# I'm really losing it now **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 16, 2000, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-really-losing-it-now/41506 "2000-11-16T20:14:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2000, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-really-losing-it-now/41506/1 "2000-11-16T20:14:17Z")
I just spent about ten minutes playing with the nifty cursor thing at [http://www.dacor.com](http://www.dacor.com). The web page is not the point here - it’s just a stove manufacturor’s website. It’s the nifty thing the front page does with the cursor that’s so cool. ---
**Author:** ![Cyndar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Cyndar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyndar)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2000, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-really-losing-it-now/41506/2 "2000-11-16T22:44:34Z")
Yes, it is stragely hypnotic, isn’t it? MMM…try [http://www.wild987.com](http://www.wild987.com) it has something like that. ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2000, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-really-losing-it-now/41506/3 "2000-11-16T22:47:01Z")
yewww… that other site is cool, but I gotta say that big bug/slug thing gives me the willies. Especially how it chases the cursor around. I’m going to have nightmares about that. ---
**Author:** ![Sue\_Duhnym](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@Sue\_Duhnym](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sue_Duhnym)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2000, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-really-losing-it-now/41506/4 "2000-11-16T22:55:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Athena \* > \*\*I’m going to have nightmares about that. \*\* Count me in on that one. yikes. ---
**Author:** ![Cyndar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Cyndar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyndar)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2000, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-really-losing-it-now/41506/5 "2000-11-16T23:01:41Z")
oooo…sorry about that. It was kinda gross, wasn’t it? The last time I was at the site, it was a ball in a pool of water, and the ball followed the cursor and created waves in the pool. ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2000, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-really-losing-it-now/41506/6 "2000-11-16T23:05:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Athena \* > \*\*I just spent about ten minutes playing with the nifty cursor thing at [http://www.dacor.com](http://www.dacor.com). The web page is not the point here - it’s just a stove manufacturor’s website. It’s the nifty thing the front page does with the cursor that’s so cool. \*\* That is the coolest stove i have ever seen ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2000, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-really-losing-it-now/41506/7 "2000-11-16T23:22:37Z")
Yeah, the stove is nice all right. Sadly, it is the size of my entire kitchen. Some people have walk-in closets, I have a walk-in kitchen. I had fun looping the text that was chasing the cursor, back onto itself, trying to make it spell naughty words. ---
**Author:** ![Black\_Hole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Black\_Hole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Black_Hole)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2000, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-really-losing-it-now/41506/8 "2000-11-17T15:07:29Z")
For all you HTML guys out there, you can download the javascript that does that cool little text-chasey thing at this URL: [http://www.24fun.com](http://www.24fun.com) Go to the Script Center on the left side of the screen, select “text, scroller, ticker” effects. The name of the script is “TextSnake, the cursor-hunting beast. N E W as cross-browser.” It’s about 3/4 of the way down the page in that section. Cheers.