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It has come to my attention that people are refering to the MacOS busy-cursor as "The Beachball". This is incorrect. It is called "The Hypno-Wheel". Thank you for your cooperation.



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[User Picture]From: [info]lilmissnever
Sat, 25-Aug-2007 8:15 PM (UTC)

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So it's not "the rainbow pinwheel of death"?
[User Picture]From: [info]jwz
Sat, 25-Aug-2007 8:20 PM (UTC)

what's a meta for?

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No, it is not.

"Of Death" is Not Allowed. File "...Of Death" in the same folder of lazy and uncreative suffixes that are Not Allowed along with "...On Crack" and "...On Acid".
[User Picture]From: [info]giles
Sat, 25-Aug-2007 8:26 PM (UTC)

Re: what's a meta for?

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Is "...From Hell" still acceptable?

What about "Die Hard On A..."?

Wouldn't it be swell if they made a Jack the Ripper movie set in the underworld and it got reviewed as "From Hell... From Hell!"

Maybe not swell, but certainly redundant.
[User Picture]From: [info]jwz
Sat, 25-Aug-2007 8:29 PM (UTC)

Re: what's a meta for?

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No. Knock it off.
[User Picture]From: [info]ladykalessia
Sat, 25-Aug-2007 9:40 PM (UTC)

Re: what's a meta for?

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What about "...Of Doom"?
[User Picture]From: [info]baconmonkey
Sat, 25-Aug-2007 9:27 PM (UTC)

Re: what's a meta for?

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[User Picture]From: [info]jwz
Sat, 25-Aug-2007 9:30 PM (UTC)

Re: what's a meta for?

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I've seen it. Possibly twice.
[User Picture]From: [info]mister_borogove
Sat, 25-Aug-2007 9:52 PM (UTC)

Re: what's a meta for?

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"...On Steroids."
[User Picture]From: [info]qvtqht
Mon, 27-Aug-2007 2:12 AM (UTC)

Re: what's a meta for?

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I have to disagree, I contend that the admittedly overused and annoying prefixes are still accessible when their literal meaning applies.

In this case, death does indeed take place, so "pinwheel of death" should be acceptable.
From: [info]gryazi
Wed, 5-Sep-2007 6:10 AM (UTC)

Re: what's a meta for?

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Late and stupid, but SBBoD (or just SBoD) has the comedic advantage of rearranging BSoD, which is why it persists.

Things are the same in Oceania.
[User Picture]From: [info]youngwilliam
Sat, 25-Aug-2007 8:55 PM (UTC)

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Although I do believe it's permissible to lean your head to one side while watching the busy-cursor, letting your face go slack, your tongue loll and muttering, "..so pretty.."

Which could be mistaken for an "of death" expression, were it not for the muttering.
[User Picture]From: [info]baconmonkey
Sat, 25-Aug-2007 9:27 PM (UTC)

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so JWZ posts a Steampunk Wheel of Death...

and heralds the death of crack on acid.
[User Picture]From: [info]nugget
Sat, 25-Aug-2007 8:16 PM (UTC)

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Not to be confused with the hypnotoad.
[User Picture]From: [info]giles
Sat, 25-Aug-2007 8:25 PM (UTC)

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All glory to the hypnotoad!
[User Picture]From: [info]cfs_calif
Sun, 26-Aug-2007 3:31 AM (UTC)

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And heavy subsidies to the Brain Slug Planet!

cfs
[User Picture]From: [info]eqe
Sat, 25-Aug-2007 9:50 PM (UTC)

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I'm amused that Firefox doesn't display image/tiff.
[User Picture]From: [info]lnghnds
Sat, 25-Aug-2007 11:45 PM (UTC)

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Huh...I'm irritated.
[User Picture]From: [info]jwz
Sun, 26-Aug-2007 1:11 AM (UTC)

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That's... surprising. Is it expecting a different content-type?
[User Picture]From: [info]lnghnds
Sun, 26-Aug-2007 5:38 AM (UTC)

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No. It just doesn't work without an additional plugin. The windows one requires user registration and the linux one just didn't work for me.
[User Picture]From: [info]eqe
Sun, 26-Aug-2007 5:39 AM (UTC)

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"You have chosen to open beachball.tif which is a: TIFF image ... What should Iceweasel do with this file?"

It just straight up doesn't want anything to do with it, like it's eps or bmp or something. Standards, who needs 'em?
[User Picture]From: [info]eqe
Sun, 26-Aug-2007 5:46 AM (UTC)

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Awesome, bug 160261 just had its fifth birthday last month.
[User Picture]From: [info]jwz
Sun, 26-Aug-2007 9:24 AM (UTC)

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Wow, awesome. I converted it to PNG.
[User Picture]From: [info]xrayspx
Sat, 25-Aug-2007 10:54 PM (UTC)

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Whatever we're calling it, I'm seeing entirely too much of it for my tastes.
[User Picture]From: [info]gargargar
Sat, 25-Aug-2007 11:24 PM (UTC)

Other Mackertosher cultural mistakes

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Let's not also forget now that for over 20 years Mac users have not been calling the waffle key by its rightful name.
[User Picture]From: [info]giles
Sat, 25-Aug-2007 11:42 PM (UTC)

Re: Other Mackertosher cultural mistakes

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Is that near the Apple key?
[User Picture]From: [info]this_old_man
Sun, 26-Aug-2007 1:53 AM (UTC)

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At Apple we called it the Spinning Pizza... of Death (sorry). SPOD. Internal bug reports make reference to "the SPOD." In one pre-release of 10.2 it was entirely blue.
[User Picture]From: [info]cfs_calif
Sun, 26-Aug-2007 3:33 AM (UTC)

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I demand that in next build of 10.5, they make it monochrome, like on my old NeXTcube with the Megapixel display.

cfs
From: [info]fu3dotorg
Sun, 26-Aug-2007 3:42 AM (UTC)

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You can already achieve this today, by going to 'System Settings' -> 'Options for Retards(tm)'.

-The invert colours (negativize) option also found there can be nice sometimes, too.
[User Picture]From: [info]ckd
Sun, 26-Aug-2007 4:09 AM (UTC)

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I want them to bring pack Printer Error Woman. "Your printer is out of paper." "Paper is jammed in your printer."
[User Picture]From: [info]strangedave
Sun, 26-Aug-2007 6:50 AM (UTC)

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I've almost always seen it referred to as the SPOD by serious Mac geeks, in or outside Apple.

At one Mac Hack someone made a giant rainbow cookie as they hack.
[User Picture]From: [info]rapier1
Sun, 26-Aug-2007 1:14 PM (UTC)

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Personally I've always called it "Oh shit, not again"
[User Picture]From: [info]taffer
Mon, 27-Aug-2007 6:10 PM (UTC)

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Or "damn, Firefox is swapping again"...
[User Picture]From: [info]grunta
Sun, 26-Aug-2007 2:18 PM (UTC)

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ever since 10.1 it has been known to me, and everyone else I know, as the wheel of death. because either an application, or the OS, is about to die every time it rears its ugly head.
[User Picture]From: [info]sweh
Sun, 26-Aug-2007 7:26 PM (UTC)

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[User Picture]From: [info]fantasygoat
Sun, 26-Aug-2007 7:43 PM (UTC)

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I've heard mostly Beachball and the occasional Spinning Pizza, but never Hypno-Wheel.

So, you're wrong.
[User Picture]From: [info]telecart
Mon, 27-Aug-2007 10:07 AM (UTC)

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Personally it's always kindof reminded me of The Prisoner aesthetics.

[User Picture]From: [info]danfuzz
Tue, 28-Aug-2007 10:48 PM (UTC)

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With absolutely no previous conversational context, my dad once asked my not-really-my-sister-in-law what "that little colorful thing that spins around" is. Her answer was "a fairy princess," which is what I still think of that cursor as.
[User Picture]From: [info]jwz
Wed, 29-Aug-2007 12:59 AM (UTC)

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This is, I think, what the kids today refer to as "for the win".