Posted by Fox on July 11, 2007 at 7:23 PM
So I just had a call from Tony Jarmey over at Steathnet, a UK based mobile content provider.
He told me The Register had posted an article regarding the humourous results of searching for "boobs" on stealthnet's content site. The result was not thousands of sales of said "boobs mobile animation", but a bashing of their server.
The up shot of the article is that, some internet browsers cause a "boobs" mexican wave effect when viewing the web page.
So what, we hear you saying - it's just another run-of the mill, albeit jubtastic, flag-based flash. Well, before changing channels in a huff, click here and watch what happens.
Getting the picture? As James explains: "Different browser load patterns lead to different effects. Most of the time Firefox does an almost Mexican wave. IE seems to load randomly, but a refresh synchronises all of them. Some load the top half and then the bottom half leading to an up-down-up-down juggle."
Well, I'm using Firefox, and a few page refreshes did indeed produce a Mexican-wave effect, and a strangely hypnotic group mamsout fiesta. So hypnotic in fact, that I wrote this story at 8am this morning and have only just managed to disengage myself from the bouncing boob samba. Must.. try... and... concentrate...
Just goes to show you that THERE IS such a thing as bad press.
Links:
The Boob Mexican Wave
The Register
