Fnord + Blogger = Fnordder? ... Flogger? ... Blnorder?
Taken from the Wikipedia entry:
A fnord is disinformation or irrelevant information intending to misdirect, with the implication of a conspiracy.
Just think back to some of the colorful mixed metaphors attributed to Ross Perot, and you’ll get the general idea.
What’s this have to do with blogging? I’m glad you asked:
- Whilst catching up on the feeds in my aggregator (I’m currently using Newzie, which is definitely worth checking out), I came across an article on Blogger hacks. This led me to Stephane Hamel’s article on embedding a dynamic random quote with javascript.
- I used to have a Fnorder (code that generated Fnords) on my old site (one of these days, I’ll get around to bringing the “lab” back online … maybe), written in PHP. If you’re interested, you can pick up the script from Steve Jackson Games.
- I grabbed a copy of the PHP … converted it to Javascript … voila! The quote in black (above) changes each the page is loaded … and it’s a “fnord”.
Go ahead and refresh to see for yourself. You can download the javascript here.
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