Talk about The High Weirdness Project

The news feeds for the pages of the site do not seem to work under Firefox.

I get a "Livemark feed failed to load" submenu when I access the feed bookmark.

Also: when the little orange button at the bottom right is pressed for the feeds, two options come up, both identical to each other.

Well that's enuth biatching. Time for bed.

– IMBJR 2005-02-26 01:17 UTC

I'm thinking about adding various artworks, photos etc to numerous pages - I like I've already done, but the question is one of where to source the images from.

I've been hotlinking to subsite, but that might be considered leeching. If necessary I shall set up a photobucket account and use that.

Any other ideas?

– IMBJR 2005-02-27 12:25 UTC

We could maybe do with Radio and Television links under Entertainment??? and maybe Software too??

– PopePhilMonty 2005-02-27 17:24 UTC

- The Photobucket account sounds like a good idea. Excessive linking to pics on any site, be it ubSite or wheverever, may attract undue attention.
- I'll add sections for Radio, TV, and Software entertainment.

– Modemac 2005-02-27 18:54 UTC

Testing, testing, testing.

Well, I've already started Photobucketing.

– IMBJR 2005-03-01 23:20 UTC

Well after dicking around with images, I've removed embarressing links to non-existent pics.

– Susan Jarvis 2005-04-22 19:42 UTC

That wasn't a problem; thank you for your effort.

If you want to include a link to the High Weirdness Project on your Web site, take a look at the page that advises you to Spread the Word!

– Modemac 2005-05-06 17:58 UTC

I deed.

However, note that I'm a sinner.

I've been flirting with www.uncyclopedia.org/uncyclopedia/index.php?title=Main_Page something rotten.

Now if only you could get that engine working - but from what I've seen, it's industrial strength.

– IMBJR 2005-05-13 19:05 UTC

Modemakkk!

How about I register the THEHWP.ORG domain name and have it point to the main web page of the High Weirdness Project?

That would make it easier for people to advertise and to find.

– Damotclese 2005-05-13 19:24 UTC

I appreciate it, but I think I'd rather manage the domain name myself. I suppose I should set up a redirect of modemac.com/highweirdness or just modemac.com/weird and forward it to the main page of the wiki.

– Modemac 2005-05-13 19:31 UTC

I would be more than happy to register THEHWP.ORG in your name, to your contact information, and have it routed to any web page you name. Only costs me some $8 a year.

– Damotclese 2005-05-13 23:26 UTC

ARGH

– Anonymous 2005-05-26 09:25 UTC

i wish i wish i wish i wazt he church

– Anonymous 2005-05-26 09:25 UTC

Did you ever consider hosting this wiki on Wikicities?

Uncyclopedia is joining them soon and I just checked them out. Looks like they will host a wiki for anyone that asks.

– Susan Jarvis 2005-05-27 23:27 UTC

It's a thought, but I'd rather do this myself – I learn more that way. Besides, this Web site has been online for ten years; I'm on a roll. I mean, all of those other wikis are clones of Wikipedia: they look like Wikipedia, and they try to be "encyclopediae" just like Wikipedia. I know my site doesn't have as many fancy utilities as Wikipedia, but at the moment I think it's doing okay without them. I'll be installing additional features here as soon as I figure out how to use them.

– Modemac 2005-05-28 10:58 UTC

Update, 5/30/05: Based upon the hit counter (as seen at the bottom of every page here), we are now running at an average of close to 500 hits per day! (This ranking page at Alexa also documents our progress. )That's not much compared to the hundreds of thousands of hits a day they're getting at Wikipedia, or some of the more popular porn sites, but at least it proves that people really are reading the stuff being posted here. Over the Memorial Day weekend a whole bunch of new pages and entries were put in, as you can see at the Recent Changes page. Thanks to everyone for their support!

– Modemac 2005-05-31 09:29 UTC

Hm – is there a way to bring up a list of unused WikiWords? Like, stuff that folks have tagged out as a potential Wiki Page that hasn't been written yet? That might be neat, just to see what sort of words have been tagged that may-or-may-not need articles for folks to write. In addition to adding all the other new stuffs, I mean. Which is, I suppose, where most of the fun is anyway, but, you know, it might help out stuff.

– Rev. Syung Myung Me 2005-05-31 12:15 UTC

I haven't been able to find a system for displaying unused links that still need to be filled in, unfortunately. I'll take a closer look at the Oddmuse wiki site; though I don't think even Wikipedia has that kind of a feature.

– Modemac 2005-05-31 15:39 UTC

I saw one on another wiki (I think it uses MediaWiki, but I don't know if it's a plugin or not) – the Encyclopaedia Dramatica (not really linked as a endorsement or unendorsement), where the page for them is: www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/Special:Wantedpages

Like I said, though, I'm not sure if that's a plugin, or a quirk of MediaWiki versus other wikis or something entirely different; I'm not really sure about the whys-and-wherefores of wikis. It's been a while since I've messed around with them in depth, and the one that I was using was a really simple one, so… yeah. But yeah, not a big deal or anything!

– Rev. Syung Myung Me 2005-05-31 15:43 UTC

Might some variation on searching for underlined question marks work?

– just john 2005-05-31 17:49 UTC

Update, 6/2/05: The hit counter was started on May 4, 2005. We have just passed the 10,000 visitor mark! The hit counter is smart enough to differentiate between separate and repeated page loads and refreshes vs. unique visitors, so I can honestly say there have been 10,000 visitors to our Web site. Praise "Bob!"

– Modemac 2005-06-02 17:29 UTC

Second Update, 6/2/05: Since the hit counter was installed on May 4th, today is the first day that we've received over 1,000 visitors in a single day! I am shocked and amazed. However, in being brutally honest, I should say that the #1 referrer of visitors to The High Weirdness Project at the moment is my Scientology page, An Introduction to Scientology; I suspect that Tom Cruise's recent antics have a lot to do with that. I haven't added my sex page (The Top XXX Cliches of alt.sex.stories) to the hit counter, otherwise I suspect we'd get about 10,000 hits per day here. I'm doing what I can to spread the word and bring more visitors here to look at the great effort you've put into this place; in fact, today we were listed on AvatarSearch, a pagan search engine. It's a start. So far, my efforts to bring people here by cross-posting between alt.slack and other newsgroups has only been marginally successful; it's generated flame wars but not an exceptional number of new people. But I'm working on it.

Thank you again for your help!

– Modemac 2005-06-02 23:22 UTC

I see there's a module to support thumbnails:

www.oddmuse.org/cgi-bin/wiki/Image_Thumbnails

Though it appears to link to an external program to actually generate the thumbs, and seems to embed the thumbnail into the existing data, which may be a server space gobbling problem.

– Susan Jarvis 2005-06-03 20:15 UTC

I took a look at the thumbnail module, and it requires you to have Imagemagick Convert installed to convert your image into a thumbnail. If you're running your wiki from your own home PC that shouldn't be a problem, but it would be a lot more difficult to install on a remote Web host (which I have). Alas, it seems there are some things this wite can't do. My apologies.

– Modemac 2005-06-05 13:02 UTC

The problem with doing all this HTML stuff from scratch is that it takes so long to understand the most basic concepts! Today I finally figured out how to format an .htaccess file and do a proper redirect. This means that there is now a shorter, easier-to-remember Web address for The High Weirdness Project:

www.modemac.com/wiki

What's more, the addresses for all of the pages here can also be accessed with this shorter address. So if you type in www.modemac.com/wiki/Music (for instance), you will be directed to the Music page here on this site.

Feel free to use the shorter address in all of your Web links to this site!

– New URL for this Web site: http://www.modemac.com/wiki Modemac 2005-06-08 18:31 UTC

It took a month to reach the 10,000 visitor mark, but it only took one week to make 20,000! And again, most of the hits are from people doing searches for "Scientology." While that's well and good, it does mean (unfortunately) that not enough people are looking at all of the other neat things on this Web site. Gotta keep pushing it in new directions and to new people, I suppose.

– Modemac 2005-06-10 16:18 UTC

Amazing that there's such a buzz over that subject.

– Susan Jarvis 2005-06-10 18:58 UTC

And the latest milestone: We've gotten over 6,000 hits in one day! It's probably because Katie Holmes submitted to Tom Cruise's demands and converted. Dammit.

The amount of traffic I'm getting over this even puts to shame the traffic I received when Battlefield Earth was released – and that was a lot.

– Modemac 2005-06-13 21:11 UTC

Just goes to show, the 'net is not all sex.

– Susan Jarvis 2005-06-13 21:13 UTC

I just wish more people were looking here at the wiki, though. Everyone's put a lot of great stuff into it. It deserves to be seen!

– Modemac 2005-06-13 21:25 UTC

Thank you, Reverend Syung Myung Me, for all of these webcomic entries! It's really great to look at the Recent Changes list and see a whole ton of new stuff to read.

– Modemac 2005-06-21 00:49 UTC

No problem! I think I just kind of go in waves of ideas of stuff to add..

– Rev. Syung Myung Me 2005-06-21 01:35 UTC

Today we passed the 100,000 hit mark! The best I can do is to show you a graph of the hits we've received over the last month. Just look here:

Hit Counter

The three spikes are all thanks to Tom Cruise. The first was the day Katie Holmes converted to Scientology; the second was the day Tom proposed to Katie; and the third was when he threw an anti-psychiatry temper tantrum on the Today show.

Yeah, the hits are great, bit I still want more people to look at the rest of this site, dammit!

– Modemac 2005-07-02 03:46 UTC

No wonder you've received these hits, your'e ranked 10th on Google for scientology.

– IMBJR 2005-07-03 12:01 UTC

Out of idle curiousity, I fed your RSS here:

feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.modemac.com%2Ffeed.xml

Oops. Though Thunderbird has no problems with it. It's prolly just being over-zealous.

– IMBJR 2005-07-22 13:35 UTC

I'm not enough of an expert on Perl (in fact, I know next to nothing about it) to fix the RSS action in order to fit this "feed validator." I'll have to look at it and figure it out eventually.

– Modemac 2005-07-22 20:38 UTC

A local newspaper has actually decided that my Web site is interesting enough to mention (but why?), and they've scheduled me for an interview at my home, this coming Thursday at 7 PM Eastern time. Apparently they like the High Weirdness Project, and they want to know more about the mighty Church of the SubGenius.

when I spoke with the reporter, she asked if I could gather other local members of the Church for the interview, and I told her I'd do what I can. The problem is, there aren't many SubGenii in the Boston area, and my wifey is very shy about having guests at our home (she's even reluctant to appear in the interview). So I'd like to get around this by inviting all of you folks to join us on IRC for the interview! I'm trying to set up a streaming audio broadcast so that you can hear our conversation, live; and I'll have the #subgenius IRC chat (Taphouse) open so that you can offer a running MST3K-style commentary of everything we say. It should be interesting.

Since all of my SubGenius VHS videos were lost in a mishap about two years ago, I'm trying to gather some videos together in order to impress the reporter and make her realize that, yes, this SubGenius thing isn't just my own stupid invention. (Stang said recently that the most common mistake made during these media interviews is that the interviewee is mistaken for "Bob," as if he made this whole Church up as an ego trip.)

Since I seem to have the best luck with .MPG files, I'd like to ask anyone and everyone to please FLOOD ALT.BINARIES.MULTIMEDIA.SLACK WITH .MPG VIDEOS! If there's one thing I'd like to play for the media, it would be the SubGenius MTV commercial – the best special-effects-laden one minute explanation of the Church of the SubGenius that has EVER been made! But anything else that looks flashy is most certainly welcome.

This is a local newspaper, not something with nation-wide circulation. (They do have a Web site, though, and hopefully the final news story will be on there once it's published.)

Thank you, one and all, for your support.

– Modemac 2005-08-02 13:23 UTC

This is a test of the new password system for this Web site. I'm asking you folks to simply click on "Register" and enter in your username, and choose a password. You can use any email address you want - real, proxy redirect, or fake.

My main reasons for trying out a password system are: 1) To protect your own usernames. When your username is protected by a password, no one else can make fake or vandalizing edits under your username. And 2) To block spammers.

Registration only takes a few seconds. Needless to say, all usernames and email addresses will be kept confidential, and I will never provide the userlist to any outside sources.

– Modemac 2005-08-09 01:30 UTC

Never VOLUNTARILY provide the userlist, you should say. Remember the Cult Awareness Network and who owns it now.

– just john 2005-08-09 19:59 UTC

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– Breno Berne 2005-08-17 21:42 UTC

I've just loaded an updated version of the wiki software here. It still needs a little tweaking, but it does have one advantage: an update to the Recent Visitors page that allows you to see what people are reading! I like this option because it gives an idea of which pages are actually being read here at the High Weirdness Project. Please point out any glitches.

Awesome! So far, it looks pretty cool, and it's kinda fun to look at the way people browse, too…

– Rev. Syung Myung Me 2005-10-09 07:03 UTC

Crappy New Year! (Or, if you prefer, Frappy New Year!) As a gift to one and all, nu-monet's all-encompassing list of SubGenius Saints and Holy Days has been integrated into this site.

– Modemac 2006-01-01 00:14 UTC

Heeeeey… snazzy!

– Rev. Syung Myung Me 2006-03-02 21:48

Oops. As you can see, I've been learning how to make CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) work, and I evidently made one mistake with the color. At least it didn't crash the site entirely…

– Modemac 2006-03-03 02:57

I've just updated the wiki software again, to correct the problem that has been causing the wiki to crash every few days or so. Please let me know if any problems at all show up. Thank you once again for coming here.

– Modemac 2006-03-07 12:26

I'm curious…will this ever be made into a book again?

– SgtAbuzz 2006-08-31 07:18

Rev. Stang mentioned on a few occasions that he tried to interest a publisher in a sequel to High Weirdness, but no one was interested. (Frankly, I find that hard to believe.) So it seems unlikely there will be another published volume of the book. That's one of the major reasons why I wanted to do this Web site, to add on to the book and keep it up to date.

Also, you may want to check out another SubGenius Holy Book project that began just today:

Three-Fisted Tales Audiobook Project

– Modemac 2007-08-31 12:40