I only got into one of those two schools when I applied as an undergrad, but my cousin Alice, whom I helped with her college essays and applications, just got into both! I guess you could say she got into one of those because of my help, and she got into the other one despite my interference. In any case, hearing good news on the college application front from a relative and friend makes me feel all warm and fuzzy. :)
It’s been quite a stressful week at work, so here are some flash games to lighten the day. Tabuto is a reaction game involving your mouse and falling tiles. You just have to hover your mouse over tiles as they fall, and you have 20 misses till it’s game over. I got to level 5 with a score of 144,290 on my first try, then level 6 with a score of 337,080 on my second, then level 7 with 896,860 on my third.
Tontie is a cute game like those games at the arcade where you hit groundhogs as they pop out of the ground, except here you hit your number keys. Not recommended for laptop users.
And then there’s What a Fart, a Korean flatulence game where the goals is to pass gas silently under the cover of passing cars. If you can’t read Korean, just press [Space] to pass gas whenever a car is going by, or press the Left Arrow Key to pass gas silently. The goal is to both not let the guy next to you hear it, and to not let the gauge fill up. It’s fun the first couple times, but gets boring after you hit 20000+ points.
At first I thought this was nothing more than a joke created by a third grader considering the atrocious website design, but it turns out to be the real deal. The RIAA has just launched a website that allows people to settle their lawsuits online. Not only is this convenient for the students and little kids targeted by the RIAA, it also streamlines the RIAA’s extortion process and probably saves a few trees as well. Plus, they take Mastercard, VISA, and Discover. What’s not to love? They even have a nice FAQ page where they answer questions such as:
How are P2P copyright infringers identified for lawsuits?
They are initially identified by their Internet Protocol (IP) address – the Internet address that the computer uses to communicate.
which seems to fit in nicely with their privacy statement:
This Web Site collects… non-personally identifiable information (for example, this can include your domain name, browser version, service provider, and/or IP address).
Brilliant.