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Opera Releases "Bork" Edition
David Arnesen writes "Two weeks ago it was revealed that Microsoft's MSN portal targeted Opera users, by purposely providing them with a broken page. As a reply to MSN's treatment of its users, Opera Software today released a very special Bork edition of its Opera 7 for Windows browser. The Bork edition behaves differently on one Web site: MSN. Users accessing the MSN site will see the page transformed into the language of the famous Swedish Chef from the Muppet Show: Bork, Bork, Bork!
Here you can find the press release and download link!"
as that's virtually the content of msn.com already.
It's like putting a moose in the blender -- a recipe for disaster!
I guess that pretty much describes MSN, Windows ME or any other dubious MS product (i.e. more dubious than the rest of their products that I can't be arsed to list here).
Oh, and where did the moose/blender term come from? I'm starting to get a little worried about the mental health of the Opera team.. I just hope they don't do a strategic alliance with Joe Cartoon, you know he likes blenders!
Are you local? There's nothing for you here!
That would be "Brak". Brak loves beans. When Brak eats beans, he sits in his own little cloud. Nobody wants to come visit him, in his little cloud. He doesn't know why. Maybe because he's cuttin' muffins.
Remind me to tell you the monkey story sometime.
Why bother.
What a silly language they have!
"I only speak the truth"
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This is truly a great story and a great event. I am really looking forward to the others, such as the omniweb "Yup Uh-huh" version that translates MSN to the "Yup yup yup yup yup yup yup, uh-huh uh-huh uh-huh" language from Sesame Street. And the version of Konquerer that translates gnome.org to the language of the Dozers from Fraggle Rock.
These are gonna kick ass!
How are you going to keep them down on the farm once they've seen Karl Hungus?
You can send this letter to Opera Software using their feedback page.
Why bother.
For those of you who want more Swedish Chef, be sure to visit Google's Bork, Bork, Bork search page.
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Can't imagine that this functionality is standards compliant... naughty Opera! ;-)
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Please don't mod me up.
> Can we have an anti-goatse version? Maybe one that brings up a page saying 'Hello Slashdot newbie, you have been linked to some sick shit by someone, trust us when we say you do NOT want to look.'
Shouldn't that be controlled by a preferences setting, for the benefit of pervos who do want to look?
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Oh man, I love this sorta stuff...
Best use of Swedish Enchefalyzer..EVER.
Hee hee, I love OSS developers.. Like this would ever happen in a publically-held company. Ahhh, no.
Bowie J. Poag
Is a browser that detects HTML errors in the pages it reads. If it finds any, it will display/fix up the pages just like all current browsers do, but it will also add a big banner at the top of the page that says "WE DO NOT KNOW HOW TO WRITE WEB PAGES PROPERLY."
Ok, the Funny grandparent post is now Insightful, the Complaining parent post is now Funny, can we have a new surreal moderation option? +5 Fish!
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Alison
"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." - Albert Einstein
Look what it does to the Britney Spears video from Windowsmedia.com.
Life is the leading cause of death in America.
Microsoft will respond to to this insult by releasing "Microsoft Internet Explorer Yosemite Sam Edition", which will deface the opera corporate website in a witty manner. Except it'll have a bug, and will also deface the KDE webiste. The konqueror team will respond in their next version by replacing every 'c' on the MSN website with a 'k'. Microsoft will take this as an assult from the open source community, and will render the mascots on both the KDE and Mozilla sites with comedy spectacles and moustaches. Lynx users will be served graphics only versions of MSN with lots of frames. Mozilla will respond in kind, by rendering MSN upside down. Applewill by default not be able to provide a browser which does not offend anybody, and will be reluctantly drawn into the frey. It will be the browser wars all over again, but this time more bitter, and somehow, more hilarious. It will escalate out of control, until the entire internet is rendered and defaced in a comical fashion. Internet Obfuscation Protcol (IOP) will become an ECMA standard, but each browser will maintain its own incompatible version. Everyone will go back to using phones and fax machines.
If I seem short sighted, it is because I stand on the shoulders of midgets
It actually took me a moment to spot the difference.
I guess reading Slashdot for a couple years has me imune to speeling earroors.
Telling someone not to look at something is the surest way to get them to look at it. Besides, at least goatse is funny. The funniest part is that someone took those awful goatse pictures as part of a series of photos that were evidently meant to be erotic.
In any case, I find things at AOL, MSN, and Yahoo to be just as offensive as goatse.
Basically, to all you goatse haters, get a sense of humor for fsck's sake. And for you moderators with no sense of humor, I have karma to burn. Give it to me baby.
GF
Lots of petrified grits
In other news, slashdot users all agree, The Bork edition makes MSN usable.
Opera, the Bork Edition does what MSN editors have failed to do, make MSN a site that people want to visit.
Joe M Soft said, "Wow after the Bork Edition was released, web hits increased over 10000%. I can't believe all of the positive comments I have recieved."
In other news, Microsoft signs the Swedish Chef to be Editor at Large.
Gator/Claria is Spyware.
When I first read this headline, I thought that it meant that using this version of Opera would cause the Senate Judiciary Committee to come to your house and harass you for hours on end, eventually prohibiting you from using your computer! Guess I should watch more Muppets and less CNN.
I don't see any difference. Once you've seen one pink alien cow you've seen them all.
KFG
Please don't mod me up. ;)
Haha, you fool! You and your webserver will soon regret your gif formatting!
[] I have been duped into clicking a goatse.cx link on Slahdot becasue I'm naive and didn't know any better and now I want to dig my eyeballs out with a spoon.
[] I have deliberately and knowlingly clicked on a goatse.cx link on Slashdot, perhaps even numerous times, because I'm a sick puppy who likes to seek out such tasteless rubbish.
[] I have never seen goatse.cx from a Slashdot link becasue I'm bright enough to know better about these juvenile pranks.
[] I saw Cowboy Neal on a goatse.cx link.
As a Swede I have to agree, throughout modern history we Swedes have suffered terribly. This Swedish chef thing is just the latest in the anti-vikingism seen around the world. We gave the world quality music like Abba and Ace of Base, not to mention we brought you quality furniture through Ikea, and crappy cellphones from Ericsson. And what do you do, you laugh at us and mock us and create obviously evil things like this... It's to the point now that I can't hear someone mention Swedish meatballs without crying... My wife offered me Swedish massage and I shrieked and I immediately went fetal. No more I say! We Swedes have suffered enough.
Signed:
The Swedish Non-Confrontational Front for the Invasion of Norway, Or The Invading By Norway, Either One.
PS, Norweigans smell.
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there is an IE easter egg that calls Opera engineers weenies?
For the love of $DEITY, loose != not win!!!!!
I em pruood und preefileged tu hefe-a beee a pert ooff thees. I gut un imeeel frum Hekun joost a foo deys egu, eskeeng iff zeey cuoold use-a my JefeScreept incheffereezer (purted frum sumeune-a ilse-a's Jefa ferseeun) oon "oone-a ooff zeeur peges". I hed nu idea vhet zeey intended tu du veet it, boot neferzeeless seeed soore-a! Nu prublem.
I'm rulleeng oon zee fluur loogheeng my ess ooffff noo! Heha! Yuoo're-a my herues!
Sheesh. And people wonder why software is so buggy.
The Bork edition does not have ad banners! Talk about extra features. :)
Really? I'll go and have a look.
You're right, it is down. Unbelievable. Does anyone know what has happened to http://goatse.cx/? Is it down permanately? Why was it shut down? Too much bandwidth?
People might not have liked it, but it has become a internet icon of sorts. Bring back http://goatse.cx/!!!
So, they are probably using the language filter "chef" to filter the web-page just before displaying it.
I once heard of a sys-admin that wanted to get revenge on someone else, so he ran all his outgoing mail through one of these filters. Hilarity ensued!
Just to give you an idea, I'll re-run my comment through the "jive" filter, a rather politically incorrect filter which is supposed to simulate black urban-speak. Imagine doing this to MSN!
[here goes]
So, dey are probably usin' de language filta' "chef" t'filta' de web-page plum befo'e displayin' it.
I once heard uh a sys-admin dat wants'ed t'get revenge on someone else, so's he ran all his outgoin' mail drough one uh dese filters. 'Sup, dudelarity ensued. Right On!
Just t'give ya' an idea, I'll re-run mah' comment drough de "JIBE" filter, a rada' politically inco'rect filta' which be supposed t'simulate brother urban-speak. Imagine doin' dis t'MSN. Right On!
f u cn rd ths, u r prbbly a lsy spllr.