A New Kind of Science

Stephen Wolfram was a child prodigy who made a shit load of cash from developing a program that will do your math home work for you. But instead of blowing all of his cash on hookers and blow like any self-respecting engineer, he decided to write some bullshit book about how even the most simple things are as complicated as fuck and that the universe is actually some kind of giant 2 dimensional black and white XOR statement or something.

Anyway... this post isn't actually about that loon... it's a plug for this site. The segway being this virtualization of Wolfram's cellular automata crap.

Some of you may know the site's creator as the guy holding the cabbage... some of you went to his party and criticized his crappy art purchases... the rest of you should check out the cool apps and flash (with source)...

Pro Tip: don't use an inferior operating system if you want to dazzle the hell out of your cohabitators with an awesome screen saver.

New Disease Probably Exists

Is there a name for thinking traffic shaping is happening everywhere and all the time? I've never been short on paranoid bandwidth delusions, or left wanting after completely real work-arounds. But whatever shit I'm in to right now is of a whole new order of magnitude. SOMEONE IS BLOCKING some place called "www.google.com", and people taking showers is actually what's slowing down my torrents. Also some of them went backwards last night. I actually have less episodes of Ryôri no tetsujin now than I did when I went to sleep.

Also if you know computers: Are ports a metaphor? Or can I forward them with a piece of tinfoil, like I actually know I definitely can? I'm guessing that I can.

Tech Tips - Speed Up Firefox

Lately I've been experiencing a rather sluggish firefox. I tried getting rid of add-ons that I don't need, cleared my cache, reset my settings and changed my attitude. But, alas they were all in vain as it seems to have made the matter worse. You could always use a different browser, but if you're like me you can't live without it.

I started trawling the web for answers, but jeeves and those other bastards had nothing... So, I went it alone and come up with a rather nifty way to get it going at optimum speed.

1. Un-install all other browsers (you'll see why later)

2. In the address bar type - "whyAreYouDoingThisToMe"?:"iThoughtWeWereFriendz?"

3. If Firefox is responding you may enter into a dialog with it, just do everything it says and press ok, ok?

4. When you get to the stage when it asks you if you have any other browsers installed - hit no, if you haven't un-installed the other browsers before hand, firefox will find them and get jealous, and close down your operating system.

5. Never tell firefox your last name, it will search the web and tell your family that you hate them.

6. Once firefox is happy with you, restart your computer and open up firefox. In the options field, turn the feelings bar down to mild, this will prevent it from feeling extreme emotions in the future, and will stay at a comfortable friendship level untill the next update.