X-Cop Fly Company

“Virtual Goods” a $1.6 billion/year industry

Friday, October 8th, 2010

Diane Medved at TownHall writes: Help me here. What is it about “virtual goods”–imaginary own-ables in online community or commercial fake-world games–that leads Americans to shell out a projected $1.6 billion this year in our jobless economy? Facebook hosts and profits from the virtual barnyard antics of FarmVille (75 million monthly active users) and a [...]

This one’s for Gen Y

Saturday, September 25th, 2010

Obsolete

People are starting to wake up.

Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

For at least 2-3 years, including on this blog, I have been pointing out the hypocrisy resulting from the commercialization of open-source software, including the FSF selling out to special interests, TPM in the Linux kernel, the NSA winning a “no-bid contract” of sort into the Linux kernel’s remote attestation features, remote attestation in Linux [...]

“Happy Happy Joy Joy” Actually Consists of Burl Ives (Snowman in Rudolph) Quotes

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

Burl Ives, better known as the snowman in Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, was also a children’s singer and actor whose quotes are repackaged in Ren & Stimpy’s “Happy Happy Joy Joy” under the name “Stinky Whizzleteats” This YouTube video, linked to by Ren & Stimpy creator John K’s blog, shows them side by side. [...]

The Man Who Changed The World

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

He taught our parents to question authority, he helped create the music we love, and before he died he predicted that computers would empower us and let us create our own reality. (Unfortunately it empowered the bad guys too.) And now his ashes orbit the earth. Here’s an awesome techno video made just before his [...]

Another Bunch of Quizzes

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

    Nerd Test 2.0:       You Are Brutally Honest Hey, the truth hurts, but that’s not exactly your fault. You call things as you see them and pull no punches. You believe that you shouldn’t be punished for speaking your mind. It’s a lot better than being a liar. In fact, you [...]

Some fun quizzes

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

(I used screenshots in certain cases to more easily comply with standards) Big Five personality test (click the thumbnails below): (Big 5 is the only “professional” psychological test I’ve found which works for me. Others like the popular Myers-Briggs are always inaccurate.) Computer Geek Quiz     You Are Teal Green You are a one [...]

Phishing Scammers Need To Know Their Victims’ Governments

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

(NOTE: My comments are based on From and Subject headers. I have not these opened these scam e-mails and neither should you, ever.) In my "Spam" folder, there are always fake Notice of Underreported Income forms, originally from a fake "IRS", but now from the British HM Revenue & Customs. Yet it still uses the [...]

I guess it didn’t work out.

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

And I realized that I didn’t want it to happen at all. So now it’s just my blog and the blog of the Azz Pizz Institute. All the X-Cop Fly downloads are in the "Downloads & File Library" section. Additional X-Cop Fly Company calculator programs, if any, will be on that page. X-Cop Fly Company [...]

Want to see when I’m playing UrbanTerror?

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

Now you can if you look at this post! I wish the site (GameTracker.com) worked with OpenArena…