2 September 2004
supplies
I'm sure by now you've been forwarded an email containing a link to a web page or Flash applet in which you are told to look at the differences or find what looks wrong or pay attention to this or that. I've even seen an mpeg of a TV commercial that works much the same way. Whatever it is, all of a sudden the window is filled with the head of a gruesome or horrifying creature, and a good third of suckers are caught off guard. They yelp, and everyone around them in the office looks at what is going on. At least, that's what happens in my office, as there are at least two people particularly susceptible to this little trick.
I'm sorry Eun Hee, by the way. I didn't know he'd forward that to you.
Anyway, what I'd like to see is one of these stupid things, but with a twist. Instead of a monster, have a baby cooing or some flowers or something. You know, a pleasant image. Would that be as jarring? Would the person still yelp? So, somebody try it.
It's times like this that I wish I knew how to use Flash. Or at least that I'd do something with those Flash books I keep getting out of the library beyond stacking my CDs on them.
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I've seen a different one that's not a gruesome image, but not a pleasant one either. It's a room, and a girl runs through, but it's so sudden it still catches you off guard. It may have been even creepier, like she was a ghost or something, but I don't remember.