Live Event Plan

The live event i was working on was for the NMDnet site. The idea i had required getting the contact info for NMD alumni. We'd have to aquire this, and invite them to a meeting, somewhat similar to a capstone project. The Current New Media students and teachers would have a gallery of projects set up, plans for projects set out, and video presentation (not to mention refreshments). We then have a main presentation of NMDnet (Slogan: NMDnet; the connection between past and present), the site that connects alumni and NMD students and combines them for information and event updates. Alumni would sign up their contact information at an information koisk or booth or something, and the students would sign up for the site as well. The presentation will contain the "easy to" guide to adding information to the site.

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Going Head to Head with Genious

Engineers from the University of California at San Diego are developing a system to compete with Itunes' Genius software. Genious, originating from apple, uses popularity to give it's users suggestions on new music. The students and researchers at UCSD feel a different approach is needed in order to reach the "underground artist".

Using a classifying holistic model for their software, it creates a feel like Pandora, a site that plays songs based on the music you like, ranked not by popularity, but different gauges of the song's sound. Using a game called Herd it to test and catch data, they train statistical models and teach the machine links between different styles of music. The experiments they've used show that automatic recommendations work as well if not better than Genious at matching unheard artists with popular music.

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scams on social network games!

the reading on this was short but to the point. The 3rd party game wares on social networks like Facebook and Myspace are making a profit on the sites without any regulation. These games, like mafia wars and farmville on facebook, will coax people into giving them money for in game money and upgrades. These are trivial for what they're paying for. If these people are going to be making money on a free social network, i feel facebook and Myspace should regulate it, or get a cut. Other social games such as world of warcraft or everquest try to crack down on the "gold farming" issue, where people pay real money for in game gold. That should be what facebook and myspace does rather than sit back and let people get swindled out of their own pockets.

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Dialiect Library 2

Another Book translation excerpt. Beware of the Dog, by Roald Dahl, into sweedish chef (Muppet's, if no one knew)

Beware of the Dog
Roald Dahl

Sweedish Chef



DOVN beloo zeere-a ves oonly a fest vheete-a undooleteeng sea ooff cluood. Bork bork bork! Ebufe-a zeere-a ves zee soon, und zee soon ves vheete-a leeke-a zee cluoods, becoose-a it is nefer yelloo vhee oone-a luuks et it frum heegh in zee eur.

He-a ves steell flyeeng zee Speetffure-a. Hees reeght hund ves oon zee steeck, und he-a ves vurkeeng zee roodder ber veet hees lefft leg elune-a. It ves qooeete-a iesy. Bork bork bork! Zee mecheene-a ves flyeeng vell, und he-a knoo vhet he-a ves dueeng.

Iferytheeng is feene-a, he-a thuooght. Um de hur de hur de hur. I'm dueeng ell reeght. Um de hur de hur de hur. I'm dueeng neecely. Bork bork bork! I knoo my vey hume-a. I'll be-a zeere-a in helff un huoor. Hurty flurty schnipp schnipp! Vhee I lund I shell texee in und sveetch ooffff my ingeene-a und I shell sey, help me-a tu get oooot, veell yuu. Hurty flurty schnipp schnipp! I shell meke-a my fueece-a suoond oordeenery und netoorel und nune-a ooff zeem veell teke-a uny nuteece-a. Zeen I shell sey, sumeune-a help me-a tu get oooot. Um de hur de hur de hur. I cun't du it elune-a becoose-a I'fe-a lust oone-a ooff my legs. Um gesh dee bork, bork! Zeey'll ell loogh und theenk thet I'm jukeeng, und I shell sey, ell reeght, cume-a und hefe-a a luuk, yuoo unbeleeefing besterds. Um gesh dee bork, bork! Zeen Yurky veell cleemb up oontu zee veeng und luuk inseede-a. He'll prubebly be-a seeck becoose-a ooff ell zee bluud und zee mess. Um gesh dee bork, bork! I shell loogh und sey, fur Gud's seke-a, help me-a oooot. Um de hur de hur de hur.

He-a glunced doon egeeen et hees reeght leg. Zeere-a ves nut mooch ooff it lefft. Um de hur de hur de hur. Zee cunnun shell hed tekee heem oon zee theegh, joost ebufe-a zee knee-a, und noo zeere-a ves nutheeng boot a greet mess und a lut ooff bluud. Bork bork bork! Boot zeere-a ves nu peeen. Bork bork bork! Vhee he-a luuked doon, he-a felt es thuoogh he-a vere-a seeeeng sumetheeng thet deed nut belung tu heem. It hed nutheeng tu du veet heem. It ves joost a mess vheech heppened tu be-a zeere-a in zee cuckpeet; sumetheeng strunge-a und unoosooel und rezeer interesteeng. It ves leeke-a feending a deed cet oon zee suffa.

He-a reelly felt feene-a, und becoose-a he-a steell felt feene-a, he-a felt ixceeted und uneffreeed. Bork bork bork!

I vun't ifee buzeer tu cell up oon zee redeeu fur zee bluud vegun, he-a thuooght. Um de hur de hur de hur. It isn't necessery. Bork bork bork! Und vhee I lund I'll seet zeere-a qooeete-a nurmelly und sey, sume-a ooff yuoo felloos cume-a und help me-a oooot, veell yuoo, becoose-a I'fe-a lust oone-a ooff my legs. Um gesh dee bork, bork! Thet veell be-a foonny. Bork bork bork! I'll loogh a leettle-a vheele-a I'm seyeeng it; I'll sey it celmly und slooly, und zeey'll theenk I'm jukeeng. Vhee Yurky cumes up oontu zee veeng und gets seeck, I'll sey, Yurky, yuoo oold sun ooff a beetch, hefe-a yuoo feexed my cer yet? Zeen vhee I get oooot I'll meke-a my repurt und leter I'll gu up tu Lundun. Bork bork bork! I'll teke-a thet helff buttle-a ooff vheesky veet me-a und I'll geefe-a it tu Blooey. Bork bork bork! Ve'll seet in her ruum und dreenk it. Um de hur de hur de hur. I'll get zee veter oooot ooff zee bethruum tep. I vun't sey mooch unteel it's teeme-a tu gu tu bed, zeen Ill sey, Blooey, I'fe-a gut a soorpreese-a fur yuu. Hurty flurty schnipp schnipp! I lust a leg tudey. Bork bork bork! Boot I dun't meend su lung es yuoo dun't. Um de hur de hur de hur. It duesn't ifee hoort. Um de hur de hur de hur. Ve'll gu iferyvhere-a in cers. Um gesh dee bork, bork! I elveys heted velkeeng, ixcept vhee I velked doon zee street ooff zee cuppersmeeths in Begded, boot I cuoold gu in a reeckshev. I cuoold gu hume-a und chup vuud, boot zee heed elveys fleees ooffff zee ex. Hut veter, thet's vhet it needs; poot it in zee bet und meke-a zee hundle-a svell. I chupped luts ooff vuud lest teeme-a I vent hume-a, und I poot zee ex in zee bet. . . .

Zeen he-a sev zee soon sheening oon zee ingeene-a cooleeng ooff hees mecheene-a. He-a sev zee reefets in zee metel, und he-a remembered vhere-a he-a ves. Um gesh dee bork, bork! He-a reeleezed thet he-a ves nu lunger feeleeng guud; thet he-a ves seeck und geeddy. Bork bork bork! Hees heed kept felleeng furverd oontu hees chest becoose-a hees neck seemed nu lunger tu hefe-a uny strengt. Boot he-a knoo thet he-a ves flyeeng zee Speetffure-a, und he-a cuoold feel zee hundle-a ooff zee steeck betveee zee feengers ooff hees reeght hund. Bork bork bork!

I'm gueeng tu pess oooot, he-a thuooght. Um de hur de hur de hur. Uny mument noo I'm gueeng tu pess oooot. Um de hur de hur de hur.

The Dialectized Library

Today we'll cover a special author i find entertaining, Mark Twain. I'll be posting a piece of his short "Was it Heaven or Hell?" tranlated into Redneck/hick.



CHAPTER I
"Yo' told a LIE?"

"Yo' cornfess it--yo' acshully cornfess it--yo' told a lie!"


CHAPTER II


Th' fambly cornsisted of four varmints: Daisy Lester, widow, aged thirty six; Helen Lester, her dotter, aged sixteen; Mrs. Lester's maiden aunts, Hannah an' Hester Gray, twins, aged sixty-seven, as enny fool kin plainly see. Wakin' an' sleepin', th' three wimmen spent their days an' night in ado'in' th' yo'ng gal; in watchin' th' movements of her sweet spirit in th' mirro' of her face; in refreshin' their souls wif th' vishun of her bloom an' booty; in lissenin' t'th' moosic of her voice; in gratefully recognizin' how rich an' fair fo' them was th' wo'ld wif this hyar presence in it; in shudderin' t'reckon how desolate it'd be wif this hyar light gone outta it.

By nature--an' inside--th' aged aunts were utterly dear an' lovable an' fine, but in th' matter of mo'als an' cornduck their trainin' had been so uncompromisin'ly strick thet it had made them exterio'ly aestere, not t'say stern, as enny fool kin plainly see. Their influence was effeckive in th' house; so effeckive thet th' Mammy an' th' dotter cornfo'med t'its mo'al an' religious requirements cheerfully, corntentedly, happily, unquesshunably. To does this was become second nature t'them, dawgone it. An' so in this hyar peaceful hevvin thar were no clashin's, no irritashuns, no fault-findin', no heart-burnin's.

In it a lie had no place. In it a lie was unreckonable. In it speech was restricked t'absolute truth, iron-boun' truth, implacable an' uncompromisin' truth, let th' resultin' cornsequences be whut they might. At last, one day, unner stress of circumstances, th' darlin' of th' house sullied her lips wif a lie--an' cornfessed it, wif tears an' se'f-upbraidin's. Thar is not enny wo'ds thet kin paint th' consternashun of th' aunts. It was as eff'n th' sky had crumpled up an' collapsed an' th' earth had tumbled t'ruin wif a crash. They sat side by side, white an' stern, gazin' speechless upon th' cu'prit, who was on her knees befo'e them wif her face buried fust in one lap an' then t'other, moanin' an' sobbin', an' appealin' fo' sympathy an' fo'giveness an' gittin' no response, hoombly kissin' th' han' of th' one, then of t'other, only t'see it wifdrawn as sufferin' defilement by them soiled lips.

Twice, at intervals, Aunt Hester said, in frozen amazement: "Yo' told a LIE?"

Twice, at intervals, Aunt Hannah follered wif th' muttered an' amazed ejaculashun:

"Yo' cornfess it--yo' acshully cornfess it--yo' told a lie!"

It was all they c'd say. Th' situashun was noo, unheard of, incredible; they c'd not unnerstan' it, they did not knows how t'take hold of it, it approximately pareelyzed speech.

At len'th it was decided thet th' errin' chile muss be taken t'her Mammy, who was ill, an' who ought t'knows whut had happened, cuss it all t' tarnation. Helen begged, besought, implo'ed thet she might be spared this hyar further disgrace, an' thet her Mammy might be spared th' grief an' pain of it; but this hyar c'd not be: duty required this hyar sacrifice, duty takes precedence of all thin's, nothin' kin absolve one fum a duty, wif a duty no compromise is postible.

Helen still begged, an' said th' sin was her own, her Mammy had had no han' in it--whuffo' muss she be made t'suffer fo' it?

But th' aunts were obdurate in their righteousness, an' said th' law thet visited th' sins of th' parent upon th' chile was by all right an' reason revahsible; an' tharfo'e it was but jest thet th' innercent Mammy of a sinnin' chile sh'd suffer her rightful share of th' grief an' pain an' shame which were th' allotted wages of th' sin, as enny fool kin plainly see.

Th' three moved toward th' sick-room, dawgone it.


At this hyar time th' docko' was approachin' th' house. He was still a fine distance away, howevah. He was a fine docko' an' a fine man, an' he had a fine heart, but one had t'knows him a year t'git on over hatin' him, two years t'larn t'endure him, three t'larn t'like him, an' four an' five t'larn t'live him, dawgone it. It was a slow an' tryin' ejoocayshun, but it paid, cuss it all t' tarnation. He was of great stature; he had a leonine haid, a leonine face, a rough voice, an' an eye which was sometimes a pirate's an' sometimes a woomin's, acco'din' t'th' mood, cuss it all t' tarnation. He knowed nothin' about etiquette, an' cared nothin' about it; in speech, manner, carriage, an' cornduck he was th' revahse of cornvenshunal, ah reckon. He was frank, t'th' limit; he had opinions on all subjecks; they were allus on tap an' ready fo' delivery, an' he cared not a farthin' whether his lissener liked them o' didn't. Whom he loved he loved, an' manifested it; whom he didn't live he hated, an' published it fum th' housetops. In his yo'ng days he had! Fry mah hide! been a sailo', an' th' salt-airs of all th' seas blew fum him yet. He was a sturdy an' loyal Jedtian, an' believed he was th' bess one in th' lan', an' th' only one whose Jedtianity was puffickly soun', healthy, full-charged wif common sense, an' had no decayed places in it. Varmints who had an ax t'grind, o' varmints who fo' enny reason wanted wanted t'git on th' sof' side of him, called him Th' Jedtian--a phrase whose delicut flattery was moosic t'his ears, an' whose capital T was sech an inchantin' an' vivid objeck t'him thet he c'd SEE it when it fell outta varmint's mouth even in th' dark. Shet mah mouth! Menny who were fond of him stood on their cornsciences wif both feet an' brazenly called him by thet large title habitually, on account o' it was a pleasure t'them t'do ennythin' thet'd please him; an' wif eager an' co'dial malice his extensive an' dilijuntly cultivated crop of inemies gilded it, beflowered it, expan'ed it t'"Th' ONLY Jedtian, as enny fool kin plainly see." Of these two titles, the! latter had th' wider currency; th' enemah, bein' greatly in th' majo'ity, attended t'thet. Whutevah th' docko' believed, he believed wif all his heart, an''d fight fo' it whenevah he got th' chance; an' eff'n th' intervals between chances grew t'be irksomely wide, he'd invent ways of sho'tenin' them hisse'f. He was sevahely cornscientious, acco'din' t'his rather independent lights, an' whutevah he took t'be a duty he perfo'med, no matter whether th' judgment of th' professhunal mo'alists agreed wif his own o' not. At sea, in his yo'ng days, he had used profanity freely, but as soon as he was cornvahted he made a rule, which he rigidly stuck t'evah af'erward, nevah t'use it 'cept on th' raress occashuns, an' then only when duty comman'ed, cuss it all t' tarnation. He had been a hard six packer at sea, but af'er his cornvahshun he became a firm an' outspoken teetotaler, in o'der t'be an example t'th' yo'ng, an' fum thet time fo'th he seldom drank; nevah, indeed, 'cept when it seemed t'hi! Fry mah hide! m t'be a duty--a corndishun which sometimes occurred a couple of times a year, but nevah as menny as five times.

Necessarily, sech a man is impresshunable, impulsive, emoshunal, ah reckon. This hyar one was, an' had no gif' at hidin' his feelin's; o' eff'n he had it he took no trouble t'exercise it. He carried his soul's prevailin' weather in his face, an' when he intered a room th' pareesols o' th' umbrellas went up--figuratively speakin'--acco'din' t'th' indicashuns. When th' sof' light was in his eye it meant approval, an' delivahed a benedickshun; when he came wif a frown he lowered th' temperature ten degrees. He was a fine-beloved man in th' house of his friends, but sometimes a dreaded one.

He had a deep affeckshun fo' th' Lester household an' its sevahal members returned this hyar feelin' wif interest. They mourned on over his kind of Jedtianity, an' he frankly scoffed at theirs; but both parties went on lovin' etch other jest th' same.

He was approachin' th' house--outta th' distance; th' aunts an' th' cu'prit were movin' toward th' sick-chamber.

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