{"id":152,"date":"2005-12-08T01:40:50","date_gmt":"2005-12-08T09:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/?p=152"},"modified":"2006-06-11T18:41:51","modified_gmt":"2006-06-12T02:41:51","slug":"mad-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/08\/mad-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Mad World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A quite interesting flash video given to me by deadlock: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newgrounds.com\/portal\/view\/282127\">Mad World Collab<\/a>. At first I thought it was just a compilations of random flash videos to fit the music, but apparently they&#8217;re all created for this flash video, but different authors I&#8217;m supposing. The song played was taken from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&#038;tag=krunk4everblog-20&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;path=tg%2Fdetail%2F-%2FB00006471F%2F\">Donnie Darko (Score)<\/a>. It was titled <em>Mad World<\/em> by Gary Jules. You can listen to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&#038;tag=krunk4everblog-20&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;path=tg%2Fwma-pop-up%2F-%2FB00006471F001017\">sample here<\/a>. The original <em>Mad World<\/em> song was sang by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&#038;tag=krunk4everblog-20&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;path=tg%2Fdetail%2F-%2FB00000K413%2F\">Tears For Fear<\/a>. You can listen to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&#038;tag=krunk4everblog-20&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;path=tg%2Fwma-pop-up%2F-%2FB00000K413001002\">sample of it here<\/a>. I personally like Gary Jules version a lot more, but maybe because it&#8217;s softer and utilizes a piano.<\/p>\n<p>According to deadlock, apparently many of the scenes were taken from Donnie Darko and the movie was highly recommended by him. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0246578\/\">IMDB gave it a 8.3<\/a>, so I guess I&#8217;ll be checking out the movie sometime soon.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Random Crap<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/2100-7349_3-5984845.html\">New IM worm chats with intended victims<\/a> (from \/.) &#8211; <em>A new worm that targets users of America Online&#8217;s AOL Instant Messenger is believed to be the first that actually chats with the intended victim to dupe the target into activating a malicious payload, IM security vendor IMlogic warned Tuesday. According to IMlogic, the worm, dubbed IM.Myspace04.AIM, has arrived in instant messages that state: &#8220;<strong>lol thats cool<\/strong>&#8221; and included a URL to a malicious file &#8220;clarissa17.pif.&#8221; When unsuspecting users have responded, perhaps asking if the attachment contained a virus, the worm has replied: &#8220;<strong>lol no its not its a virus<\/strong>&#8220;, IMlogic said.<\/em> A similar article on Ars Technica: <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/news.ars\/post\/20051207-5709.html\">New virus chats with you on AOL IM<\/a>. I guess if you ever see me sending you a *.pif link, DO NOT CLICK IT!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20051206\/od_uk_nm\/oukoe_uk_life_japan_workers\">Work bores Japan&#8217;s young, many want to quit-survey<\/a> &#8211; <em>Almost three-quarters of Japanese in their 20s and 30s have no motivation when it comes to their jobs and half would quit if they had the chance, a survey has found.<\/em> Sounds quite like what happened in Serenity. I guess one day, they&#8217;ll just lay down and stop eating and breathing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20051207\/ap_on_fe_st\/cheesy_plot\">Woman Allegedly Hires Hit Man for Cheese<\/a> &#8211; <em>In an unusual case of mistaken identity, a woman who thought a block of white cheese was cocaine is charged with trying to hire a hit man to rob and kill four men. The woman also was mistaken about the hit man. He turned out to be an undercover police officer.<\/em> Wow! What a chain of events. Mistakening a block of cheese for cocaine, then hiring a hitman, only to find out the hitman you hired was an undercover police! What a bad day for this lady&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prweb.com\/releases\/2005\/12\/prweb316686.htm\">Square Wheel Car Propels Itself by Shifting Weight &#8211; Possible MEMS Locomotion<\/a> &#8211; <em>The first prototype consisted of a car with 4 square wheels, in the general configuration of a typical car, with all 4 wheels mechanically connected together so they must all turn in unison. Furthermore, the rotational orientation of the wheels are sequentially off-set from one wheel to the next by 22.5\u00b0 (\u00bc of 90\u00b0), moving around the vehicle in a CW or CCW direction as viewed from above.<\/em> It&#8217;s an interesting idea until you see the demonstration and how unsmooth the movement is. You can check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalcomposites.net\/Reinventing%20the%20Wheel%201.mpg\">video demonstration here<\/a>. Along with that, there was this link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/articles\/20040403\/mathtrek.asp\">Riding on Square Wheels<\/a> &#8211; <em>Stan Wagon, a mathematician at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn., has a bicycle with square wheels. It&#8217;s a weird contraption, but he can ride it perfectly smoothly. His secret is the shape of the road over which the wheels roll.<\/em> Now this is actually very interesting. Because the shape of the road, it allows different shape wheels as long the point on any corner of the wheel creates semi-circular humps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quite interesting flash video given to me by deadlock: Mad World Collab. At first I thought it was just a compilations of random flash videos to fit the music, but apparently they&#8217;re all created for this flash video, but different authors I&#8217;m supposing. The song played was taken from the Donnie Darko (Score). It &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/08\/mad-world\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mad World&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}