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A Series of Tubes
An archive of old posts.
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Censorship
I was in the car yesterday listening to Mike FM (We play everything), and one of my favorite bands came on, Panic! At the Disco. They have lots of songs about religion (catholicism, usually…though its just talking about it, not promoting it or putting it down), and the one which came on has the line:
Haven’t you people ever heard of closing a god damn door?!
Well, when the radio station played the song, every time they said the word “god” it was censored. They left “damn” in, but censored god. Why is that? God isn’t a swear. It’s just a religious word. What about the Atheists who like PATD? Won’t they be offended? God is just a religious idea. The FCC can’t charge for not censoring it, thats mixing government and religion.
Just like printing “In god we trust” on money, and having “Under god” in our pledge of alliegence, but thats another rant for another time.
Don’t censor god if you’re not going to censor damn. If you censor damn, you’re being overzealoused with the bleeper. 😛
Crazymazing
This page is crazymazing. Crazy and amazing. It’s a photo mosaic app, but it’s never-ending. Every image is used with other images to make one larger image, but the image itself is made out of tinier images which are made out of tinier images and so on…It does an amazing job of it, but it tends to repeat images too often, and it even uses an image to make a larger version of the same image, which is cheap. Still, it is amazing.
Agebuilder.org Update
*Phew* After one day, forum.agebuilder.org and www.agebuilder.org are back online, with no hackers or malware present. I would recommend a virus scan on your computer anyway, especially if you’re using IE. 😉
Agebuilder.org Hacked!
Agebuilder.org, the hub of Age Creation for Uru, has been hacked…again. This time, the site has been given a .exe malware file that auto-downloads when you visit the site, so DO NOT VISIT AGEBUILDER.ORG! Thankfully no posts or wiki info were lost, but the site is currently inaccessible to anyone who doesn’t want a virus.
I’m an admin there, so I feel responsible, but there are multiple people working on it now, and I’ll hinder more than I’ll help.
This seems to be a trend now. This is the second hack against Agebuilder.org, plus the DJC was hacked not long ago and of course COBBS lost everything a year ago. There has been an increase of spambots as well. People seem to be plotting against the Myst community…:(
Messing with the theme
I changed the theme of the blog again…It’s pretty fun, escpecially since I don’t have to worry about losing my css stuff. 😀
This one doesn’t identify what category the post is in, but it does catogorize them. Use the sidebar to see the categories.
Gone With The Earth, Wind, and Fire
This is a picture I whipped up based on the movie, Gone With the Wind and the funk band called Earth, Wind, and Fire (link requires iTunes).
Messing With Focal Points
I made this shot in 3Ds 6 using a default camera but with focus depth on. It came out pretty well, I think.
GodMod – The Game
Ok this is the “second draft” of the post I lost…
While I was sitting in school getting bored (what else is new these days?) yesterday, a great idea struck me for a video game. It would be called GodMod – The Game. It’s a flash-based two person online game, mostly text based but with a few animations.
I made this mockup image to help explain:
(yes, those avatars are temporary placeholders, not final 😉 )
The idea is this. You have 1 minute to type the most godmodding (see excerpt) description of your opponent’s death you can think of. This can involve anything you want, from Seppeku to dinosaurs to landmines to just plain fire to rabid hamsters. So you type it in Area 1, then after one minute has passed the entries are submitted (regardless of whether you’re done or not).
This is where the code kicks in. The program scans the entries for keywords (such as Hari Kiri, Dinosaurs, Flames, etc.) and key phrases, and scores each entry according to how many keywords were used and how descriptive they are. The winning entry is displayed in Area 2.
As a bonus, the winning entry is then animated in Area 3. The losing character acts out the description (approximately), according to what keywords/phrases it found in the winning entry. For example, if the word ‘fire’ was found, it would burst into flames. I think that the game would be hard to make, but very rewarding.
Godmodding refers to when a player describes the outcome of their own actions against another character. For example, player A stating, “A strikes B and B takes damage” would be considered godmodding on the part of player A in most situations. In the game, you wouldn’t include yourself in the description, just the outcome.
iTunes “Just For You”
I use the iTunes Music Store a lot, and to increase the variety of songs I hear I use the “Just For You” feature. No, I don’t listen to radio, because I can’t find any radio stations that play the kind of stuff I like. I use Pandora a lot, but after a while that starts to repeat as well.
So like I was saying, iTunes Just For You. It looks at what you’ve bought and listened to, and recommends songs to you. This post isn’t really about the feature, just a little tidbit I found out about the JFY feature.
That title piece that says “Just For You” up in the corner (in a very un-Apple font, I could add)? The one that looks like this:
This is what it used to look like:
In fact that was just recently replaced with the fixed logo. It is kind of funny, becuase we’re so used to seeing finished products that look great we don’t even notice when something’s off unless we’re actually studying the image.
For those of you who don’t yet see what I mean, here’s another image:
Observe the reflection.
Yeah, in the old one the reflection starts out fine (under the U), but then it turns out it’s actually signifigantly shorter than the words it is reflecting at the end (under the rest of the title). Tee hee.