Discovered this via my buddy Dave… Check out Aninote.com. It allows you to dynamically generate Flash presentations … you can insert any recipient name in the animations simply by sticking it before the domain name for the animation you wish to use.
See, for example:
Mighty awesome.
Check it: Worldwide Governing Body of the Sport of Rock Paper Scissors (worldrps.com).
Looks like it’s a big thing. Weird. Still, this has to be one of the most unintentionally funny sites ever. Check out, for example, their 2002 dedication to the Official Year of the Rock (in particular, check out the last two photo captions within the article).
At first glance, the rules of Rock Paper Scissors seem simple. As you look deeper, however, they’re still pretty simple. Let’s not kid ourselves.
…Or so I thought. Here is the 3-page How to Play – Quick Start, and the 7-page must read for all aspiring RPS gurus: Advanced RPS tactics.
Check out this excerpt from the World RPS Society, showing just how high-demand of a sport Rock Paper Scissors can really be:
… In other events, Chad Leatherstep (Co-Chair Disciplinary Committee) in his address delivered a landmark speech pledging a crackdown on performance enhancing drugs in professional level play. “It is the worst kept secret that the dressing rooms at many tournaments have become literal ‘hotboxes’ of abuse. We will be targeting specific suspicious players for random drug testing.”
Imagine that. Your friendly, local Rock Paper Scissors tournament, unbeknowest to you, might have become a literal “hotbox” of performance-enhancing drug abuse!
It makes sense in a way, I guess … these people have to be on something potent to be at an RPS tournament in the first place.
Related stuff:
And here’s some stirring RPS haiku gleaned from the RPS Society’s Bullboard:
Always throw paper.
How can you lose with paper?
Forget scissors, man.You delayed your prime
Won’t synchronize your rhythm
That’s just dirty playPaper is the throw
For the narcissistic fool
The masturbatorFew are perfect forms
The rock however is one
Likewise breasts are too
Check out this most excellent series of promotional computer images from the ’60s and ’70s, back when taking a photo of a computer required, as the author put it, “A wide-angle lens. And a woman in a thigh-high skirt.”
Compu-promo (lileks.com)
Funny shit: Brokeback to the Future (youtube.com).
I never realized how different you could make a movie seem just by adding a mournful guitar track in the background.
SNAFU principle /sna'foo prin'si-pl/ /n./
[from a WWII Army acronym for ‘Situation Normal, All Fucked Up’] “True communication is possible only between equals, because inferiors are more consistently rewarded for telling their superiors pleasant lies than for telling the truth.” — a central tenet of Discordianism, often invoked by hackers to explain why authoritarian hierarchies screw up so reliably and systematically. The effect of the SNAFU principle is a progressive disconnection of decision-makers from reality. This lightly adapted version of a fable dating back to the early 1960s illustrates the phenomenon perfectly:
In the beginning was the plan,
and then the specification;
And the plan was without form,
and the specification was void.
And darkness was on the faces of the implementors thereof;
And they spake unto their leader, saying:
"It is a crock of shit,
and smells as of a sewer."
And the leader took pity on them,
and spoke to the project leader:
"It is a crock of excrement,
and none may abide the odor thereof."
And the project leader
spake unto his section head, saying:
"It is a container of excrement,
and it is very strong, such that none may abide it."
The section head then hurried to his department manager,
and informed him thus:
"It is a vessel of fertilizer,
and none may abide its strength."
The department manager carried these words to his general manager,
and spoke unto him, saying:
"It containeth that which aideth the growth of plants,
and it is very strong."
And so it was that the general manager rejoiced
and delivered the good news unto the Vice President.
"It promoteth growth,
and it is very powerful."
The Vice President rushed to the President's side,
and joyously exclaimed:
"This powerful new software product
will promote the growth of the company!"
And the President looked upon the product,
and saw that it was very good.
After the subsequent and inevitable disaster, the suits protect themselves by saying “I was misinformed!”, and the implementors are demoted or fired.
