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441 points by colinprince on Feb 23, 2016 | hide | past | favorite | 38 comments



I thought I recognised the URL! This is by the same genius as Elevator.js: http://tholman.com/elevator.js/ (Turn your sound on.)


All projects of the author are incredible [1]. "The Useless Web" [2] is something I enjoy every time too.

1: http://tholman.com/ 2: http://www.theuselessweb.com/


'The Useless Web' lead me to http://heeeeeeeey.com/, which lead me to http://hooooooooo.com/ -- a delightful pair of domains. I really enjoy the idea and simple execution.


http://www.fallingfalling.com/

When a beginner asks you a question easily solved with Google and then complains when you point that out, tell them you've decided not to help them anymore until they've stared at this for 15 minutes with the volume up.

After two sessions, they'll be reading man pages.


It must cost a lot in domains ! Each of its "Useless" projects as one.


Domains cost a few bucks a year.


One of his domains is tomsdog.com. I don't know how much he paid for it, but I can get donsdog.com for about $10 a year. The list kaismh posted has 75 items in it, so say $750 a year.

The way I like to think about this is that if his after-tax income is $50,000, he is spending 1.5% of his income on domain names.


theuselessweb.com is amazing, I killed the fun by looking at the JS code and retrieving the sitesList object, it is no longer magic for me

var sitesList = [ ['http://heeeeeeeey.com/', false], ['http://thatsthefinger.com/', false], ['http://cant-not-tweet-this.com/', false], ['http://eelslap.com/', false], ['http://www.staggeringbeauty.com/', false], ['http://burymewithmymoney.com/', true], ['http://www.fallingfalling.com/', true], ['http://just-shower-thoughts.tumblr.com/', false], ['http://ducksarethebest.com/', false], ['http://www.trypap.com/', false], ['http://www.republiquedesmangues.fr/', false], ['http://www.movenowthinklater.com/', false], ['http://www.partridgegetslucky.com/', false], ['http://www.rrrgggbbb.com/', true], ['http://beesbeesbees.com/', false], ['http://www.sanger.dk/', true], ['http://www.koalastothemax.com/', false], ['http://quickestquotes.tumblr.com/', false], ['http://www.everydayim.com/', false], ['http://www.leduchamp.com/', true], ['http://grandpanoclothes.com/', false], ['http://www.haneke.net/', false], ['http://r33b.net/', true], ['http://randomcolour.com/', false], ['http://cat-bounce.com/', true], ['http://www.sadforjapan.com/', true], ['http://www.taghua.com/', true], ['http://chrismckenzie.com/', true], ['http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/', false], ['http://ninjaflex.com/', false], ['http://iloveyoulikeafatladylovesapples.com/', true], ['http://ihasabucket.com/', false], ['http://corndogoncorndog.com/', false], ['http://giantbatfarts.com/', true], ['http://www.ringingtelephone.com/', true], ['http://www.pointerpointer.com/', false], ['http://www.pleasedonate.biz/', false], ['http://imaninja.com/', false], ['http://willthefuturebeaweso.me/', false], ['http://salmonofcapistrano.com/', false], ['http://www.ismycomputeron.com/', false], ['http://www.wwwdotcom.com/', false], ['http://www.nullingthevoid.com/', true], ['http://www.muchbetterthanthis.com/', true], ['http://www.ouaismaisbon.ch/', true], ['http://iamawesome.com/', false], ['http://www.pleaselike.com/', false], ['http://crouton.net/', false], ['http://corgiorgy.com/', false], ['http://www.electricboogiewoogie.com/', true], ['http://www.nelson-haha.com/', false], ['http://www.wutdafuk.com/', false], ['http://unicodesnowmanforyou.com/', false], ['http://tencents.info/', false], ['http://intotime.com/', true], ['http://leekspin.com/', true], ['http://minecraftstal.com/', false], ['http://www.patience-is-a-virtue.org/', false], ['http://whitetrash.nl/', false], ['http://www.theendofreason.com/', false], ['http://zombo.com', true], ['http://secretsfornicotine.com/', true], ['http://pixelsfighting.com/', false], ['http://crapo.la/', false], ['http://baconsizzling.com/', false], ['http://isitwhite.com/', false], ['http://tomsdog.com/', false], ['http://hardcoreprawnlawn.com/', false], ['http://www.omfgdogs.com/', false], ['http://thefo.nz/', false], ['http://oct82.com/', false], ['http://semanticresponsiveillustration.com/', true], ['http://www.biglongnow.com/', true], ['http://dogs.are.the.most.moe/', false], ['http://faceofdisapproval.com/ ', false]

];


ahhaha I always wanted to never know this - but now I'm glad I do


Even his homepage is crazy. Try scrolling on "Australia", "New York" and "Codepen" :)


It's one of his projects: http://tholman.com/giflinks/


Made some abstract art with it.

http://knowingart.com/texter.jpg

Frame that, it'll be worth something ;-)



As impressive as that is, it's even more impressive that the last commit in the project was in 2012.

This 'little' web project is more than three years old and still amazing considering how much web browsers and web technologies have moved forward in this time.


Not trying to downplay your point, but I think the fundamental technologies have more or less stayed the same during this time frame. I think what has changed has been the tools that help you better organize and work with those technologies.


Oh no, standard web tech keeps working for decades.

Node.js and Microsoft/Netscape-only stuff, though? That breaks.


Look ma, I made an Alanis Morissette cover: http://imgur.com/zVZNJnm



Doesn't work with Android Chrome for me


Same here, anyone could share a screenshot of what we should see?


You draw by clicking and dragging with your left mouse button. Instead of a line you get text. Text size (aka line thickness) depends on cursor speed, so faster dragging means larger text size.


I've been running out of ways to find weird new yet not absurd stuff on the web. All linkblogs are constantly dying. Even these from the beginning of this century. Thanks to author's homepage[1] (can I call it that?) now I have one fresh - http://inspiring.online/.

1: http://tholman.com


This is like the "text" brush, also introduced in 2012, in DeviantArt muro: http://muro.deviantart.com/


I made a little video with this (part of an ongoing series).

https://youtu.be/w1RvNk6BA2c


It would be cool if you could remove the background : so when you import into Inkscape you could , trace bitmap , and further your design ambitions.


Very cool; I can imagine this could be used to create a nice website background, just set a corpus you like and have it cross itself a few times...


I wish the size gradient be smoothed more, to avoid accidental spikes.

Add (semi-)transparent png generation and you get a useful tool for designers.

Very cool otherwise.


Add (semi-)transparent png generation and you get a useful tool for designers.

Right click / View Image (in Firefox at least)


It's not semi-transparent, which means antialiasing isn't preserved when pasted over some colored background.


Set blend mode to multiply and it's fine (or invert it and use it as a layer mask). Although I'm not sure how useful it is for designers without the ability to tweak what you've drawn.


It’s semi-transparent if the developer isn’t drawing a background colour onto the canvas (as in this case).


Dead page on Mobile Safari. What is it?


It lets you specify a string and draw freehand with that string repeating itself as the substance of the line. The size of the characters in the string varies with cursor velocity.


+1: Baller move trying to visit every link in mobile Safari.


Add support for touch events, please.


Awesome, some of his other projects are also good :)


Damn that was impressive.


Delightful!




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