Blowing HTML up my own ass

16 Feb 2011 2 pm eastern

I WANT TO export my zeldman.com feed to my Tumblr blog and point to a Readability view of each resulting Tumblr post using a shortened link created with Happy Cog’s URL shortener in my Twitter feed, which is automatically imported into my Facebook news stream. Then I want to import my Facebook news stream back into zeldman.com and see if the universe explodes.

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49 Responses to “Blowing HTML up my own ass”

Fred said on 16 February 2011 at 2:46 pm:

For the love of god! THINK OF THE CHILDREN!
Trent Walton said on 16 February 2011 at 2:47 pm:

First, you’re going to need 1.21 gigawatts.
Paul May said on 16 February 2011 at 2:49 pm:

This is the dream.
Bob Diercksmeier said on 16 February 2011 at 2:50 pm:

It will. So please don’t. Or maybe you should?
Bjarne said on 16 February 2011 at 2:52 pm:

Maybe this schematic can build that 1.21 GigaWatt machine!
Gavin Elliott said on 16 February 2011 at 2:55 pm:

The idea is perfect but stops at point 2 when tumblr falls over its own feet.
John Nack said on 16 February 2011 at 2:56 pm:

Yo dawg, I herd you like a feed in your feed, so I fed your feed to your feed’s feed…
Dino Baskovic said on 16 February 2011 at 2:56 pm:

Read this made my head hurt.
Jeffrey Zeldman said on 16 February 2011 at 2:58 pm:

1.21+gigawatts on Wolfram|Alpha.
Jeffrey Zeldman said on 16 February 2011 at 2:59 pm:

I need to build a “favorite comments” engine so I can favorite your comments here.
Steven said on 16 February 2011 at 2:59 pm:

It’s possible but shouldn’t be done. It will be like typing Google into Google. Just don’t do it man!
mattkoyak said on 16 February 2011 at 3:05 pm:

Then feed the “favorite comments” back to the senders feed as their “favorite, your favorite comments” of their comments. That should do it – that should take you far enough back in time to either like or dislike someone’s comments before they make them.

Oh wait, was that just disliked? Or was that?!? Dude!?!
Rob Erskine said on 16 February 2011 at 3:06 pm:

This is like Lex Luther talking about the 500 megaton bomb that is going to blow up the San Andreas fault.
Hercules Papatheodorou said on 16 February 2011 at 3:08 pm:

I know I’m not an anarchist, but am I the only one here that wants to scream
“GO FOR IT SIR!“?
amber said on 16 February 2011 at 3:17 pm:

Trent Walton is my hero.
Jesse said on 16 February 2011 at 3:41 pm:

To infinity, AND BEYOND!
Anton Peck said on 16 February 2011 at 3:45 pm:

I thought I had something funny, until I read the replies. Best comment thread ever. John Nack had me rolling!
Frank Patrick said on 16 February 2011 at 3:51 pm:

This reminds me of the time back in the early 90s when I thought I figured out how to blast an email training announcement to everyone in Bell Labs. Unfortunately, I didn’t know about bcc and someone out there had his out of office reply set to “Reply to All”, including himself. Loop-de-loop.
shoogle designs said on 16 February 2011 at 4:12 pm:

You got to be jokin mate. How the f**k a finite loop would make the digital universe explode. Everybody knows nilpotent groups are isomorphic to the inner mapping group of a loop, so i have to admit I fail to see the funny side of all of this.

Unless you are being sarcastic.
Nate said on 16 February 2011 at 4:16 pm:

Zeldman on tumblr makes me feel funny.
Alan Moore said on 16 February 2011 at 4:16 pm:

That’s almost as dangerous as typing ‘google’ into Google. It breaks the internet. Whatever you do, don’t do it.
Fred said on 16 February 2011 at 4:27 pm:

For a more immediate effect, get two of your Macs onto the same network. With machine A, screenshare with machine B. Now while screensharing, open finder and screenshare with machine A.

I’m not responsible for broken Macs.
Joe Casper said on 16 February 2011 at 5:10 pm:

what you talkin bout willis?
Zoran said on 16 February 2011 at 5:37 pm:

I did similar thing with email forwarding from account to account until I have made circuit.
julesj said on 16 February 2011 at 5:42 pm:

Here’s what you’re looking for:
If This Then That.
William Lawrence said on 16 February 2011 at 6:00 pm:

I’m pretty sure this has happened before, the universe exploding thing, that is.
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George Hahn said on 16 February 2011 at 9:42 pm:

So dirty. So wrong. So right.
Serg Corrales said on 17 February 2011 at 12:59 am:

Holy crap…reading that made me pink sock myself! It’s like an html flux capacitor.
Michael Persson said on 17 February 2011 at 1:23 am:

Haha, thats crazy
Volker Rose said on 17 February 2011 at 2:10 am:

Reminds me of the infamous Cat Jam Bread Experiment:
In this experiment it is given that a piece of bread with jam on it will always fall face down, and a cat will always land on its feet. So if one were to strap a piece of jam bread to the back of a cat, the cat/bread WOULD NEVER LAND.
Will K said on 17 February 2011 at 2:33 am:

Be careful of the moebius.
Theo said on 17 February 2011 at 3:14 am:

All great ideas are dangerous, so go for it! ; )
Bramus! said on 17 February 2011 at 3:17 am:

curl -I http://zeldman.com/
HTTP/1.1 418 Too Much Recursion
Dale Cruse said on 17 February 2011 at 8:02 am:

Disqus allows you to “like” comments for easy retrieval later.
Alexander Graf said on 17 February 2011 at 9:01 am:

What is this I don’t even!
Colin said on 17 February 2011 at 9:13 am:

Please maintain six degrees of separation. Prosecutors will be violated.
Adam said on 17 February 2011 at 9:45 am:

Let me know how it feels. You *may* have invented content gerbilling.
Ray McKEnzie said on 17 February 2011 at 1:12 pm:

Will it still be readable on my Kindle.
Tanner said on 17 February 2011 at 1:33 pm:

Something about coming over to Myspace later and Twittering all over your Facebook?
Jeffrey Zeldman said on 17 February 2011 at 1:45 pm:

Will it still be readable on my Kindle.

Not on the Kindle on your iPad, if Apple has its way.

You *may* have invented content gerbilling.

I don’t know what that means, but I feel dirty.
Rob Kirton said on 17 February 2011 at 5:25 pm:

Jeffrey

May I suggest that you first contact the guys at the Large Hadron Collider. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider

When they first started it up, some poor saps though the world would implode on itself. The same worried people are now going to need re-assurance with respect to your mad experiment.

In fact if combined with the bread / Jam experiment as pointed by Volker Rose, I don’t want too be around when you throw the switch :0)
Ken Howard said on 17 February 2011 at 8:34 pm:

I have tried this. The universe survived. There is nothing left worth doing.
Ken said on 18 February 2011 at 1:56 am:

This can be done, but it will involve sacrificing a goat under a full moon…
Minilån said on 18 February 2011 at 4:24 am:

A lot of funny replies on this. grat reading material
Bèr said on 18 February 2011 at 2:41 pm:

Sounds like you need to slap a salmon https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Salmon_(protocol)
Renda said on 21 February 2011 at 5:05 pm:

LOL Talk about overkill!
Michel said on 24 February 2011 at 3:42 am:

Trent Walton said:

First, you’re going to need 1.21 gigawatts.

Jesse said:

To infinity, AND BEYOND!

These are my favourite comments so far! Amazing thread! :-D
Paula said on 25 February 2011 at 9:40 am:

There’s an app for that.

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16 Feb 2011 2 pm eastern

Blowing HTML up my own ass

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