Thursday, April 13, 2006

You leave your car, I'll leave my heart, To strive with techno culture

This traffic simulation is pretty neat, but I couldn't find the buttons for "stained mattress in the left lane", "stripped Civic on the shoulder", or "zombie crossing".
 
[Thx: GeekPress]

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I always found the standing wave effect of traffic to be interesting if not maddening -- especially the part where people are braking at phantoms of a car that braked a few hundred feet ahead minutes ago, when there is no actual obstruction other than cars maintaining the blockage.

The features I wanted to see on the applet were the "get off my damn bumper" and "let a fella merge" behaviors, both of which supposedly erode the standing wave quickly.

Anonymous said...

I wonder if your comment about "zombie crossing" had anything to do with the fact that I had a dream last night involving zombies. Most people had enough guns to stave them off, but eventually, just about everybody was overtaken. It was at that point that I decided to try to have sex with Madonna, but then realized that she was free of the otherwise continuous scourge of zombies. The reason? When I finally made my way over to her, I had unknowingly crossed the 49th Parallel into Canada. And, as we all know, Canada is too cold for zombies and makes them die. So, no sex with Madonna. Instead, someone detonated nuclear weapons and triggered a nuclear winter to cause all of the zombies everywhere else to die. We realized that future generations would wonder how the destruction of mankind and subsequent ice age came about, not knowing it was because of zombies. And Madonna.

The really sad part? I'm not making any of this up. And no, I don't have a thing for Madonna. Quite the opposite, really. Maybe it was the zombie-goggles.

Anonymous said...

Come to think of it, that should really put a twist in your Google search term referrals. Sorry if I end up knocking "donkey" down a few pegs.

The "enter this word to prove you exist" word is "shdap". Is it telling me to stop posting?

ringloss said...

No, "shdap" is the sound you would make whilst humping Madonna's zombified husk.

shdap shdap shdap shdap shdap