There’s as usual a lot going on at fools.

Ok, first news, we’ll take up Seitokai Yakuindomo 4koma manga, with all its sex references. But this is just news, wait for facts. The decision should be final though, and the release come quite soon, as in 24-48 hours.

Second: I wasted 1 hour from the release to draw the yukkuri. So make sure you praise me.

Third, and surely more massive, it took a load of work by guorbatschow. We’re (guorbatschow is) working on Curves, a new bot framework written in Java, which means Tanline, our gangsta-moe black haired twintailed bot is now also going to give you the downloads, beside being almost living on artificial intelligence. If things go well, Curves will become an Open Source project that you will be able to use yourself.

Fourth, we have Sora no Otoshimono 40!

Please, if you can waste 40 seconds more of your life, go on IRC to try downloading from the new bot. Use the command “!get sora 40″ or “!download sora no otoshimono 40″ or any command in this page. And please, report in this thread if things didn’t go well.

Sora no Otoshimono 40:
DDL&IRC | Read it

If the new bot doesn’t work, just use “/msg fool xdcc send 290″ to use the old bot.

Proof!

Credit to: valkr1e from the IRC channel

I decided that it’s worthy some working, and here it is, a fully CSS3 Durarara “The Dollars” twitter client working via browser.

AWESOME CLIENT.

It’s as similar as I could make it in a short timespan to the original one. It was a real pain to build it in truth, but the result is definitely amazing.

You can go using it directly here.

Honestly, we’ve gone in search for something that really satisfied our need for perfection. And, in so many manga readers, we never have found what we’re seeking for. Saving bandwidth, compressing images to hell, never using PNGs, constant reloading of pages, no preloading at all.

And this is how, we’ve evolved. No manga reader has ever been this fast, this handy, this MAGICAL.

I am now presenting, the FoOlRulez Manga Reader v2. The most beautiful manga reader ever created.

Not one image preloaded. Not two. TEN images preloaded, at once. The whole power of our server, all the 35mbit are in your hands. You can scroll through the pages at incredible speed, while the loading is shown through nifty green blocks, and your current page through a blue block. Amazing.

But, if that was all, it wouldn’t be all that pretty.

We added a spectacular effect, whenever you change page. It will scroll up, to the top of the page of your manga, showing you that the page has effectively changed.

What are you waiting for, go try our new FoOlRulez Manga Reader, right now!

The plan started when our team mate guorbatschow asked me to make an interface for iPhone/cellphones for 4chan, while he’d do the engine.

But, since I was at it, I decided to make first a desktop version, then a iPhone version out of it. That was “ajax4chan” the first version of a real time 4chan browser. After one month, the JavaScript powered page was ready, with a little flaw: it couldn’t post on 4chan. It was using foolrulez.org server to retrieve data from 4chan, so we were, basically, a proxy. Not satisfied, I decided to continue the project straight to the second version, without ever releasing the first version officially. This is when I thought that, since I am learning Java, I might as well put that language in the project.

This is how “java4chan” was born, almost identical for interface to “ajax4chan” but completely rewritten to the core, that now gets downloaded to your browser, instead of staying on foolrulez.org. Took another month to build it, as it has to emulate a browser connecting to 4chan to be able to post. In the end,  against all chances, I got it to work.

So I named it FoOlChan TestUnit01.00.

Features:

1. Never change page. It doesn’t ever need reloading.
2. Save threads you’re interested in, and you will get noticed when there are new posts in them. Once a thread goes 404, you won’t lose the already saved posts.
3. Images open in the same panel, after being cached. You can browse 4chan while you wait for images to be loaded. They’ll show up once they’re ready.
4. Image basket in which you can save images to view later. Meanwhile, they will get loaded.
5. Save images directly on Hard Disk in one click after selecting the folder
6. New posts in a thread are highlighted in green.
7. Twitter system to upload images and post them into your twitter account.
8. Complete reply/new thread system, without reloading the page.
9. Open quotes by clicking on the red links, instead of scrolling to the post like on imageboards.
10. Retrieves quotes from remote threads.
11. Much faster than any JavaScript system, as it processes data in a JavaVirtualMachine.

And a lot more that would make this list too long.

Said this, FoOlChan is now in the usual place where it always has been: just click on the navigation button, and go to FoOlChan.

It won’t work on Internet Explorer, and Opera will take around 30 seconds to load the JavaVirtualMachine.

For the iPhone/cellphones version, can get there by writing the short url http://foolz.us/m on your cellphone. If your cellphone is good enough, it will work. As for now, it doesn’t work on some S60 like the N95, but I’ll try finding the reason.

Anime Recommendation Engine
(it’s in the sidebar on the right)

Script & Algorithm: guorbatschow
Widget & (soon)Interface: woxxy

As long as guor doesn’t agree with me that it needs a weird name worth a mecha, this is the real name of this algorithm.

This system we are building in FoOlRulez is quite exceptional, because it has much more of a feature than the usual anime recommendation engine. Usually the scripts just go and tell that the people who watched this watched also that. Does this mean they liked it? No, it means nothing, out of plain lack of info. It’s not that simple, because people might have watched a mainstream anime, and just because it’s mainstream. Doesn’t mean it’s good. And basically no script tells what should YOU watch, but tells what should you watch if you watched that anime and liked it.

Here’s the deal. Just insert your nickname on MyAnimeList. Of course you need your anime list on there.

By gathering extra data than usual, aNi-N-gin (*cough*) is able to make a net of references in order to straighten the search, gets the ratings,

some say it asks if you’re a lolicon…

and outputs for you a list of ten animes you didn’t yet watch but that should reflect your preferences, by associating you with a list of people who rate the animes in a similar way as you do. This… I don’t even…  I don’t exactly know which is the algorithm and I am not interested in checking that, really.

You can use the system in beta version straight away! You see the widget right here, at the right? Anime Recommendation aNi-N-Gin. Just try it out: the more people try the more precise it will become.

Remember: it works better if you rate your anime, the more info it can gather the better.