[ale] LightScribe for Linux

[Jim Kinney]

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 6:05 PM, Pat Regan <thehead at patshead.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 17:51:27 -0400
> "Michael B. Trausch" <mike at trausch.us> wrote:
>
> > Yes, I always hated GIF for that.  I always wondered, too, why people
> > were so angry over the patent issues with GIF and the compression that
> > it employed.  I thought that there was no great loss with the
> > inability to use GIF for a long time.  Web browsers didn't take that
> > long to pick up support for the PNG format, and it was (is!) far, far
> > superior...
> >
>
> I don't know about PNGs being "far" superior to GIFs.  If it weren't
> for animated GIF files I wouldn't have been able to create a spinning
> version of my head 10 years ago!
>
> http://patshead.com/images/mediumhead.gif
>

And who could forget hampsterdance ->
http://www.hampsterdance.com/classics/originaldance.htm

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