eyecandy in MefiMail February 7, 2009 3:19 PM   Subscribe

oooh eye candy!

I just sent someone a MefiMail note and when the confirmation screen loaded a cool little message box appeared above the list of sent messages, "Your message has been sent."

it faded in, cycled through the blue and the green and then faded away. it was very slick and made me feel all futurey.

So, um, like, thanks! I thought it was neato.
posted by mwhybark to MetaFilter-Related at 3:19 PM (27 comments total)

Enjoy the hundreds of memails that get sent to you by people like me who just want to see the effect in action!
posted by nanojath at 3:23 PM on February 7, 2009


Mywhybark must have it turned off when I sent him a mail it didnt do it.
:-(
posted by Potomac Avenue at 3:30 PM on February 7, 2009


It also happens when you edit your preferenes. Shazam!
posted by carsonb at 3:35 PM on February 7, 2009


Preferenes being an exclusive feature for the MeFi Plus membership.
posted by carsonb at 3:35 PM on February 7, 2009


It's been like that for a good long while now, yeah.
posted by cortex (staff) at 3:42 PM on February 7, 2009


Why do they call them fingers? I've never seen them fing. Woah, there they go.
posted by allen.spaulding at 3:50 PM on February 7, 2009 [11 favorites]


huh?
posted by dawson at 3:58 PM on February 7, 2009


Hey! There are WORDS ON THIS SCREEN!
posted by Astro Zombie at 3:58 PM on February 7, 2009 [2 favorites]


A doctor fell into a well
And broke his collarbone;
A doctor should attend to the sick
And leave the well alone.

The end.
posted by ORthey at 4:07 PM on February 7, 2009 [9 favorites]


the colors! man the colo-what. is this the drug story thread?

Nevermind.
posted by The Whelk at 4:14 PM on February 7, 2009


my little message screen tells me to burn things.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 4:23 PM on February 7, 2009 [2 favorites]


The future was like 6 months ago!
posted by DU at 5:09 PM on February 7, 2009


It also happens when you edit your preferenes. Shazam!

Man, cortex was waiting for the next podcast to announce that he had synthesized preferene! Way to spoil the surprise.
posted by nanojath at 5:15 PM on February 7, 2009


some people are very easy to please..
posted by HuronBob at 6:10 PM on February 7, 2009


Dude, Web2.0 is soooo 2006.
posted by eyeballkid at 6:23 PM on February 7, 2009


If you liked that, you'll love making it start.
posted by grouse at 6:53 PM on February 7, 2009 [1 favorite]


My cat's breath smells like cat food.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 8:51 PM on February 7, 2009


ha grouse, i sure do remember that.

It did not feel futurey.
posted by mwhybark at 3:53 AM on February 8, 2009


So are all the pages shifting colour slowly in response to this thread? Every time I leave my computer for a moment, when I come back, the pages are a different shade completely.
posted by PeterMcDermott at 8:30 AM on February 8, 2009


Lay off the drugs, man.
posted by carsonb at 8:34 AM on February 8, 2009


and to clarify: if you click grouse's link, you have started the colorshift thing. If you click carsonb's link, you end it.
posted by mwhybark at 12:24 PM on February 8, 2009


Mywhybark...
That's funny, I've been scanning that as Mrwhybark for years. Also shmegegge seems to have one too many syllables for me to subvocalize. Must be all the Scooby-Do Windowpane I took in the olden days.
posted by vapidave at 4:50 PM on February 8, 2009


shmegegge's name works out best if you just pronounce it out loud to yourself every time you read it.
posted by cortex (staff) at 5:17 PM on February 8, 2009


You do not, however, get any extra points for screaming it at the top of your lungs while thrusting your pelvis in syncopation towards the direction of a group of co-workers.

Which you totally should. It really seems like the kind of thing that the Human Resources department would understand to be a motivational technique.

Sadly, for whatever reason, they do not.
posted by quin at 7:25 AM on February 9, 2009 [1 favorite]


Shma-geggey

Easy.
posted by SlyBevel at 10:19 AM on February 9, 2009


and, whilst i yam a Mr. Whybark, the uid is neither mywhybark nor mrwhybark, as careful inspection will reveal.
posted by mwhybark at 9:45 PM on February 9, 2009


Sadly, for whatever reason, they do not.

You bastard. Now I'm jobless.
posted by eclectist at 1:21 AM on February 11, 2009


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