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Category: Tech

What Does YouTube’s Logo Mean? [Updated]

I know today is April Fools Day. I just don’t understand YouTube’s logo. It is even called logo_april_fools-vfl157034.png Does anyone know what this is about? Update: It looks like some YouTube videos have an ASCII version in edition to the various resolutions like 420p and 720p. It is very similar to VLC’s ASCII filter.

Valentine’s Day Gift 2010

This year for Valentine’s Day I decided to get nerdy and make something electronic for Caroline. I first tried to make a animated LED heart with a “joule thief” and a single AA battery, but I couldn’t make a suitable air coil. So, I decided to modify this circuit to make a throbbing LED heart. [...]

Getting on the Reddit Front Page

I thought  that my last post was funny enough that I would post it up on Reddit last night. Little did I know that people would actually read the whole thing and upvote it. This is what I saw when I checked Reddit today. I quickly checked my site’s stats and there was a massive [...]

Omegle Bot Hilarity

A couple days ago, I was trying to rig up a script that would set up an Omegle stranger with Cleverbot. After a while I just gave up and decided to find a pre-made Omegle bot. I came across a blog post detailing a Python based bot script. I set it up and it worked. [...]