Nailing jelly to a wall: is it possible? (2007)

Which would probably reach a wider audience and maybe give the creator a few quid to try other things. I love these kinds of articles (and wrote a few back in the day), but it's hard to see YouTube as a regression.

atahanacar• 3 years ago

If this was a few years ago, I would argue it breaks indexability but today it would automatically get transcribed anyway. Though I still find reading a page like this more practical than watching a video except when eating as watching a video becomes easier then.

scrame2• 3 years ago

I much prefer reading with some photos and maybe a video than just tedious half hour videos about minutiae to pad out a monetization quota.

xbar• 3 years ago

Not at all. Loss of this content seems like an obvious regression.

m-i-l• 3 years ago

"Which would probably reach a wider audience and maybe give the creator a few quid to try other things. ... it's hard to see YouTube as a regression."

Doing something purely for fun vs doing something with the expectation of profit is the big difference - it is essentially the difference between work and play.

kobalsky• 3 years ago

a 10:03 video

mysterydip• 3 years ago

starting with "don't forget to smash that like button and ring that bell"

tadzikpk• 3 years ago

You simply need a colder wall…

MisterTea2• 3 years ago

Yes, it's simple to do really. Just open the jar to make a few sandwiches then promptly forget about it in the back of the fridge for a year.

CoastalCoder2• 3 years ago

Leave the fridge unplugged and eventually the jelly will crawl up the wall on its own.

charles_f2• 3 years ago

Talking about English jelly, aka American jell-o, so not as easy as you say

MisterTea2• 3 years ago

You haven't forgotten about thing in the fridge, have you. It's scary looking back there ... forgotten. alone. unloved. Everything nails up to the wall back there. Check your fridge often.

CoastalCoder2• 3 years ago

I always heard it as "Jell-o", not "jelly".

charles_f2• 3 years ago

26th October 2006: Attention Americans! > What you call "jello", we call "jelly". What you call "jelly", we call "jam".

harimau7772• 3 years ago

What do Brits call jam (i.e. what American's call jelly but with chunks of fruit in it)?

benatkin• 3 years ago

Hmm, I don't think I can get used to that.

qbrass• 3 years ago

There was a band called Green Jello that used the name for a decade until one of their songs became popular, then Kraft Foods sent them a C&D for trademark infringement and they had to change their name to Green Jelly.

scrame2• 3 years ago

Video mentioned:

https://youtu.be/Gtffv9bpB-U

They had a studio down on Vermont or something in LA and had to change the mural on the building to update the name.

blamazon2• 3 years ago

There's a bagel shop in NYC that used to be called "F Line Bagels" but changed to "Line Bagels" to satisfy the transit authority. One could probably populate a small town with all the world's various proper nouns (bagel shops, bands, etc) that had to be changed after a C&D. That would be quite fun!

joombaga• 3 years ago

They're still around. I'm seeing them Thursday.

Camillo• 3 years ago

This was updated today, by removing old links. But that's not a good way to fix linkrot; it's better to keep the broken links, so people can look them up on the wayback machine if they wish.

mgdlbp• 3 years ago

The site's own comments section, which existed from 2006 to 2009: https://web.archive.org/web/20090422143519/http://www.greem....

ashleney• 3 years ago

Love the human verification with figlet.

drzel• 3 years ago

Someone do pushing shit uphill with a stick.

amelius• 3 years ago

Or redoing a 2000 years old experiment, but now with jelly.

krupan• 3 years ago

The mention of boingboing caught me by surprise, I haven't thought about that site in such a long time. Turns out it's still going, and the adds on it are /horrible/ :-(

anonu• 3 years ago

What a refreshing page. If only it were socially acceptable to have no CSS and no Javascript on a page these days...

blamazon2• 3 years ago

Do not eat any of the neat jelly cubes, no matter how nice they look. They're incredibly sweet and probably addictive; if you eat them all you won't have any left for the experiment.

ndsipa_pomu• 3 years ago

I've heard of using the raw jelly (jell-o for the U.S.) blocks as an emergency food whilst hiking etc. It has a very long shelf life, is cheap and you're unlikely to want to eat it unless it's an emergency whereas a bar of chocolate might be eaten before you've finished putting your boots on.

harimau7772• 3 years ago

I participated in a competition in middle school to see who could formulate jello that would stay up the longest when nailed to a wall. The one rule was that your jello could only contain ingredients that normally show up in jello. The deciding factor turned out to be not what the jello contained but how it was hammered. If the jello ended up flush to the wall then it would stick, eventually harden, and stay there indefinitely.

On the other hand, I took a more unique approach: I pointed out that fruit was an ingredient that commonly shows up in jellos. So I nailed my jello to the wall through a ring of apple and relied on that to hold it up.

gruez• 3 years ago

Wouldn't mixing a very concentrated jello mixture make it arbitrarily easy?

euroderf• 3 years ago

Would a whole, uncut pineapple have qualified ?

RGBCube• 3 years ago

Sprinkle it with some jelatin and yes, it has water, gelatin and fruit.

jrmg• 3 years ago

Very reasonable ‘license’ at the bottom of this page:

…you're allowed to do with this page anything you wouldn't mind me doing with your cat. So yes, you can photoshop it for comedy effect, you can copy bits of it for illustrative purposes and so on, but you can't steal it and pass it off as your own.

rmilejczz• 3 years ago

Golden cat rule is my new favorite license

BrandoElFollito• 3 years ago

This site was mentioned in a post a few days ago about a search engine for "web 1.0' websites.

There were other very nice examples as well (cannot find the post right now but will look further tonight)

Nailing jelly to a wall: is it possible? (2007)

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