Chank Diesel of the greatest font foundry in the world owns Fucker.com (which some of chank.com's items linked to) and Flash cartoon site Fuckertown.com, both of which are working right now... and we all know about FuckedCompany.com, which has been featured on this site before.
My wife works at a library where there is a "site of the week" promoted. I'd suggested chank.com and it was almost put on their list... until someone watched the link display in their browser and saw the references to fucker.com as elements loaded. Whoops...
Good to see Kevin Horton has been/.'d -- not only does he do hardware hacking, he's written a couple Colecovision games. [Hey, did you ever finish Zookeeper?!] Now, if I could only find a good Coleco stick, I'd be playing Kevtris right now...
It's my observation that some people (myself included) read Slashdot for the news either exclusively or along with at least one other site with similar goals (K5, Freshmeat, etc) -- and avoid the "real" news sites. It's the geek opinions and geek concerns which matter, not watered down or oversimplified like most "real" news sites with corporate advertisers do. Plus if anything *worthwhile* shows up on those news sites, it finds its way here... why scurry around looking when you've got the goods? And what appears here is guided by the reader, not by what some agency sees fit (to wit, how often do you see critical articles about Microsoft on any of the news sites affiliated somehow with M$?). You're doing the job right,/. -- intended or not, you are a news site, one with more credibility and pertinence than most.
The Apple//gs has a TCP/IP stack available -- Marinetti 2 -- but AFAIK no applications other than the semifunctional Telnet available. (Where's the mail suite?) So one could write a WAP client on the GS alone, likely with GNO/ME, without outside machinery as the VIC=20 plus 386 had to.
And for the record, #1 - Commodore did make 32k RAM cartridges, so the 19k app mentioned could work; #2 - my own VIC=20 has a broken reset button, so I can't get to the end of a line without suddenly getting jumped to home position. Thanks a crapload, Randy Troy!
Was in my local Shack today to buy tapes, and they didn't say a word about it... The new catalogs and of course the scanners aren't in all stores just yet. Looks like I'll make a return trip sometime soon.:)
Tangental thought: Nullsoft had a few other swell programs, listed as what folks inside their organization used, such as the RotoZoom Screensaver -- which appear not to be available from nullsoft.com as they had been. Have asked Justin about the renewed availability of such programs (free source or not). Good to see the three apps up for grabs... they are not a one-trick llama.:)
One of the sites listed as having an invisible GIF is www.metamucil.com -- looked, found the tag, laughed, then closed the View Source window. Then laughed harder when I saw the button on Metamucil's site for the "Privacy BBBOnline" link... say what?? Contradiction!
That's how it's always been here too. I'm a Washington resident and made the mistake of buying the GeekSquad computer repair book from Amazon.com instead of one of their competitors, thus costing me 8.4% sales tax I could have avoided. Everything I've ever bought online, regardless of state (except WA) or country has been taxfree.
I could only get about twelve pages into this thing before the laughter stopped me. What DOES this guy know, if the only thing he has knowledge of is "2600, they make T-shirts of me"?
Okay, so today I was awaken by a call from a credit agency. Several months ago the Bank Of America cashed a check for someone with the same first and last names (different middle names, and this person did sign his on the check!) and the teller didn't catch that the driver's license #'s were different either. Check bounced. I get billed the $200. After dealing with BOA's fraud dept to get things cleared up, they said they would notify the agencies they'd contacted that all was well. This was early May. The credit folks called today to ask where their money was. I had a chat with them, and with BOA, and BOA maintains it sent them notice but was ``lost`` somehow. Credit person informed me that due to being turned in to creditors, it would be impossible for me to open a new bank account (BOA screws up and now no one likes me?)... Yes, happy ending, within five minutes of my getting things straightened out with BOA, the credit agency says things are hunky-dory. Now, the real question is, how many OTHER people were notified that I'm a baaaad baaaad person and will be looking bad at me? Spousal unit and I want to get a loan and buy a house this year, let's see where this follows us...
What hacks me off is that the article keeps calling Adams Family "vintage." I hate pinball machines that have a lot of metal tubing and an animated display... Real pinball machines don't rely on flash and magnets, they use the physics and knockdowns. Sock Hop and Old Chicago are vintage. Machines patterned after movies (Terminator, Adams Family, Twilight Zone) are too freaking heavy. You know the beautiful thing? Take a good look at the 'virtual' pinball machines people say are replacing the hardwood versions -- most of these (good example, Space Cadet from Win95 Plus!) are patterned after the old style machines, NOT the newer ones! Ponder that. People want hardwood, they just wanna play it without dropping quarters (or just one, instead of 2 like some newer machines require). Some of my best memories of youth are from Ed's Bar-B-Q playing pinball. Now I have to get my fix by going to my parents' house (ecch!), and my folks say I'm the only one who ever turns on the Bobby Orr NHL Hockey pinball machine, possibly because half the bells don't work and it takes 15 minutes to warm up (vacuum tubes?). But the experience is a hell of a lot more real IMHO than anything produced in the last 10 years.
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My wife works at a library where there is a "site of the week" promoted. I'd suggested chank.com and it was almost put on their list... until someone watched the link display in their browser and saw the references to fucker.com as elements loaded. Whoops...
Good to see Kevin Horton has been /.'d -- not only does he do hardware hacking, he's written a couple Colecovision games. [Hey, did you ever finish Zookeeper?!] Now, if I could only find a good Coleco stick, I'd be playing Kevtris right now...
1. War on drugs.
I've seen the best minds of my generation expanded, but it's not for everyone.
2. Minority Religions.
Does the Green Party count as one?
3. Why give a tax cut.
men in suits run in Because mfff mfff arr mfffft mtt!
4. Electoral Reform
sound of men in suits dragging gagged Nader away
5. Intellectual Property
pttht If you wrote it, it's yours. How hard can it be?
6. Encryption.
I can't figure it out.
7. Rising Political Protests
men in suits reapply gag Mfffttt!! Mffft!
8. Asteroid Defenses.
moving chin sideway A good use for our nuclear stockpiuhhh!
9. The future of the Country and of Humanity.
men in suits get him out of auditorium
It's my observation that some people (myself included) read Slashdot for the news either exclusively or along with at least one other site with similar goals (K5, Freshmeat, etc) -- and avoid the "real" news sites. It's the geek opinions and geek concerns which matter, not watered down or oversimplified like most "real" news sites with corporate advertisers do. Plus if anything *worthwhile* shows up on those news sites, it finds its way here... why scurry around looking when you've got the goods? And what appears here is guided by the reader, not by what some agency sees fit (to wit, how often do you see critical articles about Microsoft on any of the news sites affiliated somehow with M$?). You're doing the job right, /. -- intended or not, you are a news site, one with more credibility and pertinence than most.
And for the record, #1 - Commodore did make 32k RAM cartridges, so the 19k app mentioned could work; #2 - my own VIC=20 has a broken reset button, so I can't get to the end of a line without suddenly getting jumped to home position. Thanks a crapload, Randy Troy!
Good page. See mine for some similar sentiments.
Was in my local Shack today to buy tapes, and they didn't say a word about it... The new catalogs and of course the scanners aren't in all stores just yet. Looks like I'll make a return trip sometime soon. :)
Tangental thought: Nullsoft had a few other swell programs, listed as what folks inside their organization used, such as the RotoZoom Screensaver -- which appear not to be available from nullsoft.com as they had been. Have asked Justin about the renewed availability of such programs (free source or not). Good to see the three apps up for grabs... they are not a one-trick llama. :)
One of the sites listed as having an invisible GIF is www.metamucil.com -- looked, found the tag, laughed, then closed the View Source window. Then laughed harder when I saw the button on Metamucil's site for the "Privacy BBBOnline" link... say what?? Contradiction!
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Didn't AOL try to crack down on people spamming its users (unless it was AOL itself doing the spamming)?