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at first i thought the title said, "EFF Launches Surveillance Self-Defense Satellite", and i said, Cool those little bastards are gonna get whats coming to them. but no, it is a "Self-Defense Site", ok i can deal with that, its nice to know that the contributions that i have made over the years are going for rail gun rights. now i can look froward to a nice Phased-plasma rifle in the forty watt range. hmmm.... nope, nothing like that there.... and i did not find any mention of putting any of the people who allowed the data breach, did the breaching, or profited by the act ,into a game of "tay-zer tag" ( http://a.parsons.edu/~randy/tag/ ) what kind of lame "Self-Defense Site" is this?

Seriously, years ago I saw a graduate project at Parsons School of Design in their Design & Technology department that was a video game in a urinal, sort of like the space aliens version mentioned in this article. For the public exhibit, they put out squirt guns so that men could play the game without being obscene, and women could play as well. I am pretty sure it was just water in the squirt guns....

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This is the part that gives me a chubby.

These Gundam. look way better than PS3. In fact they look real! Oh wait they are real, in fact they're the shit as far as I can tell.

This is an interesting site, but it feels like a student thesis project from, say, Parsons' Design & Technology department. It's interesting, somewhat humorous, makes you think a little about your habits, and may even -- someday, perhaps, with enough work -- lead to something practical.

I'm riding a train right now, and the guy across from me has a wireless mouse. When he's not using it (e.g. he's typing), the mouse keeps sliding around the tray surface when the train turns or bumps. A clickless interface would really suck for him right now; the mouse would keep triggering button events he doesn't want. Nice.

The benefit of the mouse click is that it fits into the aim/shoot paradigm: one chain of thought to specify a target, another to act on the target. There are plenty of times when I don't care where the mouse is, and it may be left anywhere, because it won't do anything unless I act upon it. With a clickless interface, suddenly I have to pay attention to the mouse all the time; there is no room for wandering, or not caring. (Obviously you need a new "ignore mouse" button on the side of the mouse, so that the clickless interface knows to ignore the mouse! hee hee)

Hahahah, looks like yet another gullible person who doesn't know that MAVAV is a hoax. Nice try though.

I'm working as the lab director, tech guy, sysadmin, what have you for the Design + Tech. department at a school in NYC (Parsons School of Design). I get to set the lab up, build machines, take stuff apart and put it back together, set up and build web apps, administer our servers, cart equipment around and set up projectors, maintain classroom equipment, etc. Recently I got to run all over the place helping students set up their equipment for their pieces during our thesis show (http://dt.parsons.edu/show2005/) and while it was tough I did enjoy parts of the setup a lot--I was doing everything from lugging Apple flat-screen monitors down to the gallery to helping students hang projectors perched on a ladder to sitting on the floor for an hour crimping networking cable. Currently I'm spending a lot of time redesigning the lab and that's been fun too.

I spend a lot of time on my feet and while some might classify a lot of the work as grunt work I'm really enjoying it as I get to do a lot of different stuff. So, you might want to think about what opportunities are available like that in an academic environment (or maybe even a small business where you have to do a lot of different things) if it sounds interesting to you. I know it's not for everyone but I dig it.

In that case you might be interested in NWA - Straight Outa Compton - Explict Content ONLY version.

Yeah, this was required. The contest's introduction/sample design document is here (zip w/ MS Word files). It looks like gamemaker isn't 2600-specific, and, in fact, the rules say to use snap-to-grid to approximate the resolution of the 2600. That's kindof disappointing - I'm guessing that the gamemaker can do a whole lot more in terms of control logic than the limited memory of the 2600.

EBN used to do this sort of thing with a video sampler they made out of a keyboard attached to a guitar neck and slung around a shoulder; some of their stuff was cool as hell, though a lot of it was a mess as you describe. Here's some info.

Around 1991, I spent alot of time with with Greg Deocampo and friends from RISD in the early 90's when they were writing the software (which later became a company called AVX Design).

Mark Marinello wrote the original software, It was used on the U2 Zoo TV Tour which was largely based around what EBM could do with video.

The software was written for Quadra 950's under OS 8 running video cards (radius videovision, I think) that could barely crank out 320x200. It not for pixeldoubling and on-board zoom, it would have looked far worse.

Specs on EBM's live rig are still available.

If you're still interested in this sort of thing, ArKaos makes a MIDI-able video sampler now, called the Arkaos Visualizer which works a bit better than the AVX Video Sampler did.

I think the pioneer device might be great for real-time video mixing, but nothing quite compares to being able to fill up a midi keyboard with 88 keys or more of whacked out video and sync it to midi.

Quite a few of us moved to the West coast in the late 90's during the .com craze, and started IFILM, but that's a whole other story.

Just check this out:

December 30, 2002 Final Project: MAVAV.org
My MAVAV.org (Mothers Against Videogame Addiction And Violence) satire/parody/hoax web page was a success.

A summary and documentation can be found here.


And, apparently, this isnt the first hoax site done by David Yoo.

Just check this out:

December 30, 2002 Final Project: MAVAV.org
My MAVAV.org (Mothers Against Videogame Addiction And Violence) satire/parody/hoax web page was a success.

A summary and documentation can be found here.


And, apparently, this isnt the first hoax site done by David Yoo.

Just check this out:

December 30, 2002 Final Project: MAVAV.org
My MAVAV.org (Mothers Against Videogame Addiction And Violence) satire/parody/hoax web page was a success.

A summary and documentation can be found here.


And, apparently, this isnt the first hoax site done by David Yoo.

December 16, 2002 Final Assignment
Assignment:
Your final project is going to be making a fully functional hoax. The work must:

- exist in the public realm
- be advertised, exposed or introduced to strangers
- be fully documented, strategies include images, movies, sound recording, and interviews
- employ the element of craft (they will be judged on both ambition & effort)
- be fully functional. For example, if the project is a website, you must register the domain name. There should be no connection to this class or to Parsons.

Think hard about why people make hoaxes. I want you not to just have "fun" tricking people, but think about a message or idea you want to convey. What are the strategies for bringing people in? What is your overall message?

Your aim should be to create work which is subtle and effective.

In addition to creating the work, you will be asked to write 3 or more pages documenting your strategy in creating the work. Keep this in mind as you work.

I didn't think the original MAVAV.org site was very funny, but the collection of defaced banners was worth a few chuckles.

You can find his project page here where he has graphs from his hit counter among other things.

David calls me the inspiration for his final project, as we both visit the same IRC channel. The inspiration came from my petition (cached because petitiononline.com has seemingly removed my petition) to rename the LOTR movie "The Two Towers" to something else. Of course, it was a joke. However, I'm still receiving responses to this day thanks to a site another friend of mine set up and which I wrote the FAQ for.

Congratulations, David, on another successful internet hoax!

Sounds like the system described in "
True Names" by Vernor Vinge. (The lava and monsters part anyway)