submitted by Sang on 07.29.2005

Yes, it’s true. Before I start my demonstration, I’d like to show a picture of Barney for those fortunate enough not to see his show:

He’s the big purple dinosaur that talks like a retard in front of children. Oh, the cruelty.

Anyway, this is why Barney is the devil.

1. Given:
   CUTE PURPLE DINOSAUR

2. Change all U’s to V’s (which is proper Latin anyway):
   CVTE PVRPLE DINOSAVR

3. Extract all Roman Numerals:
   C V V L D I V

4. Convert into Arabic values:
   100 5 5 50 500 1 5

5. Add all the numbers:
   666

GASP! Thus, Barney is Satan.

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submitted by Sang on 07.29.2005

All right, I got my hands on Internet Explorer 7, and it looks strikingly similar to Firefox. Instead of babbling on, I present you with screenshots of Firefox and Internet Explorer 7. Click on a screenshot to resize.

TABS
Internet Explorer and Firefox with two tabs opened:

If you want to open a new tab in Internet Explorer, you can either click on the mini-tab to the right of the last tab, or you can double-click on the grey area where the tabs are. To close a tab, you can click on it with your middle mouse button (scroll wheel) if you have one, or you can click the black X on the right…which resembles the red X in Firefox. So far all these functions do the same thing in both browsers.

A new thing the Internet Explorer 7 seems to have is the way you can resize it. If you double-click on the refresh icon, you can restore and maximize the window. Neat.

Here’s Internet Explorer and Firefox with 1 tab opened:

TAB MENU
Want to see the tab menu in Firefox and Internet Explorer? Tab menu is the menu that you get when you right-click on the grey area where the tabs are. Here’s the tab menu for Firefox:

Here’s the tab menu for Internet Explorer:

Same exact options but reworded. Instead of completely copying Firefox, Internet Explorer uses Refresh instead of Reload. Sly Microsoft.

SEARCHING
Hmm, that search menu to the right of the address bar looks interesting. Let’s take a closer look, shall we? Here’s the search menu with the default search engines for Internet Explorer:

Here it is for Firefox:

I don’t know about you, but I never use AOL search, Ask Jeeves, or MSN search, and I rarely use Yahoo! search. The default search engine for Internet Explorer seems to be MSN search. Doesn’t Microsoft own MSN? Shocking.

Another interesting feature that I found in Internet Explorer is that it will not remember your search engine choice. This means that if you were using the search box on the right of the address bar in Internet Explorer to search Google, IE will not remember what you use once you close it. Firefox will.

I tried to do a quick search on Google, and it wouldn’t work. What are quick searches? Basically, you can type in a keyword, Google for example, followed by a query, and the browser will search Google. In Firefox, you can type google llama, and Firefox will search Google for all sites with the word llama. You can also try slang llama, and Firefox will search Urbandictionary.com for the urban definition of llama. Dict llama will get you the definition of llama. Out of all the things to copy, Internet Explorer did not copy this feature. For shame!

EXTENSIONS
Extensions (along with themes) are what make Firefox a great browser. It’s fully skinnable and customizable, so you use a skin that matches your personality or you can load useful extensions. As you can see in Firefox, I have the ForecastFox extension, and it tells me the weather, so I don’t have to looks to the left and see it myself. Here’s a screenshot of the Extensions menu in Firefox:

Wanna see what it looks like in Internet Explorer?

Ha! Microsoft called extensions add-ons. They’re all pretty basic add-ons that you need if you want to enjoy the Internet in all its glory such as Shockwave, Flash, and Acrobat. Without the first two, you cannot enjoy the 280 (as of 07.29.05) games at Sangent.

INTERNET OPTIONS
Internet Options is a menu where you can tweak and modify some features in a browser. You can delete cookies, clear cache, clear history, change connection settings, and change the way you browse. This is just some of the common features between Firefox and Internet Explorer.

Options menu for Firefox:

Internet Options for Internet Explorer:

That’s it! I can probably write more, but I have to eat dinner.

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submitted by Sang on 07.28.2005

Have you ever caught yourself wondering when you would use a mathematics concept in the real-world? Have you ever asked a teacher that question? Have you ever gotten in trouble as a result? Was the teacher able to think of an application?

Well, teachers are supposed to know what any concept is used for, right? Or at least they should be able to think of one on-the-spot. That’s why they get paid the big bucks. Well, I was snooping around for an explanation to what a period is and how to calculate one when I found a teacher asking Dr. Math this question:

My name is Ian and I’m a teacher from High Wycombe Primary School W.A. We have just covered circumference of circles and pi. The children asked how this concept is used in real life, i.e. engineering, etc., and I had a devil of a time thinking of one. Also what / who is pi named after? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks “Pestered”

I don’t know about you, but I laughed when I read this question.

Here’s the link to the question: http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/57045.html

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submitted by Sang on 07.20.2005

I found this site today called “1 Stop Domain Hosting” that lets anyone become a reseller. What’s a reseller, you ask? It’s a

A reseller is a company that purchases goods from another company and sells them at a higher price to another company or to consumers. One example can be found in telecommunications, where companies buy excessive amounts of transmission capacity or call time from other carriers and resell it to smaller carriers.

Check it out!

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submitted by Sang on 07.15.2005

I found this thing online, and thought I should post it. I made some corrections to it so that it will say her or she instead of them which is completely wrong. Of course, you can replace the feminine subjects with masculine ones, and it will still make sense.

• You think about her all the time.
• You get jealous when she flirt with other people.
• If she’s depressed or having a bad day, then you feel depressed too.
• If you don’t talk to her or see her for one day, you get depressed and lonely.
• You would go out of your way to make her happy.
• You think up excuses to call her at night.
• she’re the only person you ever think about.
• You feel that she are the only person you could ever be completely happy with.
• You get butterflies in your stomach every time you see her.
• You think about her while laying in bed.
• When you’re walking next to her, you “accidentally” let your hand brush up against her.
• You go places just to see her.
• You just feel better when she’re around.
• Even if you’re having the worst day in your life, just a couple words from her can make it all seem okay.
• Time is an eternity when you’re without her.
• Time stops when you’re with her.
• The thought of her makes you shiver.
• The sound of her makes you smile.
• When seeing her, you can’t see anything else.
• You start to listen to sappy love songs.
• You actually enjoy sappy love songs.
• The smell of her makes you see fireworks.
• You find yourself smiling constantly.
• You’d do anything, even die, for her.
• You listen to the same love song over and over all night.
• You can’t stop thinking about a night you 2 spent together.
• You see her in the hall way and you can’t stop looking at her, or if you can’t look directly into her eyes.
• You dream about her almost every night.
• You sit by the phone or computer wish she would call you or e-mail or IM you for hours.
• You talk about her 24/7.
• You don’t talk to a lot of your guy/girl friends.
• You have that twinkle in your eye, you get the tingly feeling in your stomach when he touches you, and when you can’t stand it if she talk to another guy/girl, and you get mad at her, you say you don’t like her any more but deep down inside you know you still do!

+snguyen

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submitted by Sang on 07.14.2005

I just saw this picture on the Internet, and I thought I should post it. Click to enlarge.

+snguyen

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submitted by Sang on 07.11.2005

Some interesting information about the date when I was born:

You entered: 12/19/1987

You were born on a Saturday under the astrological sign Sagittarius.
Your Life path number is 11.

The Julian calendar date of your birth is 2447148.5. The golden number for 1987 is 12.
The epact number for 1987 is 0. The year 1987 was not a leap year.

As of 7/11/2005 9:18:11 PM CDTM
You are 17 years old.
You are 211 months old.
You are 917 weeks old.
You are 6,414 days old.
You are 153,957 hours old.
You are 9,237,438 minutes old.
You are 554,246,291 seconds old.

There are 161 days till your next birthday on which your cake will have 18 candles on it.

Those 18 candles produce 18 BTU’s, or 4,536 calories of heat (that’s only 4.5360 food Calories!) .
You can boil 2.06 US ounces of water with that many candles.

Your birthstone is Blue Zircon The Mystical properties of Blue Zircon

Zircon helps one be more at peace with oneself.

Some lists consider these stones to be your birthstone. (Birthstone lists come from Jewlers, Tibet, Ayurvedic Indian medicine, and other sources)

Blue Topaz, Ruby, Lapis Lazuli

Your birth tree is Fig Tree, the Sensibility

Very strong, a bit self-willed, independent, does not allow contradiction or arguments, loves life, its family, children and animals, a bit of a butterfly, good sense of humour, likes idleness and laziness, of practical talent and intelligence.

There are 167 days till Christmas 2005!

The moon’s phase on the day you were born was waning crescent:

Saturday, December 19, 1987

Moon’s age (days): 28
Distance (Earth radii): 57.72
Percent Illumination 1.23%
Ecliptic latitude (degrees): -4.96
Ecliptic longitude (degrees): 249.30

What’s yours?

+snguyen

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submitted by Sang on 07.11.2005

One of my favorite sites is http://digg.com/

Check it out now! New layout!

+snguyen

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