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I've made some insanely good progress on AMPHETADESK tonight - I've started to make the conversion to Text::Template, and the new Settings module is working perfectly. Yeeaaah.

Mmkay. You know how they have those little Peep things around Easter - little chickens that are made of this marshmallow type stuff? Right. Well, they also have bunny shapes, and much like the age-old Twinkie test, someone has created BUNNY SURVIVAL TESTS. Tis a wonderful site, with comments like:

Using a wire brace, subject was anchored to a weight to prevent natural bouyancy from allowing the subject to float to the top. After one hour, subject apparently chewed itself in half to escape desqualmanation (drowning). Unfortunately, the subject failed to predict that chewing itself in half only succeeded in massive hemorraging in the midsection, and sadly, eventual death... Control Bunnies were physically unaffected, but disturbed by the sight of Bunny blood in the water.

So, is this "CORRECTING SPELLING on Cat's Name" the name of the story or some moronic intern's mistake? Is it really an issue whether the cat has a colon in it's name or not? It's a clone - it has no feelings! Why would it care about "cc:" or "cc"? Stupid cat.

Side note: by the time you view this link, the titling error will probably be fixed, and you'll have no clue what I'm talking. In that case, just enjoy the cloning and feel good about yourself. Or, you could try archive.org's cached version.

[11:38] <Morbus> i was thinking about a phrase this morning: "immensely intensely" and thought it sounded better as "imtensely".

So anyway, Grand Master Morbus gave me blogging permissions on DNN, but implied that under no circumstances whatsoever was I to blog anything.

Screw that.

He also implied that if I were to inadvertantly blog something, under no circumstances whatsoever was I to define the meaning of "culture". Oh yeah? Well, screw that too. Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the very epitome of culture in the 21st century: pissart.

Welp, I've been making some relatively decent progress with the modularization of AMPHETADESK. Still a long way off from anything the public can see, but at least I feel a little better about showing people the code. Eventually, this modularization will make AmphetaDesk very pipe-able for Linux people, and very plugin-able for everyone else. Fun, fun.

Pffff. Blockbuster has started asking movie studios for ONLY the pan-and-scan versions of DVDs, and not the widescreen editions. Talk about clueless retailers. I don't rent from Blockbuster myself (I stick to my local independant), but this is just flipping moronic. SIGN THE PETITION against it.

INCREDIBLE SITE concerning "the secret lives of numbers":

The authors conducted an exhaustive empirical study, with the aid of custom software, public search engines and powerful statistical techniques, in order to determine the relative popularity of every integer between 0 and one million. The resulting information exhibits an extraordinary variety of patterns which reflect and refract our culture, our minds, and our bodies.

For example, certain numbers, such as 212, 486, 911, 1040, 1492, 1776, 68040, or 90210, occur more frequently than their neighbors because they are used to denominate the phone numbers, tax forms, computer chips, famous dates, or television programs that figure prominently in our culture.

Heh, heh. This ain't no "2600 Phones From Around The World", nope, instead, it's URINALS FROM AROUND THE WORLD. It even includes a Top 10 "most fascinating urinals" list. Quality stuff, this is.

I've always loved fonts and the markup and appearance of language, and now I've the ability to randomly generate entire alphabets:

The ALPHABET SYNTHESIS MACHINE is an aid to explorers of the liminal territory between familiarity and chaos. An interactive Java applet, the Machine invites you to evolve the letterforms of a personalized "alien alphabet": the possible writing system of your own imaginary civilization. The abstract alphabets produced by the Machine can be downloaded as PC-format TrueType fonts, and are entered into a comprehensive archive of user creations. The products of the Machine probe the liminal territories between familiarity and chaos, language and gesture.