shimmeringjemmy tends to show me nifty links from Fark
This one caught my “ear” and then absolutely drew me in. This is a very interesting Time-shifted transmission
Are you ready for Epic?
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I’m really not sure I get this yet…
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So today’s toy comes from a post in slynkycat‘s journal
who got it from a post in brendan93‘s journal
who got it from photognome‘s journal, who invites you to post your results.
The fun is the Comic Book Superhero Character Generator
This will waste about 10 minutes of your time… But a FUN waste.
Cross posted to macosx
A few years ago I had the privilege of having as a co-worker Jesse Brown the founder of now defunct MacMarines. The site was designed for hard core evangelism of the Macintosh platform.
Every now and then, I find a need to put on the hat of evangelism. One of the sites I frequent is Pogo.com. Pogo offers java based games that are supported on the Mac as well as the Windows platform… Well, they were. Recently, less and less of their games actually load up on the Mac. Sometimes they freeze, sometimes, they bail to an error page… sometimes they take Safari down in a cloud of smoke.
So, I decided to file a tech support request. I figured, “Game don’t work. You fix!”(sic)
I got back an automated faq that of course prompted me to once again put on the hat of Evangelist and lay into another arm of the already frenetic EA games. I encourage any Mac Pogo users to politely file bugs on any and _all_ games that you find aren’t loading.
I will keep a running status of the progress of this issue. I don’t really expect the issue to get resolved in anything like a timely fashion… but it’s always nice to at least try.
We have a plumbing issue. So this morning I will find myself working from home. I went to the roto-rooter website. We had much luck with them a few months ago when our shower nozzles weren’t shutting off.
It’s a well designed site with an online scheduling program that often lets you get a plumber out on the same day.
Today, however, there was something I hadn’t noticed on the site before. On the web menu bar was the usual, “Company, services, products, employment…” (Who ever thought a plumber would go to the Web site to look at open positions? But then, there it was: “Fun and Games”
That’s right. The Roto-Rooter website has a link for Roto-Rooter fun and games. Let me say this one more time: The company that gave massive sewage problems a fun jingle now has a fun-and-games section on their website.
Does this twindle anyone else and the base of the neck as just seeming very wrong. I mean this is my uncanny-valley sensor going of. I’ve got the voice of Hank Hill in my head saying, “That’s just not right.”
So, I clicked the link for RR’s Fun and Games. I was presented with a page of trivia concerning different names for the ‘Necessarium’ And how the ‘bathroom tissue’ equivalent once was a mussel shell. There were additional pages on history and of course Thomas Crapper. But the highlight was the game. Yup. A java applet of “Pipe Dream”
So, how many people are now waiting for an interactive web site for their local bail-bondsman or pawnshop?