Blogebrity is one of the entries in that stupid viral-marketing contest. And it's not like I'm the one who brokethisstory, either. Aren't there any press releases to post today?
The Atari 2600 featured quite a few 4-player paddle games (a pair of paddles plugs into one controller slot). There may be earlier examples, but that's the earliest one I know about.
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Something similar happened back in 1990 with Good Morning America and DARKIES, which was edited to DARKENS for broadcast. The event is mentioned in 'Word Freak,' but here's a link anyway.
While I'm at it, here's a list (and one with definitions) of words removed between the second and third editions of the Official Scrabble Player's Dictionary. The third edition is often referred to as the Expurgated Scrabble Player's Dictionary for just this reason.
One wonders why someone that can't afford food would have spent money on a computer on which to play these games.
Perhaps that someone wasn't always poor, you insensitive clod. Or they got a hand-me-down computer for free. Or perhaps they scrimped and saved in order to provide their children with what is, these days, a required educational tool.
Given the prevalence of tech-job-market-goes-to-hell stories and poor-college-student anecdotes on/., to say nothing of many Slashdotters' technology-as-universal-panacea attitudes (like how I read the summary and said 'wait, there are people these days who don't have computers?'), the casual I-know-better contempt in the summary is galling.
I don't know if you can track by address what e-mail comes from what source though.
You can.
Since I've started using spamgourmet, though, I've started to worry about the possibility of someone deciding to bombard me with aaa.20.me@spamgourmet.com, aab.20.me@spamgourmet.com, aac.20.me@spamgourmet. com, etc.
I own an Archos Jukebox 6000, and I own an iRiver IHP-140.
There is some talk about iRiver firmware hacking in forums and whatnot (misticriver's are probably the best), and some talk among the Rockbox folks about porting their firmware to different devices, but as best I know it's still mostly talk.
The iRiver mounts as a removable drive, same as the Archos, and its database can be dispensed with (or, actually, never installed in the first place). I would strongly recommend getting rid of the iRiver's database, as it greatly increases the IHP's boot time.
It's not a lot of work if you like this kinda thing, but, if you don't, it's an extended labor of plugins, registry tweaking, etc. Here's a too-brief summary:
1. Install Firefox and set it as the default browser. 2. Install Geoshell and set it as the default shell. 3. Get Salamander (it's just an.exe). 4. Do as much as possible to make Salamander the default program for opening folders, managing files, etc. This can be facilitated with a tweak utility like TweakUI or XSetup.
Using the 'explorer' shell, which is heavily intergrated into the Windows OS, is the fastest, and should be the default. Then if people want to change it to look pretty they can, by sacrificing speed (in slower machines).
Windows shell replacements, as opposed to skinning apps like WindowBlinds, usually run faster, not slower. The secret seems to be choosing an alternative browser and file manager, thereby using Explorer as little as possible.
The Crystal Cathedral was in Natural Born Kissers, the episode where Marge and Homer have lots of public sex.
Gil: Ah, they stole the balloon! I've been living in there! Well, just, you know, just 'till things pick up. [A hot plate falls from the sky and is smashed on the ground.] Oh, Lord, my hot plate. I only had two payments left!
Funny, when I signed up for the Do Not Call list, it was by phone number, not by household.
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You think the fixed number of shares being awarded in this look-like-a-scam-walks-like-a-scam contest will raise the price of the stock in the real-life Dutch auction? That's asinine.
Like I learned from Echelon, the map is not the territory.
I don't think the music labels are big on making themselves a brand identity.
That might be the case for bigger labels (Motown ain't what it used to be), but most small labels (many of which have deals with bigger companies) are big on creating that identity.
Thank you, but I already know about Alfred Packer and Cannibal: The Musical.
I was hoping for something that mentioned the Packer/Pac-man connection. The closest I could come was this page, which says that Pac-Man creators Namco had a role in funding Troma's Sgt. Kabukiman NYPD. Fascinating, but going from there to Packer/Pac-Man is quite a leap, especially since Kabukiman was made before Cannibal.
Hard to believe nobody saw this coming.
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Simply stated, online multiplayer gaming is most popular among fairly hardcore gamers. The Sims seems to have more appeal to the Windows solitaire kind of crowd.
Alternately, you could pick up a Gamecube (I like Lik-Sang's modded Japanese Panasonic Q--import GC games and region-free DVD!) and GC game Animal Crossing, which includes Excitebike among other old NES titles (My favorite is Donkey Kong Jr. Math).
The parent has got to be a troll, but anyway: "The libraries are provided FREE of charge by the government."
PATRIOT Act legislation applies not only to public libraries, but also to school libraries (elementary through graduate school--public, private and parochial) and what librarians call special libraries--historical societies, corporate libraries, etc. Whether a library receives government funds or not (many of them don't, and the ones that do still mostly have to scrimp and hustle), they're still required to comply with the new legislation.
For some increasingly-outdated PATRIOT-ACT-related links, try this links page I put up in late July (I'm a library school student).
(Incidentally, Dreamcast owners should mod their consoles, there are some _seriously_ cool Japan only games for it.)
You don't have to mod it. A bootdisc (e.g., the Utopia one) works just fine. Or, there are people who are happy to sell you something--the GameShark CDX and something called DC-X come to mind. Anyway, there's no reason to solder anything if you don't want to.
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Blogebrity is one of the entries in that stupid viral-marketing contest. And it's not like I'm the one who broke this story, either. Aren't there any press releases to post today?
The Atari 2600 featured quite a few 4-player paddle games (a pair of paddles plugs into one controller slot). There may be earlier examples, but that's the earliest one I know about.
I hate religion, and I'm not a complete and total asshole. I feel sure I'm not the only one.
(This might be my first reply that doesn't relate to libraries, video games or HD-based mp3 players.)
Or, better yet, Google for Dred Scott. Or just read this article.
Something similar happened back in 1990 with Good Morning America and DARKIES, which was edited to DARKENS for broadcast. The event is mentioned in 'Word Freak,' but here's a link anyway.
While I'm at it, here's a list (and one with definitions) of words removed between the second and third editions of the Official Scrabble Player's Dictionary. The third edition is often referred to as the Expurgated Scrabble Player's Dictionary for just this reason.
One wonders why someone that can't afford food would have spent money on a computer on which to play these games.
/., to say nothing of many Slashdotters' technology-as-universal-panacea attitudes (like how I read the summary and said 'wait, there are people these days who don't have computers?'), the casual I-know-better contempt in the summary is galling.
Perhaps that someone wasn't always poor, you insensitive clod. Or they got a hand-me-down computer for free. Or perhaps they scrimped and saved in order to provide their children with what is, these days, a required educational tool.
Given the prevalence of tech-job-market-goes-to-hell stories and poor-college-student anecdotes on
And it's a summary from TVTome, instead of the vastly-superior snpp.com.
It's capitalized legOS, and it's an open-source OS for Lego Mindstorms.
I don't know if you can track by address what e-mail comes from what source though.
. com, etc.
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You can.
Since I've started using spamgourmet, though, I've started to worry about the possibility of someone deciding to bombard me with aaa.20.me@spamgourmet.com, aab.20.me@spamgourmet.com,
aac.20.me@spamgourmet
(Yeah, I'm paranoid. That's why I'm on
I own an Archos Jukebox 6000, and I own an iRiver IHP-140.
There is some talk about iRiver firmware hacking in forums and whatnot (misticriver's are probably the best), and some talk among the Rockbox folks about porting their firmware to different devices, but as best I know it's still mostly talk.
The iRiver mounts as a removable drive, same as the Archos, and its database can be dispensed with (or, actually, never installed in the first place). I would strongly recommend getting rid of the iRiver's database, as it greatly increases the IHP's boot time.
Geoshell is a GPL shell-replacement program for Windows.
It's not a lot of work if you like this kinda thing, but, if you don't, it's an extended labor of plugins, registry tweaking, etc. Here's a too-brief summary:
.exe).
1. Install Firefox and set it as the default browser.
2. Install Geoshell and set it as the default shell.
3. Get Salamander (it's just an
4. Do as much as possible to make Salamander the default program for opening folders, managing files, etc. This can be facilitated with a tweak utility like TweakUI or XSetup.
Using the 'explorer' shell, which is heavily intergrated into the Windows OS, is the fastest, and should be the default. Then if people want to change it to look pretty they can, by sacrificing speed (in slower machines).
Windows shell replacements, as opposed to skinning apps like WindowBlinds, usually run faster, not slower. The secret seems to be choosing an alternative browser and file manager, thereby using Explorer as little as possible.
My Win2k box runs a lot faster with Geoshell/Servant Salamander/Firefox than with Explorer/Explorer/Explorer.
The other day? That contest was in 1997.
Wiggum: "Hey Kent, are you guys still having that contest where we guess what city the weather girl's in?
Kent: "That was eight years ago."
Wiggum: "Is it Pittsburgh?"
The Crystal Cathedral was in Natural Born Kissers, the episode where Marge and Homer have lots of public sex.
Gil: Ah, they stole the balloon! I've been living in there! Well, just, you know, just 'till things pick up. [A hot plate falls from the sky and is smashed on the ground.] Oh, Lord, my hot plate. I only had two payments left!
Funny, when I signed up for the Do Not Call list, it was by phone number, not by household.
You think the fixed number of shares being awarded in this look-like-a-scam-walks-like-a-scam contest will raise the price of the stock in the real-life Dutch auction? That's asinine.
Like I learned from Echelon, the map is not the territory.
I don't think the music labels are big on making themselves a brand identity.
That might be the case for bigger labels (Motown ain't what it used to be), but most small labels (many of which have deals with bigger companies) are big on creating that identity.
Def Jux. Kill Rock Stars. Blue Note. Ninja Tune. Invisible. Fat Possum. Tooth & Nail. Trojan. Moon. Death Row. Every one of these labels has a very distinct brand identity, and, as a result, devotees generally have a very good idea what they're getting.
I was hoping for something that mentioned the Packer/Pac-man connection. The closest I could come was this page, which says that Pac-Man creators Namco had a role in funding Troma's Sgt. Kabukiman NYPD. Fascinating, but going from there to Packer/Pac-Man is quite a leap, especially since Kabukiman was made before Cannibal.
Alfred E. Packer, eh? That's just crazy enough to be true, by which I mean that it's almost certainly false. How about a source?
Tony Danza!
Simply stated, online multiplayer gaming is most popular among fairly hardcore gamers. The Sims seems to have more appeal to the Windows solitaire kind of crowd.
Alternately, you could pick up a Gamecube (I like Lik-Sang's modded Japanese Panasonic Q--import GC games and region-free DVD!) and GC game Animal Crossing, which includes Excitebike among other old NES titles (My favorite is Donkey Kong Jr. Math).
PATRIOT Act legislation applies not only to public libraries, but also to school libraries (elementary through graduate school--public, private and parochial) and what librarians call special libraries--historical societies, corporate libraries, etc. Whether a library receives government funds or not (many of them don't, and the ones that do still mostly have to scrimp and hustle), they're still required to comply with the new legislation.
For some increasingly-outdated PATRIOT-ACT-related links, try this links page I put up in late July (I'm a library school student).
(Incidentally, Dreamcast owners should mod their consoles, there are some _seriously_ cool Japan only games for it.)
You don't have to mod it. A bootdisc (e.g., the Utopia one) works just fine. Or, there are people who are happy to sell you something--the GameShark CDX and something called DC-X come to mind. Anyway, there's no reason to solder anything if you don't want to.