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Friday Java Fun

Rhaomi — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:45:07 -0800

Two slimes. One circle. Infinite addiction. Welcome to the world of Slimeball. Slime Volleyball, AKA "One Slime", is the old standby, but scads of mods and variants have proliferated over time: Two-player Slime Volleyball, with stats and uniforms and game-modifying codes Power Slime, a Volleyball variant where the players are given random special abilities Slime Soccer, Slime Space Soccer, Slime Bowling, Slime Tennis, Slime Ice Hockey, and Slime Basketball Slime Dodgeball and Slime Rugby, two games with magnetic play in which slimes can "pick up" the ball on their domes and toss them across the field. Slime Cricket and Slime Boxing, too. Have you proven yourself unworthy? Search for winning strategies on the SlimeWiki. Or just vent your frustrations to your fellow Inferior Human Controlled Slimes on the Slime Forum. And finally, an (aging) online solution for enterprising Mefites itching to deliver a virtual smackdown.

Friday Java Fun

darkripper — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 07:42:30 -0800

Reset Generation : made by the makers of Trials 2, it's a web and mobile game that mixes advance wars and puzzle games. Rescue the Princess! Fire your Cannon! Beat your enemies! If you can go past the parody graphic (which feels a bit childish and forced) and the small playing screen, there's an awesome complex game awaiting you. Nokia is also releasing the assets of the game, allowing anyone to do flash games, videos or art using the characters of the game.

lolcatting all the way to the bank

quonsar — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:11:34 -0800

goatse hijacked my bank account

Every day, once a day, give yourself a present.

miss lynnster — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:09:14 -0800

Pssssst. Hey you. Yeah... you. Feel like some damn good hot coffee? Of course you do. Well then... here ya go.

Personal photos from the Pacific (WWII)

zzazazz — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 14:05:47 -0800

According to the photographer's daughter, "All photos in this collection were taken by then Lt. and later Capt. George S. White, my Father, while he was serving in the Pacific as a pilot. They are generally between 1945 and 1948 from what is documented." My favorites? The barmaid or postwar Tokyo or wrecked planes and airplane graveyards.

Little boxes on the hillside

le morte de bea arthur — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 07:19:59 -0800

Friday ~~Flash~~ Java Fun - 'Building Houses With Side Views' Entertaining Java game/exercise/doodad. A nice little Java game/exercise/doodad where you place blocks in a three-dimensional grid so as to match three different projections. Then, for maximum points, you try to find the minimum number of blocks that will solve the problem. Twenty puzzles in all. Perfect for wasting half an hour.

Annoying Software : A Rogue's Gallery.

Afroblanco — Tue, 20 May 2008 19:17:11 -0800

Annoying Software : A Rogue's Gallery. (single-page version). Software that makes us hate the internet and wish it had never been invented. High on their list : Adobe Reader, Java, RealPlayer, and Flash. #1 - Adobe Reader #2 - Apple #3 - Windows Update #4 - RealPlayer #5 - Java #6 - Yahoo #7 - Norton Antivirus #8 - Preinstalled software bundles #9 - Outlook/Exchange #10 - Flash

A mouthful of bytecode

Skorgu — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 07:57:16 -0800

Bytecode-based virtual machines are the Next Big Thing in programming. You can run Lisp, Ruby, Python, OCaml, and yes even COBOL on the JVM. Or if you prefer your languages to be a bit more melodic there's J#, A#, P# and F#. Even C/C++ has a bytecode compiler now. That's not to mention languages that have their own VMs like Erlang or that are writing their own like Parrot or PyPy. Some background for the confused: Computer programs are traditionally written in human-readable source code then compiled to computer-executable machine code. Bytecode is a sort of halfway point between the two. It's not human readable but neither is it tied to a specific architecture like compiled code is. Java is the canonical example: a program written in Java will run on any machine that has a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) from your desktop to your cellphone. With bytecode-targeted compilers programmers can write in their favorite language without being limited by the libraries and compilers written for it and have those programs run anywhere there's an appropriate VM.

Cut The Knot

parudox — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 23:52:10 -0800

Interactive mathematics miscellany and puzzles, including 75 proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem, an interactive column using Java applets, and eye-opening demonstrations. (Actually, much more.)

I watched a particle crawl randomly along the edge of a straight razor

elgilito — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 10:49:18 -0800

Cinematic particles is an online applet that draws watercolor-like visualizations of movie dialogs, from Apocalypse Now to Zabriskie Point. See also: Spinal Rhythms, L-Garden, SpyCamp and other online toys by Austrian artist Eva Schindling.