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November 16, 2003 9:15 AM

MetaFilter as a ransom note. Crazified by crazy sites. [via Adactio]
posted by mathowie (11 comments total)

Huh, I thought it was the David Carson Graphic Design Generator.
posted by Stan Chin at 9:17 AM on November 16, 2003

Ha! I deleted a sentence saying "some pages look downright David Carson-esque" before posting it. It's definitely very Raygun with font tags.
posted by mathowie at 9:24 AM on November 16, 2003

Only the Google Ads are unaffected. Proves to me that Google runs the Web.
That, and the fact that my blog is up to #3 on searches for "Wendell", but they still won't let me join AdSense.

Let me be the first to say some of the recent FPPs look better this way...
posted by wendell at 9:44 AM on November 16, 2003

i thought the point of a ransom note that, while cut and pasted, it remained legible enough to get the point across. if i were sent this garbled mess after my daughter/wife/diplomat turned up missing, chances are i'd start receiving body parts in the mail before i deciphered the message and figured out what it was the bad men wanted from me.

cute, though. i dig stuff like this.
posted by item at 9:46 AM on November 16, 2003

Also in mirror style , although it looks like individual words are reversed only when they're not part of a link.
posted by yhbc at 9:52 AM on November 16, 2003

Server under heavy load
Please try again later

bzzt.
posted by quonsar at 9:54 AM on November 16, 2003

Sorry, q, I didn't know I was sitting on the server.
posted by wendell at 10:03 AM on November 16, 2003

what item said. (except fot the cute and digging bit.)
posted by Blue Stone at 10:14 AM on November 16, 2003

Yes, form must follow function. Especially when it comes to ransom notes.
posted by orange swan at 10:31 AM on November 16, 2003

this is sort of a whitebread shizzolator, right? pornolizer for the crayola set? hey, you guys ever see that really big button that doesn't do anything? tee hee. now *that's* a thigh-slapper.

*slaps thigh*
posted by quonsar at 12:03 PM on November 16, 2003

[This is feckin' good]
posted by dash_slot- at 2:34 PM on November 16, 2003