| Wii Emm Cee Ayy |
[May. 21st, 2009|05:32 pm] |
I really hope that they make this available in the US...
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| Battle of the Guitar Hero Robots |
[May. 14th, 2009|04:55 pm] |
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| | Styx - Mr. Roboto | ] |
In this first video, an enterprising person built a custom computer, wired it into an XBox controller, and fed it the note sequence for the song. It took him a while, but he eventually got it tweaked to the point that the "bot" can get a perfect score.
Compare that to this video, in which some students at a technical college built a robot that "watches" the screen and physically plays a real guitar hero guitar controller. While their robot doesn't get perfect scores, it's a little more impressive in my opinion. Plus, it can play ANY song, unlike the first "bot", which can only play songs that it's explicitly programmed to play.
http://tinyurl.com/guitar-hero-robot
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| Best....App....Ever.... |
[Apr. 24th, 2009|12:18 am] |
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| | KC and the Sunshine Band - (Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty | ] |
Excuse me if I offend, but I find this fucking hilarious...
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-talk-baby-shakerapr24,0,6874829.story
Apple just learned that lesson the hard way. The company apologized Thursday for selling a 99-cent iPhone application called "Baby Shaker" in its online store. The application allowed iPhone users to silence a virtual crying infant by shaking the device. After enough shakes, the baby on the screen stopped screaming and a large red "X" appeared over each eye. Apple first posted the application Monday, the start of Shaken Baby Syndrome Awareness Week.
"Anybody with any decency would be appalled by this," said Jennipher Dickens, the mother of a child with the syndrome and a spokeswoman for the Sarah Jane Brain Foundation. "An application that simulates killing a baby, because it's crying? What sick person would come up with that?"
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| Unborn Baby Ornament - US Troop Model |
[Dec. 4th, 2007|03:11 pm] |
Unborn Baby Ornament - US Troop Model
Protect our troops - from the womb to the war. What if the fetus you were going to abort would grow up to be a soldier bringing democracy to a godless dictatorship?
Plastic replica of an 11-12 week old fetus, 3" long, holding a firearm in its precious little hand, with an assortment of other military paraphernalia, encased in a translucent plastic ornament, with a patriotic yellow ribbon on top. Includes a metal ornament hanger. If only a womb were this safe, attractive and reasonably priced!
Show that you support the "culture of life" by buying and proudly displaying one of these patriotic unborn Americans. |
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| Joomla, SMF, Community Builder, JSMF |
[Aug. 8th, 2007|02:36 pm] |
Dear Internet,
Does anyone have experience building a website using Joomla for the CMS, Simplemachines Forums (SMF), Community Builder (CB), and the Joomlahacks Joomla-SMF (JSMF) bridge?
I snagged a wonderful domain name and I'm putting together my first community site. My hosting provider offers Joomla 1.0.13 and SMF 1.1.3 in their included script bundle.
I'm planning on throwing CB 1.1 into the mix (as soon as they release it [taps foot] ) and tying it together using JSMF so there is a single login.
I'm an experienced software developer and I've done my share of web work (html/xml/php/etc...) but this is the first time I've done anything like this using off the shelf packages and I'm wondering if there are any pitfalls I should be aware of and actively trying to avoid. |
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| Warcraft camel toe |
[Dec. 4th, 2006|01:27 pm] |
This is an actual un-photoshopped screen shot from World of Warcraft...
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| Missed it by *that* much... |
[Jul. 5th, 2006|01:22 am] |
On the news last week, I kept seeing a crawl at the bottom of the screen about North Korea and their long range missile that could hit the US.
I read this article today that featured the picture below showing that "could hit the US" actually means "thought capable of reaching Alaska".
This is another classic case of the news outlets trying to stir people up about stupid shit so that they don't have to report on real news items like our corrupt politicians and the corporate lobbyists that own them. |
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| Phallic Ice Cream |
[Jun. 30th, 2006|09:55 am] |
I'm not really sure what to say about this...
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| Dear lazyweb... |
[Jun. 29th, 2006|12:20 pm] |
I was listening to MSNBC (or CNBC or whatever they're calling it now) on the way home last night on my XM radio.
They were talking about a guy who digs up dirt and exposes bad companies (think Enron) on his website with the intention of short selling their stock. I thought it would be interesting to see what kind of dirt he digs up.
I can't for the life of me remember the website. If anyone knows (or can find it), I will be eternally grateful. |
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| Bjork on Big Sperm |
[Jun. 9th, 2006|09:52 am] |
"The sperm of Drosophila bifurca is 20 times longer than the male that produces it," says Bjork. "To put that into perspective, if humans made sperm that long and you took a six-foot man and stood him on the goal line of a football field, his sperm would stretch out to the 40-yard line."
http://www.physorg.com/news68999588.html |
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| Fun with search engines |
[Jun. 8th, 2006|11:43 am] |
Just for fun, open your favorite search engine and search for "http" (without the quotes).
In google...
http://www.google.com/search?q=http
...the top hits (of 11,730,000,000) are:
#1 www.microsoft.com
#2 www.w3.org
In MSN...
http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=http
...the top hits (of 5,257,741,222) are:
#1 www.digidesign.com
#2 www.coldstonecreamery.com
In Yahoo!...
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=http
...the top hits (of 1,490,000,000) are:
#1 www.w3.org/Protocols
#2 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP
It looks like in this search, Yahoo comes up with the most relevant results. In fact, it looks like 9 out of the top 10 Yahoo results are valid. MSN is is outright retarded. None of their top 10 have anything to do with HTTP. Google has one result that has to do with HTTP (#3), the rest are seemingly random.
Try some other search engines and reply with your findings. |
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| Fun with cell phones |
[Apr. 22nd, 2006|04:19 pm] |
Verizon has a nasty habit of disabling features on their phones.
One feature that my Nokia 6236i supports is MP3 ringtones.
But, alas, Verizon disabled it. They do this in order to force you to buy ringtones from them and use up your minutes downloading them.
After a little detective work, I found that there's a program floating around the net called Diego that will allow you to change phone settings, including toggling MP3 ringtones back on...
nokia_diego_v306.rar
(if the above link goes dead in the future, search for the filename on eMule)
If you have Nokia PC Suite installed, uninstall it before you install Diego. Afterwards, you can re-install Nokia PC Suite.
1) Install Diego (but don't reboot)
2) Copy the 3 additional files into your System32 directory (overwriting when asked)
3) Reboot
Now run Diego...
1) Click Phone Settings
2) Read the settings from your phone
3) Find Menu & User Settings
4) Select Ringtone Settings
5) Change the option from 1 to 0
6) Write the settings back to your phone
This will enable a "set as ringtone" option for your MP3 files.
Now re-install Nokia PC Suite and transfer some MP3 files onto your phone.
Browse your gallery, select an MP3, and set it as your ringtone.
If you need to run Diego again while Nokia PC Suite is installed, go to Nokia Connection Manager and uncheck all the connection options before plugging in your phone. That way, the PC Suite won't detect your phone and steal it away from Diego. |
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