Latest changes to http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/ _______________________________________________ 1,627d0 < < Visit ibiblio < Welcome to the Doctor Fun Page < < Welcome to The Doctor Fun Page < _________________________________________________________ < < The Latest Doctor Fun Cartoon < This Week's Doctor Fun Cartoons, A Larger Version of the < Latest Doctor Fun Logo < Browse Doctor Fun cartoons and logos all the way back to 1993 < in The Doctor Fun Archive. < Some cartoons other readers liked, Never been here before? < Search Doctor Fun Captions: Mark Plaga's Doctor Fun Search < Page, Jack Leblond's Doctor Fun Search Page < Random Doctor Fun? < Doctor Fun Mirrors: Australia, Austria, Germany, Great < Britain, New Zealand, Sweden, United States < Credits for Mirrors < Philip Newton's Doctor Fun RSS feed: Get the last 15 Doctor < Fun cartoons through RSS. < If you are a programmer-type person, you can get Doctor Fun < and zillions of other comics with Netcomics. < Nicholas Barnard's Mailing Lists: Latest Doctor Fun, Latest < Logo < Find out when these pages update, with Jonathan Ah Kit's < Doctor Fun Website Changes List. < Some Old Week of Doctor Fun, Mostafa Eldefrawy's Toonogram, < Doctor Fun Segmation < Lots of old, pre-Internet Doctor Fun stuff, including Science < Fair, and other interesting things. Readers often pick this < one. < The slightly-out-of-date Doctor Fun FAQ, News about the Doctor < Fun book < _________________________________________________________ < < News < < July 21, 2003 < * Stay tuned for an announcement about mirroring and Doctor < Fun file locations. We are either going to move to using < rsync, and put all the Doctor Fun files in the html branch < of ibiblio (meaning ftp access goes away), or put the html < files in the /Dave/Dr-Fun directory so that this hated < recursive symbolic link that makes people think the files < aren't updating goes away. If you have an opinion about < this, let me know. Thanks. < * Tardy on the logo again. < * Happy Birthday, Mom! < < July 9, 2003, I've eliminated the bizarro linkage between the < /html file under /Dr-Fun/html and /Dr-Fun, which maybe used to < be useful but now causes nothing but problems. If this has < messed up your mirroring, contact me and I'll, um, do < something, I'm not sure what. < < July 1, 2003, for no particularly good reason other than to < have a news item, and because I suppose it keeps me fit to < draw more cartoons, I've updated the running pictures to < include two more races, one recent, and one from last summer. < Not much of an explanation for either of them, except you can < follow the pictures from start to finish. If you like this < sort of thing, this is the sort of thing you might like. < * 2003 Kettle Moraine 100-mile/100K Endurance Runs. I made < it all the way through the 100-miler. < * 2002 Iceland Ultramarathon (55K). < < June 16, 2003, haven't forgot the the logo - busy, busy - < you're still getting the new cartoons. < < June 9, 2003, due to a little scheduling problem, I didn't < update the cartoon Monday, but there is no break this week. < New logo soon. < < June 6, 2003, next Monday's cartoon will be updated late, < probably Monday afternoon my time, but there will be new < cartoons next week - no break. < < June 2, 2003, my as it turns out not-very-trusty Sony VAIO pen < tablet computer suddenly crapped out on me due to an expensive < and proprietary cable that breaks, however this should not < interrupt production. Back to the old ways... < < More news... < _________________________________________________________ < < Info < < Welcome to the all new spiffed-up and friendlier Doctor Fun < page! I've thought for awhile 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! < < 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. < < 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. < * Germany - Today's Doctor Fun and The Doctor Fun Page from < Dr. Bernhard L. Winkler's WWW-Mirror at the University of < Bayreuth, Germany. < * Great Britain - Today's Doctor Fun and The Doctor Fun Page < from Manchester. < * New Zealand - Today's Doctor Fun and The Doctor Fun Page < from Nick Kean in New Zealand. < * Sweden - Today's Doctor Fun and The Doctor Fun Page from < SUNET. < * United States - Today's Doctor Fun and The Doctor Fun Page < from the ibiblio mirror at Yale Medical School. < < Back to the top < < 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? < < Nowhere that that I know of, but if you keep asking for stuff, < sometimes stuff appears. < < 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) 2002 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 < _________________________________________________________ < < Old News < < May 26, 2003 - we're back we're back we're back! That's a good < thing, I think. No breaks for awhile. < < May 19, 2003 - (same notice as above) - Since few people saw < last week's break cartoons before ibiblio started having some < problems, I'm continuing the break for another week. Normal < operations will recommence on May 26th. At least there's a new < logo. Also, many thanks to the ibiblio staff for putting < everything back together. < < May 12, 2003, Doctor Fun is still on break, but as promised, < here's some "more stuff", meaning 100 more cartoons from < 1988-89. How many of them can there possibly be? There are < still some left, and then there are all the other years < between then and 1993 when Doctor Fun started. New stuff next < week. Sorry about the bunny logo - I had a fabulous Mother's < Day logo planned, but only had time to get the old cartoons < ready. < < May 5, 2003, Doctor Fun is on break this week. As usual, there < are some, meaning "100" freshly-scanned old cartoons for you < to feast your peepers on. The fun starts here. Also, as an < extra feature, I'm slipping some of these new cartoons in as < the "latest" Doctor Fun in hopes that people like that better < than the usual note that I'm on break. This batch of old < cartoons seems to be a bit better than some of the other < batches, in my humble opinion, but what do I know. More stuff < next week. < < April 28, 2003, ok, probably a two-week break starting next < week, with some new/old stuff each week. I have two trips (not < related to cartoons) coming up and I'm a little behind < schedule. < < April 21, 2003, < * Slashdot me two times baby - slashdot me twice today. < Well, this past weekend, anyway. What were the chances of < that. Stories are here and here. < * And that's not all the excitement. Just like last year but < maybe not like next year (yeesh), I squeezed out thirty < more Peeps cartoons, hastily written and sloppily drawn. < It's Doctor Fun's Peeporama 2003! Also, check out last < year's Peeporama, and other Doctor Fun peep cartoons from < the past, including last week, 2002 and this one, 2001 and < this one, not to mention this one from 2000. < * Most likely for sure I will be taking a one-week break May < 5. < < April 14, 2003, < * It's Peeps Week on Doctor Fun. For those of you listening < in from other places who don't know what peeps are - < imagine a small, delicious marshmallow chicken. < * Curiously, there is an article about Doctor Fun in this < month's University of Chicago Magazine. And if you typed < in that link at the end of the article, welcome Chicago < Alumni! At no extra charge to you here's a special < expanded list of links to things mentioned in the article: < + A cartoon about squirrels with the Regenstein Library < in the background < + Another cartoon with the entrance of the Regenstein < Library. This is the old entrance before the lobby < was rebuilt. < + The Paul Serano cartoon < + The Manhattan Project Christmas cartoon < + Me drawing at the Sony Vaio drawing tablet computer, < and here's what the screen looks like. < + My "corner office near the A-level stacks" in the < Reg. I do have a day job. < + The first comic on the Internet: Hans Bjordahl's < "Where the Buffalo Roam" < + The first home of Doctor Fun: Keith Waclena's < computer "neuromancer". (Sorry, this is the best < picture I have.) < + The Bill Gates cake. This was actually the "screen" < for a cake that was shaped like a computer monitor. I < heard he didn't eat any of the cake but he kept the < screen. (There's more to this than meets the eye; < this was drawn when Microsoft Windows was still < Windows 3.x. "Chicago" was the code name for Windows < 95; the screen is Microsoft's within-Word web browser < plug-in; the Doctor Fun pose is a reference to an < Easter egg that was hidden in Windows 3.x.) < + The book Amy mentioned that I was reading was "The < Earth Dwellers: Adventures in the Land of Ants", by < Erich Hoyt. < * Not only that, but there are some Doctor Fun cartoons on < display in the John Crerar Library's Science & Humor < Exhibit. < < April 3, 2003, Jack Leblond, who has maintained a Doctor Fun < search engine at Net Smart Incorporated, since way back when, < has asked me to note that he is also maintaining the Support < Your Troops page. < < April 2, 2003, This cartoon is running in National Review this < week. < < March 31, 2003 - I did, in fact, forget to update the cartoon < last Thursday, but everything's fixed now. Thanks to everyone < keeping score. By amazing coincidence, this week happens to be < archive page "404" of Doctor Fun. < < March 17, 2003 - back, from a fabulous one-week break! There < will be more. < < News news! There was an article about ibiblio that mentioned < Doctor Fun in the News Observer. < < March 10, 2003 - As promised, a one-week break, and, as usual, < some old scanned cartoons from 1988-89. The new ones start < here. There may not be as many cartoons from those two years < as I thought - I've caught some duplicates. You might also < notice that some in this batch were re-used in early Doctor < Funs. And, there's a whole bunch about guitars. I might give < those their own page after the break. I deny knowing how to < play the guitar or knowing anything about guitars anymore. < < Not sure what the schedule is for the book. Keep sending me < your favorites. Thanks. < < March 6, 2003 - It seems nobody much liked having the < thumbnail of the latest cartoon on this page, so I got rid of < it. < < March 4, 2003 - For sure I am taking a one-week break next < week. For sure I will have some treat for you in place of new < cartoons. < < February 27, 2003 - Cock-a-doodle-doo! Today is either the < 2000th or the 2001st Doctor Fun, if I counted them right. Why < the confusion? It turns out I repeated myself. Honest mistake. < Didn't catch it until recently. Never happen again. Right. The < two culprits are < < [dp19980422.jpg] and [dp20021016.jpg] < < I'm keeping them both, because they are of historic interest. < Now I can say there are thousands of Doctor Funs online. Why < not read them all? Why not read them randomly? < < Wait! That's not all. There is even more. Want to know when < anything updates on the Doctor Fun pages? It's important to < know this because hardly anybody ever looks at this page < compared to the gazillions (slight exaggeration) of readers < who just grab the cartoon. I could be giving free money away < here and you'd never know. Thanks to Jonathan Ah Kit, you can < now join the Doctor Fun Website Changes List. Thanks, < Jonathan! < < February 24, 2003 - stayed tuned for a Doctor Fun milestone < later this week, but in the meantime, enjoy this old favorite. < < February 17, 2003 - whenever I don't have any real news, I'm < going to start posting some random page here in order to make < it look like there's some news. For instance, this week check < out Doctor Fun's Head Trip. Whoa. < < February 10 - Ever wanted to color in Doctor Fun yourself? Try < a Doctor Fun Segmation! What's a Segmation? Click on it and < find out. From ... Segmation! < < February 3, Coming real soon, Doctor Fun Paint-by-Numbers! (As < soon as I hear back from them - think I'm not allowed to call < it "Paint-by-Numbers" ... "Color-According-to-Digits"?) < < January 22, Here's a Doctor Fun logo from many years ago. < < January 20 < * In case you didn't notice, there's now an RRS feed for the < last 15 Doctor Funs, courtesy of Philip Newton. Thanks, < Philip! < * I finally finished the Doctor Fun book cover. You can see < it on the Doctor Fun Book FAQ page. Still looking for your < favorite Doctor Funs. Mail me. Thanks. < * Coming real soon, Doctor Fun Paint-by-Numbers! (I think) < < January 6 - back again. No breaks for awhile. The book cover < will be available for you to peep at soon. Thanks to all of < you who sent me their votes for favorite Doctor Fun cartoons. < Looks like we'll be sorting them all out at the end of < January, so you still have time to e-mail me . More news soon. < < December 29, 2002 < * Still on break, but there is new stuff (see above). < * A certain P. Wilkins is the only person so far to send me < any favorite cartoons to consider for the book. And she < wants this one. < < December 10, 2002 At last, here's some news about the Doctor < Fun book. < < November 25, 2002 Hello to anybody who stopped by the Plan < Nine Publishing booth at the Midwest Furfest and picked up < some cards or stopped to chat. See? There really is going to < be a Doctor Fun book and this proves it. < < November 10, 2002 I've changed the main Doctor Fun page to put < all the links back at the top. News on the book to follow, as < promised. There will likely be a two-week break at < Thanksgiving due to my driving all over the place. Fortunately < I have about a zillion more old scanned cartoons to put < online. < < October 29, 2002 Trick-or-treat! We found another mirror site. < This time it's Yale Medical School. Yay for Yale! Go Bulldogs! < Actually it looks like they're mirroring most or all of < ibiblio and Doctor Fun is just part of this mix. < Never-the-less, you can get the latest Doctor Fun, or the < Doctor Fun Page, from gnujake.med.yale.edu. < < October 28, 2002 A slightly less confusing home page and some < news on the book (yes, there is a book, no, it won't be here < by Christmas) is coming. I'm posting this here to make me < actually do it sometime soon. < < September 23, 2002 Thanks to Nicholas Barnard, who runs the < Doctor Fun mailing list, you can also subscribe to get the < latest Doctor Fun logo whenever it updates. < < September 16, 2002 - we're back. No breaks until maybe < Thanksgiving (except for unexpected breaks) - yay! < < Also, new mirror discovered! This one in Austria. They are < mirroring the cartoons but not the pages, but that's ok. Get < the latest Doctor Fun or browse the Doctor Fun files at the < Vienna University of Technology. < < August 13, 2002 Mirror News! I've been told the SUNET mirror < for Doctor Fun in Sweden is active again, and I've corrected < the links to the mirror at the Manchester University in Great < Britain. Thanks to both these places for their continuing < support. < < May 20, 2002 The Doctor Fun book is still in the works, in < color, and all that. I should have the cover art ready for you < to look at soon, which will be at Plan Nine Publishing, but it < is not ready yet. < < May 3, 2002, Virus warning: My e-mail addresses from ibiblio, < including old ones that I don't even use anymore, are cropping < up on this Klez or Exploit-MIME virii that are going around. I < have nothing to do with these messages, other than someone has < hijacked my e-mail address as the return. Most likely, the < people sending them are unaware that their computers are < infected, so it's bad both ways. I've been receiving these < things myself, supposedly from me! It is a continual < aggravation. < < Back to the top < _________________________________________________________ < < < These pages maintained, and contents copyrighted, by David < Farley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] < < Back to the top
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