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  • Heroes of Newerth: DotA Hero Equivalents

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    As I’ve posted many times on this blog, I’m a huge fan of DotA (Defense of the Ancients). It is only right that I suddenly become enamored with Heroes of Newerth (HoN), a game by S2Games currently in beta that matches the functionality of DotA and adds a layer of awesomeness on top. I’ve played…

  • Art: Self Portrait

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    I have finally decided to join the countless others out there and draw a self-portrait. Overall I don’t think it turned out too bad. Drawn with an Intuos 3 in Photoshop. Self Portrait by =borkweb on deviantART

  • Literal Translation Music Videos

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    We all know that music videos can be quite abstract and often times downright weird…the connection to the lyrics are often a stretch. Well, the guys over at DustFilms have taken a few music videos and have changed the lyrics to describe what is happening in the video. The result? Awesomeness! Check out one of…

  • Racquetball Strategy Videos – Shawn Royster

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    I’ve played racquetball off and on for a few years now without the benefit of instruction, skill, or real athletic ability. But, I play for fun with a couple of guys from work and in a desperate effort to gain an upper hand, I have turned to my old pal the internet for a few…

  • Platypus Mascot: A Plymouth State April Fool’s Day

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    Yesterday (April Fool’s Day) I had a little fun and launched a prank on the entire Campus Community of Plymouth State University. The prank? PSU’s portal received a makeover in order to announce a change of the campus’ Mascot from Panther to noble Platypus due to trademark issues.  Results?  Awesome. Before our users logged in,…

  • Guest Lecture: JavaScript, Ajax & DOM Manipulation

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    Zach has asked me to give a JavaScript guest lecture in his Web Programming class. We’ll cover: JS basics, node manipulation, DOM traversal, AJAX, JavaScript libraries, and myPlymouth implementations of those topics. Here are the slides (get the .ppt here): Javascript: Ajax & DOM Manipulation v1.2 View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: javascript…

  • Art: Dark Jedi

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    I’ve had some free time recently so decided to whip out my Wacom Intuos 3 tablet and see what I could drum up. I had a few commissioned drawings waiting on the wings – all three were character drawings of members of the Dark Jedi Brotherhood. As usual I have uploaded them to my Deviant…

  • Fox: Hidden Problems In The McCain/Palin Campaign

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    All I can say is: Thank GOD.

  • CSS Selector Browser Support

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    As many web developers know, CSS support is highly varied amongst browsers. I often find myself hunting for which selectors are more heavily supported. As such, I thought I’d post a direct link to a quality resource here so I wouldn’t have to hunt anywhere besides on BorkWeb. Here’s some decent resources: CSS selector and…

  • Oracle 10g: Using The Returning Clause With ADOdb

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    Plymouth State University uses Oracle heavily due to its Student Information System of choice – SungardHE Banner. As such, I play around in Oracle a lot (sometimes a lot more than I’d like) and I occasionally find functionality that seems more cumbersome than it should. One such item is selecting the last inserted value on…

  • JamLegend – Rock Band Online…and Social

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    [[innerindex]] Wow. Its all I could say when Adam sent me an invite to JamLegend – a Guitar Hero-esque game that is a pleasant mix of playability, art, and social interaction. I wasn’t expecting much when I got the invite, but as soon as I played through my first song, I was blown away. The…

  • Delete/Backspace Stops Working in Oracle SQLDeveloper

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    I a huge fan of Oracle SQL Developer but I ran into an issue a while back that left me scratching my head and re-installing. The issue? Most key strokes other than letters and numbers failed to function. Yeah…no delete or backspace. When this issue happened a second time I did a little playing with…

  • Chickipedia: Babe Encyclopedia

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    Chickipedia. A wiki of attractive women. Awesome? I think so…my wife doesn’t. Yeah, yeah. So it feels a bit weird posting something like this on BorkWeb, but its one of those sites that you wish you had thought about it first. The site is a good idea. A lot of people would happily waste their…

  • Google Chrome on the Mac – a la CodeWeavers

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    Google launched its new browser Chrome on September 2nd and the web was abuzz with talk of a new contender in the browser space. My choice to pepper my house and cube at work with Macs rather than Windows boxes left me complaining about the lack of a native Mac version of Chrome…which Google assures…

  • Gov. Palin and Senator Clinton Address the Nation

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    This was hilarious. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler did a bang up job of portraying Palin and Clinton. Although this is satire, this video exemplifies everything that is horrid about John McCain’s “pick” for his Vice Presidential candidate.