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I see that you matched my pedanticism of the word fact and raised me by the pedanticism of the use of the terms evolution and theory of evolution. I was using the two interchangably simply because evolution has been observed and for anyone to refute that is just silly. So I assumed that the grandparent to my first post was referring to the *theory* of evolution and not evolution itself, thus I used the two terms interchangably. If anyone wants a disclaimer in a science book that says evolution is just a theory then they might as well put a disclaimer in all geography books saying "Some people only theorize that the earth is not flat despite many observances of said phenomenon to the contrary."

That being said, I am still opposed to even a disclaimer about the *theory* of evolution, but certainly opposed to a disclaimer for evolution. I would be disappointed in the former, but give up hope on the latter. At that point I would start sending my kids to Strong Bad's School of Technology. They'd probably get more out of it then a science class that puts disclaimers on observations.

When I think "independent game developer", lame little Flash-based games are what come to mind.

But Trogdor is my favorate game.

Click on the orange if you want to know what the Poms are all about. ;-)

In fact, if they just have 60 minutes of Smaug flying around and burning stuff, I'd go and see that. What? I like dragons

Buh!

The Cheat Commandos have it covered.

Well, wait until it's officially released? If http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/preed/2006/10/the_a ntirelease.html (as of your posting) is still accurate, it says, for example, "I haven't finished posting the source tarball, for instance." Maybe if you're trying the preview release, though..
I'll just quote http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail100.html - Keep your pants on. For real.

They should have used the King of Town instead.

"Of course I've got the internet. How else could I download this awesome animated gif/gif of a cute breakdancing rodent?"

In addition to flashing banner ads and stylish web sites, the Graphical Interchange Format has brough us another important wonder.

Your The Man Now, Dog.

Imagine if we never had such a format. Would YTMND even be possible? We can only speculate, but I, for one, would like to thank Unisys for this valuable contribution. Afterall, 361,984—and growing—YTMND sites can't be wrong!

That depends on whether we are talking about The Cheat.

I tried reading this, but the grammar center of my brain imploded. This would have been a far more intellegible interview had they actually interviewed The Cheat.

Here's a good example. 95% of their content is free on the internet -- 5% accounting for extra content on the DVDs and CDs. Never even had any ads on their site. And they make a healthy living off merch. They quit their day jobs on just T-shirts!

As people have said, no DRM doesn't mean everybody's going to throw a pirate party and that selling digital content is over. But there are even business models that allow for giving the content away.

Fun little game with a great sense of humor.

Here is Strong Bad's take on invisibility.

"My chocolates! Come back, chocolates! I didn't mean what I said..."

The comment was a joke referring to the following, I assume:
http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail94.html

I would like to point out Dungeon Man 3. If you are a fan of old-school adventure games, this will provide some good laughs.

I never liked Babylon 5. Your explanation helps me to understnad why some people really like the show. It sounds like a good show based upon your description, and from all of the episodes I've seen I'd have to say you are correct. However, I still don't enjoy it at all. Can't really articulate why as well as the parent explained why it ws a good show. I guess as some troll mentioned the acting wasn't the greatest, but acting is rarely good in scifi and I still like many other shows with worse acting. Maybe, it was too complex for me. Perhaps, it was too much like a soap opera.

It had simular mood music. SciFi should have death metal -- ALL THE TIME. That would rock.

Jugga Jigga Wugga
Defcon
Jugga Jigga Wugga
Death star
Jugga Jigga Wugga
Dilithium Crystal
Jugga Jigga Wugga
Death Ray
Jugga Jigga Wugga
Dimensional Time Warp
Jugga Jigga Wugga
Deflector shields
And so on. With appologies and props to Strong Bad.

TROGDOOOORRR!!

Yes, I said it: "Flash websites" aren't websites.

Flash is basically either used as an application, or an animation format.

If I put up an application as an .EXE (or whatever Linux/Mac/etc use) or a Java applet, or if I put up an animation MPG/AVI/whatever, is this a website? No. It's just an application/animation which happens to be delivered over HTTP. Sure, hopefully it plays with a plugin in the browser, rather than needing to be saved to disk and run with a separate mouse-click / key-press, but that doesn't fundamentally change the facts.

Same with Flash. Just an application/animation which happens to be delivered over HTTP.

There's nothing inherently wrong with this. Sometimes little applications (like this) or animations (like this) are absolutely great, flash is a great technology to build/deliver them in, and the web is a great way to distribute that flash. I have no problem with that.

Doesn't make it a website though. A website (IMHO) is 'onion skinned', I can take the basic text and parse it how I want. There's no assumption it gets rendered in a browser as opposed to downloaded, parsed, searched, transformed, translated. I can take the content but ignore the styles. I can take the text but ignore the images. I can open a page in the current window, in a new window, in a new tab, save it to disk, pipe it to a script. Flash does none of that. So to me, I honestly see "flash website" as essentially a contradiction in terms.

If only I would've had this lesson before deciding on a career in technology

He probably learned it from Strong Bad.

He obviously has watched the informative tutorial on internet functionality from the most recent sbemail. Here we can clearly see that the internet is indeed made of helium filled tubes.

99.9% of flash is just obnoxious ads anyway. Who needs it

I think you mean the Cheatar!

ISP

And you can view samples of what it generates here.

Beer is just such a part of college life that no one thinks twice about it. I mean, is it "in" to wear clothing or is it just something that you do? Sure, there are those who consider clothing (and beer) to be optional (like me), so perhaps a better poll would have been which things are considered more a part of life than a trend which may or may not fizzle out. Beer's not in or out. It just...is.

Now go watch Strong Bad deal with the near-tragedy of Dan, who "almost a one that was not cold."

The Lappy 486 is still better than your measily x286.

-jhp

What if the actual mission is to rescue a pallet of Camel non-filters that were accidentally dropped behind enemy lines? (If you don't like cigarettes as an example, how about Cheat Commandos O's?)

They look like Aviator Sunglasses, They probably cost about as much as a MIG Fighter Jet on Ebay. On the other hand, they look Dangeresque!

You are conveniently leaving out the possible correlation between debilitating gold rush era diseases (such as the cholera and inappropriate teen-2- peer choice behaviors.

It's too early to tell, but I wouldn't be at all surprised to find that those college kids that have come down with the mumps had engaged in littering, loitering, latering, lootering, and other things that cause inappropriate teen-2-peer choice behaviors.

Everybody to the Limit!

linky

What a timely article! Videlectrix just released Thy Dungeonman III today!

-Peter

I don't. I hate that freaking marshmallow.

A better guide.

OMG TGS!

http://www.homestarrunner.com/tgsmenu.html

Bubs' Concession Stand has sold wireless extension cords for a long time.

Freedom over. Police state = very yes.

Maybe you should ask Strongbad how he types with boxing gloves on.

And besides, the Power Glove is so bad.

I have two machines on my desk. Both are a little old now, but they are serving me well still.
#1 is a XP3200 (32-bit), and #2 is a Mac dual G4 (at a lowly 866 MHz). Surprisingly, these machines are fairly well matched, with SMP-optimised apps running about as fast on the Mac as on the PC. Single-threaded stuff is much slower on the Mac, no surprise. As for games, well I think we all know the real reason I have an x86 machine at all right?

But for general everday use, I prefer the Mac, not only for the GUI, but for the amazing responsiveness of it. Nothing fazes it. Everything seems to fly at full speed no matter what else you are doing at the time. This has everything to do with the dual CPUs. Watching Strongbad e-mail might not require a multi-GHz CPU to run, but that multi-GHz system can still allow the animation to become choppy when you do something which hogs the CPU for any amount of time. That will virtually never happen on a dual-CPU/dual-core system. Any single thread of execution, no matter how high its priority, can never used more than 50% of your CPU resources. To me, that is the strongest argument for dual CPUs, not against them, as others will argue.

The next PC or Mac that I buy will definitely be dual CPU or dual core. No question.

http://www.homestarrunner.com/

In order to completely understand the joke, it helps to watch this first.

This little guy seems to make it on his own just fine on one leg. Although, admittedly, he'll prob'bly never take him a wife.

Actually, I think Strong Bad would love the ability to retrieve deleted emails... ;-)

adapted from Strong Bad's famous family recipe:

Ingredients:
3 or 7 medium sized Hairy Lobsters
2 salt
40 pancakes

Instructions:
Get down off smokestack. Then cook that
ugly thing.

(NOTE: For best results, dip the Hairy Lobster in egg wash before shaving or else he'll get those red shaving bumpies all over him. Ugh.)

Cheers,
IT

Yeah, but in that case I would prefer to use a Shark!

If I have to get that on land, I will use the bear holding a shark!

That was only a minigame within the game, and probably (hopefully) not the funnest (though i'm having trouble downloading the tracker so I wouldn't know).

For more mind-numbing fun, try these games by Videlectrix (of H*R fame)