The official link is the OSU Athletic Department's Football Schedule page. It not only gives the time and broadcast information for all games remaining this season, it includes play-by-play and statistical data for games that have been played.
Bookmark that page, or refer to our Links page which also has a link to it.
Click here for instructions on checking your local listings.
The official link is the OSU Athletic Department's Football Schedule page. It has box scores and even play-by-play for all games which have been played this season.
If you want previous years, data back to 1996 is available on the Athletic Department site and linked from our Links page. Also, the USA Today boxscore archive includes box scores for a lot of games from previous years, for all I-A teams.
Bookmark these links, or refer to our Links page which contains all of them.
It means that the specific item has been discussed very recently. It eolved from a habit of replying "News flash - Japanese Bomb Pearl Harbor" in response to old news, crossed up by the Animal House speech, "Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?!?"
"Actual audible chuckle." It's a milder, and probably more true, version of "LOL" (Laughing Out Loud).
Posts which violate board policies are to be deleted, at the direction of the forum owner. When a post is deleted, all replies to it are deleted as well.
If your post was deleted, but the "parent" post (i.e., the one which your own post was a response to) is also gone, then your post was not directly deleted. It was just removed in the process of deleting a post above it in the same thread that violated board policy.
If your post was directly deleted (i.e., it is gone and the parent post is still there), and you want to know why... have a look at the public admin log. All deletions are listed there. Each lists the handle of the monitor who deleted the post, and a reason for deletion.
No, it doesn't.
The First Amendment states that Congress shall pass no law infringing on freedom of speech. In other words, the government is not allowed to interfere with speech. Nowhere does it grant any person the "right" to take someone else's resources in order to make their speech. If the local newspaper elects not to print your "letter to the editor," that is not a violation of your First Amendment rights. You aren't automatically entitled to free use of their ink and paper, just as you aren't automatically entitled to space in this forum.
The courts have generally ruled that "compelled speech" (forcing someone to say something) is as much a violation of the First Amendment as censorship. If you were able to force your local newspaper to print your letter to the editor -- necessarily involving the government, since they are the only authority who could force it -- then the government would be violating the First Amendment rights of the newspaper's owners!
Generally, people who complain about this are board abusers who are upset that their abuse was erased. It is akin to a juvenile delinquent complaining that a property owner repainted his own garage door, destroying the graffiti that the delinquent had spray-painted there. Don't expect such complaints to be met with much sympathy.
Monitors and Critics can award various icons to posts. At the time of this writing, the official guidelines are yet to be laid out. However, the following general guidelines seem likely to be adopted:
- Buckeye Leaf - for outstanding
Ohio State sports related post.
- Smiley-face in Buckeye helmet - for outstanding
humorous content.
- Big-grin smiley face - another possibility for outstanding
humorous content.
- Rolling eyes - for borderline
deletable content which is being left up. Sort of a warning.
- block-M circle-slash - for
Michigan smack, which may have been edited by monitors into
Michigan humility.
or
- Beating a dead horse
or - Complaints that
sound a little overly whiny.
or - Topics that
have come up before. Evolved from a habit of replying "News flash - Japanese
Bomb Pearl Harbor" in response to old news, crossed up by the Animal House
speech, "Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?!?"
or - For ranting
There are some others as well.
The forum software has been completely rewritten from scratch. You may notice the following improvements and changes:
You may use HTML in the body of your post. You may not use HTML in other fields (subject, "handle", e-mail address, etc.).
HTML "tags" are enclosed in greater-than and less-than signs, and most starting
tags are matched with an ending tag that is the same except for a slash right after
the less-than sign.
For example, if you enter "<I>Joe</I>
" in a message body, the result
in your post will be "Joe
" (the word "Joe" in italics).
Tags can be nested, for example "<I>One <B>Two</B> Three</I>
"
(result: "One Two Three")
will result in the middle word (Two) being both bold and italic, while the
ones on either end will just be italic. Always match up beginning and ending tags,
and be careful about the nesting. If the nesting is mismatched (similarly to the
rules for matching parentheses in mathematics, for example
"<I>One <B>Two</I> Three</B>
"), it is not valid HTML, and
the result is unpredictable.
Here are some HTML tags commonly used around the forum:
<I>Italics</I>
" - Italics
<B>Bold</B>
" - Bold
<U>Underline</U>
" - Underline
<FONT SIZE=+1>Bigger Font</FONT>
" - Bigger Font
<FONT SIZE=+2>Even Bigger Font</FONT>
" - Even Bigger Font
<FONT SIZE=+4>Colossal Font</FONT>
" - Colossal Font
<FONT COLOR=RED>Colored font</FONT>
" - Colored Font
<FONT SIZE=+2 COLOR=GREEN>Large and Colored Font</FONT>
" - Large and Colored Font
<PRE>Fixed-width preformatted text</PRE>
" - Fixed-width preformatted text
<CENTER>Centered Text</center>
" - <A HREF="http://
url">Hyperlinked Text</A>
" - Hyperlinked Text
&#
number;
" - Unicode character by number.別
" is the Japanese Kanji character used in the word "wakare" (farewell):
別.
By the way... if you see some very nifty formatting in a post, you can always click the "Followup" button to see how it was done. The HTML code that the post used will be displayed in the "body" text-editor of the followup window. (You can then use the "back" button of your browser to exit without following up.) Budding geeks can go look at the World Wide Web Consortium's web site, where the latest HTML Specification is stored. (Note that tags confined to the header section are not allowed here. All of your entered post is part of the body segment.)
Use the entity reference: &#
number;
or &#x
hexadecimalNumber;
The numbers are references to the Unicode character set. The code charts page has character sets for every language including several dead ones. The symbols and punctuation page has several symbol character sets. The Dingbats [.PDF] and Miscellaneous Symbols [.PDF] symbol pages include most of the interesting non-character symbols.
Note that the ampersand and pound-sign are important, as is the trailing semicolon. The Unicode character pages usually list hexadecimal numbers (not decimal) so you'll probably end up using the "&#x
nnn;
" form. If you want just an ampersand by itself, use "&
".
For example:
✈ = ✈ little airplane
✔ = ✔ checkmark
♘ = ♘ white knight chess-piece
☢ = ☢ "radioactive" symbol
事 = 事 Japanese/Chinese character for "write" or "report"
Use the tag: <IMG src="http://url">
Note that this requires that the picture be in a location where the O-Zone's readership can access it. This means that you can't just have the image on your local hard drive. (You wouldn't want the world at large to access your hard drive, would you? Well, they can't, and this means that images on your machine won't be visible to others.)
It also requires that wherever the image is hosted, permit served images to appear in other sites' (the O-Zone's) web pages, which some sites don't. You can test this out yourself, by clicking the [Preview Message] button, to get a mock copy of your post. On that preview page, refresh (F5 for most browsers), and say "yes" to resending the form data. This will reload the image from scratch and ensure that the hosting site will let you show it in a post.
One final thing: Beware of image urls that start with "https:" (secure HTTP) instead of just "http:". Often they indicate the image is hosted securely on a site that requires a login (for example, your web-mail provider), and the image will not be valid without the login. (Meaning the image would work for you, but not for anyone else.)
For example,
<img src="http://www.ninjasoft.com/ozone/m-baby.jpg">
Yields...
You can get fancy and give it a border:
<img src="http://www.ninjasoft.com/ozone/m-baby.jpg" border="1">
Yields...
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Yields...
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<img src="http://www.ninjasoft.com/ozone/m-baby.jpg" border="1" width="331" height=""138">
Yields...
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No. Because of abuse potential, it has been disabled.