JAP — ANONYMITY & PRIVACY:

In the current political climate with the eroding personal privacy rights some of us may want a way to hide our browsing habits from the large entities that like to track those kind of things. It may be due to political oppression, opposition to big media, avoiding giving Google any more data on you in their vast databases or simply to keep the boss from finding out you spend 90% of your day browsing for pr0n. Well there are a variety of tools available to you to achieve this.

The tool I’m going to introduce you to today is a piece of software called JAP (It’s not specified on the site that I can find but I assume it’s short for Java Anonymous Proxy)
JAP is a program written in Java that you can point your web browser to and surf the Internet relatively anonymously.

Hello Everybody

As you’ve most likely noticed. I’ve done a mild redesign on liamm.com. I read about an online WordPress theme generator and thought I’d give it a try. The site as you see it now is the result.

Check it out it’s fairly interesting even if you don’t have a WordPress site to update

http://www.yvoschaap.com/wpthemegen/

Hi Everybody

Just wanted to push this a little bit. Over on Pixelante World (http://www.pixelanteworld.com) we’ve started a Folding @ Home team and I just want to encourage everyone to join up. We’re team 61902

Folding @ Home is working towards a great cause in doing protien folding computations to try and cure diseases like Cancer, Alzheimers, Parkinsons and more. Head over to http://folding.stanford.edu to get the client and all the details. Hell you can even run it on your PS3 if you have one.

Thanks to everyone who participates.

A new study from researchers here in Canada shows that regular video game usage promotes the ability of the mind to multi task, block out external distractions and causes the brain to age at a slower pace. The study reports that the effects of regular gaming shows similar effects a bilingualism as an exercise of the mind. The study notes that it is the inability to silence mental “noise” that makes the elderly prone to distraction and poor multi taskers. It is thought that this generation of gamers may be more functional mentally in our latter years due to this. In their test gamers preformed better and faster than their non gaming counterparts. The highest scorers were bilingual gamers.
Please read the full article at the Globe & Mail – http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060209.wxbrains09/BNStory/Science/home

Well it appears Mr Thompson has received his flowers.

If you don’t know what I’m talking about you can get the full back story HERE.

But essentially Jack Thompson is an Anti-Video game crusader who more and more seems completely devoid of logic or basic human thought. He has vilified the gaming community trying to label us as the scourge of modern society calling us (now affectionately used by the community) pixelantes. Now as can be guessed Jack has taken a lot of crap from the less mature more outgoing section of our demographic. Now to try and offset this and start some kind of constructive intelligent dialog Flowers For Jack was started. It’s main goal was to send a large amount of flowers along with a civil letter to Mr Thompson to outline our position and get a dialog going. Well getting back to the issue at hand it appears Jack has received the Flowers and is ignoring the letter completely as he is blaming Take 2 Interactive (makers of Grand Theft Auto) and Joystiq (the website that reported on the story). Many people were a part of Flowers For Jack right from the catalysts of the idea Alyson Burch and George Ettinger right down to the donators and signers like myself (Liam From Vancouver BC Canada) from around the world. Please go to the following links see our letter and see Jacks. Please don’t let him twist this to his own ends.

Pixelante Nation – http://www.pixelantenation.com/

Flowers For Jack – http://flowersforjack.livejournal.com/

Joystiq Story – http://www.joystiq.com/2006/02/07/flowers-for-jack-part-deux/

+//+ 14 year-old wins against anti-video game lawyer: Jack Thompson on CroQaudile.com +//+

http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/07/15/news_6129301.html

Oh this is sweet. A 14 year old boy easily defeats Jack Thompson (1 nutcase anti violence in videogames lawyer) in an email debate. This clearly shows the lack of understanding by those seeking to outlaw violent videogames. Hmm I wonder if the new law in California was thought up and passed by some individuals who were just as well informed as Jack . This kind of ignorance makes me sick. Why don’t we just abolish the military it purposefully trains and desensitizes individuals to killing then after a few years kicks them back out into the general populace.