My question is why was Slashdot so over-excited enough about ilovebees.com to have several articles about it?
I so far saw ZERO articles about any of the joke websites made for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Wow, a website to hype up an upcoming game. yeah, that's worth 4 articles.
You have to admit the ad with Jerry Stiller and Snoop Dogg collecting CDs to make that fish art project was funny.
It's an ad blatantly admitting to sending you excessive amounts of junk mail. At least the tins included later on were actually useful. I keep stickers in them.
I wonder if that ad agency still has that contract with AOL.
I'm surprised the Simpsons haven't done a BB joke yet:
* Homer and Bart go into a Best Buy* * Bart buys a magazine* Pimply-faced cashier: Sir, would you like to buy an extended service plan for that magazine for just $3? Bart: No way Homer: Bart, you might spill something on it! Get the warranty!
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The reason text blogging became so big is that it's easily searched and, thus, easily found via search engines.
I think you meant to say "easily pollutes search engines".
Believe it or not, 3-demon had a television commercial for it. It was very low-budget, and offered a 3-demon t-shirt! Mind you, the t-shirt looks like it was made by a kid.
There was a Tunnels of Doom editor. You could basically edit "Quest for the king" with different monsters, graphics, etc. Didn't change the overall flavor of the game. More like a hex edit hack.
I remember the slashdot article a while back they were considering other equally useless and trivial TLDs like.museum. Yeah, like we have thousands of museum websites on the Internet just dying for that TLD.
Hey! Let's have.diner! I mean, there are thousands of diners needing their own TLD! Sure, you can't order coffee & a slice of pie on the Internet, but wow woudln't that be useful!
At least with.biz that's useful in universally blocking it(spammers).
If I read the article (or discussion rather) correctly, this guy is conning a 419-guy from "LAGOS" into paying $200 cash + $4500 cheque for "large boxes of misc garbage with a broken laptop that has "ANUS" inscribed on the screen".
I think we just found out how to solve the broken/obsolete computer recycling problem. Send it ALL to the scammer(saying it is new hardwrae for your new business parnter), with them paying for shipping!
I am still dumbfounded why new PDAs are released it seems every week. I bought my Handspring Visor 2 years ago(still use it), only to find support for it was pulled rather shortly after I bought it. I was hoping to just walk into any brick & mortar store and buy a keyboard or module for it. But alas, no.
If a band is gonna tie itself to a marketing campaign, you might as well give them the whole kit & kaboodle.
That would entail:
all albums. Yeah, all of them. B-sides. Ie stuff not on the albums/cds/compilations outtakes/demos - Get the really-hard-to-find U2 audio. You know, those tracks you have to buy the whole box set to get, and it's usually just 1 or 2 tunes + all the tunes you had before?
If you're gonna go, go all out. Put some tracks that might not sell well by itself, but would be a great addition to an iPod for fans, or would-be fans.
Instead of blocking port 80 and trying to greenlight thousands of sites that are legit, can one redlight hundreds of spyware sights so no connection can be made to them?
I mean, I don't see any purpose of seeing ad banners at work. That's bandwidth that's best used elsewhere.
I recently played Gauntlet from the Nintendo Playchoice 10.
Let's think about this. Would you rather spend 25 cents playing a stripped-down Nintendo version of Gauntlet for a fixed amount of time(regardless of you lose your health or not?) or the full-featured arcade version for the same price?
I dunno. I know it's a sequel to 2, but it doesn't feel like it's worth $50.
With T2, the gui was rather nice and easy to get around in. With T:V it seems rather cluttered. The only advantage T:V has is the "quick weapon suit switch" on a grid of 3x3 keys. Takes a little getting used to, but it works.
The maps seem to be quite a bit smaller than in T2. With T2 you had to do quite a trek over mountains and such to even see the enemy base. With the maps in T:V it seems like a deathmatch map.
There doesn't seem to be as many weapons, but maybe because it's a demo? The machine gun seems to fire rather slowly and be rather ineffective. The shotgun seems to be moerso there for looks. The shield-boomeraing thing is fun though, yet I have not made a single hit with it. The actual fighting among players seems slow paced.
I used to play T:2 quite a bit back in the day, enjoying the quick download of new maps, and despising major leage shifts-of-gameply mods like the Shifter mod(you spent most of your time figuring out the mods and setting up suits while one person kept capping the flag over and over). With T:V, I don't see myself playing it for hours.
After getting into Unreal Tourney 2004 it seems to be that's what Tribes 2 should have been.
I remember about 3-4 years ago a friend of mine(xunil) had a non-color screen cell phone. It had some multiplayer game on it, some RPG. Remembering back, it was an all-text game, but it was interesting to say the least.
Just the other day I downloaded a stripped down version of Gauntlet. A bit hard to play on the keypad, but cool nonetheless.
I play UT2004 daily, and it's even more fun when custom maps are played, and with the new vehicles it's a hoot.
I just wish they would overcome that 32 player limit. I miss the days of Playing Wolf:ET on a 64 player map(chigc.com ruled for that). It was a full-out war. With some of the larger(10 meg) maps, UT would even be more fun with it.
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...then we can filter out the bees stories like those wacky JohnKatz articles.
My question is why was Slashdot so over-excited enough about ilovebees.com to have several articles about it?
I so far saw ZERO articles about any of the joke websites made for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Wow, a website to hype up an upcoming game. yeah, that's worth 4 articles.
You have to admit the ad with Jerry Stiller and Snoop Dogg collecting CDs to make that fish art project was funny.
It's an ad blatantly admitting to sending you excessive amounts of junk mail. At least the tins included later on were actually useful. I keep stickers in them.
I wonder if that ad agency still has that contract with AOL.
I'm surprised the Simpsons haven't done a BB joke yet:
* Homer and Bart go into a Best Buy*
* Bart buys a magazine*
Pimply-faced cashier: Sir, would you like to buy an extended service plan for that magazine for just $3?
Bart: No way
Homer: Bart, you might spill something on it! Get the warranty!
The reason text blogging became so big is that it's easily searched and, thus, easily found via search engines.
I think you meant to say "easily pollutes search engines".
Believe it or not, 3-demon had a television commercial for it. It was very low-budget, and offered a 3-demon t-shirt! Mind you, the t-shirt looks like it was made by a kid.
There was a Tunnels of Doom editor. You could basically edit "Quest for the king" with different monsters, graphics, etc. Didn't change the overall flavor of the game. More like a hex edit hack.
I've noticed some delays with mike's ad blocking hosts file. Why the hell would a web page struggle loading of some external image? Yuck.
What i've noticed is that 90% of the sites I visit for some reason need to visit falkag.net(or something with a name similar to that).
No oracle I know of. There was a "living statue". Give him the dough, he'll reveal what magic scrolls, etc you have.
I remember the slashdot article a while back they were considering other equally useless and trivial TLDs like .museum. Yeah, like we have thousands of museum websites on the Internet just dying for that TLD.
.diner! I mean, there are thousands of diners needing their own TLD! Sure, you can't order coffee & a slice of pie on the Internet, but wow woudln't that be useful!
.biz that's useful in universally blocking it(spammers).
Hey! Let's have
At least with
Maybe make a Firefox/Mozilla SDK for sites that are IE-only Firefox friendly? that should help propagation.
If I read the article (or discussion rather) correctly, this guy is conning a 419-guy from "LAGOS" into paying $200 cash + $4500 cheque for "large boxes of misc garbage with a broken laptop that has "ANUS" inscribed on the screen".
I think we just found out how to solve the broken/obsolete computer recycling problem. Send it ALL to the scammer(saying it is new hardwrae for your new business parnter), with them paying for shipping!
I am still dumbfounded why new PDAs are released it seems every week. I bought my Handspring Visor 2 years ago(still use it), only to find support for it was pulled rather shortly after I bought it. I was hoping to just walk into any brick & mortar store and buy a keyboard or module for it. But alas, no.
If a band is gonna tie itself to a marketing campaign, you might as well give them the whole kit & kaboodle.
That would entail:
all albums. Yeah, all of them.
B-sides. Ie stuff not on the albums/cds/compilations
outtakes/demos - Get the really-hard-to-find U2 audio. You know, those tracks you have to buy the whole box set to get, and it's usually just 1 or 2 tunes + all the tunes you had before?
If you're gonna go, go all out. Put some tracks that might not sell well by itself, but would be a great addition to an iPod for fans, or would-be fans.
here's footage she shot of squirrels in the churchyard.
Why on earth is the livejournal entry friends-only? Is it that private?
....at the firewall level?
Instead of blocking port 80 and trying to greenlight thousands of sites that are legit, can one redlight hundreds of spyware sights so no connection can be made to them?
I mean, I don't see any purpose of seeing ad banners at work. That's bandwidth that's best used elsewhere.
I'm still waiting eagerly when the press release for HL2 going gold, goes gold. :)
Let's go for the gold!
I recently played Gauntlet from the Nintendo Playchoice 10.
Let's think about this. Would you rather spend 25 cents playing a stripped-down Nintendo version of Gauntlet for a fixed amount of time(regardless of you lose your health or not?) or the full-featured arcade version for the same price?
I dunno. I know it's a sequel to 2, but it doesn't feel like it's worth $50.
With T2, the gui was rather nice and easy to get around in. With T:V it seems rather cluttered. The only advantage T:V has is the "quick weapon suit switch" on a grid of 3x3 keys. Takes a little getting used to, but it works.
The maps seem to be quite a bit smaller than in T2. With T2 you had to do quite a trek over mountains and such to even see the enemy base. With the maps in T:V it seems like a deathmatch map.
There doesn't seem to be as many weapons, but maybe because it's a demo? The machine gun seems to fire rather slowly and be rather ineffective. The shotgun seems to be moerso there for looks. The shield-boomeraing thing is fun though, yet I have not made a single hit with it. The actual fighting among players seems slow paced.
I used to play T:2 quite a bit back in the day, enjoying the quick download of new maps, and despising major leage shifts-of-gameply mods like the Shifter mod(you spent most of your time figuring out the mods and setting up suits while one person kept capping the flag over and over). With T:V, I don't see myself playing it for hours.
After getting into Unreal Tourney 2004 it seems to be that's what Tribes 2 should have been.
Plus you could browse through those maps in an emergency like you see in TV & movies(think Max Headroom).
I remember seeing the comic book advertisements for the Transformers for a while before any TF toys hit shelves.
..is easy and has been going on for years
1. setup web cam page
2. setup amazon wishlist
3. do revealing poses, etc
4. Win prizes!
And have the main door prize be deodorant. Get a sponsorship deal with Mennen and hand out free sticks of it.
:)
Trust me, a LAN party is a perfect place to get people interested in personal hygiene(sp?)
I remember about 3-4 years ago a friend of mine(xunil) had a non-color screen cell phone. It had some multiplayer game on it, some RPG. Remembering back, it was an all-text game, but it was interesting to say the least.
Just the other day I downloaded a stripped down version of Gauntlet. A bit hard to play on the keypad, but cool nonetheless.
I play UT2004 daily, and it's even more fun when custom maps are played, and with the new vehicles it's a hoot.
I just wish they would overcome that 32 player limit. I miss the days of Playing Wolf:ET on a 64 player map(chigc.com ruled for that). It was a full-out war. With some of the larger(10 meg) maps, UT would even be more fun with it.