Wow.  I am shocked that this worked on the first try.  I created a script to read some of the header information from an S7K file.  One thing that got me stuck for a bit was the fact that the byte order used is little-endian.  Turns out this is no big deal.  I just had to end things with ‘le’, for example s.uintle instead of s.uint.

So here’s my first ever script to read binary data:

#!usr/bin/env Python

# Purpose: to read the header of an s7k file
# Creator: Michelle

from bitstring import *

s = BitString(filename='sample.s7k') # Read in the file sample.s7k, and create a BitString object from it
print s.pos #Print the position in the file.  For fun.

protocolversion = s.readbytes(2).uintle
offset = s.readbytes(2).uintle
syncpat = s.readbytes(4).uintle
size = s.readbytes(4).uintle
print size

odof = s.readbytes(4).uintle
odid = s.readbytes(4).uintle

year = s.readbytes(2).uintle
day = s.readbytes(2).uintle
seconds = s.readbytes(4).floatle
hours = s.readbytes(1).uintle
minutes = s.readbytes(1).uintle

print year,day,seconds,hours,minutes

And the output of my first ever binary-data-reading script:

0
396
2009 353 55.1300010681 17 53

I’m installing BitString right now. It seems like what I need. The first sentence on the BitString Google Code website is: “bitstring is a pure Python module designed to help make the creation, manipulation and analysis of binary data as simple and natural as possible.” Perfect. The first thing I did was download the manual (pdf) and the zipped installation file for my version of Python (2.6).

Unzipping zipped files in Ubuntu is really easy – just right click on the file in the File Browser, and choose to Unzip using Archive Manager.  But I wanted to know how to do it using the command line.  Here is an example:

unzip bitstring-1.1.3.zip

I installed the contents of the file into the appropriate Python Module locations on my computer by going to the directory where the unzipped files were, and typing the following into the command line:

sudo python setup.py install

Now I’m ready to dig in!  Luckily, a friend of mine at work helped me out with some pointers on how to read in the s7k binary file.  He explained the commands he’d used when creating his Matlab scripts, and how the structure was defined.  He’s not a Python user, so couldn’t give me any specific Python tips, but it was enough for me to get started.  So now I have to figure out the BitString part.  The reason I’m not going with struct or array is because it seems that these are meant to work with whole bytes and are clunky when it comes to parsing out individual bits. BitString is designed with more flexibility.

Fortunately BigString seems pretty straightforward.  I had a very quick look through the manual, and if I understand correctly, I will start by converting the s7k file to a BitString object, then just read through it bit by bit (or byte by byte).

Am I getting in over my head before I’ve learned the basics?  Most likely.  But I find that if I set my goals high, I learn lots of unexpected things along the way.  This latest goal is probably not going to be completed from start to finish in any kind of linear fashion, and I will probably drop it and come back to it several times before its completion.

I’m hoping to figure out how to read S7K multibeam data format.  Not a simple challenge for someone like me who can barely piece together a print statement.  This isn’t like reading an ASCII text file.  I started reading the Data Format Definition document (DFD), and came upon some pretty daunting tasks right away, including reading headers, different number formats, and lots of bits and bytes stuff.  Scary, but sort of exciting.  When I took a computer science class way back in undergrad, I remember learning all the really basic stuff, but since I didn’t have a real application for it, it was sort of meaningless to me, and therefore did not stick in my brain.  But now it’s fun!  (I’m a nerd).  Hopefully it’ll stick this time

These links might be helpful:

Reading and Writing data using Python’s input and output functionality

Understanding Big and Little Endian

The Learning Python book says (p. 901): “If you are processing image files, packed data created by other programs whose content you must extract, or some device data streams, chances are good that you will want to deal with it using bytes and binary-mode files.”

I recently wrote a paper on eBusiness and telecommuting, this shoulda been my introduction:

I recently wrote a blog on terrible customers, had I known about this video it woulda been included:

As Al Gore dreamed of the internet, he probably never imagined this coulda happened . . . often:

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Like all other types of cancer, mesothelioma is incurable. Although doctors and scientists have made great progress in diagnosis and treatment of these tumors, there is no current way to get rid of everything.

When a group of cells changes uncontrollably and starts invading and killing healthy cells, called cancer. In some areas of the body where cells reproduce rapidly tends to be a greater possibility of a risk, since cancer cells canmultiply exponentially in a time very fast. Most cancers are caused by external stimuli and mesothelioma is no different. Mesothelioma cancer is caused by exposure to carcinogens such as asbestos.

The affected areas from mesothelioma cancer are the lining of the internal organs of the body. Thanks to the position of non-infected cells, mesothelioma is not well to conventional treatments unlike most other forms of cancer. InIn addition, there are no obvious symptoms of illness, the doctor can properly diagnose the disease until it is clearly too advanced. Because of these factors, the effectiveness of many conventional treatments are limited.

Mesothelioma, where the treatment, doctors use several treatment options. Surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy have been traditional options for slowing the growth of cancer cells. Doctors dealing with mesothelioma have a planinnovative method of attack to combat this condition. New treatments like angiogenesis, photodynamic therapy and gene therapy hold new hope for victims of mesothelioma everywhere. Depending on the condition and location of the tumor, doctors choose the best approach to the circumstances. If you find out soon enough, doctors can prolong the life of the victim, but unfortunately not cure the disease.

This next installment in the works in progress series deals with the second chakra, Svashistana (sweetness), which affects sexuality and reproduction. The external genitalia represented here are ambiguous in nature. I wanted to create a representation of the genitals that transcends the gender binary while utilizing its aesthetic, anatomical tropes. My choice of yarn color is relatively close to that of my own skin, referencing my personal identity and corporeality.

Division Method

Step 1: Divide the number you want to convert by 2

Step 2: If there is a remainder .5 enter 1, if there is no remainder enter 0

Step 3: Divide the resulting answer by 2

Step 4: Repeat the process until you divide 0 by 2

Step 5: The binary is recorded from Least Significant Bit (LSB) to Most Significant Bit (MSB). Reverse the order of bit numbers.

Example:

129/2 = 64.5

64/2 = 30

30/2 = 15

15/2 = 7.5

7/2 = 3.5

3/2 = 1.5

1/2 = 0.5

0/2 = 0

So the binary form of this decimal is 01111001

Google has introduced its new experimental programming language Go, which aims to combine speedy application development through simplified coding with high-speed program execution.

Google’s goal is that a major Google binary should be buildable in a few seconds on a single machine. The language is concurrent, garbage-collected, and requires explicit declaration of dependencies. Simple syntax and a clean type system support a number of programming styles.

Go works with Google’s open-source technology Native Client, designed for running native code in web-based applications, but it is not known yet whether Go will be used in the new Google operating system, Chrome.

For more on Go including FAQs, source code, libraries, and tutorials, please see the Go home page: http://golang.org

1. Do a Google search for recursion and look at the advice line it gives you? Some Google developers have way too much time on their hands.

2. There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand the binary system and those who don’t.

Hello Poptropicans,

First, I’d like to apologize for the delay in this post. I was very busy yesterday with finishing up my remaining schoolwork before Turkey Day, so I didn’t have time to make the post.

Anyway, yesterday’s post was titled “Now this is what I call art!” Notice how Binary Bard is the only one that doesn’t capitalize each word in his title? …Anyway…

011101000110100001100101
011100110110001101110010011001010110000101101101

BINARY BARD

Those numbers mean “thescream” in binary code, which is the name of the painting that the Bard is standing in front of. I am assuming this may or may not be a counterfeit piece of art, but this is definitely from Counterfeit Island. Not much debate over that.

If there is a Creators’ Blog post tomorrow, I probably won’t post about that either, due to Thanksgiving. I am going to the parade in New York tomorrow as well as a Thanksgiving dinner with my family, so I will have no time to post.

Have a happy Thanksgiving to each and every one of you!

-Fierce Sky

-After filling out about a million sheets of paper, I now can have doctors appointments and prescriptions for $5. This makes me very happy. Usually, I’m terrified of going into any medical building, but this place was super friendly, and I really felt like they cared (which is rare for any kind of clinic, especially one for low/no income folks). My blood pressure was a bit high, but that might have just been from my nerves and the very cute nurse that was administered to me. Apparently, I’ve gained a lot of weight and the lymph nodes in my neck are swollen (have to get some blood work done here soon)? But yeah, two hours later I walked out of the clinic with my medicine in my hand. Hopefully the real me will come back soon.

-Wednesday, I co-taught a class on gender/transgender issues. Only three people showed up (turned out to be a diverse crowd though), but I feel like they all got a lot out of it. Need to start somewhere, right? Actually, the conversation was quite productive and they even got a little riled up about trans rights, society, respect, labels, and all that good stuff. I’m thinkin’ the next class will have more people in attendance.

We discussed passing in depth. You wouldn’t think about it normally, but social constructs (yes, even in the LGBTQA communities) force everyone to pass in their own different way.

A few examples:

1. A bio-woman is often mistaken for a man, since she is tall and has short hair. She wears long dangly earrings to avoid this situation. Passing as a more feminine presence.

2. An asexual tries to avoid talking about their asexual status by passing as heterosexual.

3. A bisexual is in a heterosexual marriage. She passes as heterosexual, not on purpose, but since society likes to make assumptions.

4. A boy likes to make baked goods. He hides this fact from his friends in order to pass as masculine.

This got me thinking a bit more about it. Why do we have to pass? What are we passing as? Can’t people stop making assumptions? Why must we be shoved in categorized boxes? And even when we’re in these boxes, why are we still ridiculed and ostracized? Why do people consistently feel the need to live up to these imaginary/binary standards of man and woman, gay and lesbian, etc.  Are we all really that spineless?

Anyway, there’s a lot more from where that came from, but for now I’m immersing myself in books. And I swear, reviews are coming soon.

And just in case you forgot, today is Trangender Remembrance Day. Take a minute. Think about it.

“If everything was black and white then I wouldn’t be caucasian…”

Too many options and no representative…

Yesterday I spent majority of my day filling out scholarships, centerlink forms and other miscellaneous forms for my University application. Why is this important? Because there was one question on one form that threw me over the side of a skyscraper and left me dangle there for a minute or so…

“Please specify your gender by ticking the correct box below:”

Now let me SPECIFY: box numero un was ‘Male’ while box numero tu’a was ‘Female’. I might also SPECIFY that they used the incorrect terminology. Gender is the psychological assignment of male/female, while sex (which would have been the correct terminology) is the biological factors.

They became negative and I become invisible. Where’d my gender go?

Okay, so this was a little (whether intentional or unintentional) slip-up but it annoyed me to my wits end, and that end isn’t far to meet. I’ve identified as genderqueer for about a year now and looking at those two little boxes just made me feel sick.

So I walked away from that form, my chest filled with angry words that I wanted to shout at someone but seeing as I was the only person at home; I didn’t feel like shouting at myself.

Now, most people wouldn’t see a problem with those two little boxes or the fact that they seemed to mix the words gender and sex around, but being one of a few people who don’t seem to fit into those categories; it sucked. I went through hell and climbed out into the cold Antartic just to figure myself out. It seemed, in terms of the people who were reading that form, that didn’t matter.

I admit, I struggled with my sexuality (one of the great unthought knowns) but my gender was something that I had never had the true strength to analyse, mostly because I knew I wasn’t the same as others. I’d wake up some mornings and feel like somebody haa dismantled me and then tried to put me back together. Some days I wanted male pronouns and would get easily angered if I was referred to as something particularly feminine. Other days I’d wake up and happily throw a sundress on, dip my face in the make-up and lather up my legs with sorbelene cream. Then there were the days (which happen more often than I would like to admit) where I feel no gender, no sexuality, no sexual desire at all. So why would I want to classify that?

The truth was, I didn’t want to classify it, because if I classified it what would that make me? I’d heard of the word ‘transgender’ before but I knew that I wasn’t transgendered, I was something a little different. It was a Monday afternoon, a couple of weeks before my 17th birthday when I finally worked up the courage to give Google my soul for a couple of hours. In minutes, I had my word. GenderQUEER.

Truthfully, my search wasn’t that eventful, but acceptance? Acceptance was the one thing I couldn’t allow of myself. I had only recently accepted my sexuality at that point, finally allowing myself to watch the girls the way I had so often forced myself to watch the boys. But acceptance of my true gender? It felt more than an impossibility.

I guess this difference had always been there, even when I was younger. Once I knew, I began to pinpoint certain parts of my childhood where it was so distinctly obvious, I don’t really know how I missed it.

A few months passed after that… I came out to my community, but my gender was still tightly behind closed doors. My gender still is behind closed doors.

I can’t accurately explain what has led me to this point now, this injustice that I feel, but what I do know is that all this simple binary language makes me feel as if that internal struggle was all for nought.

I struggled with my sexuality, I struggled with my gender analysis, then I struggled with my gender association. I’ve said before, I associate as femme. Femme is my choice. It’s how I choose to display myself, even if majority of the time I am invisible to the world. But my gender was never a choice, and yet I’m unintentionally marginalized because of it, and they don’t even know it.

I guess that this may all seem fairly immature to some people who might read this, considering I am only 17. But how can I put an age on self-discovery, on self-analysis and on self-definition?

I’m going to finish that form today, and as much as I want to draw my own little box and label it, I’m going to appease the standards of this binary society. Box numero tu’a, ‘female’ anatomically but a little queer psychologically.

- Cal.

This one was taken in Orlando, Florida.  A big thanks to Jordan for sending this in!

Funny License Plates - 1000101 - Binary for "69"

The link below contains a report compiled way back in 1942 for the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research by Frederick B Bang MD. The subject of the study was SYNERGISTIC ACTION OF HEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE SUIS AND THE SWINE INFLUENZA VIRUS ON THE CHICK EMBRYO.

Basically the intention was to study the effect of using two separate agents, one virus and one bacteria, to act together as an infection. On their own these agents have only a very mild effect on the patient, if any at all. However, when the two agents were used together they have a much more serious and much more fatal effect on the patient. The viral agent used in this study was Swine Influenza. This study summized that when the two were acting together they would quickly destroy the lungs. Please read the text of the report and the summary

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2135289/pdf/7.pdf

This link is from the following Rockefeller University Press website

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2135289/

Now the WHO has said after 3 weeks holding back that the virus A/H1N1 has NOT changed SIGNIFICANTLY from the original virus. However now the virus sequences have been finally quietly released onto the GISAID online medical database website, after being held back, they show that the protein number 225 has changed in EXACTLY the same way  as the 1918 Spanish flu. Now seriously, what are the chances of a NOVEL flu that has never been seen before, mutating into the EXTINCT Spanish flu ? I will tell you…. NONE

http://platform.gisaid.org/dante-cms/live/struktur.jdante?aid=1131

Now what are we to believe?

We have a flu that has somehow changed into Spanish flu causing cytokine storms in healthy patients. How did this happen?

We have aeroplanes spraying the affected areas before the new infection suddenly and spectacularly breaks out. What were they spraying?

Finally we have a study carried out 67 years ago that established how to create a binary weapon that can be activated by adding a suis bacteria to a swine flu virus. We also have admissions from US research establishments (UC Berkley) that they received military research grants to produce a binary biological weapon.

We also know that the Spanish flu virus was back engineered from the Spanish flu victim exhumed in 1997?

Let me join the dots for you

There are a number of options.

1     The Novel A/H1N1 naturally mutated into the 1918 virus? Extremely unlikely.

2     The aeroplanes sprayed a new Spanish flu virus? Unlikely as the virus needs a host.

3     The H1N1 vaccine contained the Spanish flu? Unlikely as the flu vaccine was not widely available and the spread was too spectacular.

4     The aeroplanes sprayed a bacteria that will survive in the air, that when breathed in reacts with the swine flu virus administered in the vaccines. The resultant infection becoming much more infectious, hence the spectacular sudden spread. Also causing the bleeding out of the lungs in weaker immune systems. Very possible

5     As above but affecting those who have also caught the virus naturally, hence the lack of availability of vaccines. Unknown if this virus remains dormant in people who have had it.

From studying the history of this whole affair there is a definite hot trail here. A 1942 binary infection report for Rockefeller. A 1997 back engineering of the Spanish flu. Military funding for new binary weapons. A seemingly lab manufactured swine flu outbreak with no attempt to control it’s spread. Aerial spraying of populations followed by spectacular spread of new cytokine storm inducing infection. WHO advising that travel need not be curtailed.. I will leave you to decide what you think is really going on here

(Thanks to youtubers  seattle4truth and mouse)

PPTimer 1.0 is released! Download it from Sourceforge!

A screencast demoing all features are available on Youtube and Vimeo.

So what do you believe in so strongly that you would never compromise for it?  When you have that belief in network marketing, you’ll have all the posture you’ll need to be successful.

A while back my team each presented on their parts for “New Communication Technology”. It has been a couple of weeks, and I thought it’d be a good experiment to see how much I remember from their presentation.

Marcus basically talked about Skype. He was probably trying to explain how the internet is soon to be replacing telecos. This was touched on later during lectures. Its amazing how the internet seems to be doing everything. First it was with text/information. Eventually it evolved to communicating pictures, motions, and videos. Believe it or not, humans would probably be next. Turning into binary codes. (Miss Kwa, if you checked my blog, could you drop me the link to that adv?)

Another member talked about interactive technology. Some examples given were the new technology introduced to television. Jia Hui showed how it’s possible to excess social networking websites through TV sets. But when you think about it, its probably gonna be a hassle typing with your remote, with limited features when using the TV to access websites. Having said that, a new concept I chanced upon seems to put new technology in TV to better use. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEMXLPD4gNY

The basic idea allows for videos to be transfered into the TV sets to be viewed in HD. Well that’s something I’d really want to have. These days, no one watch TV together as a family. With the new capabilities, probably more family TV time?

Finally, Sally spoke about podcasting. Wasn’t enough time to get it all out, but the basic idea of podcasting works like RSS Feeds. You get to be updated about your favourites and download selective videos into your Itunes! After a bit of research, I learnt how you could “Youtube podcast”! http://socialmediauga.blogspot.com/2007/11/youtube-podcasting.html

In a nutshell,

1) You can make calls through the Internet. Soon enough you can do anything with the Internet.

2) TV is getting interactive. Soon enough, every bit of machinery at home is going to be connected to you.

3) Podcast allows you to download latest videos. Soon enough you won’t be surfing the net. News would come to you like SMS.

Maybe that wasn’t what exactly I was supposed to get out of their sharing. LOL.

The idea of space is perhaps the most interesting feature found in Virginia Woolf’s essay The Death of the Moth. Writing from the comforts of the enclosed, inside world, Woolf looks out her window with casual delight, observing the activities of a “pleasant morning” in September (Woolf 343). A small moth steals her attention away from her work. As she slowly watches the grueling scene of its death, something changes. Her world is suddenly different. In a sense, the episode with the moth brings Woolf to a place where the boundaries of space shift away from the traditional binaries of the inside and outside, and of human and non-human. The essay begins to navigate itself away from these traditional divisions as if looking for something more, a definition of space that is more inclusive. This loss of stability forces Woolf to re-imagine her sense of place. By incorporating the moth from the outside world and the windowpane from the inside world, The Death of the Moth suggests a construction of a third space, a place where the boundaries of human and non-human space collide. Such an interpretation inherently challenges the traditional binary of the human/nature by dismantling its divisive structure.

In regards to the first space, the human space of the inside, The Death of the Moth represents a work by in which absence constructs setting. How big the room might be, where it might be, and what objects might be in the room, are all unknowns. With no descriptions of the first space, we are left with only inferences for evidence of its existence; there exists a world outside, therefore there must also exist a world inside. The absence of description, while serving to bring all of our attention to whatever is other, also serves to stabilize the inherent division between inside and outside spaces. If absence serves to characterize the first space, the emptiness contrasts against the vividness of the outside world, the second space. This idea of lack, in a Lacanian sense, constructs the first space as a place that can never be whole.

While emptiness can be seen as constituting the first space, Woolf dots the essay with vivid sketches the outside world. But this second is far from stable. The instability of the second space is best described as a shift from a state of “animation” to a state of “stillness and quiet” (345). In the beginning of the essay, the second space is described in delightful detail. Woolf first describes the second space seasonally, commenting that “It was a pleasant morning, mid-September, mild, benignant, yet with a keener breathe than that of the summer months” (343). A marked difference from the hollowness of the first space, Woolf’s descriptions of life in the second are filled with a sense of exuberance and activity. A place where animals hold “annual festivities”, the second space is filled with descriptions of ploughs, rooks, horses, and other “vigorous” activities (343-444).

The traditional binary that exists between the first and second space are disrupted with the introduction of the third space. On its base level, the third space represents a place where the human and non-human worlds collide. Woolf’s third space is a fusion; part windowpane, and part moth, the third space exists apart from the first and second space, but inherently connected to each. Incorporated from the first space, the windowpane is both literally and figuratively the lens by which perception passes through. It is through the windowpane that reality presents itself to her as both “animated” and “still” (345). Acting as a medium between spaces, the windowpane facilitates the interaction between Woolf and the second space.

Described as neither “gay like butterflies nor similar to their own species” (343), the moth in front of Woolf exists as a sort of anomaly. “Moths that fly by day,” writes Woolf, “are not properly to be called moths” (343). While Woolf seems satisfied with her categorization of the moth as “hybrid”, the inability to define the creature implies that the moth is indefinable. Having no structured existence inside space of the outside, Woolf’s construction of the moth as other purges it from a previously comfortable position in the second space.
Woolf proceeds to reduce the moth is reduced to energy, its most basic form. Compared to the workings of the plough, the rooks, and the horses (343-44), the moth’s presence is described as being a “fiber, very thin,” “pathetic” (344), “an insignificant little creature” (345). Woolf furthers this by writing that “It was as if someone had taken a tiny bead of pure life,” writes Woolf, “…to show us the true nature of life” (344). By stripping the moth of tangible definitions, Woolf reconstructs the moth as an abstract, a manifest entity of pure life. This re-imagining of the moth serves to shift the moth out of the second space and into the third. An incorporation of the moth into the third space with the windowpane leads Woolf to re-imagine what she had previously held as stable: the second space, Nature.

As stated earlier, the second space undergoes a transformation from “animated” to “still” (345). Through the formation of the third space, Woolf turns to the outside world with a pair of fresh eyes. Through this reexamination of the second space, Woolf reaches a new understanding. She writes:

I looked outdoors. What had happened there? Presumably it was midday, and the work in the fields had stopped. Stillness and quiet had replaced the previous animation…Yet the power was still there all the same, massed outside indifferent, impersonal, not attending to anything in particular. (345)

The passage marks a perceptual shift in the way that Woolf understands the second space. The horses, the ploughs, the rooks, all become secondary to the experience of stillness, not as absence as in the first space, but as essence; life in its most elemental form.

What Woolf’s re-imagining of the second space truly suggests is that as humans, we must struggle against the superficial reaches of our perception in order to grasp the value and essence of space. The natural world does not change. For Woolf, the natural world opens up to new truths. She is finally able to understand the raw “power” and beauty of nature (345). This reconstruction of the second space challenges Woolf’s ideas of reality, perception, and meaning. The recognition that death “is stronger than I am” (345) signals to the reader that something dramatic has changed.

In this new construction of the second space, everything has changed. Gone are the flowery and clichéd descriptions of the Natural world. Gone is the idea of the moth as “insignificant little creature” (345). Between the human and non-human worlds that the third space provides, Woolf realizes the necessary truth: Nature and humanity as one and of the same. Through the guiding hand of the third space, Woolf’s episode with the moth suggests that humans have the potential to redefine traditional spatial boundaries through a shift in perception. The collision of the moth into the windowpane, both figurative and literal, provides for Woolf the necessary conditions of that precede change.

01 The One Art Limited Edition Black and Beige Strap Binary Watch With Red LED’s Review

Feature

• Displays time using binary representation
• LED lights indicate the hours and minutes
• Push button – the time is displayed for 5 seconds
• High Quality band
• Water resistant 3 ATM (90 feet)
• Battery included (CR2032)
• Gift Packaged
• High Fashion Watch Range
• Design Led.

Overview

Specifications

Nov 10, 2009 14:00:13

So, your an IM freak. Wasting day after day, month after month in front of your PC screen assuming: “yeah, surely I’m not a zombie, at least I’m communicating with other living things, right?”. Well, your wrong. You are a zombie and you will die alone. But we’ll discuss that subject some other time. Right now we are here to show you the best 5 ways to coolify your name i.e. your IM/social media display name. We’ll assume that you’ve already tried putting smileys or hearts or some other dumb bullshit in your display name, or if you’re really hardcore you’ve already tired the fishes (example: <º))))><.·´¯`·John Smith·´¯`·.¸><((((º>) or some other poorly creative ASCII combination thinking “that’s the one, now I’m unique”. Well, you’re wrong again, you’re not unique, and you probably never will be. But no worries, we’re here to help and give you that conversation starting nick, bringin’ lots of them “d00d, WTF is that?”. So lets start from the top saying a few words about what ASCII is. ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) is a 7-bit representation of the English alphabet widely used in information technology and the world wide web until recently when it started to get replaced by the UTF-8 witch is an improved character encoding technique. We are saying this because when you try to convert a Chinese letter into something else and you get an error you won’t bitch about it. Instead you’ll know that most of the converters work only with the 128 ASCII characters and you’ll feel less dumb. But enough about character encoding techniques. Lets start the countdown. There are many converters, generators, translators, encoders and such out there, but very few of them are actually good and usable. So we’ve made this list to help you create that unique display name that you’ve always wanted without having to browse the web for days searching for the method that’s right for you.
*The crappy fish and other presumably cool looking ASCII combinations can be found here.

1. Binary code
-The binary code is a text representing system using only the digits “1″ and “0″. It can also represent processor instructions but we’re not interested in that. We’re only interested in what you can do with it in terms of encoding text. The answer is plenty. Like in the picture shown bellow you can encode your name into binary code making it readable for only a small number of people out there. So when your IM contacts see that long string of ones and zeroes sitting in the place of your dull name they are bound to ask “what the hell man?”. The best binary translators we could find out there are the following:
ASCII 2 binary #1 ASCII 2 binary #2
*Be careful not to leave spaces in the binary code or some translators will not work.
*The second translator works with spaces in the code, but the first one doesn’t so you’ll need to remove them before converting.

*For accurate conversion of numbers from decimal to binary use this converter and not the two mentioned above. Decimal 2 binary

2. Hex code
-If the binary code isn’t strong enough for you, you could try the hexadecimal one. Instead of only 2 symbols the motherfucker uses sixteen distinct symbols for representation. It uses the numbers from 0-9 and the letters from A-F to represent the values ten to fifteen. If you thought math was hard, try doing it in hex. A+C=WTF? Because hex code scares us a little bit we’re not going to say anything else about it, instead we’ll only give you the hex generators and leave you with a warning. DON’T TRY TO UNDERSTAND HEX OR YOU’LL DIE!!!
ASCII 2 hex #1 ASCII 2 hex #2

*For accurate conversion of numbers from decimal to hexadecimal use this converter and not the two mentioned above. Decimal to hex

3. Morse code
-If you wanna kick it old school we recommend the Morse code. All of us have heard about it, and we all know that it represents the characters with dots “.” and dashes “-”. The short and long elements can also be presented in a form of sound, light, etc. But since most of us have never been in the navy, we have no clue in understanding it or how to use it. Fortunately the internet is here to help, giving us the opportunity to create or decode Morse code. The first and third Morse generators give us the option to create and download not only the visual representation shown in dots an dashes but the audio one also. That’s pretty useless when you’re trying to change your display name, but it can be used as a pretty sweet ring tone or an alarm or something that will beep the fuck of your friends.
ASCII 2 Morse #1 ASCII 2 Morse #2 ASCII 2 Morse #3
*The Morse code doesn’t support lower case letters, so everything that you decode will be shown in upper case, regardless of the way it was originally encoded (lower or upper case).

4. Barcode
-This way of generating text or other stuff also is useless in terms with your display name because the end result of the generator will be a image and not a string of text that you could use as a nick. But it could make you a great avatar, or a cell phone background or such which will distinguish you from the rest. Just don’t tattoo the barcode on yourself because you’ll eventually regret it, and you’ll look like a douche. You’ve been warned.
ASCII 2 barcode #1 ASCII 2 barcode #2 ASCII 2 barcode #3
*We recommend the code 128 because it supports letters and digits, and because it’s the most barcody looking.

5. L33t
-This isn’t an actual language, so it doesn’t have strict rules in regards with it’s creating and it’s interpretation. There are many variants of leet so the translation from leet to plane English isn’t always correct. Also there are many forms of leetness starting from plain leet and going to advanced leet which like the binary code can be fully understood by very few people. These are the best leet translators and generators that we could find, but unlike the other translators mentioned earlier these three aren’t compatible with each other. In other words, something that has been translated into leet in one translator can’t be translated back into plain English in an other. That’s because leet isn’t an actual language, like we mentioned earlier. So if you’re a hardcore nerd you won’t need these three translators. And for the rest of you boys and girls out there… go nuts…
ASCII 2 leet #1 ASCII 2 leet #2 ASCII 2 leet #3

-There are probably a lot more useful ways of using the knowledge you’ve gained today but because we know that you won’t, at least get a nice display name out of it, or a badass avatar or a not-so-gangsta ring tone or whatever.

“010101000110100101101100011011000010000001101110011001010
111100001110100001000000111010001101001011011010
110010100101110001011100010111000100000″

In counting, if we skip all the numbers that have anything other than a 1 or a 0 in them, we end up with : 1, 10 , 11, 100 , 101 , 110 , 111 , etc…These being the respective binary representations for all the numbers 1 , 2 , 3, 4, 5 , 6, 7 , etc…

interesting isnt it!!!

By Columnist Harry Trunckles

Scientists pretend animals are intelligent because they’re either uneducated or liars. Contrary to the opinion of most scientists, I’d like to discuss how animals, like plants, have no intelligence. I’d like to prove this by first discussing how humans are not in fact animals and belong in their own kingdom of “I’m really cool! and AWE-SOME!” After that, I’d like to demonstrate how binary logic and evolution proves humans are fundamentally morally and intellectually superior to animals.

I’d like to first say that dolphins should be arrested for killing endangered animals. Don’t give me that “Dolphins are lovely and innocent creatures” line. Innocence is no excuse for the law!

Scientists claim that humans evolved from dolphins. But the intellectual capacity of dolphins is way too inferior to account for human intelligence. I mean, couldn’t scientists have postulated better predecessors than idiots who get caught in nets all day?

Bullshit.

Like I said, I’m a firm believer in only non-human evolution. Since God breathes life into each human zygote, thus making each human unique and supernatural, and modern day animals merely exist because of physical evolutionary processes, THEN that must mean that humans are superior to animals and also we are not animals.

Another reason to believe in a purely non-human evolution framework comes from the fact that animals are just so damn stupid. No animal or plant shows any degree of intelligence. Not any. Yet humans actually show intelligence. I asked a computer scientist to explain how intelligence in animals works and it was like this: Intelligence is clearly not measurable in degrees (except for my estranged wife’s intelligence since she’s just slightly stupider). Since intelligence mostly can only be found in the forms of binary 1s (intelligence) and 0s (not intelligence), except for my wife who has 0.9 intelligence, how can you get a measurement of intelligence of 1 evolving out of an an intelligence measurement of 0? There must be some intermediate intelligence. It makes no sense! Clearly, human intelligence must be breathed into us by some divine power, namely, God.

Scientists say that dogs used to be wolves and then mankind domesticated them. Let me tell you, based on my dog these must have been some dumb as shit wolves. What kind of wolf survives by running into traffic and eating their own poop? Ancient wolves didn’t even have traffic to run into!

Richie Darkins, the god-hatin’ guy, says that evolution is elegant and that he is an idiot. I agree with him on the second point, though I hasten to add it didn’t need mentioning. However, animal evolution isn’t elegant at all. In fact, it is a function of animals surviving or not surviving based on random chance. This is how it works. Let’s say a dinosaur runs off a cliff. Well, most of those dinosaurs that like running off cliffs all day will die and not pass on their genes. Those few that think “oh wait, I better flap my arms and grow feathers” turned into birds and didn’t die like idiots. This is why the Grand Canyon is such a great fossil bed, by the way.

Geez. It took you forever. Do I have to teach you to make those things vestigal later on too?

Anyway, where was I? Animals other than humans and platypuses are entirely stupid. I used to be opposed to factory farming. But that was before I worked at a factory farm. My experience of being a factory farmer led me to the conclusion that animals just are not smart enough not to wind up on my plate. Let me tell you, I used to tell animals this simple phrase, “if you don’t want to be put in a cage any longer, just let me know.” Not one animal ever spoke up. Must’ve been because they either liked it or they had no intelligence to feel pain about their situation. It’s pretty obvious that those are the only two options.

I think my evolutionary binary theory of how stupid, and therefore useless, animals are proves once again just how nonsensical mainstream scientists are.