Distributed Denial of Service Attacks, Visual Thesaurus, Silophone, Car Sex, Quiz
We have an explanation for what the heck happened to LJ, finally. I bet distributed denial of service attacks take some time to figure out.
Visual Thesaurus
The basic point is that rather than providing just a list of synonyms, the program outlines the words for you in a web, which lets you see which synonyms are closest to one another and how they relate to the word. First, type a word in the search box; it takes a few seconds to load, depending on your connection. Once completed, a new window will open with the search word in the center, close synonyms connected by solid grey lines, not-so close synonyms connected by dotted grey lines, and antonyms connected by dotted red lines. If you hover over or click on the yellow dots that connect the words, a box will pop up with a specific definition of the synonym as well as a few examples. If you click on the text of the word you're interested in, the map will shift, centering that word in the middle of the web with its synonyms scattered around it in the same way. All in all, it seems like a pretty spiffy program. :D
Silophone is something that Corey read about on Something Awful. He uploaded You Kicked My Dog! and other prank calls in order to hear them really echoey, and he thinks the overall effect is funny: "I'm trying to upload prank calls to hear them all echoey, but the uploads keep screwing up.. it says max file size of 1 MB. Well, I'm uploading You Kicked My Dog! which is a little under 1 MB. :P SA people are on there playing weird stuff at the moment. :P Lots of cartoon theme songs. You Kicked My Dog! worked! :P It says it's playing, but is on a 30 second delay. :P Haha... it's playing, but you can barely hear it since other music is going at the same time. Hahahahaha! In the middle of a bunch of music, "YOU KNOW DAMN RIGHT!" really echoey... "shat up! shat up! shat up!" There must be at least 5-6 things going at once. :P I like how you can't hear it, but once in a while, a crazy yell gets through. :P"
"You can put that straight into RealPlayer. It'll still probably be full, but it makes it easier to keep trying to connect. :P Just go to File -> Open and paste it in. If you're getting a server is full error... that's because it's full, and you need to keep trying. :P Haha... 411 and Noises is playing with nothing over the top of it right now." Note: RealPlayer required.
In other important news, I just insulted Corey with a string of words that I've never used on him before. He called me short and "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXL." You don't want to know how I insulted him... except that it involved Goatse, the Giver, and orgies. Hey, HE started the Goatse stuff first! :P If you REALLY wanna know, IM me. ;)
EWWW. Asking people about locales for car sex is horrible. :P I can imagine what a certain ex-friend of mine would say if he were still on my list, too.. probably something like "But car sex is GOOD!" Um, no. Not that it's my business where people do it unless it's directly impacting me, but I'd delete the post were it my community. Unfortunately, the mod there probably won't... and she hates spelling / grammar Nazis, too. Two points against her, heh. But of course I'll just scroll on by the post as far as the community knows. However, I did show the link to Corey. Now we're talking about potential dangers when combining certain aspects of sex with driving. Good times, except maybe not! :P
Note: LJ Sex Life / LJ Friends Winning The Lotto / LJ House / LJ Birthday / LJ People blogquizzes. (by Bets, Chris, Sharie, and Alaura)
Visual Thesaurus
The basic point is that rather than providing just a list of synonyms, the program outlines the words for you in a web, which lets you see which synonyms are closest to one another and how they relate to the word. First, type a word in the search box; it takes a few seconds to load, depending on your connection. Once completed, a new window will open with the search word in the center, close synonyms connected by solid grey lines, not-so close synonyms connected by dotted grey lines, and antonyms connected by dotted red lines. If you hover over or click on the yellow dots that connect the words, a box will pop up with a specific definition of the synonym as well as a few examples. If you click on the text of the word you're interested in, the map will shift, centering that word in the middle of the web with its synonyms scattered around it in the same way. All in all, it seems like a pretty spiffy program. :D
Silophone is something that Corey read about on Something Awful. He uploaded You Kicked My Dog! and other prank calls in order to hear them really echoey, and he thinks the overall effect is funny: "I'm trying to upload prank calls to hear them all echoey, but the uploads keep screwing up.. it says max file size of 1 MB. Well, I'm uploading You Kicked My Dog! which is a little under 1 MB. :P SA people are on there playing weird stuff at the moment. :P Lots of cartoon theme songs. You Kicked My Dog! worked! :P It says it's playing, but is on a 30 second delay. :P Haha... it's playing, but you can barely hear it since other music is going at the same time. Hahahahaha! In the middle of a bunch of music, "YOU KNOW DAMN RIGHT!" really echoey... "shat up! shat up! shat up!" There must be at least 5-6 things going at once. :P I like how you can't hear it, but once in a while, a crazy yell gets through. :P"
"You can put that straight into RealPlayer. It'll still probably be full, but it makes it easier to keep trying to connect. :P Just go to File -> Open and paste it in. If you're getting a server is full error... that's because it's full, and you need to keep trying. :P Haha... 411 and Noises is playing with nothing over the top of it right now." Note: RealPlayer required.
In other important news, I just insulted Corey with a string of words that I've never used on him before. He called me short and "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXL." You don't want to know how I insulted him... except that it involved Goatse, the Giver, and orgies. Hey, HE started the Goatse stuff first! :P If you REALLY wanna know, IM me. ;)
EWWW. Asking people about locales for car sex is horrible. :P I can imagine what a certain ex-friend of mine would say if he were still on my list, too.. probably something like "But car sex is GOOD!" Um, no. Not that it's my business where people do it unless it's directly impacting me, but I'd delete the post were it my community. Unfortunately, the mod there probably won't... and she hates spelling / grammar Nazis, too. Two points against her, heh. But of course I'll just scroll on by the post as far as the community knows. However, I did show the link to Corey. Now we're talking about potential dangers when combining certain aspects of sex with driving. Good times, except maybe not! :P
Note: LJ Sex Life / LJ Friends Winning The Lotto / LJ House / LJ Birthday / LJ People blogquizzes. (by Bets, Chris, Sharie, and Alaura)
Labels: aim, annoyances, blogquiz, chris, comics, corey, grammar, internet, maxed-out tags limit, msn, music, news, palmer, phone calls, sex, something awful, songs, spelling, weird stuff, words
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