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tfabris ([personal profile] tfabris) wrote2008-01-24 04:14 pm

Dear The Internet

Dear The Internet,

You are missing a feature. You need a site where you enter some text, and it writes out the text for you in Horta writing, complete with a little animated horta and sound effects and smoke coming from the letters.

Sincerely,

Me

[identity profile] beaq.livejournal.com 2008-01-25 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
NO KILL I

[identity profile] quadrivium.livejournal.com 2008-01-25 01:12 am (UTC)(link)
The Pain! The children. . .


The Horta is available as an appetizer at an Outback Restaurant near you cleverly disguised as Aussie Cheese Fries.

[identity profile] johno.livejournal.com 2008-01-25 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
Great little punk band.

http://www.nokilli.com/

They have not played in a few years, but their music is still avail.

[identity profile] mathochist.livejournal.com 2008-01-25 01:27 am (UTC)(link)
Better link for Horta writing:
http://startrek.wikia.com/wiki/Image:No_Kill_I.jpg

[identity profile] tithonium.livejournal.com 2008-01-25 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
Dear tfabris,

  You are clearly new to the internet. Those who have been
  around for a while are intimately familiar with the first
  rule of the internet: If you thought of it, someone has
  put up a web page for it.

      Your friend,
            The Internet

PS: It was probably on geocities and doesn't exist anymore.

[identity profile] tfabris.livejournal.com 2008-01-25 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
I actually found their web site while surfing links looking for an image file and read some of the stuff there. :-)

[identity profile] tfabris.livejournal.com 2008-01-25 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
Awesome. :-)

[identity profile] tfabris.livejournal.com 2008-01-25 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
Dear The Internet,

That's why I was asking. I was sure someone must have already put up a page for it, but couldn't find it.

Damn geocities sites. You should have known better than to let something like that exist.

[identity profile] dbcooper.livejournal.com 2008-01-26 06:21 am (UTC)(link)
Actually, the Star Trek After Dark Screen Saver for Windows (which tends, regrettably, to crash in any Windows version past 98SE) did have a mode where you could have a Horta write stuff on your screen.

[identity profile] tfabris.livejournal.com 2008-01-26 08:36 am (UTC)(link)
My favorite part of that screen saver was that, despite the very low resolution scanned graphics, and the very small size of the graphics on the screen, you could *still* see Shatner's corset through the shirt.

I'd love to see some of those old After Dark modules rewritten as modern SCR files. There were a couple I still can't find equivalents for these days.