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Well, if I may link to E2 again...

As someone who hasn't used ecstasy or other drugs but who has done a fair amount of reading (mostly due to general curiosity and far, far too much free time) and who has some familiarity with it through friends, I figured I'd chime in.

The mention of the interaction between SSRIs and ecstasy reminded me of a node on Everything2 I ran into recently about serotonin syndrome. It seems like a pretty miserable condition to end up in whether you have the more severe symptoms (coma, death) or not.

I ran into that info while wandering aimlessly though E2 after looking to see what people had to say about different SSRIs my doctor has had me try recently, and as annoying and frustrating as the side effects I've ended up with have been, that would, to put it mildly, just downright suck.

So, kids, think about that before using MDMA while on something like Prozac or Zoloft or anything similar. The more you know, I guess.

Also, specifically to The Tyro, it's always nice seeing people taking the time to respond to people's comments about their posts, especially with even more information to support their position and to try to keep people informed about subjects they(you) know about.

As someone who hasn't used ecstasy or other drugs but who has done a fair amount of reading (mostly due to general curiosity and far, far too much free time) and who has some familiarity with it through friends, I figured I'd chime in.

The mention of the interaction between SSRIs and ecstasy reminded me of a node on Everything2 I ran into recently about serotonin syndrome. It seems like a pretty miserable condition to end up in whether you have the more severe symptoms (coma, death) or not.

I ran into that info while wandering aimlessly though E2 after looking to see what people had to say about different SSRIs my doctor has had me try recently, and as annoying and frustrating as the side effects I've ended up with have been, that would, to put it mildly, just downright suck.

So, kids, think about that before using MDMA while on something like Prozac or Zoloft or anything similar. The more you know, I guess.

Also, specifically to The Tyro, it's always nice seeing people taking the time to respond to people's comments about their posts, especially with even more information to support their position and to try to keep people informed about subjects they(you) know about.

Toothpicks: Harmless tools useful in maintaining dental hygiene, or HORRIBLE, DEADLY WEAPONS!?

In the US, toothpicks outnumber people by a factor of more than 20 to 1.
88% of innocent children in the US have "easy access" to toothpicks.
Only 2% of these children have been taught how to use a toothpick.
Toothpicks are a direct blood relative of Sporks. Sporks are the tool of Satan.
According to the RKMPC, the AVMR of a toothpick is 926.1 -- the exact same AVMR of a canister full of deadly cyanide gas. Coincidence? Some large government agency thinks not!

No one has ever died because they DIDN'T have a toothpick.

~E2

Musubi. Breakfast of champions. =^_^=

Well, the fact is that most copiers have been injunctioned against sale in the US.

Most? Try one. The only banned GBA copier is Visoly's. The F2A, EZ-Flash, and EZFA are still being sold, and you can get the F2A here.

The basic claim for all of this is that cartridge based systems are covered under the hard goods exception in copyright law which doesn't provide for backups.

You're talking about Atari v. JS&A Group. Read why that case's precedent may not apply to emulation.

This is really targetted at Computer Users who complain about how their eyes hurt, especially after a long day of staring at the computer monitor.

I have had 15/20 vision all my life, and I've also been a heavy user of computers since 1979. People ask how the heck I have maintained my eyesight. It is really simple: turn the brightness down!

Here are my tips for adjusting your computer monitor:

• Display an image that contains a lot of BLACK, not grey, but black image. A perfect example is your boot loader, like lilo, if it doesn't have graphics. The black background should be black, not a shade of grey. If it is, turn down the brightness on your monitor. That is the dial that usually has a picture of a sun (or a circle with lines coming out from it).
• Now turn down the contrast all the way. That is the dial with the half-filled circle. Turn it up until you can read the text without straining.
• Now, if your monitor supports color temperature, adjust it to the 6000 or 6500 setting. This has a bit of a yellowish hue to the white, but you'll appreciate it later.

That's it. Note that if you are working on computer graphics, this will NOT make the colors bright and pretty, so you'll probably have to go back to the eye-killing settings. But if you're a coder who is just doing text and web browsing all day, USE THIS. Your eyes will thank you for it.

Even better: do the same thing I mentioned above, but with an LCD screen. CRT monitors are worse for your eyes than LCD.

If you're playing first person shooters like Quake, you will probably have to crank up the brightness dial. Just remember to turn it back down later!

A Quick Bit on Color Schemes

When I originally wrote this node, I was focusing only on monitor settings. The above works fine for any monitor going back to monochrome CRTs from the 1970s, but with the advent of configurable color window managers like Windows where you have a choice of color settings, I have one more piece of advice. Get off that default scheme!

Ever since Windows 1.0, there has been a default color scheme. Somewhere around Windows 2.0 you were able to change it, but most people never do it and they leave it with the default settings. These default settings are BRIGHT white backgrounds with the blue title bars. In my opinion, this color setting isn't optimial for your eyes. Of course, we're not just limited to Windows, but since the majority of people use it, I'll at least start with it for my point.

Without going into technical and difficult to apply color preferences, I suggest trying one scheme that has been in Windows since Windows 95: the 'Plum (high color)' scheme. The point of using this scheme is that the window decorations are not the typical bright grey, and the window backgrounds are off-white. You may not care for the purple accenting, but that's not the point of this scheme, in my mind. Give it a shot for an hour and see if it works for you.

What I've strived for is the perfect balance of colors on my desktop. A lot of people don't know how, and don't bother with adjusting their appearance settings. Granted after you've been using one scheme for a while, it might feel too foreign to have a different scheme. But try it, it might help even more.

Over on Everything2, we recently had someone lift a lot of content and use it to populate a portal site intended to collect revenue by ads and amazon click-throughs.

When the E2 user population realised what had happened, there began a general forming of lynch mods and baying for blood, and the perpetrator ('Marty')'s personal site was flooded with incredibly nasty messages.

Marty claimed he'd assumed that the content was intended to be more or less freeware, and lifted it wholesale (without any attributions to original authors, of course). When he realised his mistake (at it was a very stupid mistake to make, but at least it seems to have been an honest mistake), Marty withdrew the content and started trying to apologise.

Many of the E2 noders wouldn't hear the apologies, however, and in the end neither camp could claim any sort of moral high ground over their behaviour. Important lessons learned:

1. Check copyright before you lift things
2. Make sure your copyright notices are visible
3. Being civil about a problem might not get the same results as being a dick about it; but the downside is, you're a dick.

Yeah, I learned that last one myself...

I don't know about Pinnochio because I never read the book.

Is it because Google had trouble finding it because you misspelled it? I forgive you. You can read an English translation of The Adventures of Pinocchio starting here.

Ah, this whole thing brings back some memories about furor over some of the unilateral actions of the Philippine ccTLD administrator, Joel Disini. He once tried to market the .PH domain as .PHone and make it do essentially the same thing that these industry bigwigs are trying to do with their .mobile. From the people who signed NDA's to see the technology in action, he apparently succeeded. However, his use of the domain in such a unilateral fashion drew heavy criticism from the Philippine Internet community, and it never was actually deployed.

But he *could* be.

Jaysyn

That is all.

wow, that's crazy.

I didn't belive you until I read this.

The procedure even had experienced neurosergeons fainting...

An eloquent review of RealPlayer is available on E2.

I always got a kick out of that.

Heh, Clinton was born into a normal family but worked hard to get a scholarship to go to Oxford. Bush probably got into Yale because of his last name and some bucks from Daddy.

Sorry, but I can't classify a Bible-thumping God-worshipping homophobe as intelligent.

No, the open-source movement more closely resembles a commune.

There are lots of recipes at Everything2, some of which are listed at the cookery node.

Did I just write "But if Shakespeare were a blogger..."? Wow, that's a first...

Heh. Wonder what Leonardo da Vinci would have done if he had access to the Internet? =)

"Big endian is where the most significant byte is stored at the lowest address, and the least significant bit is stored at the highest address. "
- everything2.com

So you're the big-endian one.

When you decide, hey I don't like using loops, lets write 10,000 if statements, you aren't creating art, you're creating a bad program and ugly code.

Unless you're using perl, of course. TAMWTO.

Maybe this is how other civilizations communicate, through biologicals on comets rather than what we have been looking for: spaceships, radio waves, etc. Maybe these comets are an answer to Fermi's Paradox?

Parent is a troll with no useful information, someone mod it down.
Seeing as lightning discharges 10 to 100 million volts, http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=801459, I fail to see how resisting 12 thousand would help, and that is considering this "material" even exists, which considering the lack of details, it probably doesn't.

I initially read this as "Everything causes cancer", you had me worried for a minute.

Or maybe they're just a bunch of hippocrates.

What, they are ancient greek doctors?

I'm "smoking something" right now, and i promise you if I had any mod points, I'd find a way to use them all to brand that fool Overrated. Hell, Enron fraudulently inflated stock prices, and the execs bailed out in time to make tens of millions, leaving former employees jobless and stripped of their life savings. Thousands of lives totally fucked. Yeah, every company should do shit like that.

Technically, they can.

Fuckshitting flannelpisser!

The cuntpunching popefelcher is mine, though. It can be licensed for $1 dollar an instance. My army of lawyers will be watching for unlicensed usage.

Another friend of mine once noded...

-swinters

where if you tally all the various slang terms from, for example, skiers and snowboarders, you can get a few dozen as well.

And if you tally cocaine addicts' words for "snow", you get a few dozen more as well.

http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1398456

In America, you watch television. In Soviet Russia, television watches YOU!

It's funny. Laugh.

Anyone who assoiciates with Microsoft is a "taint by association" - as in this kind of taint.

If there is one place ... it will be Europe and Asia. Wait: I guess that isn't one place! :)

You're probably think of Eurasia.

-kgj

btw, what is a PHB?

http://everything2.com/index.pl?node=phb

Google is NOT your friend. :) If you read the linked article, you would find that it refers to the same survey in Nature (1997). :) 7% of the scientists believe in "personal god" (compared with 40% in 1916), which is what we usually call "god". The 40% figure relates to belief in any sort of god, which is usually called "god of the gaps".

I may be wrong about it, though, since the articles are not very clear and the original paper can't be freely accessed at nature.com.

Anyway, what most scientists believe is irrelevant. Scientists are not infallible and not even particularly smart (they are smarter than the general populace, but still not what I would call "smart"). Most scientists operate within their own narrow field of studies and are extremely often completely clueless about the rest of the areas.

It's a common misconception that "haiku" means "5-7-5". This misconception is readily cleared up - see the second paragraph of the Wikipedia article in particular for a discussion, or the "How do you write a haiku?" part of the e2 writeup, which goes into detail in the distiction between Japanese haiku and English haiku and describes the innumerable subtle variations of the form.

That said, one of the best English haiku ever kind of abuses the system:

You can. The first part, at least.

"Officials said the new rules, which are to be completed in the coming months, would enable utilities to offer an alternative to the cable and phone companies and provide an enormous possible benefit to rural communities that are served by the power grid but not by broadband providers."

1. Buy an IBM Model M.
2. Type as per usual.
3. When roommate complains about clickety din, grab keyboard and bash roommate's head until he is blissfully unconscious.

And I was just reading this node just about an hour ago. Scary.

So who's taking bets on each of the given possible scenarios?

Hmm, the only post that offers any realistic answer and it gets modded down. Good news, I guess the crack shipment is in...

Does anyone know the answer to this, or is everyone pretending to find an "in-joke" funny when they really don't have a clue? As the parent parent asked:

WTF has "Hot Grits" got to do with Natalie Portman?

If no one knows, the joke should be banned from Slashdot. ;-) It's as bad as using an acronym for something you don't know what it is.

Hot grits according to everything2: Hot grits

You forgot to add:

[Potentially] NSFW

Anybody remember these guys?

Triv

Definition

e2 currently has 449,635 entries. With 74,307 users, and 200,096,109 hits.

But those numbers are boring. The point is, wikipedia users never go to parties where the top contributor does an impersonation of Richard Nixon playing Dance Dance Revolution. And that is what I look for out of my encyclopaedias.

TWAJS
You should get your sarcasm detecter checked out, I think it's malfunctioning.

For information on all three, you can even read h2g2's entry on E2, Wikipedia's entry on E2, Wikipedia's entry on h2g2, E2's entry on h2g2, E2's entry on Wikipedia, and h2g2's entry on Wikipedia.

For information on all three, you can even read h2g2's entry on E2, Wikipedia's entry on E2, Wikipedia's entry on h2g2, E2's entry on h2g2, E2's entry on Wikipedia, and h2g2's entry on Wikipedia.

• Wiki is very strongly fact-based, aiming to imitate a paper encyclopedia as much as possible. E2 and h2g2 are more open and have at last as much pop-culture content as they do factual stuff.
  
• Wiki and h2g2 only allow one article per title, while E2 allows multiple writeups per title (but only one writeup per title per person). h2g2 doesn't have the update/revert structure in place that Wiki does. By allowing multiple writeups, there's no way for a troll to replace good content with bad even for a short time.
  
• h2g2 and E2 both rely on editors with special powers, albeit in somewhat different ways. Wiki basically allows anyone to be an editor, while h2g2 requires editor approval to post an article and E2 requires editor approval to keep it posted.
  
• E2 and h2g2 both have strong communities, with E2 mainly depending on real-time chat and h2g2 on message forums.
  
• E2 allows and even encourages original creative content -- stories, poems, and opinionated reviews -- as much as it does factual content of any sort. h2g2 culture practically requires a creative (read: Douglas Adams-like) personal touch on submitted articles.