I didn’t realize there were 22 of those; i thought there were only 21. 22 is my birthday, although 12 is generally my lucky number. So, yeah. I’m going to start revealing truths from the list tomorrow at some point, but i’ll make sure to keep it very suspenseful – like an ultra-long 50/50 split on Who Wants To Be a Millionaire?. Of course, that would make me Regis, which means i need to dig up a tie that’ll match the shirt i’m going to wear tomorrow.
So much to do, so little sleep. g’Night.
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I’m actually feeling somewhat violated by this whole McDonald’s debacle. Basically, their fries are vegetarian all over the world except in America, where they’ve been prepared with beef extract somewhere along the line. In India the cow is sacred, and so McDonalds respects that. In Britain vegetarians are a minority that actually holds some sway, and McDonald’s conceded. Yet, here in America where we’re just a bunch of ineffectual cow-munching idiots, McDonald’s has given no indication that they’ll change their preparation of fries. I was a vegetarian through all of the latter half of highschool and my first year at college, and i know for a fact that in that time i’ve had plenty of McDonald’s fries and i honestly feel like my decision to be a healthier person was violated by a multinational corporation with no respect for the people it serves. In light of this, maybe fast food restaurants need to indicate what’s really vegetarian on their menus, because sometimes vegetarians get hungry for some drive-thru too. As a result of all of this, i am hereby boycotting all McDonald’s products until the fries are vegetarian once again. This will be especially painful for me because i have a serious addiction to McDonald’s hashbrowns (which probably aren’t vegetarian either). Have a nice day. (stole from Re)
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(logged via lyd:) Have you been to Cloudmakers.org? In my inestimably humble opinions, it is by far the best and most innovative use of the web ever, for anything… or, more accurately, is is the result of that innovation (and it only took me two whole hours of reading the same html document to come to this conclusion). Cloudmakers it the group that monitors the web-integrated real-time story that ties in to the new Spielberg flick (originally Kubric) movie AI, except this story takes place nearly a century after the movie and seems to include only one or two of the same characters. And, even more thrilling and chilling, the game has integrated into real-life with actual rallies that dispersed clues… so that if people didn’t attend the game would have stalled out. With a month left still until the movie is released, the mystery seems to be still far from its end. Meanwhile, the game features a full cast of characters, hundreds of dynamic pages of html, (long distance) phone numbers with actual messages to hear, email responders that continuously talk back, fax numbers to obtain information from, and nearly impossible puzzles that integrate information from all of the above sources and more. At a recent panel about the movie there were business cards for an special effects director who shares a name with the first character introduced into the game, and the back of the business cards contained a clue that wasn’t released in the web aspect for a few more day. The game itself occasionally refers to Cloudmakers as a multi-person problem solving scheme that equates to group AI, and occasionally links fan sites as in-game news. Also, if you’re the first person to solve a puzzle you can occasionally effect the game environment, as one person got to write a faked autopsy for one of the primary players in the puzzle.
The game itself is a bit too involved for me, but following it is nothing but a delight and joy. Second to journalism (or stardom), i’d love to be employed to design stuff like this, whether it be storyboarding or web designing. In the meantime, i can just hope that the movie is half as good as what has been conjured up to accompany it.
Quantum Slip is like some sort of contemplative cousin of Rabi, which is not to say that Rabi isn’t contemplative. They might even watch X-Files together. I’m never watching it again though … i can make up any other parts of the story in my head after getting the pieces i needed last night.
Too damned soon. Don’t know what else to think or say. I feel a little shattered.