A little while ago Andrew Powell of Universal Mind released the Chuck Norris Fact Web Service. This is a critical feature that has been missing from the Internet for some time. Frankly, I do not know how we have survived without the wisdom of Chuck Norris.
I whipped up a quick AIR application that you can run on your desktop. Every 5 seconds it will load a new pearl of wisdom from the man we know as Chuck. Please note that I'm way rusty with Adobe AIR. I haven't had the chance to play with it much lately, but dang it - I love that I was able to write this up in like 5 minutes. I spent more time making some dumb mistakes in Spry then I did on the "AIR-ness" of it. Enjoy. (As I still haven't updated IIS to let .air files worked, I renamed to a .zip.)
The entire code (minus Spry libraries) is below:
<html><head> <script type="text/javascript" src="AIRAliases.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="spryjs/xpath.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="spryjs/SpryData.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript"> var myurl = "http://www.infoaccelerator.net/chuckFacts/FactService.cfc?method=getCurrentFact&returnformat=plain";
function callHandler(req){ var result = req.xhRequest.responseText; var sp = Spry.$("wisdom"); sp.innerText = result; }
function getWisdom(){ Spry.Utils.loadURL("GET", myurl, true, callHandler); }
function doLoad(){ getWisdom(); setInterval(getWisdom, 5000); } </script> <style> .wisdom { font-family: times; font-style: italic; } </style> </head>
<body onload="doLoad();"> <h3>The Wisdom of Chuck Norris</h3> <span id="wisdom" class="wisdom"></span> </body> </html>
Archived Comments
Ray you have a typo..it's Chuck Norris not Churck Norris :)
Chuck doesn't make typos. Chuck changes the English language to match his spelling.
"Evolution" is my fav...laughed out loud at work. I loved it when Conan O'Brien had the "Chuck Norris Lever":
http://www.popoholic.com/20...
Have a great weekend everyone!
Great little application, lots of fun as well. Well over due i think :)
Cool ... although when I saw the title on my Goog feed, I thought it was going to be the wisdom of Chuck Bartowski, but that's OK.