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You must read Maddox.

You're not Dave Chappelle, and you're not funny

Calling them Otaku gives them an undeserved cachet. I prefer to call them Anime nerds.

In this case, at least he really said something stupid. A lot of the most famous ones are setups.

For example, Dan Quayle and spelling "Potato" with an "e." First of all, he was conducting the final round of the National Spelling Bee, so people claiming "potato" is an easy word to spell are wrong. Even though it looks easy, it's a commonly misspelled word, and it is an exception to the spelling rule with similar words like "Tomatoe." But all of that is hardly relevant. If you were on a stage in front of a huge audience of spelling experts, being televised, and you had in your hand a card that that gave the official spelling for a word, as determined by the foremost experts on spelling, specifically in order for that word to be judged at the finals of the national spelling bee, would you even consider correcting what the card says? I sure as hell wouldn't. In fact, I'd think that, as long as I went with what was on the card, I couldn't be criticized. The mistake was made by the people who made & checked the cards. This isn't to say Quayle didn't have a serious case of foot-in-mouth disease, just that the media gets caught up in the smallest, dumbest things that could happen to anyone. Things where the person being criticized had no chance to correct themselves or the record. In fact, if they do go back to stand up from themselves on these things, they look petty. All they can do is hope they peter out.

Reagan thinking "ketchup" was a vegetable was a similar setup.

Before anyone cries out "foreigners are stealing our jobs", read this.

Lean On Me is automatically disqualified for using random stock pictures of smiling people.

http://maddox.xmission.com/c.cgi?u=websense

But it turned out that he was a really nice guy, and it occured to me then that judging a person on actions taken at age 13 wasn't very fair of me; he'd grown a lot since then. He appologized for the way he'd acted.

Listen, you smashed body of a wretched animal. I suspect it wasn't meant as a compliment.

Furthermore, your grandstanding assertion that "sensitivity [is] an extremely worthwhile lesson" indicates to anyone with the barest grasp of Collaborative Discussion Theory that you've never uttered a word of substance. To anyone. I submit to you that any well-worded assertion predicated upon original and rational thought will raise howls of protest from the Mothers Against Drunk Driving (rehash of the failed and immoral "temperance movement" (i.e., the recurring meme that encourages the insulting and unbiblical (cf. Genesis 1:29: "God said, 'Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food. To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food;' and it was so.") suppression of the consumption of plants given to us by God for our sustenance and pleasure)), Million Mom March (attempt to subvert the respect for motherhood by associating the delusional wailings of those who cannot mentally separate a tool from its wielder with an unconstitutional effort to destroy our inalienable, individual ("A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves ... and include all men capable of bearing arms." --Richard Henry Lee, Senator, First Congress, Additional Letters from the Federal Farmer (1788)) right to defend ourselves against both foreign invaders and corrupt tyrants and usurpers (note that Diane Feinstein has a concealed carry permit but she doesn't want the hoi polloi, the proles, WE THE PEOPLE OF THESE UNITED STATES to be on an equal footing with her; why's she afraid of the well-regulated militia if she truly preserves and protects the Constitution?)), military-industrial-pharmaceutical-complex worshipping toadies.

We're a generation of men raised by women. I'm wondering if another woman is really the answer we need.

Note the blatant censorship by Skull & Bones, Bush & Kerry, Kang & Kodos, yin & yang, there is no hope, your vote is a joke, the republic is dead, of "Chapter 5: The Right to Bear Arms" (compare Chapter 4 and Chapter 6)!

I weep for the future if you think a random blast of vulgarity is a "raving troll". Patriots question the "Patriot" act and Ashcroft says they aid terrorists, Maddox opens his mouth and censorship is attempted. We live in the age of feelies and soma and a lack of Quality (Pirsig) and you are amused by self-referential parody of the hopelessness of the age? You appendage of Cthulhu. Go back to your lair; we are not ready for you yet!

Your inner thoughts as you posted your ill-advised diatribe:

ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn

Listen, you smashed body of a wretched animal. I suspect it wasn't meant as a compliment.

Furthermore, your grandstanding assertion that this is "one of the best [you]'ve ever had the honor of receiving" indicates to anyone with the barest grasp of Collaborative Discussion Theory that you've never uttered a word of substance. To anyone. I submit to you that any well-worded assertion predicated upon original and rational thought will raise howls of protest from the Mothers Against Drunk Driving (rehash of the failed and immoral "temperance movement" (i.e., the recurring meme that encourages the insulting and unbiblical (cf. Genesis 1:29: "God said, 'Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food. To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food;' and it was so.") suppression of the consumption of plants given to us by God for our sustenance and pleasure)), Million Mom March (attempt to subvert the respect for motherhood by associating the delusional wailings of those who cannot mentally separate a tool from its wielder with an unconstitutional effort to destroy our inalienable, individual ("A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves ... and include all men capable of bearing arms." --Richard Henry Lee, Senator, First Congress, Additional Letters from the Federal Farmer (1788)) right to defend ourselves against both foreign invaders and corrupt tyrants and usurpers (note that Diane Feinstein has a concealed carry permit but she doesn't want the hoi polloi, the proles, WE THE PEOPLE OF THESE UNITED STATES to be on an equal footing with her; why's she afraid of the well-regulated militia if she truly preserves and protects the Constitution?)), military-industrial-pharmaceutical-complex worshipping toadies.

We're a generation of men raised by women. I'm wondering if another woman is really the answer we need.

Note the blatant censorship by Skull & Bones, Bush & Kerry, Kang & Kodos, yin & yang, there is no hope, your vote is a joke, the republic is dead, of "Chapter 5: The Right to Bear Arms" (compare Chapter 4 and Chapter 6)!

I weep for the future if you think a random blast of vulgarity is a "raving troll". Patriots question the "Patriot" act and Ashcroft says they aid terrorists, Maddox opens his mouth and censorship is attempted. We live in the age of feelies and soma and a lack of Quality (Pirsig) and you are amused by self-referential parody of the hopelessness of the age? You appendage of Cthulhu. Go back to your lair; we are not ready for you yet!

Your inner thoughts as you posted your ill-advised diatribe:

ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn

Listen, you smashed body of a wretched animal. I suspect it wasn't meant as a compliment.

Furthermore, your grandstanding assertion that this is "one of the best [you]'ve ever had the honor of receiving" indicates to anyone with the barest grasp of Collaborative Discussion Theory that you've never uttered a word of substance. To anyone. I submit to you that any well-worded assertion predicated upon original and rational thought will raise howls of protest from the Mothers Against Drug Driving (rehash of the failed and immoral "temperance movement" (i.e., the recurring meme that encourages the insulting and unbiblical (cf. Genesis 1:29: "God said, 'Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food. To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food;' and it was so.") suppression of the consumption of plants given to us by God for our sustenance and pleasure)), Million Mom March (attempt to subvert the respect for motherhood by associating the delusional wailings of those who cannot mentally separate a tool from its wielder with an unconstitutional effort to destroy our inalienable, individual ("A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves ... and include all men capable of bearing arms." --Richard Henry Lee, Senator, First Congress, Additional Letters from the Federal Farmer (1788)) right to defend ourselves against both foreign invaders and corrupt tyrants and usurpers (note that Diane Feinstein has a concealed carry permit but she doesn't want the hoi polloi, the proles, WE THE PEOPLE OF THESE UNITED STATES to be on an equal footing with her; why's she afraid of the well-regulated militia if she truly preserves and protects the Constitution?)), military-industrial-pharmaceutical-complex worshipping toadies.

We're a generation of men raised by women. I'm wondering if another woman is really the answer we need.

Note the blatant censorship by Skull & Bones, Bush & Kerry, Kang & Kodos, yin & yang, there is no hope, your vote is a joke, the republic is dead, of "Chapter 5: The Right to Bear Arms" (compare Chapter 4 and Chapter 6)!

I weep for the future if you think a random blast of vulgarity is a "raving troll". Patriots question the "Patriot" act and Ashcroft says they aid terrorists, Maddox opens his mouth and censorship is attempted. We live in the age of feelies and soma and a lack of Quality (Pirsig) and you are amused by self-referential parody of the hopelessness of the age? You appendage of Cthulhu. Go back to your lair; we are not ready for you yet!

Your inner thoughts as you posted your ill-advised diatribe:

ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn

Original story

What happened to the heritage of Asimov...

this! That's right

this article for those folks who think that people are "stealing" or "taking" jobs away from Americans?

what are you a Maddox wannabe?

Beat your kids.

Would that 'honesty book shop' appease Authors? I meant buy new releases and older copyrighted works (even out of print copyrighted that Gutenberg won't touch) If I want to re-read some Orwell, Asimov, Steinbeck or others, where do I go? (pah, library...)

Who cares what publishers think, they are wondering how they can be a middle man in a digital age. We will start with good bi-format books, all available in eBook, all 100% well formatted. Then some will move more over into eBooks.

Then every internet whore will inflict their putrid poetry onto the world. Tum tee tum.

You pay money for the Virtual Girlfriend program. There is no sex involved, no nudity, no dirty talk, no physical contact, not even a kiss.

Ok, now, in order to have her talk to you, she requires virtual gifts. Lucky you, for the company that makes Virtual Girlfriend can sell them to you FOR REAL MONEY, yet she will keep requiring more and more from you, otherwise she won't speak to you.

Apparently, as I understand it, not only does it waste your time, it also wastes your real money, and only rich people can afford to keep her talking to them. The amount you have to spend has not yet been determined, yet I got a funny feeling that they can change the setting on you to make her require more "gifts" that end up costing you more money. You might, oh, start by spending $20 a week on her, and then they send an instant message to your phone that turns on the golddigger routines to make you pay $200 a week. That is what I think will happen.

If you want to waste your time and money, find a webcam whore, cell phones have amazing web browsers now and the Internet fees and webcam fees can potentionally be less than the Virtual Girlfriend. I used that link because Maddox explains how to be a Web Cam Whore so well, that you'll know what to expect. At least you might be able to see some female body parts for your money, and be able to get some bad poetry, which should be better than the Engrish responses the Virtual Girlfriend would give you. I think Virtual Girlfriend is targeted towards the guys who visit Web Cam Whores anyway, both the Web Cam Whores and Virtual Girlfriends seem to have the same intelligence anyway, and the same low intelligence audience that cannot get a date even if they were the last man in town, with $1 million USD in a suitcase, a 2004 BMW, and used phermones to attract women.

The whole business idea of Virtual Girlfriend is to get the sad lonely loser hooked, until he is paying more money than a crack addict for a fix.

I hope that someone like Maddox writes a sarcastic review on it, besides me. ;)

Damn Sims, people who play this sucky game are the same fancies who watch Survivors and cry when their favourite drops out. Or watch Queer Eye For Idiots to get tips on how to dress. Real men play Doom3 and Half-Life 2, when they are not training to become better ninjas.

Only way for The Sims to become playable for us Real Men, would be to include ninjas and pirates ( also replace all relationshipstuff with killing, and "build your own house" should be changed to "destroy your neighbours house").
I've had it with you linux-loving, Sims playing fairies, I will no longer read any other website than the best page in the universe. You can keep on discussing about the latest Barbie's Pony game and when it's linux port is coming out.

( I don't need to include the smiley, now do I? )

I'm hardly convinced by this article that Google plays any significant role in this concept. the 'they can do it because they're big and popular' logic could really extend to just about anything that has to do with searching or communication. There already are great clients like trillian, and anyone that took the time to make a better one would have a pretty decent shot of having it go mainstream if it simply performed better in every way than AIM. The great thing about the internet is that a guy like this can get more hits on his website than many major corporations - and that's without a product!
screw "don't be evil"
don't be a sucker.
Google is not in that much better a position to implement an AIM killer than you or I.

Dispite what some people seem to think, the internet did exist at one point without ads. Ads are not needed on the internet, or on websites.

There are still sites out there that don't display ads and get on fine, hosting is cheap these days, and only getting cheaper. The Best Page In The Universe has been without ads from the beginning, my personal site has no ads, my university site has no ads, a lot of business sites have no ads.
The internet is a way to share information, you give other people information by making a website in return, you ask others to make websites on information they know about. So that one day you can goto their site and find what you need.

The internet can survive without ads, and a minority will keep that philosphy. In the mean time, we will block the ads other attempt to push onto us.

P.S
If you really must have ads use a service like Google's AdWord. I personally find them a lot more unobtrusive, and even useful.

Maddox complains about movies a lot. A fun one to read is Five shitty movies that everyone loves. Worth a read.

Any movie with Will Smith. I know he's got geek factor (he turned down MIT, as I understand it), but seriously.. he can't act.

Want a nice review of I, Robot? Check out the best page in the universe.

1) Will Smith
2) Explosions/Aliens/Robots
3) ????
4) PROFIT!!!

It's pretty cool that Dan Quayle reads slashdot, but it's a shame he has to post A.C. to avoid harassment like this.

That was my first thought, then I realized "Why can't it be about both?" I mean, god knows how much product placement was in that movie. I really wouldn't be surprised if money wasn't exchanged between the creators of the movie and this company.

I think Maddox sums up the product placement situation with that movie pretty nicely.

Same goes for web pages. Why should I go to a site with shitty content that pops up ads left and right? Look at Maddox. NO ads, NO popups, great content. I would pay for Maddox, I might even buy a shirt, just to support him. So, it goes to show, there can be good sites without ads and popups, that manage to get large amounts of traffic just because of their content, and in that case, I'm willing to support the site. I am not however, willing to support a site that forces me to look at the ads, and has shitty content.

...Maddox summed it up nicely:

http://maddox.xmission.com/c.cgi?u=segway_more_com plicated_than_it_needs_to_be

Nuke Florida.

That is cool. Maybe then some day we won't need soldiers to carry out tedious tasks like these.

My dad got a sidekick... the fact that it has no bluetooth wouldn't be a problem if you could just take the sim card out and put it in another device (like a bluetooth phone or an aircard) in order to get some of that unlimited data through to a laptop. To use the card in another device, T-mobile wants you to pay another $20/month to get what amounts to another flavor of unlimited data.

I have been using an ngage with T-mobile's unlimited data. It works fine as a wireless bluetooth modem to my linux laptop or even standalone for IM or basic email if I can be patient enough to type with a number pad.

Too bad there's not something that gives you a decent OS, thumb keyboard *and* bluetooth to a pc. Nokia has it almost right (flip-over keyboard, bluetooth) with the 6820 but it doesn't have Symbian 60 so it's not really extensible enough to benefit from addon programs...

People for the Eating of Tasty Animals? YUM.

Or maybe you mean those vegetarian hippies. To them, all I can say is... For every animal you don't eat, I'm going to eat three

People for the Eating of Tasty Animals? YUM.

Or maybe you mean those vegetarian hippies. To them, all I can say is... For every animal you don't eat, I'm going to eat three

People for the Eating of Tasty Animals? YUM.

Or maybe you mean those vegetarian hippies. To them, all I can say is... For every animal you don't eat, I'm going to eat three

Ford would probably sue you because you decided to modify your Focus for speed. Are people ever going to learn that everyday drivers are not muscle, sport, and race cars? With regard to this subject, I think an obligatory link to Maddox is necessary.

I guess this means we now know which computers George W. Bush and Dan Quayle prefer!

NAID, Crash, Spring Break and Coma are all dead and don't happen anymore. There are no web pages for those parties where you can contact the organizers. There are no plans to revive any of these demoparties and continue them.

Unless you have a TARDIS, the only demoparty you'll be attending in North America is Pilgrimage. Pilgrimage is the only North American demoparty with a plan to be around for more than 2-3 years as a fluke. Pilgrimage is the only North American demoparty that has a functioning web page.

Pilgrimage organizers have never claimed it was the only demoparty to ever happen in North American. The organizers are well aware of the history of North American demoparties. However, the point is that those other parties are HISTORY not ongoing events you can still attend.

Since you mentioned CompUSA...

http://maddox.xmission.com/c.cgi?u=compusa_sucks

http://maddox.xmission.com/feminazi.html

"Why would anyone do anything that's degrading to themselves? Would you strip down in front of a crowd of people? Probably not. But would you do it if they were paying you $250 per hour? Or if they paid you $1000 per hour? Maybe then. It doesn't seem so degrading when there's a huge incentive for you to do it. So why do some feminist extremists think pornography is degrading to women? Obviously the women in pornography don't think it's degrading, otherwise they wouldn't do it. Their dignity has a price, and they were willing to sell it. They don't represent all women in general, but only the few who chose to go into that business, just as women who choose not to go into pornography don't represent the women who do. So the phrase "pornography is degrading to women" doesn't make sense."

Spirituality is BS.

You are very correct that Moore is better than his conservative counterparts. O'Reily's "no spin zone" makes me laugh my ass off, because he is probably the most biased man on the news. I don't think most conservative media personalities recieve that much criticism simply because no one who disagrees can stand listening long enough to pick what they say apart, and expose it for the biased garbage most of it is. Moore at least admits he is biased. Limbaugh does too, which gives me a heck of a lot more respect for him then O'Reily. That man makes my blood boil.

The only purpose for that ISP is to host the best page in the universe.

There were some particularly weird "things" on XMission (a local and awesome ISP)'s hold music
When I worked there, there were two songs that were the techs favorites. One of them was something like six minutes of dogs barking. The users really hated it, it really rubbed all of them the wrong way. Rubbed them the wrong way so much that you could always tell when it had just finished playing and someone had to sit through all of it. Even though there were thousands of songs in the playlist (mostly trance), this one got a lot of attention and was removed.
The song that people liked to hear the most was "C is for cookie" by the cookie monster. Wouldn't matter if they had just been sitting on hold for three days and the DSL line had surged out of control and killed both of their parents, anyone after listening to that was in a pretty happy mood by the time they got to you. I think that one is still on there.
My personal favorite Hold Music was what I put on when I worked at a little company in San Jose. 100% Christmas music, the Secretary said it shouldn't be done, it was October and all. But I said "But if we don't do it now, we won't catch them by suprise." It's really quite amazing how few people know how to change the hold music, even though it was powered by a normal cd player with a little wire running to the PBX

There's only one site even remotely blog like page worth reading. It's hardly a blog, but it does take it to the man.
The Best Page in the Universe
Everything else is worthless. Its all moaning about how life is awful. Really. I made fun of a bunch of people's blogs on this one site, ironically in blog format, laughing at mostly conservative types who talk about how Bush is teh awesomest. http://son_of_commentary.kleverblogs.com this would be clickable, but slashdot ate the link.

SEVEN SIXTEENTHS OF ONE INCH

THAT'S THE DISTANCE YOU'D HAVE TO MOVE YOUR PINKY IN ORDER TO NOT SOUND LIKE AN IDIOT. I know the burden of pressing shift to capitalize is a great one, but c'mon Turing, you can do better than that. I used to type emails in caps like yours, but then I decided that I didn't want a job mixing concrete.

Yeah, but, uh, I can't tell you how many "vegetarians" I know who "only eat fish" or "only eat chicken breast" or "only eat seafoods."

Uh, vegetarian is vegetarian. If you have a moral objection to eating a cow, why wouldn't that same objection apply to a shrimp or a salmon or a chicken?

Nothing against you personally, it's just that there are so many fake vegetarians out there who only do it to be trendy that it gets hard to take any vegetarians seriously. And then there's Maddox's point which is that basically anything you do to survive is going to kill some animal somewhere.

There's already precedent for this in the postal system, at least here in the United States.

If you receive something unsolicited in the US Mail (which includes something addressed to you by accident, but not addressed to someone else and simply left in the wrong mailbox), you are free to do with it as you wish. The sender cannot compel you to obey any license agreement or follow any restrictions they might wish to place on its use, within the bounds of the law. (That is, you can't go out and beat someone up with a billy club someone sends you in the mail, because that would otherwise violate the law, but you're free to use it as a billy club even if the company who sent it to you says it's a sex toy for cows.)

There was a great deal of discussion about this back when DigitalConvergence (remember them?) was sending unsolicited CueCats to people and then suing them for taking them apart and hacking them.

Some info on that situation:

http://www.beau.lib.la.us/~jmorris/linux/cuecat/
http://air-soldier.com/~cuecat/
http://www.xmission.com/~rebling/pub/cuecat.html
http://www.logorrhea.com/cuecat/mirrors.html

More on Google; search for "CueCat."

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Cool. C++, with a link to Visual Studio, is easier than Python.

Unless you're using some subscription release of Visual Studio, VS doesn't even support visual GUI widgets via C++ yet. You've got to use VB, or C#, or J# or some other freakin' sharp to get that.

I think one of the primay points of using a scripting language, bud, is to *get away* from IDE's. IDE's are there because certain large languages and frameworks, or certain requirements for memory management or debugging, are so complicated that using an IDE is a productivity booster. But with Perl or Python, an IDE frequently gets in the way.

Also, if you are building a "modest OpenGL/GUI" app on Windows, well ... why? If you're building something that uses extensive GUI on Windows, why not use Windows Forms or, hell, win32? Try using GLUT for Win32 to complement that.

Or, sit down and learn wxPython, which has OpenGL support and, dude, is as easy to learn as a GUI toolkit gets. I mean, I'm sorry, but if you have a hard time getting around wxPython, then maybe GUI development just isn't for you. Or maybe you need to be a bit more patient and get out of that Visual Basic mind-mode.

Anyway, it might not be a bad idea to get away from IDE a little. Cutting a little code without IntelliSense, or whatever the hell it's called, might put your mind to thinking about *why and how* things are working the way they are, instead of satisfying the requirements of the pop-up window telling you that you need to supply some widget reference.

Ooh, someone SO politically correct that he uses "she" as a personal pronoun, but also uses Japanese as a handle! Isn't that super-cool and trendy! Please tell me how you understand the work of faddish directors and nobody else does. Please, for the future of the human race, step in front of a bus the next time the opportunity presents itself.

protect people from the site of Fords and chevys

If only! American cars mostly look awful, just awful. Here are some:

http://maddox.xmission.com/c.cgi?u=ugly_cars (actually there's a jap car in there too)

...I wrote myself.

Two PHP scripts, plus an additional, .htpasswd protected one to post stuff. It worked a charm, had multiple categories, allowed comment posting...it took me about two hours to do, and even better it allowed me to have the site exactly the way I wanted it, and not the way it would fit around the CMS. It's also a great way to learn how to code. It was fast and reliable. However, I'm just using raw HTML now: only one author, and I'm sitting at the server, so why not? And if it's good enough for Maddox it's good enough for me :)

Actually it wasn't so much that different TV's produced different colors, but different *TIA chips produced different colors. Specifically, some early Atari demos (I forget which one - it displayed an image of the Atari 800 and monitor) and games (Choplifter, Beneath the Pyramids) were written expecting the artifacting colors to be orange and cyan (or red and blue), which was the case on the CTIA chip. Later on Atari replaced the CTIA with GTIA, whose luminance signal differed from the former chip by 90 degrees, resulting in artifacting colors of green and magenta. I have detailed notes about this at http://www.xmission.com/~trevin/atari/video_notes. html.