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The Last Stand: Good, Clean Zombie Fun

Saturday, May 19, 2007

In general, I shy away from Flash-based games. I am not sure whether it is because of the low quality of most Flash games (i.e. stick figures) or because I feel guilty about wasting time or simply because most of them are not really that much fun. There are only so many times you can [...]

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Calvin & Hobbes RSS Redux

Thursday, May 25, 2006

Previously, I wrote about the Calvin & Hobbes RSS feed I was scraping from UComics. Unfortunately, UComics replaced the image that was placed in the RSS feed with a Flash file. While I have updated the RSS feed, I am still a bit angry, since the Flash utilized on UComics is Flash 8. Since Flash [...]

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Iraqi Coalition Deaths in Flash

Sunday, June 26, 2005

From Ben Tesch's del.icio.us feed comes a Flash application called "Iraqi War Fatalities." It shows deaths of Coalition personnel chronologically, marking them on a map of Iraq and Kuwait with small black dots and "tic" sounds. During times when the insurgency has been particularly troublesome (like the summer months), the ticking increases in volume. While [...]

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