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Do you want a compliment on your face?

Pssssst! You see that phrase up there next to the IconBuffet logo? It says "Welcome to the ice cream social." That's the tagline of IconBuffet. Well, for a long time I've noticed some weirdnesses about this tagline. If you show the page without images, it says "Pwned by the chef..." Hmm! What? Huh? Wha? I'm pwned by the chef? Interesting creatures, those chefs!

But this isn't where the weirdness stops! If you look at the image file for the tagline, it says tagline-2.gif. Two? As in version two? That must mean there's a version one! So I try changing the URL to tagline-1.gif and yes! Voila! I get a new image, this time a tagline that says "You have a lovely face." Why thank you, IconBuffet! I can guess that this was the tagline used before they figured out what they really wanted the tagline to say. That's quite humourous!

And then I thought, I liked that compliment on my face. And why not get a compliment on my face everytime I visit IconBuffet? So I've created a little script that replaces the normal tagline with the old one on-the-fly, so IconBuffet compliments you on your oh-so lovely face everytime you visit IconBuffet. Now, isn't that the best thing ever? What you'll need to make this work is to run Mozilla Firefox and then install the Greasemonkey extension. When that's done, restart your browser and click on this link to activate the script:

IconBuffet Face Compliment Script

And then, when you reload the page, the tagline have changed to a lovely one which tells you that you have a lovely face. And it will tell you over and over again. All you can say is thank you, IconBuffet. And thanks for being so awesome.

(Screenshot of this userscript in action)
(Remember that this script is entirely unofficial.)

Posted by electricnet on Apr 30, 2007 in Blab | 20 comments

lparziale on Apr 30, 2007

Love a community chock full o developers!! 8)

inkblot on Apr 30, 2007

heheheh.. we have far too much desire to dig deeper & create things that serve the most mundane of purposes. LIVE for it... :Þ

tamashii on Apr 30, 2007

+1 electricnet.

So worth the minutes to do this, hehe.

VINZ on Apr 30, 2007

electrinet rulezzzzzz

JoshuaJarman on Apr 30, 2007

"you have a lovely face"..."welcome to the ice cream social"...you've been "owned by the chef"?

My brain wants to find a hidden message...
Is this some sort of sick metaphor I don't quite get?

"I gave them an ice cream social!"

electricnet on Apr 30, 2007

I've been wondering about the hidden messages too, haha. Especially with the pwned one, since it only displays when you're not viewing with images. So something like: "You're not viewing images when browsing this site! Haha, you got pwned by the chef!"

Oh noes!

jmnovak on Apr 30, 2007

I would translate that as, "You've been so captivated by our wonderful site that you spent time figuring out what it looked like without images -- you've been pwned by us!" :-) (Ignoring, of course, that you might be using lynx to browse the site?)

jmnovak on Apr 30, 2007

Of course, in Lynx, it looks more like it's the menu that's been pwned...

anti on Apr 30, 2007

Disabeling images does not do it for me, but when I disable styles: Pwned by the chef...

kimberleygrey on Apr 30, 2007

Oh my goodness, that's made my day! (Reminds me of the sorts of things I litter my own code with... Eheh.)

bcarneiro on Apr 30, 2007

impressive!!

sloan on Apr 30, 2007

I'm speechless

electricnet on May 01, 2007

I'm glad it's something you all like. Sometimes it's the smallest changes that are the coolest.

I'll probably start making a bit more useful scripts in the future if there is the need.

patronus4000 on May 01, 2007

Heheh, I love this. So very cool. XDD Now, you just have to go make sure that they don't delete that file while they go through their un-needed files. XD