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Nailing jelly to a wall: is it possible? (2007)
- omgmajk 3y agoRelated: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36739920 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36739920
- Tempest1981 3y ago> the jelly didn't even need a nail to stay on the wall. It just stuck there Sticks to a wooden "wall" (when slowly raised) -- what if it's painted? I guess I need to get some jello.
- cyclotron3k 3y ago(2005)
- dang 3y agoThanks! Seems updated 2007 so we've gone with that.
- Rebelgecko 3y agoLooks like the latest update is actually from today
- dang 3y agoWhere did you see that? I just took a quick look and didn't.
- Rebelgecko 3y agoYou can search for "2023" on the page, although in retrospect it looks like the author just fixed some links so no substantive changes.
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- jonatron 3y agoThese days this would be in a video with a clickbait thumbnail with someone shouting at you after a VPN sponsor ad.
- closewith 3y agoWhich would probably reach a wider audience and maybe give the creator a few quid to try other things. I love these kinds of articles (and wrote a few back in the day), but it's hard to see YouTube as a regression.
- atahanacar 3y agoIf this was a few years ago, I would argue it breaks indexability but today it would automatically get transcribed anyway. Though I still find reading a page like this more practical than watching a video except when eating as watching a video becomes easier then.
- scrame 3y agoI much prefer reading with some photos and maybe a video than just tedious half hour videos about minutiae to pad out a monetization quota.
- xbar 3y agoNot at all. Loss of this content seems like an obvious regression.
- m-i-l 3y ago>"Which would probably reach a wider audience and maybe give the creator a few quid to try other things. ... it's hard to see YouTube as a regression." Doing something purely for fun vs doing something with the expectation of profit is the big difference - it is essentially the difference between work and play.
- lozenge 3y agoI followed the link to the follow-on material. The domain name had changed hands and you WON'T BELIEVE what they're now doing with it!
- tadzikpk 3y agoYou simply need a colder wall…
- MisterTea 3y agoYes, it's simple to do really. Just open the jar to make a few sandwiches then promptly forget about it in the back of the fridge for a year.
- CoastalCoder 3y agoLeave the fridge unplugged and eventually the jelly will crawl up the wall on its own.
- charles_f 3y agoTalking about English jelly, aka American jell-o, so not as easy as you say
- MisterTea 3y agoYou haven't forgotten about thing in the fridge, have you. It's scary looking back there ... forgotten. alone. unloved. Everything nails up to the wall back there. Check your fridge often.
- CoastalCoder 3y agoI always heard it as "Jell-o", not "jelly".
- charles_f 3y ago> 26th October 2006: Attention Americans! > > What you call "jello", we call "jelly". What you call "jelly", we call "jam".
- harimau777 3y agoWhat do Brits call jam (i.e. what American's call jelly but with chunks of fruit in it)?
- notatoad 3y agoi don't think american-style jelly really exists in britain. british jam and american jam are mostly the same thing, if encountered it would probably be called filtered jam or clear jam.
- pxeger1 3y agoPreserve? Conserve? But colloquially, probably just jam. Or "jam with bits of fruit in it"
- joecool1029 3y agoConserve is the antiquated term the British would probably use if 'filtered jam' existed there. Jam has small bits of fruit (usually like strawberry/raspberry seeds). US jelly does not since it's made from juice or syrup. Preserves are the kind with bigger chunks of fruit.
- Symbiote 3y agoUsually that's also jam, but there are a few fruits where we call it jelly. Redcurrant jelly: https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/redcurrant_jelly_26005 https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/redcurrant_jelly_26005 The whole jam shelf at Tesco, including "Strawberry Seedless Jam" (shouldn't that be "Seedless strawberry jam"? The adjective order sounds wrong otherwise) and "Strawberry jam": https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/search?query=jam https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/search?query=jam "Conserve" means "add £1 to the price".
- Camillo 3y agoThis was updated today, by removing old links. But that's not a good way to fix linkrot; it's better to keep the broken links, so people can look them up on the wayback machine if they wish.
- mgdlbp 3y agoThe site's own comments section, which existed from 2006 to 2009: https://web.archive.org/web/20090422143519/http://www.greem.co.uk:80/cgi-bin/comments https://web.archive.org/web/20090422143519/http://www.greem....
- ashleney 3y agoLove the human verification with figlet.
- drzel 3y agoSomeone do pushing shit uphill with a stick.
- amelius 3y agoOr redoing a 2000 years old experiment, but now with jelly.
- krupan 3y agoThe mention of boingboing caught me by surprise, I haven't thought about that site in such a long time. Turns out it's still going, and the adds on it are /horrible/ :-(
- anonu 3y agoWhat a refreshing page. If only it were socially acceptable to have no CSS and no Javascript on a page these days...
- blamazon 3y ago> Do not eat any of the neat jelly cubes, no matter how nice they look. They're incredibly sweet and probably addictive; if you eat them all you won't have any left for the experiment.
- ndsipa_pomu 3y agoI've heard of using the raw jelly (jell-o for the U.S.) blocks as an emergency food whilst hiking etc. It has a very long shelf life, is cheap and you're unlikely to want to eat it unless it's an emergency whereas a bar of chocolate might be eaten before you've finished putting your boots on.
- harimau777 3y agoI participated in a competition in middle school to see who could formulate jello that would stay up the longest when nailed to a wall. The one rule was that your jello could only contain ingredients that normally show up in jello. The deciding factor turned out to be not what the jello contained but how it was hammered. If the jello ended up flush to the wall then it would stick, eventually harden, and stay there indefinitely. On the other hand, I took a more unique approach: I pointed out that fruit was an ingredient that commonly shows up in jellos. So I nailed my jello to the wall through a ring of apple and relied on that to hold it up.
- jrmg 3y agoVery reasonable ‘license’ at the bottom of this page: …you're allowed to do with this page anything you wouldn't mind me doing with your cat. So yes, you can photoshop it for comedy effect, you can copy bits of it for illustrative purposes and so on, but you can't steal it and pass it off as your own.
- rmilejczz 3y agoGolden cat rule is my new favorite license
- BrandoElFollito 3y agoThis site was mentioned in a post a few days ago about a search engine for "web 1.0' websites. There were other very nice examples as well (cannot find the post right now but will look further tonight)