The world in mired in recession, America is mired in a pointless war in Afghanistan, the country is tearing itself apart. And what do the fools in Snobby Wine Country worry about? "Ohgodohgodohgod, bunch rot!"
(And I'll have you know that it was the top headline on the front page of the Press-Democrat today.)
DO NOT TRUST YOUR DOCTOR. Always get a second opinion, and a third if need be. Because the entire medical "industry" has been corrupt and arrogant for decades. You want a really juicy example? Consider the terrible story of the
Therac-25 machine. They
think that it
killed three people---that they know of. (A product of a
company wholly owned by the Canadian government, thank you very much.)
"Oh, that was 20 years ago, it doesn't happen anymore!"
Bullshit.
X-rays are lots of fun! "For most effective use of Rapiscan technology, subjects are likely to be required to keep their legs slightly apart and raise their arms in a near-salute – a pose that devotees of a certain form of NSFW art may well recognise as
potentially pornographic."
Blog Hell: an excellent one for all your good little Republican friends and relatives:
Politifail. Plus, infamous defense attorney Mary Prevost uses her
blog to stir up trouble.
Tell me again what a Golden Happy Land the Silicon Valley is....."
Disgraced prosecutor Ben Field left the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office three months ago — but his legacy lives on. On Friday, the county announced it will pay $750,000 to settle a lawsuit stemming from Field's questionable tactics in a criminal case."
James Ray is a hero of New Age self-help! That is, unless he
kills you in a sweat lodge.....
First, Microsoft bought out
Danger, creators of the popular Sidekick smartphone platform.
Then, Microsoft forced out most of Danger's best developers.
And put the remainder to work on something called "Project Pink".
Which turned out to be
a disaster.
(Dan Dilger will
tell you more. Read it all. It's
funny.)
And the punchline:
one day after the Project Pink atrocity became public, Microsoft announced that all the data stored for current Sidekick users had
been lost. And of course, the users
blamed T-Mobile, even though it was
ultimately the fault of Microsoft and the low-bid contractor they hired, Hitachi Data Systems. (Why don't you shitheads try wedging Steve Ballmer's ample thighs up your asses instead? At least you won't be worrying about losing your data.)
This looks like an amusing book. (Probably contains a lot of bullshit, though.)
Metafilter Is Shit: Obscure BBC-TV producer
Barry Letts recently died. And the MeFuckers practically
shit themselves with pathetic sadness. Because Letts worked on
Doctor Who in its early days.....
I'm starting to think that
Top Gear star Jeremy Clarkson is an enormous twat. For example: he cheerfully admits that he can recite any Monty Python sketch.....
from memory. In fact, he's such a huge twat, the Bristol Automobile company
refuses to loan him a car for review. And he jokes about it.
At last, someone found a valid use for Twitter: computer security researcher Mikko Hypponen posts scary computer security holes on
his Twitter page. At least, he
did.....until Twitter's idiot management
killed it.
Oh, wonderful. Now there's a
comic book about psychotic Congressfreak Michele Bachmann.
Oddly enough,
People Of Wal-Mart started out poorly. But apparently they've been getting hundreds of photos of freaks at random Wal-Marts. Now it's a downright disturbing database.
Insane Artist Corner: whenever fans of Japanese manga talk about who is the craziest, most twisted horror manga author, one name keeps coming up: Shintaro Kago. A guy who
cheerfully admits that his work is "shit". If you need proof, someone has scanned some of Kago's most notorious titles and posted them
here, along with several other incredibly disturbing mangas.
And speaking of insane Japanese shit, the director of
Tokyo Gore Police, Yoshihiro Nishimura, has a new one.
Here's the trailer. And have a nice day. :P