Comments on: Henchman's Helper

Henchman's Helper

joelf — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 11:11:45 -0800

Henchman's helper now has its own site. This is a thing I was inspired to make by an active desktop item that was floating around a long time ago. The idea is this is the online version of that giant wall that the bad guys in movies, evil scientists, mad doctors etc. stare at when they plot. It's got a sinister feel to it.

By: joelf

joelf — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:50:38 -0800

All the photos are updated live and in real time from their sources. The rest of it is some CSS trickery.

By: Upon Further Review

Upon Further Review — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:10:51 -0800

Good job. I thinks this is really relaxing: and gives a neat perspective on those places!

By: brundlefly

brundlefly — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:24:44 -0800

This is great.

By: yoHighness

yoHighness — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:11:37 -0800

(changes desktop) impressive! (stares) Mwahaha! muahahaha! Yes, soon, soon... (rubs hands)

By: cashman

cashman — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:19:47 -0800

I got my propaganda! I got revisionism!

By: gryftir

gryftir — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:45:17 -0800

I got a warning from my browser (Google Chrome). Apparently your site includes some malware?

By: joelf

joelf — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:01:47 -0800

It does not!

Its just images, CSS, and some javascript. I'll double check with chrome though.

By: hattifattener

hattifattener — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 23:51:14 -0800

One of the weather pictures comes from nifada.com, which Google claims links to adware. It doesn't look to me like there's any actual danger from the weather image itself, but who knows.

By: joelf

joelf — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 00:59:13 -0800

Fixed!

By: joelf

joelf — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 01:01:30 -0800

Muahahahah!

By: lekvar

lekvar — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:33:28 -0800

Yay! I'd lost the link to the previous iteration somewhere, thanks for the update.

BTW, in Safari 3.1.2 not all the screens load consistently; if a non-loading screen is clicked, the loading/progress bar appears, but nothing happens, and the tab must be refreshed. (esc doesn't cancel the loading process)

By: joelf

joelf — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 10:59:58 -0800

that happens when you click on an image before the camera is loaded in, in any browser. I don't know how to fix that one...

Evil isn't a perfect science!

By: lekvar

lekvar — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:39:43 -0800

Shriekback begs to differ, but thanks for the update!

By: vurnt22

vurnt22 — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:51:31 -0800

At LONG Last; a GRID upon which to unfold my EVIL PLAN FOR WORLD DOMINATION! MUaHAHAHHohoho (Wheez...cough...) Hugo fire up the hydraulic & load the Weaponized Tofu canisters

By: joelf

joelf — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:03:04 -0800

this just got on Boing boing this morning

By: Kronos_to_Earth

Kronos_to_Earth — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:52:43 -0800

Thank you, joelf! New homepage! (You do not know what a relief this is. That on-again-off-again radar cloak...dodging missiles...lasers...those tabloid articles.... I can get rid of that freaking shuttle saucer now.)