BEANS! IT SMELLS LIKE: (Waaaaaaah...) It smells like Cartoon Planet, woowhee." *AC can't believe he said this* It's best I sleep now. I'm guessing using Brak as a role model is not a good sign.
What was on that page? Geez, that guy seemed pissed off.
I think the smell generator should output the smell of MARBLE whenever someone mentions NATALIE PORTMAN.
I also would like to see a realistic grits odor simulator implemented. The smell of grits is VERY complex and hard to simulate. They'll see.
Whenever someone mentions hot grits being poured on a nude open-sourced Natalie Portman who's being turned to stone, we get a combination smell of GRITS, MARBLE, AND PENGUIN.
Hooray!
*ROTFLOL* =)
Scratch 'n sniff?
I'm glad to see you're being so progressive about this.
But seriously, C, why not you?
Note to self : do not click on links provided by slashdotters...
Curiosity killed my appetite
Nah! How about: http://www.amishrakefight.org/gfy/ with um, a rather unpleasant scent. Oh, I know it's crass, but oh well! ;P
I imagine happypenguin.org would reek of herring, but each game would have its own smell. How about blood and gunpowder for Quake3, burnt rubber for racing games, freshly tarred pavement for LinCity, and pants that have been shat in if Postal or GTA is ever ported. The RIAA's page? Well, toner and the melted plastic of the Laserjet they used for all the legal documents, of course. I might have to write a frontend for all the old Police Quest games for a doughnut shop smell.
Just add a little tag to html page. Most people will not notice. But if there's large enough number of people with those devices...
I CANT WAIT TO USE SHILO FOR LIFE VISIT MY HOMEPAGE INTERNET SITE WEB NETWORK AT #NEXUS ON THE INTERNET RELAY CHAT SYSTEM INTERNET NE1 WANT TO TRADE SCENTS? I HAVE FEMALESTINKYBUTT AND STENCHYWETTWAT AND SHITSTAINEDANALDICK !
website: www.yellow5.com
smell: GUN
HOORAY
hrmmm.. now that sparks an idea.... now i can smoke pot in my dorm room...and my computer will make sure it smells like coffee or oranges or something.
Everything will smell more or less like chicken.
Especially for US Patent office sites, First Posts (and wanabees), and the RIAA:
The distinct aroma of ruffled penguin feathers, an angry mob, tar, feathers and bloody bodyparts ripped off with bare beak.
"What do you MEAN too complex? Just get me a penguin, an angry mob, tar and feathers, and I'll get samples!"
--
AC (in desperate need of T-shirt after penguin/patent-clerk 'interaction' experiment gone awry for all concerned)
I can see it now. The missing product in Creative's lineup. Creative Smell Blaster.
microsoft.com should smell just like a little old lady trying to figure out if the power switch will erase her email.
-The Anonymous Coward with too many old people around him
Here's one that would be awful: http://www.goofball.com/features/990204_female_inm ate_slots.html Female Inmate Slots, the smell of a Womens prison ?
To get the "real" newz go to http://www.bitpirate.com Porno does smell better if you are on top ah yeah!
Hey I am on a pron site. Smells like meatloaf!
I was over at some people's house and we got quit loaded the night before. At about 6 am for some reason I woke up and was out and about the house. One of the guys there gets up and goes to the bathroom to take a shit. Within 10 minutes EVERYONE in that house was awake and outside....about the worst smelling shit I ever had the misfortune to smell in my LIFE.
http://www.marijuana.com Smell : well it would eliminate the trouble of scoring
I can't believe the lack of imagination... Why not the smell of an era? What about music... what would the smell of funk be? THAT is the smell of funk. Sometimes, it would be all you need to make the hifi VR headset vibrating chair combo complete. It would be best used, say, at a James Brown concert. Now there's a performance that isn't complete without a little of the original funky aroma. http://www.funky-stuff.com/ A get-uppah! get own up.
who the hell is michael
Just make it smell like cocaine....
That stuff smells GREAT!
Good God Man.. where the heck do you find that disgusting crap?? Yes , note to self.. do not click on links submitted by other slashdotters. couldnt remember my pass to post.. lol
Does anyone know what a penguin smells like?
d00d, youre nowehere near the 1st post.
In the late 60s, someone tried to introduce a stupid technology like this to the cinema. Two competing technologies were about at the time: AromaRama, a rather crude one, which involved circulating aromas through the cinemas ventilation system.. and Smell-o-Vision, which accosted movie go'ers from each individual seat. Needless to say... it didn't catch on. This is was right up there with the cinema tech, Percepto!, which involved embedding electric buzzers in the seats.. shocking the audience at appropriate times.
http://www.digiscents.com/ should smell of bullshit!
YES!!! not only would the visual of natalie portman being turned to stone be most exciting, but imagine smelling her being turned to stone!
to pacify the feminazi... err she-who-must-not-be-named... we could petrify grohl and novoselic as well! (she-who-must-not-be-named: that's two male petrifications to one hot young sex-kitten actress petrification!)
Send a tag called to your nice freind with his new Gig speed box and see if he don't dump in his pants tryen to figure out where the burnt board smell is comen from heheh.... SMOKEN~~! For some reason I cant get a /. acc. my email is kgroce[at]ficom[dot]net.
heh heh! Well, since he's the resident "Gas Bag", what does a gas bag smell like?
Mmm.... Taco Hell!
Websites of all government agencies/bureaus who have supported stupid lawsuits (i.e. patenting ideas, LiViD, etc) and all government agencies which have supported big-business (like the RIAA) should smell a little like almonds. Why? Because they've become gangrenous. Whats happened to America? Does anyone even know what that word means?
I'm very experienced with petrification. Your event MUST include some petrification.
But remember, in order to avoid offending she-who-must-not-be-named, and equal number of males and females must be petrified, otherwise she'll start crying about how evil Slashdot and everyone connected to it are.
Um, I think you mean grey (or, technically, "graphite").
a long time ago... Come on Slashdot, some of you must read Wired!
I guess freshmeat.net would definitly get even more rabid drooling maniacs visiting their site.
www.hampsterdance.com - Crack Smoke :)
hahaha, slashdot killed my tag.
the tag was... FISHY
/. smells like ass.
You forgot to close your second tag.
My browser/smeller is now causing all text in the rest of the page to smell according to the "fruit:apple:rotten" class, and your last sentence smells of rotten apples with a generous helping of runny fresh dog turd heaped on.
For those Slashdotters whose browser does not automatically close SMELL tags, I'll fix this as a service to the community:
Your markup really stinks, you filthy bastard!
Warning: do not enter if you have a weak stomach
how about rotten.com? EW.
someone moderate this down... that is absolutely fucking disgusting
My dreams of a free /. t-shirt may come true!!!
So here we go:
Welcome to Microsoft, Best Monopoly on the Net!
IntelliMouse, Bill, Paul Allen, Burning iMacs, Burning iBooks, Crashing Linux">
Now The funny Part:
USER: "Hmmm, I smell a RAT"
DISCLAIMER:This code has been copied from http://www.microsoft.com/. It's integrity has not been validated. In fact, it is clearly seen upon close inspection that the last value in the TYPE attribute within the SMELL tag is a contridiction in terms.
Hey, Slashdot Gods, I Really want my t-shirt!!!
Paul
"Where There's Smoke, There's Microsoft" -Wise words from BitWise Magizine
http://www.nirvana : Smells like teen spirit
bacon?
No! Not the porno sites, my girlfriend will never believe it was the e-mail.
I can already see hospitals overfilled with script kiddies and sys admins. For most, medical history files will be red with entries like: "Ran sniffit near backbone routers", "Migraines and nausea caused by tcpdump left running over night."
Some already been said, but anyway.
microsoft.com: smells of course after some large
predator. Probably an alligator or some lion.
The Red Herring: It smells fishy, but it's NOT
Herring.
Mozilla.org: Some burning aerosole, petroleum
probably.
Sourceforge: Burning coal and iron.
slashdot: what about napalm? For all the religious
warriors...
freshmeat.net: smells like a newly opened box
www.tikon.ch: Smell like a Chicha (erm.. in
german, thats Wasserpfeife, that Oriental Pipe
where you smoke wet tabacco with coal through
water, whith one or more hoses attached to it)
www.junkbusters.com: Smells like detergents
quake.org: fresh blood.
Kirth
"The more prohibitions there are, The poorer the people will be" -- Lao Tse
Personally I'd like to see a tag attached to all "first post" and -1 or 0 rated /. posts :)
What about the (in)famous HTTP 404 error? It MUST have a smell. It's the one that everyone dreads to see at the other end of a link but everyone sees it much too often.
I think I've got it *sniff* *sniff* it' sright on the tip of my tounge... ummm... *sniffffff* yeah I think I've got it now... errrr... gee, I know that smell... dangit, what am I missing?
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Don Rude - AKA - RudeDude
RudeDude
Perl/Linux/PHP hacker
"What's that smell?"
"I got spammed!"
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pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
cron jobs that produce the smell of toast and coffee Now that smells like a good idea.
* And remember, it's spelled N-e-t-s-c-a-p-e, but it's pronounced "Mozilla."
maybe I'm completely overdoing it but here is a rational: that iSmell supposedly can synthesize an infinite numbr of smells, I don't suppose you just choose one of 40 or 50. hence I assume that it has a changable capsule of various scents or chemicals that needs changing once in a while, and it contains a few dozen tiny cells of chemicals it can use to mix smells as dictated by the program (website, game, whatever).
Can it be hacked to produce a gas that is dangerous? are iSmell making sure that capsule has passed all cross-mixing tests of chemical reactions between the different matterials and is indeed safe? just an idea...
other than that, iSmell is not a new thing, I think even Slashdot gave them an item or two few months back. I don't want one at home, but going to an arcade to drive a sportscar simulator, smell the burning rubber and overheating engine would be fun.
The simulation would simply require a screen full of indecipherable gibberish, complete with the following smells:
unwashed underarms
Jolt cola
pizza
Penguin mints
leftover Chinese food
musty room
:-)
To get the full experience, one must sit for hours, though constant staring is not required. Squinting, looking pained, holding one's head in one's hands, and possibly cursing or throwing things are all highly encouraged to complete the experience.
Afterward, the simulator would go on a virtual vacation to Hawaii, Tahiti, Jamaica, or some other exotic location.
GOATS!
Crispy fries..mmmmm -Jawz
A Call For A New Slashdot Moderation Level!
The Aroma: the smoke from burning currency.
-wab-
I found it ironic that he at least got the 42nd though. :)
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"'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
"'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
Quine "quine?
Chips & Dips
ayottesoftware.com
Just imagine the overwhelming stench of the Beowulf I could build with two dozen of these!
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John 3:16 - God's Public License
Burnt flesh and curly fries?
"Waah! Einstein died and he didn't get to finish his curly fries!"
http://www.kibo.com/adventure/adven ture_1.shtml
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like it says
When your CGI or web server seg faults, it smells like a dump.
The size of the dump you would smell is relative to the size of the core file.
5k - 99k -> Small Shitzhu (sp?)
100k 699k -> dirty beer sh*ts
700k+ - A hippo with dirty beer sh*ts
Newman!
Uses i-smell to replicate the acrid stench of burning CPUs and optional burning flesh (if your hands get too close :)
JET Program: see Japan, meet intere
Nuff said.
Keep a laptop in the bathroom. Sit down, read a few webpages while you are ah, doing your thing.. Finish up, flush the toilet, and click on over to [patent pending] afterbath.com to release a fresh springtime smell of your choice. No more fumbling for the deodorizer, no more stinky bathrooms.
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driph
here are my submissions...
HardOCP -burning silicon
CapAlert -burning witches
FUFME -uhh, fish
PADI -neoprene
Java -burnt coffee
Never let your fears overcome your dreams.
the URL speaks for itself... www.fart.com
Surfing the net.... Smell the ocean... Duh..
Slashdot is like Playboy: I read it for the articles
http://www.microsoft.com/
Yes, but scents can definitely be trademarked. For instance, if only one company makes plumeria scented sewing thread, and that scent distinguishes the thread, it's a valid trademark. (In re Clarke, 17 U.S.P.Q.2D (BNA) 1238).
I think any site involving the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal would be rich smell-o-web fodder. Everything from cigars to month-old dried semen. Woo hoo!
"Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana." --Groucho Marx
RealAroma had a hilarious parody in this vein waaay back in '96. I think it's kinda cool that someone's going to actually do it.
How bout a chain letter or web site that checks you for BO and then instructs you on how to get rid of it. If you get rid of the BO and pass on the email/link you're love will finally go out with you, but if you don't you will contain to smell worse daily until a family of skunks moves in with you.
At what price learning? At what cost wisdom? The price is a man's peace of mind, and the cost is his life.
How about the smell of fear coming from those fat cats trying to delegalize MP3's and DeCSS. We can invent a scent compression technology and then let all their lawyer come screaming at us that they invented the ability to smell. Napster gets a smell-that-tune feature. I'm afraid to imagine Weird Al's remake of Sixpence None the Richer's 'Love Me' song as 'Smell Me.'
At what price learning? At what cost wisdom? The price is a man's peace of mind, and the cost is his life.
Remember back to like '94 or '95 when we had the sudden popularity of scratch n' sniff web sites. Well now, it's back! Just think.. Microsoft will create a special button on the M$ ScentMouse(tm) that allows you to scratch ad banners. Upon installation you get the smell of money.. your money joining all the rest in Bill Gates pocket.
At what price learning? At what cost wisdom? The price is a man's peace of mind, and the cost is his life.
You all are familiar with it I'm sure. The smell of new plastic, of antistatic bags, motherboard, ram chips, pc cases. When you first open the box and bring them out that subtle waft of the smell of progress!
I would make it smell like a giant arm pit. there should be a page for all of the brown nosers... it should smell very similar to microsoft.com
I need to do my laundry
Please send $3 to:
Jon Allen
p.o. box 308142
Looking at the rest of today's headlines, I wouldn't be surprised if Apple sued them for the "iSmell" name.
How about, the RIAA (http://www.riaa.org/) and the MPAA (http://www.mpaa.org/) smell like rotting eggs?
with a small whiff I could detect SPAM in my mailbox, imagine the time I could save each day :)
And image the smell you could send to the sender of the SPAM. Can you say sh*t ?
:)
Netsmell and Smellzilla, not to mention Internose Effervessor will all have a new way of alerting you to junk mail...
The sweet smell of a freshly-opened can of SPAM!!!
And of course, as a way of dealing with the offending poster...
They'll all send a reply with a scent tag of burning wood... A FLAME!!!
Hahahaha!
It's late.
Do I win? Email me.
mindslip.
Would be a good haxx0r prank -- Get root on somebody's box, and change all their bookmarks to smell like shit.
Opens up a world of possibility for porn webpages, i'd imagine...*cringe*
:)
Bowie J. Poag
Project Manager, PROPAGANDA For Linux (http://propaganda.themes.org)
Bowie J. Poag
I remember a few years back, MacUser ran an April fool about an application called MacSniff. They'd mocked up a screenshot of an application which was apparently measuring smells using some sort of custom-built adaptor, and could also `play back' smells that you'd `recorded'.
:-)
I'm still a little suspicious of this one, frankly
Matthew @ Bytemark Hosting
is the proper tag for that one.
;-)
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the smell of a smoldering motherboard
you'll get sent the refeshing scent of dog excrement.
I'm sure that if this gots off the ground and is popular, someone will write a self-propgating email worm to do this.
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auntfloyd
http://www.amiga.com/
Smell: None at all!
Hey, what about all that amiga isn't dead it just smells funny stuff? Is none funny? Yow.
Boss: " WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING???? "
Adm: " Chill, maaan! I'm smok'in da gooood wheat, mann'!! "
Goto www.iGanja.com.jm...
Or how about shopping directly of the source?
www.whitehorse.com - The leading iCocaine vendor in Columbia.
Best regards,
Steen Suder
Best regards,
Steen Suder
-- for email: send to
Like a nightmare...
Imagine www.rotten.com...
Consider this a downside to the proposal.
Best regards,
Steen Suder
Best regards,
Steen Suder
-- for email: send to
Consider The Internet Tobacco Company, www.iSmoke.com.
"For smokers that don't have the balls to stand by their addiction."
How about www.ismoke.com/Marlboro or perhaps www.iSmoke.com/MyOwnBlend?
And how about patents?
"I found out that the transmission between my PC and my new USB Scenter wasn't encrypted, so I disassembled the stream and got hold of the Marlboro scent. Now they've sued me. I think all scents should be free!"
Best regards,
Steen Suder
Best regards,
Steen Suder
-- for email: send to
Guys, this was Wired's cover story two months ago... If you're interested, there's a very informative interview there.
Kevin Fox
...when they visit theonion.com
Ewww!!
:wq
Comments on Slashdot should be moderated by smell rather than number. Think a comment sucks? Make it stinky! Is it another karma whore? Make it smell like cheap perfume.
Oh it isn't.
OK, 'Plain Old Text' doesn't mean plain old text...
Wouldn't you know it, the one time I accidently click submit rather than preview, is the time I am testing embedded SMELL tags.
Sorry Slashdotters--see my other post above to see what this is meant to look like.
I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who made this mistake!
Does anyone know a way of displaying HTML tags in Slashdot without lots of ampersand-lt's all over the place? PRE doesn't seem to work...
http://www.doodie.com
I guess you can figure out what it's supposed to smell like.
or
http://www.stl-online.net/thc/med/
Each disease/ailment would have the smell for that problem.
I'd love to see what this smells like.
-- "Religion is for those who fear hell, spirituality is for those who have been there."
how about the experience of visiting
www.digiscents.com
and filling the room with a thick, moist cloud of bullshit smell?
hehehe
i just couldn't take their website seriously. java smell api coming out soon?
i am... therefore i think
I dunno if someone else posted this (too lazy to read all of the comments) but I think the Microsoft "Linux Myths" page should smell like rotten apples, or whatever the smell of defeat actually is... :)
As a moderator on this one, I appreciate your concern. Oops I replied, guess I can't moderate on this one! Gosh darn it! Heh, heh heh
That damn D.O.J. VS. Microsoft and the Freedom to innovate page.
u lt.htm
:)
http://www.microsoft.com/freedomtoinnovate/defa
Should smell like fish and rotten eggs. Of course another nice smell for it would be "bullshit".
Cwm, fjord-bank glyphs vext quiz
using java...smell theres a few jokes in that somewhere :)
btw why is it a stink tag and not a smell tag?
www.doodie.com. I don't think any more needs to be said.
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To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.
How about www.riaa.org has the smell of rotting flesh, becuase its obvious that all the people there are so damn behind the times they MUST be dead.
www.fufme.com
:)
That's it.
Well, I guess www.whitehouse.gov might smell similar, with a little cigar smoke added in
http://www.doodie.com could use the ismell to give a "crappy" smell to their cartoons.
It could make the Web postcards/greeting cards a lot of fun!.
Hot Napalm
It sounds to me like this is just another scheme to get some marketing data.
It sounds like a good idea, but I'll believe it when I see^H^H^Hsmell it.
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Actually, if memory serves me correctly this technology has been around for awhile.
:) FORCEFEEDBACK tag to be implimented into Internet Explorer.
I think RealNetworks invented (or more likely bought...) it because I could have sworn I smelt fear during the Clinton testimony webcast and then again during Bill Gates first presentation of Win2K when it BSD'd on him.
But I'm holding off for the (Direct X compat...
Or perhaps deadskunk.com.
www.smellmyfinger.com
hummm... fishy...
hehe
yo!
Would that be a used t shirt, or a fresh & clean one?
(Gazes into the distance.)
I can see it now. Maybe html will support basic smells, but all the complex smells will only be discernable with a special Shockwavesque player; they'll all be in a proprietary format.
Warez smells will become the next mp3s. Slashdot (A subsidiary of AT&T/Coke) will be 50% filled with stories about lawsuits from the companies holding the smell copyrights. The MicroTimeWarnerPepsiNBCSoft conglomerate (headed by Steve Ballmer's clone) will attack individuals distributing smells vaguely similar to their own unique smell. College students will be expelled for distributing copyrighted smells on the campus network.
Windows icons will have associated smells.
OnMouseOver the little rotating 3d Slashdot news icons will produce a motherboard smell, or a money smell, or the smell of Coke III (by this time Slashdot will have cleverly disguised sections like 'Coke News' that you won't be able to filter).
Linux will have smell support.
You are running Microsoft Pink2 O/S at 8 trillion x 6 trillion polygons with 128-bit resolution and 20/1000 particles smell sensitivity.
fish!
The next site to slashdot will be ready soon, but subscribers can beat the rush and start slashdotting it early!
I can't imagine this technology being any better than the Scratch 'n Sniff cards that came with the Infocom text adventure Leather Goddesses of Phobos.
Nothing could beat the smell of a dead whale carcass rotting in the hot sun...
Except maybe, a dead whale carcass exploding in the hot sun!
The Exploding Whale Page:
http://www.perp.com/whale/
Definitely a candidate!
"How much truth can advertising buy?" - iNsuRge - AK47
Fart.com would have the obvious smell. And microsoft would have the smell of old mildewed books because there is nothing new about them.
Is this a cheap way to expand your RAM, upload via smell to your own brain?
Better leave the room when you empty your recycle bin. And you don't want to leave those core dumps lying around, they can really stink.
Now I'm really going to avoid cDc. BO get's hardcore nasty.
Smelling search-voyeur is a bit like walking through a dorm... "What on earth was that smell?"
It might save some time when you're trying to pick up on IRC... "You don't smell like a blonde 18/F/Paris"
The banner ads? Hmmm, smells like KFC. Now I'm hungry.
Personally, I love the fresh-leather aroma of a "Your Apache install worked!" page.
But I'll really be looking forward to the olfactory upgrade to Fractint - THAT would be beauty.
I believe the official Star Wars site is planning to use this as part of their deathstar Web site. Now you can smell what Chewbacca smelt!
low cache
Well... Slashdot would obviously have that circuit board smell. Gnome's site would have foot odor. What does a Penguin smell like? hehe Chat rooms would smell like night clubs. If greed had a smell...the obvious...Microsoft.com Online car lots would smell like air freshener, and the black spray paint they just put on the tires to make them look new! hehe The inbox of your favorite mail program would have a variety of smells. I'm sure I think of more later...hehe
run don't walk to:
http://www.lumpymilk.com
okay, so it's not registered (yet...)
but surely it's good enough that you can
email me a slashdot t-shirt.
thanks!
LouZiffer
LouZiffer
LouZiffer
LouZiffer
This will be great for FPS.
"I love the smell of cordite... you know, that sulphury smell? But for you... it will be the scent of death."
"MMM. Eau de lava."
"YOu should bathe more... I smelt you all the way from here."
K's Choice, in "My Record Company", says:
"
They like your band
They shake your hand
They smell like food that has gone bad
"
Become a FSF associate member before the low #s are used
www.cigars.com . . . wait for it . . . wait for it . . . Monica Lewinsky's perfume
Consider, however, what would happen if you didn't close your tags...
Now, personally, I usually consider not closing tags to be a minor annoyance. However, smelling a rose, rotten apple, and runny dog turd combination would be rather detrimental and I would spend the rest of my life cowering in the corner, wondering how my computer could do such a thing to me.
Typo Daemon
Well, if you go to www.linux.org, you could have a tag. It'd probably be pretty popular, actually. Sick, isn't it?
--Adam
Of course it would have to be www.rotten.com with a really rotten smell!
With apologies to Jon Katz:
http://www.flamebait.com
smells like teen spirit
We have met the enemy and he is us - Pogo (Walt Kelly)
Shaven Ferret Productions (shavenferret.com) something like the smell of a wet dog would most likely be appropriate... or a wet cat if anybody's ever smelled one :-) :-) -PhaseBurn
-PhaseBurn Welcome to Linux country. On quiet nights, you can hear windows reboot.
Site: http://www.deja.com/
Smell: Urine
I guess the pages for Microsoft's visual programming stuff will smell like bad spaghetti.
--
Slashdot should have the smell of an old, smelly sneaker.
My wife is always complaining about how my shoes stink. I think other geek's wives that I know complain about it too. I guess coding makes your feet sweat alot.
You forgot some:
http://www.yahooka.com/
Smell: I feel baked...
http://www.skylighter.com
Smell: Ah. Nothing beats the smell of a smoking mortar.
http://www.parentsoup.com
Smell: Jeffrey Dalmer would enjoy this.
http://www.theonion.com
Smell: A real tear-jerker.
- Detritus
"I never really liked computers, but then the server went down on me"
doodie.com...do you really have to ask?
how long till jennicam and other realtime cams have a realtime scent too...?
While I'm impressed with the production values of the Digiscents site, two things come to mind:
- nobody has every come up with a more than a rudimentary way to taxonomize odors, and
- their scent hardware is named, incredibly, the iSmell.
Is it a hoax?
http://www.gimp.org/gallery.html
The Penguin. He smells all matted and feathery, with a hint of fish. awww
Hey, I went to www.fire-fighters.org, and suddenly I smelled smoke. Yikes! My computer is on fire! ;-)
Smells could also be used instead of censorware. "Hrm, something smells like... Alright, who's been visiting pron sites again!!!"
Marv
I'm not a journalist, but I play one on slashdot
Any computer hardware shopping site... Mmmmm... Smell that (insert latest hardware advance here)...
That, and the new car smell at www.megacar.com (drool)
Always thought there was nothing quite like the smell of a fresh oil slick in the morning?
Well now there's a way for you to have the bracing breeze that accompanies this company's signature form of natural disaster, right in your own home! Bring the spirit of the Valdez to your browser, it's so real you'll almost think you're in Alaska.
"You can't win. You can't break even. You can't quit." -A. Ginsberg
here's one that definately should not have smell
Smokey the Bear says, "Strip mining prevents forest fires!"
most people don't know this smell, but at the bottom of the grills at the Waffle house after you've been using them for several hours, a terrible terrible smelling GOOP accumulates. Once I got a bit on my hands and the smell stayed like that on it for weeks. The Goop has become legendary in my circle of odd friends.
M$ press releases could be forced to have or something on them
In Capitalist America, bank robs you!
Cya!
bBob
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*sig*
Farts.com
The obvious answer you've been waiting for.
Let me know if anyone finds any more farts websites.
--
linuxisgood:~$ man woman
Restating the obvious since nineteen aught five.
Wake up.
Wake up.
When you go the Sun Microsystems homepage, you smell a rat...
-Ekapshi
We all like meat right? And we all love beans correct? Then feast your eyes on this puppy:
w oa/wa/viewProduct?cid=2&product=102422
http://www.eyewire.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/View.
God the smell of it all
daveo humbly submits this page as one to view with a java-incapable browser when using ismell technology. enjoy! <whifffff> ;0)
-DAVEO
But you *need* to leave your keyboard every few days or so and what would be more wonderful than being able to spend those few off-line sleeping hours dreaming of you and that smart chick riding around on your bike...
You've got your own smell alright - what you need now is simultaneous inhalation of both the chick-smell and some bike grease. Now to the multi-tasking part, and do not crash out until ready:
#1) First, do a thorough Kevin Kline-style masculine armpit-sniffing to establish your own existence the old low-tech way.
#2) Head over to some classic motorcycle site to smell the CO2 and leaked motor oil. If you've ever been riding in India you'll be also rewarded with the smell of sheer fear that comes with that territory.
#3) Now, for the hard-to-find smart chick smell (close your eyes and soon enough such rare bird will be sitting right behind you) open another screen from this link for that elusive pink elephant scent and you're on your way to a gonzo-geek heaven.
If, for some reason, you'll end up with the smell of a Dodo bird in an oil slick you've simply got to work harder on your mental associations.
Should invading one's peaceful neighbours be opposed, or rewarded with trade deals?
YES it really exists, a quake 2 leprosy mod.
I think you should read the description on the website or read this and imagine the apropriate smells.
Neutrino
I can't even remember what it was I came here to get away from - Bob Dylan
www.onion.com
smells likes it namesake. makes you cry from laughing AND the smell.
The pleasent aroma of 200 used hamster cages.
Slashdot, to me, has the smell of something that has been closed for a long time. It last relieved it self at 0.4. Man.. I hope the slashbladder can hold up....
; }return(0);}
kernel.org: smells like corn
microsoft.com: to small to see, only smell. (Same shit, different flavour.)
andover.net: bendover andover andover again...
gnu.org: smells like a small animal
freebsd.org: smells like burning flesh
debian.org: the refreshing smell of purity
ebay.com: all you can buy of everything you don't need....smells of capitalism
freshmeat.net: say no more
#include <signal.h> \ #include <stdlib.h> \ int main(void){signal(ABRT,SIGIGN);while(1){abort(-1)
OFTC: By the community, for the community
Huh huh huh huh...they call the place you can buy more scent cartridges a 'snortal'.
TheGeek
TheGeek
http://www.geekrights.org
Kill the monkey
Ahh, the smell of feet. Kinda reminds me of my college dorm...
http://www.beakman.com/feet/feet-smell.html
"Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer." -Adolf Hitler
"We are one Nation, we are one People." -The One 'leader'
http://realaroma.com/
"Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer." -Adolf Hitler
"We are one Nation, we are one People." -The One 'leader'
A few months ago, www.dogpoo.com had pictures of three or four dogs, in increasing size, on their web page. For a moderate amount, (larger amount for a larger dog), they would sign, seal, and deliver a bag of dog feces to whomever you chose.
The scent tag on that page would have to be truly disgusting!
There isn't anything else that needs to be said about this one.
Gunpowder!
I think we're in trouble.
I smell Trolls approaching
<!-- There are no secret smells in the source code to this web page. -->
<!-- There are no tynose in this web page. -->
<!-- There are no smelling errors in this web page. -->
<HEAD><TITLE>Transmeta</TITLE></HEAD>
<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" BGSMELL="TOPSECRET">
<P>The smell is not here yet!</P>
</BODY>
</HTML>
digiscents.com: the smell of manure.
slashdot.org: the smell of hot grits.
java.sun.com: the smell of stale coffee.
hormel.com: the smell of spam.
aol.com: the smell of spam.
riaa.org: the smell of brimstone.
spam?
music - http://www.subatomicglue.com
the worst would be www.spam.com (the tasty meat in a can)
music - http://www.subatomicglue.com
http://www.mypoop.com the URL says it all...
-rodent
Ah, the faint smell of hering on Tux's breath and the smell of sweat and tears when you click on the part about the developers.
And we could have the distinct smell of a processor that is running a superior operating system!
I am the penguin that codes in the night.
How about web based aromatheraphy to relieve the tension.
I used to have a sig but I left it on a bus
Definitely not the sort of thing you want to be on the "business end" of!
This lovely site has such wonderful services as an "International Directory of Dog Waste Removal Services".
Perhaps you'd be interested in the "Dog Waste Removal Service Message Board".
woof
the iMac might be a better alternative now... after all, a trashcan that smells good is nifty, now to decide which flavor i like.. lime, strawberry, grape, blueberry, or tangerine. decisions decisions
NO2 puffed into iSmell direct access tube placed into the mouth (for ingestable smells only).
The idea is that a little NO2 is made available during each blink of the blink tag....
...making that usless annoying tag a bit more tolerable. Well, at least more laughable!!
kre8tive
mwelmor@enteract.com
-mwe
Microsoft.com could smell like sh*t =]
SuPz.orG
A web page showing mindcraft benchmarks should always be accompanied by the smell of bull-you-know-what.
http://www.microsoft.com/
stink type="sulfer">brimstone</stink>
Sosumi. just kidding. DONT!
the smell of computers burning as Win2Kaboom causes all the processors to go into nuclear meltdown...
del c:\micros~1\*.*
Perfumes. Gimme credit, come on. shit
I'm surprised to see this on Slashdot. There was a huge article about this in last months Wired magazine. It was actually the cover story (there was this really disgusting cover, with a fake scratch 'n' sniff sticker in cartoon characters armpit) that month. It seemed like a pretty neat technology, but is it really worth the money put into it? Would we really want people sending us smells like they do spam? About the only good use I could see for it were to be if you bought groceries/wine/cigars over the internet. But if you truly enjoy wines and cigars, I can't believe that a little gadget is going to be able to reproduce the smell of a product good enough to learn much about it. It just seems like a frivolous use of technology to me.
http://mypoop.com
smelltype=beef.stroganoff
Here are some smell tags for User Friendly:
Miranda should smell good (if she ever gets another date with AJ) so:
<PERFURME style="Miranda">
AJ likes to pull all-nighters, so we need something like:
<CODER style="allnighter" duration="36hours">
Now the Dust Puppy has that bare feet thing going so I propose the feet tag:
<FEET style="sweatsock" size="large">
To make it more obvious encase it in a style tag:
<STRONG><FEET></STRONG> etc.
Anyway, I have submitted my silly post for the month.
We are agents of the free
title says it all!
Of course the bovine rich www.distributed.net has to smell none other than cow dung manure itself.
I hear all those extra cycles consumed are bad for the digestive system . . .
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Slashdot should have a sweet mix of weed and munchies smell.
http://www.logient.com
That is the nastiest picture I've ever seen. Ugh. Time to turn off the computer.
When I'm singing a ballad and a pair of underwear lands on my head, I hate that. It really kills the mood.
-Tom Jones
It smells like burning! No wait...that is the smell of any webpage that gets posted on slashdot!
Please don't harsh on my webserver.
Byzandula
-Beware the lollipop of mediocrity. One lick and you will suck forever.
The worst smelling site, would definately be:
http://www.beastiality.com
Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!
The redolent smell of camel as you click through to Programming Perl...
The tobacco-spit smell of crushed grasshoppers from DNS and BIND...
... and just what does a lemur smell like, anyway?
Some industrial machinery smell. Grease, oil, the smell of duck tape holding various pieces together...etc.
I would give it a beer smell ;-)
...nice, fresh, cold pint of beer...
Leonid Mamtchenkov
That's right, just when you thought that http://www.hamsterdance.com/ couldn't get anymore annoying, now it smells like a big hamster cage!
www.whitehouse.gov -----> Chinese Food
Imagine that...we'll have desperate hackers writing "Perl slave at 3:00AM passed out drunk" scents!
This could get ugly.
--------
Oscarfish.com: tropical fish with attitude. Way t
I thought we already had the stink tag.
It's "Composed by Microsoft Frontpage..."
-- Intelligence reports are useful only to the intelligent. -RAH
Well im in the bathroom with my laptop right now, and it stinks like shit, and im at slashdot.org, so the site is slashdot, the smell is my ass, and send the notice that i have won the fruggen t-shirt to rabababoa@hotmail_nospamofcourse_.com. thank you and have a good day.
{faketag} new /. teeshirt, XL {faketag}
...since there's nothing there now.
Your mouth is like Columbus Day.
synesthesia.com/~milk: smells green
synesthesia.com/~green: smells spherical
synesthesia.com/~sphere: smells like a Bach fugue
synesthesia.com/~Bach: smells like milk
Okay, fine. I suck today.
Your mouth is like Columbus Day.
(I haven't actually played in several years, but I hear from my friends that the smell isn't what it used to be -- they've changed inks or something on the cards. On a related note, has anyone opened a Red Hat 6.1 box? That's the same as the "Magic Card Smell.")
Yes, now they (Magic Cards) smell horrible when they're new. I used to like the smell (back around Ice Age and 4th edition), but no more! The reason why is b/c they switched printers from Carti Mundi to some American printer. The cards also feel funny, I think they changed the paper as well. I actually stopped buying new cards after they did that. I haven't played in quite a while either, I wonder what my cards are worth nowadays? Hmmm...
The Great Taste of SPAM®" Recipe Book
'nuff said.
Press Release:
In a recent flurry of hot exchanges between the two companies, it has just been confirmed that SmellU-SmellMe and FuckUFuckMe will be merging and creating a whole new era of mutual masturbation hardware/software solutions. Aimed at really lonely people, this package is set to go on sale early in Q4 2000.
rJames.org - illustration
Microsoft's website should smell like a skunk!
Landfill.com with a mixture of rotting baby diapers, old beer and hobo urine with just a hint of decaying animal carcasses.
slashdot.org = Frat Party, Day After
marthastewart.com = Bread, Freshly Baked
microsoft.com = Decay, Early Stages
apple.com = Blueberry, Lime, Tangerine, Grape or Cherry
intel.com = Oil, Light Machine
robotwisdom.com = Vanilla, Plain
ebay.com = Attic, Musty
nra.org = Cordite, Acrid
nytimes.com = All the smells that fit the bandwidth
victoriasecret.com = Strawberry, Musky
freshmeat.net = (never mind)
espn.com = Socks, Used, Gym
realaudio.com = none needed
sgi.com = Tension, Palpable
amazon.com = Bazaar, Third World
theonion.com = Fart, Silent but Deadly
The overpowering stench of death. :) os2-4-L1F3 D00D!
//Insert Meaningfull Quote Here
The site: spaceballs.com
The smell: raspberry
As in:
Radar guy:"We're being.. jammed!"
A thick, syrupy substance slowly coats the glowing radar terminal. Dark Helmet walks over, drags a finger through it, and brings the finger to his lips.
Dark Helmet: (Smacking his lips)"Raspberry.. only ONE MAN would DARE give ME the raspberry... lonestar.. LONESTAR!!!"
Do I win?
NathanThis idea has potentialI like to see inovation on the net.But it does have some drawbacks.
This idea has potentialI like to see inovation on the net.But it does have some drawbacks.
note to self: 'Plain old text' does not do what it ses on the tin!
note to self #2: Use preview more
Now we will have to protect our selfs virus that _really_ stink. Imagine a virus that makes your room smell like skunk, dog poo, and bill gates' butt. Or, imagine a virus that will let out a fart when your beautiful date arrives and is getting friendly? Smelll is a powerful weapon...
I believe it was in the 1970s when a movie theater was taken to court for pumping the smell of popcorn and other items sold in the lobby into the theaters in an effort to persuade people into buying snacks. How would companies pumping the smell of their products into people's homes be different (other than the fact that the user can stop this)? Also, how could the goverment prevent companies from using this technology the way movie theaters used similar technology in the 1970s? In another sense, it is not allowed in most prisons to play music for a person on death row about to be executed. This is because it is known to effect the emotions of the prisoner, possibly in an unfavorable way. We all know there are many web sites that the goverment doesn't particularily like. I would think the goverment would be granted a ruling to regulate the use of such technology in light of the possible outcomes. As an example, a person is dinking around on the www when they come across a page dealing with abortion. The page uses this technology in an attempt to make the person smell the rotting body of an aborted baby. At this time the person grabs his gun, runs into the abortion clinic, and shoots everyone there. Granted, this is an extreme example, but I believe it is entirely possible, and probable. How could the government regulate this? On a scary note, think of the new possibilities in terrorism. Since I like examples so very much, here's another. Imagine a terrorist group with quite a bit of money and power. If I lead this toerrorist group and I wanted a certain person dead, I would grab a geocities account under someone else's name. Then I would find a chemist to find a scent tag to cause a fatal mix of chemicals. I would arrange for the proper scent generation system to be given to the person, possibly by a loved one or a secretary or whatnot. And then have a 'spoofed' email sent to the person telling him of this great site, and bam.. he's dead. Oh and now my attempt to be funny and win a t-shirt: Most comments on www.slashdot.org would smell like shit.
I believe it was in the 1970s when a movie theater was taken to court for pumping the smell of popcorn and other items sold in the lobby into the theaters in an effort to persuade people into buying snacks. How would companies pumping the smell of their products into people's homes be different (other than the fact that the user can stop this)? Also, how could the goverment prevent companies from using this technology the way movie theaters used similar technology in the 1970s?
In another sense, it is not allowed in most prisons to play music for a person on death row about to be executed. This is because it is known to effect the emotions of the prisoner, possibly in an unfavorable way. We all know there are many web sites that the goverment doesn't particularily like. I would think the goverment would be granted a ruling to regulate the use of such technology in light of the possible outcomes. As an example, a person is dinking around on the www when they come across a page dealing with abortion. The page uses this technology in an attempt to make the person smell the rotting body of an aborted baby. At this time the person grabs his gun, runs into the abortion clinic, and shoots everyone there. Granted, this is an extreme example, but I believe it is entirely possible, and probable. How could the government regulate this?
On a scary note, think of the new possibilities in terrorism. Since I like examples so very much, here's another. Imagine a terrorist group with quite a bit of money and power. If I lead this toerrorist group and I wanted a certain person dead, I would grab a geocities account under someone else's name. Then I would find a chemist to find a scent tag to cause a fatal mix of chemicals. I would arrange for the proper scent generation system to be given to the person, possibly by a loved one or a secretary or whatnot. And then have a 'spoofed' email sent to the person telling him of this great site, and bam.. he's dead.
Oh and now my attempt to be funny and win a t-shirt:
Most comments on www.slashdot.org would smell like shit.
TWINKIES! Ah, the fun of experiencing The Twinkies Project with full smell-enabled hyperlinks...
:) Maybe the High Times website would be safer. :)
Thinking about it now, I think I might be ill.
Deosyne
This reminds me...what if this technology was used on redmeat.com? Let's hope that Max Cannon doesn't combine iSmell with this (with apologies to M.C).
-X_Bones
the coolest club on
Fresh meat. *sniff*....ah. Use java to start a timer...if the page is left open on the user's desktop for more than a couple of hours, make it stink. ...Somewhat ironically, I'm a vegeterian.
The Right Reverend K. Reid Wightman,
I find that http://www.aol.com reminds me of opening the trunk of my car and discovering some gym clothes I exercised in last month.
I wonder what the BSOD you get when IE craps out would smell like. Probably like Bill Gates farting on all of us.
MOO
I love the smell of toast....
mmmmmmmm........toast......mmmmmmmmm
http://www.drtoast.com
Think about it. Would you like to visit fart.com and smell -- well .. you know???
Hmm.. banner advertising serves its purpose. and sometimes it offends people, as does SPAM. Is anybody offended by the rotten smell of fart.com?
MMMmmmm! No longer is there a slogan or jingle! Corporate big wigs will now need to hire a special smell analyst and scientist to devise a smell to represent the company! THINK OF ALL THE JOBS THIS WOULD CREATE!
There are good points and bad points. Think ONLY positive thoughts!
"Smell ya later" --Nelson, The Simpsons
And what of the wonderful things that get posted at ebay? Attrition.org has an image from ebay that deserves it's own smell tag, see for your self! http://www.attrition.org/gallery/ebay/ebay_cocaine .gif
*Ever stop to think, and forget to start again?* *Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies out of the t
But as far as a suggestion for the contest. I would suggest taking those video clips of the guys blowing up water melons with their potato cannon, and adding the smell of burned napalm. And then perhaps adding the audio from Apocolypse Now of Bobby Duvall saying, "I love the smell of napalm in the morning... it smells like.... VICTORY."
Ignore Alien Orders
www.google.com "smell=peppermint"
www.apple.com "smell=sawdust and apple cider"
www.msnbc.com "smell=aqua velva, dirty laundry"
http://www.barnesandnoble.com "smell=sour milk"
http://www.ebay.com "smell=sweaty socks, dirty ashtrays, tin can full of dead flies"
www.everything2.com "smell=freshly baked bread"
www.cnet.com "smell=varnish"
www.altavista.com "smell=plastic"
I think it's a great idea... click and hold mouse button, and move the mouse up and down, or side to side to produce the associated odor... Hmmmm.. I wonder what the Linux penguin smells like...
"No fair, you changed the outcome by measuring it!" - Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth
what about that new brownish imac that does the digital videos? dogshit?
any unsolicited emails can be olfactorily filtered by the scent of a freshly opened tin of Spam. james
damn... i really can imagine wasting hours enjoying that stinky tag on that site...
*}
if you've got nothing to say, don't tell me.
The Jargon File should smell like Eric Raymond after 7 days not showering.
The Whitehouse.gov should smell like... used cigars. or altoids...
Theonion.com should smell like onions (or irony) and redmeat.com should smell like red meat.
slashdot.org would smell like trolls
rotten.com would smell... like dookie
JPL.gov would smell like rocket fuel
linux.org would smell like one of those rocks where emporer penguins hang out. Appropriate wavs should accompany this.
starwars.com would smell like yoda, because I always wanted to know what yoda smelled like.
glubco.com would smell like idiots
pets.com would smell like the inside of a pet store (more accompaning wavs) and amazon.com would smell like the amazon (more wavs)
If the DVDCCA had a web page, someone would crack it and add the
if robert downey jr had a web page, it would smell like liqour. The same holds true for charlie sheen. Al Pacino's would have the scent of a woman... yuk yuk.
mircosoft.com would probably have a narcotic calming agent that gradually breaks your will... probably the same scent that they ship in all of their WinX packages
I don't know about anyone else, but I wouldn't mind smelling some kind bud when I visit the high times web site. After that, I would probably go to the burger king web site and expect to smell some burgers grillin'.
I think that Slashdot would smell like the bellows of a musty old accordion (Salute to TMBG)... but only on Mondays. On other days, it would smell like... tacos? Or maybe frozen pizza (the breakfast of champions)..
hell.com the smell of burning flesh and brimstone this is at least one website that could use the sence of smell for dramatic purposes.
Environmentalists are their own worst enemy. ~tricklenews.com
hamsterdance.com
Cheese!
--
I don't suffer from insanity- I enjoy it immensly!
I sure hope nobody uses this with a freshmeat parody. I mean, can you imagine smelling rancidmeat.net ?
< SMELL TYPE="krull" > < A HREF="mailto:kurt@thepope.org" > Email me here < /A > < /SMELL >
-The Tempest
Email me here
-The Tempest
<SMELL TYPE="krull"> <A HREF="mailto:kurt@thepope.org">Email me here</A> </SMELL>
-The Tempest
The Company embraces the Open System philosophy as we encourage a flourishing of online, gaming console, television and audio mediums for scent broadcast through the inexpensive and broad licensing of our proprietary technologies.
smells like "open windows" to me...
--
Hmmm mmmm! Can you smell that wonderful propane, and the sickly sweet odour of charred human flesh? Yeah? Well *that*, my friend, is the smell you get from getting your ass flamed half way to Russia(*) and back.
Unfortunatly, this will require the use of HTML in E-mail, unless you want all your messages to smell of Vanilla essance.
(*) Note: Offer void in Russia or where prohibited by common sence.
Shawn Poulsen (Fruan)
"On Slashdot, many obvious things are insightful." - Annonymous Coward, 2000/7/9
I think Hampsterdance.com should be accompanied by the smell of a dirty hampster cage!
With the advent of Transmeta's new processor we're going to be seeing webpads hitting the market anytime soon. Of course these devices are going to find their way into school and every kid will have their own personal pad. Homework will be done and turned in on it, research will be done on it, it will the the tool for everything. Now this is great but I remember back in the day when I did something that the teacher liked I would get a sticker on my paper, and some of those stickers could be scratched and then sniffed. Which leads me to what this could be really used for...Scratch and Sniff Web Pads!
www.scentofawoman.com could be one of the largest fetish sites, including sister sites
stinkysocks.com
wornundies.com
sweatyjockstraps.com
unshavedpits.com
..and it gets worse from there
ahh the smell of pork at every .gov site.... the smell of money at every .com site.... fish in every .net.... and the smell of doritos, old laundry and stale beer at every .org site
With the new smell technology and streaming sound you could ... Now you too can have the virtual experience of being married. Just point your web browser to www.lonely-woman.com and experience a 250 lb. man scratching and farting while drinking beer, eating bean dip nachos, and watching football. No more do you have to sit at home and feel lonely like no one else is there. Helps keep away burglars too! For all of those men out there who cannot find a woman as good as Mom. Here is your answer. Just pop into www.lonely-man.com and smell dinner being prepared. Get close to your virtual date and smell her purfume as you nuzzle against her neck. Hear her giggle as your hands start to wander. And as you get close to pay dirt, wham, you can now smell blood from the gash on your forehead. Brian :)
hg
Drop the
Or the sewer system in Q2 or similar places in similar games... :)
--
"I'm surfin the dead zone
In the twilight, unknown"
The bands fansite would :)
probably get less hits when
this invention gets a grip
on the market...
--
"I'm surfin the dead zone
In the twilight, unknown"
Shut up, be happy. The conveniences you demanded are now mandatory. -- Jello Biafra
rotten meat!
--
Anonymous Cowards smell like fish: They look nice on the outside, but are really rotten on the inside.
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Tux smells like a PENGUIN!
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Wherez the Doritos & Twinkies!!! Why is my mouth all dry??? :)~
Backup not found: (A)bort (R)etry (S)lap nearest bystander.
Well, no, I wouldn't pay much for a limited version, however, neither would most people. It's interesting that there's a company with a website that isn't half bad promoting the idea though.
I wouldn't rule out the fact that someone has come up with a breakthrough. I'll believe it when I smell it!
Termi
Today is all we really have. We should all live it well: it is our stepping stone to all of our tomorrows.
...Maybe we could have included scent tags that are downloaded with the headers, before you read. That way, for instance, if you were feeling argumentative, you could always hunt down the slightly burnt-smelling posts. :)
...Maybe we could have included scent tags that are downloaded with the headers, before you read. That way, for instance, if you were feeling argumentative, you could always hunt down the slightly burnt-smelling posts. As mentioned before, pornography spam postings would be easy to avoid, as well.
During the trials against em they should have the smell of blood sweet and tears..
- "May the force be with you..."
smells like...victory
"Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded."
Talk about no class...
Plug-in/Compatibility issues between browsers have always been legion.
So:IE: Supports full set of smells, but runs like a dog, so smells are only faint. Smell of money usually overpowers...
Netscape: Claims to support full set of smells. Crashes on more complex smells leaving faint smell of methane...
AOL: Most smells end up smelling just like fresh bread after filtering. People using it think the technology is great due to this.
LYNX: Still only supports text. Smells like computer.
www.mcdonalds.com could always be a big winner. Of course, I perfer www.tacobell.com "Yeah, smell the Chalupa and the gooey cheese." Might want to stay away from porno sites, I don't want to know what kind of weird smells they would have us smell. www.2600.com could smell of twinkies, pizza rolls and Mountian Dew or Jolt Cola. Oh, imagine if this was incorparated in video games. Imagine, Quake deathmatch where the smell of rotting bodies come accross. Need For Speed with fumes and (for you NFS3 fans), the country air or the sea air. Unreal with smells of strange new worlds. Of course, www.halmark.com has to get in with the "send scratch and sniff e-mails by mail" thing. Still, I think the biggest hit would have to be at www.littleceasars.com or any other pizza place. Irish Springs soap has a website where you can smell the soap. I think I am going to stop now.
in addition to my many current duties: slashdot troller, online serial author, open source hot young actress developer, wine drinker, cigarette smoker, bronchitis haver and alt.binaries.nospam.teenfem connoiseur, i have decided to dabble in the field of music promotion.
my first event will be a world premiere reunion of nirvana... with natalie portman replacing the life-challenged kurt cobain! this world broadcast will open with a stirring rendition of "smells like teen spirit" - natalie expresses her angst!
as a special treat for web surfers, a live simulcast on the internet will be arranged. using the new ismell technology, you will be able to actually smell teen spirit as you watch the show!
i'm gathering a list of volunteers to help with setting up this special event. currently, i need the following:
someone who knows david grohl
someone who knows chris novoselic
someone who knows natalie portman
someone who knows what teen spirit smells like
a professional music promoter
thank you.
would smell like newborn babies
im sure you can figure out why
Ok, as you are taking a cool look at some of the finer http://www.drbukk.com/gmhom/gmindex.html mobile homes of mississippi, how about the smell of old cigarette butts and stale sun warmed mostly-empty cans of cheap beer wafting across your screen?
My sig left me for a younger user id.
Imagine the spinnoffs.
iSmellYou - Instant Messaging (BO)
iSmellSmoke - Firewall/Proxy (That Campfire Smell)
iSmellTrash - System Cleanup Utility (Trash)
iSmellSpam - Filtering (SPAM, SPAM, SPAM)
and on and on.....
-- Now where did I leave that sig? It's around here somewhere
www.microsoft.com the smell? fish.
This Wiki Feeds You TV and Anime - vidwiki.org
If anyone reads all of these replies, let me know...
While slightly offtopic, this website purports to sell another device to be attached to your computer that, ahem, mimicks another human sense. This is hilarious. I promise you want to follow this link. And don't forget to click on the "FAQ" :P http://www.fufme.com
signature smigmature
- James
Dogpile.com - Use your imagination Freshmeat.org - Yuck (I am a vegetarian) everything - Random
...../......
I think http://www.doodie.com would have some interesting smells :>
A similar site, RealAroma, appeared three and a half years ago (I remember, because I interned at RealNetworks that summer) and I thought their site was bad enough then. Especially their 3-"vile" system to reproduce smells and their "Smell-U, Smell-Me" software for all-too-live aromaconferencing. Digiscents seems to have very nice site design, but I still don't believe it's for real.
-Hypr Gqu
Stay up hacking each weekend. Sleep is for the week.
New! From the developer of Linux, Linus Torvalds, comes "Smellinux", the first open-source iSmell system!
/dev/opensmell1 (sends smell data to the OpenSmell box; two are supported for stereo smells, and later versions may include surround-smell support)
Inspired by the recent research into computer-generated smell technology, Linux began work on the Smellinux kernel.
The Smellinux kernel runs on the OpenSmell box, an free-to-build hardware device (schematics are available at the website) based on the Crusoe processor. Smellinux processes smells encoded with Gnu glibSmell, the iSmell proprietary format, and RealAroma 3-vial hex triplets.
It then passes them to the Crusoe processor (which runs in a custom Smellinux mode, rather than an x86 mode), which controls the various chemicals and the output fan.
Also included with the Smellinux kernel is a patch to the 2.2.x kernels (the 2.3.x kernel series will include the driver as a loadable module soon) in order to create the following devices:
/dev/smelldecode (decodes smells from other formats into glibSmell smells)
/dev/opensmell0,
/dev/readsmell (reads smells, currently in beta testing and only supported on first OpenSmell device; ECP/EPP port required. Currently available schematics do not include the smell-reading technology).
The OpenSmell device connects to your computer via a standard parallel port.
It generates smells with a complex genome-based chemical-release system. Some chemicals may not be available to the average builder of the device, so Linus has decided that the OpenSmell device (and Smellinux) will be sold as boxed packages under the terms of the GPL relating to sales of open-source products.
The schematics can be modified by anyone, allowing them to build custom smell-boxes for special applications. See Smellinux.com for more details.
Linus said, when interviewed, that the OpenSmell and Smellinux technologies "... smelled like a breath of fresh air".
The approximate cost of the device, when purchased in a package, should be $150 USD. Chemical refills should be around $15 to $25 USD.
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Talon Karrde
{html}
{body}
{center}Welcome to smelly's domain. Happy to know you{/center}
{fart type="juicy" smell="strong" options="terence,philips"}
{cheese type="old" origin="Switzerland"}
{egg age="140" type="rotten"}{!-- age is in days}
{underwear age="10" type="rubberband"}
{/body}
{/html}
Any and all programming related sites. They should smell like coffee to save you the trouble of getting up to get some. You'll be up all night staring at them, you just need a little to take in what you stared at all night!!!
porn advetisements/sites could release pheramones (is that how you spell that ?) so they would get more hits
Nah, it'd be MUCH more fun to apply smell tags to The Naked Dancing Llama page.
When you live in a sick society, just about everything you do is wrong.
There should be a version of the Starr Report complete with all of the necessary smells. That would keep you busy for a while.
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Say someone goes to one of the many porn sites out there, and they use some sort of pheremone scent to keep people coming back and paying. Imagine the economic consequences of this, similar to walking into a bakery and buying something just because it smells good. Or maybe this whole iSmell is just another step along the way to the goal of actually having sex with your computer. Then again, isn't everything?
No, this isn't a hoax.
The print version of Wired, among other magazines and media outlets, covered this technology what...6 months ago? 7? This is so far from cutting edge news its almost funny.
As a joke I'd like to see www.weather.com pop up and start to emit an ozone smell while displaying "Lightning Strike imitate!! Seek Shelter!!!"
www.scheisse.de
well i think thats obvious
bye
Xandi
For any unsolicited email, the government should force the sender to encode the smell of Spam. You could then have your E-mail program filter it out. (an olfactory filter?) ...Oh, and anything to do with Linux should have that fresh "new baby" smell.
Never play chicken with a passive aggressive.
When your mailbox has a that smell of racid spam throw it out. Guy1:"My box smells like spam. I dont need to read it now" Guy2:"Well mine smells like pr0n gimme gimme!" Guy3:"Mine smells like crap, time to flush that baby out"
(offtopic)
A thousand years in the future, all of humanity has unleeshed most of the secrets of the universe.
Scientists have become very confident in their strides and contact God.
The main scientist said, "We don't need you anymore. We can do anything you can."
God replied, "Ok ok... let's have a little contest. Try to do what I can do"
The scientist agreed. So God placed his hands on the ground, picked up some dirt and *poof* there was a living breathing human being.
The scientist with a little smirk on his face placed his hands on the ground, and God suddenly interrupted, "Hey, get your own dirt."
(/offtopic)
This
I actually learned about this a few months ago when this was brought up on TV (Discovery Channel I think). This is going to be wild because from I know, scent plays a big part in sex and love making. I can just see it, all the porn site starts including scents beside pictures, oh lord...
Do you know that remote touch is also discussed? Haven't seen any beta on that yet :c)
- Etam
http://www.rotten.com the smell of putrifying garbage from the local landfill should do nicely..
Twinkies sure taste good for something that is 68% air.
i think any site affiliated with microsoft should have the smell tag of crap
you could apply filters to email to catagorize by smell...your trash bin could stink to tell you it is time to empty it...
Hamsterdance.com It hasn't changed since I first came across it. That cage has got to be pretty ripe by now.
Not mine, but I like the morphage...
Somebody has way too much time.
If Friends were filmed in Wisconscin
ThinkGeek... should smell like Mountain Dew.
Or any caffinated beverage. Coffee. Jolt.
Does caffine itself have a smell?
I was going to say what microsoft should smell like, but that's far too easy.
.sig last updated Jan. 14, 2000
iSmell would have it's best uses on sites where smell is an important factor, like cooking sites, or restaurants. go to Call of the Doughnuts and get a wiff of yummy doughnuts. mmmm... or this? it could greatly enhance our internet viewing.
also, imagine sending your girlfriend an e-greeting that actually smelled like a Rose? I think that would be a great idea.
Will people start complaining about overuse of the <STINK> tag?
Of all things, this isn't the main problem here -- if you don't want to smell it, don't install the hardware.
And, of course, my entry: MPAA/RIAA websites -- rotting sleaze smell. Goes for microsoft.com, too.
// zyqqh
A much more to-the-point idea: hamster feces. Certainly gets the point across -- especially if the user has ever had to deal with groups of 3 or more hamsters.
// zyqqh
i just realized this will be more work
for webdesigners/developers...
now you will need to make sure your website
smells the same in all different browser types...
cause we all know that Microsoft and Netscape
will use different smell tags...
hmmm well at least you can let IE users
know (smell) what you think about them
Ricardo.
www.microsoft.com: A basic smell of money mixed with a heady bouquet of sweaty lawyers working hard into the night researching how to accept the Linux revolution without losing face or money. www.slashdot.org: The slightly musty, burning smell one gets when opening their computer up (assuming you ever put the cover back on). www.linux.com: One word: Penguin! :) I don't think that this is going to work out so well. I'd start looking like the borg: A hands free headset in one ear, and earphone to my computer in the other, and now they probably want to stick some plastic (and yet Oh! so stylish) tubes up my nose. . . Hmm. If they're using java, does that mean the smells with be the same regardless of the nose that's smelling them? :)
http://www.fufme.com
The alluring scent of burning flesh during a rather heated Q3 match, or how about the smell of sweat during a round of Half-Life? Optionally, you can have the smell of an armpit at the P&G web site
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If you dont want to smell like This! then use StinkBeGone Underarm deodorant.
Is that a mushroom tucked btw your toes? Try our new AntiFungalFornicator to rid your feet of unsitely fungii!
JB
... RFC1925: With sufficient thrust, Pigs fly just fine
Feed The Need[goatse.cx]
Try this on for size.... http://www.lolitas.com cake and sodomy
The problem is someone will patent the smells and then try to make us pay to produce them. Even if by non-electronic means.
I think we should head this off, by patenting the smells ourselves and issuing GPLs.
Welcome to the first 24/7 WebNose that will go with me all the time. If I smell it, you smell it. I have a WebNose along with a 56.5k connection through my cell phone, allowing your nose to be with my nose at all times.
I've been experamenting with a WebNose in my hamster cage, however I've decided that you, the smeller, want something more variable and intresting.
Please don't email me complaining that you can't smell anything, its not my fault if my room smells just as jank and stale as yours.
--Cam
All jocks think about is sports. All nerds think about is sex.
My dreams of a free /. t-shirt may come true!!!
So here we go:
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Welcome to Microsoft, Best Monopoly on the Net!</TITLE>
<BODY>
<SMELL TYPE="Daisies, Roses, IntelliMouse, Bill, Paul Allen, Burning iMacs, Burning iBooks, Crashing Linux">
</BODY>
</HTML>
Now The funny Part:
USER: "Hmmm, I smell a RAT"
DISCLAIMER:This code has been copied from http://www.microsoft.com/. It's integrity has not been validated. In fact, it is clearly seen upon close inspection that the last value in the TYPE attribute within the SMELL tag is a contridiction in terms.
Hey, Slashdot Gods, I Really want my t-shirt!!!
Paul
"Where There's Smoke, There's Microsoft" -Wise words from BitWise Magizine
If you ever spent much time with your grandparents when you where a kid and enjoyed it, you probalby noticed that they have a different smell about them. This could be great for an archive of family pictures of relatives gone. All the memories that the sight and smell could bring back. Or for a grab at the shirt http://www.grandparenting.org/ and that wonderfull smell of mothballs and ointment
Slashdot.org = that New Car Smell
Freshmeat.net = a nice warm wet blood smell(not that dead sticky blood smell)
linux.org = the smell of a very cold freezer with fish in it
sunsite linux archives = a dusty old bookshelf
www.bsfh.org = the smell of Pauls left foot, Ewwww!
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"One World, one Web, one Program" - Microsoft promotional ad (circa 1995)
"Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer" - Adolf Hitler
"One World, one Web, one Program" - Microsoft promotional ad (circa 1995)
"Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer"
I miss my sweet Gina. The first time I met her I felt weak in the knees. She was blonde and always had her "Wings" (by Georgio) on. It wasn't the way she looked (but she was drop-dead beautiful) but the way she smelled... would cause any man to drop to their knees. I fell for her, hard. She kissed like the devil. Sweet cherry tonque dancing in my mouth, oh baby...
I saw someone that looked like her the other day while toolin/surfin around. If that smell board was installed and had "wings" I would have exploaded in my pan..
v20
NO CARRIER
Does this mean that if you visit meowmix.com, the cat might step off the keyboard for a bit to go bat at the smell generator?
i dont even want to think about the smells for this one.. it'd be worse than Formaldehyde, that's for sure
Of course, the tags won't be perfect..all of the sites will probably end up smelling not unlike tea..
http://www.ews.uiuc.edu/~nkpatel/mr.t/
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Writers get in shape by pumping irony.
Imagine for some odd reason, logging onto www.dickclark.com and having the room suddenly reek of formaldehyde. Pretty bad eh?
how about www.microsoft.com with a tag? "Welcome to Mircosoft.com!" -Gimik
The scent of damp hundred dollar bills rolled in sticky potpourri.
----I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.--
in the tradition of linus... for a smooth, fill-ya-up website stench experience... it's hops, it's barley, it's protien... the only website i'd want to smell would be. Guinness. and on tap at that -- in ireland. -cyb
Micro = Small Soft = Limp But MS has become a term easily associated with money for obvious reason. So what is small, limp and wealthy smell for MS? Microsoft
Never try to beat a professional at his own game!
Soft = Limp
But MS has become a term easily associated
with money for obvious reason.
So what is a small, limp and wealthy smell for MS? SMELL="Hugh_Hefners_Penis" :)
Never try to beat a professional at his own game!
For those who don't know, the Spam-Cam was quite the sensation around 1995-1997. The page is still there for you to look at their handiwork at http://www.fright.com/spam/spamcam.html .
The basic idea was to place Spam and other foodstuffs out to rot. and rot. and rot. You get the picture. The pictures are bad enough, but the smell would complete the experience!
Ian "zsazsa" Scott
smell = "Napalm"
I love the smell of Napalm in the morning.
It smells like...victory.
http://www.rotten.com or http://www.wwf.com
CREAM PIE !
http://www.cowdance.com This one should hold up... the good old smell of pure american cow shit stright from the pasture
(Sorry for the previous post...hit submit instead of preview.)
The apple computer page: http://www.apple.com/ should smell like tangerines, strawberries, blueberries, grapes, lime, and feces.
What's the smell of a subpoena?
http://doubleanxiety.com
http://www.clinton.com Smell of Cigars.....and... http://www.torvalds.com smell of a penguin after overexertion... http://www.MS.com smell of Bill Gates before his secretaries tell him to shower for the meetings. can even have a drop of his sweat in it.. (Yuck)
kojent
Personally - I think all search engine result pages should smell like you're rooting through old garbage.
Or maybe slashdot could smell like Rob Malda's underwear.
I'm sure everyone would love that.
The moment one graduates from dialup to broadband... what a wonderful smell that would be. I imagine the fresh air smell of a summer sunrise, and the faint mist of a raging river going past. With broadband, life is good. -El
Welcome to the CrackDealer'z Mansion of Crazzk
New Sponsor, Bill Gates!
Specials now on:
-Swift
www.hightimes.com Need I say more? -d1
one thing that would make the site poop.net would be the sweet sweet smell of corn. thats right, fresh home grown corn. nothing beats the smell of fresh poop on a burning tire than the yummy smell of home-grown corn.
ahh the memories.
Usenetters will rewrite the netiquette - "remove all irrelevant smells before you post", "never post smells that last for more than 78 seconds", and flame (with fire and brimstone) everybody that use more than 4 smells in the .sig.
IRC'ers start /dcc'ing smell snipets of themselves along with pictures to all their friends, and everybody is waiting for technology like the "aroma AD converter" and "streaming scents" to hit the market.
Crackers start putting smell tags in web-pages on hacked servers:
<OBJECT data="c00lsM3LL.pns" type="smell/pns" standby="tHis siTE wAs HaCkEd bY oLfAcTorY OliGaRkZ">
<PARAM name="intensity" value="100%">
<PARAM name="length" value="infinite">
<PARAM name="modulation" value="oscilation">
<PARAM name="frequency" value="1sec">
</OBJECT>
(W3C would ofcourse specify the pns format and add smell support in HTML 5.0. Others have already mentioned the inevitable extensions to css)
We would see book titles like "Smells unleashed" (McGrawHill) and "Smells of a nutshell" (O'Reily). Suggestions for animal to the last book are welcome.
FAST announces a smell indexing engine and sears upwards at NASDAQ. The stock drops some points the day after when a leak reveals that they still got problems with how to present the search result. (Does the word "mixture" mean anything to you? :-)
Cybersquatters start hoarding all domains that "smell".
IETF starts drafting an RFC for signing and encrypting digital smells....
RIAA and organizations within the Pharmaseutic Industry join forces and start suing everybody that happens to have links pointing to anything that smell like their patented "smell patterns". In 2001 they merger and starts issuing CD's with soothing instrumental music and the smell of painkillers and viagra under the slogan "Music for making love to your wife".
and so on.... The possibilities are endless.
Mnemo
(Actually, this whole thread reminds me in more than one way of some words by Gene Spafford)
A killer, that one.
Mnemo
The obvious one ->
Any porno site,
and the smell of...
Apple lost their "look and feel" in Apple v. Microsoft.
What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand?
What part of "gestalt" don't you understand?
Called the 'iSmell'?
There's a website that needs some deodorant.
Transmeta.com -- it smells nice, but you just can't put your finger on what it is.
Freebsd.org -- sulfur? brimstone?
Microsoft.com -- sulfur? brimstone?
www.tux.org -- It's, cool, crisp, and... someone burped. Herring? What?
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pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
Don't worry. It HAS to be the product of some judicious Photoshop work.
At least, I hope so...
- Jeff A. Campbell
- VelociNews (http://www.velocinews.com)
- Jeff
I meant " when you submit a first
post, the submission page releases
a smell of a rotten tomato."
Wiping the rotten tomato off my face,
Apuleius.
first of all, the throngs of hipsters embracing the net will take advantage of the new "NetNoses," thus paving the way for such wastes of bandwidth as "grandmaskitchen.com" (popular with the Martha Stewart types) and "dormhamper.org" (a live netnose of an actual CS student's overflowing laundry pile!). These will be easily dismissed as fads, at least until the e-commerce community catches on.
Florists will soon get a foothold in the web world. No longer do guys have to send actual flowers to their would-be's -- rose scent and an appropriate JPEG will do. Personal fragrance companies can also take advantage of this new technology, not to mention aromatherapy and incense merchants.
Then the integrated netcasts will begin: can't make it out to the club tonight? don't worry -- we'll have a light show, phat beats, and the smells of drugged and drunk teenagers mingling with those of copious narcotics and artificial fog for you all set at liverave.com! just sit back and inhale the party!
David Bowie will make the news again at the opening of the world's first online opium den. The world will then see a major loss of productivity that makes the advent of multiplayer gaming seem like a minor distraction.
and, speaking of multiplayer, this area holds the greatest potential. tired of those damned campers? smoke 'em out with an appropriately placed round from your Fungal Sweat Sock Launcher! want to lure your enemies to the killing field? try the aluring aroma of tasty homemade apple pie! or, even better -- the BFG of the olfactory -- the smell of an actual woman!
that's right. the future is ripe with potential in the field of internet smells. get in on the ground floor before the RIAA, Microsoft, and major movie studios step in and figure out how to ruin all our fun!
Burnt silicon smell and www.hardocp.com.
:)
Sorry to raid on your little scent parade, but as far as I know, scents can't be patented/copyrighted...this is how all the knockoff companies stay in business.
"A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep." --Saul Belloe
Whenever the thought of doing something like this has crossed my mind, the worry about synthesizing toxic chemicals always comes flooding into my head soon after. If you have a programmer error on a webpage, nobody can see your webpage. If you have a programmer error in this hardware, it might end up killing people. Perhaps I am just too paranoid, but this seems like a problem for any general enough implementation of this idea.
Oh what I wouldn't give for some deodorant to fix my code with...
A Government Is a Body of People, Usually Notably Ungoverned
iSmell was covered in Wired sometime in the middle of 1999, I believe, and it was very interesting!
Basically... and I'm doing this from memory....
The receptors in your nose that pick up smell can be broken into a finite number of 'base' receptors (lots, tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands, I forget). Each molecule that triggers a smell sets of different combinations of these, as different edges of the molecule bind to different receptors. Now... what iSmell figured out (or at least makes use of), well, instead of finding the actual individual proteins that bind to these receptors, and figuring out exactly what each one should be... they just look to nature and by trial-and-error, found *similar* shaped ones, and then tried some more, and came up with a device that contains many tiny 'wells' of different 'base scents'. They can then combine these in different combinations to produce different smells.
From the Wired article, it sounded very promising.
It's not a hoax, and they have demonstrated prototypes already. It was in a Wired magazine last year (was the cover story even... )
Umm.. actually, we have a *VERY* good idea of what the components of smell are. The iSmell *WORKS*, and is based on very sound science.
Yes, it has to do with shapes of molecules, and the various receptors those molecules trigger... and if you can produce molecules that trigger single receptors, they can be combined to produce any odor imaginable.
And iSmell has *already* dont his and it works.
Now i have to smell farts.com too! Hearing it is enough, but to smell it? That leaves a whole new catagory for them to use.
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"...silence is a dangerous sound."
At any recycling website, that horrible smell that comes from recyled plastic. That is the absolute worst smell that comes from anything that people choose to handle.
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
http://www.transmeta.com/ -- I could smell you, but then I'd have to kill you
http://www.hemp-sisters.com/ -- Let's just say it's a pretty strong smell.
http://www.house.gov/ -- the smell that comes out the back of a bull, covered by a strong perfumed masking smell
http://www.microsoft.com/ -- anxious sweat, money, the smell that comes out the back of a bull, the smell of a deisel engine (you know, like the ones that power steamrollers and bulldozers)...
http://www.getyoursoftware.com/ -- spiced ham
http://www.loc.gov/ -- very musty
http://www.as400.ibm.com/ -- very musty
http://www.slashdot.org/ -- jolt cola, fried silicon, solder, sweat, ozone...
http://www.doodoo.com/ - the site that smells like crap
http://www.slashdot.org - smells like woodstock, a bunch of people enjoying the show, sometimes rowdy. usually smells funky due to the amount of people who spend so much time milling around for the entire thing.
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ping -f 255.255.255.255 # if only
As if the ones we thought were real, like cleaners and soap and engine coolant, weren't bad enough. I can only imagine what these things are going to do to me. The fact that they mention the human genome isn't particularly comforting, either.
``Money has no odor.'' This is a famous remark, first made by the Roman emperor Cesar Vespasian to his son Titus: Vespasian had invented a tax on urin (probably meaning, on the use of public toilets in Rome), and Titus complained that this was somehow ``unclean'' money. So Vespasian took a handful of sesterces, put it under Titus' nose and asked him: ``what do you smell?''. ``Nothing'', answered Titus. ``Exactly,'' replied Vespasian, ``money has no odor.''
Its the reutnr of the classic SmellUSmellMe server! Live chat, and scents! My dog would LOVE it.
(On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.)
... iSmell is, of course, the SDK on which Prof. Farnsworth's Smelloscope is based.
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www.freshmeat.net .....
... with the obvious potted-pork smell.
Lacking <sarcasm> tags,
The lab notes from experiment two are especially descriptive of the smells that rotting tomato, rotting SPAM, rotting (amazing!) Twinkies, and rotting Jello Jigglers can emit, but could certainly benefit well from smell tags. Also in those same lab notes is a horrific rendition of how the rotten tomato perpetrated violence upon the hapless twinkie as it lay there peacefully on the plate (the twinkie didn't rot until the tomato killed it... alas.)
A quote from the site:
How does Spam decompose compared to other organic materials?
View the daily decay. Each day is fuzzier, grittier, slimier, and smellier than before.
Visit often.
The experiments sadly stopped a couple of years back, but the page has remained for posterity. Perhaps my post here will spark the interests of other budding scientists to continue their research. In my opinion, having the actual smells of the experiments would increase the overall assault on one's senses quite nicely.
LouZiffer
LouZiffer
Spam. Think about it.
That evil site should smell like gunpowder and raw hamster guts..... either that or stinky cheese.
What happens when someopne gets the idea of using a nerve gas smell, a whole new level of cyber terrorism?
--Nuintari
slashdot : where an opinion can be wrong.
... because I didn't read every single article. But I didn't see it in the 100 or more that I scanned, so here goes.
If you're masochistic enough to read comments here with your threshold set at 0, then a fair number of messages should be accompanied by the wonderful smell of...
Hot grits!
(one of my favorite breakfasts, by the way. I like mine in a bowl, not down my pants)
- Mike
Aibo: Real life dog smell, complete with sniff-butt action and lovely allergic reactions.
SmellingSalts.com: when that picture at http://www.goatse.cx/ (may not be suitable for some viewers) has knocked you out.
Lynard Skynard's web site: Oh, oh, that smell.
Redmeat.com: Pretty pugnatious pestillance.
Crocodile Hunter's site: "I'll stick my thumb, up his butthole, here you to, sniff it!"
New York's site: "Wow, I'm glad I got this iSmell, I can smell all the great things of New York, all from the convienence of my home. Honey, do I smell a dead guy? Is that urine? Wow, someone's peed on him! Isn't technology wonderful?"
Linux.com: A cool, antartic, refreshing smell.
and last, and least:
any John Water's film site: When Smell-O-Vision (first distributed with a Water's film [which I can't remember the title of] in the form of scratch and sniff} has just gone too far. A definate exercise in bad taste.
bye
Dan
Not to mention that the smell of coins also reminds me of those stupid Microsoft NT client licenses-- constantly getting nickled and dimed to death!
;-)
--LP
Don't cringe too hard, your face might get stuck.
Whenever I deal with them, I feel like I'm getting nickled and dimed to death.
--LP
I'm not sure which is funnier, a real attempt to do this or this parody (which incidently has been around for years by now).
Trees can't go dancing
So do them a big favor
Pretend dancing stinks!
and that burned-blood stench when you frag someone ....
Well, all I can say is.. I smell arrogance, the double lattes of the marketdroids, old money, and those wonderful sweater things Mr. Gates wears..
:-)
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Internet Explorer (n): Another bug -- that is, a feature that can't be turned off -- in Windows.
It's a fairly bogus idea (in both senses, if you'll pardon the expression).
We're able to encode (and therefore to transmit and reconstruct) visual images digitally because we understand the relevant paramaters of digital images: intensity vs. two spatial dimensions and wavelength. Sound is even easier: intensity vs. time. It's even easier for these because to a reasonable approximation, these parametres are linear.
But we have NO idea of what the relevant parameters of a smell are. People have suggested all kinds of ideas over the years, but nothing has been really satisfactory. You've probably heard about the seven primary scents; that's pretty much a load of garbage, debunked by people who studied olfaction in the fifties and sixties. More recently, people have tried to understand the sense of smell in terms of the shapes of the molecules being detected, but even that has been unsatisfactory.
Perfumers, therefore, remain essentially what they were two hundred years ago: empiricists surrounded by a LOT of bottles. Hundreds of them. It's amazing to see. It takes YEARS to train someone to be good at it, and even then, their ability to reproduce an arbitrary odor is VERY limited. The notion that someone could put that in a box and sell it to people is absurd.
What you're much more likely to get is an odor equivalent of Jelly Belly jelly beans. You know how on the jelly beans, they say, "Combine cinnamon and popcorn to get the flavor of cinnammon popcorn balls"? Well, they'll choose a handful of cheap, fake scents, and use those over and over again. So you'll get things like "flowers" and "fruit" or even "fruity flowers", but never "the beach in Tahiti after a rainstorm".
Do YOU think people will pay for that?
Happy Premise #3: Even though I feel like I might ignite, I probably won't.
...the smell of fear!
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Matt Singerman
Matt Singerman
http://matt.vegan.net/
Imagine it: You're playing that new first person adventure game and the following occurs...
>look
This filthy bathroom belies the existence of disinfectant. A single toilet and sink are the only fixtures. More breathable air can be found to the southwest.
You can see a stool here.
You can't wait another second. Fortunately, you've stumbled upon a bathroom. A moment later, you are feeling much better, although your thigh muscles are still quivering a tad.
Now that the "crisis" has passed, you notice a strong and familiar odor pervading the room.
>smell
[Scratch 'n' sniff spot number 1. Hit the RETURN/ENTER key to continue.]
You trace the smell to a dubious slice of pizza, crumpled in the corner. [Incidentally, we had some pretty putrid scents available, all of which would've seemed right at home in a filthy restroom. In the end, we were too kind to use them -- but we were sorely tempted!]
but as far as I know, scents can't be patented/copyrighted...
Ah, that's what they said to Apple when they filed their "look and feel" lawsuits. Ralph just has to file the equivalent "whiff and stink" lawsuit!
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Sulfur, of course - probably the most appropriate use would be
during those "This Program Has Performed an Illegal Operation and Has Shut Down" crashes.
And we'd all know what The Onion would be like...
But the best would be Segfault, with Pall Mall Menthol - nobody would know if the smell mail app was working or not!
Buddhanet.net. How about the smell of teen spirit? Help all of those buddhists attain Nirvana.
Pax Digitalia
Smell of Fear
:)
that's quite obvious, right ?
Ob. contest entry: For all e-commerce sites anywhere, I hereby nominate the sickly artificial chemical smell of new packaging. You know the one, like new car smell but bad. Sometimes really bad. Varies by package.
"Moderation is good, in theory."
-Larry Wall
There is no K5 cabal.
I am not the real rusty.
Oh darn, I was going to suggest a great smell for the U.S. Patent Office, but it looks like all of the really good eSmells have already got patents pending.
Brought to you by Frobozz Magic Penguin Fodder.
www.wizards.com: Wizards of the Coast.
I want to visit their website and get the smell of freshly opened Magic cards.
(I haven't actually played in several years, but I hear from my friends that the smell isn't what it used to be -- they've changed inks or something on the cards. On a related note, has anyone opened a Red Hat 6.1 box? That's the same as the "Magic Card Smell.")
-Chris
Haddock, Salmon, Pike, Bass, Cod, Tuna
I knew this kid named Jimmy when I was growing up. Jimmy was, how shold I put it... "Special". Jimmy loved to eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. That's why I think pb & j is the appropriate smell for these guys
Nervous sweat is the smell for these guys and these guys too
For these guys it's obvious, rocket fuel.
And in the same spirit, that vomitey, greasy, sugarey, metallic smell you find near big rollercoasters for them
And the muddy, porcine smell you'd find around that prize-winning heiffer that just keeps eating and getting bigger for these freaks. Of course you know that animal is the main ingredient for the spiced ham smell that you'd find here
If this isn't another of those elaborate hoaxes - then it'd be quite intriguing. Already much work has gone into scent generation (perfumes) and scent detection (bomb sniffers ... heh ... and other industrial uses, of course).
... many different combinations of aromatics could produce the right smell. However, you'd need lots of chemicals - it might just end up a right STINK ...
;) This has implications, also stated on their website, in evoking emotions and memories - very, very powerful marketing tool. Fresh Lemon, Sweet Flowers, the smell of the Sea - jsut imagine, not only do you have to watch L d'caprio for 3 hours, you also have to smell him ...
Digital scent generation? From my understanding of smell, it might just work
Smell is a more powerful sensation than taste - why does your food taste bland when you have a blocked nose?
heh.
but i digress, it's high time we looked into other forms of media, not just sight and sound. This might not be "it", but it's a step in the right direction, imo.
.my 2p
Anyway, I think a better scent for MS's web page would be ethyl mercaptan. CH3-CH2SH, patently artificial, listed in the Guinness Book as being among the foulest odors known to humans. Penetrating and lasts a long time, too--skunks use mercaptans in their personal defense musk.
[0] Yep, I'm one of them.
[1] Sorry--couldn't resist.
Give a monkey a brain and he'll swear he's the center of the universe.
You know that smell you get when you've been handling lots of money? Dipping your hands in those jars full of coins, sorting, counting them out?
That's what I smell when I visit Microsoft's websites. Makes me want to wash my hands, every time...
--LP
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Every corporate website would employ the olfactory equivalent of Muzak -- some superficial focus grouped scent of productivity and profit, mixed with some twinge of dynamism and excitement. Evil h4x0rs would break in and replace these smell files with the smell of pot (doubt that? Check the attrition hacked-sites archive and count the pot references).
We would receive spam offering us the usual "free pics delivered daily to your email box," augmented with "wee wiff of quim in the morning" offerings no discriminating connosieur (sp) could resist. [Rob Roy reference]
Mailbombs would become messier affairs.
Valentine's day (easy). cron jobs that produce the smell of toast and coffee (or other apropriate cues) at the right times of day.
Rather than spraying an aerosol about whilst cleaning a bathroom, you'd send mail to the e-toilet.
I pity those who got their moderator points on this one. :)
http://www.apple.com/imac
f ree.html
Smell: Tangerine, Blueberry, Grape, Lime, or Strawberry. Take your pick.
http://127.0.0.1
Smell: Me. Eww?
http://www.microsoft.com
Smell: Decaying, rotting meat - as found near most large predatory creatures.
http://www.amiga.com/
Smell: None at all!
http://www.wto.org/
Smell: Is that... Tear gas?
http://www.windows2000test.com
Smell: A very large foot, immersed in a very large mouth.
http://www.be.com/press/pressreleases/00-01-18_
Smell: The persperation of desperation.
http://www.starwars.com
Smell: A big pile of cash.
http://www.linuxone.net
Smell: Vaguely rodent-like?
http://www.apple.com
Smell: A (somewhat spritely) reanimated corpse.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/
Smell: I can't tell, I'm still holding my nose. You figure it out.
http://www.digiscents.com
Smell: Vaporware (do you _really_ think this will take off?).
- Jeff A. Campbell
- VelociNews (http://www.velocinews.com)
- Jeff
Further analysis will be provided upon request, assuming, of course, that there's a nice cabernet available to accompany the lively discussion.
SmellU-SmellMe: Don't get caught chatting without it.
-B
Ash and Hickory, straight-grained and true, make excellent bludgeons, dandy for the cudgeling of vegetarians.
"Something smells fishy about all this..."
"Here's Bill Gate's email address and the raw sewage tag!"
"Just imagine the potential for pr0n sites!"
"Given the typical hacker's regard for personal hygiene, how useful could it be?"
"We just hacked MS's home page, and it doesn't just stink figuratively anymore!"
I've heard rumors that God is considering a lawsuit against the creators of this technology. The basis of his case is that the encryption method used in DNA was reverse engineered and anyone using this is illegally encoding and decoding smells. Also, the potential application to copy smells and distribute them without licensing a biological nose from God could seriously cut into His profits. I wouldn't be too worried though, from what I here no good lawyers have ever come remotely close to Heaven, so he has more or less horrid legal council.
~CalibanDNS
First someone creates an open source Ralph Lauren Polo... I would just hold my face up to my computer, hit the button, and BAM! Ready to go out on a date!
Then, of course, Ralph Lauren files a lawsuit against the web sites distributing the Polo source code. "If everyone can distribute Polo for free, then there will be no in-scent-ive to create new fragrances!" The judge issues a restraining order and bans any code that duplicates copyrighted smells.
Meanwhile, the "smelz" underground grows like wildfire, and the industry is helpless to stop it. A version of Napster appears to trade pirated "snifz".
It's only a matter of time. Don't forget you saw it here first.
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<SMELL class="flower:rose" strength="%75">This idea has potential</SMELL><SMELL class="fruit:apple:rotten" strength="%80">I like to see inovation on the net.<SMELL class="turd:dog:fresh:runny" strength="%100">But it does have some drawbacks.</SMELL>
Don't worry about this new standard too much... I've just telnetted to 2002.future.timetravel.int and called lynx 4.0 to see what some sites have done.
Seems some people are really using cascading smell sheets, but Microsoft already "invented" a replacement "standard", Microsoft DirectActiveSmell(tm) 2002.
Here's some HTML from the future microsoft:
<IF what=BROWSER type=MOZILLA>
<SMELL class="shit" strength="%100">
We always told you your browser was shit!!!!!
Go get Microsoft Internet Exploiter NT 2002 Plus NOW.
Only $499!
</SMELL>
</IF>
<IF what=BROWSER type=EXPLORER>
<ACTIVESMELL SRC="stp://smell.microsoft.gov/goodsmell.zip" PRICE="$20">
Welcome to Microsoft.gov
</ACTIVESMELL>
Good news:
<ACTIVESMELL SRC="stp://smell.microsoft.gov/rottenapple.zip" PRICE="FREE_TRIAL" TRIALPERIOD="20MIN">
We finally managed to kill another of our competitors - Apple is now rotten!
</ACTIVESMELL>
[...]
</IF>
Seems M$ isn't the only user of this technology though.
Here's a part of slashdot 2002:
Red Hat Linux 10.0 has been released. Big news in this release are Kernel 5.2, X12R1, GNOME 3.0, KDE 4.2, and the possibility to read Windows 2001's FAT33 filesystem. The full source can be downloaded from ftp100.redhat.com.
User comments:
<H2>First post!</H2>
First post! After 13 years of waiting for this chance!
<H2>First post using HTML tags!</H2>
<B>First!!! <COLORIZE COLOR="random">I RULE</COLORIZE></B>
<H2>First post with a smell</H2>
<SMELL class="meat:spam">First post with smell!</SMELL>
Oh, and let's not forget about LinuxTwo (successor to LinuxOne):
<SMELL SRC="http://www.redhat.com/linuxsmell.tar.gz">
<IMG SRC="http://www.debian.org/linux.jpg">
We are NOT just copying stuff from others!!!
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// zyqqh