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Jason Scott

16 Jan, 5 tweets, 2 min read

So, to explain:

When Danger, Inc. was working on what became the Danger Hiptop/TMobile Sidekick, their DANGER.COM site had a rotating set of animations that played before you got to the site. There were a few. I have some, now emulated, would always like the rest.

The main set as I recall are the ones with the little girl: She is carrying something, and we see someone with a bad addition to that thing, and they're about to meet at a corner; DANGER. Examples: Banana/Monkey, Fire/Gasoline, and Money/Startup. All are now emulated.

But there's at least one more: Clowns/Pies.

Anyway, enjoy these:
archive.org/details/danger…
archive.org/details/danger…
archive.org/details/danger…

I've been told there is no clown/pies just dogs/meat. I've been sent meat

Fantastic news. Remember the danger animations I mentioned tonight? Multiple folks have come forward, including ex-danger folks, and we now have a complete set. Thanks to everyone!

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So, out in the world, there's tons of web-connected "SDRs", or Software-Defined Radio (Receiver), where you can listen to the radio spectrum as it comes into one part of the globe, and live-move your listening, meaning you can catch all sorts of near stuff by moving it.

Here's a website of a bunch of them: websdr.org

Every once in a while, I look into the Internet Archive saving these, and I just have to give up. The main reason is disk space. Either you want ALL of it, or else you want others to keep cool stuff, send it in.

It is severely neat, and it would be great to have them going back years, but it moves into terabytes and terabytes of signal data, even with clever compression, and the result is ton of wasted space "just in case".

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Here's a typical Dynacomp software manual. If you're looking for Frills, keep moving

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Ha ha this guy

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7 Jan

For my non-US friends (I always appreciate my Parliament-explainer friends):

* US House: Significant percentage of dumbs who get their seats in regions because they're with the dominant party

* US Senate: The scary legislative Machiavellians who you see portrayed in movies

It's a rule of thumb, of course - got a few dumb senators, a few clever-as-diamonds house representatives. But when you see Senators do clever walk-the-line speeches and house reps do "pull cork on the boat's bottom to let the water inside drain" out-of-touch things, that's why

That's why several senators quietly backed the votes to invalidate election results, and some included speeches but they were carefully phrased - for possible 2024 runs, to keep that base. They're thinking that far out.

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Thank you for not blowing up my mentions asking if this is being archived

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I was sent a nice notification that years and years of alt-right and militia boards, subboards, postings and rants were already being packed up and preserved, and those mechanisms would run full bore

They've been running for years

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