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Tag: gif

  • Dan holds a microphone alongside the word 'JPEG'.

    You're Pronouncing JPEG Wrong

    Fighting about the correct way to pronounce GIF is so last decade. Let's fight about how to pronounce JPEG.

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    • Video
    • with an accompanying podcast
    • 7 comments
    • posted 6 August, 2026
  • Demonstration using curl of a request to an image map URL, including a pair of coordinates as the query string, resulting in two different redirects as a result of two different coordinate pairs.

    Today I Rescued 7,234 Old GIFs

    As Web standards have moved on, a particular 1990s library of GIFs has been hard to effectively archive and was at risk of being lost forever. So I swooped in, wrote some hacky code, and now a few thousand low-res images have been saved for posterity. Hurrah, I guess?

    Read more - about 4 minutes (824 words)

    • Article
    • 13 comments
    • posted 10 July, 2026
  • GIF with more than 256 colours.

    Evolving Computer Words: "GIF"

    People think of GIFs as animations for the Web, but that's only a fraction of their story.

    Read more - about 5 minutes (1065 words)

    • Article
    • posted 12 November, 2019
  • Reverse GIF of a cube of magnetic balls

    Building a cube out of hundreds of spherical magnets

    AltReverse GIF of a cube of magnetic balls

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    • Repost
    • posted 7 April, 2015
  • A huggy home run

    A huggy home run.

    AltA huggy home run

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    • Repost
    • posted 18 November, 2014
  • Martial arts competitors dance instead of fighting

    Glitchy fight animation

    AltMartial arts competitors dance instead of fighting

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    • Repost
    • posted 27 September, 2014
  • Firefighter sucks flames safely into bottle, saves day.

    http://www.gfycat.com/VictoriousMinorCatbird

     

    Read more - about 1 minutes (6 words)

    • Repost
    • posted 18 August, 2014
  • Race

    Motorcycle police chase black athlete out of town, into lake

    AltRace

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    • Repost
    • posted 31 March, 2014
  • "HD Vision" glasses

    I thought that I was already playing in HD, but now they want to sell me this add-on pack to give me HD vision. What gives?

    Alt"HD Vision" glasses

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    • Repost
    • posted 1 March, 2014
  • Kitten chasing windscreen wipers

    Kitten vs. wipers [x-post from just about everywhere, but we know it belongs here]

    AltKitten chasing windscreen wipers

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    • Repost
    • posted 9 October, 2013
  • Flying shark toy scaring a cat.

    Here, fishy fishy fishy...

    AltFlying shark toy scaring a cat.

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    • Repost
    • posted 1 July, 2013
  • Forever Alone

    How I feel getting myself off.

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    • Repost
    • posted 12 May, 2012
  • Image representing post: HSBC Advertising

    HSBC Advertising


    Gotta love HSBC. No, this isn't a real ad.

    Read more - about 1 minutes (9 words)

    • Note
    • posted 19 July, 2004

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