From: Calishar Newsgroups: alt.humor.best-of-usenet Subject: [alt.humor] view Date: 14 Mar 1998 19:41:00 -0700 Subject: Re: view From: "Steven Slatin" Newsgroups: alt.humor Prescott Vandervoet wrote in message ... >I can't view jpg's, mpegs, or anything else. All I get is a bunch of giberish. >Does anyone know how to fix it? A good question, if a difficult one, and totally appropriate for alt.humor. There are several different ways of doing this, and they range from extremely difficult through quite simple. Here is the 'simplified' procedure. Download the jpeg or mpeg to your hard disk. Save it as a file with the extention "txt" -- if you don't know how to do this, just save it, open the file with any word processor and use the "Save As" option to save it with some name followed by a period and the letters "txt". Now, presuming that you are probably using a "point and shoot" type of word processor, highlight the entire text of the file (put the cursor on the first character, hold the right mouse button down, and drag to the last character, or, if you prefer, start at the end and work back to the front). Go to the font selection box, and select the font "Zapf Dingbats", 8 points. Print out the file. Dot matrix printers with slightly dried out cotton ribbons work best. Paste the printouts together sequentially, to a flat vertical surface, such as the wall of your living room. Get a revolving chair, place it 12-14 feet back from the wall, and sit down and start spinning. When you hit roughly 85 rpm on the chair, not only will the jpeg file be visible, it will be in color! (This is based on the same technology that creates color television.)