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Living Room / Re: Star Wars III(.5) Darth Vader meets Monty Python's King Arthur ...

« on: July 17, 2006, 04:15 PM »

R.O.F.L.

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Living Room / Re: Sensual Massager for Women that comes with Programable Software

« on: July 17, 2006, 11:40 AM »

um... 
sounds like a highbrow version of the PS2 game REZ and their infamous "attachment"
(slightly mature content... Hoo is my face red... eep!)

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Living Room / Re: Born in the wrong time...

« on: July 17, 2006, 11:20 AM »

Ooh, then you were around for "Network" too, eh?
http://www.imdb.com/...tle/tt0074958/quotes

Howard Beale's "I'm as mad as hell" diatribe is forever burned into my brain...

PS. Rover: here's cartoon artist Steph Gladden's interpretation of the PPG's, enjoy...
http://www.ilovecart...ladden_ppg_color.jpg

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Living Room / Re: All your base are belong to us

« on: July 17, 2006, 11:07 AM »

Uh-oh, looks like Wikipedia beat us to it...
http://en.wikipedia....i/Internet_phenomena

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Living Room / The Generator Blog

« on: July 11, 2006, 02:15 PM »

The last word in automatic sign and miscellanea generators.
http://generatorblog.blogspot.com/

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Living Room / Re: Interesting Article about Dual Income Family Financial Issues

« on: July 10, 2006, 12:31 PM »

Wow, talk about a can of worms...

If women hadn't entered the workforce in droves, what would be the average current rate of pay for most careers? My guess is it would be a lot higher than it is now.

I and my single-income-family friends have pondered the same question, but in hushed tones and out of sight of the N.O.W. spy cams.

I don't have the figures to back it up (so tag this as My Honest Opinion), but I bet you can partly blame WWII. As we all know, the circumstances of that war drove women into the work force and then the subsequent "baby boom" after the war ended probably made dual-income an attractive option especially since there were suddenly three things influencing economics, 1 - women trained in factory and service work, 2 - a whole army (literally) of more-or-less hard-working men many of whom returned with highly specialized military technology training and 3 - more mouths to feed. No way a "normal" job market could accomadate those simultaneously without a cultural shift.

BTW- My family went single-income about 3 years ago and we are actuallly doing better. Go figure. I think its because my wife is handling ALL the finances now, and I am a richer man for it.

P.S. On a side note, I just hit your website, app103 and i was #1337 on your web counter 

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Emulate a green monitor to reduce eye strain.

« on: July 06, 2006, 05:28 PM »

maybe one has an "invert" option...

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Emulate a green monitor to reduce eye strain.

« on: July 06, 2006, 02:53 PM »

Correct me if i'm wrong, but most video cards have tweaking apps that allow you to adjust gamma, hue, rgb levels, etc. you could use that to reduce the colors to green and black. I have also seen third party apps to do that, but YMMV, Caveat Emptor, etc.
 

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Living Room / Re: Satire on the web

« on: July 06, 2006, 12:40 PM »

"Satire for smart people..."
http://www.bbspot.com

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Living Room / Re: Satire on the web

« on: July 06, 2006, 12:26 PM »

This one hasn't been updated for a while, but it's a screecher, watch yourself...
http://www.divisiontwo.com/

i especially like "Jorge Lopez' " comparisons between Windows and Linux...

...As I am sitting here writing this column, my computer is busily defragging my hard drive, running my virus scanner, and I'm being shown a list of all the latest MS security patches that are being remotely installed on my machine today. Why doesn't Linux come with any defragmenting tools or virus scanners or Active Backdoor Update like you get with Windows? These are all must-have features for me...

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Living Room / Re: Thread for time-wasting flash games.

« on: July 05, 2006, 05:01 PM »

Latest find:
http://www.secretlev....de/RapidMotion.html
never had more fun assembling a bearing with a pinball game...

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General Software Discussion / Antique software

« on: June 29, 2006, 07:11 PM »

So i was looking for a stand-alone very (VERY) simple database program that would let me add and organize phone numbers, addresses, etc. and did not want any of the current fashionable PIM's or such. I wanted text in sortable squares with support for simple macros and not a penny more, get my drift? To make a short google search sound even shorter, I ended up at http://tinyapps.org/text.html and looking at their offerings of spreadsheet/database apps....

Hmmm... VisiCalc? You mean THE VisiCalc? (cobwebs... clearing...) NO WAY!!

Yep, and here's the proof: http://www.bricklin....ory/vcexecutable.htm
...and the story behind it: http://static.userla...chive/msg008583.html
...and reaction to such a singularly cool event: http://www.bricklin....postingreactions.htm
Seems others have followed suit and authors of groundbreaking software of yesteryear have re-acquired distribution rights to the fruits of their labors, check it out: http://www.bricklin....story/othersites.htm

Maybe some of you's know of similar efforts and would like to pass it along...

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Living Room / Re: Satire on the web

« on: June 29, 2006, 11:14 AM »

I think calling the New Yorker satire is a kind of satire in itself. Good one, Moerl 

I had a few referenced in my other post, one (shelley the republican) was a right-wing satire but I cannot for the life of me find a left-wing satire site of the same caliber. Perhaps the right-wingers are too stodgey to pull such a lark? Please help me in my quest...

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Living Room / Re: OfficePoltergeist - prank on your office mates

« on: June 29, 2006, 10:55 AM »

haha Carol I did the same sort of thing to my boss once. His name was Dennis and I replaced the error message with me saying "Don't touch me there, Dennis!" (remember Mac's cute little round microphone?) so every time he made a mistake working up time sheets it would say that! He found it amusing until the General Manager wanted to use his computer. 

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Living Room / Satire on the web

« on: June 28, 2006, 12:06 PM »

On this thread there was a brief discussion of "satirical" websites. Sites that seem legitimate, but then it is revealed that the purpose is to Satirize a legitimate issue, people group, religion, political ideology, etc.
How about a thread for such sites, as they can be at once rollickingly funny, flat stupid or thought provoking in a how-dare-they-say-that-and-live sort of way, but mostly fun. (and if it's political or religious, include a disclaimer...)
I'll start out with a real fun one: Gobler toys!
http://www.goblertoys.com/

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Living Room / Re: Make your own funny motivational posters online

« on: June 28, 2006, 11:48 AM »

Obligatory AYBABTU:

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Living Room / Re: Unix-Haters Handbook

« on: June 21, 2006, 12:07 PM »

Remember this was 10 years ago when Win95 was still the newest kid on the block and 64 megs of RAM was a Grail of sorts...
I have Slackware on a 150 MHz 64MB RAM machine at home (workshop test box) running XFCE Window manager. 24-bit true color and alphamapped png icons, the whole banana; smooth as butter on a bald monkey. (KDE would really push it though...)

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Living Room / Unix-Haters Handbook

« on: June 20, 2006, 07:40 PM »

Because we have a few on this board; because I personally love *nix; and even though this handbook is ten years old (read the chapter on X-windows, yipes! How did we EVER get from this to KDE?) it is still the funniest read I've had in a long time.
And the funniest part is where it's linked from...
http://research.micr...iel/unix-haters.html

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Living Room / Re: superboyac was not alone in his view of the mac vs. windows commercial

« on: June 20, 2006, 07:32 PM »

in response to the last question...

isn't smug superiority (no matter how affable and casually dressed) a bit off-putting as a brand strategy?

heck yeah.

i'll take out my smug superiority on a loaded Slackware box tonight...

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Living Room / Re: Thread for time-wasting flash games.

« on: June 20, 2006, 05:41 PM »

  Indeed.

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Living Room / Re: Thread for time-wasting flash games.

« on: June 20, 2006, 01:08 PM »

Damn Birds!!
http://www.mofunzone...es/damn_birds.shtml#

You are a statue in a park. You stood there for years and watched the birds pooping on you until one day your patience comes to its end and you decide to take revenge on the Damn Birds. And luckily you're a statue with a gun.

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Living Room / Re: All your base are belong to us

« on: June 20, 2006, 11:58 AM »

maybe i should have put NSFW in red flashing neon letters, as well as provide a definition...
Not Safe For Work
Also not my normal fare. I had heard that there were some funny parodies of this ad and typed "priceless" in google and just about fell off my chair. Never went there again until this thread. Thanks.

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Living Room / Re: Atomic Computer — gimme, gimme, gimme!

« on: June 20, 2006, 11:52 AM »

Free Hype.

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Living Room / Re: Gene Wilder with Steve Ballmer as Frankenstein (videomix)

« on: June 20, 2006, 11:50 AM »

one word...

ROFL 

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Living Room / Re: All your base are belong to us

« on: June 19, 2006, 08:04 PM »

I hate to put this up cause the content gets racey, but its SO relevant to the topic...
The mastercard ad that spawned a million stupid satires... (as well as NSFW pics)
Priceless!
http://images.google...m/images?q=priceless