Several more codes are available. Email me at mark-dot-musante-atsign-gmail-dot-com if you want one

anyone interested?

Forwarded from a friend: The Axis of Awesome - 4 Chords. There's nothing new about pointing out the way songs re-use chord progressions, but they did a pretty good job.

This image (from this site) makes it look like the "0" line is curving downwards. For you as well, or just me?

One good thing about the current blackout (we haven't had power since 9:30pm Thursday) is that I missed out on the 10.5.6 update. Apparently there have been Issues.

http://www.betanews.com/article/Rise_of_complaints_follows_Apple_Mac_OS_X_1056_update/1229442960

I'm not sure what it is about this video, but I found it highly amusing. The YouTube user "Wintericecrystal" first came to my attention when he started reviewing some of the IFComp 2008 game entries, and the video embedded below just popped up a couple of days ago.



Now if you'll excuse me, I need to dry my eyes.

It's possible that you're a WoW player and you have not yet read Jenni's blog. I say it's possible only because I haven't fully grokked quantum mechanics, and I'm sure there's a mechanical quantum out there that represents a universe in which there is at least one person who is a WoW player and has possibly not yet read Jenni's blog.

If this is you, and this is your universe, check out her post on Death Knights, and WoW in general. Brilliant stuff. Almost reaches derspatchel levels of funny.

Yes, I know. But trust me.

Testing Pixelpipe

Pre-K or Player-Killer? You decide
Posted via Pixelpipe.

Warning: this generates sound:
( One step up from ProgressQuest )

Playing With Horses



Horses are very dangerous, but most useful animals. To be kicked by them is almost certain death: and children often play about them and go near their heels without being sensible of their danger. In the engraving we see a little innocent who had been engaged in gathering locks of fresh grass and giving them to her papa's horse. After employing herself in this way for some time, she carelessly took hold of his tail, unconscious of the danger that she was in, until the horse, by a kick of one leg, laid her lifelesss on the ground.

(from lpsmith, via ifMUD)

The Book of Accidents

In presenting to his little readers the "Book of Accidents," the Author conceives he cannot render a more important service to the rising generation and to parents, than by furnishing them with an account of the accidents to which Children, from their inexperience or carelessness, are liable. If generally studied it will save the lives of thousands, and relieve many families from the long and unavailing misery attendant on such occurrences.

Hamish MacDoctor?

Behind the cut is the creature that Zoe designed.
( Lookee here! )
(I helped with the user interface a bit, but she did all the designing.)

The new I7 extensions feed is now available here: http://www.inform-fiction.org/I7/I7ExtensionsRSS.xml

Additionally, I've just created an LJ feed, i7_extensions for those who prefer delivery that way.

It's not quite exact, but it's close enough to amuse me.



(Found on unled.net via robin_d_laws)

Because I know everyone's been waiting for me to wade into the controversy and hear my opinion, the answer is that Splinter taught them how to be "ninja teens".

1/ They can't be taught to be "teams" because there is only one team.

2/ The rhyme is "machines".

3/ He didn't teach them how to be teens, he taught them how to be ninja teens. It's harder than it sounds. You can't just be a ninja and a teen and say you're done. You have to learn to be a teen ninja or you will just end up being a jerk with ninja weapons.

4/ I had a cupcake with coconut frosting for breakfast. It was yummy.

5/ Ryan North linked to the youtube copyright violation video of the opening song, so I'll link to it as well. It's clear that the sound is muddled (ha ha) enough that you can't tell based on the video whether it's teens or teams.

6/ That bastion of hyper-correctness, Wikipedia, has this line: The lyrics were also changed, such as changing "Splinter taught them to be ninja teens" to the "Splinter taught them to be ni-fighting teens." This happened due to an error in the lyric changing. That's from a discussion about the way it was exported to certain countries who didn't like the word Ninja. I hope this blog entry is not banned from those countries. I have it on good authority that coconut cupcakes are not banned in those very same countries^{[citation needed]}.

7/ The TMNT wiki itself which definitely didn't copy Wikipedia no siree bob, has a similar line: The lyrics were also changed, such as changing "Splinter taught them to be ninja teens" to "Splinter taught them to be fighting teens.".

8/ Ninja ninja ninja ninja.

9/ !!!

When you're stuck in an airport, it is a suckey situation. When you're stuck in a tiny airport with few amenities, a restaurant "closed for renovation", and a flight that's been delayed yet again, it's even worse.

But I'll give Long Beach Airport props: it's got free wi-fi. Woo!

Let's see if we can level the playing field.

When the government establishes a set of rules whereby those who believe in God have easy access to [government and social programs], but those who do not have to undergo huge expense to get the same quality of education and experiences for their children, atheist parents are forced to either abandon their obligations to their children or abandon their obligations to the truth.

Every so often I'd get some Canadian coinage as change. I used to be all "aw, man" but now I'm all "ha! suckers"