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wa27
Jan 15, 2007

quote:

Over its existence, the show has changed very little from season to season.[62] Most modifications to the program have been done in minute detail, such as to the show's book shelf display seen near the courtroom entrance. Aesthetically, the show's theme song, graphics, and color scheme are the only aspects that have changed repeatedly over its past seventeen years.[63] The ninth season (2004–05) is one of few seasons in which the show underwent major remodeling when music for the show's opening, closing, and to/fro commercial portions were modified. A jazzed version of a melody from Beethoven's 5th Symphony was adopted as the show's then new opening theme song.[64] For its scenes, Sheindlin is shown in a different courtroom from her own (part of a proposed renovation to the courtroom that was rejected by Sheindlin for being too dark), approaching the camera, followed by folding her arms and smiling at the camera. This is followed by showing various scenes of her presiding over different cases. As part of these modifications, the show's introductory previews, graphics, and images all began showing up in falu red.
Prior to the ninth season, the show used an original tune for its theme song. From the show's debut through its eighth season, various versions of this original tune were used, the show making moderate modifications to the tune every few seasons. From seasons four through eight, the opening music video commenced with an approaching scene towards a computer animated courthouse display up until that scene entered into the courthouse. From there, several shots of Sheindlin gesticulating from her bench—as though presiding over various cases—were displayed in motion. These motioning images eventually developed into the courthouse logo that represents the program (the logo always displayed within the letter "D" in "Judy") by the end of this opening music video. The music video in seasons prior to this used relatively similar music with disparities in scenes, images, instrumental sound type and theme song length.
Further, early seasons of the show used graphics and images that were sea green and saffron. Blue and saffron then came to represent multiple seasons of the show before the show's current color scheme. By the show's sixth season (2001–02), music and graphics used in the introductory previews no longer resembled the rest of the program as they had previously, but instead used a high blue color scheme and a different song for each episode/intro preview. While the introductory preview's inconstant tunes have continued to the present season, the color scheme in the introductory previews began resembling the color scheme used in the rest of the program (falu red) once again by the ninth season.
Each opening music video consists of Voice-Over Artist Jerry Bishop stating: "You are about to enter the courtroom of Judge Judith Sheindlin. The people are real. The cases are real. The rulings are final. This is Judge Judy."[65] Originally between the statements "The rulings are final" and "This is Judge Judy" was the statement, "This is her courtroom."[66] This was removed in 2004. Beginning in September 2012, the show made a switch to high definition with its 17th season. The bumpers between commercials are also in HD, although most on-screen graphics such as plaintiff and defendant descriptions are framed to fit a 4:3 aspect ratio.[67]

Really this whole article.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge_Judy

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EMILY BLUNTS
Jan 1, 2005

everyone comains about judge judy but I think they sort of like her because she makes everyone complain

Miley Virus
Apr 9, 2010

EMILY BLUNTS posted:

everyone comains about judge judy but I think they sort of like her because she makes everyone complain

everyone i know thinks she's p cool


ain't no bullshit, y'know?

Soricidus
Oct 21, 2010
freedom-hating statist shill

quote:

This article is about the section of Interstate 70 in West Virginia. For the entire length of the highway, see Interstate 70.

today's featured article

today's featured article

gas the thread, it's over. loving wikipedians taking our jobs

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

Sagebrush posted:

i wonder how they even decide when it really "ends" when it's like that. how many seconds of black at the end etc

someone probably took a tape measure to a set of reels

Miley Virus
Apr 9, 2010

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sims_Carnival

An Online Community of Crowd-Sourced Web Games[edit]

SimsCarnival.com was an online community centered around playing, creating and sharing games.
It had a massive library of Flash games (rumor: 70K+ games). This online community was supported by a suite of game creation tools, audio & graphic asset packs, a YouTube-style website with leaderboard and other social features, plenty of first-party games, ongoing content releases, community support, and countless user-generated games across many genres (e.g. sports, puzzles, adventure games, racing games, Tower Defense games, Angry Birds games).
Three game creation tools—The Wizard, The Swapper and The Game Creator—were your assistants in game design. The Wizard led you through the process of creating a game step-by-step with intuitive options designed to help you create your own game (e.g. make your own Tower Defense game) with an impressive library of game genres to choose from. The Swapper let you customize existing games – or newly made games from The Wizard - with your own selection of images, so personalizing a game was pretty straightforward. With The Game Creator, and its library of images, animations and sounds, people could create a game from scratch or dove deep into customizing another player's creation.
The mission of SimsCarnival.com was to democratize the art of game creation. It was fully intended to be a game about making games. Because the games were "open source", players could take someone else's creation, give the original creators attributions and customize the games as they see fit (e.g. apply different graphics and story line).
SimsCarnival.com was debuted at the GDC (Game Developers Conference) in February 2008 with a keynote speech by the studio head of The Sims. The service was sunset in January 2011.
Highlights in the Press:
1UP: “…I actually think that The Sims Carnival -- a site where users can create and play their own minigames -- is one of EA's most intriguing ideas yet…” [1]
Joystiq: "…you can play some of the offerings from closed beta folks, who've come up with some really bizarre entries like this terrible take on Mario Kart and this brûlée caramelizing Sim. You can also design your own games for the general populace to partake of, enjoy and never, ever pay you for." [2]
Kotaku: "EA’s web-based game creation TheSimsCarnival.com has officially entered open beta, and not a moment too soon!" [3]
IGN: "There is bound to be a game that you love -- and if not, you can make it! Since its inception in February 2008, SimsCarnival.com has built an active online community where nearly 1 in 4 visitors during Closed Beta have created and published their own games." [4]
MTV: "But Electronic Arts thinks it has a solution with Sims Carnival. You needn’t know a programming language; just apply your creativity to their already-built toolsets. Currently in beta, I hopped on the Sims Carnival website to see what people have created." [5]
Gameplanet: "TheSimsCarnival.com in open beta. This games destination website has hundreds of games of all kinds and creators are adding more every day" [6]
PC Magazine: "The tools provided at the site empower players to become game creators at any programming skill level, from novice to Flash developers."

Miley Virus
Apr 9, 2010

"sunset" is the dumbest loving term

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

What is the Matrix 🌐? We just don't know 😎.


Buglord
"…you can play some of the offerings from closed beta folks, who've come up with some really bizarre entries like this terrible take on Mario Kart and this brûlée caramelizing Sim. You can also design your own games for the general populace to partake of, enjoy and never, ever pay you for." [2]

Tayter Swift
Nov 18, 2002

Pillbug
thx roadfans 4 sealing the unesco

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Starving Autist
Oct 20, 2007

by Ralp

Yodzilla posted:

whoa what the hell is simple.wikipedia

http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anime vs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anime

does every single page have separate text that's, uh, simpler?

simple wikipedia has a few gems, like http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohomology

Troglyfe
Jan 2, 2014

simple wikipedia posted:

a supermassive black hole is a black hole with a mass that is between 10^5 and 10^10 the mass of the sun.

uhh, do simple people even know what mass and exponents are?

lemmie suggest an improvement:

"a supermassive black hole is a black hole that weighs as much as, like, one hundred billion suns. That's as much as one hundred thousand hundred thousand suns!"

yes, science pedants, i do know that "weigh" is the wrong word to describe mass. i'm just a simple person OK!? :saddowns:

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

"a supermassive black hole is the heaviest kind of black hole"

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

Sagebrush posted:

"a supermassive black hole is the heaviest kind of black hole"

EMILY BLUNTS
Jan 1, 2005

Dogs often have jobs, including as police dogs, army dogs, seeing eye dogs, fire dogs, messenger dogs, hunting dogs and sheepdogs.

Troglyfe
Jan 2, 2014

EMILY BLUNTS posted:

Dogs often have jobs, including as police dogs, army dogs, seeing eye dogs, fire dogs, messenger dogs, hunting dogs and sheepdogs.

Uhh, nope, those aren't jobs

simple wikipedia posted:

Slavery (also called thralldom) is an economic system. In it, some people must work for no pay. These people are called slaves.

Nelson MandEULA
Feb 27, 2011

"...the biggest shitbag
I have ever met."

Nelson MandEULA
Feb 27, 2011

"...the biggest shitbag
I have ever met."
Nancy Basile of About.com thought the best scene of the episode is the one where the Simpsons have become hillbillies and are sitting on their porch, and Bart says "I'm getting used to this country life. Teacher says I'm whittling at a tenth-grade level."[14]

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe
This article is about the U.S. state of New Hampshire. For other uses, see New Hampshire (disambiguation).
"Granite State" redirects here. For the Breaking Bad episode, see Granite State (Breaking Bad).

Adult Sword Owner
Jun 19, 2011

u deserve diploma for sublime comedy expertise

Orbi posted:

everyone i know thinks she's p cool


ain't no bullshit, y'know?

shes just seems tired these days because everyone comes on to be a ~hilarious idiot~ on tv


i mean as tired as someone with a salary in the tens of millions of dollars can be

Sham bam bamina!
Nov 6, 2012

ƨtupid cat
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cream_Lemon

http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_fetishism

Soricidus
Oct 21, 2010
freedom-hating statist shill
Something Awful is a comedy website and forums. People have to pay money to join the forums to talk with other people around the world. It currently costs $9.95 (US Dollars) to join. You must be very polite on these forums, because the people are sensitive. They say that paying money makes people behave more politely, because if you don't behave nice they take away your account and you lose your money.[1]

prefect
Sep 11, 2001

No one, Woodhouse.
No one.




Dead Man’s Band
i don't know that you need to be very polite

Miley Virus
Apr 9, 2010

prefect posted:

i don't know that you need to be very polite

gently caress you prefect i can be as polite as i want

Metal Pink Babble
Mar 31, 2012

by FactsAreUseless

Sagebrush posted:

"a supermassive black hole is the heaviest kind of black hole"

lets condensing density of a void with weight term using. in iceland, we call it "gaatje", and a kilo of gaatje is equal in weight to an half kilo of feathers plus 500 grams hashish.

Tayter Swift
Nov 18, 2002

Pillbug
ganjatte dekimasu

Metal Pink Babble
Mar 31, 2012

by FactsAreUseless

Eegah posted:

ganjatte dekimasu

ganjatte nanimoinai.

Starving Autist
Oct 20, 2007

by Ralp
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_theory

lol

Tayter Swift
Nov 18, 2002

Pillbug
Also brought to the forefront of pop culture by this song is a generally accepted white standard of beauty — a skinny body lacking in voluptuous curves[citation needed]. In the prelude that opens the song there is a conversation between two (presumably) thin, white valley girls, where one girl remarks to her friend, "Oh, my God, Becky, look at her butt! It is so big [...] She's just so ... black!", to which Sir Mix-a-Lot, representing the African-American subculture's view, says: "You other brothers can't deny" and "Take the average black man and ask him...".[5] However, Sir Mix-a-Lot follows this in later verse with "Even white boys got to shout," indicating that it is not only African-American men who are attracted to curvy women (an aspect which was referenced in an extensive retrospective two decades later).[6]

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

Metal Pink Babble posted:

lets condensing density of a void with weight term using. in iceland, we call it "gaatje", and a kilo of gaatje is equal in weight to an half kilo of feathers plus 500 grams hashish.

wait, is metal pink babble icelandic? is he only marginally proficient in english, speaking primarily a language with very few english cognates? does this explain everything?? :monocle:

EMILY BLUNTS
Jan 1, 2005

The World Health Organisation (WHO) says it has received reports of people being admitted to poison centres around the world after taking iodine tablets in response to fears about harmful levels of radiation coming out of the damaged nuclear power plant in Fukushima.[344]

Sham bam bamina!
Nov 6, 2012

ƨtupid cat

Sagebrush posted:

wait, is metal pink babble icelandic? is he only marginally proficient in english, speaking primarily a language with very few english cognates? does this explain everything?? :monocle:
it's not a language issue, he's just smg but with threads instead of movies

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

EMILY BLUNTS posted:

The World Health Organisation (WHO) says it has received reports of people being admitted to poison centres around the world after taking iodine tablets in response to fears about harmful levels of radiation coming out of the damaged nuclear power plant in Fukushima.[344]

wow how much iodine





pregnant peeps have like 150mcg a day for supplemenation but morons with arrythmia who take amiodarone end up having like 50 mg thats right like 300 times as much. dont get arrythmia

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

drink all the iodine

EMILY BLUNTS
Jan 1, 2005

echinopsis posted:

wow how much iodine





pregnant peeps have like 150mcg a day for supplemenation but morons with arrythmia who take amiodarone end up having like 50 mg thats right like 300 times as much. dont get arrythmia

Well, picture the kind of paranoiac survivalist who just finished buying some super specific geiger counter + harmful surplus gas maks for his entire family. how much iodine will they take when his survivalist buddies post more radiation maps

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
i honestly have no idea about iodine and radioation but dont get your thyroid hosed ok

Nelson MandEULA
Feb 27, 2011

"...the biggest shitbag
I have ever met."
the point of iodine tablets it to saturate your thyroid with non-radioactive iodine so that it doesn't absorb the radioactive iodine isotopes that get released in a nuclear disaster.

Nelson MandEULA
Feb 27, 2011

"...the biggest shitbag
I have ever met."
speaking of which:

quote:


An unopened box of potassium iodate tablets, distributed to every household in Ireland in the wake of 9/11 in case of a terror attack on reprocessing plants such as Sellafield and nuclear power stations such as Wylfa on the island of Great Britain. A scenario that upon later expert Irish examination in 2007, was found to not have justified their distribution.[83][84] The Irish Department of Health advises that the tablets may now be disposed of with municipal waste.[84]

and to think this country went bankrupt! :allears:

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

yeah man it was giving each citizen household 6x salt tablets that bankrupted the country. totally. that poo poo doesn't just grow in the ocean you know!

Symbolic Butt
Mar 22, 2009

(_!_)
Buglord
In the CBS series Numbers, it was said that Charlie Epps spent the last three months of his mother's life in the garage, unable to face her, working on P vs NP, misguidedly thinking that he may be able to cure her sickness.

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echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

WorkingPeer posted:

the point of iodine tablets it to saturate your thyroid with non-radioactive iodine so that it doesn't absorb the radioactive iodine isotopes that get released in a nuclear disaster.

radation rules but no one cares

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