I have two blasts from the past to share today.
The first deals with a story about MIT and the application of magic in an ancient computer system there. On reading it, it was plain to see that whoever installed the switch was a clever Reality Hacker from the Virtual Adepts working with Entropy (or perhaps Forces) from a time where the VAs had just left the Union and could use words like ‘Magic’ without being disappeared.
Secondly, those who remember waaaay back in 1998 when the Sci-Fi network picked up Mystery Science Theater 3000, they put a neat little web app onto their site called ‘Caption This’. The app would read in frames from whatever terrible movie or show Sci-Fi would be playing at the moment, and users could type out clever riffs to them in a sort of text-based, static Mystery Science Theater of their very own. Then Sci-Fi dropped MST3K and, eventually, Caption This went off the air.
Not only is Caption Crack a marvelous recreation of Caption This, it also improves on the classic Caption This site. You can now vote for those captions you think are really funny and they will, in turn, be added to a weekly archive that you can examine, with the captions getting the greatest click response on top. In addition, there’s a nice chat window on the bottom so you can have asides and conversations with your fellow MiSTies without having to soil the pristine fart joke that you spend all of thirty seconds honing. In addition to that, it also supports the ability to edit your captions if you want through the amusingly named “Cock Up Your Cap?” feature. And still there’s more! You can also add your own personal logo to your caps, and (if you’re any good), you’ll get yourself a nice neat little Wikipage listing all your best caps.
It’s still incredibly addictive after all this time to make snide comments at Carl Kolchak’s silly hat and terrible leisure suit.
I cried a little in joy when I found Caption Crack.
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