# emuspin.com

**Repository Path**: mirrors_feross/emuspin.com

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: emuspin.com
- **Description**: An LSD-inspired spinning emu. Yes, you read that right.
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: Not specified
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2020-08-08
- **Last Updated**: 2026-05-23

## Categories & Tags

**Categories**: Uncategorized

**Tags**: None

## README

# [Emu Spin](http://emuspin.com)

![Emu](http://emuspin.com/img/emu.jpg)

Yeah, what can I say about this site? It was an inside joke that (sort of) unintentionally went viral.

If you’re curious, I built the site as a joke for Jake (my [Instant.fm](http://instant.fm) partner). Jake has long used [this emu picture](http://emuspin.com/img/emu.jpg) as his Facebook profile picture. And for some inexplicable reason the emu got rotated **90 degrees** at some point (either a bug in Facebook or he accidentally rotated it). After that, it became a running joke and **it’s been rotated several times since then**.

I rotated the emu once when Jake stepped away from his computer, and I can only assume that others have done the same. [EmuSpin.com](http://emuspin.com) is a tribute to Jake’s spinning emu.

![Original EmuSpin Post](http://feross.org/images/emuspin-original-post.png)

## Emu ... Spin?

I didn’t think anyone but Jake would enjoy the site, since it’s an inside joke. **I suppose I should have known better**. An odd-looking animal spinning around for no reason = instant interweb lulz.

EmuSpin.com [made it to Reddit](http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/hbw59/emu_spin/). (should’ve guessed it). Here are a few of my favorite comments:

> I was emused.

> Surprisingly difficult to turn away from.

> Anyone else expecting something profane to pop up at any moment?

> Stare at his beak for a long time then look away 

> I can’t get drunk and write a coherent paragraph; who does LSD and builds an entire website?

> A rival appears against [nyan.cat](http://nyan.cat)!

> BEST WEBSITE EVER.

![EmuSpin Stats](http://feross.org/images/emuspin-traffic.jpg)

I love the Internet.

## Built with

* jQuery - <http://jquery.com/>
* SoundManager2 - <http://www.schillmania.com/projects/soundmanager2/>
* HTML5 Boilerplate - <http://html5boilerplate.com/>
* jQuery Transform - <https://github.com/louisremi/jquery.transform.js/blob/master/jquery.transform.js>