Turdhead.com is having a contest for people to express a poem in ActionScript. I tried to submit my version of William Shakespeare's Sonnet 18, but I'm not sure my comment made it through the spam filter (aparently Vito gets a lot of people commenting about internet gambling and penis pills).

Update: I realize that it's not only impossible to read the poem below with tiny white text on a black background, it's freakin' irritating! So, I took the time to make a nice color coded version of my ActionScript 2.0 port of William Shakespeare's Sonnet 18: Shall I Compare The to a Summer's Day for your enjoyment.

Anyway, here's my entry. Hope you enjoy.

// Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
// by William Shakespeare
// ported to ActionScript by Satori Canton
//
// Original poem can be viewed at:
// http://plagiarist.com/poetry/915/ 

var summer:Object = {};
var thee:Object = {};

summer.name = "Summer Day";
thee.name = "Thee";

summer.lovelyness = 9;
thee.lovelyness = 10;

summer.temperature = 98;
thee.temperature = 98.6;

summer.lease = new Date(2006, 7, 31).getTime()-new Date(2006, 5, 1).getTime();
thee.lease = new Date(2042, 6, 12).getTime()-new Date(1970, 8, 25).getTime();

summer.complexion = 0xFFCC33;
thee.complexion = 0xFFCCCC;

summer.fair = 10;
thee.fair = 10;

summer.getValue = function():Number  {
  return --this.fair;
};
thee.getValue = function():Number  {
  return this.fair;
};

summer.incrementTime = function():Number  {
  return --this.lease;
};
thee.incrementTime = function():Number  {
  return this.lease;
};

var man:Object = {};
man.hasEyes = true;
man.canBreath = true;
man.lease = 10000;
man.liveLong = function():Void  {
  this.lease++;
};
man.giveLife = function(o:Object):Void  {
  o.lease++;
  trace(o.name+" is given life");
};
man.compare = function(o1:Object, o2:Object):Void  {
  if (this.canBreath && this.hasEyes) {
    this.liveLong();
    var n1:Number = 0;
    var n2:Number = 0;
    var o1isBetter:Boolean;
    for (var i in o1) {
      if (typeof (o1[i]) == "function") {
        o1isBetter = o1[i]()>o2[i]() ? true : false;
      } else {
        o1isBetter = o1[i]>o2[i] ? true : false;
      }
      if (o1isBetter) {
        trace(i);
      }
      n1 += Number(o1isBetter);
      n2 += Number(!o1isBetter);
    }
    this.giveLife(n1>n2 ? o1 : o2);
  }
};

man.compare(summer, thee);