Viewing Instagram in different web browsers

An Instagram page, as rendered by an Icecat (Firefox) web browser.



The same Instagram page when JavaScript is disabled in Icecat.



With, and without JavaScript, in a Google Chrome browser.

Below, the popular terminal based web browser, "Lynx", has nothing to display when visiting the Instagram page.

Two other terminal based browsers for comparison, ELinks and W3M. W3M even offers framebuffer support for image display.


And for comparison, this blog, as viewed in ELinks and W3M.


Visiting Instagram without JavaScript is a complete non-experience, you won't be greeted with even a crippled HTML version. This is reminiscent of the era of Flash based websites. It's similar but, surprisingly, lacks the general consternation that the use of Flash caused.

Add to this, the deliberate low resolution and bad quality of images utilised by Instagram, and you come to one conclusion: If you are using Instagram, you are committing crimes against photography, the Internet, and the technological advancement of mankind.

Julia Mancuso's Instagram account (without indictment): http://instagram.com/juliamancuso

Mplayer Loop Entropy

A glitched DX50 (DivX5) video file, caused by improper truncation, will continue to gain entropy as it's looped in MPlayer.


A decimated version, quickly demonstrating the effect of 200 loops


Full version, showing the entire trace of 200 loops.


source: The original video segment is taken from the first episode of Gerry Anderson's "UFO" series (1970). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPl1OYpuI5w&t=13m4s
how-to: http://oioiiooixiii.blogspot.com/2015/03/how-to-progressive-chroma-glitching.html

"Twas the jizz that did us in" - Vincent Browne

context: http://youtu.be/Go1rZme9G9U

The Scottish "No" victory, as it happened...

And if we take a look at the Answer Prancer, we can see a definite increase of agility in the No leg...

link: https://twitter.com/oioiiooixiii/status/512804085624360960

What Ireland's near-100 year Independence from Great Britain can offer to the undecided Scottish voter

Good luck with that...

Highland Airwaves - 15 minute loop

alt. version



The original advertisment was directed by Jonathan Gurvit and choreographed by Corinne de Beer. A tweet by the latter puts the production schedule as Jan/Feb 2013.

info: http://be.net/JonathanGurvit
info: https://twitter.com/Corinne_db/status/295220872850051072
original: http://vimeo.com/63695950

Invoking the Jobs daemon, iBeelzebub

Increasing JPEG degradation over sequential video frames

original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaGd2lIYYFo



original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA2nnNspOAo

N.B 1080p viewing necessary.

info: http://oioiiooixiii.blogspot.com/2014/08/jpeg-destruction-via-repeated-rotate.html

Palpebral slant

source: http://youtu.be/HlqtDvuiAwY
info: http://www.maimonidesmed.org/Main/AdamMultimediaEncyclopedia/Palpebral-slant-eye-1003316.aspx

Граф Знак

Jihadist puts differences aside, and makes peace with pragmatic compromise...

Decides to shop at both Aldi AND Lidl!

original: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/jihadist-poses-decapitated-heads-syria-article-1.1880260

Occhi dalle stelle (1978)

info: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078015/

Crimea.ru Vs. Crimea.ua

Whois records indicate that crimea.ua was created in 1992 and crimea.ru in 2000. This is a look at how the Internet Archive's "WayBack Machine" has cached both websites over the years of their existence.

In December 2013, crimea.ua started getting near daily visits from the WayBack Machine. This was just after the "Euromaidan" "revolution" began in November, but before it reached it's culmination in February, and before the international dispute over Crimea's sovereignty appeared. It's not clear how or why this caching regime took place, nor if it has any real significance. A closer inspection of whois details might be worth a look.

source: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://crimea.ru
info: http://whois.domaintools.com/crimea.ru
context: http://crimea.ru

source: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://crimea.ua
info: http://whois.domaintools.com/crimea.ua
context: http://crimea.ua