Setting Sun
Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai
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There are those you can’t fool because they see right through you…
and then there are those you can’t fool because they can’t see you at all.
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Seeing
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Embedding Stock Charts on SMF Forums
So I was looking for a way to embed stock charts into posts for SMF Forums, probably via bbcode or tags. I checked Google all morning and couldn’t find it though. If it exists, please redirect me because I’m sure it’ll be much better than my makeshift solution. 
In the meantime, I modified my forums to use a tag called [schart]. When someone types [schart]SYMBOL[/schart], it shows the stock chart in its place.
The editing isn’t complicated, but you need another site to embed from. Right now, I’m using Wikinvest, but it’s a bit slow and heavy (it’s interactive and flash, fancy stuff). If anyone knows a good, fast-loading static one, it’d be nice to know. 
For the code,…[More]
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Immortality
You often see movies or books about people who can never die, but usually they also heal super fast from any wound or injury. Just a thought on my end, but what if you can never die, but you heal at a normal rate?
The scary part about this is that the normal person can relate since no fast healing is involved. The person in the character is essentially still conscious no matter what happens. What’s to say this doesn’t occur in real life? Obviously you can’t heal from everything or live forever, but what’s to say your consciousness doesn’t continue drift along out there?
It probably wouldn’t work that well as a film because you can’t show the inside of someone’s mind (supposing you take a first person perspective). From an outside observer though, that might work. Ideally, a book would work better so you can see the main character’s thoughts.
The story…[More]
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Loss of Innocence
If you lose the dreams, passion, and innocence you once had as a child,
then you never had them in the first place.
then you never had them in the first place.
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Undo
This is an idea that came to me for possibly a short video ad of some sort. Promotes safer driving I guess, but really.. change the ending and it could promote a lot of things.
Scroll through a series of scenes showing every day life. Closer shots show they are actually running backwards. Over time, we see that these are all mistakes that people make (spilling coffee, breaking tables, etc) that are fixed by going backwards in time.
Eventually we come to the scene of a car accident with a car pinning a helpless victim to a tree. The scene running backwards, however, does not solve the issue. The car pulls away and the victim slides to the ground. The car is intact - in fact, it's brand new - but the person is still dead.
Scroll through a series of scenes showing every day life. Closer shots show they are actually running backwards. Over time, we see that these are all mistakes that people make (spilling coffee, breaking tables, etc) that are fixed by going backwards in time.
Eventually we come to the scene of a car accident with a car pinning a helpless victim to a tree. The scene running backwards, however, does not solve the issue. The car pulls away and the victim slides to the ground. The car is intact - in fact, it's brand new - but the person is still dead.
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Walls Have Ears
The walls have ears. The windows have eyes. The doors have teeth.
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Defying Physics
It takes knowledge to defy the laws of superstition.
It takes the lack-thereof to defy the laws of physics.
It takes the lack-thereof to defy the laws of physics.
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