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That's right. The Graphic Control Extension blocks preceding each frame let you specify a "delay" in hundreths of a second.

More info here: http://www.matthewflickinger.com/lab/whatsinagif/animation_a...

And more info on the zero-delay problem here: http://nullsleep.tumblr.com/post/16524517190/animated-gif-mi...

Nice. I built a similar Chrome extension recently: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tab-bankrupter/pnd...

Open-sourced here: https://github.com/jsvine/tab-bankrupter

As the name suggests, it's aimed more at the mental — rather than computational — weight of tabs.

Direct link to Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tab-bankrupter/pnd...

This made my day.

Nope, just an oversight. Thanks for flagging. Fixed: https://github.com/jsvine/txtbirds/commit/b1fbf84560c1b2ad30...

Good idea. Done: https://github.com/jsvine/txtbirds/commit/207480cae2823dd57a...

Hey, thanks! I haven't written anything about txtbirds yet, but might soon. In the meantime, a brief explanation about those transitions and property updates:

- With the exception of the `margin` transition, all the transitions are set to 10 seconds — roughly each bird's lifespan.

- The `left` and `top` transitions move the bird toward the center from a randomly-assigned position on the screen.

- The `font-size` and `color` transitions create the impression that the bird is receding into the distance, getting smaller and more lightly-colored.

- The `margin` transition governs the veering. Every half-second, the bird is given new, randomish left- and top-margins. The transition (set to slightly less than a second in duration, after some trial-and-error) smooths that shift.

For what it's worth, I scraped J-Archive.com and wrote a couple of articles for Slate Magazine about what I found. More for the purpose of learning about Jeopardy than learning how to win.

- The first piece: http://www.slate.com/id/2284678/

- The follow-up, in which I answer reader questions: http://www.slate.com/id/2287705/