The Internet Explorer

Do you know about the website that hosts various flash animations and games (made by various talented people) ?

Yeah, the one that allows its users to submit their own flash movies, games, and music, and view submissions from other users ?

The one with 1 million registered members and over 300,000 flash submissions ?

The one that has so many animations and bullshit, enough to waste your entire life on it ?

The one that has so many cool animations you never thought was possible with just flash ?

I’m talking about Newgrounds.

The website has been up since 1995, with Tom Fulp, who still maintains every aspect and regularly produces in-house content.

There’s one distinct thing about this website compared with other flash websites.

It has a sophisticated and impartial automated submission/rating system.

I have to warn you. Don’t click on that link up there yet. Don’t.

This knowledge is dangerous. You may be trapped there forever !!
Think about the 300,000 flash animations available there……!
Damn it, I might be creating a new spawn of fat bums with carpal tunnel syndrome.

But hey, it’s worth it.

Before you go venture into the world of endless flash animation, let me give you a few links of the really awesome ones you gotta see. Oh, oh yes, there’s violence and gore.

MADNESS.

Brutal Stickmen.

Cute Bunnies Play.

Cute Bunnies Play Somemore.

White Bunny…!! Noo!!.

The rest of the awesome flash animations are usually categorized as Series.

Oh.

If I see any of you dying over the computer on the news, with the title “Idiot died watching animation non-stop for days without shitting”

I’ll laugh at you.

I never thought I’d be saying this.

People, don’t be scammed by love.

No, I’m not trying to claim that love only leads to cheating and sadness.

I’m talking about the recent issue that there have been an increasing number of individuals who fell victim to Romance Scammers, online.

Nowadays there are a lot of people finding love online.

No matter if it’s through MySpace, Msn, Yahoo Personals, Friendster, the point is that you might be cheated out of love in the future, if you’re not careful.

What is a Romance Scammer ?

Someone who talks to you, pampers you with flowers and gifts, and makes you trust them. Love them. Then they create sympathetic stories and ask you for money. Then they leave you. Heartbroken, and cheated.

Some of you might say, who the hell would be stupid enough to give money to an online stranger ?

But hey, people who are in Love, do stupid things.

The impact towards victims is immense.

Imagine talking and loving someone for months, someone who you thought
was going to be your life partner.

And before you know it, you’ve lost thousands of dollars and ended up with a broken heart. And then you will find it harder to trust anyone and be succumbed into a world
full of evil and loneliness…. and then you die. Regretting how you’ve should’ve let go and give love a chance.

So then it brings the question of how are we supposed to know
what is truly love ?

Simple.

Most of this Romance Scammers originate from Nigeria, Russia, and West Africa.

You tell them that you’re in town, and you have an emergency. You want to meet them.
Use their own stories against them.

If they are fakes, they would’ve made a pathetic excuse and therefore they will be exposed immediately.

If they are the real deal, they will offer to come and help you. Then you can explain that it was a joke. No harm done.

Then again, the best way, is to ask them questions that will reaffirm their identity.

Ask about the places they claim to come from, how is it like, and check it yourself online.

I do not think that these scammers will know specific details of a certain country and culture.

I hope that those of you that are finding love online will truly find love. Be cautious. Be open.

You might just get what you wish for.

Be Careful of your Love.

A long time ago I realized that teachers don’t have a clue of how students think.

This happened on one morning in a lecture class, where students was either slumping on the chair, dead asleep. Or half asleep, struggling to keep those eyelids open.

As the professor talked and talked and wrote on the board, he suddenly said,

I see that many of you are bored. I guess this material is too easy. Good. Very good.
It’s a sign that you’ve mastered the subject when you’re already bored of it.

Me and the other students suddenly woke up from dreamland, amazed by the sudden stupidity we have just witnessed. We stared at each other and gave each other a small grin.

This professor thought that a bunch of sleepyheads were hardworking students who were bored of a subject that was too easy. And this was a college professor.

Anonymous Hardworking Student.
This professor had the idea that all students are hardworking. Oh boy this idiot have no idea. We students are the equivalent of pigs. Lazy pigs that only start to run and work if you feed us shit.

Some teachers are copymachines. They copy whatever is on the textbook and then the students write them down in their notes without a clue what it means. Where’s the teaching ?

But then again we students have the tendency to point our fingers to the nearest teacher we can find instead of ourselves.

Teachers are like charcoal. They help you, a small fire to burn. But you are the fire, you yourself have the responsibility to burn things, see. So students must have the responsibility of studying themselves, the teacher can only help.

But most of us are lazy bums. We don’t want to be responsible. It’s not a strong sense of motivation. So what can we do to be successful in school ? Simple, have a strong sense of motivation to do whatever you need to do no matter how hard it would be.

Motivation is key to anything. There are 2 types of motivation in use in current schools.

The kiss my ass motivation. They pamper you with points and bribe you with goodies to study. But this backfires. In time students start to think they must be rewarded with something to study. This creates greedy pighumans, and schools can’t feed them forever. Then students revert to pigs.

The grade motivation. Getting an ‘A’ is a sure-fire way to make you feel good. It’s a great system for better than average students. But what about students that lack the preparation and skills needed ? One ‘F’ is a sure-fire way to lower down their sense of brains esteem.
Perhaps one would say that failure will motivate them to study harder.
But failure motivates one to quit school and jump down buildings later too.
It’s bad for weak students.

So the two types of motivation in use isn’t perfect. So here I would like to contribute a whole new system of motivation to use in school.

The kick ass motivation.
Yeah, I’m talking about competition. Students will be categorized into different levels of development. Then they will be taught to kick each other’s asses. (studying)So the students will try their best to kick each other’s asses and all students will improve no matter who wins. This is fair to weak students too, because they are kicking asses in the same level of development.The desire to compete and win against someone who is almost at the same level as you is a powerful one.Also, students can kick the teacher’s asses. It would bring the students and teachers closer. It’s a fun activity too.In conclusion, the kick ass system, kicks ass.I hope you realize by now that the kick ass term I am using here is about studying hard to show how awesome you are to other students ?

But then again I could see teachers kicking the ass of students. Immediate, effective shameful punishment.

Yeah, kicking ass could be an improvement of the old butt slapping punishment too !

It’s a perfect improvement of the school system, don’t you think ?

Studying kicks ass.

Is there a blog that can save a person’s life, or make it feel better ?

What if the person is a person who is experiencing regret, guilt, sadness, depression, anger, and other negative emotions and is on the tip of a building wondering how their bodies would look like at the ground later ?

What if the person is so tortured by it’s innermost secrets and is contemplating suicide ?

Yes. There is one.

The one and only, PostSecret blog.

The blog invites anyone to send a creatively made truthful postcard with your secret written on it. And then it posts it up for everyone to see, without revealing the true identity of the person who submitted it.

It’s real life secrets of various individuals on a postcard. PostSecret.

It’s interesting, and eye opening to see the various problems and secrets that people have.

It’s good, when I realize that my secret isn’t so bad after seeing some of the secrets that people have.

It’s a motivating thing, to see a blog medium that motivates people to avoid suicide.

As you read the blog, the HopeLine phone number is provided. There you can talk about your problems as you decide whether to jump down a tall building. It’s the next level after submitting your secret in a postcard.

It’s really a blog to help people talk about their problems and deal with it.
And that’s a commendable effort and a inspiring thing.

It’s funny, to see some ridiculous secret that people have.

For example,

I thought my dick was a bad thing when I was small.

I shit in my pants many times when I was a kid.

The girl I love scares and beat the hell out of me.

I’m a guy who cries when I’m angry.

You get the idea.

No one will benefit from suppressing their bad thoughts and secrets. One will have to deal with their inner demons sooner or later. It really helps to talk to someone, or just to let someone know. It makes you feel better.

PostSecret lets you do just that.

No matter if you’re a postcard submitter or reader, it really benefits everyone.

Then again the donating part is a little strange. I don’t see proof.

I don’t know if I’m donating to help the needy, or scum who are scamming good intentions for money. It’d be nice if they showed a link or some kind of proof that they are the real deal.

Trust people, but don’t trust the devil in them.

I might just post my secret one day.

Hey, I could do it here.

My secret…

Is…

That…

I don’t have secrets.

Read PostSecret

Music is captivating. Fun. Good enough for us to pay attention among many things.

But is it possible to hypnotize you ?

Now I believe. Proof ? Me.

I was hypnotized by the musical realization of the motion graphics of john whitney as described in his book “digital harmony”.

I’m talking about this.

It was strangely… peaceful, captivating, and beautiful.

I forgot what the hell I was supposed to do online.

I was hooked.

I would stare at it for minutes, looking at each dot humming it’s way.

This is probably the most hypnotizing music motion graphics I have ever seen.

But Var 16 is just chaotic. My face became like this watching it.

..ll.. (@___@) ..ll..

Oh, you can actually control those dots using a hand crank provided by the site.

Never thought I would be creating music by rotating a hand crank.

By Hypnotized…By Music.

I am on my bed.

And yet I don’t feel my pillow.

I feel so free and weightless.

I look down. Oh my god.

I see that I’m not on the bed after all.

I am levitating in the air.

Surprised, the thought of superman raising both of his hands and flying up up and away came into mind !

I raised my fists, and I yelled in my mind, “FLY !” I flew. Slowly. And slowly.

To the door. Through the kitchen.

It was like floating in space. With the force of a fart propelling my body slowly.

I reached the toilet. Suddenly I felt like pissing.

I pissed mid-air, and then I flew out my window. Without flushing.

I flew all over tall buildings, under the bridges, inside supermarkets where people are looking and pointing at me, it was a sense of freedom I have never experienced before.

The sight of me flying must’ve been so grand and powerful. Or maybe it was my open zipper, I don’t really know.

I could will my body to fly faster and faster, it seemed like the wind even had a hard time catching up with me.

And then I hear a loud beeping sound.

I wake up. It was a dream. Everything is so fuzzy.

I then raised my arms to the air…. and thought in my mind, “FLY !”

And there it was, a half-awake-idiot on the bed raising his arms to the air, believing he could fly.

Always wanted to fly. By myself. The turbulence of airplane is rushing, but you don’t feel the breeze so it’s really not the same.

I decided that I would fly no matter what.

The closest I can get to flying is to take mad crazy roller coaster rides, I thought.

Suddenly the world is changing.

I am in a roller coaster. It is so fast, with the red tracks blazing making it look like a red flash of light.

I felt like a pilot, spiraling left, right, up and down at high speeds. I smiled confidently, embracing the fast winds shooting up my face, and I unbuckled my seatbelt.

With a loud yell I got propelled high up in the air, and I looked at the whole themepark from the skies.

“WoooooAaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh !!!” I yelled uncontrollably.

And then I woke up. Again. Looking at the same surroundings I seen twice already.

Am I still dreaming ?

If only I could fly.

I would like to share the story of a Chinese Kid monk.

When he was a boy, he was adopted by the monastery when his parents passed away.
He did not know how to read or write since he was poor, and did badly in day to day lessons. He did so bad up to the point that he was called “stupid” by other kids.

One day he met the Master of the temple.

Master : What’s troubling you, young one ?
Kid Monk : Sir, I’m sad that I’m stupid.
Master : Ho ho ho, you’re not stupid, if you know that you’re stupid.
Kid Monk : I am stupid…. So I’m not stupid…?
Master : Precisely. Hohohoohohohoh !
Kid Monk : *Smiles.*

And then the Kid Monk ran to the other kids and started proclaiming how stupid he was.
And then he said “you’re not stupid if you know you’re stupid”.
All the kids were confused by that phrase. And all came to the conclusion that the Kid Monk wasn’t so stupid after all to be able to confuse them all. The Kid Monk then became a genius that helped people to proclaim how stupid they were. To prove they weren’t stupid.

End of story.

You’re not stupid if you know you’re stupid.

Confused ? Same here.

Took me a while to realize the inner meaning.

Being stupid means you can’t think straight, it’s like being a babbling lunatic.
If you can think that you’re stupid, it means you still have a mind. You can still think.
That you’re stupid. But you’re not stupid if you think you’re stupid.

Get it ?

So guys.

Go out there, and proclaim how stupid you are.

You’re not stupid if you know you’re stupid.

Then again I’d prefer to know that I’m not stupid by taking an IQ test, thank you very much. Always wanted to know my Intelligence Quotient.

So I went and took an IQ test online by tickle.

Here’s how stupid I am.

Not bad…140.

I’m a visionary philosopher.

Highly intelligent.

Have powerful mix of skills.

Exceptional math and verbal skills.

I’m a bloody equivalent of Plato ! Some famous Greek philosopher in the past !

This is a much better way to show that I’m not stupid.

Then again you can go ahead with the “proclaiming how stupid you are” idea if you’d like.

The average UK Tickle user has an IQ of 119.73, by the way.
What’s yours ?

Find out how stupid/smart you are.

Over the course of being an Internet Explorer, I gained some skills which made me more superior to most human beings.

For example, I can tie my shoes in 3 seconds.

Which makes me the World’s Fastest Shoelace Tying Person.

It’s not a simple knot, but a beautifully tied knot that can be released at a pull of a string.

In 3 seconds.

You want to know how ?

I’ll teach you.

First, wear 100kg dumbbells on your wrists.

Live 10 years of your life with that on.

Soon your hands will be fast enough to tie your shoes in 3 seconds.

That, or you lose your hands. And be handicapped for the rest of your lives.

Hey, it’s worth it !

That’s one way.

The Second Way

This dude covered possibly all the knots there is to tie your shoelaces.

But you only need to know one. The fastest knot, of course ! However there are other kinds of knots designed with more strength for different activities.

Remember to thank me when you tie your shoes in 3 seconds.

Video : FASTEST KNOT

Anger and hatred.

The two forms of human emotion so easily created, regardless of how nice you think you are.

I mean, it’s so much easier to get angry and curse and think of beating the bloody bastard who hit your car and ran away, than to smile and let it go.

Anger and hatred is powerful.

In the history of mankind anger and hatred has been the moving force of war.

And war, gives tremendous development in terms of technological advances.
Even though there are numerous casualties and lost of innocent lives, war, is really one fast way to step ahead for civilizations if you look at our world history.

Take World War 2 for example. British cryptanalysts, Alan Turing at the forefront, changed the course of the Second World War and created the foundation for the modern computer. Communication during the war was very important, and he developed Codes and Ciphers that are the foundation of the modern computers we use today.

No matter how many people have said that anger and hatred only leads to bad things, I think you should reconsider.

From my weird point of view, anger and hatred are just energy in our bodies. Most people fail to control such a large energy, and use it in the wrong way.

But if used correctly, it could be a most powerful booster to do the things you need to do.

Take Denzel Washington, one of the best actors I have ever laid my eyeballs on.

When he was a teenager he was very rebellious, up to the point where several of his friends ended up in jail. He then went through discipline school and eventually found acting. If you’ve seen his movies, Malcolm X, Man of Fire, John Q, you will find that he’s damn good with his anger portrayal.

What he did to be successful in acting was to channel all his anger into something productive.

Which is what every living human being that has ever felt anger should do.

Got a heavy homework you need to do? Make it your enemy that must be destroyed at all costs. Yes, including the cost of watching your favorite TV show or going out with friends. KILL THE HOMEWORK. Combined with the logic that you’re not going to fully enjoy whatever you prefer to do because the dragging thought of that homework is going to bug you, it’s a sure-fire way to motivate yourself to KILL HOMEWORK.

Got a lot of work to do? Think of the times your boss scolded your ass. Don’t give him another chance. Complete it and show what you’re made of. KILL THE WORK.

Need to do a house chore? Think of the times your mom scolded you and called you a lazy bum/useless/notashardworkingasnicevil/etc. KILL THE DISHES.

I think you get the idea.

Anger and Hatred is a terrible thing to waste, don’t you think ?

Just Don’t Overdo It.

Anger Is Good For You