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Nailing jelly to a wall: is it possible? (2007)

140 pointsby mgliwkaalmost 2 years ago

17 comments

jonatronalmost 2 years ago
These days this would be in a video with a clickbait thumbnail with someone shouting at you after a VPN sponsor ad.
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jrmgalmost 2 years ago
Very reasonable ‘license’ at the bottom of this page:<p><i>…you&#x27;re allowed to do with this page anything you wouldn&#x27;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&#x27;t steal it and pass it off as your own.</i>
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Camilloalmost 2 years ago
This was updated today, by removing old links. But that&#x27;s not a good way to fix linkrot; it&#x27;s better to keep the broken links, so people can look them up on the wayback machine if they wish.
krupanalmost 2 years ago
The mention of boingboing caught me by surprise, I haven&#x27;t thought about that site in such a long time. Turns out it&#x27;s still going, and the adds on it are &#x2F;horrible&#x2F; :-(
harimau777almost 2 years ago
I 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.<p>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.
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anonualmost 2 years ago
What a refreshing page. If only it were socially acceptable to have no CSS and no Javascript on a page these days...
blamazonalmost 2 years ago
&gt; Do not eat any of the neat jelly cubes, no matter how nice they look. They&#x27;re incredibly sweet and probably addictive; if you eat them all you won&#x27;t have any left for the experiment.
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Tempest1981almost 2 years ago
&gt; the jelly didn&#x27;t even need a nail to stay on the wall. It just stuck there<p>Sticks to a wooden &quot;wall&quot; (when slowly raised) -- what if it&#x27;s painted? I guess I need to get some jello.
MisterTeaalmost 2 years ago
Yes, it&#x27;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.
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omgmajkalmost 2 years ago
Related: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=36739920">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=36739920</a>
mgdlbpalmost 2 years ago
The site&#x27;s own comments section, which existed from 2006 to 2009: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20090422143519&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.greem.co.uk:80&#x2F;cgi-bin&#x2F;comments" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20090422143519&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.greem....</a>
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tadzikpkalmost 2 years ago
You simply need a colder wall…
BrandoElFollitoalmost 2 years ago
This site was mentioned in a post a few days ago about a search engine for &quot;web 1.0&#x27; websites.<p>There were other very nice examples as well (cannot find the post right now but will look further tonight)
drzelalmost 2 years ago
Someone do pushing shit uphill with a stick.
ameliusalmost 2 years ago
Or redoing a 2000 years old experiment, but now with jelly.
cyclotron3kalmost 2 years ago
(2005)
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CoastalCoderalmost 2 years ago
I always heard it as &quot;Jell-o&quot;, not &quot;jelly&quot;.
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