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Latest changes to http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/ _______________________________________________ 5,7c5,17 < As promised, Doctor Fun ends this week with the completion of < ten years worth of cartoons. Ten years of Doctor Fun is enough < Doctor Fun. More about what happens next soon. --- > Doctor Fun is over. As promised, I somehow managed to finish > 520 weeks or ten full years, even if it took a bit longer than > ten years to get there. All of the old cartoons will stay > right here as long as ibiblio wants to keep hosting them. And, > of course, Doctor Fun would never have been possible without > the good people of ibiblio. I still have some old pre-Doctor > Fun cartoons to add to the archive, so there's a bit more to > come. And perhaps there will be something new here in the > future. > > Sometime in the near future I will post a new FAQ and some > thoughts about Doctor Fun. In the meantime, as always, thanks > reading Doctor Fun. 9,15c19,20 < The Latest Doctor Fun Cartoon < This Week's Doctor Fun Cartoons < A Larger Version of the Latest Doctor Fun Logo < _________________________________________________________ < < [cover-small.jpg] < Now Available! The Doctor Fun Book from Plan Nine Publishing --- > Here are some Doctor-Fun related links that may still be of > interest. 18d22 < Some cartoons other readers liked, Never been here before? 22,26c26,27 < Doctor Fun Mirrors: Pacific Internet, Australia, Australian < Cybermalls, Austria, Great Britain < Credits for Mirrors < Philip Newton's Doctor Fun RSS feed: Get the last 15 Doctor < Fun cartoons through RSS. --- > Doctor Fun Mirrors: Pacific Internet, Australia, Austria, > Great Britain 29,30d29 < Nicholas Barnard's Mailing Lists: Latest Doctor Fun, Latest < Logo 38,330d36 < The slightly-out-of-date Doctor Fun FAQ < _________________________________________________________ < < The Doctor Fun Information Center < < Welcome to the not-so-new and more-or-less spiffy Doctor Fun < page! I have a hunch that most of the people who visit this < page are first-time visitors, and return customers just go for < the goods. New visitors poke around, get confused and angry, < and then leave and never come back. Not if I can help it. < Welcome, friend! This all new extra-friendly and improved < Doctor Fun page is just for you! < < Why are you always on break? < < First of all, I'm not. Second of all, life got busy. Third of < all, by the time it's over, you're going to get all the Doctor < Fun cartoons you're ever going to get, so don't worry. < < What's that picture at the top of the page, is that the < cartoon? < < No, that's the logo - we'll get to that later. It's just a < pretty picture to look at. < < What the [DEL: fu :DEL] heck is Doctor Fun? < < Doctor Fun is a cartoon. Not all Doctor Funs may be suitable < for children and some childlike adults. There's a new Doctor < Fun every weekday. Doctor Fun is hosted by ibiblio, the < public's library and digital archive, at the University of < North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Doctor Fun first appeared on the < Internet in 1993, and has been at ibiblio (ibiblio has had < other names, including SunSITE and Metalab) since 1994. What < Doctor Fun is, for the literal-minded, is a 640 x 480 pixel < 24-bit color JPEG file. Doctor Fun has the dubious distinction < of being the first web cartoon. Doctor Fun was not, however, < the first cartoon on the Internet. < < I still don't get it. Why do they let you ...? You're not ...? < But ...? < < Never you mind. Look - there's no reason for Doctor Fun to < even exist, but here it is. < < Thanks! Now that I know all that, I want to read the latest < Doctor Fun cartoon! < < Here is the latest cartoon. If you'd like to always link to < the latest Doctor Fun, you can use this link: < < http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/Dr-Fun/latest.jpg < < You can get a little thumbnail of (only the artwork) the < latest cartoon, too. < < http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/Dr-Fun/thumb.jpg < < That cartoon sucked. < < That wasn't really a question, was it? If you didn't < particularly like whatever the latest Doctor Fun cartoon < happened to be, perhaps you are still Doctor Fun-curious and < would like to see some Doctor Funs that other people seem to < like a lot. Here's a mix of cartoons that other people, < perhaps like you, seemed to enjoy. These cartoons actually got < some hits, or I actually got some e-mail about them, or both. < * Here's the one about Barney. < * Here's the one about beavers. < * Here's the one about gerbils. < * Here's the one about tribbles. < * Here's the one about wasabi. < * Here's the one about vasectomies. < * Here's the one about Clusenix. < * Here's the one about Usenet. < * Here's the one about Don Knuth. < * Here's the one about The Incredible Hulk. < < Those cartoons all suck, but continue with your feeble efforts < to entertain. Show me some more. < < Now, then - those are not necessarily my favorites, either. So < I went through each year and picked out some that I thought < were either particularly funny, or particularly well-drawn. A < few I thought were both funny and well-drawn. < * Here's the one about the donuts. < * Here's the one about Godzilla. < * Here's the one about the chickens. < * Here's the one about the human cannonball. < * Here's the one about Mr. Spock. < * Here's the one about the sperm. < * Here's the one about the protozoa. < * Here's the one about the blow-up doll. < * Pick this one! < * Here's the one about the squirrel. < * Here's the one about the ice cream cones. < * Here's the one about the pinatas. < * Here's the one about the deathray. < * Here's the one about the elephants. < * Here's the one about tomatillos. < * Here's the one about watering the plants. < * Here's the one about the tapeworms. < * Here's the one about the Zamboni. < * Here's the one about the operating room. < * Here's the one about the goldfish. < * Here's another one about squirrels. < * Here's the one about Gumby. < * Here's the one about Santa. < * Here's another one about chickens. < * Here's the one about Mr. Potato Head. < * Here's the one about the weasels. < * Here's the one about the Titanic. < * Here's the one about the Muppets. < * Here's the one about the pickles. < * Here's the one about Vlad the Impaler. < * Here's the one about carrots. < * Here's the one about Rear Window. < * Here's the one about the fleas. < * Here's the one about the Enchanted Forest. < * Here's the one about Steely Dan. < * Here's the one about the Amish. < * Here's the one about noses. < * Here's the one about Mister Clean. < * Here's the one about Harry Potter. < * Here's the one about the chipmunk. < * Here's the one about the polar bear. < * Here's the one about Ultraman. < < The list seems to end at 2001, and yet it is 2005... < < Hey - times flies, doesn't it? < < Back to the top < < These are the cartoons with just the right balance of < 30-something sophistication and juvenile humor that I've been < searching for! Thank you, Mr. Cartoon Drawing Man! Where can I < read more? < < Still not satisfied? Why not visit the Doctor Fun Archive, < where you can browse all the old cartoons? Or Doctor Fun's < Special Cartoons Unit, where you can browse stuff that's even < older than Doctor Fun? < < However shall I peruse only this week's Doctor Fun cartoons? < < You can also see all the cartoons to date for the latest week. < If you want to link to this page, it is always: < < http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/this-week.html < < In a shameless attempt to increase traffic, I'm introducing a < new, and perhaps temporary, feature called "Some Old Week of < Doctor Fun Cartoons". It changes every day. Link to it at: < < http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/old-week.html < < What's the deal with the logo? I don't understand the < relationship between the unchanging dog-like character in the < Doctor Fun logo, and the actual cartoon, and stuff I don't < understand makes me mad. < < There is also a Doctor Fun logo, which should be at the top of < this page unless I screwed the link up, in which case there is < an "error". The little guy in the logo is Doctor Fun, but he < doesn't actually appear in the cartoons. We won't ever be able < to sell any cute little Doctor Fun beanie dolls or big ugly < Doctor Fun blow-up dolls unless there's some kind of cute < little mascot, and that's the best I could come up with. (To < date there haven't actually been any Doctor Fun dolls of any < size at all.) There is a larger version of the logo available, < than the one that appears on this page. Nobody ever clicks on < it, but here it is anyway. < < http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/Dr-Fun/logo.jpg < < You can get the smaller version, too. < < http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/Dr-Fun/logo-small.jpg < < And a thumbnail. < < http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/Dr-Fun/thumbl.jpg < < It would be nice if I could search the Doctor Fun captions. < Tell me I can search the Doctor Fun captions. < < Oh, yes, you can search the Doctor Fun captions two different < ways: < < Jack Leblond at Net Smart Incorporated, and Support Your < Troops has kindly provided a mirror for Doctor Fun in the form < of a search engine. You can also get a random Doctor Fun < cartoon at Jack's page. Have fun. < < Mark Plaga has created another Doctor Fun search page. Mark's < page will display a slide show of cartoons after you make your < search. Have more fun. < < It would be great if I could search more than the captions. < < Yes, it would be great, but none of that is available and it's < entirely my fault. < < Electronic postcards are so popular with the young people < these days. Can I send a Doctor Fun electronic postcard to < some teenage girls I met on IRC? < < You can send a smaller version of a selected number of Doctor < Fun cartoons as an electronic postcard at Toonogram, sponsored < by Cyber Loft. < < Toonogram was provided courtesy of Mostafa Eldefrawy, who did < all of the work. Mostafa was also kind enough to give me the < code to turn any Doctor Fun into a Toonogram, which I will do < someday. < < I should wish to receive Doctor Fun cartoons as missives in my < "electronic mail". Is there perchance a Doctor Fun mailing < list? < < You can receive the latest Doctor Fun cartoon in your e-mail < by joining Nicholas Barnard's Doctor Fun Mailing List. < < I'm far away. Not close up. Is there a Doctor Fun site closer < to me? < < These Doctor Fun mirrors might be closer to you than ibiblio. < This list is new and improved because the cartoons on these < sites actually update. There used to be more mirrors. If you < know of a mirror that isn't on this list, or want to be a < mirror, drop me a line. < * Australia - Today's Doctor Fun and The Doctor Fun Page < from Australian Cybermalls. (Their page only updates the < latest cartoons, and looks different than this page.) < * Austria - Today's Doctor Fun and browse the Doctor Fun < files from the Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, < Austria. < * Great Britain - Today's Doctor Fun and The Doctor Fun Page < from Manchester. < < Back to the top < < I'm a jolly girl who studied physics at the University of < Manchester but later in life I decided to take up mainframe < programming. I used to hang out at the Hacienda and I like to < run. Is there a Doctor Fun mirror at my alma mater? That would < be sweet. < < Yes, oh yes. See above. Or just click here. < < We're a group of former Enron billionaires trying to spend our < now-worthless stock options on foolish purchases. Where can we < buy Doctor Fun stuff? < < You could buy the Doctor Fun Book. More stuff is coming, < someday, maybe. < < Are you soliciting ideas for Doctor Fun? < < No, I am not soliciting ideas for Doctor Fun. < < But, I've got an idea.. < < No. < < Is Doctor Fun Copyright (c) 2005 David Farley? < < Yes. Feel free to link to Doctor Fun, send it to your friends, < send it to your enemies, print it out and use it for toilet < paper (use the glossy photo paper so you clog the toilet real < good) or tape it to your door. But anything beyond personal < use I'd appreciate it if you'd contact me. You can use all < those file names that never change to always link to the < latest cartoon, the latest logo, the latest thumbnails, the < latest week, and that. Thanks. < < Some of those e-mail addresses on the old cartoons don't work. < That's a puzzler. < < Yes. tezcat.com, for instance, is out of business. This is the < correct address: < < [email protected] < < More! More! I want to know more! < < Quick - before you wet your pants, read the tedious and < exhaustive Doctor Fun FAQ. < < Thanks for reading Doctor Fun! David < < Back to the top _______________________________________________ dr-fun-changes mailing list http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/dr-fun-changes http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/ http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/books.htm http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/faq.html http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/book-faq.html Note: Links aren't included in the diff.