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Albino Blacksheep is a popular website that posts humorous and/or artistic s, Screensaver s, and Wallpapers for Cell Phones . In addition to the media available on the website, there is also a large user community that takes advantage of the Forums and Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channel, members of which often offer tutorials on the production of the type of media found on Albino Blacksheep. HISTORY Albino Blacksheep was founded in 1999 by Steven Lerner to promote his band of the same name, which was started in 1996 . In 2000 , Lerner took a Web Design course and redesigned the Site . This new incarnation contained rants, graphical images, and a video stream from Lerner's video camera. Perhaps Lerner's first famous work was in 2003 , with his site's Google Bomb for French Military Victories . Since then the site has been growing in popularity, currently receiving about 1.5 million hits per day ([http://albinoblacksheep.com/help/stats]). The forum has been Hacked and invaded a few times, and today is under somewhat moderate supervision by a few moderators. Albino Blacksheep is also famous for being a major Animutation (a Flash animation style created by Neil Cicierega around 2000 ) portal, of which Bagadada Bop! , The Evil Strawberry , JamezBond , and Irrational Exuberance (Yatta) are the most popular. Most recently, The Fingertips Project , a collaborative animutation with multiple animators, has increased Albino Blacksheep's image as a showcase for animutation. NAME According to Steven Lerner, the creator of Albino Blacksheep, the name was derived from the following definitions (taken from Wiktionary ): albino Noun (plural albinos). A person lacking in skin pigmentation. black sheep Noun ( Idiomatic ). A nonconformist; an unusual or unconventional person. Therefore, "Albino blacksheep" is an apparent contradiction in terms; by definition, a black sheep cannot be an albino because it quite obviously possesses skin pigmentation. More about the meaning of the name is available in this text file . POPULAR FILES Here is a list of some of the popular files hosted on the ABS site. Flash Movies These are some of the more popular Macromedia Flash files.
Text Files Here are some of the text files on ABS.
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