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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: RE: [idm] m9ndfukc
> Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 09:54:13 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Josh Davison <yoshi@enteract.com>
> To: Ryan Pulley <ryanp@imagistic.com>
> CC: andrei@world.std.com, idm@hyperreal.org
>
>
> !!!!FUCK-ALL HUGE WARNING DISCLAIMER!!!!!
> the following link will completely fuck your computer, so don't even think
> of clicking on it until you have saved everything, installed a real
> operating system (read: not Windows or MacOS) and maybe even called your
> mommy first...
>
> that said, it's an awesome ride. click it. but i warned you.
>
> http://www.membank.org/0000/0000.html
>
> anyway this f1f0 chap (or antiorp or Netochka Nezvanova or any other alias
> he-she-it-them go by online) has turned rogue software into a Fine Art.
> The Graphical User Interface (GUI) of a piece of software is *supposed* to
> create a transparent user experience by providing a set of easily
> understood metaphors that are implemented consistently and universally.
> The user knows that moving the scrollbar will cause a window to scroll,
> and clicking a button will cause some other function to execute. f1f0's
> software takes the opposite approach. Important functions are obsucred
> beyond recognition. Buttons that do nothing are given prime GUI
> real-estate. Control of the mouse is wrestled from the user and used to
> draw fancy geometric patterns on the screen.
>
> I purchased a sound generation/manipulation program called b!257+!2 from
> f1f0/antiorp. There is a region of the UI that pops up an "about box,"
> standard operating procedure for a lot of software. What's different
> about this program is that the entire time you are reading the credits for
> the software, the program is busy creating empty Font Suitcases with
> titles taken from random snippets of C++ code and dumping them in the
> application directory. The user quits the program to find that well over
> 500 new documents have been created and started hogging up the Finder's
> resources... The amount of trust one places in the creator of a piece of
> software immediately becomes apparent when you consider how easily
> f1f0/antiorp could have ruthlessly fucked your system rather than just
> dumping a few files into one directory...
>
> anyway, he/she/they also create a program called "NATO" which is the
> end-all for real-time Quicktime manipulation/editing/ruthless-fuckery ...
> it costs around $800 so i haven't picked it up quite yet but i have seen
> it in action, it's pretty toot sweet.
>
> so troll the newsgroups for this mo-fo and click those links ... but
> beware :)
>
> josh
> --
> String Theory : Digital Music for Humans
> http://www.enteract.com/~yoshi/index.cgi
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