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u.arizona.edu — Each digg this story receives will add another moving ball which will eventually reveal a hidden image.

Who dugg this? Made popular May 17, 2007

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  • jhnewt, on 11/11/2007, -7/+566This hidden image better not be tubgirl...
  • guitarh3ro, on 11/11/2007, -6/+446Too early to tell, but it looks like digg's logo.
  • MAdaXe42, on 11/11/2007, -7/+350Cunning ploy.
  • idonthack, on 10/11/2007, -4/+272I GOT THE MESSAGE!

    It says 403. What does that mean?
  • blapierre, on 11/11/2007, -10/+203Just watch how the balls move, they are outlining the word "digg".

    "Can you see the hidden image?"

    Yes.
  • dominasian, on 11/11/2007, -9/+193@dbxz
    out of context that is one of the weirder things ive heard
  • fober, on 11/11/2007, -10/+169Thumbs up for ingenuity.
  • neseus, on 11/11/2007, -16/+147"Can you see the hidden image?"

    duh. digg logo.
  • dbxz, on 11/11/2007, -10/+106i wanna see a least 2000 more balls!
  • tthomas1529, on 10/15/2007, -3/+91digg? i was so hoping for something naked.
  • dclowd9901, on 11/02/2007, -5/+90Why do they have to be blue balls? Maybe he's trying to tell us something...
  • noisymime, on 10/15/2007, -10/+94If this is just another attempt to show off that damn key.....
  • WaterDragon, on 11/02/2007, -6/+84This just proves one thing:

    It takes a lot of balls to look at Digg!


    (Unfortunately, this thing is destined to become just a totally boring, motionless plain-text thing, when it gets enough Diggs.
    It is best its early stages -- Hey....much like Digg! heh heh)
  • apex32, on 11/11/2007, -2/+75@tylertyler (#6741962)
    If I knew my code was going to be shown I probably would have cleaned it up some ;)
  • LordofChaosIori, on 11/11/2007, -1/+72Haha this would be cool with more complicated pictures...
  • merreborn, on 11/02/2007, -7/+71If you're going to be a grammar troll, don't stop at "It's". He's missing some punctuation too.

    "It's an ant farm, duh."

    Amateur.
  • holzp, on 10/11/2007, -3/+67"The connection has timed out"

    Is it a picture of the digg effect?
  • brianjameskirk, on 11/11/2007, -4/+61its an ant farm duh
  • tylertyler, on 11/11/2007, -11/+65for the actionscript people:

    // Action script...

    // [Action in Frame 1]
    function addBall()
    {
    trace (count);
    ++count;
    var _loc2 = _root.attachMovie("man", "id" + count, count);
    _loc2._xscale = 90;
    _loc2._yscale = _loc2._xscale;
    _loc2._x = 10;
    _loc2.gotoAndPlay(int(Math.random() * _loc2._totalframes));
    _loc2.ball.gotoAndPlay(int(Math.random() * _loc2.ball._totalframes));
    } // End of the function
    function onEnterFrame()
    {
    } // End of the function
    function update()
    {
    xml.load("http://services.digg.com/story/2028673/diggs?appkey=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.u.arizona.edu%2F~garyc%2Fman");
    xml2.load("http://services.digg.com/story/2028673/comments?appkey=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.u.arizona.edu%2F~garyc%2Fman");
    } // End of the function
    var count = 0;
    var mouseListener = new Object();
    mouseListener.onMouseDown = function ()
    {
    };
    Mouse.addListener(mouseListener);
    var xml = new XML();
    xml.ignoreWhite = true;
    var xml2 = new XML();
    xml2.ignoreWhite = true;
    var diggs = 0;
    xml.onLoad = function (suc)
    {
    trace (xml.childNodes[0].attributes.total);
    diggs = xml.childNodes[0].attributes.total;
    while (count < diggs && count < 500)
    {
    addBall();
    } // end while
    digg_txt.text = diggs + " diggs";
    };
    xml2.onLoad = function (suc)
    {
    var _loc1 = xml2.childNodes[0].firstChild.attributes.user;
    var _loc2 = xml2.childNodes[0].firstChild.firstChild.nodeValue;
    comment_txt.text = _loc1 + ": " + _loc2;
    if (_loc1 == undefined)
    {
    comment_txt.text = "0 comments";
    } // end if
    };
    update();
    setInterval(update, 10000);
  • dlowx, on 10/11/2007, -12/+66YUCK!!! It's Goatse :/
  • pseudojd, on 10/11/2007, -7/+52and it's gone...
  • Jaq524, on 10/11/2007, -9/+50Sorry for the comment abuse, here's a working mirror:

    http://www.u.arizona.edu.nyud.net:8080/~garyc/man/man2.swf
  • Tiak, on 10/11/2007, -5/+43Dear God! It's an image of the invisible pink unicorn!
  • jdpalite, on 11/02/2007, -3/+39It'd be cool if it changed the color of "your" individual ball. Then you could see where your ball is in relationship to everyone else's balls....crap.
  • moofer, on 10/11/2007, -6/+36It's a sailboat
  • lunarnall, on 10/11/2007, -3/+32Ooh, it also displays the most recent comment from the article's digg page!
  • MrSidnet, on 11/11/2007, -8/+35make the screen nice and small, makes it real easy to read.
  • inactive, on 10/11/2007, -3/+28Every time this story is buried, a portion of a hidden image of Megan Fox is revealed!
  • Digisphere, on 10/11/2007, -4/+29i bet is gone spell out 404 in about an hour
  • inactive, on 10/11/2007, -2/+27I bet the university isn't happy gary is using bandwidth for a stupid reason.
  • sonar1, on 10/11/2007, -1/+26SPOILER ALERT: THE PICTURE IS "HTTP Error 403 - Forbidden "
  • riancurtis, on 11/11/2007, -4/+22this is cool. but the image sucked.
  • apex32, on 10/11/2007, -2/+17mirror:
    http://garycarstensen.googlepages.com/man2.html
  • whitnelson, on 10/11/2007, -6/+18Someone remind me to thank this guy for crashing my browser, then computer. UP YOURS.
  • Yurimanna, on 10/11/2007, -1/+13Let's see what happens when we all undigg and bury now.
  • pillcounterd, on 10/11/2007, -3/+15403

    Forbidden
    You don't have permission to access /~garyc/man/man2.swf on this server.

    ok, this image sucks.
  • MAdaXe42, on 10/11/2007, -9/+21I think you're right...
  • apex32, on 10/11/2007, -3/+15@djbelieve (#6742607)
    The numbers are for multi-level comments using this greasemonkey script: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/7934
  • noisymime, on 10/11/2007, -1/+10Spelling out 403 at the moment
  • Hamsterpotpies, on 10/11/2007, -4/+13Digg... Good idea just to easy to see.
  • djbelieve, on 10/11/2007, -13/+22@merreborn (#6742839)

    Does that make you a 'Professional' Grammar Nazi? :P

  • scottique, on 10/11/2007, -2/+10I'd like to see THIS one get the 3000+ diggs that stories sometimes get. I wonder how long before it simply turns into a slightly-wiggly blue outline?
  • Systembomber, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/782/lolps4.jpg
  • holzp, on 10/11/2007, -4/+11I wanna dip my balls in it!
  • AnimobileAWS, on 10/11/2007, -5/+12I'm not gonna lie....i was expecting a penis...
  • joewashere, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8I put it back.
  • RaggTopp, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7LOL @ your schools IT dept locking your account for overloading their servers.
  • euphemizeme, on 10/11/2007, -3/+9I guess the server just didn't have the balls to stay up.
  • djbelieve, on 10/11/2007, -4/+10@apex32 (#6742687)

    Wow...great script! Sort of fixes Digg's comment system. Thanks for the tip.
  • djbelieve, on 10/11/2007, -3/+9@ apex32:

    What's up with the string of numbers (#6741962) after the username?
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