Top Facebook games

if you like playing game in facebook, then you may also like this chart displaying all the latest trend in facebook games. Actually I think facebook has been a great platform for developer to develop their own games and become succesful with it.

clipped from www.insidesocialgames.com

firework display in your terminal

so I got this nice script that can display firework in your konsoles, check it out and run it from your terminal using shell script. I got this script from linuxjournal


#!/bin/bash

rows=$(tput lines)
cols=$(tput cols)
colors=(red green blue purple cyan yellow brown)
lock_file=
lock_file_base=/tmp/$(basename $0 .sh)

multiple=0
if [[ "$1" ]]; then
nsingle=$1
shift
else
nsingle=10
fi
if [[ "$1" ]]; then
nmultiple=$1
shift
if [[ $nmultiple -gt 8 ]]; then nmultiple=8; fi
else
nmultiple=6
fi

function colorstr()
{
local row=$1
local col=$2
local color=$3
local v
case “$color” in
red) v=31;;
green) v=34;;
blue) v=32;;
purple) v=35;;
cyan) v=36;;
yellow) v=33;;
brown) v=33;;
white) v=37;;
*) v=;;
esac
shift 3

if [[ $multiple -ne 0 ]]; then
touch $lock_file
while [[ $(ls $lock_file_base.* 2>/dev/null | head -n 1) != $lock_file ]]
do
sleep 0.05
done
fi

tput cup $row $col
echo -n -e “\e["$v"m"
set -f
echo -n $*
set +f
if [[ $multiple -ne 0 ]]; then
rm -f $lock_file
fi
}

function center_colorstr()
{
local row=$1
local color=$2
shift 2
local s=”$*”
local slen=${#s}
colorstr $row $(((cols / 2) – (slen / 2))) $color “$s”
}

function fireworks()
{
local row=$((rows – 1))
local col=$(((RANDOM % (cols / 2)) + (cols / 4)))
local height=$((RANDOM % rows – 2))
local slant
local h
local color1=${colors[$((RANDOM % ${#colors[*]}))]}
local color2=${colors[$((RANDOM % ${#colors[*]}))]}
local color3=${colors[$((RANDOM % ${#colors[*]}))]}
while [[ $color1 == $color2 || $color1 == $color3 || $color2 == $color3 ]]
do
color2=${colors[$((RANDOM % ${#colors[*]}))]}
color3=${colors[$((RANDOM % ${#colors[*]}))]}
done

case $((RANDOM % 4)) in
0) slant=-2;;
1) slant=-1;;
2) slant=1;;
3) slant=2;;
esac

if [[ $height -gt 5 ]]; then
h=$height

while [[ $h -gt 0 ]]
do
colorstr $row $col $color1 ‘.’
let row–
if [[ $((col + slant)) -ge $((cols - 3)) || $((col + slant)) -le 2 ]]; then break; fi
let col+=slant
let h–
sleep 0.1
done

if [[ $((col + slant)) -lt $((cols - 3)) && $((col + slant)) -gt 2 ]]; then

h=$((height / 5))

while [[ $h -gt 0 ]]
do
colorstr $row $col $color2 ‘.’
let row++
if [[ $((col + slant)) -ge $((cols - 3)) || $((col + slant)) -le 2 ]]; then break; fi
let col+=slant
let h–
sleep 0.1
done
fi

colorstr $((row)) $((col – 1)) $color3 ‘***’
colorstr $((row – 1)) $((col)) $color3 ‘*’
colorstr $((row + 1)) $((col)) $color3 ‘*’
fi
}

for i in $(seq 1 $nsingle)
do
clear
fireworks
sleep 1
done

clear

pids=
for i in $(seq 1 $nmultiple)
do
let multiple++
lock_file=$lock_file_base.$i
fireworks &
pids=”$pids $!”
done

trap “kill -9 $pids 2>/dev/null” EXIT

wait $pids
sleep 3

clear
center_colorstr $((rows / 2 – 1)) red “Hope you enjoyed the show!”
center_colorstr $((rows / 2 + 1)) red “Happy 4th of July”
center_colorstr $((rows / 2 + 3)) red “Your Friends at Linux Journal”
echo

sleep 5
clear

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