submitted by Sang on 11.14.2004

Legal notice: All Funny Stuff posts are considered to be Public Domain. If you are the owner of any of the posts in that section, and you would like it removed for whatever reason, please contact me, and I will take appropriate actions as soon as possible.

All games are copyrighted to their respective owner(s) mentioned in the game. If you are the owner of one of the games listed on Sangent, and you feel that I have inadvertently violated your copyright, please send me the proper documentation, and I will remove the offending game(s) as soon as possible. Otherwise, don’t go around scaring me like that.

This notice was put up in response to http://ebaumsworldsucks.com/. I just don’t want my site to go down. Then, where would all the high schoolers and workers go to waste time?

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submitted by Sang on 11.11.2004

Every decent website has a privacy policy, and here’s mine.

CliffsNotes: I will never sell your personal information such as email addresses, IP addresses, or personal address (although I don’t have that) because I respect your privacy, and I hate spammers.

Long version:

Sangent is committed to user privacy in our products and services. This policy outlines my personal information handling practices. If you give me personal information, I will treat it according to this policy.

Types and uses of personal information

Your personal information is used in the following ways:

• User IDs and Passwords. Provides you with access to your Sangent Wordpress Dashboard as well as access to post on the Sangent messageboards.
• Account Information. These tell me more about who you are, and how to contact you.

I will only use your personal information in the ways specified when it was collected. I will not subsequently change the way in which I use your personal information, unless you consent to the new usage.

Data Retention
I will not retain your personal information longer than is necessary for the purposes for which it was collected.

Linked web sites
I provide links to third party sites. Since I do not control these websites, I encourage you to review the privacy policies posted on these (and all) third party sites.

Children’s privacy
All information posted on Sangent is intended for those 13 years or older. I do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13. If I learn that I have personal information on a child under the age of 13, I will delete that information from the databases.

I display advertisements from third parties. Third party ad-serving companies control which ads are shown. These ad-serving companies may use cookies to collect non-personally identifiable information from you. Advertisers use this information to target the ads and measure their impact.

Third Party Advertising
I use Google Adsense, Yahoo! Publishers, and Burst Direct to serve ads when you visit our Web site. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements on this site and other sites about goods and services that may be of interest to you.

Third Party Cookies
In the course of serving advertisements to this site, the third-party advertisers may place or recognize a unique “cookie” on your browser.

Statistics tracking softwares
Sangent uses Statcounter, Google Analytics, MyBlogLog, and Analog in order to get traffic numbers, popular pages, popular links, and referrers from Sangent visitors as a whole. These services may use cookies in order to track your visit on Sangent, but they are non-identifiable and do not contain information such as your name, address, email address, and phone number.

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submitted by Sang on 11.3.2004

So you wanna know more about this website?

How it started. It all began in 2003 when I was in 10th grade in Visual Basic. Everyday, I wanted to access games or entertainment sites, but unfortunately, all the good ones were blocked. After a while, I went home and took the initiative of building my own basic site that archived some of my favorite games. At this point, I didn’t think that my site would grow to what it is today, so I just hosted it on a free server. For those wondering, it was 1asphost.com. The next day, I tested my site in class. Soon, people noticed that I ‘found’ a working site and demanded to know the URL, so I gave it to them. What I didn’t expect was for the every class with 5+ computers to use my site. When I first started, there were only about 20 games, but since there was a huge demand, I had to put more.

So there it is in a nutshell. I created a site -> people liked it -> I expanded it.

Why nerdnirvana or Sangent? Short answer: I’m lazy.

Long answer: I chose the name Sangent because that was the name that stood out in the list of words chosen by the random word generator. My official excuse is that it contains my name, and it’s a play on the word ‘tangent,’ which means something that’s touching something. In other words, if you went to Sangent, you would be next to me because the site has stuff that I like. I know it sounds gay, but run with it.

What about nerdnirvana? Every self-respecting site needs a top-level domain name. When it was time to chose mine, I had no idea. Yes, I could have picked sangent.com or sangent.org, but the name Sangent came after I bought nerdnirvana.org. So what I did was I asked my friends and visitors. One of my personal friends and visitor suggested nerdnirvana. I liked it, and that was that.

Sangent today. Today, I run this site. Every now and then, you might notice someone by the name of Mitchell posting to the front page. I don’t know him personally, but he is a good writer, so I gave him permission to do so. If you want to post, you can register here. Your post will not be posted immediately, but if I notice that you have potential, I will give you permission to post to the front page.

1. Videos. Videos (along with news and links every now and then) are posted to the front page. I try to make about 5 - 9 posts a day.
2. Games. This is what started this whole thing, but when you run a site for a long time, you want to expand your materials. You like games, but sometimes, they get old. This is why I upload 20 new games each week on Fridays.
3. Images. For those with a slow internet connection, this section is for you. I know it’s not as exciting as videos or games, but you should still check out this section. Like videos, this section is updated everyday with funny or interesting material.

I probably didn’t cover all the bases, so if you have any questions, ask them in the comments, and I will promptly reply.

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