As a follow up to the post about what the whole Rick Roll thing is about, here’s a frickin hilarious video about it. It looks like the game Doom, and someone made a mod to have this ’special’ weapon in here. You can view the digg submission page for it here, where you’ll be able to view some equally funny comments.
Archive for February, 2008
A lot of people have been getting Rick Roll’d lately, and the clueless are wondering what the heck is going on. Basically it’s like a joke/trick. Someone is having a discussion (Or maybe not even) then someone posts a link which the victim(s) usually click on. Here is the link. It’s not a shock page or anything like I’m sure most of you have seen, it’s just a funny/dumb music video:
Anyways, this happens a lot on Digg, especially lately. Here are some example comments:
-Nice View Kid…..
-Mario Kart Wii isn’t an update, it’s a breakthrough !
-Huge Leak: Database of 8,700+ stolen cooperate FTP accounts
-Top 10 Rick Roll Sites of All TIme
It’s just one of those random things, but funny anyways. Usually people just take it with a “You got me!” tone.
Tags: Rick Roll
Here is a very interesting video of an interview of Naomi Wolf. From the YouTube description:
Fascinating interview with renowned author Naomi Wolf, perhaps best known for her early 1990s feminist classic “The Beauty Myth”, considered by many to be one of the most important works of the 20th century.
Wolf discusses her new book “The End of America”, already on the New York Times bestseller list. The book identifies ten classic steps common to all dictatorships — including those of Mussolini, Hitler and Stalin. Alarmingly, Wolf makes the case that each of these ten steps is occurring in post 9/11 America today. The book is a call to action for young and concerned Americans and this interview intimately frames this important discussion.
View the list of 10 steps common to all dictatorships here. My friend Marco is writing a paper on her book for English in College.
Here’s my second screencast. I recorded it sometime in January but I didn’t upload it until yesterday. It’s 30 minutes long at around 93.6 MB, but since it’s streaming it shouldn’t be that bad. I made it 1024×768 by accident instead of the usual 800×600, but I doubt that will be a problem. Again, I am providing this in flash instead of AVI or something similar because of quality. If someone can recommend a codec and some settings then I’ll gladly provide my screencasts in that format as well.
Hopefully with this screencast you get an idea of what IRC is. It’s in no way a definitive IRC guide or anything, it’s mainly just something to get you into the IRC mindset and basically get you acquainted with IRC. It goes over getting X-Chat, the X-Tray System Plugin, understanding what servers and channels are, some basic commands, some IRC etiquette notes, and finally I go over some of the X-Chat settings which you can use to modify the client to your liking.
By the way, X-Chat isn’t the only client or program you can use to chat in IRC, there are countless others. For a comparison of some clients, check out this page from wikipedia.
Watch the screencast here
Note to Feed Readers: This has to be viewed directly from this post to work, sorry.
Links
» X-Chat Silverex Build
» X-Tray
