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Censorio
Application that runs in background and blocks out Harry Potter related content. | |
This small, low memory footprint application would do two things for the next week: it would prevent users from tying in "harry potter" or "deathly hollows" and "spoilers; and it would automatically block any Harry Potter related information coming in through any program, be it email, RSS reader, or
web browser.
The OSX version would, of course, have extra Quartz effects; like a swirl of misty smoke above any Harry Potter content.
The program would update after July 21 with a question designed to test whether someone has read the book. Answered correctly, the application would uninstall itself, it's job complete.
(?) JK Rowling - good author or not?
http://blogs.guardi...g_con_is_the_p.html
Very long discussion about whether or not JK Rowling's writing style is any good (for kids) and whether or not it matters [imaginality, Jul 18 2007]
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So, I'm curious. How does it end? |
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I'd like to see the antithesis of this, a virus that just pops up a window occasionally with spoilers to new films, taken from an RSS feed. |
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In fact, I'd quite happily install a screensaver that ruined films for anyone strolling past my PC. |
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[Edit] Hang on a minute, I can already do this, at least on a Mac, there are screensavers that read an RSS feed, all I need to do is create aforementioned RSS. |
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Ok, fine, all you annotators are above the whole Harry Potter thing. Good for you. |
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So far as the idea, I think its a quite good one. Perhaps it could be integrated as a filter subscription in Adblock. |
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And this would be useful on a general basis. Personally I would love to filter out anything about Paris Hilton. |
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This gets a Magickal Bendy Bun from me. Croissantadicus! |
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Good to see that many of you are alreadying employing the thought-app, Censorio Psuedointelligencia; using one's self-perceived status as a "good reader" to censor pop-lit. This app has a long history, including during the 14th century with the Canterbury Tale, the 19th century with the rampant proliferation of Charles Dickens "drivel," or in the 1980s, of Stephen King. |
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Now, if we can only apply that same technology to HPSpoilers, we're set! Thanks guys! |
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I'm not particularly worried about the "quality" of Harry Potter or with reading spoilers since I don't read the books. What I would like is an application that delivers an electric shock to people who retreat to a corner of a room at, say, a dinner in order to whisper about Harry Potter or who hold up recreational wiffle ball games for fifteen minutes by standing in the middle of the field between innings to talk about what interesting twist one of them just read. No, I'm not bitter. |
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// And this would be useful on a general basis. Personally I would love to filter out anything about Paris Hilton. // |
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If I could get this built into my eyeglasses, I'd pay the extra for it. I'd be protected while at the supermarket, watching television, everywhere! Genius!! |
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This idea I like. I'd rather see a kid reading Harry Potter than banging away on a Gameboy. Regardless of whether or not it's the best literature ever written is immaterial, kids read them and then want to read others. There is no downside to that. |
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Pretty sure that the Gameboy manufacturers would beg to differ. |
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