Category: On The Net

Random Pixels

A camera, alone in the world. Each Randompixel camera was given to a stranger. Stickers on the camera instruct the recipient to take a few pictures and pass it along. When the camera is done, it is dropped in the mail, it returns home, and the pictures are posted here.

Random Pixel recently posted pictures from a camera, “Ammy”, which started off at a Gaskell’s Ball in 2000. Some of you may see some familiar faces

Too bad I didnt’ see this yesterday.

I would have bought something on thinkgeek just to get this shirt:

]The Magic Supersecret Binary T-Shirt

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000 011010010110111001101011010001110110
010101100101011010110010000 001101111011
011100010000001000001011100000111001001
1010010110 11000010000001000110011011110
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000101110011001000000111 010001101000011
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1101010 11100110111100100100000011100110
1101000011010010111001001110100 00100001

In order to save you the time to google a binary to ascii converter, (since I already did it) look behind the spoliers tag
[Spoilers] I shopped at ThinkGeek on April Fools Day, and all I got was this lousy shirt! [/Spoilers]

Jones Soda

I love this stuff. When I was a kid, I remember walking to the corner store with my mom and sister to get a bottle of soda (pop, carbonated sugar water, whatever you call it in your region) as a treat. I always got the same flavor: Blue Bubblegum.

I couldn’t tell you the brand of soda that it was, thats not improtant. This was something that I had entirely forgotten about until a couple of years ago, when I discovered Jones Soda. I saw bottles of thier blue bubblegum on the shelf of a Vietnamese market in San Jose. The memory came rushing back, and I just HAD to buy some. I still treat myself to one from time to time, and I’ve even branched out into some of thier other flavors – but the blue bubblegum is still my favorite. Not for the flavor, (or even the color, whatever my wife may say,) but for the memory it evokes.

One of the cooler things about Jones, (besides the blue bubblegum,) is thier labels. They’re always changing. Jones accepts photo submissions for use on thier labels. I always thought it would be cool to submit a few photos, so tonight I finally did.

Now, for the shamless plug: Please vote for my photo submissions. A good rating will help increase the chances it gets picked for a label. 🙂

Update: I just added a few more photos. Here are all the links:
Photo 206796
Photo 206815
Photo 206816
Photo 206817

Edited on Mar 28th 2004, 10:07 by Hooloovoo

Spaced Penguins

I’ve been looking for this flash game since I saw Pya!… For some reason I was convinced “Kevin” was a chicken, not a penguin. So I ws looking for AstroChicken or something similar. (Anyone familiar with Dyson?)

SO around a bout the time I gave up looking I found it: [Link]

Funny how that works some times.

(Be warned the game is VERY addictive.)

Gamer oriented IM

So, a guy I used to work with at 3DO (well a couple of them, actually) is working on a new project: Xfire. Basically, it’s an IM client that allows people on your buddy list to see what game you’re playing, and for some games, will let them instantly join the server you’re on. For other games, it will give them the server details so they can find it themselves. It also has a cool “Friends of Friends” feature, to help you find new people to play against (or with) online.

Its in beta right now, and supports a whole slew of games (more than they have listed on thier site.) Check it out, if you don’t mind another chat client on your system. If you want to add me and can’t figure out what my username is, well… 🙂

I know I fixed those typoes before posting… I just know I did…

Edited on Feb 1st 2004, 01:23 by Hooloovoo