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June 16, 2005 3:30 PM

Clever web advertisment for a glue. Cheap also.
posted by tyamada (21 comments total)

first link in five years. thats how much you guys scare me.
posted by tyamada at 3:36 PM on June 16, 2005

I liked it.
posted by imaswinger at 3:53 PM on June 16, 2005

wasn't me...
posted by ori at 3:56 PM on June 16, 2005

Pepsi Glue
posted by jon_kill at 4:22 PM on June 16, 2005

posted by furtive at 4:29 PM on June 16, 2005

The big problem with posting things like this to MeFi, I think, is that they're so rarely designed to scale up to the traffic.

Still really neat though. Which is weird, because all it's doing is placing a clunky meatspace step in the display path of a chatroom.
posted by catachresoid at 4:44 PM on June 16, 2005

I think it just broke. This is why we can't have nice things.

Why are you afraid of us, tyamada? Are you made of meat or something? *licks lips*
posted by loquacious at 4:47 PM on June 16, 2005

Still working for me. Didn't see anything I wrote go by, though.
posted by interrobang at 4:55 PM on June 16, 2005

[this is good]
posted by killdevil at 5:35 PM on June 16, 2005

Every other message seems to be W W W AVERTUT. C O M >>> CURSOS GRATUÍTOS
posted by iconomy at 5:43 PM on June 16, 2005

I think it broke again, uh oh. I blew by this a couple of days ago not realizing it could actually do something! Very cool.
posted by snsranch at 6:08 PM on June 16, 2005

There's a distribution network tool available that helps prevent things from breaking down when they're posted on places like MeFi or Slashdot ("the slashdot effect") and get a ton of sudden traffic. It's the Coral: NYU distribution network

just append .nyud.net:8090 to the URL when you post.

Example: http://www.cnn.com.nyud.net:8090/
posted by Fozzie at 6:25 PM on June 16, 2005

Would Coral work for a dynamic, real-time Flash application like this one? I don't think that it would.
posted by loquacious at 7:25 PM on June 16, 2005

posted by I EAT TAPES at 8:29 PM on June 16, 2005

I still have not posted a FPP.
posted by Monochrome at 8:45 PM on June 16, 2005

Hey, look, everybody! A virgin!
posted by wendell at 8:50 PM on June 16, 2005

I would like to call shenanigans. I didn't actually try the gimmick itself (I'm back in Iowa on vacation, and we's got dial-up here), but the images posted so far look a little 'shopped to me.

Look at those extreme right-hand letters and how they overlap the border of the screen.

If I'm wrong, someone please correct me.
posted by ArsncHeart at 8:59 PM on June 16, 2005

I tried it. It worked. I'm trustworthy.
posted by Feisty at 9:42 PM on June 16, 2005

I still have not posted a FPP.
posted by Monochrome at 8:45 PM PST on June 16 [!]


Hey, look, everybody! A virgin!
posted by wendell at 8:50 PM PST on June 16 [!]

heh
posted by ori at 10:38 PM on June 16, 2005

Sorry.
posted by popkinson at 1:43 AM on June 17, 2005

ArsncHeart

The only photoshoping involved was the crop of the screenshot and dumping it as a .jpg. If the site worked when you visited you'll have noticed that the screen of the monitor blurs quite a bit and the effect you're describing is probably related to that.

My own experience with the site is that your text isn't submitted if you press enter, only if you hit the button, and then you have to wait a while before it accepts another submission, I managed to get three on there over a while, but only out of a dozen tries.
posted by furtive at 6:19 AM on June 17, 2005