Put Words Between Buns

August 12, 2018 2:22 PM

Ian Bogost appealed to the world to put more words between buns. So he made a thing where you just type and the words appear (recognises return, backspace). Lots of people then put words between buns (also on Facebook).
posted by Wordshore (29 comments total)

I 🐇 was 🐇 imagining 🐇 something 🐇 completely 🐇 different.
posted by J.K. Seazer at 2:33 PM on August 12, 2018 [20 favorites]

Lots more in this Twitter thread.
posted by Wordshore at 2:45 PM on August 12, 2018

Needs a Big Mac option so I can have a bun between words between buns
posted by ckape at 2:46 PM on August 12, 2018 [2 favorites]

Please... Bob's Big Boy was doing three-level buns a couple decades before...
posted by oneswellfoop at 2:54 PM on August 12, 2018 [1 favorite]

🍑 I 🍑 was 🍑 also 🍑 surprised 🍑 by 🍑 the 🍑 definition 🍑 of 🍑 buns 🍑.
posted by mattamatic at 2:55 PM on August 12, 2018 [5 favorites]

“Um...where are your hands right now?”

“They’re wedged between two pillows, why?”
posted by Slarty Bartfast at 2:57 PM on August 12, 2018 [2 favorites]

Metafilter:

(Fixed link)
posted by not_the_water at 3:01 PM on August 12, 2018 [3 favorites]

not_the_water, that looks like a nothingburger.
posted by cichlid ceilidh at 3:02 PM on August 12, 2018 [1 favorite]

NONE OF
THIS IS
NORMAL
posted by Fizz at 3:06 PM on August 12, 2018 [1 favorite]

MetaFilter, MetaBurger, FoopBurger, WendellBurger
posted by oneswellfoop at 3:07 PM on August 12, 2018

I was thinking there should be either a chuck tingle or a seymour butts connection there somehow.
posted by jenkinsEar at 3:18 PM on August 12, 2018

AskMe: Can I eat these words I put between buns then left on the counter overnight?
posted by GenjiandProust at 3:20 PM on August 12, 2018 [6 favorites]

Ahem.

And for the Simpsons fans.
posted by oneswellfoop at 3:22 PM on August 12, 2018 [1 favorite]

I just wanna know how he made this, since I'm trying to find examples of cute code projects - I'm having a hard time looking at the Developer Tools and understanding what he did, besides using JQuery.
posted by yueliang at 3:50 PM on August 12, 2018

It's against regulations for Subway to sell just the bun.
posted by straight at 4:11 PM on August 12, 2018 [1 favorite]

It looks like most of the relevant parts are in `bun.js`, Yueliang.
http://buns.life/js/bun.js

Looks like most of it is a combination of `renderBun()`, `renderImage()`, and that hatchShow jQuery function to loop over the inner-blocks to decide when to wrap & when to resize the font-size
posted by CrystalDave at 5:15 PM on August 12, 2018 [1 favorite]

Ian Bogost continually impresses me. If someone had told me I could get tenure mostly through creative and interesting shitposting I would have finished my PhD.
posted by xthlc at 5:56 PM on August 12, 2018 [7 favorites]

Tasty
posted by sfenders at 5:59 PM on August 12, 2018

Is this how you do a hot dog?
posted by ardgedee at 6:15 PM on August 12, 2018 [1 favorite]

Nov schmoz ka pop
posted by Peach at 7:07 PM on August 12, 2018

my anaconda
posted by drlith at 9:32 PM on August 12, 2018

You can be the bun and I can be the burger
posted by mistersquid at 10:04 PM on August 12, 2018

Id eat at renderBun(), as long as the parens look like buns in the logo
posted by davejay at 11:47 PM on August 12, 2018

And there's a million things I haven't bun, but just you wait.
posted by emelenjr at 4:29 AM on August 13, 2018 [1 favorite]

Mac Firefox users beware, hitting the "delete" key goes back a page. Option+delete works fine.
posted by tommasz at 10:54 AM on August 13, 2018

Is this how you do a hot dog?

No.
posted by BrashTech at 1:08 PM on August 13, 2018

I literally just finished sending out a proof for a job where I essentially made a burger with the text for Backstage Passes. I'm glad to see this now, I wasn't going for burger when I made it, but it worked out that way and if I rounded the corners some more, I could go full burgin' on the design.
posted by GoblinHoney at 3:17 PM on August 13, 2018

You could at least have the courtesy to put a Chino and Daddy Gee warning on that first link.
posted by darksasami at 12:46 AM on August 14, 2018

A librarian of some repute has joined in the fun.
posted by Wordshore at 4:54 PM on August 18, 2018