Dan Century

According to the Tenth Annual MediaWise© Video Game Report Card, these are 12 video games to avoid for your children and teens (conveniently linked to Amazon.com):

1. Far Cry
2. F.E.A.R.
3. The Warriors
4. Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse
5. True Crime: New York City
6. Blitz: The League
7. Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories
8. God of War
9. Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil
10. Urban Reign
11. Conker: Live and Reloaded
12. Resident Evil 4

Top Places to Get the Flu. I’m no expert. These are only guesses:

• Door knobs
• Door handles
• Keyboards
• The copy machine
• The vending machine
• Elevator buttons
• The water cooler
• ATM machines
• The dirty money the cashier hands you
• The caferteria
• The auto repair shop waiting room
• The magazines in the doctor’s waiting room
• MySpace

Hey, it’s almost Christmas time, and I might as well drag out these old chestnuts for your amusement. These links are of an adult nature, and may change your opinion of me, so click with caution:

12 Mature Jokes of Christmas: jokes sent to me by friends and co-workers over the years. Blame them, not me.

Dirty, rotten, degenerate Santa. I used to call this bad “Bad Santa”, but since the Hollywood movie came out with the same name, I changed it. I was first, but they have more lawyers. Feel free to email these to your friends or show them to your kids if they’re getting out of line. This brings us back to the legend of the Krumpus, which was a devil-like spirit that accompanies Old Saint Nick on his Christmas sleigh ride. The Krumpus punished the bad kids, while Santa rewarded the good kids. Somehow this legend didn’t make it over to America from Europe, but I think it should be revisited. There’s an awful lot of rotten kids out there.

Here’s a tally of what I ate on Thanksgiving:

• Candy
• Stuffed mushrooms
• Cheese
• Cranberry Juice — two glasses
• Cranberry sauce
• 4 Brussels Sprouts
• One large sweet potato
• A huge plate of turkey with gravy
• An artichoke
• Spiced wine
• Port
• 3 mugs of coffee
• 2 slices of Pumpkin Pie with Coolwhip
• 2 helpings of bread pudding
• Assorted nuts
• Jones Mashed Potato flavored soda (which tastes like “disappointment”)
• 3 tangerines
• An apple
• A turkey sandwitch, rye, mayo

After eating good for 2.5 months and dropping about 25 pounds, I’m pretty sure I just put 5 or 10 pounds back on. Fudge!

From Yahoo!.

Sam, the tiny dog whose hairless body and crooked teeth earned him a reputation as the World’s Ugliest Dog, has died.

The pooch died Friday, just short of his 15th birthday, his owner said.

“I don’t think there’ll ever be another Sam,” Susie Lockheed said, adding: “Some people would think that’s a good thing.”

SamUgliestDog.com. Check out Sam in a Santa suit.

If you have to work Wednesday, here’s some links to visit while you’re waiting for your boss to let you go home.

Perception puzzles is a page filled with cool optical illusions.

Can you imagine a website dedicated to Deliverance Memorabilia?

Do you like wacky covers of popular songs? NEScover is an album of songs like Sweet Home Alabama, Angel of Death and Superfreak played with a Nintendo video game synthesizer.

The Great McDonald’s sign prank.

Liquid Cereal. Not quite eggs n’ bacon soda, but gross enough.

Beer for Dogs!

An old-school Sonic the Hedgehog Flash game. Very impressive and fun to play.

Quiz: are you a Yankee or a Rebel.

The first MySpace stupid haircut awards.

For Ren and Stimpy fans: Jim Kricfalusi’s animation reel.

Tiny Music Makers: How the Mac and Windows startup sounds came to be.

Subservient Donald.

For Aqua Teen Hunger Force fans: it’s the Danger Doom album.

Curious George vs. the Red Door. Look at that punim!

PCL Linkdump has cringe-worthy advert audio and celebrity singing MP3 compilations for your amusement. Rock et man.

Don’t Copy that Floppy is an unintentionally hilarious video meant to educate kids about the implications of stealing software.

Mark Mathis the crazy weatherman. Google the word wacko and this guy comes up on the first page of the results (okay, that’s not true, but it’s like when people say “there’s a picture of your face next to the word stupid in the dictionary”).

Star Wars Kid: A New Hope. Sure the Star Wars Kid thing is played out, but I had not seen this version of the video and it might be the best one yet. This version is close to the original.

Which is more fearless? This Roman candle biting dog or these police dogs.

Frogs reviewing websites. What more do I need to say?

Shingo is a clever Power Rangers parody.

Weebl and Bob go gothic. What? What else are two pie obsessed, mumbling eggs supposed to do?

The term “Irritainment” was coined by WFMU’s Fabio. If you ever come across his “That’s Irritainment” video compilation, buy it. It’s awesome.

Click here for More Glitter Graphics!!!

This page gets the most hits on my site.

Pikachu Colony #1! The world is remarkably lucky that I don’t own a copy of Flash.

Thanks to Google Video, I’ll never be a click or two away from some of the most cringe-worthy entertainment the world has ever known:

Mr. T sings Treat Your Mother Right.

Here’s a commercial from Japan that features Arnold Schwarzenegger exploding from a woman’s brain.

English kids setting fire to Pikachu.

Here’s sexy and sexist advert for Japanese candy. Choco, Party, Good! Good!

And, you’ve already seen my Morning Musume and Best of Google Video posts.

Copyright, shmopyright: there’s entire episodes of the Aqua Teen Hunger Force on Google Video.

Speaking of cringe-worthy entertainment, are you aware of the Ebaum’s World controversy? There’s a site called Ebaum’s World that hosts plenty of cringe-worthy video entertainment, which is normally a good thing, but a lot of people are up in arms about it because Ebaum takes video and Flash from the websites of the people who actually create it, he hosts it on his own site, and makes a profit from the adspace surrounding the video and Flash. The creators of the Flash or video who planned on making money from their creations are out of luck because people are going to someone else’s website to view it.

This is nothing new on the Interweb, which is all about stealing other people’s information. What’s the old saying: “Information wants to be free”. The saying should be “Your information wants to be free because I make a gadget or website that displays your information”. Anyway: here’s Ebaums World Sucks by Neil Cicierega, as found in the latest B3ta newsletter.

This Morning Musume, Hello Project stuff has to be the best fad to come over from Japan since Pokemon.

By now you’ve seen the Morning Musume vs. Lizard video, either on the interweb, or on TV shows like the Colbert Report or Countdown with Keith Olbermann.

BUT, have you seen Morning Musume watches clip from the Ring? Just listen to those screams — can you imagine what a movie theater in Japan sounds like?

OR, Morning Musume vs. Bob Sapp, Takahashi sits on alligator, or Morning Musume Renai Revolution 21 — Perfomed By a Monkey? Right now there’s 32 Morning Musume video clips floating around Google Video. Hopefully there will be more to come.

BUT, who are Morning Musume. Japanese Pop had this to say:

Morning Musume is currently the most popular group act in Japan. The group originally started out with five original members: Aya Isiguro, Natsumi Abe, Asuka Fukuda, Kaori Iida, and Yuko Nakazawa. Morning Musume was the brainchild of SharanQ’s vocalist, Tsunku, on the television program “Asayan.” In order to debut, Morning Musume had to sell 50,000 CDs over a span of five days. The girls of Morning Musume met the challenge, selling out all the CDs in four days.

Be sure to check out the Hello! Project web site as well.

Back in high school and college kids used “cheat sheets” to help study for tests, and of course, cheat. There are plenty of great computer programming cheat sheets available. Some are very simple, and great for jogging your memory, while others go into much needed detail.

• JavaScript
  • JavaScript Cheat Sheet. This covers JavaScript functions and methods, XMLHttpRequest, regular expressions and event handlers. PDF! (ilovejackdaniels.com)
  • Cheatsheet for Learning JavaScript.
• CSS
  • CSS Cheat Sheet. PDF! (ilovejackdaniels.com)
  • Cascading Style Cheatsheet.
  • CSS Cheat Sheet.
  • W3C: CSS 1, CSS 2.1.
• HTML (note: beware of oldschool info like font tags)
  • HTML Tags. A free online cheatsheet by VisiBone.
  • HTML codes cheat sheet.
  • A simple guide to HTML.
  • An XHTML cheat sheet from CDBurnerXP. PDF!
  • RGB Hex Colour chart. (ilovejackdaniels.com)
  • HTML Entities.
  • HTML Entities.
  • Special Characters.
  • ACS II Codes Cheat Sheet.
  • HTML Cheat Sheet and XHTML Cheat Sheet (mindprod.com).
  • Cross-Browser Cheat Sheet for Authors.
  • W3C: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/, XHTML 1.o, XHTML 1.1.
• AJAX
  • AJAX cheatsheet.
• PHP
  • PHP cheat sheet. PDF! (ilovejackdaniels.com)
  • PHP Cheat Sheet.
• Perl
  • Perl Cheat Sheet.
  • perlcheat.
• Ruby
  • Ruby QuickRef.
  • Threadeds Ruby on Rails Cheat Sheet.
• Regular Expressions
  • Regular Expressions Reference Sheet.
  • RegExLib.com Regular Expression Cheat Sheet .
  • Regular Expressions from Visibone.
• Java
  • Java 1.5 Cheat Sheet.
  • Java Cheat Sheet. (mindprod.com)
  • Java Syntax Cheat Sheet.
• JSP
  • JSP 2.0 XML Cheat Sheet.
• Python
  • Python Cheat Sheet.
  • Python Quick Reference.
• TCL
  • Tcl cheat sheet.
• DataBases
  • MySQL Cheat Sheet. (ilovejackdaniels.com)
  • SQL Cheatsheet.
  • Interesting Things to Know about MySQL.
• Search
  • Google quick reference.
  • Google Help: Cheat Sheet.
  • Web Search Engines Cheat Sheet.
  • Search Engine Cheat Sheet.
• Security
  • Cross Site Scripting cheatsheet.
• Web Server
  • htaccess Cheat Sheet.
  • Apache Cheat Sheet.
  • mod_rewrite. (ilovejackdaniels.com).
• Web Browsers
  • Firefox Cheat Sheet.
• Accessibility
  • WCAG 1.0.
  • Quick Reference Guide to Section 508 Resource Documents.
• Windows
  • Windows XP Commands.
• Blogging
  • Blogging Cheatsheets for Blogger, TypePad, WordPress and Movable Type.
• Photoshop
  • Adobe Photoshop Shortcuts Cheat Sheet
  • Photoshop Tips
• ‘NIX
  • Linux Command Line Tips.
  • Treebeard’s Unix Cheat Sheet.
  • UNIX Command Cheat Sheet.
  • VI Cheat Sheet.
  • Linux Cheat Sheet.
  • Rosetta Stone for Unix.
  • Unix guide.
• General
  • Web Developer’s Handbook: like a billion links.
  • IT Cheat Sheets for All.

Viewing a PowerPoint presentation on an iPod is fairly simple:

1. Export the presentation from PowerPoint as a mov file.
2. Open the mov file in Quicktime, and Export it for iTunes.
3. Import the mv4 file into iTunes.
4. Update your iPod.

The tricky part is preparing the PowerPoint presentation so it will look good on a small screen. Here’s some tips:

• Use sans-serif fonts.
• Avoid using a font size smaller that 24pt. Do not use a font size smaller than 20pt.
• Use a high-contrast color scheme. Black on white works best.
• Center slide titles.
• Illustrations should be at least 4 inches wide and high.
• Experiment with transition times: not too long, not too short.
• Make sure your logo is large enough to read on screen.
• Footers and footnotes will be too small to read on screen. Place the information you would normally place in a footer on a single slide and the beginning or end of the presentation.
• If you plan on playing the presentation on an old school TV monitor with rounded edges, make sure you use a one inch margin.