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		<title>Angry Birds in Real Life / Nature</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Apr 2011 04:28:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elliott Back</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are there real-life versions of the Angry Birds?  What inspired Rovio to make their angry birds the way they are?  Did they model the birds after nature in either look or function?  These are questions worth answering; if you&#8217;ve played the game, you might wonder where all the angry birds came from. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Are there real-life versions of the Angry Birds?  What inspired Rovio to make their angry birds the way they are?  Did they model the birds after nature in either look or function?  These are questions worth answering; if you&#8217;ve played the game, you might wonder where all the angry birds came from.  The real angry birds!</p>
<h3>Red Angry Bird</h3>
<p>Our first contestant, the bird you get first in Angry Birds, is Mr. Red.  We speculate that he might actually be a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunbird">Blue-throated Brown Sunbird</a>, or perhaps Gould&#8217;s Sunbird.  From the round, rotund shape of his body, we definitely know it&#8217;s from Aethopyga:</p>
<p><img src="http://elliottback.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/angry-bird-red.png.jpg" alt="" title="angry bird - red.png" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-3514" /><br />
<small>Is the red angry bird actually a sunbird?</small></p>
<h3>The Angry Blue Splitters</h3>
<p>The blue flycatcher known as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plumbeous_Water-redstart">Plumbeous Water-redstart</a>, or red-tailed robin, is a kind of water bird which loves to feed on insects.  They are territorial and have a red tail, a flash of contrasting colours:</p>
<p><img src="http://elliottback.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/angry-bird-blue.png.jpg" alt="" title="angry bird - blue.png" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-3512" /><br />
<small>What a beautiful bluebird!</small></p>
<h3>The Yellow Bird</h3>
<p>I think this is most like a baby <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swallow">Martin Branch Swallow</a>, with its yellow coloration, angry face, and wide beak.  In fact, the swallows and the triangle of the &#8220;little yellow bird&#8221; have something in common, a certain &#8220;hard acceleration&#8221; property. Swallows have one of the best flying air technique of all the birds, by far the fastest.</p>
<p><img src="http://elliottback.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/angry-bird-yellow.png.jpg" alt="" title="angry bird - yellow.png" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-3516" /><br />
<small>Fly fast, yellow Swallows!</small></p>
<h3>Fat Black Bird</h3>
<p>Perfectly coal black, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Blackbird">Common Blackbird</a> is definitely the model for Angry Birds.  The real life bird is notable for mimicry of other sounds, and is a sly trixster. </p>
<p><img src="http://elliottback.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/angry-bird-black.png.jpg" alt="" title="angry bird - black.png" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-3511" /><br />
<small>Serious business, the Blackbird</small></p>
<h3>White Egg-Bomber</h3>
<p>The white angry bird which drops explosive eggs is probably a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Bunting">Snow Bunting</a>, a sort of mottled white and brown bird which lives in naturally cold climes.  Sometimes they&#8217;re called &#8220;snowflake.&#8221;</p>
<p><img src="http://elliottback.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/angry-bird-white.png.jpg" alt="" title="angry bird - white.png" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-3515" /><br />
<small>Or maybe it&#8217;s a Chicken, IDK</small></p>
<p>Pictures and the idea from <a href="http://songshuhui.net/archives/51487">如果愤怒的小鸟要拍电影</a>; we thought it worth bringing some of the concept to English too.</p>
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		<title>Clever Personalized Mortgage Spam</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:55:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elliott Back</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got an extremely clever personalized spam email today, something that I&#8217;ve never seen before.  They took my first name and used it to address me, and then took my last name and suggested I &#8220;move the Back family there.&#8221;  Wow!  Check this out:
From	Homes4Half [info@lafdeb.com]
date	Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 6:24 PM
subject	A Half-priced [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I got an extremely clever personalized spam email today, something that I&#8217;ve never seen before.  They took my first name and used it to address me, and then took my last name and suggested I &#8220;move the Back family there.&#8221;  Wow!  Check this out:</p>
<blockquote><p>From	Homes4Half [<a href="mailto:info@lafdeb.com" title="mailto:info@lafdeb.com">info@lafdeb.com</a>]<br />
date	Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 6:24 PM<br />
subject	A Half-priced Home in ITHACA for the Backs</p>
<p>Dear Elliott,</p>
<p>Imagine moving the Back family into a fabulous new home in the ITHACA area that you bought for HALF it&#8217;s market value!  You can find homes priced as LOW as $10,000. Search the ITHACA area for the best bargains today!</p></blockquote>
<p>They even spelled my name right, which is fairly amazing.</p>
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		<title>Snooze You Lose Alarm Clock</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2008 01:58:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elliott Back</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found this via The Triumph of Bullshit; it&#8217;s a real gem:

Just plug your SnūzNLūz in and either connect it to your network via the RJ45 jack on the back, or via WiFi (WPA supported) if available. Then simply configure via the embedded web browser configuration utility. From here it&#8217;s a snap. Simply select your [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I found this via <a href="http://bullshit.tumblr.com/post/22923619">The Triumph of Bullshit</a>; it&#8217;s a real gem:</p>
<p><img id="image2512" src="http://elliottback.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/alarm.jpg" alt="alarm.jpg" /></p>
<p>Just plug your <a href="http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/snuznluz.shtml">SnūzNLūz</a> in and either connect it to your network via the RJ45 jack on the back, or via WiFi (WPA supported) if available. Then simply configure via the embedded web browser configuration utility. From here it&#8217;s a snap. Simply select your online banking institution from the list of supported banks (currently over 1600 are supported). Supply your login information and then select your favorite HATED charity or non-profit from the included lists (over 6200 currently supported). Then plug in your donation amount per snooze incident ($10 or more), set the time, and alarm, and voila, instant time profit!</p>
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		<title>LOLCode: LOLCat programming language</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2007 05:40:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elliott Back</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This advertisement for a NY-based programmer showed up on Craigslist, and I expect that more will follow:
YOU CAN HAS CHEEZEBURGER?
YOU HAS A FLAVUR?
If so, you may be the right fit for this Midtown Manhattan Web Design Startup! We are a small company looking for a Senior LOLCode Developer, preferably with at least 1 month experience [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This advertisement for a NY-based programmer showed up on Craigslist, and I expect that more will follow:</p>
<blockquote><p>YOU CAN HAS CHEEZEBURGER?<br />
YOU HAS A FLAVUR?</p>
<p>If so, you may be the right fit for this Midtown Manhattan Web Design Startup! We are a small company looking for a Senior LOLCode Developer, preferably with at least 1 month experience developing LOLapps. Please send a resume, along with links to any web-based LOLapps you have developed.</p>
<p>KTHXBYE</p></blockquote>
<p>The recently invented <a href="http://lolcode.com/">LOL.NET</a> has a compiler for the Microsoft CLR which you can <a href="http://blog.notdot.net/archives/32-LOLCode.net-Now-your-LOLCats-can-use-the-CLR!.html">use with MS Visual Studio</a> to write and compile code.  For example, to loop from 0 to 9 and print each number and then exit, you would write (it&#8217;s horrible, brace yourself):</p>
<blockquote><p>HAI<br />
CAN HAS STDIO?<br />
I HAS A VAR<br />
IM IN YR LOOP<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;UP VAR!!1<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;VISIBLE VAR<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;IZ VAR BIGGER THAN 10? KTHXBYE<br />
IM OUTTA YR LOOP<br />
KTHXBYE</p></blockquote>
<p>This can be compared to a normal language which might write:</p>
<blockquote><p>void main(int argc, char *argv[]) {<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;for(int i=0; i &lt; 10; i++)<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;printf(&#8220;%d&#8221;, i);<br />
}</p></blockquote>
<p>Among other things, they have an Eclipse syntax highlighter, an Erlang bytecode compiler, a Ruby interpreter, a javascript implementation, C and C++ support, and some translators into LUA, JS, and other languages.  Check out the <a href="http://lolcode.com/specs/1.2">lolcode 1.2 language spec</a> if you&#8217;re bored.</p>
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		<title>Lolpresidents, The Best Of</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2007 20:45:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elliott Back</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This fark thread called You can has contest:  LOLPRESIDENT!!!1 has some pretty funny lolcat interpretations of America&#8217;s greatest.  Here are some highlights, mostly not offensive, but there&#8217;s definitely some dark, internet humour here:

&#8220;They see me rollin, they hatin&#8221;

&#8220;I has a presidency &#8230; NOoo dey be stealin mah presidency&#8221;

&#8220;BOOM!!1 HEADSHOT!!1&#8243;

&#8220;Im crossin the delawarez to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This fark thread called <a href="http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=2823158&#038;thread_type=voteresults&#038;ok=1">You can has contest:  LOLPRESIDENT!!!1</a> has some pretty funny <a href="http://icanhascheezburger.com/">lolcat</a> interpretations of America&#8217;s greatest.  Here are some highlights, mostly not offensive, but there&#8217;s definitely some dark, internet humour here:</p>
<p><img id="image2256" src="http://elliottback.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/lolprez-01.jpg" alt="lolprez-01.jpg" /></p>
<p>&#8220;They see me rollin, they hatin&#8221;</p>
<p><img id="image2257" src="http://elliottback.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/lolprez-02.jpg" alt="lolprez-02.jpg" /></p>
<p>&#8220;I has a presidency &#8230; NOoo dey be stealin mah presidency&#8221;</p>
<p><img id="image2258" src="http://elliottback.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/lolprez-03.jpg" alt="lolprez-03.jpg" /></p>
<p>&#8220;BOOM!!1 HEADSHOT!!1&#8243;</p>
<p><img id="image2259" src="http://elliottback.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/lolprez-04.jpg" alt="lolprez-04.jpg" /></p>
<p>&#8220;Im crossin the delawarez to kill ur doods&#8221;</p>
<p><img id="image2260" src="http://elliottback.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/lolprez-05.jpg" alt="lolprez-05.jpg" /></p>
<p>&#8220;Do not want&#8221;</p>
<p><img id="image2261" src="http://elliottback.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/lolprez-06.jpg" alt="lolprez-06.jpg" /></p>
<p>&#8220;I can has a cheeseburger?&#8221;</p>
<p><img id="image2262" src="http://elliottback.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/lolprez-07.jpg" alt="lolprez-07.jpg" /></p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a trap&#8221;</p>
<p><img id="image2263" src="http://elliottback.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/lolprez-08.jpg" alt="lolprez-08.jpg" /></p>
<p>&#8220;Hey painter wtf, come back and finish lol&#8221;</p>
<p><img id="image2264" src="http://elliottback.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/lolprez-09.jpg" alt="lolprez-09.jpg" /></p>
<p>&#8220;Oh hai, I invented ur interwebs&#8221;</p>
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