Comment spam
Well, I figured it would happen eventually. It even happens to little sites like this…comment spam. I was trying to put off installing MT-blacklist for as long as possible, but it finally got to a point where I needed to. After deleting several comment spams in the last few days. (I guess I have an article or two linked from other sites now.) I just decided to install MT-blacklist.
Guess it was only a matter of time.
Livestrong, die now!
Lance Armstrong…enough!
Enough with the damn yellow bracelets that are now everywhere! I’m tired of them, they have just gotten out of hand. In the beginning they were fine. They were for a good cause and the Tour de France was still going on. However these stupid little $1 bracelets have taken off because people are stupid and all it takes is a semi popular star (Sheryl Crow, Justin Timberlake) and the mindless masses jump on whatever crap-train happens to be driving by at the time. This time? That crap-train was these damn yellow bracelets.
So what is the problem? Well the organization initially was fine, but people have made this retarded. i.e. earlier today, I was sad to find out one of my co-workers has been mystified by this stupid fad and decided he wanted one. However he couldn’t find any. The only place where he could get one was this pompous idiot at my workplace that bought a ton of the things and has been hording them. When asked if someone could by one from him, he stated that he has plans to sell them to certain chosen people. How retarded is that? See, this guy doesn’t give a shit about cancer! He just wants him, and his equally lame family and friends to have these things for the status they currently hold in our society. Its time to end this fad of the livestrong bracelets!
I’d be happy too, if I had just won the Tour de France and have an army of stupid people blindly following me for misguided reasons.
And another thing… I really don’t understand why everyone is up Lance Armstrong’s ass so much anyway. Yes, he is probably the greatest athlete his sport has ever seen, but Barry Bonds could be considered that too, and everyone hates him, so that reason for liking Armstrong must be tossed. Why else should we like him? Because he had cancer and came back to win?! Well a lot of other people have had some horrible cases of cancer and have come back to have wonderful lives, maybe they aren’t doing it in the public lives, and they aren’t dating Sheryl Crow, but no one is kissing their asses. Andres Galarraga, a talented major league baseball player has come back from cancer twice! He’s an athlete on a professional level…where is his national kudos? Also, just because you have cancer does not make you a great guy. You could be a complete douche bag and have cancer…that doesn’t make you any less of a douche bag. Lance Armstrong is a douche bag. He has also turned into a complete corporate whore, doing every commercial that comes his way. They aren’t even cool commercials
Now why is this guy so cool again?
If you want to help cancer research, donate the dollar…but tell them to keep their crappy bracelet.
Be sure to check out Livestrong, die now! II
musicplasma
Generally, sites that are pure flash suck. However, I have found at least one execption with musicplasma. Musicplasma is a great site for all music lovers. The front page is simple: Type in an artist or group that you like. After a second a surprisingly good looking graph shows up with the artist you selected in the middle and all the related artists (be it by influence or spin-off groups, or copycats) are displayed around it. You can then explore the different artists and pull their graph up. Its a fun site.
The real amazing part is when I type in my favorite artists “Phantom Planet“, all the other artists I like popped right up on the graph. Almost all of my favs are related in some way according to this site. So much for me having an completly eclectic music collection.
Nestopia
Well, in the last post, I asked the question: What is a good NES emulator for OS X? I answered that question fairly quickly all by myself, in the way that most questions are easily answered: With a search on Google.
Nestopia was my answer. In the little bit of time that I have had to play with it, I found it to be quick and loaded all of the roms that I threw at it. For some of the nicer features, i.e. joystick support, it needs to have the Emulator Enhancer v1.5.. Which is a shareware supported add on. It not only adds that joystick support and a few other features, but also takes the time to nag you to pay $25 everytime you open the program. Other than that, its not a bad little program. I will have to play with it a bit more, and hopefully make one of those cool USB NES controllers. But I will update this if I have any problems with it.
USB Nintendo Controller
I always love Engadget’s: How To Tuesday’s, and this weeks is one of the best.
HOW-TO: Make a Nintendo controller into a PC Joystick
Normally we run these over at Engadget, but this week’s HOW-TO is especially for Joystiq and is for all the PC/Mac/*nix gamers out there that want to use an old school Nintendo controller with their current games, or enjoy using NES emulators and want to take the game play to the next level with an old school NES controller. In this HOW-TO we show you how to build your own PC NES controller, which emulator software we used for PC game play, and where to buy the kit or a finished controller if you’d rather not solder one up.
Great, just great. I’ve not awesome at sodering, but I would like to get good at it. Maybe this is just the project to get me going!
Now I just need to find a good NES emulator for OS X. Anyone know of any?
