VIDEO: Awww they’re made for each other

Posted on November 29th, 2006
by MastaG

Well, what can I say…. I was disturbed when I saw this. But you gotta think to yourself, is any person or animal harmed by these sicko’s activities? I’m not defending them or anything, I’m just curious if an animal clearly consents to being touched sexually, at what point do zoophiles breach animal cruelty? Still….. eeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwww

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COMIC: A White Supremacist’s Dilemma

Posted on November 27th, 2006
by MastaG

A White Supremacist's Dilemma

Text for the visually impaired:
There is a picture of a skinhead with two thought bubbles. The first bubble says “Can I eat rice? It’s white… but Asians eat it too, crap!” The second bubble says “I guess this means white-chocolate is out too”


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VIDEO: Aries Spears freestyle rap impressions

Posted on November 25th, 2006
by MastaG

This guy’s pretty amazing… his Snoop is dead on

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VIDEO: Roleplaying… everybody needs to spice it up once in a while

Posted on November 23rd, 2006
by MastaG

HAHHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!! This video is NSFW (not safe for work), and NSFATRR (not safe for all those retarded republicans)

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VIDEO: Kramer goes too far with heckler

Posted on November 22nd, 2006
by MastaG

Wow…. during a standup routine, Michael Richards (aka: Kramer from Seinfeld) was being heckled by a crowd member, and rather than deal with it like a professional, he decides to……. well… just watch. He’s lucky the the crowd didn’t pound him into the ground. No doubt, you will definetely see some light hearted race humor on NG from time to time… but we’ll never go this far!!

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COMIC: Masta G is on CP time

Posted on November 20th, 2006
by MastaG

So my sexy fiance, the I. Hustler, is far too familiar with my time-handicap and decided to slip this comic into my lunch to heir her grievance :) This is how the comics began!

Masta G original cartoon

Don’t get it? Ok… let me break it down for you…
C.P. time = colored people time, and therefore I like “choco-late” because I’m always late
The I. Hustler likes “choco-on-time” because she’s always on time… ok get it now? IT’S FUNNY, NOW LAUGH!!!!

Text for the visually impaired:
There is a picture of Masta G drawn in Sharpie, and the caption says “Masta G… you like chocolate because you’re on CP time. I like choco-ontime because I gots ta be on time to stuff”


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Social Bookmarking Help

Posted on November 13th, 2006
by MastaG

So how many times have you been reading a web page and seen a link that says “Digg It”, or “Add to del.icio.us”? These websites are referred as “social bookmarkers”. They allow users to share interesting websites / articles. By adding the link your social bookmark, you can keep track of websites you like, your friends can see what interesting info you’re reading, and it helps spread our little website around the gigantic Internet. It’s a great place to find new information, and acts as a form of free advertising for non-commercial independent sites like Nature’s Graffiti.

We have 4 of our favorite social bookmarkers displayed in every post (but you can always add our posts to ANY social bookmarker). If you are reading one of our posts, and you click one of these it will create a social bookmark back to the post you are reading. Here’s the social bookmarkers we display on our site:

icon for delicious social bookmarker del.icio.us - my favorite, because of its button integration with FireFox

icon for digg social bookmarker Digg - easily the most popular one on the web

icon for fark social bookmarker Fark

icon for yahoo social bookmarker Yahoo! - yep, everyone’s in on the action these days

That’s the basics! Want to know more? How about the history of social bookmarking? Checkout the Wikipedia article for social bookmarking


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Subscription Help

Posted on November 13th, 2006
by MastaG

XML Syndication Help Page

THE BASICS

So wtf is all this XML Syndication / RSS / ATOM / news aggregators / news feed readers / feedburner crap? Well, RSS (or, really simple syndication) is essentially a way to deliver news and other info directly to you, without having to connect to a website. For instance, every time we post something, it can automatically arrive in your e-mail inbox! Or, you receive our posts in a “news reader” (aka news aggregator). News readers connect to our RSS feed to see if anything new has been posted (the news readers usually check every hour, but you can increase that time on some clients), and if there is a new post it will automatically download it to your news reader (or send it to an email address). Some popular news readers include My Yahoo (integrates with the new Yahoo E-Mail BETA), FireFox Live Bookmarks (built into FireFox), Bloglines (web based news reader), and Feed Reader (standalone news reader). My Yahoo and Bloglines are handy because they store your RSS feeds online, so you can access them anywhere.

There are several competing versions of XML syndication, but we won’t bore you with the details. Nature’s Graffiti uses the RSS 2.0 standard.

E-MAIL SUBSCRIPTION

We use a service called Feed Burner to deliver our RSS feed to e-mail addresses (in fact, you can have any RSS feed delivered to your email inbox using Feed Burner, and it’s free). If you’d like to receive an email every time we post something , simply enter it into the form on the right. We respect your privacy, take a look at our privacy policy, FeedBurner also respects your privacy (view Feed Burner’s privacy policy)

RSS SUBSCRIPTION - USING RSS CAPABLE WEB BROWSERS

Every page at Nature’s Graffiti has an “auto discovery” link to our RSS feed, which means if you are viewing our web page with an RSS capable browser (like Firefox or IE7), then you can subscribe to our RSS feed very easily. If you use Firefox, in the upper right corner look for an orange icon that looks like firefox live bookmarks icon, click it, and you can add it to any of your bookmark folders!

RSS SUBSCRIPTION - USING RSS READERS

Simply add a new feed in your favorite news reader using our RSS feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/naturesgraffiti

On the right side of our homepage, if you scroll we have links to add our feed to 10 popular web-based news readers. Click any of them to add it to your feed list. Never heard of any of them? Try one out! Our favorite is Bloglines, we use it to read the news everyday!

FURTHER HELP WITH XML SYNDICATION

If you have more questions about XML syndication, Yahoo has a great RSS help page, NPR has a great XML tutorial / help site, and if you want to add RSS to your website Wikipedia’s RSS article is a good place to start.


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About Us (who we are, accessibility promise, privacy policy, legal stuff)

Posted on November 12th, 2006
by MastaG

e-mail: WebMastaG at our domain


So…. you wanna know about THE FREAKYMOFANDELJAMAMAMAS?!?!?!?!?!

The comics all began when The Intergalactic Hustler slipped this sharpie-drawn comic into MastaG’s lunch!!!

I, the WebMastaG, decided to code NaturesGraffiti.com to post The Intergalactic Hustler’s silly lunch comics, and soon afterwards we both began creating comics! The first post we made on the site was about our engagement weekend. We are now happily married!!!

masta g picture intergalactic hustler picture


handicapped icon left We Practice Accessibility! handicapped icon right

Text for the visually impaired
Each comic is accompanied by a written text version of the comic, the text of which is prefaced by the words “Text for the visually impaired” for quick CTRL + F reference. If we ever decide to make animated cartoons, they will be accompanied by a descriptive transcript for visitors with vision impairments, and we’ll offer subtitles for visitors with hearing impairments.

Screen reader friendly
MastaG has done his best to comply with some basic rules for folks using screen readers. For instance, the TAB order of the links ascends left to right down the page as it does visually, all graphics have an ALT tag, all links have a TITLE tag, and the site has been tested with JAWS v7.1. If you’d like to request any other tweaks that Masta G can provide for any of our visitors, please email him at WebMastaG @ our domain.


Privacy Policy:

We will never give your “personally identifiable information” to any third party, unless it is required by law (for instance, if we get a subpoena to reveal the “personally identifiable information” of someone who may have posted something illegal in the comments section of NaturesGraffiti.com). “Personally identifiable information” includes e-mail addresses, IP addresses, MAC addresses, cookie information, or any other information that links back to you. We use a service called Feedburner to deliver our postings to you in e-mail format. Click here to view Feedburner’s privacy policy. We collect stats, and may give them to third parties, but the stats will not contain any “personally identifiable information”.


Legal:

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The content on NaturesGraffiti.com is Copyright © Nature’s Graffiti, unless otherwise noted. Anyone is allowed to display our content on their website for non-commercial purposes (you are not allowed to display our content if consumers must pay to see it), as long as you give us credit and create a clear link back to NaturesGraffiti.com. In fact, we encourage people to display our content on their site, it helps spread the word about Nature’s Graffiti!

Any original copyrighted © material (or copyrighted © material which has been modified) which did not originate on naturesgraffiti.com, but is displayed on naturesgraffiti.com for fair-use parody purposes, is property of its original owner. If you believe your copyright has been violated, email WebMastaG @ our domain.

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Thanks to Mike Zellers for the beautiful creative-commons-licensed dandellion shots used in our header (the header is Creative Commons licensed). HUGE thanks to the Wordpress team for their superior open-source blog tool! The modified Wordpress theme we are using is called Time to Rest. We used The Gimp for most graphics, an excellent graphics program and it’s OPEN SOURCE!


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BLOG: Today I proposed to the Intergalactic Hustler!

Posted on November 11th, 2006
by MastaG

For our 1 year anniversary I took the I. Hustla to a bed & breakfast called the Applewood Inn, nestled in the rolling hills of southern Virginia. This was no ordinary bed & breakfast… it was on a llama farm! We awoke to a delicious breakfast of cranberry/walnut pancakes, then began our day with a hike around the mountain… and we took the llamas with us! Here’s one of the llamas, known as Jack Frost… he was kind of skiddish, but overall well-behaved:

jack frost - a llama

We hiked around the mountain with the llamas for about 2 hours, and by the end of the hike we were pretty darn pooped! After the hike, I suggested we take a walk to the top of the mountain (so I could propose)… she opposed, but I insisted that it was a beautiful day and we have to hike to the top of the mountain for the jaw-dropping view. She was certainly glad I dragged her up there… because at the top of the mountain I got down on one knee, professed my deep love for her, and asked for her hand in marriage!!! She immediately said yes! w00t!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! At the top of the mountain, we had a beautiful 360 degree view of the mountains surrounding us… the Blueridge Mountains (to the east), and the House Mountains (to the north-west). Here’s a picture I took from the engagement spot… you can really see why they call it the Blueridge Mountains.

engagement site

After I proposed we called our parents, and of course both of our families were ecstatic! I love her parents, and she loves mine… we are lucky to have such a good relationship with eachother’s parents. After talking with our families, we hopped in the Prius and drove to the Virginia Safari Park! It was AWESOME!!! They give you a bucket of feed, and you roll down your window and feed dozens of species of animals including; llamas, zebras, wildebeest, deer, elk, watusi, pigs, camels, ostrich, and other pray animals. Literally as soon as we entered the safari park, a zebra snatched the bucket of food right out of the I. Hustler’s hands!!!!!!!! Seriously, watch this video…

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I can’t believe they actually let people drive through this place! LOL!!!!! While the danger factor is eerily evident, we both had an awesome time! The only damage the animals caused was slobering all over my car… definetely worth it!

We saw this goat making out with the fence….. or something…. we dunno….. but he kept doing it over and over again!

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In the “petting area” (separate from the drive-through area) we saw these baby pigs, they were no bigger than guinea pigs… hehe!
baby pigs

Awwwwwwwwwww….. checkout this baby llama…. SO CUTE!! This llama was scared of us at first, but as soon as he saw food he made a B-line for us!
baby llama

After the safari, we had dinner with my grandmaw and my aunt, who both live in Lexington (which is about 15 minutes from the bed & breakfast). After dinner at my grandmaw’s retirement home, we encountered this beastly cat on our way out, he could barely walk but he was insanely friendly! I love kitties, even kitties whose bellies drag on the ground!!
fat cat at kendal

Needless to say, it was a terrific weekend! Getting engaged was certainly the highlight, and we are both looking forward to spending the rest of our lives together :) But seriously, when I think about this weekend, all I can think about is when that FREAKING ZEBRA STOLE OUR BUCKET OF FOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHHA!!!!!!!!!!!!


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