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Yesterday, I hacked up a website, Glitchr, which is heavily inspired by youpy's great work, GlitchMonkey. It aimes to let people know fun of glitched things easier without installing greasemonkey script.

A glitch is a short-lived fault in a system. The term is particularly common in the computing and electronics industries, and in circuit bending, as well as among players of video games, although it is applied to all types of systems including human organizations and nature. The term derives from the German glitschen, meaning 'to slip.'

Source: Glitch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

As the entry from Wikipedia says, glitch is a word which originally come from electronics industries terms, but it's also a name of a genre in some kind of arts, music, movie, image, and so on. Speaking about music, I really love Oval, who compose songs filled with glitched noises, nevertheless, they're really melodious and beautiful.

Glitchr is a website which glitches images in webpages, and of course, you can also specify the image by its URL on the Net. Anyway, seeing is believing. I'll show you some examples (by specifing an image).

It's interesting!

Surely, it's totally useless. But usefulness doesn't matter for arts at all, you know ;)