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I added two things on the comment form:
I was reading an article which proposes the implementation of “subjective” captchas (pictured on the right) to determine if the user planning input data was a machine or not. It would show a series of pictures where the user would choose a person considered to be “hot” or “not.” While this can be pretty judgemental, it still works as the machines should have a more difficult time analyzing image data like that than simply analyzing strings of text.
Among the people chanting that beauty was ultimately subjective, there was a comment which I found very interesting.
Saying that beauty is “subjective” is kind of a cop-out. It’s usually said by those of us who wish it was true. Just because one out of ten thousand people might find an ugly person remotely attractive doesn’t make that same person “attractive” anymore than a guy with a fat chick fetish makes an obese 800lb woman “skinny.”
I finally implemented a flash-based solution to enable visitors to just listen to my songs right from the music section. I kinda renovated the code of the page while I was at it. Here’s a screenshot of how the “user interface” works.
NOTICE
CONTENTS NO LONGER APPLICABLE
The content discussed in this post is no longer valid; as I’m now using a different “lightbox” implementation.
More here
JC made me check out his installation of a cool WordPress plugin that does lightboxing. I decided to apply the same stuff in my blog – and modify it a bit to be able to link to the image’s Flickr page somewhat dynamically.
If you’re not interested in the details, then just spot the difference between these two lightbox-enabled links (I just hope it does work as I intended it to).
Here’s an image which I linked to Flickr
Here’s an image which I linked to the Gallery within my domian
If you noticed the difference, and are interested in how I did that – read on… Read More
After watching Lewis Blacks’ “gay banditos” skit on YouTube, I decided to buy his albums. Hahaha, don’t you just hate it that I can now use the word buy without batting an eyelash? Anyways, the variable pricing scheme AllofMP3 has on its encodes made me realize something when I was comparing them with one another.
You see, when it comes to simple audio (as against music) I tend to pick the lower bit-rate to save on money. Because lets face it. A live performance by someone who simply talks doesn’t need much fidelity to be appreciated. Since I love comic acts so much, the process of analyzing a good price-quality ratio seemed very relevant to my predicament.
