MISC.
UNSORTED.
It came as a 688k PNG with 300 words and a threat. From “Jon” again.
THE BACKSTORY:
“Someone in the comments suggested that a reader – with too much free time, a vague interest and a basic understanding of ‘copy’ and ‘paste’ – should consider doing something like this at some point.
//Artistic thought process//
“A moment of inspiration struck me on Thursday, and I sought out that choice image of Mr. Kutaragi (courtesy of UK:R’s bandwidth). I decided against the customary ‘Save Image As’ menu command, opting instead to swiftly drag the image to my desktop (a feature that makes Macs so very lovely for doing unproductive crap like this).
“For comic effect, I enlarged the photo. Next, I cut around the heads using the tool that looks like a knotted umbilical cord, and spent at least 15 minutes trying to line up the estranged body parts. The results were very satisfying.
“Several other ideas were then tossed around on MSN, such as the inclusion of a prototype PlayStation 3 on the bench, party hats, and one of those animal cages found at the end of an act in Sonic the Hedgehog. Unfortunately, these additions seemingly detracted from my original, horrific vision.
“I fully encourage… no, scrap that… I fully expect, demand and require the UK:R community to step up, churn out and e-mail in a collection of uninspiring spin-offs, so as to extend my fifteen minutes of fame and further contribute to the downfall of modern society.
– Jon
“P.S. If you use this photo on a t-shirt, please can I have one? Actually, make that two… I’ll give one to a friend, as he is likely losing his job, and will soon be spending every waking moment in a grotty gym called Zeus, drinking cartons of Ribena alongside women who actually look more manly than him.
“P.P.S. Please don’t tinker with my paragraph formatting again.”
filed in HISTORY, READERS DOING WEIRD STUFF on Jun.02, 2010
June 2nd, 2010 on 11:33 am
You can drag images directly to desktop in Windows too. So nyah.
June 2nd, 2010 on 12:22 pm
Hey, with skills like that he could get a job in Newcastle.
Is it a mac day today then Zorg?
June 3rd, 2010 on 7:05 am
this could so be a massive internet ‘meme’, if only we could be arsed…
@dick socrates you can *sometimes* but often nothing happens. In OS X you can drag pretty much anything into anything and it works, whether you’re dragging to desktop, dock icon or a window, mac apps tend to behave better and follow UI guidelines so you know what to expect
June 3rd, 2010 on 8:00 pm
@kenty
Look at you, being a smug self-righteous Apple cunt. Very well then, go on.
June 5th, 2010 on 2:31 am
The biggest problem I have with my Macs is trying to tell people what I like about them without sounding like a smug cock or a Jehova’s witness. It’s really difficult.
As for being able to drag anything into anything, funny you say that, Kenty. One of the things that baffles me is why you can remove things from the side bar by dragging them somewhere they’re not supposed to go. I was trying to image a CD using some program called ‘burn’ and dragged the CD into the program like it said, which made the CD go ‘poof’ and I lost it, like some kind of dopey grandma. I was not impressed. I’m not pointing fingers, but I was not impressed.
“P.P.S. Please don’t tinker with my paragraph formatting again.”
I didn’t know submissions could come with demands. Just consider the possibilities…