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| Lord Groundhog 2002-08-07 07:43:01 | While looking for something completely unrelated, I was misdirected to an ODD and (possibly) interesting page about Mozilla. It's at: http://home.snafu.de/tilman/mozilla/index.html -- and it goes by the title "The Mozilla Museum". Some of it is even informative. Much of it is peculiar. For those interested in technical oddities in browsers, there is a "bug gallery" which may provide a few moments of fun. BTW, when you go to a certain link, you are offered another link to Jeff Lee's home page. Weird enough to reward a visit on it's own. -- peace. LG |
| Stephen Brooks 2002-08-09 02:42:41 | One nice quote from I think the "Ex-Netscape employees' site" was: "Netscape was a company that was as cool in 1993-4 as Google is now." I think that just about sums it up. There was also an economics article which asked the question "Why does Netscape still exist?"... given that it's now less good than more-or-less any of the competition, they wondered why on Earth AOL bought it for several million $ instead of letting it die of natural causes. ERRRRRRRR and on the Scientology Gaffs links page also on that guy's site, there's a chart of "How to become an enlightened tribble". Very very strange. I'll bung a link here because it is rather bizarre. "As every 11-year-old kid knows, if you concentrate enough Van-der-Graff generators and expensive special effects in one place, you create a spiral space-time whirly thing, AND an interesting plotline" |
| Lord Groundhog 2002-08-09 07:25:27 | quote: To me the worst thing is that the $cientologists really believe all that, and I'm quite sure they don't realize that to most other people, those little pictures do look like tribbles. -- peace. LG |
| Stephen Brooks 2002-08-09 07:36:17 | Well they have created a mostly-arbitrary scale that tries to convert different moods of tribbles into numbers. -40.0 Chris Johnson -30.0 Linux (badly-installed) -15.0 Waterproof anoraks -14.0 Windows ME -10.0 The Walrus -7.5 Linux (functional) -6.0 Talking to a drain cover -5.5 Newspapers -3.0 Philosophy -2.5 C++ -1.05 Differential equations -0.8 Hypnosis -0.4 Bus journeys 0.0 Politics +0.15 Windows +0.4 String theory +0.6 Coca-Cola +1.2 This website +1.3 Antarctica +2.5 An articulated truck +3.0 Ducks in general +4.0 Falling off a chair +4.5 Hammers +4.75 Nanotechnology +4.8 Hammers (radio-controlled) +5.0 The rest of the junk on Lord Groundhog's desk +6.0 Mallards +7.5 Recursion +8.0 A bag of geese +25.0 Nuclear explosives +40.0 Transmutation of lead into orange juice It is fairly obviously made-up. "As every 11-year-old kid knows, if you concentrate enough Van-der-Graff generators and expensive special effects in one place, you create a spiral space-time whirly thing, AND an interesting plotline" [This message was edited by Stephen Brooks on 2002-Aug-09 at 14:55.] |
| Lord Groundhog 2002-08-13 18:27:43 | quote: [a] you posted the tones scale upside down, making you what they call "out-tech" and a "squirrel" (congratulations! -- squirrels of all kinds are particularly fine animals, as is shown by the fact that $camintology hates them so much). It's a p rivilege, though by no means a rare one. [b] you left out various levels between +8.0 and +25.0 such as: +11.3 submarine race-watching +17.8 stoning the crows +21.5 pretending you've grown an extra arm and getting others to believe you -- as well as th ose between +25.0 and +40.0 including: +29.0 eating mango and pepperoni pizza +32.7 scratching your back when it itches a lot +35.0 drinking a really well-made espresso under a warm sun in Malta +39.99999999999999999 annoying $camintology [c] "mostly-arbitrary" ??? -- which bits weren't, do you think? Anyway, I thought the tilman site had a lot of interesting stuff on it. -- peace. LG ca |
