Nasty Bat Animations

The Horror of Batimation

Image: The Nasty Bat Animation or how to get the CPU load to 100%.

It is very common on the net, to use images without checking the copyright. Not only images, sound, mp3 and videos, any kind of intellectual property is used without notice. But it is unbelievable how often this strange bat is stolen! Maybe not stolen, many sites owners are sure, this bat is in the public domain and therefore "free".

They are funny when you see them the first time, but the more you see of them, the more you hate them....
The animation kills your CPU power. And faster computers will only show them faster. Still the load is 100%, and your computer is dead. RIP

It is very interesting: you will find those bats not only on caving pages: biology and environmental pages, Gothic, horror and Halloween pages, even some TV stations use those batimations.

Batimations:

Goetz-Höhle ()
Forschungsgruppe Höhle und Karst Franken e.V.. Use Mozilla for optimal results: the page is white but at last nothing wobbles. ()
HTML - Kurs ()
Gothic. It's dark in here.... ()
Buckethead's Cyber Grotto of Caving Clipart Collected weirdness, starts with two popup windows and shows hundreds of animated gifs. I could not believe, what the author tells: he "uncluttered" the page. I can not imagine how it looked before.

If animation is not enough, enhanced weirdness by Javascript:

The Hellfire Caves West Wycombe
Landesverein für Höhlenkunde in Salzburg, numerous animated bats, spinning planet Earth, mail symbols and bonsai trees. Most annoying are bats following the mouse. ()
Crag Cave, is it Superman, a plane a bird? No, it is Batman and his seventeen clones.

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