User:RalphHansen/CrazyIdeas

These are not all related to linux and opensource software, but enough are to be worth a personal subpage
 * 2XnKCD-LIFE – An online community bringing XKCD fans together into a 2nd-life-like 2D virtual world that will have it's own geek economy, rules and ecology/functionality. Motto – bringing the command-line, and anonymous online interaction back to the web experience since 2008.
 * Stinky feet Dash-top Accessories, Inc. - to manufacture realistic rubber feet that act as car dashboard holders of a variety of common car items (packs of gum, cell phone charger cords, cigarettes, extra keys, combs, lose change, etc.). Each stinky foot is made to mash nicely and stay put when place between the passenger side car dash board and the window shield (for when your better half is not riding with you and you miss having her stick her feet up on the dash). Feet come in multiple sizes, manicured, with warts and without.
 * PPGGN (Pretty portable grid game notation) – an open standard for setting up recording and maintaining the status of games and puzzles based on grids. Brings into one family chess, checkers, sudoku, nurikabe, hanji etc, 1-person,2-person etc, multiple turn taking games, allows the automated generation of possible game states, solutions, handles grids filled with multiple piece-types, and multiple piles off the game grid.
 * C-board – a cross between a trikke and a snow/skate board. Three wheels, steerable front wheel, rider stands on the single board platform sideways (like a snow/skate board). The steering handle is shaped as a forward protruding (backward C) curve. The C-board is propelled forward by rocking back and forth  simliar to the trikke. At time the rear wheels (one at a time) leave the ground so that greater rocking can occur. Higher speeds than are possible with a trikke should be possible due to greater leaning and shifting of the rider's weight. It's harder to learn to ride (and balance) but should be a cooler ride.
 * tvmakesyoustupid.org – an organization (promoted via firefox addon among other services), social network dedicated to finding, categorizing, and improving the availability and market for educationally beneficial video and audio clips online. As an aside the group will tout non-educational, poor-suitability aspects of old one-way mass media. The add-on is simple, to bookmark a clip or clip portion, users are forced to write something to answer “What did you learn by watching this video?”. There will be the option of 'Nothing' (a catch-all category for most of what's on youtube). The organization will make no attempts to host (store or serve/stream) any video or audio content (perhaps some minimal screencaps or relevant photos). The main emphasis will be to match source video/audio links with relevant reading material online (books? paper publications?), full text searchable transcripts, use hierarchical tagging.
 * Killaroachwithastaplegun.com – a simple yet challenging online target game/website (with prizes, somewhat questionable ethics as live cockroaches may be injured). participants visiting the site see web cam viewpoint of a pendulum swinging over a room full of cockroaches. The pendulum is armed with 4-8 nail gun-like staple guns. By clicking your mouse when your gun is aimed at the desired target a real-life staple is fired. In the free multiplayer rooms aiming is more difficult and less predictable than in the pay-for-private rooms since you never know when someone else will fire, which will jolt the pendulum unpredictably and the roaches will scatter due to the noise. Roaches and staple/nails are removed nightly. A companion site : Injureverminwithanailgun.com await animal-rights/ town-zoning approval.
 * todosometime_next_week, this_month, next_month, tomorrow, soon (programming utility)
 * half-knots – Singleness in the church organization (web design, content gathering project)
 * DigitalHillary.com – discussing privacy and online rendering of 3D models of famous figures for the purpose of fabricating photos realistically