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how to make a bad website

19 March, 2006 17:10 CST6CDT

Here is an example of a bad website. Although I have seen one or two that are worse, this comes pretty close to cutting the cheese.

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give that dog a muzzle

01 March, 2006 16:22 CST6CDT

From around 8:00 in the morning to 4:00 in the afternoon, our neighbors dog, directly below us, barks non-stop.

It is so frustrating listening to that bark through-out the entire day. So, idiotically, I was thinking to myself, a dog whistle might shut the thing up.

The frequency of a dog whistle is generally between 5200Hz and 12800Hz.

I have a pretty decent amplifier that can produce a tone close to these ranges, so I decided to give it a try, in hopes to shut the fucking dog up. (damn dog, damn dog, damn dog)

Using Audacity, a Linux sound mixer, generator, studio application, I generated a steady tone of 12400Hz, well below my 19kHz range capacity.

I exported this to a wav file, and used XMMS to generate a steady loop of the tone range; the range being a sign wave of an amplitude of 1, and I started at 12400Hz.

So wow, I was somewhat training the dog to shut it's fat lip. Then, without warning, I heard multiple barks from inside this complex.

Stupid is what stupid does, I turned up the volume on the amplifier, just to make sure the fuckers got my point. (damn dogs, damn dogs, damn dogs)

My receiver automatically terminated the signal to my speakers, warning me that my digital signal (an analog signal would not have been accurate to these ranges), at that amplitude, was dangerous. So the story begins there.

My right channel no longer works; it is rather distorted. However, it can still produce the frequency range that stops that fucking dog from barking (damn fucking dog, @#$#$$%@#%). I know this, simply because it works.

I am no sound expert, but there is some level of distortion to this tone. The human ear can sense sound in the range of 20Hz - 20kHz; that being, your body can respond to the pressure of these amplitudes (may not be a distinguishable sound, but it is felt, similar to dejavu). So, my question is, is there any way to produce a tone, with a frequency, between 12400Hz and 19kHz, that is inaudible by the human ear?

It's not so much getting this dog to shut up, but is there any way I can piss it off just as much as it does myself?

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Clientcopia

10 February, 2006 17:03 CST6CDT

Link to Clientcopia, thanks Heck. With the occasional un-controllable drible, it was mostly pleasurable laughing my ass off!

"To cope with difficulties of a client attaining professional services and act to overcome them, despite that client's blatant stupidity."

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Microsoft Would Put Poor Online by Cellphone

30 January, 2006 18:41 CST6CDT

What the fuck?


Not all BS though. Some ideas for software are mentioned later in the article.


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This blog post sums up my reaction in its entirely magnificent disbelief.

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obesity is a virus, McDonalds rejoices

30 January, 2006 16:00 CST6CDT

We once thought big macs and large shakes were the steming cause of obesity. McDonalds rejoice! We now have proof of a correlation with the heaviest obese people, and a strain of virus called Ad-36.

A physiologist at the University of Wisconsin Madison injected a group of chickens with three strains of adenovirus--Ad-2, Ad-31 and Ad-37.

"...chickens carrying Ad-37 were found to have nearly three times as much fat in their guts and more than two times as much fat over their entire body at the end of the three-and-a-half week period."

Certain strains of adenoviruses are responsible for pink eye and chest colds.

"I am not saying that all obesity is caused by viruses," Dhurandhar notes. "Obesity has multiple causes and viruses may be one of those causes." --Nikhil Dhurandhar of the Pennington Biomedical Research Center

New fast food slogan, USDA certified adenoviruse and obesity free. [digg]

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