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July 30, 2003 6:03 AM

Liquid man follows your every move - found at Bloggerheads.
posted by Orange Goblin (24 comments total)

Yayyyyyyyyyyyy!
posted by kavasa at 6:07 AM on July 30, 2003

An oldie, but a goodie!
posted by Witty at 6:10 AM on July 30, 2003

love this
posted by CunningLinguist at 6:15 AM on July 30, 2003

I wish this could run as a desktop wallpaper.
posted by PigAlien at 6:20 AM on July 30, 2003

Wow, a use for the 'zoom in' fuctin in Flash. Cool.
posted by Space Coyote at 6:29 AM on July 30, 2003

Can't Windows set a URL as a desktop wallpaper? Active Desktop?

Finally, a use for that 3Ghz processor.
posted by kfury at 6:30 AM on July 30, 2003

Cool - but it'd be even better if it was scroll-wheel aware....wheeeeeee! Spin, little dude!
posted by stonerose at 6:35 AM on July 30, 2003

Wow, zooming is cool.
posted by Orange Goblin at 6:39 AM on July 30, 2003

Hi kfury, I tried the active desktop route, but it didn't seem to like that. The program seems to run in a flash window on my computer, but that may be because I'm using Mozilla Firebird or something. In any event, all I got was a blank box on my active desktop.
posted by PigAlien at 6:54 AM on July 30, 2003

Can't Windows set a URL as a desktop wallpaper? Active Desktop?

Doesn't seem to like the flash bit.
posted by Witty at 6:56 AM on July 30, 2003

Ewwww/Oooooh!
posted by Ufez Jones at 6:58 AM on July 30, 2003

pretty flowers follow your every move!
posted by Pericles at 7:12 AM on July 30, 2003

Liquid Man is back! Thanks, OG.
(He disappeared for a while, you know.)
posted by Shane at 7:13 AM on July 30, 2003

Liquid man is cool, but it's really nothing more than a mouse trail script - the sort of thing that, thankfully, fell out of favor a few years ago. Remember all those bouncing balls, and hanging bits of text?

But I don't mean to piss on the liquid man. It's an extraordinary expression of modern life. The individual, jerked about by forces beyond his control, becomes slack and yielding.

We are all of us the Liquid Man.
posted by aladfar at 7:37 AM on July 30, 2003

I think he's related to Jerry Caldwell, who was seated in the business section during the Flight 404 crash.
posted by Officeslacker at 7:43 AM on July 30, 2003

the kid in the brown striped body suit has no bones.
posted by Frank Grimes at 8:27 AM on July 30, 2003

...and apparently, is the slave we all love to mess with. poor guy.
posted by phylum sinter at 9:12 AM on July 30, 2003

frank beat me to it....
posted by Espoo2 at 10:51 AM on July 30, 2003

I like moving the cursor off of the browser window on one side and then sneaking around the other side to surprise him.
posted by jeffj at 11:12 AM on July 30, 2003

Looks like they used the visible human project as the data set. If so, it is interesting to note that the guy following your cursor was executed by lethal injection!
posted by phatboy at 11:54 AM on July 30, 2003

Ha! Great comments, aladfar and phatboy.

The individual, jerked about by forces beyond his control, becomes slack and yielding.

Slack and yielding or merely flexible in the face of change? Perhaps he flows like water, or a Taoist practicing Tai Chi. To pin down Liquid Man is to nail jello to a wall.
posted by Shane at 12:16 PM on July 30, 2003

Last year there was a link to rabbit who kept trying to grab your cursor. If you shook it hard enough he fell off. Anyone have the link?
posted by timeistight at 2:19 PM on July 30, 2003

i nailed jello to a wall, once.
posted by sunexplodes at 12:59 AM on July 31, 2003

I had a sweater like that in the early '80s.
posted by straight at 11:38 PM on August 4, 2003