Thursday April 5, 2007
Polloot.com
I have recently released a new site, into the wild, devoted to allowing anyone to add robust, interactive Flash-based polls, quizzes and games to their website. The activities can be added directly to your page, like below, or you can link to the content on our site.
The site is called Polloot! and you can see an example of a simple poll created with the tools below. Give it a try. Let me know if you have any comments/suggestions.
The site is in a very limited rollout, but it has been working as expected so far, so give it a try!
Add Comment / See Results at Polloot.com
Monday January 29, 2007
Octopus Solitaire
I've put another game online -- Octopus Solitaire. The game contains Freecell, Octopus (Spider), and Pyramid. It's free to play, and requires Flash 7 or greater.
Friday January 26, 2007
Valentine Crush
I've put a new game out, in time for Valentine's Day. It's Valentine Crush...
Many of you will recognize it as a takeoff on "The Same Game"...
Hope you like it!
Friday June 16, 2006
New portfolio site, photography site...
Two new sites are up:
...a portfolio site, with internet design, game work, and photography...
and
http://www.chrisnelsonphotography.com/
...a portfolio and news site for my photo work. Check 'em out, let me know what you think (The ordering page for the photography site is not up yet -- consider the site a preview.)
Currently the photo website and the portfolio site have the same photo content... the photo site will hold an ever expanding portfolio...
I recently did a semester abroad in Italy, and I'm having a gallery show during the Central PA Festival of the Arts in State College, PA. Check out the photography site for more details.
Tuesday September 27, 2005
Ignoble savagery
Everyone should read this article at eastbayexpress.com. Makes Abu Ghraib pale in comparison (and it's a clear violation of the Geneva Conventions).
Friday August 26, 2005
SCCT
Just thought I'd throw a little plug to the State College Community Theater (SCCT) that just celebrated its 50th anniversary. Community theater is worth supporting, so be sure to support your local community theater.
Wednesday August 24, 2005
Bisentitech
We've put the finishing touches on my friend Valeria's new website Bisentitech. Bisentitech is Valeria's company that I work for occasionally (I designed the site). So if you're in Florida, and you have a need for some custom software for your website, give Valeria a call.
Wednesday August 3, 2005
New PeopleSpace website
The company I work for, PeopleSpace, has just rolled out a new website, with the goal of being less cluttered with text and more visually striking (and original). Some of my new games are showcased there, including Octopus Solitaire.
To the one person still reading this site: let me know if you run into any problems. :-)
Tuesday August 2, 2005
Back
No one will be reading this, I'm sure, so I'm going to be using MozillaZine's incredible Google Index rating to bring attention to clients and friends. I might also post occasional political commentary, but don't expect it.
Saturday March 26, 2005
Jeb tries to force showdown
Apparently Jeb sent Florida State officers to reinsert Terry Schiavo's feeding tube, but the local police said that they would uphold the law and prevent them from doing so.
"We told them that unless they had the judge with them when they came, they were not going to get in," said a source with the local police.
My worst current fear...
...is that Terry Schiavo passes away on Easter Sunday. Poor woman has been through enough; she doesn't need to be turned into a martyr by the repugnant pigs who have been profitting off of the controversy surrounding her.
Thursday February 10, 2005
No....
...I'm not the Chris Nelson that was just on Air America Radio.
Just in case you couldn't figure it out.
Tuesday February 8, 2005
Juan Cole is da man
And he rips into Jonah Goldberg as their online fight escalates.
Saturday January 29, 2005
Ernest goes to Auschwitz
Putz.
Friday January 28, 2005
War on the dimensionally challenged
The new right is taking their war to the streets. That is, streets made out of splotches of gray delineated by thin black lines drawn to indicate perspective.
First, Spongebob Squarepants is chastized for promoting tolerance of homosexuality, and is accused of being gay himself.
Now, Buster Bunny is under the gun, for visiting a lesbian household in Vermont.
God, just think what would have happened to Bugs Bunny if he were around today doing his cross-dressing schtick. (More here, if the site is up.)
Tuesday January 11, 2005
Free Republic forum on Mel Gibson's remarks after the People's Choice Awards
So, what is the far right saying about Mel now? What are the people who kicked the left's ass talking about?
Monday January 10, 2005
Iraq elections?
I know I'm not posting much on this blog anymore. In fact, rarely if ever anymore. So, if you're reading this, a quick question:
The eve of the Iraq elections, is the Bush administration going to wage a PR war to convince us that the elections went swimmingly, in spite of whatever evidence of violence and mayhem?
Are they going to treat the news in that country like they do everything else here at home? "It's all good, and we've already moved onto the next thing, so get on board!"
Come hell or high water, there's going to be an election in Iraq, and it's going to be a victory for democracy, if Bush's spinners have anything to do with it, even if Iraq awakens the next day in chaos and civil war.
"This is a landmark day for those in Iraq who love freedom," our President will say, and that will be that. And innocent civilians will continue to die, and our soldiers will continue to die, and Bush will move on to making up lies about something else.
Saturday December 11, 2004
Try Google's Suggest Search...
...here. Type an 'f' into the search field. If you're a Mozilla fan, you should like the result.
Tuesday December 7, 2004
Dazed & Confused Texans sue filmmaker
But that was a long time ago, man, and it was just a movie anyway -- a made-up story with actors playing Wooderson, Slater and Floyd. Right now -- 11 years after the movie came out -- the real Wooderson, Slater and Floyd are here, sitting at this long, shiny conference table in a Huntsville law office, looking older and less hairy and a bit peeved. They're explaining why they recently filed suit against their old high school acquaintance Richard Linklater, who made "Dazed and Confused" back in 1993, for "defamation" and "negligent infliction of emotional distress."
Wednesday December 1, 2004
Astounding behavior of CBS and NBC
The CBS and NBC television networks are refusing to run a 30-second television ad from the United Church of Christ because its all-inclusive welcome has been deemed "too controversial."
The ad, part of the denomination's new, broad identity campaign set to begin airing nationwide on Dec. 1, states that -- like Jesus -- the United Church of Christ (UCC) seeks to welcome all people, regardless of ability, age, race, economic circumstance or sexual orientation.
According to a written explanation from CBS, the United Church of Christ is being denied network access because its ad implies acceptance of gay and lesbian couples -- among other minority constituencies -- and is, therefore, too "controversial."
"Because this commercial touches on the exclusion of gay couples and other minority groups by other individuals and organizations," reads an explanation from CBS, "and the fact the Executive Branch has recently proposed a Constitutional Amendment to define marriage as a union between a man and a woman, this spot is unacceptable for broadcast on the [CBS and UPN] networks."
Monday November 22, 2004
An accounting of the shooting in the mosque...
...in the words of the cameraman who filmed the event, Keven Sites.
Making sure you know the basis for my choices after the incident is as important to me as knowing how the incident went down. I did not in any way feel like I had captured some kind of "prize" video. In fact, I was heartsick. Immediately after the mosque incident, I told the unit's commanding officer what had happened. I shared the video with him, and its impact rippled all the way up the chain of command. Marine commanders immediately pledged their cooperation.
We all knew it was a complicated story, and if not handled responsibly, could have the potential to further inflame the volatile region.
Well, that's coming true in spades, with protests across the Middle East.
The brutal way the US conducted the assault, and the continual aerial bombardment of civilian neighborhoods in the weeks leading up to the attack, suggested to many observers that the operation was intended as a form of collective punishment against the people of Fallujah, and a warning to the residents of other Iraqi cities not to let the guerrillas operate freely in their urban areas. Collective punishment is forbidden by the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 governing militarily occupied territories.
Many are calling Iraq a "Christian war against Muslims".
And the new violence in Fallujah is making Iraq look more and more like a cutthroat game of whack-a-mole. We hit them in Fallujah, they pop up in Baghdad, and Mosul, and Ramadi.
Sunday November 21, 2004
The pro-life agenda at work
Acute malnutrition in young Iraqi children has almost doubled since our invasion of their country.
After the rate of acute malnutrition among children younger than 5 steadily declined to 4 percent two years ago, it shot up to 7.7 percent this year, according to a study conducted by Iraq's Health Ministry in cooperation with Norway's Institute for Applied International Studies and the U.N. Development Program. The new figure translates to roughly 400,000 Iraqi children suffering from "wasting," a condition characterized by chronic diarrhea and dangerous deficiencies of protein.
Friday November 19, 2004
Must read story of possible voter fraud in Florida
Bev Harris confronts election officials who trashed "poll tapes" -- the records of optical scan voting machines.
Saturday November 13, 2004
A good (nay, great) rant
Blue staters, don't miss it.
Friday November 12, 2004
So this is how Bush's second term begins...
Thursday November 11, 2004
Sorry Everybody
Re: the day of reflection...
Just a quick note on the day of reflection, since Alex had asked...
Well, it was as successful as I hoped -- meaning that I didn't care about the outcome. I put a suggestion out there for people to make a choice, and that for it to work, at least everyone needed to be made aware of it. In that regard, I think it was successful. It got picked up by many student organizations, and they crafted their own rationales for dressing in black on Tuesday. It made it into the college paper, with great messages from these organizations and a truly weak response from the weak College Republicans, so it was a propaganda win, IMO.
Regarding the #s that turned out, I can't tell you -- I wasn't on campus much that day, but I saw a number of people in black. The campus houses upwards of 30,000 people, though, and the activist community here is relatively small, so it would never be the masses that one would like to see, but frankly, for me, seeing one would have been enough, because it moved them to make a simple statement of protest (or whatever their motivation) on their own behalf.
The day after, I met a woman dressed all in black who was undergoing a day of silence because of the election. That's what I'm talking about.
Wednesday November 10, 2004
Just a quick note, in cased you missed it...
...but this country is not "moving on". And we're not "healing".
At a musical event last night, an older guy (60s or 70s) saw my Kerry/Edwards pin and came up to me, and said, "I appreciate that pin. I'm a blue state man." And he pulled up his jacket sleeve and displayed what looked like one of those yellow Lance Armstrong bracelets that was painted blue.
Yeah, we should get down to work. We should get down to work tearing down to the frame the apparatus of the left that has failed the American people for 35 years. Bill Clinton was the anomaly. Election day 2004 was the reality. We have a left that has lost its ability to connect with the American people. The Right does it well, through fearmongering and lies. The left has to do it well, in a different way. But sitting around in a room watching films about how Bush is destroying the country and dismantling alliances and lying, lying, lying doesn't cut it, folks. Trying to resurrect communist theory as a viable solution doesn't cut it, either. It was astounding to me that the left could not play its economic card better. Why? Lord knows.
Saturday November 6, 2004
A day of "mourning" and "reflection"
Below is the text of an email (only slightly altered) that I sent out to the Penn State community. If you are interested, please forward this on to people in your own communities or universities.
There are only a few days to circulate this widely, so please do so as quickly as possible. If it stays a local event, that is fine with me. But if you would like your community to participate, feel free to use listserves and any other methods to disseminate the mail as quickly as you can.
I am writing this email to propose that Tuesday, November 9, 2004 be considered a day of mourning and reflection at Penn State.
There are many reasons that one might feel unhappy about the re-election of George W. Bush. But whatever personal reason you might hold, whatever it is that causes you to sigh a heavy sigh, or turn your head down, or weep inconsolably, I believe that it would be beneficial to all of us to have a simple, communal expression of our dissatisfaction.
This will not be a day of sadness. We have had our day(s) of that. Nor will this be a day of resignation.
Instead, it will be a day of recognition. A day to recognize that we lost an attempt to affirm to the world the great qualities that this country can embody. A day to recognize the work that lies ahead. And it will be a day to recognize our fellow concerned citizens (and noncitizens), and to see that we aren't alone in our unhappiness with how the election unfolded.
To this end, on November 9, 2004, all black attire or a simple black armband should be worn as an expression of our dissatisfaction with the re-election of George W. Bush.
For this day to be successful, it is imperative that everyone be aware of it. So please forward this email to friends and colleagues, and ask them to do the same. For those with friends in the undergraduate community, please be sure to let them know as well. Penn State is a large campus, and it will be difficult for this to work if only a small percentage of the student population is aware of it.
Thanks for your consideration, and I hope we will see a field of black on campus this coming Tuesday.
Chris Nelson
Integrative Arts, Penn State University
November 4, 2004
Wednesday November 3, 2004
So, the question everyone should be asking is...
"How did a President, who could never rise above 49% in any poll, get 52% of the popular vote?"
Maybe these guys have an idea.
