Impressive SOPA blackout

Credit to Zachary Johnson: <a href="https://github.com/zachstronaut/stop-sopa" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/zachstronaut/stop-sopa</a>

There are a lot of people using this, I am at <a href="http://jenius.me" rel="nofollow">http://jenius.me</a> as well.<p>This was posted 3 days ago and rose to the top of hacker news when the original author released it, I don't understand why some other site is now getting credit for it or why a duplicate link is on the popular page of HN again...<p>Here's the link from 3 days ago, with over 170 upvotes: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3468386" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3468386</a>

It certainly looks nice, except that the text flows right off the bottom of the page, and scrolling doesn't work. I had to shrink the text font to see the whole thing, and in particular the link that appears at the end.

Here's an HTML5 blackout that I found pretty impressive as well: <a href="http://acko.net/" rel="nofollow">http://acko.net/</a><p>Never saw the site before the blackout though, so I'm not sure if it is just a slight modification to their original homepage.

Thank you for making sure the site is readable even though javascript is disabled (I mean this sincerely).<p>Edit: I would also like to point out that disabling javascript on wikipedia's page does not display the blackout and lets you continue to use the site (apologies if this was mentioned before)

LibreOffice.org seems to be the one that started popularizing this script.

Even responds properly to touch gestures in iOS. Now that's impressive.

I love that while most people would remark "Oh, that's cool", I (and I imagine a majority of us here...) immediately hit Ctrl+Shift+I and tried to figure out how it was working... Hah. :)

Green Peace is also using this, not sure whether the German Pirate Party ripped it off from them or vice versa.<p><a href="http://greenpeace.org" rel="nofollow">http://greenpeace.org</a>

So is this some kind of meta-pirate joke? The source is ripped directly from the German Pirate Party website.<p><a href="http://www.piratenpartei.de" rel="nofollow">http://www.piratenpartei.de</a>

I find it strange that a method of protest appears to be an opportunity to see who can make the nicest looking one.<p>Given the title of the thread, are some considering the blackout less of a political manoeuvre and more of a portfolio addition?<p>Obviously they need to be attention grabbing enough to highlight the cause, but as a metric surely effectiveness is better than impressiveness?