dustmop

Yes, "inverse" could perhaps be more clearly stated as "inverted". I've heard the term used this way before, but it's not common.

If only there were a single word that could convey "difficult to translate without using more than one word", alas the closest we have is "untranslatable".

Yes, a few folks in the NES homebrew scene have managed it. Here's a cartridge my team released this year: http://starversus.com (currently sold out, hope to have more soon) and there's many more at RetroUSB: http://www.retrousb.com/index.php?cPath=30&osCsid=ff2d40cb26...

A crying face is called "ever"

    #define ever (;;)

    for ever {
        // do something
    }

Wow, Super Mario Bros Special looks terrible. Very strong evidence that the main reason the NES was so successful was its easy to use hardware scrolling. Just one write to a memory mapped register and you were set (sort of).

A couple of years ago jwz did something similar, getting the original Mosaic browser to talk to the modern internet: http://www.jwz.org/blog/2008/03/happy-run-some-old-web-brows...

Here as well, a proxy was used to get around the Host Header problem.

The same thing happened years ago to New Brunswick, New Jersey, a college town that produced some very successful artists in the past 2 decades: Lifetime, The Bouncing Souls, Thursday, Gaslight Anthem. Around 2006, the cops started scouring Myspace for shows and permanently shut down a number of popular house venues. Since then, the punks have responded by moving all info to the sneakernet; you can't find out any show details unless you're actually friends with someone who already knows a band or the house owner. Even physical flyers don't have addresses or exact times. It's effectively killed most of the output that this cultural hotspot used to produce.

I used to years ago, but eventually wrote a browser extension Paragrasp to do it: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/paragrasp/lhhabjbh... for Chrome and https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/paragrasp/ for Firefox.

As of an hour and a half ago, it's April 1 in Japan.

Another possibility, which I use for testing my Firefox Add-ons, is using Rhino + env.js, which creates a very good simulation of the DOM.

If you like this, I would highly recommend the "Carl Sagan Tribute Series" by callumCGLP: http://www.youtube.com/user/callumCGLP#p/c/0/pxlPVSAnWOo

It similarly uses quotes from Sagan's audiobooks, but combines it with the Lost soundtrack (which fits surprisingly well), and footage from Discovery and the BBC. Really great stuff!

That's funny, I was expecting the opposite behavior:

    fart => [ :fart ]
    fart 1 => [ :fart, 1 ]
    fart 1, 2 => [ :fart, 1, 2 ]

Seems more lispy to me, and from a quick glance I can't see where it would break.

I remember getting a Taco Bell Star Wars toy just like this when the special edition came out.

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It does the infinite folding thing but doesn't split into two stars.