I subsequently take away your 5 for actually being on myspace

You do know that he's no longer the president of Russia...right?

Up your standards. I'm sure you could nail a 3 if you really put in the extra effort!

Also, I'm 90% confident that it is possible to load animated GIFs in at runtime. The Loader class won't handle it, no, but it should definitely be possible to run the image data through a ByteArray and spit out BitmapData for each frame of the animation and display the animation that way...

...and then make a navigateToURL() call that you pass a blank page to. Now of course this assumes the user is a power-user like me who has their browser set up to open new windows in a new tab, but its something to consider...

-1 for Scientology

Funny, that is exactly the clip I thought of when I read the title. Well played, sir!

Hey Max, If you have any Actionscript/Flash questions (AS2 or 3), or need a component or two put together, give me a shout and I'd be glad to help.

what is this clip from?

cynic project rocks. haven't listened to them in years though...