OnyxRaven Blog

More of the same

• Happy Un-10th to DNF. (Joystiq)
  
• Doesn’t he look happy? (Kotaku)
  
• Deadly Death Hamsters of Death. (BoingBoing)
  

Haven’t had a chance to try out my dancepad yet. Hopefully soon. Having debate with myself over wether or not I’m going to continue playing World of Warcraft - lots of others seem to be playing LotRO or now Titan Quest.

• Cool, sort of odd, anime clip (actually its Korean)
• Harry Potter 5 Trailers!
• Jim as Dwight

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auEceiMGGk4

• You’ve heard of Peter Rabbit, right? How about Placeholder Rabbit?

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQADm2MweM4

One day a couple weeks ago, I got linked to this Kraft website. I paid the shipping and handling ($6).

I now have (still sitting in a box at home), one Kraft Dancepad. There are games linked on Kraft’s website, but I’m told that with a little hardware modification (for which I’m going to have to dig up my soldering iron and see if it still works), it will work with the opensource StepMania.

I’ll post later on my success.

I plan on doing these more often than not, so I’ll have to come up with some clever name for them.

• Virb: A way cooler version of myspace. 37Signals takes a look at some of the design.
• Haloid: A neat mashup of Halo and Metroid, if the Master Chief was a chick. Got to have the girl+girl action at the end, so its alright. Cool vid, for sure. Saw it on Penny Arcade.
• How the Lord of the Rings should have ended (Thanks Ryan)

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnUvw1rzziE

• Medieval Tech Support: introducing a new system, The Book.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pyjRj3UMRM

• Super Mario Frustration (Thanks BoingBoing)

  http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6204903272262158881

• PWN.
  

• Tower Defense with UO graphics.
• What kind of American English do you speak?
• William Shatner is Awesome.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBtKJwaj6T4

• I wish Top Gear was still on in the states: a 747 tossing cars.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvJ1hLS4Dfc

• This is SpartaSan Diego!

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-u9SzVdVGI

Note, my current setup doesn’t seem to like code much - so bear with me if there are missing backslashes, or other oddities. I’m currently figuring out where to put these files so that I can just link to them

Change Desktop Win32 - Change your desktop to a random picture. The path ($path) below should be set to where you have images which you want to have randomly on your desktop (and only those files). You’ll need the CPAN package ‘Win32::API’.

The problem I’ve had with this script is that it doesn’t seem to work properly outside of the Cygwin/Bash interactive shell.

Clipboard to Browser URL Win32 - Open Clipboard URL in your browser with a Hotkey. This perl snip will read your clipboard, and open your default browser with that URL.

This might need the package ‘Win32::Clipboard’, but that package might be included in Win32::API. If you put this in a shortcut which is on your desktop or in your start menu, you can assign a hotkey (like ctrl+alt+shift+o) and it will launch this automatically. Using the rundll32, it wont leave the commandline window open.

This new version also uses the CGI::Untaint library, specifically CGI::Untaint::url (which is a seperate package). This lets it pretty generally do URLs, http, https, ftp, mailto, etc.