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The Automated Online Role-Player

2009-01-30T07:05:00.000-08:00

The Autocamp 2000 Plays Online RPGs with the following rules:

1. Join any group that invites you
2. When in a group, follow behind the leader
3. Attack any monster you see
4. Accept all trade requests from other players, then give them a melon
-- [more]

Weirdest endzone dance ever (click)

2009-01-19T12:36:00.000-08:00

SNL: Straight Talk - Stock Market

2009-01-19T07:41:00.001-08:00

500kV Switch Opening

2009-01-19T07:36:00.001-08:00

dirty dancing. (slow start)

2009-01-15T14:12:00.000-08:00

Comedian Darcy Michael

2009-01-12T18:23:00.000-08:00

yummy

2009-01-10T08:08:00.000-08:00

george carlin tells it like it is

2009-01-01T09:50:00.000-08:00

Dog Malfunction

2008-12-16T22:46:00.000-08:00

Pretty! (click)

2008-12-11T06:25:00.000-08:00

fire tennis

2008-12-06T20:09:00.000-08:00

"Auto" mario level by x1372

2008-12-06T19:04:00.001-08:00

Another nice one! (Plus Zelda music.)

Football humor

2008-12-04T15:58:00.000-08:00

"Peyton Hillis was drafted to be a fullback... So what's his favorite position? 'Quarterback,' said Hillis. 'I can throw the ball farther than anybody on this team. I just don't know where it's going.'"
--denverpost.com

Baby monkey gets his own guard dog

2008-11-09T12:29:00.001-08:00

"A Chinese zoo has given an orphan monkey its own guard dog to stop it being bullied by bigger primates."
-- ananova.com

Change we can live without

2008-11-08T13:19:00.000-08:00

Chimp rides a Segway

2008-10-21T12:26:00.000-07:00

Barrack Obama does stand up jokes

2008-10-20T17:46:00.000-07:00

funniest mac ad ever

2008-10-20T17:44:00.000-07:00

parody of Ice Ice baby

2008-10-20T17:41:00.001-07:00

great starcraft finish

2008-10-20T17:39:00.000-07:00

Racism In The Elevator

2008-10-11T19:12:00.000-07:00

"Make money" preacher/singer calls audience stupid (1:50)

2008-10-10T19:15:00.000-07:00

Wasilla hypocrits

2008-10-07T11:50:00.000-07:00

High-graphics Super Mario Brothers

2008-09-03T10:37:00.000-07:00

Part 1,
Part 2 (shown),
Part 3, etc.

Will It Blend? - Glow Sticks

2008-07-20T19:57:00.000-07:00

quotes by me and others

2008-07-19T16:17:00.000-07:00

(Click!)

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
-- Mark Twain

Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.
-- Mark Twain

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw

College isn't the place to go for ideas.
-- Helen Keller

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas

decepticrat's band (the Gothic Knights) has a show

2008-06-28T10:24:00.000-07:00

Digg isn't about diggs anymore - it's about censorship methods

2008-06-22T09:24:00.000-07:00

Currently digg is controlled by the upcomming bury crowd - these people are *nothing* like digg's normal users - they're abusers who realized upcomming buries count the most.

Only digg's frontpage users can accurately censor - every alternative will be gamed.

And the algorithm? It's often more corrupt - Top users have more "diversity" than normal users... Cute animal pics have more "diversity" than important news... And people who submit random stuff have more "diversity" than real news submitters.

(Who're censored by the algorithm.)

Frankly it appears to promote stories completely at random - "who can get the most noob votes?"

Digg should have lower weighted upcoming buries, higher weighted frontpage buries, & more stories promoted to the frontpage. (To *then* get buried.)

Digg's new algorithm is destroying the digg 'middle class'

2008-02-29T09:44:00.000-08:00

How many great stories are being missed because this flawed algorithm? It's hurting people for having loyal friends - digg decided "friend variety" is a good way to judge the quality of a story. And guess who has lots of random friends? Top users.

I'm the opposite: I submit news from *actual newspapers* but have a small ammount of loyal friends, so I'm punished.

It took 180 diggs for my Mccain story to frontpage. Yet Mrbabyman frontpaged with just 40 diggs recently. Kevin Rose admited it at the Digg Town Hall. (However yesterday Mrbabyman went 0 for 6.)

Of course digg should stop top users from spamming the frontpage, but "user variety" just isn't a good way to promote or punish digg stories.

Man with a 13-inch Tail

2007-12-27T16:45:00.000-08:00

Sherman and Mr. Peabody explain American Foreign Policy

2007-12-16T16:49:00.000-08:00

The income tax law DOES exist:

2007-07-03T04:24:00.000-07:00

Ed Brown claimed he'd give one million dollars to anyone who "showed him the law." (He won't.) However if Brown actually paid I'd give every penny to charity.

POINT #1 - The IRS tax code was passed by both houses of Congress & signed by President Eisenhower - It *is* the law.

Source: http://evans-legal.com/dan/tpfaq.html#law

POINT #2 - The Internal Revenue Code states we citizens must pay the income tax.

Source: http://evans-legal.com/dan/tpfaq.html#liable

"Section 1 of the Internal Revenue Code says that 'There is hereby imposed on the taxable income of every [married individual, surviving spouse, head of a household, unmarried individual, or married individual filing a separate return] a tax determined in accordance with the following table.. ..'

The actually law:
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode26/usc_sec_26_00000001----000-.html

Point #3 - There's many terms that *mean* "liable." There's "accountable," "obligated," "imposed," etc.

Quote:
"The word 'impose' means 'to establish or apply as compulsory; levy.'"

Source: http://evans-legal.com/dan/tpfaq.html#liable

Ed Brown's webpage:
http://www.showedthelaw.blogspot.com/