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Forrest7778
This made me giggle. It's really neat and well done - good job!

Why does he always just drop down and never come back, I miss that little kitty after the first 5 seconds!

tiptup
I had the same issue until I figured your pointer controls the perspective.
Forrest7778
Boy was I silly, I should have realized that, thanks!
godDLL
If you click it pauses, and the soundtrack goes into Inception-mode.
chrisledet
I really wish my volume wasn't so high when I clicked the link.
georgefox
Whoa, there's audio! Firefox doesn't play the MP3s, unfortunately.
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thristian
Because there are patents covering MP3 that don't expire until 2017.
darksaga
What good is a patent in 2017 when the world is going to end in 2012?
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dvillase
I would love to see this one done similarly to nyan.cat where you have a timer and some witty nyaning comment. :)
reedum
For some reason the idea behind Nyan Cat blows my mind. "Hey, lets add a cat face to a poptart and make it shit rainbows"... "Yea, then lets add an annoying song to it and make it loop forever"
minikomi
Just a hunch, but I'd say the song came first!
redthrowaway
3 days later, and it's all the Internet can talk about.

We're a rather strange bunch.

tar
This is awesome!
mikeknoop
It is really difficult to control the view with a mouse...
navs
Absolutely love it. Nyan cat makes me feel genuinely happy.
darksaga
How long before the Mexican version gets a 3D upgrade?
imrehg
With all this WebGL fun that is going around, I find it very annoying that I have to be missing out. I'm on Linux, using the Intel Mesa driver and while they say it on the WebGL support page that I should keep my drivers up to date, it's "too up to date" (7.11.2 and WebGL only works for <=7.9)... I mean, come on!
DanielRibeiro
On chrome you can ignore the video blacklist[1] with '--ignore-gpu-blacklist' flag. My ubuntu only started seeing WebGL after I did this.

[1] http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=4ed2...

imrehg
ah, cool, indeed it works! thanks!
windsurfer
There's a reason it's on a blacklist though! It's usually system stability issues, but it could also be security-related. Don't just globally ignore the blacklist without knowing why.
evmar
A warning: enabling WebGL on a known-bad set of drivers means arbitrary pages can now crash X.

We probably need some "click to play" like feature for WebGL, but it's a terrible user experience: you load a page, you get an offer "do you want to see the stuff yes/no" and sometimes when you click yes your machine hard locks.

DanielRibeiro
It is a fair warning. I've had some bad bugs happening out of it, but most of them are some heavily custom shaders not loading.
keeperofdakeys
Go to about:config, and set webgl.force-enabled to true There is a similar option for chrome/chromium in about:flags.
antifuchs
I love the postrock/space-y sound it makes when you pause. Rotating around the frozen cat then feels like the space scenes in a bizarre rendition of "2001".
potomak
I think it's nyan cat song slowed down.
robgough
Dropbox has temporarily disabled due to traffic, anyone got an alternative link?
alpb
Dropbox apparently suspended the link due to too much bandwidth consumption. Does anyone have a mirror?
ConstantineXVI
And on the other end of the technical spectrum, in your terminal via Telnet.

`telnet miku.acm.uiuc.edu`

bconway
$ telnet miku.acm.uiuc.edu

bash: telnet: command not found

Heh, guess it's been a while.