Tumbarumba
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Okay, for those who haven't seen it, Tumbarumba is a Firefox extension which hijacks pages with unexpected stories.
So far, I've been Tumbarumba'd three times. (There are 12 stories in all.) What happens is that weird sentences appear in whatever you're reading. If you click in the weirdness, it gives you another sentence; if you click again, it transforms the page into a story.
As an example, here is the text of the Virgin Galactic site I was looking at. There are no links to the rest of the story, but can you tell what the addition was? What gets me is that it took me a couple of readings to figure out that it was.
Trippy.
Virgin Galactic is the world's first spaceline. Giving you the groundbreaking opportunity to become one of the first ever non-professional astronauts. Virgin Galactic will own and operate its privately built spaceships, modelled on the remarkable, history-making SpaceShipOne.
Virgin's vast experience in aviation, adventure, luxury travel and cutting-edge design combined with the unique technology developed by Burt Rutan will ensure an unforgettable experience unlike any other available to mankind.
With safety at the forefront, our unique spacecraft is being able to tell yourself you were here, you were bearing witness; even the spooks and Mission types probably told themselves they were saving the solar system from Communism, but if you were honest with yourself you had to do the math every once in a while, had to ask yourself if it was worth all the dead GIs and even more dead Martians, and just about the time you were telling yourself you couldn't deal with one more pile of body bags or one more cracked-open Green incubator full of four-armed dead babies, one of your colleagues would come into the bar of the Lowell to tell you he had a line on a rocket up to Ptarth and were you in? And of course you were.
"The deal with Mojave Aerospace Ventures is just the start of what we believe will be a new era in the history of mankind, one day making the affordable exploration of space by human beings a real possibility." Richard Branson.
It is these spaceships that will allow affordable sub-orbital space tourism for the first time in the history of the universe.
So far, I've been Tumbarumba'd three times. (There are 12 stories in all.) What happens is that weird sentences appear in whatever you're reading. If you click in the weirdness, it gives you another sentence; if you click again, it transforms the page into a story.
As an example, here is the text of the Virgin Galactic site I was looking at. There are no links to the rest of the story, but can you tell what the addition was? What gets me is that it took me a couple of readings to figure out that it was.
Trippy.
Virgin Galactic is the world's first spaceline. Giving you the groundbreaking opportunity to become one of the first ever non-professional astronauts. Virgin Galactic will own and operate its privately built spaceships, modelled on the remarkable, history-making SpaceShipOne.
Virgin's vast experience in aviation, adventure, luxury travel and cutting-edge design combined with the unique technology developed by Burt Rutan will ensure an unforgettable experience unlike any other available to mankind.
With safety at the forefront, our unique spacecraft is being able to tell yourself you were here, you were bearing witness; even the spooks and Mission types probably told themselves they were saving the solar system from Communism, but if you were honest with yourself you had to do the math every once in a while, had to ask yourself if it was worth all the dead GIs and even more dead Martians, and just about the time you were telling yourself you couldn't deal with one more pile of body bags or one more cracked-open Green incubator full of four-armed dead babies, one of your colleagues would come into the bar of the Lowell to tell you he had a line on a rocket up to Ptarth and were you in? And of course you were.
"The deal with Mojave Aerospace Ventures is just the start of what we believe will be a new era in the history of mankind, one day making the affordable exploration of space by human beings a real possibility." Richard Branson.
It is these spaceships that will allow affordable sub-orbital space tourism for the first time in the history of the universe.
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