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This week, I lent my voice to another sillymation: http://www.liquidgeneration.com/Media/News/Talkdown/All_Talkdowns/Talkdown_Vishnu_Eats_Babies/

Still don’t think anything tops Transformers. I just was in a groove.

BUT. This is something I am VERY PROUD OF and am going to brag profusely. It took a bit of my soul to make all of this work, many late nights this week on top of my freelance stuff, but in the end I’m an exhausted but excited lump of clay. So check it out.

http://www.liquidgeneration.com/Media/Pranks/Email/All_Email_Pranks/News_Pranks_Sex_Pervert/

Simple idea: You fill out a simple form with some custom information, and then a series of internet magics convert the information into a custom webpage that comes off like a serious news article. You can upload a picture to personalize it, which tends to seal the deal in terms of believability. There’s still a kink or two to work out but I worked through this from start to finish, and with the help of a few people collaborating, it got done. This probably was truly my first real actual collaborative effort in terms of number of people involved and actually influencing a project.

If you make any, link them up to share with the world!

Computer problems.

Office Paperclip

Lots more in the related for these vids.

This little perl program allows you to set the “Ready Message” on HP printers to whatever you’d like.

The solution we’re creating is simple: an open-source filter software that can detect rampant stupidity in written English. This will be accomplished with weighted Bayesian analysis and some rules-based processing, similar to spam detection engines. The primary challenge inherent in our task is that stupidity is not a binary distinction, but rather a matter of degree. To this end, we’re collecting a ranked corpus of stupid text, gleaned from user comments on public websites and ranked on a five-point scale.