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Changing Channels (6/22/00)
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We know you're all down in the mouth following yesterday's disappointing revelation that AtAT is incompatible with The Dialectizer, meaning that you won't be able to watch this show in "Redneck" or "Jive." It gets worse, though; we've since discovered that AtAT (or, more accurately, WebSTAR) is also impervious to the search-and-replace magic of some other metafilter sites we'd like to use. Those fine folks over at The Dialectizer posted a whole page of them for us all to try, and we're très bummed to find that, in particular, "Zippy Meets Meta-HTML" refuses to pepper AtAT's already-disjointed prose with random quotes from everyone's favorite pinhead. (Although it sure does make Apple's page more interesting, in a wonderfully subtle way. Check out the copyright notice...)
But turn that frown upside down, Pouty-- there are some metafilter web sites that work with AtAT just fine. Seeing that we could use a little "churchin' up" around here, faithful viewers Damon Schreiber and Nordy both noted that AtAT filters swimmingly through Ask Jesus. Oh, sure, the churchifyin' process leaves our content disturbingly brightly-colored and jumbled up with all sorts of incongruous religious icons, but when last we tried it, it scores all kinds of points for having transformed the pedestrian phrase "the Army's home page" into the almost Zippyesque "The Whore's home donkey." Thumbs up!
But for real metafilter action, look no further than faithful viewer David Brender's suggestion: The T'inator. Yes, TV fans, you can now watch AtAT not as a tear-jerker soap opera, but as a rip-roaring action show starring none other than The A-Team's Mr. T. Not only is AtAT's carefully-worded prose transformed into "Barracaspeak," but it's also laced liberally with links to actual Mr. T. sound samples throughout. And, of course, the man's smiling visage plastered across the screen several dozen times is enough to warm any viewer's heart. I pity da fool who don't use a Mac!
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 6/22/00 episode: June 22, 2000: Apple shifts its Q3 earnings announcement back a day-- did Steve throw a hissy-fit over a scheduling conflict with his Expo keynote? Meanwhile, The Dialectizer may not work on AtAT, but we've found a couple of metafilters that do, and the schedule for the "Redmond Justice" summer season has finally been announced...
Other scenes from that episode: 2374: He Gets Top Billing (6/22/00) We know these things are scheduled months in advance, and we know they're always clearly labeled as "tentative and subject to change," but when one gets rescheduled even by a single day, we just have to wonder if there's a big reason why... 2376: Summer Justice Season (6/22/00) Okay, kiddies, it's time to clear your summer schedule for the "Redmond Justice" vacation series. Those gleamy-toothed "Saved By The Bell" kids got hitched in Vegas, the Bradys were cursed in Hawaii, and now Microsoft and the Justice Department are off to the Supreme Court...
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