The Onion releases fartscroll.js

The only way The Onion could improve on this is by writing a followup article saying that the response has been so positive that they've decided to sell fartscroll.js as a SAAS offering, and have taken investment from twenty prominent VC funds.

The sounds are included directly in the JS, which is pretty neat: <a href="https://github.com/theonion/fartscroll.js/blob/master/fartscroll.js" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/theonion/fartscroll.js/blob/master/fartsc...</a>

The best part of this entire thing may be that in "Issues", there is a pull request for "My Finger".

Jokes aside, I make my browser make a click when an external object is loaded and when a page starts and finishes loading.<p>This audible enforcement is very helpful during development and to "hear" which sites are sneaking in external calls without bringing up firebug, etc.

Can this be considered a code smell?

This jQuery extension is a breath of fresh air

The Internet is finally useful. Thanks, The Onion!<p>On a side note, I can't be the only one trying to memorize the embedded Base64 representations of fart mp3s, can I? That would kill at parties.

I wonder if putting something like this on a checkout page for Gas-X or anti-diarrheals might actually increase conversions.

All of the fart apps in the App Store are now ready for that transition from native to multi-platform web based applications.

Is there a way to make anyone accessing my home wifi network get this injected into their webpages (or random webpages)? I know there is that trick that lets you flip all the images or replace them with pics of something else (usually cats) but can you inject arbitrary js into pages also?

Now all we are missing is a Chrome Extension that automatically injects this in every page and stays hidden. Perfect office prank :)

I originally read the link as "The Onion releases FASTscroll.js". I thought maybe there was a new high performance infinite scroll implementation. I was a little confused initially after clicking through.

People laughed when it was said that perhaps The Onion could save Journalism.<p>Who's laughing now, eh!?

Well I made a small intercepting proxy which inserts this JS if you want to try..<p>Use http proxy 92.163.21.52 port 9990 and start browsing :)<p>I'll let the VM opened for a few hours<p>edit: port 9999 edit2: port 9990<p>(changed the port because some botnet is using it to target a website and maybe that's because I used an online proxy checker to test it)

Now I am no longer the only one that makes fart noises as they scroll!

Pretty sure this is genius. Finally a .js site that makes sense.

See, now I just want to make a virus that injects this into random webpages.

this is how you get your kid jnto programmig

Jokes aside, I see this extension being used in one of those "causes" pages (not that I am against them) that parody the wrongdoings of an individual or groups of individual.<p>e.g. a site that features an oil company, who lobbies governments to give them tax subsidies for sketchy oil drilling projects. As the user scrolls through each bad points about the oil company, a fart sound is played.<p>Just my thought.

After playing with this for about 3 seconds I realized this would be perfect for a ticking timebomb. The use case: You configure your freelance/consultation web app to start injecting this script 1 month after an invoice is due and not paid. I would bet the clients will be hurrying to pay your invoice after they get complaints of farting sounds coming from their website!

My computer just farted very loud in a hotel lobby.

awkward moment looking at this whilst interviewing an intern

Jeff Atwood calls it "Possibly the greatest code in the history of computing" [1]<p>[1] <a href="https://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/332495858383855617" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/332495858383855617</a>

This is the most important development of our time. You cannot deny this.

What kind of "Front end" developer are they looking for?

if you want to use it to prank your co-workers: <a href="http://www.getpranx.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.getpranx.com</a>

This could actually prove to be useful (aside from the comedic value, and learning exercise). I'll test to see if playing audio offers will make a difference in conversions. One thing for sure, my girls will love playing around with it. :D<p><a href="http://pullmyfinger.com" rel="nofollow">http://pullmyfinger.com</a> is taken. ):

am I the only one thinking of combining this and the konami code JS for a great easter egg implementation?

I'm so tempted to implement this on one of my clients sites without telling them, just for a day!

I believe that this is exactly what Al Gore had in mind when he invented the internet.

This is it, the internet has reached it's pinnacle, time to close up shop and move on.

My visit duration to the fartscroll page was increased by about 1000% because of this plugin.<p>I normally would have clicked away long ago, but now I find myself wanting to just leave it open in a side tab all day long.

Really? This got voted up to number 1 on the front page, and so many awesome real projects are buried without ever getting anywhere?<p>HN is really a joke now, I see. Haven't been around for a while. Sad.

we did a chrome extension for that <a href="https://github.com/Ninja-Pheasants/ftw" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Ninja-Pheasants/ftw</a> enjoy and help us to fix it.

My dog's reaction to fartscroll.js: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIYySjIyy_I" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIYySjIyy_I</a>

The Onion is the Mad Magazine of adults. I'd love to see them release a bunch of small joke JS libs like this.

This is inbound marketing at its best. What a great way to tell the tech community you're hiring.

This would be perfectly suited on any Magento website, especially magentocommerce.com

Demo?

Now we only need Google Nose to become real. It'll be a "killer".

Today, I learned that The Onion has a Github account. Kudos guys!

This is going to EXPLODE all over the Internet!

Web 3.0 is here!

Lets put this into a bookmarklet :P

Brilliant. Thanks HTML5

It just made my day.

this needs to be combined with raptorize.js...

Web 2.1b!

The Onion.<p>That is all!

Add your own sounds.<p><a href="http://www.motobit.com/util/base64-decoder-encoder.asp" rel="nofollow">http://www.motobit.com/util/base64-decoder-encoder.asp</a>