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I recently obtained and began reading Gödel, Escher, Bach.
One of its earlier thought experiments involves this MUI system devised by Hofstadter. The system itself is quite simple. There are a couple of rules to add characters to a string of Ms Us and Is and a couple string to remove them. The reader is encouraged to work through the system and try to reach the string MUU. The book walks through an orderly tree based approach and shows no such sequence of "moves" yields MUU in less than a dozen iterations.

The other day I was contemplating recursion and wondered just how destructive it might be when misused in a web browser.

I spent the weekend experimenting with different was to crash a web browser by "infinite looping as hard as you can." A straight while(true){...} got noticed but Firefox and Chrome and as such, were not run. However using a simple recursive function got a around this, and that was left was to do was to fill up memory and spawn lots of extra processes:

function ffuck(bar) 
{
	setTimeout("window.open('[FF]uck.php')",Math.random()*1000);
	document.all[0].innerHTML = (bar+"uck");
	bar += bar;
        return ffuck(bar);
}
ffuck("f");

The results of this were varied: in Firefox the host operating system would grind to a halt while Firefox slowly shat itself to death. Chrome would slow to a crawl, eventually producing its "unhappy tab" icon. IE8 did a very strange thing and attempted to download the file itself rather than render it.

Now I wondered if a normal recursive function could be so incredibly disruptive to browser behavior what would happen to an recursively increasing feedback loop? That's an experiment for another time.

Today I woke without even a blink, from a sleep I never took before the familiar face of Mario.
Bored as fuck at that point I said "fuck it," and decided to play commuter. A game I hadn't played in ages.
This trip was harrowing at times but rather a growth experience.

I walked down The Path, to the Avondale MARTA station and rode downtown, with all the real people who had real shit to do. Listening to their asinine phone conversations though I feel comfortable stating: Their shit does not matter that much.

How is it that there has not been an elegant solution to the now ubiquitous video player on the web? [discuss history of video on the web]

Youtube is no doubt the most commonly used.
[discuss youtube interface. identify problems]

[identify player with these problems corrected.]

[identify its problems]

[discuss CNN and adultswim. other proprietary players.]

[discuss flash, ajax, quicktime, and [other?]]

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for(int jump = 0; jump > 100000; jump++){ if(jump % 30 = 0) { jumpUp * 2 + Get(down);}}

Is what I wrote for this amusing twitter meme. I wanted to try to flesh it out further so I looked up the actual lyrics to the song...

---
Pack it up, pack it in
Let me begin
I came to win
Battle me that's a sin
I won't tear the sack up
Punk you'd better back up
Try and play the role and the whole crew will act up
Get up, stand up, come on!
Come on, throw your hands up
If you've got the feeling jump across the ceiling
Muggs is a funk fest, someone's talking junk

Can you guess what they are?

:lol:

Testing

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