Metafilter Zomibified

April 24, 2008 4:23 AM

Metafilter ZombifiedA service of Bottlecap Labs, you too can infest any website with zombies using ZombieUrl.
posted by jeremias (40 comments total)

That's it?
posted by HuronBob at 4:32 AM on April 24, 2008

yawn.
posted by absalom at 4:35 AM on April 24, 2008

It also apparently logs you out of MetaFilter.
posted by yhbc at 4:36 AM on April 24, 2008

So wach warst du noch unbeeindruckt.
posted by Smart Dalek at 4:41 AM on April 24, 2008

This is another prime example of why we need an undead option on the flagger system.
posted by scabrous at 4:41 AM on April 24, 2008

And your mark won't suspect a thing when s/he sees "zombieurl" in the URL!
posted by DU at 4:49 AM on April 24, 2008

When there is no more room in hell, the dead will read Metafilter.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 4:51 AM on April 24, 2008

*sigh*

YOUR NOT DOING IT RIGHT. Instead, you start with soft almost inaudible creepy whispering voices, wait a few seconds for your mark to turn up the sound, then softer creepier voices, wait a few seconds, then the SCREAM, and the zombie face pops up - eyes opening to reveal spiders and maggots spilling out from under the lids.
posted by BrotherCaine at 5:24 AM on April 24, 2008 [3 favorites has favorites]

This is a great thread...
posted by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 at 5:26 AM on April 24, 2008 [2 favorites has favorites]

Well, it scared the shit out of me.
posted by lunit at 5:27 AM on April 24, 2008

YOUR NOT DOING IT RIGHT

Purposeful irony?
posted by thanotopsis at 5:27 AM on April 24, 2008 [1 favorite has favorites]

Meta.
posted by fire&wings at 5:33 AM on April 24, 2008 [2 favorites has favorites]

Also, some of the zombies are NSFW
posted by ardgedee at 5:35 AM on April 24, 2008

I am sure Astro Zombie agrees with me that this just portrays a gross stereotype of zombies.
posted by munchingzombie at 5:38 AM on April 24, 2008

I preferred the one when he posted all those adventure game peoples' correspondence without asking them. And I have to wonder: How many Fridays can this possibly have taken?
posted by beniamino at 5:44 AM on April 24, 2008

Think anyone would have cared if it wasn't posted by the waxy.org guy?
posted by meta_eli at 5:50 AM on April 24, 2008

This is like that haunted house I and some friends did when we were ten. The one with the "ghost" that was actually a dirty white pillowcase that you yanked up on a pulley, yelling "Wooooooooooooooo!" Awesome in its very lameness.
posted by kittens for breakfast at 5:50 AM on April 24, 2008

My zombie had coconut shells for a bikini and really bad teeth. I'm not a fan.
posted by Pecinpah at 6:03 AM on April 24, 2008 [1 favorite has favorites]

Am I doing it right?
posted by Citizen Premier at 6:08 AM on April 24, 2008 [8 favorites has favorites]

Thanatopsis, no it was an embarrasing error.
posted by BrotherCaine at 6:14 AM on April 24, 2008

This is not funny.
posted by Zombie Jesus at 6:15 AM on April 24, 2008

Oh, it's always different zombies! Well, that doesn't change my opinion at all!
posted by absalom at 6:17 AM on April 24, 2008

This needs an [annoying sound] warning.
posted by cowbellemoo at 6:42 AM on April 24, 2008

You just gotta know that sooner or later someone will hack in a Goatse photo.
posted by bwg at 6:44 AM on April 24, 2008

Don't you mean ZombieUrl?
posted by MtDewd at 7:01 AM on April 24, 2008

beniamino: It took one Friday, wise guy.
posted by waxpancake at 7:45 AM on April 24, 2008 [1 favorite has favorites]

There, pretty as a picture.
posted by SpiffyRob at 7:52 AM on April 24, 2008

Also, some of the zombies are NSFW

Are any zombies safe for work?
posted by paddysat at 8:16 AM on April 24, 2008

That was motherfucking stupid.
posted by fungible at 8:22 AM on April 24, 2008

OK, I'm awake now. Fucker.
posted by Cool Papa Bell at 8:38 AM on April 24, 2008

Screaming zombie gags are soooo 2002.
posted by Mister_A at 9:04 AM on April 24, 2008

I didn't even wait around long enough for the zomibe, and had to go back and read all this responses to try again. I thought it was just another Tiny URL but with a catchy name.
posted by JibberJabber at 9:18 AM on April 24, 2008

A most emphatic meh.
posted by jeffamaphone at 9:34 AM on April 24, 2008

boo
posted by psmealey at 10:01 AM on April 24, 2008

Um ... lame?

Ya know, the screaming noise coming from my office (thanks for the warning) was not very good.

Ha fucking ha.
posted by jabberjaw at 11:51 AM on April 24, 2008

Sorry. Lame. Really...

But... fundable? That's a joke, right? Please tell me that's a joke.
posted by loquacious at 11:53 AM on April 24, 2008

I beat you at your own little game totally by accident. I was listening to music and turned my speakers down because of a song with too much base and got a mild jolt instead of "falling out of my chair doing backflips out the window" reaction.

It happens, I assure you.
posted by Cyclopsis Raptor at 2:30 PM on April 24, 2008

It had too much bass too.
posted by Cyclopsis Raptor at 2:31 PM on April 24, 2008

Interesting.
posted by Citizen Premier at 3:05 PM on April 24, 2008 [1 favorite has favorites]

loquacious: The "funding" was a joke. Rex Hammock was referring to my Worst Website Ever session from SXSW, where the winner got funded with $1 by venture capitalist David Hornik.
posted by waxpancake at 5:57 PM on April 24, 2008