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Webring of NothingRoses are read.
Violence blows.
If you want to be happy
start now.
Violence blows.
If you want to be happy
start now.
"Dada is a state of mind. This is why it transforms itself according to the races and the events it encounters. Dada applies itself to everything, and yet it is nothing; it is the point at which Yes and No, and all opposites, meet; not solemnly, in the palaces of human philosophy, but quite simply, at streetcorners, like dogs and grasshoppers.
. . .
Dada is useless, like everything else in life.
Dada has no pretentions, just as life should have none.
Perhaps you will understand better when I tell you that Dada is a virgin microbe which penetrates with the insistence of air into all those spaces that reason has failed to fill with words and conventions."
-- Tristan Tzara, as printed by Kurt Schwitters in his periodical, "Merz", as "Conference sur la fin de Dada", 1922
The Dada Deal |
- Chances are that you were invited to join this ring. An invitation means that someone who already has a dodada or two thinks that you, your site, or both are way too cool for color TV. An invitation is meant as a compliment to you because we like to have fun, but we also like to think we have discriminating tastes. Other than that, this ring has no particular theme. (By the way, the RingDada is an editor, and therefore feels justified in using the editorial "we." You can thank Mark Twain for this explanation.)
- To join the queue for this ring, fill out the form below. The page that you are transferred to after submitting your site should contain the customized HTML fragment, and that fragment should also come to you in email. If neither of these works, you can customize the sample fragment below.
- Put the fragment on the page you want linked to the ring, and upload that page to your server. If you want a graphic with your fragment, you can use whatever you like, as long as it's on your own server. Sites that link to other sites for their Dada Nada Webring graphics may be deleted from the ring.
- Send mail to the RingDada, antonphibes@netscape.net, and tell him you wanna do dada.
- Wait. Probably not long, but we all take vacation sometimes. You can check the status of your site submission at the ring queue or the ring index.
- Someone here really likes your site. Thank you for considering joining the Dada Nada Webring. One thing: Please don't expect to hear much from the RingDada. This ring is about sites, not email.
Generic HTML Fragment |
If you did not see a customized HTML fragment on the page after you pressed "Submit to Dada" above, and you did not receive said fragment in email, you can copy, paste, and slap the following code onto your page.
If you are using the generic fragment below, two (2) things in ALL CAPS need your attention.
This HTML fragment for the Dada Nada WebRing links one page from your site to the index of the ring.
Please note that you are asked to link only to the Webring index of this ring, and please don't remove the target="_top" part. You are welcome to add other lines of code to "work" this ring and to save and use the graphic below (or something else) from your server:
<!-- Begin Teensy Dada Nada Fragment -->
<center> This <a href="http://www.webring.org/cgi-bin/webring?ring=dada;index" target="_top">Dada Nada</a> site owned by <a href="mailto:YOUR-EMAIL-ADDRESS">YOUR NAME OR SOME SUCH</a>. </center><BR><BR>
<!-- End Teensy Dada Nada fragment -->
If your mission is completed, the ring will link to the page that contains this code--after you are actually added to the ring.
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Mission Furniture |
So glad you asked. We are interested in increasing the useful uselessness of the web. That is to say, we hope to draw on useful sites, such as those that offer reference points for information about Dadaism and other such movements in the arts, as well as useless sites that exist only to amuse and perplex humankind. For an example of the latter type, you may wish to refer to the Pomme Homme, a similar endeavor by the originators of the Dada Nada Webring.
What? Back already? Very well. Consider, also, the following in-progress listifesto of the Dada Nada Webring. Bear in mind two things. First, listifestos are not dada. They must (a) have subjective meaning or (b) not. Second, we're just having fun here. It's not rocket science, brain surgery, or any other career once considered by Jethro Bodine. Nevertheless, we believe that some things are more fun than other things.
Put on your toughest skin, plant your tongue firmly in your cheek, and read on:
- Bone-scraping humor is no surprise. That colon and closing parenthesis are great in ICQ messages. They make a web page look like email that was dashed off on the way to the loo.
- Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed, Zarathustra, Shiva, Kung-fu Tze, and Joseph Smith are only a few of the high and mighty who use the latest release of Netscape.
- Modems of 56.6 Kb/s or faster increase blood flow to the bodily organs.
- If we don't use up the bandwidth we have, we'll never get more. If you don't live in America already, just pretend you do: We understand this approach.
- Placing someone else's page within your frameset without that person's express permission is highly suspect, as is linking to images not housed in your own web space.
- The creation of words and alternative spellings belies awareness of the Jenny Sequoia of langwedge. Words that appear to be misspelled out of carelessness belie something else entirely.
- Colors, images, and fonts should not interfere with the nothing that is a web site. To wit,
- Colors are optional. If you use them, for the love of Pete be sure that people can read the text on top of them.
- Animated images are wonderful, but they make it damnably difficult to read anything that requires concentration. In addition, menus are often better when made of quick-loading text rather than slow-loading images of text.
- Fonts are wonderful, but the chances that people will download fonts to view your page are approximately equivalent to the chances that they will send you email telling you that your site rivals Persistence of Memory in its insightfulness and trend-setting potential.
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