Well... I guess we're not dead... yet. Today the Dow Jones Industrial Average regained 4.7% of the nearly 7 it lost yesterday, or 485 out of 777 points (isn't 777 lucky in gambling though?). Honestly this is an odd trend to find though, most of the world would have panicked, I would've thought, and sold all their stocks today, but thankfully things on Wall Street returned to a sense of normalcy today. I personally took the day off to recover from something going around, and followed the stocks right up to the closing bell. I have a feeling tomorrow's growth will not be as high, I think we will see at least a 100 or so point increase, but i could be wrong. Sadly until we can find a way to get more money to the banks so they'll approve more loans to lower/average wage citizens, we probably will not see 13,000 or 14,000 point figures for the DOW for years. So! lets get everyone in America to donate a small percentage of their salary to the banks through taxes over a couple of years! oh... what?... congress just turned down something like that? ****, well i have to run to my bank and withdraw all my money so I'll let you read more here.
I know i've said i'd never make a goodbye post, but i feel i owe everyone an explaination.
I made a promise to myself a long time ago that if the community ever looked so horribly upon me to that i'd feel the urge to quit moderating,i'd leave the site. Before anyone says anything bad about me, realize this, i'm not running away. I just feel no longer wanted/needed. It came to my attention that few people,if any, want me to be a mod anymore. I always thought the community wanted someone to keep their chats clean, obviously i was wrong. I'd be a hypocrite to say that this is for the community by the community if i was sitting in a dual mod position that no one wanted me in. Its time for a change in anipock as well as myself.
Anipock, for me at least, is like a treehouse. You build it up with your friends. You go there and hang out everyday after school.Nothing is stronger than the memories you've gained in your treehouse with some of the best friends you'll ever have in your entire life. After a while though, less and less people come. A few new ones show up but everyone starts changing. Eventually the you feel that so much has changed you're not wanted and stop showing up. You leave your treehouse for good and let the next group have it to enjoy, but the memories stay strong. Anipock is the treehouse i've outgrown and am no longer accepted at...
I owe this place a debt of gratitude for giving me so many good times and the love of my life. Also i owe it to leave when i'm not wanted.
So farewell friends and foes alike... *weak smile* thank you
Elections: Who should win? (are we serious or joking? you decide!)
Obama:
"If I haven’t gotten combat troops out of Iraq, passed universal health care and created a new energy policy that speaks to our dependence on foreign oil and deals seriously with global warming, then we’ve missed the boat. Those are three big jobs, so it’s going to require a lot of attention and imagination, and it’s going to require the American people feeling inspired enough that they’re prepared to take on these big challenges."
McCain:
McCain's biggest goals are eliminating a decades-old tax break and allowing people to choose their healthcare plan according to their "stage in life."
Sada:
Hello friend Who are you going to vote for in '08? McCain? Obama? Well both are incredibly silly choices and you should be ashamed for picking them. Vote for Sada Sadasada this year. Who is Sada Sadasada? After a successful run for President of http.ani-pock.net (whether they know it or not) Sada decided to throw his hat into the presidential race... where it was promptly trampled by Dennis Kucinich. After the loss of his top hat shown below posing with Abraham Lincoln apparently) Sada was motivated to shove his butt in Dennis Kucinich's big fat face by winning the presidential nomination!
After being shown the door at both the democratic, republican, and libertarian conventions (by Mike the security guard) Sada decided to run independently with his long time friend, Chester, a black bear cub and three time golden paw junior heavyweight champion. Sada doesn't claim to be a Maverick (he doesn't know what that means) And the only Change that Sada offer is 39 cents (he doesn't need to change his pants, as he does not wear any) However Sada offers something that none of the other candidates do. He just isn't quite sure what it is yet. It could be that 39 we were talking about earlier, or maybe even a free cat. So remember, this year you have the option to REALLY make history. Don't vote for McCain or Obama, they eat chickens. Vote Sada/Chester, because Sada likes chickens...Don't you?
~"I am Sada and I approve this...oooh shiny thing!"
Bobby:
Bobby will take over the world, and dole out sections of it to all the people who vote for him. He will abolish money, and reinstitute the barter system!!! Bobby will stop all taxes when he reinstitues the barter system. Bobby will stop pollution, creating a healthier, greener earth, more trees and grass, and such. Bobby will legalize marijuana, and shall stop all vicious rumors about chickens and their crossing of the roads!!!!
MrFoxy:
MrFoxy should win simply because...well look at me I'm so damn cute! I'm a fox, which is way better then a Sada, WTF is a sada anyways! Not to mention I promise you Free Health Care, I call this my FHC plan. I am a member of the Canius family, therefore I am destoned to be loyal!
Jesus:
This candidate was too distracted by the flashing lights and music of In The Groove 2 and Dance Dance Revolution, for us get any more out of him than the following:
"I'll make everyone play this game, so then I'll have people to play with"
There's a lot of talk about the US government bailing out financial institutions at the cost of $700 billion. Here's a nice slide show of what else you can buy with that much money XD. Click below:
So how do you play? Here is a recap ofRin's rules!:
Every week a member is selected from the Ani-Pock Memberlist and it will be posted who that member is, then everyone else can comment under the post any questions that they want to ask about that member, but please keep in mind to keep the questions decent, indecent questions will be deleted. If you are picked, you may choose the next contestant at the end of your week.
Remember: A reminder to everyone, be sure to pick someone that is not on this list for the next reveal. At the end of the season we will refresh the list. No, you can not pick Kip again! XP
Contest time! Here's what we go: + Use the voice recorder to record ANYTHING (your cat, favorite music, tv clip, singing, rant) + Funniest top 3 wins DealExtreme.com prizes! (view)
Contest open 9/14-9/20 (Saturday) You can send in as many entries as you'd like. Please put "C1" at the start of your recording title.
Update: The contest had no winners because of insufficient entries.
Aye! It's time for me obligatory post ta remind ye Pockers that today be Talk Like a Ninja-Pirate Day again 'pon the sea!
That be why I be postin' this tasteful pic to explain the importance of this day.
For the day, the ninjas enter a weakened state and be ripe for pillaging. Tis a glory among the pirate kind! This day be not confused with December 5th, matey.
Bwahaha the birthday list here has it wrong, you didn't do that on purpose did you? XP Either way Happy 18th Birthday Zaku!~ So for your birthday, I thought I would share some Zaku moments.
Of course it wouldn't be a birthday post without this:
And instead of cake, we're having Zaku cookies, freshly baked from the oven!
And this "Zaku Zaku Crush Ice Bar"
Also, we're including a bed set of these anime girls!
More Zaku moments: Singing to Inuyasha, ZNN, Being called a Pimp X3, three digit phone bills, "WORM" (coined by ICHI). Hahah yeah what wouldn't Zaku do? OH AND OF COURSE his long and UNFULFILLED tyranny on AP. We have yet to see the Zaku Army! "DoH!" (yay, it's a Kami-ism). Ah and the epic arguments, and SIPPING TEA! Either way enjoy your birthday and do try to have fun and stay out of trouble hmm? SET YER ALARM CLOCK, EH?
Campus Movie Fest recently rolled through UC Berkeley. Each team (125 in all) was given a MacBook Pro, software including Final Cut Pro and iMovie HD, camera, tripod and shotgun or close range microphone.
We had 1 week to go from concept to turn in. 5 minute maximum limit. Here's one of my favorites. I'll post the one my team made later!
"What the heck is that?" Well I got curious and wanted to know what a Nip could look like! And this is what Google Said. (I think it's supposed to be a cloth Cheese Nip...)
Anyways, Happy Birthday Nip! Here's another "Nip" for you.
Reveal the Ani-Pock Community: Zebra... er... Zslayrr!
Thanks for the fun questions on the last episode!
Our contestant this week is... Z... Z-Zebra!! That's who it is! A zebra!
...I'm told the zebra doesn't want to answer questions at this time... So we'll kick it to: Zslayrr!!
So how do you play? Here is a recap ofRin's rules!:
Every week a member is selected from the Ani-Pock Memberlist and it will be posted who that member is, then everyone else can comment under the post any questions that they want to ask about that member, but please keep in mind to keep the questions decent, indecent questions will be deleted. If you are picked, you may choose the next contestant at the end of your week.
Remember: A reminder to everyone, be sure to pick someone that is not on this list for the next reveal. At the end of the season we will refresh the list.
Because Zaku loves all of you (not) I decided to save you people the pressure of not blinking and found her hiding in the background on the first go through. Kip has a good eye, but my eye for a cute epically awesome amazing character is better.
Update from Kip: LAME! Also if you watch the movie Mirrors, the young boy in the film has posters of Negima and Tsubasa. The Negima scroll is particularly inappropriate for a six year old to have in his room, but what do I know, I'm no parent. Click to seethe wall scrolls.
*We had a failure with the forum server. The last back up was restored manually from July. (This took a good deal of time today). Sorry there are no other ways of getting back recent posts.
The United States Senate Judiciary Committee has approved the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights Act of 2008, which includes a section that would allow the Justice Department to bring civil lawsuits against intellectual property infringers on behalf of content owners. In the proposed law which now goes before the full Senate, any restitution imposed by the lawsuits would be given to the intellecutal property owners as compensation. After receiving complaints from consumer groups and privacy advocates, the committee did revise other sections in the bill to limit the use of information seized during an infringement investigation. The advocates noted that certain provisions allow for seizure of "property used, or intended to be used, in any manner or part to commit or facilitate" a copyright or trademark infringement" — which broadly interpreted, could apply to computers used for file-sharing video and audio content.
So yeah. Don't do those things that this US senate law says not to do...
Acronell, a little birdie...that barked O_o'' told me it was your birthday today! So I looked into the AP Vault and found this picture of baby Acorn! Aww, so cute!
Also, some friends came by to celebrate with you:
Happy 20th! I hope you have a great day!
Oh here's your birthday cake: Mmm!~
Pocky Adds: As we don't have a single person in charge of making birthday posts, please help out by requesting access to post on the blogs! The birthday list can be used as a reference, but we need everyone's help to get birthday reminders out.
Hello everyone and today I thought I'd bring a little science to you. As you may or may not know the Hadron Collider, which is a particle accelerator, was fired off sucessfully yesterday in Switzerland. This 9 billion dollar project is meant to smash atoms together by shooting beams of particles (protons) down a tunnel located underground between the borders of France and Switzerland, to simulate the conditions of the Big Bang, a millionith of a second after it started, which was the catalyst for the creation of this universe. Now, for the skeptics, this is a scary concept, they feel we're playing with stuff out of mankind's hands and theorize that by firing off this canon, we will evidently create a black hole right here on our planet, thus destroying ourselves. Although, for the scientists this is a huge achievement, and they do not seem concerned by black holes.
The potential hopes of this project is this:
"They say the experiment has the potential to confirm theories that physicists have been working on for decades including the possible existence of extra dimensions. They also hope to find a theoretical particle called the Higgs boson -- sometimes referred to as the "God particle," which has never been detected, but would help explain why matter has mass."
-CNN.com Elizabeth Landau
And that is science for today from me. For those who are are interested in science, especially physics, I hope this was enjoyable, for others who find it boring, just don't mind it then. ^^ If you want to read more about the Hadron Collider, google it or read the article I got the information of here: http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/09/10/lhc.collider/index.html
This ad, that premiered Thursday, on NBC during NFL's Kick Off Game was met largely with confusion by ad critics and many on the blog sites. I watched it 3 times so far to see if I missed anything... hidden... I still don't know what's going on... and it seemed like something one would usually see while watching an episode of Seinfeld.
Brad Brooks, vice-president of Windows consumer product marketing, said in a video posted on the Windows press Web site, that the ad is a "teaser" meant to "engage customers in a conversation . . . to get the conversation going again about what Windows means in people's everyday lives."
Homg! This is Rin, and I have BIG NEWS~ One of our fellow Ani-Pockers Acronell "Acorn", or otherwise known to the oldies as: "Phantom-Lover, Phantom, TheLastDreamer" is going to be a DAD! Our first Dad! *wipes corner of her eyes with a tissue* The mother is Acorn's girlfriend, Amber. Their child is due on March 23, 2009. So let's wish them a healthy baby! We don't know the sex yet, but Acorn's hoping for a girl.
Message from the father: "That I am happy, and that I will be moving to New york at the end of october as to take better care of the baby"
Here are pictures of Acorn and Amber: PS: Good Luck you two! :3 Best of Wishes! And Keep Us Posted!~~
Our contestant this week is: Pocky!! About darned time!
So how do you play? Here is a recap ofRin'srules!:
Every week a member is selected from the Ani-Pock Memberlist and it will be posted who that member is, then everyone else can comment under the post any questions that they want to ask about that member, but please keep in mind to keep the questions decent, indecent questions will be deleted. If you are picked, you may choose the next contestant at the end of your week.
PROBLEMS? Just download the file directly: Episode 25.MP3 Today's topics: Intro to TianMei, Paf Won, Cats, The more midgety you are, the longer you'll live, Furbies.
What decade do the high-strung listeners of NPR pick for the best in music?
When National Public Radio listeners were asked to pick their favorite year in music... most skipped a large chunk of the eighties.
Though the margin between the decades is not that significant, the sixties definitely got a bulk of the votes! In fact, it actually appears that since the results of the poll was announced, faithful hair band junkies have been pumping up the eighties now!
I myself am an NPR listener and a detester of the eighties. Possible relation?
More here. Scroll down the page a little to listen to other songs of the eighties including possibly one of the worst songs of the decade, Don Jonson's "Heartbeat".
Ani-Pock is the first website I use to Christen any new browser since I ditched AOL! ;D So? What's different? Google made it!
You've got the basic tabbed browsing, auto complete/suggested addresses in the site bar, webpage "speed dial", all pretty standard or emerging things on web browsers today.
But now Google has taken what these browsers do best and moved everything to a lightweight program where every tab runs on an independent memory so they don't clog up the same memory pipe of the browser. In addition, the browser is intended to be very application friendly! The design itself is very sleek and, well, chromey. I like this one a lot. In fact, I don't even like my FireFox layout and appearance so much, I changed the buttons to resemble the Internet Explorer counterparts.
Some of the best features include complete tab deletion. No more will fragments of a tab or tabbed website be caught in the browser's memory. Now, when you close that tab, it is gone for good. My favorite function is the browser's process explorer. How many times do you use your own Process Explorer (AKA: Ctrl+Alt+Del) in a day PC folks? Now you can check which tab is draining the most memory from your browser and... well... do with it what you wish. For these reasons and more, you should download Google Chrome (Beta)!
Now when can I expect my Google OS!?!
Update: The one downside I've seen thusfar:
This is a shot from my process explorer. I've only got six tabs open but NINE processes of GC? I thought we got away from this stuff after tabbed browsing!
At least it is still a fast browser, definately less lagging... so that's a positive.
Also, the homepage button is enableable dispite what people have thought. Strangely, it was set to Yahoo! when first opened.
Let the parade of piggies commence! As some of you know awhile back, ie...last month, we started putting together this surprise for Kami and Ogi. It was originally Chao's idea to draw piggies for Kami, to show him our appreciation of his hard work, and also to draw piggies for Ogi, because Chao always calls her Pgi!. Either way, we got submissions, so enjoy the piggies. Thankyou Kami for all your hard work being a mod, being here to help keep this site a friendly place to come, and also for trying to keep our AP community together. Also to Ogi, you're so adorable. ^^
Link to come soon of the rest of the piggies!~
PS: If you still want to submit piggies, send them to rin@ani-pock.net and I will upload them to the gallery.
And this (with a little added imagination):
