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May 26Liked by camille butera

I would be OK with upping my subscription fee if it meant you’d be able to hire Camille full time

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May 26Liked by Rusty Foster, camille butera

the PowerPoint presentation in the middle of A Visit From the Goon Squad

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May 26Liked by Rusty Foster, camille butera

Also @Rusty/Music Intern, that Poe album needle drop really sent me back in time to when I was obsessed with message boards detailing that family’s tormented and brilliant oeuvre. Haunted is, to this day, one of my favorite records ever and one I truly regret not owning on vinyl

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May 26Liked by Rusty Foster, camille butera

Similar to the Homestuck tricks, the Strong Bad Email ‘virus’ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Az49aNuYeJs / http://www.hrwiki.org/wiki/virus) moves around the video frame, has a character interacting with the site navigation, and triggered a popup window.

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May 26Liked by Rusty Foster, camille butera

Hamburger menu @ https://www.zachleat.com/

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May 26Liked by camille butera

I've been here for _all_ of the interns and this run was my absolute favorite -- really looking forward to more from Camille!

As for the prompt: Does JS.Spacehero count? It was actual crime! Love it.

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For me, the best introduction to browser-breaking storytelling was Word, whose articles scrolled up and down, left and right—and were, most important, well-written and surprising. I miss Word almost as much as I miss Suck.

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May 26Liked by camille butera

There was an AO3 story told in the character of Groot that used hypertext to unearth Groot's psyche, simple but I loved it.

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May 26Liked by Rusty Foster, camille butera

It's like pen and paper then innit?

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One of my favorite uses of css crimes was using it to abuse how a MySpace page looked. Far beyond fonts and positioning, but an entire page redesign.

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