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ifar — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:35:10 +0000

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Today’s History Fun-Facts: “Useless Knowledge”

ifar — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 14:20:38 +0000

Today I’m just gonna write some random facts compiled from many resources, because today has been a very very “slow day” for me…

enjoy and impress your friends with these useless knowledge… !

The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start.
‘Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia’ is the fear of long words.
It is impossible to lick your elbow. ( I know you gonna try this !!! )
A ‘jiffy’ is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
A zebra is white with black stripes.
The average bra size today is 36C. Ten years ago it was 34B
Walt Disney was afraid of mice
Pearls melt in vinegar
Marylin Monroe has 6 toes
Rats are incapable of puking

there will be more to come…

Flash Games: “ORISINAL”

ifar — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 13:32:25 +0000

Check out www.orisinal.com !!!

A site full of flash games with cute graphics… all the games were awesomely done by Ferry Halim

sample of graphics taken from orisinal.com

Today’s History Fun-Facts: “The 300 Spartans”

ifar — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 17:28:08 +0000

Sure, we all saw the movie 300 and loving it. I mean who doesn’t ? Great story, great cinematography, great adaptation from the novel ( I have been a Frank Miller’s fan since he did Batman: Dark Knight Returns back in 1986), theres nothing bad to hate in 300, I personally give the movie an overall of 9.5 stars (out of 10), maybe I’m just easy to be pleased when it comes to Miller’s work.

Anyway, here is the fun facts for today…

The 300 Spartans Warrior (a.k.a Hoplites) are all “heavy infantry soldiers”, and by heavy I mean… RIDICULOUSLY HEAVY. Every single hoplites actually needs 3 servants to carry their swords, spears, body armors, shields…etc to Thermopylae (where the battle against persians took place). So that means that there were 900 servants serving the 300 hoplites.

On their last battle , all the 900 servants were all died fighting beside their master, but history seems to forget their heroic-acts, and remember only the 300 hoplites.

So, I guess it’s only fair if I made an altered poster of the movie in honor of the 900-forgotten servants/heroes…

-history source answers.com, Larry Gonick

Indie Killed Record Label ?

ifar — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:11:08 +0000

“The term indie is short for “independent” and refers to artistic creations outside the commercial mainstream, without the support of a major record label, major movie studio, or other source of a large budget”

There are thousands maybe millions indie artists out there, and sites like Myspace.com and RCRDLBL.com are the perfect reason to go indie…

these past months many major artists such as; Radiohead, NIN, The Charlatans, even Madonna has gone indie, what really happened? are they simply following the current trends? fed up with the record label’s business model? or dying to give away their music cheaper? you’ll be the judge…

Radiohead launch their new record “In Rainbows” without any labels backing them up. There’s no label or distribution partner to cut into the band’s profits — but then there may not be any profits. Drop In Rainbows‘ 15 songs into the online checkout basket and a question mark pops up where the price would normally be. Click it, and the prompt “It’s Up To You” appears. Click again and it refreshes with the words “It’s Really Up To You” — and really, it is. It’s the first major album whose price is determined by what individual consumers want to pay for it. And it’s perfectly acceptable to pay nothing at all. So being a struggling artist myself … lol, I put $ 0.00 on the price box and began downloading “In Rainbows” (I am now at 32% on the download bar)

In their blogs, Trent Reznor of the Nine Inch Nails said:

“Hello everyone. I’ve waited a LONG time to be able to make the following announcement: as of right now Nine Inch Nails is a totally free agent, free of any recording contract with any label. I have been under recording contracts for 18 years and have watched the business radically mutate from one thing to something inherently very different and it gives me great pleasure to be able to finally have a direct relationship with the audience as I see fit and appropriate. Look for some announcements in the near future regarding 2008.
Exciting times, indeed.”

Their latest album has hit the retail stores across the US (physical Vinyl, CD and DVD) and on the digital downloads sites (iTunes, etc…)

Trent Reznor, also talked about the new Saul Williams album “The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust!” that has been released directly to the fans/listener. All you had to do is go to his website, register and download the album for FREE!

There are apparent similarities in the way Saul Williams and Radiohead released their new record, however Saul Williams might be a bit more bolder since Radiohead are already a household name while Saul isn’t (yet!)

The Charlatans are also began to follow this trends, they give away their music on their website and on xfm.co.uk

Rumor has it that Jamiroquai and Oasis are thinking about giving away their music for free as well. And I personally believe that there will be more to join this trends.

So, how do these artists got their profit? One, maybe in the long run they could begin to charge big corporation (maybe record labels too!) to put ads on their site. And two, the concert business is booming nowadays. This has been proved by Prince who gave away his album “Planet Earth” for free in the U.K (as a bonus along with Sunday Newspaper), many other recording artists laughed at him. But then Prince announced 21 … I repeat 21 …!!! consecutive concerts in London and sold out every one of them.

2008 will be exciting for the music industry, indeed.

(now playing: Radiohead – House of Cards -”In Rainbows”)

-source: wikipedia.com, time.com, epicfu.com, rcrdlbl.com, myspace.com

Flash games: “Upbeat” & “QWERTY Warrior”

ifar — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:15:26 +0000

I just found these cool flash games called “upbeat” and “QWERTY Warrior”, it maybe old news to some of you, but I still think it’s pretty cool and deserved to get a special place on my blog.

UPBEAT : think- “Guitar Hero with a keyboard “

QWERTY WARRIOR: Unique concept for a typing game. Destroy the enemies by typing the words that appear under them.

WARNING! :

play “UPBEAT”

play “QWERTY Warrior”

Yay my first post

ifar — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 04:04:25 +0000

Why have I decided to have my own blog now? Okay, so 2 weeks ago my house was struck by a lightning and killed my laptop (with all the precious data of my recent work). All the data are now still being recovered, and it got me thinking of a better way to reserved my portfolios and important data. The results… “BLOGGING”, this way I can put all my portfolios in one place, and write about anything on the fly… and I’ve always wanted to write about all the cool-geeky music, websites, design related stuffs, etc… that I’ve found on the ‘net. The other reason is I just got myself a “decent” internet connection, and trying to make the best out of it.

Why is the name pinkegobox you might ask yourself? it is actually taken from one of MUSE ‘s songs, and i’ve been using it for years as my avatar on the ‘net (ie: as a nickname on forums,chats, etc) , so yeah there’s no “artistic” or “hidden” meaning behind the title (aside that this blog might be full of my ego and… pink)

This blog will also functioned as a place to put all of my haphazard ideas for my weird personality… so if you happened to stumble across one of the stupid ideas, just ignore it and read along to the next post. Also, I will post a “Fun Historical Facts” updated regularly… just to fill my long-forgotten passion in the world histories (and for your entertainment too, if you find it as fun as I do)

So I guess this blog will be pretty random, just like me… lol okay then, happy blogging to me !

-Ifar S. Karmojono