Notes on the wonderworm
- Wiggles is now an official CSS Zen Garden design. As a matter of fact, it's number 99. Wow. Congratulations to Dave on racking up a century.
- I defy anyone to come up with a more ridiculous name for a design. Yes, it does make me cringe a bit too. It really was the name of the character though. Unbeknownst even to himself, Wiggles would transform from your average anthropomorphic worm into a "wonderworm" whenever he uttered the magic word "OMYGOSH!". And he would be restored to his workaday self if he suffered a blow to the head. Or so I gathered—I only read one chapter, because it was pretty excruciating.
- CSS guru Eric Meyer has gone on record saying "Wiggles rocks my world." And having said it, there's no way he can take it back now, even if he ever reads this. But seriously, this has chronically inflated my ego. Maybe I'll make a t-shirt out of it.
- I had to compress the jpegs to the point of asphyxiation to get the design under my arbitrary limit of 500kb. So image quality ain't quite what I would have liked. But hey, it's supposed to be a golden age comic book.
- Speaking of which, here's the original source whence the images were derived: the Golden Age Library of comic books that have entered the public domain.
- The design is MOSe enabled. This means it looks better in virtually anything other than Internet Explorer. Don't look at me; ask Microsoft. (There's also a slight bug in the design list, where I forgot to take into account the possibility of lengthy design titles. Like, for instance, "Wiggles the Wonderworm". Way to shoot myself in the foot, eh?)
- As with Miracle Cure, I owe some inspiration to Shaun Inman's This is Cereal, which remains my favourite.
- I used Comic Sans MS in a Zen Garden!! (Cue evil laughter...)
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Ruben
That was the funniest part of all, in my opinion: your use of the immoral Comic Sans in your design. The rest is just brilliant.
david hopkins
Whats so funny about using Comic Sans? I did that already???
http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=http://homepage.ntlworld.com/davidp.hopkins/zen/rnd.css
P.S. Im not trying to even compare my design to the great wiggles!
Eric A. Meyer
Don’t worry, I won’t take back anything I said about Wiggles, and I’d already seen your comments about my thoughts on chronoillogical weblog ordering. It’s a wonderfully creative design; I laughed in surprise and delight the instant I saw it. The fact that you pulled off an appropriate use of Comic Sans MS was a particularly thick and tasty icing on an already amazing cake.
You’re wrong that my weblog views are nonsense, of course, but that’s okay. Nobody’s perfect.
Joseph
Alright people, what do you think of this t-shirt design? I reckon I’ll be turning heads down Lygon St whenever I wear it:
Eric A. Meyer
Too excellent! If you REALLY want to turn heads, you should have it say, “My Wiggles the Wonderworm rocks his world.” Ahem!
By the way, I said you were wrong about my views being nonsense, not that your views on weblog ordering were wrong. A slight difference, but an important one.
Joseph
Oh, THAT. Well, I suppose it was rather too strenuously worded. Sorry about that. Hyperbolic ridicule has become a common ingredient in what masquerades as serious analysis round these parts. :)
Lisa Woodhouse
I’d just like to say - I was mighty impressed by Wiggles! Thank you for the inspiration!