Take the number of items on Neopets with the word “candy” in the item name. Add to that the number of items with the word “chocolate” in the item name. Then subtract the number of items with the word “spooky” in the item name.

What number do you get?

(Note that the answer may change between now and the time this conundrum is judged. If so, only the answer that is effective at the time of judging will be the correct one. So it might be worth putting off submitting your answer for a few days!)

Answer here

After reading a quick news post about cracks in web 2.0 on Wired News, I was lead to a particularly enlightening essay about what exactly Web 2.0 is. This term has been travelling around the net for some time now and I had been curious as to what exactly was meant by it, what caused a new web to form and how it differed from the first versions.

Well, I knew about Web 1.0 from a marketing point of view, we studied that enough in classes. Basically referring to the upsurge of the ‘dot com’ models of economy on the web, Web 1.0 was the first version of what the net was for. Big companies opening up online stores and new ones forming virtual ones with no physical ones were the most prominent thing in that first version. The ones that survive are now really common, like Amazon and even Ebay. Also corresponding to this age and version were the bbs, email and irc communities that began to form.

Web 2.0 is what we see now on the web. First the applications and communities like Flikr, Bit Torrent and Forums, it’s the rise of the WWC (World Wide Community). Communities sprang up from forums becoming something larger, like Deviantart, Neopets and Gaia Online (for examples closest to me) and also community-content pages like the famed Wikipedia.

And of course, Blogs. I’ve been reading blogs for some time now, have had this one for a bit longer and now even my friends are starting to make their own ones. I’ve seen blogs used as personal pages, and as community editorial sites, such as A List Apart with really great articles on things that interest me the most. With RSS syndication, reading news and tips about what you most like is really easy, just subscribe to those blogs that seem more interesting, and you get free daily content of your choosing. Yep, all for free.

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“Find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot; who calls you back when you hang up; who will stay awake just to watch you sleep. Wait for the boy who kisses you on your forehead; who wants to show you off to the world when you’re in sweats; who holds your hand in front of his friends; who thinks you’re just as pretty without makeup on. Wait for the one who is constantly reminding you of how much he cares about you and how lucky he is to have you. Wait for the one who turns to his friends and says, ”…That’s her,” and smiles.”

I waited 19 years for that guy to walk into my life… and yet… he didn’t have the strength to wait for me 3 years…

*Sobs* I hate him… I hate him sooo much! I wish I had at least had Fuuko-chan as my active pet… but to have my Desert Pteri… my cool, grumpy little pteri… EGGED like this? Truly a catastrophy!

In classes today we were seeing examples of interactive videos. The one I found really good is Sith Sense. Challenge Darth Vader to discover what object you are thinking of. The program is pretty good, works with a database, and as more people play it, the database is filled with more info. Try it out, and tell me if you are capable of thinking of something that he cannot guess.