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[fivecentfamily]

[SPEC/QUESTION] Swarm of bees on ILB.COM

[Paradoxic]

Yeah, it has been seen and found. Check out http://bees.netninja.com/wiki/index.php?title=Corrupted_Image_Text to read all about the text hidden inside all these messed up picture files.

[No.]

I've never seen that before, my friend said it was new as of this evening.

It seems that the pointer following images are cutebee2.gif

[Paradoxic]

I do agree that I don't recall the pointer tail either... but I use Firefox and that doesn't seem to work well with the site. However, during my brief stops at the site to check the counter, I don't recall the little guys.

[No.]

They seem to only be on The Hives.

[Lainer]

Here's an odd discrepancy. When there's 8 bees the image name is cutebee2.gif, but when there're 15 or 30 bees the image name is CUTEBEE2.GIF.

[No.]

caps or not it is still the same file

[Lainer]

I'm just say'n

[number8]

The pointer bees are loaded the same way as the other images. The pointer bees have always been there since the beginning, and the reason why you might not have seen them following your mouse is that sometimes they are trapped in a corner or something. Normally they are supposed to follow you mouse (it's a Javascript thing), but since the site is "hacked" they don't always behave normally.

[fivecentfamily]

Paradoxic, I know all about the text snippets in the pictures. I just wanted to know which specific snippets were found in that particular GIF, which I guess would be hidden in CUTEBEE.GIF, and whether the fact that they are in that "swarm" of images may mean something.

Also wondered what mechanism produces the different numbers of bees. That's not caused by image corruption. There must be some kind of coding to do that.

Just to clarify what I'm asking.

[number8]

I went over and got this for ya. I am feeling generous today, or maybe just delirious ...

http://bees.netninja.com/wiki/index.php?title=Corrupted_Image_Text#hives.html

[Paradoxic]

The code for it, and I did look at it, simply replicates 1 image X number of times (random between 15 and 30 or so) and puts them all in a train behind the pointer. There is code for bounciness and a simple 'physics engine', all of which is basic stuff.

I asked Dana about it in my most recent email to her... see if it was around before or if she just fixed it or what, so we'll get a positive on that soon (assuming she answers).

Anyway, file name capitalization is unimportant... and since the image is retrieved from a given filename, there is no difference between the trailling bee image and the full sized one on the site. I even saved one of them and checked the text... sure enough, it's got part of the story we already have linked to that filename.

[fivecentfamily]

OK, thanks, guys, that answers those questions.

Interesting that all the bits about the flea are in the bee swarm image. Don't think it means anything, but it's interesting.

[BrianEnigma]

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