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May 7, 2003 12:06 AM

And you thought the blink tag was dead. The RIAA strikes back at xmms, the Linux media player.
posted by The Jesse Helms (25 comments total)

NSFE: Not Safe For Epileptics. Other than that, not sure what the point is.
posted by jjg at 12:23 AM on May 7, 2003

My eyes, they bleed!
posted by moonbiter at 12:27 AM on May 7, 2003

Killer Japanese Seizure Robots.
posted by j.edwards at 1:04 AM on May 7, 2003

Thanks for the headache guys.
posted by psychomedia at 1:26 AM on May 7, 2003

"Killer Japanese Seizure Robots" was my starting page for like a year.
posted by kaibutsu at 2:09 AM on May 7, 2003

That's a spicy meatball.
posted by Kikkoman at 2:14 AM on May 7, 2003

Actually the blink tags didn't work; it's the animated gifs.
posted by hobbes at 3:09 AM on May 7, 2003

Yeah, kaibutsu, I know; it was in my house :P
posted by jozxyqk at 3:34 AM on May 7, 2003

Shades of cartoon based controversy cloud my mind.

Is that 'Killer Japanese Seizure Robots' page a rip off of the Simpson's "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo" episode ["We now return to Battling Seizure Robots"] or vice versa?
posted by phylum sinter at 3:40 AM on May 7, 2003

both are a rip off of a real life japanese cartoon that resulted in several cases of seizures.
posted by quonsar at 4:34 AM on May 7, 2003

quonsar: wasn't the cartoon in question the Pokemon episode cited in my link above? No robots there! [i think, i'm not an expert pokemologist though].
posted by phylum sinter at 4:51 AM on May 7, 2003

i thought the operative word was siezure, not robots. you can find robots all over the web. tv too. so far, siezures have failed to recognize the power of the internet as a distribution channel. i fault their marketing people.
posted by quonsar at 5:11 AM on May 7, 2003

and i was still so asleep i didn't even SEE your link :-)
posted by quonsar at 5:13 AM on May 7, 2003

Quite a lovely home page. Perhaps Matt can do something similar for metafilter? I've always found the looks rather understated. It's just not flashy enough.

This reminds me of hacking on my Commodore 64 when I was a kid actually. It only had a handful of colours but you could do special tricks by rapidly flashing a pair of colours. Persistence of vision would tend to mix them. This worked fine (sort of) as long as the colours weren't clashing. If they clashed it looked like that web page. I even made a simple game for high school Computer Science based around the flashing clashing colour scheme.

What I really want is a paint job based around nano-tech that lets you do this to your car. It'd be perfect for when the police start flashing their rollers at you for thumbing your nose at their silly speed limits.
posted by substrate at 5:46 AM on May 7, 2003

Omniweb seems to be an anti-seizure browser. I saw garish colors, sure, but they were static garish colors.

But, for folks who don't have a TV or seizure inducing browser, they can always revert to table-top roleplaying games.
posted by ursus_comiter at 6:54 AM on May 7, 2003

It didn't blink for me, I was confused. Then I remembered that Opera ignores the blink tag. Oh, Opera, you are constantly giving me new reasons to love you.
posted by TurkishGolds at 6:55 AM on May 7, 2003

Quite a lovely home page. Perhaps Matt can do something similar for metafilter? I've always found the looks rather understated. It's just not flashy enough.

Through the miracle of user style sheets you can do this yourself.

1. Make yourself an obnoxious, epilepsy-inducing blinking background image (obnoxious.gif).
2. Make yourself a text file called user.css and put this rule in it:
   
   body {
background: url(ani.gif) repeat;
}


3. In Internet Explorer under Internet Options > Accessibility, check "Ignore colors specified on web pages" and "Format documents using my style sheet, then browse to your user.css file

Sorry, no Mozilla instructions, since off the top of my head I don't know how to do in that browser.

Sadly, text-decoration: blink doesn't seem to work.
posted by moonbiter at 7:11 AM on May 7, 2003

Sorry, no Mozilla instructions, since off the top of my head I don't know how to do in that browser.

Oh wait, here's how.
posted by moonbiter at 7:29 AM on May 7, 2003

Forget the epileptics, this should be NSFH, Not safe for hangovers. Really not what I needed to see first thing.

But if it's robots you're after, try this. Remember, you would too if you could, but you are weak.
posted by ciderwoman at 7:53 AM on May 7, 2003

moonbiter, your background .gif was named obnoxious.gif but you specified ani.gif in your css.
posted by quonsar at 7:56 AM on May 7, 2003

WTF???
I'm really confused about the point of this. (besides seizures) The page sort of makes it look like the RIAA hacked it. I know that's not the case, but I'm not sure who's trying to make what point here.... Other than making me glad it's not 1992 anymore.
posted by lumpenprole at 8:30 AM on May 7, 2003

websitedesignfilter
posted by mb01 at 9:09 AM on May 7, 2003

The point is that it's a cute joke page they put up while moving to a new server.

I'm sorry if I spoiled the fun.
posted by SiW at 9:32 AM on May 7, 2003

moonbiter, your background .gif was named obnoxious.gif but you specified ani.gif in your css

You are right. It should be changed to obnoxious.gif in the style declaration. That's what I get for writing in a textarea, creating an image in one app, doing markup in another editor, testing in a browser, cutting and pasting, and not proofreading the preview adequately.
posted by moonbiter at 9:38 AM on May 7, 2003

NO! Goddamnit, my Japanese Seizure Robots have been MeFi'ed. A pox on both your houses!!!!
posted by kaibutsu at 3:27 PM on May 8, 2003