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  • Subject: [dr-fun-changes] http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/ has changed as at 0400 UTC, 2006-06-12.
  • Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 00:00:11 -0400

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< 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
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< The slightly-out-of-date Doctor Fun FAQ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:
<
< d-farley AT ibiblio.org
<
< 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



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