Metafilter woes getting you upset? Unicorns can help.

February 4, 2009 10:02 AM

uniCornify the Web!That's right. Unicorns and rainbows when you feel the web is icky or frustrating. Here's what Metafilter could look like. If you want you can add their java snippet to your browser bar and cornify anything!
posted by filmgeek (23 comments total)

What has science wrought?
posted by TwelveTwo at 10:03 AM on February 4

Um, that's what Metafilter always looks like. What do you normally see?
posted by You Should See the Other Guy at 10:07 AM on February 4 [7 favorites has favorites]

This is pretty corny, alright.
posted by Pater Aletheias at 10:10 AM on February 4

And, somewhere in the world, Tim Berners-Lee smiles quietly to himself, leans back in his chair, pulls an old, dusty manilla folder from his desk drawer, and stamps the words "EXPERIMENT SUCCESSFUL" on it in bright red ink.
posted by flashboy at 10:11 AM on February 4 [6 favorites has favorites]

I blame Obama for this.
posted by Joe Beese at 10:14 AM on February 4

Wow and/or yikes, it's cornographic!
posted by nickyskye at 10:14 AM on February 4 [3 favorites has favorites]

What's really useful about this: If you're on Little Green Footballs or Red State or anything else you find appalling, you can just click the button about a hundred times and block out the offensive matter quickly and painlessly.
posted by fungible at 10:15 AM on February 4 [2 favorites has favorites]

This is useful. It almost covers the quivering mass of bugs I usually see pouring out of the screen.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 10:18 AM on February 4 [3 favorites has favorites]

Never play leapfrog with a unicorn.
posted by netbros at 10:30 AM on February 4

Busted. filmgeek is obviously the one who took down Metafilter last week.
posted by gman at 10:45 AM on February 4

Welcome to 1998.
posted by Seekerofsplendor at 10:49 AM on February 4

flashboy - I think it's more of a collaboration with Tim and Lisa Frank, though the latter went a bit too far.
posted by filthy light thief at 10:53 AM on February 4

gman- thank god I have a posting history!

Now, metafilter is JUST like MYSPACE.
posted by filmgeek at 10:56 AM on February 4 [1 favorite has favorites]

I see your Unicorns and raise you bacon!
posted by filthy light thief at 10:58 AM on February 4 [3 favorites has favorites]

I want to see how far someone can nest these website overlay things like Russian dolls. I want metafilter with unicorns, bacon, disasters, sketchzilla, translated into leet-speak, mirrored in reverse, etc.
posted by Rhomboid at 11:01 AM on February 4

Sadly, it does not work with the corporate intranet. That could use some rainbows.
posted by desjardins at 11:05 AM on February 4

I wonder if they built the site in Django.
posted by signal at 11:07 AM on February 4

Nevermind, it DOES work on the intranet, it just places the images under everything else, so you have to scroll down. Not nearly as fun. :(
posted by desjardins at 11:10 AM on February 4

"The internet is done, we can all go home and congratulate ourselves on a job well done."
posted by a womble is an active kind of sloth at 11:19 AM on February 4

Needs more cowhorn.
posted by blue_beetle at 11:42 AM on February 4

Damn, I was going to post this! Definitely NSFC (Not Safe For Cynicism).
posted by brundlefly at 12:05 PM on February 4

If you click the cornify button 666 times, the unicorns start coming out of the screen!

PUT THEM BACK! AAAAAAGGHHH!
posted by orme at 2:07 PM on February 4

Welcome to 1998.

More like, Welcome to 1986. I feel like I'm 10 again.

Where's my Trapper Keeper?
posted by fiercekitten at 3:19 PM on February 4