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A little background: The Daily WTF is a website dedicated to "curious perversions in information technology", which means it runs articles on horribly failed projects and has a... rather unusual forum.
Meet SpectateSwamp. He created a "Desktop Search for the Masses" (SpectateSwamp Desktop Search, or SSDS) which he really, really, really, really wants you to take a look at. His favourite method of demonstrating this involves "screen reshoots", which means he records a video (with his camcorder), plays the video back on his PC, then records the playback so he can focus on the things that are important. See, he doesn't believe in editing videos, so if he wants to chop irrelevant parts off of a video, the screen reshoot is the only way to go. The desktop search in question functions perfectly, so long as you put a description of every single file on your PC into a single text file. If he thinks you're being remotely positive about it, he'll call you a "Swampie" and tell you to go out and convert the masses. If you aren't being sufficiently positive, he'll order you to come over to his "SwampShack" so he can... educate you.
Among other things, he wants to demonstrate SSDS' superiority with a "Search Engine Showdown". Mostly, he wants to go fisticuffs with Old Man Google. This is not a figure of speech. He believes there is a guy called Mr. Google who runs the company. The same goes for "Old Man Kopernik" and others.
Over the course of his "screen reshoots", he discovered something he calls "faster than sight" objects, which he decided are of alien origin - because they're only visible in horribly low-quality screen reshoots. He found more alien objects than that, though! I'll just... let him speak for himself about the famous Tobacco Leaf Flyer. (Of course dude's on YouTube.)
Oh, he's also a shaman. (Picture below the cut because of rape eyes. )
And in case you thought he's kooky but harmless, he has previously run for office and would like your advice on dealing with the Secretive Hidden InterNet Censors who ratted him out on his illegal hunting activities (which he himself recorded and put on YouTube).
I've barely scratched the surface, here; there are seven years' worth of posts on the TDTWF forums to go through, plus countless other tech forums, a YouTube account, a personal website and mainstream media descriptions of his attempts to run for political office. He had a website dedicated to his antics for a while, which was never even remotely complete but is still a good introduction to Swampology. It died a while ago, but there's a preserved copy here. There's an ED article, too, but it's shitty and he edited it a few times, so it's impossible to decipher.
Meet SpectateSwamp. He created a "Desktop Search for the Masses" (SpectateSwamp Desktop Search, or SSDS) which he really, really, really, really wants you to take a look at. His favourite method of demonstrating this involves "screen reshoots", which means he records a video (with his camcorder), plays the video back on his PC, then records the playback so he can focus on the things that are important. See, he doesn't believe in editing videos, so if he wants to chop irrelevant parts off of a video, the screen reshoot is the only way to go. The desktop search in question functions perfectly, so long as you put a description of every single file on your PC into a single text file. If he thinks you're being remotely positive about it, he'll call you a "Swampie" and tell you to go out and convert the masses. If you aren't being sufficiently positive, he'll order you to come over to his "SwampShack" so he can... educate you.
Among other things, he wants to demonstrate SSDS' superiority with a "Search Engine Showdown". Mostly, he wants to go fisticuffs with Old Man Google. This is not a figure of speech. He believes there is a guy called Mr. Google who runs the company. The same goes for "Old Man Kopernik" and others.
Over the course of his "screen reshoots", he discovered something he calls "faster than sight" objects, which he decided are of alien origin - because they're only visible in horribly low-quality screen reshoots. He found more alien objects than that, though! I'll just... let him speak for himself about the famous Tobacco Leaf Flyer. (Of course dude's on YouTube.)
Oh, he's also a shaman. (Picture below the cut because of rape eyes. )
And in case you thought he's kooky but harmless, he has previously run for office and would like your advice on dealing with the Secretive Hidden InterNet Censors who ratted him out on his illegal hunting activities (which he himself recorded and put on YouTube).
I've barely scratched the surface, here; there are seven years' worth of posts on the TDTWF forums to go through, plus countless other tech forums, a YouTube account, a personal website and mainstream media descriptions of his attempts to run for political office. He had a website dedicated to his antics for a while, which was never even remotely complete but is still a good introduction to Swampology. It died a while ago, but there's a preserved copy here. There's an ED article, too, but it's shitty and he edited it a few times, so it's impossible to decipher.
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