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An amazingly, well put together timeline of anything relating to virtual worlds or simulations. Reading over it, there was even somethings I missed which is something to be said.

Virtual worlds timeline (with dipity)

Feel the fizz, of Coo Coo cola.
It’s the cola for makin’ you proud
Take another sip and be one of the crowd
You belong with Coo Coo Cola.

Now for those of you NOT totally cool, that is one of the songs from one of the coolest shows EVER Chip n Dale: Rescue Rangers. To be more precise, this is from from The Case of The Cola Cult (Part 1, Part 2) which is one of the best episodes ever.

Because of that, I decided to use the song as my ring tone. Bet nobody else will have that one on their phone. Unless of course you click the big picture at the bottom of the post, which is totally cool too.

And don’t forgot to buy it on DVD. Or Just Buy it for me!

Come along
You belong
Feel the fizz of Coo Coo Cola
Get to the store and take all you can carry
We got the flavors- orange, grape and cherry
Feel the fizz of Coo Coo Cola

Come along
You belong
Feel the fizz of Coo Coo Cola
It’s bottled in Pensacola
Come along with Coo Coo Cola
You belong with Coo Coo Cola

Web Worker Daily had a great article yesterday titled “Dealer With Corporate Blocking Policies” with I absolutely adore.
I’ve been facing the same issues at work, especially with the social networking thing. Being as that I work the night shift, they give us pretty much free will to surf as long as we actually work when the time comes. That’s easier said than done when 90% of the ’social networking’ sites are blocked. I mean FlickR? come on. So for anybody who is in this situation, check out some of WWD’s recommendations, they’re uber smart people. Oh, and subscribe to them, they’re THAT awesome.

Gizmodo has a video today of a new Virtual World called LiveSpace (CitySpace? They call it both in the video) and it looks amazing. It’s server-side rendered with OTOY, which means your crappy computer can still run it and it will look good. I’m honestly just impressed at the graphics, server-side or not. I’d love to play around in a world like this. It almost makes me giddy just thinking about it.

LivePlace Is a Virtual World Rendered Server-Side, Streamed To Any Device @ Gizmodo

T-Mobile recently put in place a policy where reps no longer have to say their rep IDs, and in many departments not even their real first names. I’m predicting the future and thinking we don’t even have to talk in real sentances. I’m going ahead of the pack and redoing my intro statement:
“Welcome to T-Mobile, T-Mobiles where it’s at, Some people call me Cougar ’cause I’m slick like a cat.
So hit me with your problem, tell me what it be. Quicker we get done, you get back to watch TV. Ya kick it!
*this is the part where I dance around like Vanilla Ice while the customer tries to figure out what the hell I just said*”
It should be fun, I have the attire ready and everything.

Thanks mom, knew I’d wear this someday!

For those loyal readers, you’ll know I changed my hosting provider from Fuitadnet to GoDaddy a few months back because Fuitadnet, in short, is pathetic. They just weren’t very organized. The only catch here is, I should still have hosting open at Fuitadnet.

“WTF?!” I’m sure you’re all saying. Well in May, they had already taken the payment for the hosting portion of my site for the 6 six months, so when I took my domain it should have just left he hosting floating in limbo until I call them and cancel that, which I didn’t. I called them today to see if anybody could find out how to access my hosting account, as I’m going to get the last final backup of it (hopefully) then cancel it. They can’t find it.

I gave them the domain name, I gave them my account number, my payment confirmation, my last name, my address: Nada. This leads me back to the idea of “they just weren’t very organized”. They told me to forward the payment invoice to them and they’d give me a call in 24-48 hours. I’m going to call when I get home tomorrow morning after work. I also have trouble ticket numbers which I’m hoping they could look up. All I want is the files I paid for (since they should still have them in their database for 3 months) is that so much to ask that I get what you charged me for?

I’m bored, not doing much (though I should be) so I think I’ll try starting a webcomic (again). This time I’m thinking something with a priest or Reverend. Would be interesting, no? A cape, an Axe and the power of Christ!

I’m playing with the names Father Fantastic, Reverend Radical, Pasture Power, Clergyman Cool and of course Father FuckingAwesome. I even have ideas for enemies: Vs.The Gays, Vs.Budda, Vs. Shiva, Vs. A Cow, Vs. The Ninjas, Vs. The Internet, Vs. Pirates, Vs. Everybody, Vs. Scientology, Vs. Logic.

Sunday morning around 4:00am a giant fire at the Sunrise Industrial Gasses propane depot broke out resulting in an explosion that could be seen for miles, the death of a firefighter and a facility employee being unaccounted for. Reports claim that over 12,000 people were evacuated from their homes surrounding Sunrise due to potential risks of toxic gases being released. Highway 401, not only a nearby highway but the busiest highway in Canada, was also closed for over 12 hours during this time. Cause of this incident has yet to be identified. Some videos contain mature language.

Article Links: NyTimes , Bloomberg ,  CBC

Videos: SxePhil , aabbgirl , Kevjumba , HomoginizedButter , bcochrane14 , TVK1337

Through pressure from GoDaddy (and just plain good timing) I decided today to open SnorBuFar, another site created by yours truely.

As said in the previous post referring to this, SnorBuFar is randomness at it’s finest and that is what the site is. Instead of be spewing out random thoughts that are in my head and whatever links I happen to think are cool that I’m surfing at the time here (and making this look far too much like a journal) I’ll put them over there. This site will remain for the logical stuff that I actually think two seconds about before posting.

Snorbufar will be similar to some other ‘micro blogging’ sites, but the difference is I’m going to open this to the public. Whoever wants to sign up can do so, and post what they wish (with a few exceptions listed in the FAQs). There is no organization, I don’t care what you post, just whatever needs to leave your head and go on the internet it’s there. Hopefully, this will become a huge mess of links, thoughts and other. The bigger the mess, the better.

So feel free to check it out and give it a go, I’ll be harassing people to try it for awhile.

Firef.ly is a new service currently in beta created by Betaworks that turns any of your sites into a chat room. Before you say that you’ve seen this before listen here: There is no downloads. That’s right, two lines of code thrown into the footer of my coding (totally painless) and my site has now become it’s own chat room.

If you have a look at the bottom right of your screen, you should see a floating box with # Here, # Chatting, Start Chatting. Click start and the screen gets sort of an ‘overlay’ thing going. You can still scroll and look at whatever is on the site, but you can also move your mouse around and start typing. Where ever you type, it will create a little chat bubble that anybody else on the site can see.

Some of the extra features that look to be put in are the choice of pre-loaded cursors (because arrows are boring) and what looks to be the option to use an image of your own choosing (that doesn’t seem to work yet or I can’t figure out). There is also a twitter option to have certain parts of the convo go to twitter (again can’t get it to work). What IS working though is the time line feature. this allows you to scroll along the site’s time line and check out conversations from the past, which are conveniently marked with little white lines, turning the chat room into a nice form of bulletin board as well.

I really hope this service lasts, it seems to hold a lot of promise. What they really need now is to get a forum/blog going so we have some way to help them perfect this. They do have a blog, and it’s even listed at the bottom of the main page, I’m a tard. Thanks Andy. Anyway, check it out because it’s awesome. Remember to leave a message there when you check it out, I’ll be sure to see it.