Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Aug 21, 2006 6:46pm PDTThanks everyone for the well wishes for my birthday. It still makes me feel all goofy when I see so many people participate in those threads. I'm hopeful still to never grow up. More steak!
- AOL exec departs after search data goof - How long can musicians fight iTunes? - Perpetual motion - Net TV is hot - Nerdy grocery cart - Dark matterLastly, looks like the school I went to is tops in party land!
Daily Filter: Planetside 2, Deadlight
Weekend PC digital deals: strategy-o-rama
38 Studios, Harry Potter Kinect - Shacknews Daily: May 25, 2012
Minecraft for Xbox 360 dev working on 'Adventure' update
Demon's Souls servers extended again
i saw this shit on the front page of some magazine waiting in line at the supermarket tonight. jesus. if people protest a parenting magazine for showing a woman breastfeeding on the cover, how do others get away with this!
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Curve - Cotton Candy
If you want to be a DJ on KOCK radio, here's something you will find helpful.
http://shackradio.basketofkittens.com/
Yesterday's MT Ironstag Show is now online!
Big thanks to Ski for recording this hour of comedy awesome.
Kick back with the guys as they discuss Australian wildlife, chewing gum, Tom Cruise, extreme sports, Hot American Dickings and MORE.
Preview: http://tastywheat.shackspace.com/dakotafanning.mp3
Full show: http://tastywheat.shackspace.com/mtironstagshow.mp3
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what the hell did i just watch? The end didn't solve anything.
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http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=entertainmentNews&storyID=2006-08-21T181228Z_01_PAR147291_RTRUKOC_0_US-TOMANDJERRY.xml
LONDON (Reuters) - Turner Broadcasting is scouring more than 1,500 classic Hanna-Barbera cartoons, including old favorites "Tom and Jerry," "The Flinstones" and "Scooby-Doo," to edit out scenes that glamorize smoking.
The review was triggered by a complaint to British media regulator Ofcom by one viewer who took offence to two episodes of "Tom and Jerry" shown on the Boomerang channel, part of Turner Broadcasting which itself belongs to Time Warner Inc.
One anonymous complaint was all it took. This crap makes me soooo glad I grew up in the 70's and was able to watch them uncensored after school. I knew that Warners had censored a few Bugs Bunny ones that had "questionable" content (like characters shooting themselves in the head) but GET A SPINE PEOPLE. Ugh.
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Got sick of waiting for Desert Conflict for BF2 so I reinstalled BF1942 and DC Final. Damn, that mod is what BF2 should have been. Massive tank battles. Badass air power (AC-130, A-10, etc), open maps, etc.
There's still quite a good number of people playing DC as well so no trouble finding a populated server.
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that's a lot of bunnies
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http://www.armorofgodpjs.com/
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Here's a clip of Klem Loskot and friends deep water soloing on the Meditteranean island of Mallorca on limestone. Near the end of the clip Klem performances a huge two handed dyno around 15m up the limestone.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDyJ0Gryqi0
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http://simulatedcomicproduct.com/
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(http://www.wired.com/news/technology/gizmos/0,71626-0.html?tw=wn_index_2)
I'm sure I read somewhere that it was, is it usual for these things to get reported in such ways?
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I love this game but a 16x8 talking sprite is just weird.
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Some new shit has been on the brink for a while, anyone used this new Processing? http://processing.org/
Baaaaasically... The software is free to download for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. The Processing development environment is released as open source under the GPL.
Processing is not intended as the ultimate environment/language (in fact, the language is just Java, but with a new graphics and utility API along with some simplifications). Fundamentally, Processing just assembles our experience in building things, and trying to simplifies the parts that we felt should be easier.
I've noticed Proce55ing projects poping up everywhere lately in design culture, for example: http://www.flight404.com check his shit out, he used to be all flash, now he's getting into proce55ing.
People are doing crazy stuff with this thing *downloads* :D
All kinds of examples: http://processing.org/learning/index.html
Methods: http://processing.org/reference/index.html
etc etc etc... looks awesome, I'll let you know if I make anything cool :)
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http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
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I've just achieved what I've been trying to do for several days now. At least I believe I have, still need to do a bit more testing.
And .. then ... someone links me to http://brainspl.at/articles/2006/06/30/new-release-of-ez_where-plugin
Which could probably make a lot of stuff easier. Is it worth getting? Or should I just leave it if I seem to be getting along ok without it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YW3q_vQhqQ
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http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/products/details/US/EN,CRID=2142,CONTENTID=10121
Now I'm ready to drink Mt. Dew and jump off a cliff it's so extreme!
But really, It's a pretty good mouse so far. (I have no idea why/how changing the dpi of a mouse would be worth it though) :P
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What the shit, when did they start taking registrations? o_O http://www.fileplanet.com/promotions/bf2142/
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the ISP swapover from aceinternet to BT Business went down this morning, the modem has been up and stable since this morning... but the router periodically needs a DHCP release/renew cycle to maintain connection......
First up Is reflashing the SAMR-4110 with different firmware to see what difference, if any, that makes.....
oh what a day I will have.
The good news is
8/22/2006 9:51 AM GMT 4.9 Mb/s 0.4 Mb/s 42 ms London ~ 150 mi
(speedtest.net result)
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my cat is playing with a babys hand knitted bootie.
now as its wool and my cat is well a cat it kinda gets stuck to him every now and then via static, then when he touches something metal ZAPP. and it falls off, he kicks it around again till charge is built up and bam it sticks again.
1) did someone break into AOL and steal it or did someone inside leave it in an unprotected site or just publish it outright?
2) ok, so we know what some user ID#'s searched for, but who cares? the User ID's aren't really traceable are they?
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So last Friday while most of you were watching some shitty snake movie, a couple of us shackers in Austin where drinking too much alcohol and playing video games. It ended up being: me, RikiTiki2, busdriver3030, EvilDolemite, Crustar, Athlon7, my girlfriend, and my friends jessi, wade, and warren who are not shackers.
I grilled some burgers, Asparagus, and 1 portobello burger(for the silly vegan) which I thought all turned out well. I also made entirely too much trash can punch. I ended up throwing out most of it yesterday.
Busdriver3030 brought a ps2 and 2 guitars for guitar hero, and EvilDolemite brought a ds. We also hooked up my Super Nintendo to the 2nd TV and I owned everyone, but then I played some Super Ghouls & Ghosts and it made me cry.
So anyways... Here are some pics:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wtf242/sets/72157594246519610/
crustar vs busdriver3030
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wtf242/221630931/in/set-72157594246519610/
RikiTiki2 vs crustar. both these guys are really good
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wtf242/221639643/in/set-72157594246519610/
We got my non-gamer girlfriend to give it a shot. check out that huge grin. she was having a blast. EvilDolemite destroyed her though. mean!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wtf242/221639642/in/set-72157594246519610/
My tiny TV that weighs at least a ton, and an awesome blonde redhead poster.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wtf242/221630934/in/set-72157594246519610/
RikiTiki2 vs busdriver3030
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wtf242/221630930/in/set-72157594246519610/
crustar and Athlon7 playing with EvilDolemite's ds. Also built-in flashes suck
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wtf242/221630929/in/set-72157594246519610/
EvilDolemite
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wtf242/221630926/in/set-72157594246519610/
I think that might be mario
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wtf242/221630925/in/set-72157594246519610/
Also busdriver3030 left his ps2 at my place and i've been playing God of War. I can't save my game because all his saves are full, but wow that game is hard. I can't even beat the hydra. =[
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Last night I left my computer running - turned monitor off. Came home today flipped the screen on and moved the mouse. No Image! Restarted, can see boot up and windows splash screen, then goes black. OK, Enable VGA mode should fix it, thats a given! Reboot tapping F2 - Thee only options I have are Safe mode, Safe mode with Networking, Safe mode with command prompt or start windows normally. Well right now Im using Safe mode with networking, thank you jeebus for this option! How can I enable VGA if no option available? What else can I do? No hardware or software installed recently, running XP Pro - and have DSL
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