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Sadly, I lack the technical skill to make this work. Seems like it would be awesome, though. (I have IE7, and I do have Javascript enabled.)
Somebody at that website reads BoingBoing!
I'm having Junior High School flashbacks. Sparkles and Rainbows and Unicorns, oh my!
But what if you don't like rainbows and/or unicorns?
Did you know that the French word for 'unicorn' is 'licorne' (corrupted from Italian word 'alicorno'?
Fragano, fear not, there are many, many ways of defacing the Web...or 'improving' it.
Is this the part where I claw my own eyes out in horror?
Waaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!
It is with transcendent joy that I find my current browser configuration steadfastly immune to the effects of that website.
That's not right!
No, seriously, the unicorns aren't pooping the rainbows, so that's just not right.
People should do some damn research, grounch, grounch, grumble.
Does it work on vampire websites?
Nick Mamatas shared recently discovered a piece of Twilight fic in which orgasms are referred to as "unicorns."
So this brings me extra EXTRA joy.
I love it! No only do I love it for itself, I love it for the hundreds of imitators it's going to spawn.
Wake me when there's a good cthulhu one.
Linkmeister @ 6: Oh, that's not all--keep clicking, and you'll eventually get to the sparkly-pink "My Pretty Pony" unicorn . . . brrr.
I note with amusement that the first sidebar ad on this page is for an Xlibris book called "Escape of the Unicorn". Coincidence? I THINK NOT!
I predict cornify's servers are going to melt down within 12 hours. Or twenty minutes if BoingBoing mentions this.
I prefer the tiger cubs in the snow.
Everyone witness the healing power of unicorns on www.godhatesfags.com!
Mary Dell @15
No, no, noooo! You mustn't link to that fic! Someone might accidentally click on it, and then there'll be asploded brains all over the place. My eyes are still bleeding.
#24: The zombie thread is over there.
Mary Dell @ 15 That link... My eyes... My coffee... Explanation to coworkers...
I wonder if the euphemism is more apt in Edward's case?
Mary Dell @ 15... orgasms are referred to as "unicorns."
Masakage Yamagata: Little Takemaru was a problem, but the horse is worse. It can tell. Only the late lord could ride it.
Nobufusa Baba: If the double falls off, everyone will suspect.
Nobukado Takeda: Lord Shingen has been ill. He must refrain from riding.
Masakage Yamagata: Good idea.
Masatane Hara: There are many other problems. We must be careful to keep the late lord's intentions.
Katsusuke Atobe: Tonight he will have to meet the late lord's mistresses. How will he be with them?
Masakage Yamagata: Our master has been ill. He must refrain from riding.
(Kurosawa's Kagemusha)
I have just shared Cornify with some of my coworkers. I believe it will be a very giggly day here in the office.
I guess all y'all ain't seen the Worst! Website! Ever!:
http://www.globalaigs.org/
The Glaucoma Hymn:
Glaucoma, Glaucoma, Glaucoma
Constricting vision slowly
Halted by progress of science
Vision of a world united
Beyond all science knowing
Mercifully, they seem to have removed the sound from the front page since I last "visited."
I think this site would really benefit from having unicorns. And sparkles.
UNICORNS & RAINBOWS INVADE MARS!!!!
Put the Cornify bookmark in your browser bar and then go to http://www.google.com/mars/. Then click the Cornify link a lot.
Novalis @29: damn it, someone with a time machine has obviously gotten to my unicorn life-cycle story before I've written it. (As hatched on the spot at last year's worldcon, when I happened to be sitting at the same bar table when John Scalzi tried to sell Lou Anders on a theme anthology about Unicorn Bukake.)
Curse you, Captain Cornify!
For the first time in years my inner music track is playing the Hampsterdance!
Am I doomed?!
Do I have to listen to the Ballad of Little Musgrave another ten times to make it go way?
Everyone knows that Jedi Knights are really Unicorns.
This is the worst website I know, starting with the basic concept of "a picture of text" and ending with the content.
Does anybody else remember the zombie unicorns in Ridley Scott's Legend? Okay, they weren't really zombies, but, after Tim Curry's minions hacked their horns off, they fell dead and remained so until Tom Cruise grabbed the horns back and put them back on their foreheads without using Crazy Glue.
My former favorite candidate for worst web site turned out to be an art project.
Hurray for the Internet Archive Wayback Machine!
Essay question: compare and contrast Amanda Palmer's song video in PNH's Particles and the Cornify website, with particular attention to the use of satire in each. You will be graded on spelling, punctuation, and sense of humor. Neatness counts.
Charlie Stross @#33, I would buy novel that even though I have already been spoiled for it.
This sentence fragment "I happened to be sitting at the same bar table when John Scalzi tried to sell Lou Anders on a theme anthology about Unicorn Bukake" is a complete story all by itself. Is that microfiction contest still going on? 'Cause even if it's true, it should win.
Never play leapfrog with a unicorn
The direct link to the Glaucoma Hymn:
http://www.worldglaucoma.org/Download/forcedownload.php?file=Hymn.wma
If you click the link in the lower right corner of the first page, it leads you there.
(the verse daemon rouses itself...)
Zombie unicorn ate my brain,
'ware be ware the Choosers of the Slain!
Zombie unicorn ate my brain,
That damn website's got a lot to explain!
Sparkly rainbows and purple beasts,
Even worse than infectious yeast,
Zombie unicorn ate my brain,
That damn website has a lot to explain!
40: "I did two things on my seventy fifth birthday. I put flowers on my wife's grave. Then I tried to sell Lou Anders on a theme anthology about Unicorn Bukake. Then I joined the Army. Three things. I did three things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I put flowers on my wife's grave, tried to sell Lou Anders on a theme anthology about Unicorn Bukake, joined the Army, and taped bacon to my cat. Four things. Among the activities I engaged in on my seventy-fifth birthday are... oh, sod it, I'll come in again."
-- Michael Palin as Cardinal Scalzi in "Old Man's Spanish Inquisition"
ajay @ 44:
I read that as "Squamous Inquisition".
(Our weapons are Fear, Surprise, Eldritch Tentacles, and a large barrel of Blasphemous Ichor.)
Plus chocolate, of course.
Cadbury.
Sus @ #26:
If that's puzzlement about the purpose of Jon Meltzer's suggestion, I read it as "Post the link in the zombie thread - to them, brains-all-over-the-place is a good thing".
("Braaaaaains!")
This sentence fragment "I happened to be sitting at the same bar table when John Scalzi tried to sell Lou Anders on a theme anthology about Unicorn Bukake" is a complete story all by itself.
If nothing else, some variant of it should be the opening for the next Laundry story.
And you know, every time I find myself getting vaguely irritated by Clay Shirky again, he up and makes observations like that.
I just temped for a local religious institution's educational wing, and everything for those poor chirrens was done in Comic Sans.
During my brief tenure, I changed what I could, but there's so much out there!
I made sure to tell my permanent replacement that Comic Sans is an abomination unto the Lord. I think/hope she'll get it, since she's a costume designer by trade, and therefore not visually retarded.
Shall we designate a thread for font creebing? I can recall one about Trajan sometime back. My current pet peeve is Papyrus, which is not a bad font, but right now is enormously overused.
Paul @ 46
Ah. Cheers. :) I'm not re-posting that link, though. It's dangerous for people, even if the braaaaaiiiins-reliant community might appreciate the, er, fall-out. Hur hur.
The original example from Chaos theory was that the way a butterfly's wings flapped in one country might eventually cause a cyclone in another, so by no means are only pleasant outcomes expected from the stories — 'For the want of a nail' — is that little proverb/ aphorism/ anecdote/ (non)rhyme known in the USA?
Terry's battlefield butterflies reminded me of Chris Clarke's post on Creek Running North from 2005 about Vanessa cardui, the Painted Lady, migrating. The original link seems to have succumbed to the effluxion of time, so this link is to my Anzac Day post, including an extract from it.
MaryL (#42): Back in the Dark Ages, when I discovered this website, you didn't have to click on the link to hear the godawful Glaucoma Hymn; it started up without any action on the viewer's part when the page was opened.