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Konami Code – Unicorn Blitz

So last night I hacked up possibly my favorite project either. The Konami Unicorn Blitz.

This sprang out of a post I saw on Boing Boing about their new keyboard shortcuts.

Reminder! You can now jump between posts on the front door of Boing Boing by hitting J and K. It should work on most browsers. Any similar UI requests? Under consideration: L to go to the next 30 posts; and the Konami Code to trigger a unicorn invasion.

So I implemented it, it wasn’t hard just a matter of finding all the pieces and gluing them together.

You can try it on this site, right now.

Just hit UPUPDOWNDOWNLEFTRIGHTLEFTRIGHTBA

Before
Before The Konami Code

Before
After The Konami Code

Fantastic!

Posted May 27th, 2010 - Permalink
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LOL! Buttermilk!


LOL! BUTTERMILK!

Posted May 13th, 2010 - Permalink
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Awesome C Program

Over lunch today I came across this link on HN: comp.lang.c: For loops help

The request was for a program that would print this:

    *
   ***
  *****
 *******
*********
*********
 *******
  *****
   ***
    *

and the reply was this

#define      M 002354l
#define     A   000644l
#define    G     000132l
#define     I   000322l
#define      C 000374l
 
#define                a ;
#define               b for
#define              c    ++
#define             d       %
#define            e       int
#define           f           ,
#define          g             -
#define         h             011
#define        i                 =
#define       j                   {
#define      k                     )
#define     l                    '\n'
#define    m                      main
#define    n                         <
#define     o                       }
#define      p                     >
#define       q                  &&
#define        r                 (
#define         s              ||
#define          t             ?
#define           u     putchar
#define            v      void
#define             w     '*'
#define              x     :
#define               y ' '
#define                _ /
#define           C_O_O_L return
 
                   e u r e k a
 
                         e
                        m r
                       v k j
                      j j j j
                     j j j j j
                    j j j j j j
                   j j j j j j j
                  j e z a b r z i
                 M _ A _ G _ I _ C
                a z n G a u r z d h
               + z _ h p M _ A q z d
              h + z _ h n M _ G q z _
             h n z d h + M _ I q z _ h
            p z d h g M _ C t w x y k f
           z d h g h + 1 s u r l k f z c
          k a u r l k a j j j j j j j j j
         j j C_O_O_L M _ A _ G _ I _ C a o
        o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o
                      o o o o
                      o o o o
                      o o o o
                      o o o o

I went ahead and compiled it, works like a charm:

jmhobbs@katya:~/Desktop$ gcc awesome.c                                                                                                                                                                                  
jmhobbs@katya:~/Desktop$ ./a.out
    *
   ***
  *****
 *******
*********
*********
 *******
  *****
   ***
    *
 
jmhobbs@katya:~/Desktop$

So cool.

Posted May 12th, 2010 - Permalink
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Darcy Hypnotizes The Chickens

I had no idea you could do this. It’s a pretty cool trick.

Posted April 20th, 2010 - Permalink
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Thursday Quote: Brian Malow

“Schrödinger’s cat walks into a bar. And doesn’t.”

- Brian Malow
Science Comedian

Posted March 4th, 2010 - Permalink
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