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The Amazing Changing Faces of HAL 9000
Posted by Jesus Diaz at 12:00 AM on October 4, 2008
The people at the Fark forums have run a Photoshop contest on HAL 9000, twisting the ominous red eye of the psychopath mainframe into all sorts of funny variations. From HAL 9000 to PAL 9000 to HEIL 9000 to the obligatory GLORY HAL, the resulting gallery is hilarious.


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yablunk
Posted 12:19 AM 4/10/08
@canyoncarver: Couldn't have said it better myself. And for the record, I am scared shitless.
yablunk
frigg
Posted 12:18 AM 4/10/08
@Nastro: When I click on your profile and read your comments, it appears as if you're using Gizmodo to astroturf your political views.
frigg
Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude
Posted 12:17 AM 4/10/08
Oh yeah, and GLORY HAL is just NASTY.....
Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude
yablunk
Posted 12:16 AM 4/10/08
@Kaiser-Machead's LEGO WALL-E: Hahahha. I get it.
yablunk
canyoncarver
Posted 12:15 AM 4/10/08
@Nastro:
The knee jerk reaction of hard core GOP lovers everywhere is kicking in to overdrive and will only get worse over the coming weeks.
You can't put anything out there now about Palin that isn't gushingly positive without getting accused of being a "tax and spend liberal".
Here's a reality dose for you. Some of us don't give a shit. Many of us who do give a shit are terrified of the idea of a folksy soccer mom with a poor grasp of US domestic and foreign policy running the greatest nation in the free world. We know that she makes you feel "good" about graduating from a 3rd rate college and shooting Bambi, but there's more than that to running the country.
canyoncarver
Kaiser-Machead's LEGO WALL-E
Posted 12:11 AM 4/10/08
@Nastro: Ya know, thar's somethin' to be said ahbout sawm-one who kent take a lil joke every now-n-then *wink* so whydontcha jus' reelax n' enjoy yerself a lil Giz. *wink*
Kaiser-Machead's LEGO WALL-E
stre
Posted 12:11 AM 4/10/08
@Curves: agreed. after actually reading the article and not just looking at the picture, i feel pretty confident saying gizmodo didn't put palin into HAL 9000. weird how that works, the whole reading thing.
stre
Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude
Posted 12:10 AM 4/10/08
@Nastro: Perhpas I missed it but what exactly in that Palin photoshop defined it as 'anti-Palin'
Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude
evangelistc01
Posted 12:10 AM 4/10/08
They need a pedo bear hal.
evangelistc01
evangelistc01
Posted 12:09 AM 4/10/08
@undefined: Get over yourself. It's an internet blog that talks about technology - who gives a shit what their political views are?
evangelistc01
krom
Posted 12:07 AM 4/10/08
@Nastro: ey? what is your problem? just cause there's a reference to fark where someone did a pal9000 pic?
Stupid is as stupid does.
krom
Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude
Posted 12:06 AM 4/10/08
The BSOD HAL was the best one.
Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude
Curves
Posted 12:05 AM 4/10/08
@Nastro: I dont see any anti-anything bandwagon on this post. I hate to point out the obvious but the only lame thing here is you.
Curves
Nastro
Posted 12:03 AM 4/10/08
I see Giz has jumped on the Anti-McCain/Palin bandwagon. How lame and to imagine you were once considered a gadget magazine. Lame is as Lame does guys.
Nastro
krom
Posted 12:39 AM 4/10/08
@Giz: Why does someone like Nastro doesn't get banned? i mean if his comments at least would be funny. but they are just useless and cause a lot of off-topic discussions.
krom
DarkHavoc99
Posted 1:12 AM 4/10/08
@Nastro:
Congradulations! From now on everyone will disregard your future posts.
DarkHavoc99
strider_mt2k
Posted 1:01 AM 4/10/08
Someone needs to take a stress pill and like down for a while...
strider_mt2k
strider_mt2k
Posted 12:59 AM 4/10/08
@Nastro: Methinks ye doth protest too much...
strider_mt2k
EasyGT
Posted 12:59 AM 4/10/08
@EricAlder:
now theres a reference i haven't heard in a while! well played sir, well played.
EasyGT
EricAlder
Posted 12:50 AM 4/10/08
"... sat on a turtle!"
EricAlder
Curves
Posted 1:40 AM 4/10/08
@Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another du...: Yes, I noticed the rings around the other Hals were all shiny, polished and bright while Glory Hal is nasty and appears to have "stuff" caked on it.
Eeww.
Curves
Git Em SteveDave loves this guy-->
Posted 1:38 AM 4/10/08
@Kaiser-Machead's LEGO WALL-E: ::SIGHS:: ::EXHALES::
Git Em SteveDave loves this guy-->
theblackdog
Posted 1:45 AM 4/10/08
Anyone know how long it took before someone invoked Godwins law during that Photoshop contest?
theblackdog
Kaiser-Machead's LEGO WALL-E
Posted 2:13 AM 4/10/08
@Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another du...: Is it me, or does it look like GLORY HAL had something terribly gruesome happen there. Unless there was some coprophagous fetish shenanigans going on, there shouldn't be dark crap all over the rim.........aye chihuahua.
Kaiser-Machead's LEGO WALL-E
Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude
Posted 2:36 AM 4/10/08
@Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another du...: @Curves & @Kaiser-Machead's LEGO WALL-E
Uhm, I don't know if you guys are kidding or serious. I would explain to you what that 'shop was making fun of (if you don't know) but I since we're in mixed company I think I will refrain from doing so. My Spidey-Sense was tingling yesterday. I think I felt the BanHammer of Damocles swinging near my head....
Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude
Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude
Posted 3:03 AM 4/10/08
@Kaiser-Machead's LEGO WALL-E: Ok, I could't figure out what the dark crap was supposed to be either. Perhaps some teeth were involved..
Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude
Jon B.
Posted 3:37 AM 4/10/08
Nastro,
Nobody gives a crap. This post was completely unbias. Go whine elsewhere. Doesn't this deserve the mighty hammer of ban?
Back on topic though, these are freakin hilarious!
Jon B.
adocious
Posted 5:16 AM 4/10/08
Fark?
Ugh.
adocious
Pixlmonkey
Posted 1:27 AM 5/10/08
whut, no goatsee HAL?...
Pixlmonkey
StealthNinja
Posted 9:30 PM 9/10/08
hmmmmmmmm, yummy. I saw this a while back! Python, Goat, and Techno Freaks!
StealthNinja