Shit Planet!! SHIT PLANET!!!

The All-American Boy!

2012-01-25T21:56:00.001-08:00

We did goths in trees.
Now for Goths In Hot Weather.

Why not develop applications for the iPhone/iPad platform? Welll......

I should tell you about Seacrypt. They do, however, seem remarkably Bauhaus-like, and I'm not sure if this is intentional or not.

Insane Artist Corner: just another Deviant Art nerd who delivers extreme-pukey-cutesy: Matt Sella, take a bow.

Just a small reminder: all that crap in the news about the Republican presidential race is distraction. People should really know about, and be active in, the politics of their country and city. But instead, the media feeds us this idiotic vaudeville routine. The NDAA was slipped thru while average folks were occupied with trivial shit like the holidays, football playoffs, and Mitt Romney's glazed expression/Newt Gingrich's assholery/you name it. And if the shitheads of Wikipedia hadn't protested SOPA (using voter fraud to gain the approval of their absurd "community"), it probably would have gone thru with no problems.

Obviously, vaudeville still works. Give yourselves a round of applause. Easy marks, yeah! Suckers!

Maek PHaaaaAT BEATZ n shit, yo.

2012-01-22T16:38:00.000-08:00

MITTENS!

2012-01-17T19:13:00.000-08:00

Let me give you a little bit of history.

Mitt's father was George W. Romney.

George was the second, and most dominant, CEO of the
Number 3 automaker in America, American Motors.
He ran the place from its inception in 1954 until leaving
in 1962 to run for governor of Michigan. He turned it into
a massive success (his successors are the ones who gave us
the Gremlin, the Pacer and the Eagle, often listed among
the worst cars ever made--and ran the company into the
ground in the 1980s.)

By all accounts he was a good governor, and oddly enough, he
was in favor of civil rights--a position that bought him much
abuse from the Mormon church. This despite his high placement
within the LDS leadership.

"In January 1964, Quorum of the Twelve Apostles member
Delbert L. Stapley wrote him that a proposed civil rights bill
was "vicious legislation" and telling him that "the Lord had
placed the curse upon the Negro" and it was not for men to
remove it....Romney refused to change his position and
increased his efforts towards civil rights."

While LBJ was sending federal troops to Detroit during the 1965 riots,
Romney was trying to calm things down. Romney was regarded as a
political "doer" and a good governor. He even renounced his support
for the Vietnam war by 1967, claiming he'd been "brainwashed". That
was later used against him when he ran for the GOP Presidential
nomination against Nixon.

That was a different time, but I'd still like to know:
why can't the fucking Republicans have a courageous moderate
like George Romney in the Republican Presidential race?
Why, instead, do they get his idiot son? And Santorum as the
major opponent?

(The first one who says "RONPAUL" will have his nuts removed.
And PS, I still think George Romney was a crank--
he ended up working for his arch-enemy, Nixon.
So, not all that well-principled after all.
Typically Republican of him.)

;P;P;P;P;P;P

2012-01-15T00:41:00.000-08:00

EH? WAZZAT?

Ever heard of the Buzyinski Clinic? I think there's something wrong with their cancer therapy. Just a hunch.

Metafilter Is Shit: why did the idiot delete this? Did someone shit in his Magical Hipster Cornflakes?

Just another high-quality Nicodou video. That's all it is.

Now you should feel special.

2012, no end of the world in sight

2012-01-03T17:06:00.000-08:00

Blog Hell: Goths up trees. Because.

At last, finally, people are beginning to figure out that Best Buy is a bad retailer. It only took them about 20 years.

Dunno about other countries, but animal shelters in the US are usually badly run and corrupt. Good example is the one in Healdsburg. Being in Sonoma County wine country, and having lots of $$$, is no guarantee of quality.

Metafilter Is Shit: read the comments below this. Comic book characters are very, very important, dammit.

Americans are whiny little bitches, and would rather give money to a massage therapist or a chiropractor than to an actual doctor. Especially when they've been injured in a car accident.

I would tell you about Carrie Becker's art installations, but she's gotten too damn much publicity lately.

The food sucks, the food sucks!

Denis Leary is still a cool guy....

The city of Ukiah, in its infinite wisdom, has finally realized that the owner of the "historic" Palace Hotel has no money and no intention of renovating it. So......

Insane Artist Corner: Slugbox. Because of the pony pinups. (You have to use a DeviantArt account to see them. Sorry. PS, you can buy prints of them. No matter what it is, cartoonists just have to put big tits on it.)

BTW: The bronies are restless!

It's so.......soothing.......

2011-12-29T21:30:00.001-08:00

Since I was a child......

2011-12-22T22:08:00.000-08:00

....cereal-box mascots have become crazed monsters.

For example, this is what the Lucky Charms
leprechaun looked like in the 1970s:

And today.....screaming crackhead.
(I don't think it's from the sugar in the cereal.)

Cap'n Crunch when he first appeared in the mid-1960s.
In spite of the sword, he didn't seem at all threatening:

Today, he's a dangerous screaming lunatic with dilated eyes.
And a shank.

The Froot Loops mascot, Toucan Sam,

was charming and colorful in the 1960s.

Today, he's also screaming. With joy or fear, we can't tell.

Follow your nose, my ass.

Same thing with the Trix rabbit.
And I'm not the only one to notice this.

The worst are the Rice Krispies elves, Snap, Crackle and Pop.
In the 1950s they were charming little scamps who
would cheerfully peel and slice a banana for you.

Today, they're HORRIBLE.

Ponies?

2011-12-18T19:08:00.001-08:00

Ponies. Blaaaghhhh.

If you're into air-pollution pornography, have I got some photos for you.

I bet you didn't know there is a Jimbo Wales a ction figure.

Good reasons to get out of the software-development world? How about this?

Metafilter Is Shit: most of their posts draw very few comments.
But post something about Battlestar fucking Galactica,
and you get a tsunami of blubber.

American politics aren't really all that corrupt, eh? Oh yeah?

Does the name Mohammed el Gorani ring any bells?

What I love about Albuquerque......the famously brutal cops are so stupid, they get caught beating the shit out of someone--on video. (If you love violence, here's the slo-mo. Don't worry, someone else will hire the poor little policemen.)

Insane Artist Corner: because he's too clever, Olaf Cuadras Ferr é. Cute cute cute.

Fuck you, Santa.

You didn't go to Rat Cave.

2011-12-12T16:28:00.000-08:00

Why didn't you go to Rat Cave?

He's got more issues than I do.

He sucks less than I do.

He's got more current material than I do.

So go to Rat Cave.

You're not going go to Rat Cave?

So go go to Rat Cave.

Begone to Rat Cave.

Piss off to Rat Cave.

Eat shit in Rat Cave.

Rape your mother in Rat Cave.

("communist chocolate hellhole" would make a great name for a blog.)

Time for more Cold Winter Bloggy-Poo!

2011-12-11T00:03:00.000-08:00

Wondering where your tax dollars go? Some of them go....
to idiots like Bill Hunter.

Ever seen a 700-caliber rifle? Here you are!
(And btw, it is not the biggest rifle bullet ever made.
And no, you can't buy any of this insane crap.)

Just another stupid, pointless webcomic:
Scenes From A Multiverse.
(I kid, I kid. It's actually unbearably brilliant and pointless.)

You'll be pleased to know that the number of
journalists in prison is at an all-time high.
Favorite places to get tossed into jail for reporting:
Iran is still #1, followed by Eritrea and China.

Stupid writer leaves her laptop in a NYC taxicab,
bitches about Facebook's invisible email section.
And ends up being invited to coffee by one of the
founders of Jordache. Despite being an asshole.

Don't let anyone kid you that Sid Sheinberg is a movie
genius. He screws up routinely. Hollywood is like
Washington: it rewards aggressive incompetence.

You can tell the video-gaming industry has reached
"maturity", when you see crap websites like Halolz.

Thank you, Marc Randazza. Mebbe you should
stay away from Phuket for, I dunno, eternity. Hah.

Jeffrey Peters is a fag.

2011-12-05T20:55:00.001-08:00

Me so sleepy. Poopoo time.

Betcha David Koch won't be sponsoring any more ballets.....

Jimbo Wales is a secret Jew, betcha din't know dat.

Lou Reed plus Metallica equals barf.

They make the Ninja Turtles do some awfully strange things.....in Russia.

Anton LaVey action figure, anyone?

Be sure to enjoy your surgical fire.

You'll be shocked to hear that the National Review, that dedicated paragon of "pure" conservative politics, is more interested in taking money from the drug lobby than in actual conservatism. Shocking.

Never, ever take clonazepam on an empty stomach. That's an order.
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Mom-meee, kin I have a vagina cupcake?

2011-11-30T12:25:00.000-08:00

Havenworks, long one of the ugliest websites
in the world, is gone.
But at least Yvette's is still there!

The Finnish government granted an official design patent.....for this.

Boo hoo, poor people of Santa Monica, they have to listen to airplane noise. Boo hoo hoo. (Ask the poor old lady how much her property is worth. According to homes.com, an average house in her Mar Vista neighborhood is worth $1.1 million.)

Insane Artist Corner: Dany Peschl, yep.

You know the music industry is fucked, when Elvis Costello tells his fans not to buy his new album.

Today's youth is just beginning to learn why Time magazine is shit. Coulda told them that.

"He told them, ‘Your daughter stole and she's banned from the store, and we're pressing charges. And she needs to sign this form saying she understands she can't come into any Safeways,'" Jones said, according to ABC News Seattle affiliate KOMO 4 News.
Savannah, who can't read or write yet, was forced to scribble on the piece of paper."

Gallery Of The Absurd still rules.
You and me, not so much.

Droolmaster still sucks. Just a reminder.

Happy Halloween!

2011-11-23T20:13:00.001-08:00

Have a nice Memorial Day!

You have probably seen Randall Munroe's notorious "money chart" by now. I found a number of typos and errors, btw.
(Yes, J.K. Rowling is, in fact, worth $1 billion.)

Planning to buy something from Lululemon?
Free advice: don't. Yoga is not equal to money.

Did you know it is no longer possible for ordinary people to buy iodine crystals? For example.

Metafilter Is Shit: famed fem-lib fantasy author Anne McCaffrey died.
And this was the predictable result.

What did Putin do for Russia?
He convinced its best people---to leave.
(Here we go again.)

The UK Charity Commission recently gave Wikimedia UK the right to call itself a "nonprofit charity".
And so, certain friends are trying to get the decision reversed.
Best part: I found that the Charity Commission's head,
Suzi Leather, is being defamed.....on Wikipedia.

Have a nice fucking Penis Removal Day!

Supercommittee. Not.

2011-11-19T01:29:00.001-08:00

Been following this crap about the Congressional "supercommittee" that is supposed to "balance the federal budget" and other such fantasies? And that the Magical Golden State is having an even worse budget crisis? The feds can argue till hell freezes over, eventually they will make a compromise. If the "budget trigger" here is pulled, California will suddenly have no Medi-Cal, no libraries, no universities, etc etc. In short, it will turn into a third-world country, more-or-less instantly. A very bizarrely wealthy third-world country.

And you kids will be fat, too. Poor, yet fat.

Not sure I want to buy costly CNC machinery from a company called Fooke. Sorry.

Crotchless panties. For teenage girls. Yep.
Next step: torture bondage gear for toddlers?

MyOutcall Australia is a really friendly company. Customer service is their priority. They'll even rent you a teenaged Chinese student, so you can take her virginity. (And as usual, only Murdoch makes a stink about it. Because it's business.)

Blog Hell: I've already told you that Get Off My Internets is one of the greatest, most entertaining things on Tumblr. Not only is it great, it's also one of Tumblr's most popular, and thus powerful, blogs. Because when she pointed out some Tumblr blogs being run by pedophiles, said blogs disappeared almost instantly. (She still bitches about Jessica Quirk obsessively, though.)

Didja know the Boeing 777's maintenance subsystem runs Microsoft Windows 98?
And it has Internet Exploder?

God bless the United States Navy! They will protect us!

"Asked how he gets into systems, pr0f said: "As for how I did it, it's usually a combination of poor configuration of services, bad password choice, and no restrictions on who can access the interfaces.""

If I've told you once.....don't leave your damn vacuum cleaner inside the reactor. Okay?

Insane Artist Corner: the guy who created this is a fucking super-genius. I want to hire him.
(Yeah, Rubberfruit is more famous. Fuck if I care. TF2 "gmods" are an all-or-nothing proposition, they don't work unless they're 100% insane.)

MORE TUBE PHOTOS. Whups, I lied.

2011-11-15T23:37:00.000-08:00

It is almost winter, time to start thinking about going on a nice cruise.

I got lots of Insane Artist Corners for you this time, knob-gobblers.

This stuff looks perfectly okay to me.

You should all buy Tina Lugo's prints.

And this guy has the right idea.

Batman saves, dude!

This would make a nice holiday gift!
Read the comments for deep love!

OH OH OH. "It's getting stale."

2011-11-09T18:28:00.000-08:00

So I'll post pics of tubes. Okay? Useless tubes.

And may god bless Alabama.

Ever seen a right-wing anti-Obama seller of gag gifts?
Big Mouth Toys.

Sonoma County is such a friendly place. Almost as friendly as Alabama, in fact.

Insane Artist Corner: whoever is responsible for Moustair needs to die in a hellstorm of old Photoshop disks.

Don't forget to take your little darlings to the circus.

Those aren't tubes. Now, this is a tube.

This kind of shit happens around here every night.

2011-10-24T19:18:00.000-07:00

Put out cat food, and you may or may not get cats.

And in case you're wondering, possums are not native to California. They are carpetbaggers, just like all the humans. "Nice weather, free lunch, woohoo".

I am fucking sick and tired of seeing Fabian Ciraolo's "ironic cartoon art". Every dork art-blog on the Dorkonet has been showing off the same stupid Thundercat and He-Man paintings.
Fuck the fucking fucking 80s, you little shitworms.

And speaking of bad comics.....ever seen Foreskin Man?
It's apparently antisemitic, maybe.

I believe very little. But this is easy to believe.
As one comment said: "David Icke called, he wants his shtick back."

Plus: "It's perhaps the biggest threat to the nation's mental wellbeing, yet it's freely available on every street – for pennies. The dealers claim it expands the mind and bolsters the intellect: users experience an initial rush of emotion (often euphoria or rage), followed by what they believe is a state of enhanced awareness. Tragically this "awareness" is a delusion. As they grow increasingly detached from reality, heavy users often exhibit impaired decision-making abilities, becoming paranoid, agitated and quick to anger. In extreme cases they've even been known to form mobs and attack people. Technically it's called "a newspaper", although it's better known by one of its many "street names", such as "The Currant Bun" or "The Mail" or "The Grauniad" (see me – Ed)."
Oh Mr. Brooker, what a naughty boy you are. Spank yourself.

Anyone for some Nancy Grace "fart fetishism"? Okay!

Insane Artist Corner: yet another Deviant Art cartoonist who makes everything look disgustingly cute: Polish dude Daekazu. Get an empty wastebasket before you click on that.

Such a niiiice day

2011-10-17T13:58:00.001-07:00

Yet another rant about Orson Scott Card.

And now it's my turn. Again.

Mormon beliefs are pernicious precisely because of this tendency to cover up and deny. LDSers are every bit as prone to the usual social ills as everyone else, they just work harder to con themselves and everyone else. I'm absolutely convinced that Mormonism is a terrible, outdated and slimy excuse for a "belief system". It practically glorifies censorship and secrecy and Mafia-like behaviour, not to mention misogyny. Mr. Card's books are just one minor outward sign of it.

It's evident to me that Card's manly crypto-fascist books correspond to the crypto-fascist SF and
fantasy books written by other right-wing bastards like Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle and David Weber. They resonate with the same kind of juvenilistic, pissed-off man-boy who often ends up in his parents' basement, obsessing over Tolkien or Doctor Who. (Or, for that matter, becoming a Wikipedia administrator.) Guys who can't get laid, and who often become very fond of torture-bondage porn because they can't get laid. Is it surprising they often become misanthropic misogynists? Is it surprising they also become huge fans of hentai anime, with plenty of woman-abuse and girl-abuse?

I'd still like to know when the science-fiction community is going to get sick of Card and can his tight little ass. Not as if they haven't had plenty of warning.

BTW, there's now a self-described "right-wing SF blog": Republibot.
Funny, precisely because it's terrible.

Sonoma is such a friendly little town. They even give out free enemas.

If your blog isn't "meta" enough, try something that's so "meta", it doesn't know it's "meta". Blackboards In Porn.

And if that's not disgusting enough, what about this?

yep

2011-10-13T00:08:00.001-07:00

stupid picture post ha ha

2011-10-08T14:57:00.001-07:00

He's DEAD. Rape his scrawny corpse.

2011-10-06T13:01:00.000-07:00

"Vendors suck. Free law sucks. Publishing sucks. Bloggers suck. AALL sucks. ALA sucks. The ABA sucks. Libraries suck. Librarians suck. Google sucks. Facebook sucks. Conferences suck. Law firms suck. Lawyers suck. Clients suck. Outsourcing sucks. LegalZoom sucks. The court system sucks. Technology sucks. Software sucks. Hardware sucks. Users suck. Computer nerds suck. THE ENTIRETY OF LEGAL EDUCATION SUCKS. The curriculum? Sucks. The administrations? Suck. The professors? Suck. (Both the ones that go with the flow and the ones that try to bring attention to the so-called “law school scam.”) Law students suck. The job market sucks. Student loans suck. Suck. Suck. Suck. EVERYTHING SUCKS."

What do Reddit trolls look like? This.
Note the pasty whiteness.

Not only are average Americans stupid and easily cheated,
they are also willing to humiliate themselves on a Tumblr blog.
(Hey fools. If you want real change,
try raising hell on Wall Street instead.)

Just another annoying webcomic: Pandyland.

We should all go to sementanks.com and buy a semen tank!

Pony cock is the best cock!

Insane Artist Corner: believe it or nuts, Charlie White gets government grants for his work:

Editorial. (Well, no, not really.)

2011-09-29T13:29:00.000-07:00

This happens for one reason: defense and security contracting have become welfare systems--for white Republicans. So, they go out and vote and agitate, to make the system bigger and more powerful, to protect their own useless "jobs".

"America going bankrupt? Not my problem! Just don't take away my security clearance and my cushy Beltway job, damn you commie!"

When a significant percentage of the voting public owes their jobs to the military and security agencies, you end up with a corrupt military dictatorship. This is exactly what happened in Argentina in the 1970s, and in Brazil several times in the last 200 years.

Very commonplace in Latin America and in parts of Africa. Probably the primary reason for the continued existence of the faux-communist regimes in China, North Korea and Cuba.

Big shitty deal. The real point should be, no one cares. Even those "freedom-loving" teabaggers will cheerfully slap handcuffs on themselves, in return for a "safe job". It's a major unspoken reason why Bush was reelected, despite being a moron. Obama has just kept it going, probably because he's afraid of the contractor CEOs. I could see Erik Prince threatening the president's family in return for a big contract, couldn't you? Not much he could do to slow the Crazy Train down anyway, too much "invested" in fear.

I keep saying: America is going the way of the British Empire. The Brits became arrogant and complacent, the ruling class sat around and bitched about the "bloody wogs", and then suddenly all their far-flung outposts demanded independence. They just didn't have HFCS or corndogs or Monsanto, making their asses enormous at the same time.

Cheer up, you get to watch history in the making. Experts on this keep predicting a civil war within the next 25 years. I think it might happen sooner--and idiot teabaggers will be on the front lines, waving their don't-take-my-handguns, being mowed down in great numbers.
Useful idiots.

You can go back to wanking to pics of Angie Varona now, Mister Republican.

Pinky Pie Must Die, Hi HI Hi

2011-09-23T03:18:00.000-07:00

Famous online petition: Ban Anime Now.
It's been there for many, many years.

This is impressive, but I'd be more
impressed if there was a popular
webcomic like that. At least, I haven't
stumbled over one yet. There's
too many furry comics in the way.

So, Murdoch is gonna cough up £3 million
over the Milly Dowler scandal.
Pocket change. Still wanna see the old
bastard die in a shit-river.

Insane Artist Corner: whoever is responsible for this evil.

The fatal crash at the Reno air races last week?
I bet you didn't know that, according to this Reuters story, the P-51 Mustang is a "jet".

Wanna see the United States Navy doing a fine, fine job? Here ya go!

Ya know, sequencer.de is for knob-gobblers. The German kind.

Only happy things happen in Reno!

2011-09-16T20:02:00.000-07:00

Lick those balls! Yee-haw!

Orson Scott Card tried to rewrite Hamlet, to make it more homophobic.
And this is how the Metafilter asswipes reacted.
(Personally I think they deserve each other.)

Got insurance with State Farm? Don't worry, they're bribing judges just for you.

"Take out the HTML part, and Windows 8 sounds a lot like Microsoft Bob. This time around however, Microsoft has hired better designers and so Windows 8 now looks as nice as the Zune and Windows Phone 7, two other products that didn’t sell, if you’re keeping track."
And who wouldn't like a taste of Bob?

I'd like to know when people are going to realize that Hollywood is a shitstorm of lies.
And stop buying their brand of toilet paper.

Insane Artist Corner: Renato Garza Cervera makes very nice throw-rugs.

"English, with a high information density of .91, was spoken at an average rate of 6.19 syllables per second. Mandarin, which topped the density list at .94, was the spoken slowpoke at 5.18 syllables per second. Spanish, with a low-density .63, ripped along at a syllable-per-second velocity of 7.82. The true speed demon of the group, however, was Japanese, which edged past Spanish at 7.84, thanks to its low density of .49. Despite those differences, at the end of, say, a minute of speech, all of the languages would have conveyed more or less identical amounts of information. "

Yes, Michael Arrington is an asshole.
Even other assholes (Farhad Manjoo, take a bow) are now recognizing that.

Just in case you need reminding: Deathbound, by Mastodon.
One of the greatest music videos of all time, period.
It's full of muppets. Torturing, killing, and eating each other. Literally.

Why do I hate guitarists?

2011-09-07T17:47:00.000-07:00

Give this a try.

Remember the flap when Gibson was busted 2 weeks ago, for importing illegally-harvested hardwoods?

Go to the official Gibson forum, and search for "DOJ" or "FBI".
The only relevant threads you will see:

This one links to a Redstate blog item.

This one links to a right-wing blogger from Iowa.

This one is an actual discussion.
Oddly it's 100% pro-Gibson, no criticism of the company at all.
Just lots of bitching about "gummint interference" and stupid jokes.

And this is CEO Henry Juszkiewicz, being interviewed--by Breitbart.

That's the Gibson fanboy. A fat, middle-aged, "Christian" redneck troll
who watches Fox News and bitches endlessly about the "gummint".
Juszkiewicz knows this, and deliberately caters to them.

And just PS: Gibson has been raided before.

This is why I keep telling people that rock'n'roll is dead.
The corpse is in the hands of over-60 baby boomers, and they
cheerfully sodomize it every day. Nothing would make them
happier than to drag us all back into 1964. With all the sexism,
badly-designed monster cars burning oceans of cheap
gasoline, bigotry, air and water pollution, Cold War paranoia,
etc.

And the companies that make their favorite musical
instruments are taking full advantage of this "nostalgia".

What else? Oh yeah.....

Tired of the usual deodorants?
How about Smell Of Books instead?

Oh yeah, CLOO is a great idea. Letting total strangers
(with iPhones) use your toilet. That's a winner.
Give them ten million dollars in venture capital.

"Eman is chowing down on nearly 22,000 calories daily, including six eggs scrambled in butter, a half-pound of bacon, four potatoes, six pieces of buttered toast and a 32-ounce shake -- and that's just for breakfast."
God Bless Amerika!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Insane Artist Corner: just a little reminder of one of Japan's greatest madmen, Toshio Saeki. He is what manga nerds only think they are--completely over the top.

Wanna see what a charismatic speaking-in-tongues
Christian extremist posts on Facebook? Okay!
As always, the comments are the best part.

Another prediction of what television will look like in 50 years: this.

People keep ranting and ranting about the evils of Yelp.
And yet, Yelp is still in business.

Have a nice day, guitar fags! Bye bye!

ginavaginavaginavaginaginavaginavaginavaginaginavaginavaginavagina

2011-09-02T02:41:00.001-07:00

Ugly website? Annoying? Terbo Ted!
Curse you, San Francisco!!

A bunch of apparent hipster dorks tried to start a "cool" blog.
The result is kinda dead-looking. (But pretty.)

You think your town is tough? Hah.
In Chicago, dude, they handcuff the first-graders.

Yes, you sweet things, you aren't as sweet as Bank of America.

Insane Artist Corner: Not many can manage to be as disgustingly cutesy and sickly-sweet in their cartooning as Jenny Clements does it, routinely, every day.

"Delargy told Harasym that the investigation was highly sensitive for two reasons, the source said: 1) It was ordered directly by then-police commissioner Lawrence Mulvey, and 2) O'Reilly was at the time considering making a major donation to the Nassau County Police Department Foundation, a private not-for-profit foundation Mulvey helped found in 2009 to raise money for construction of a planned $48 million police training facility at Nassau Community College."

Rick Perry, you just make me so moist! Don't forget to kill the teachers when you're done with them!

The End Is Nigh

2011-08-26T02:55:00.000-07:00

This will tell you all you need to know about Paypal's No. 1 Giant Anus, Peter Thiel.

Anyone know Korean? What the hell is this comic about?

Blog Hell: I just can't seem to reach the state of blissful stupidity
that You Offend Me You Offend My Family has achieved.
More power to him, doood.

Did you know that gays love NASCAR just as much as anyone else?
They even have a website.

Wanna leave America? They probably won't like you.

Yes, it sucks to make anime. Sorry.

Apparently I should post something.

2011-08-22T19:15:00.001-07:00

Or you would prefer some insults? Mebbe tomorrow.

Corndog? Cornhole!

2011-08-15T20:07:00.000-07:00

Yes, kiddies, Google is evil.
And here's Danah Boyd
whining about it.
One dirty hand washes
the other dirty hand.

" If I had some real money invested in Beam, Daniels, Jose, etc. I would be nervous. Can you imagine the franchise opportunity for this? In an open state like Missouri we could have a product on the shelf, out the front door, on the Internet, and in distribution in weeks not years."

"The book, Troublemaker: Let's Do What It Takes to Make America Great Again, isn't due out until next week, but clever detractors have already "bombed" O'Donnell's Amazon.com page by associating her name with products like vibrators, sex guides and books about witches."

Doncha just love YouTube?
Oh yeah!

"FIFA has a longstanding reputation for corruption, and even before the executive committee convened, there was widespread concern that the voting would be rigged. Alarming details had been leaking out for months. In October, Sunday Times reporters posing as American lobbyists had secretly videotaped two ExCo members, Tahiti's Reynald Temarii and Nigeria's Amos Adamu, demanding hundreds of thousands of dollars for their votes. They each claimed that the money would be used for development projects — a soccer academy in Auckland, New Zealand, four artificial fields in Nigeria — but wanted the money to be paid to them directly. Three days before the vote, the BBC's Panorama program broadcast an investigation into FIFA corruption that accused three current ExCo members of taking bribes in the 1990s."

Microsoft won, Linux is dead. Ho ho ho.

Need more proof that the United Kingdom is a "failed state"?
How about this?

(By artist Stanley Migas. No, he doesn't have a website, and I don't know what his email is.)

NSFW? Why aren't you working?

2011-08-11T03:44:00.001-07:00

I would tell you about Sad Etsy Dogs,
but meh.

Or I would tell you about this insane nerd and his OCD-fueled need to make a perfect software simulation of the SNES console....but meh.

Perhaps I could tell you about this Houston
restaurant's incredibly ugly website....but meh.

Perhaps I could mention this notorious Canadian
nerd and his new sword...but meh.

I could always tell you about sexy Thai girl Mint,
but meh.

Insane Artist Corner: I would tell you about
Rosscott's insipid meme-saturated web comic,
but meh.

There's always this Jaws-as-Peanuts thing.
Meh.

(insert middle finger here)

2011-08-01T14:30:00.000-07:00

Blah blah, IE users are dumber than average. I get it, I get it.

So....neurotic yuppie woman rents out her San Francisco
apartment for a week to a total stranger, via Airbnb.
Stranger trashes the place, steals anything valuable.
Yuppie returns, posts about it on her blog.
Hellstorm on Facebook and Twitter results.
Airbnb's CEO, a douchebag if ever I saw one, denies everything.
Yuppie complains that Airbnb didn't offer her any help.
But they did ask her to take her blog down.
Media stink. Lather rinse repeat. :)

What's the longest restaurant wine list you've ever seen?
How about the list at Eleven Madison Park?
It's a mere 138 pages long.
(A bottle of E. Guigal, La Mouline 1966 syrah
will only set you back $10,950.)

Meanwhile, a government scientist who discovered that
the melting of the north-polar ice cap might be responsible
for the deaths of polar bears.......is being harassed by the
Obamaites. Because they wanna drill, baby, drill.

Insane Artist Corner: The graffiti artist who calls himself "Above".
Not for his art....for writing his own self-promoting Wikipedia page.
Hah.
Same goes for AMM, and ZAMOR, and whatever this is.

Trolling a dating site.....with FLAIR.

2011-07-27T11:35:00.001-07:00

I see no problems here.

Just another reminder of why Utah sucks.

"Do you want to borrow my Sailor Moon costume?" Kunis offered. "Or my Princess Leia dominatrix outfit?"

"Yeah," Timberlake said, considering the idea for a moment. "I might stretch it out a little bit."

You'll be happy to learn that Michele Bachmann's Congressional district is suffering from an "epidemic of teen suicides". And Michele's best bud, lunatic Christian Bradlee Dean, is suing Rachel Maddow for $50 million.

You can go back to the dating site now.

"The Undefeated" isn't.......

2011-07-19T23:23:00.001-07:00

On the same day that Harry Potter opened, a wealthy lunatic (who normally makes sports documentaries) tried to open his latest project: a biased pseudo-documentary about Sarah Palin.

According to this guy, it opened to an empty theater.

In Indianapolis, a dozen people showed up.

According to the trolls on Free Republic, it was a big hit.

This right-wing blogger (who apparently doesn't know what year this is) repeated the same drivel.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, it was a bit underwhelming. It made $60k-75k.....on a weekend when Harry Potter made $169 million.

According to Rotten Tomatoes, it's a rare thing: enjoying a rating of 0%.
And Metacritic gives it a rating of 32.

Behold, the political dialogue of this glorious nation.

And oh btw, Mad Dog Heller now admits that his push to expand the use of the death penalty in California was a bad idea. Have a nice day, Mad Dog! Don't forget your rabies shots!

I said some nasty things about Aaron Swartz in the past. Because he deserved them.
Well, I don't need to criticize him anymore. (Still, you would not believe what an asshole he is. Try reading his blog if you don't believe me.)

Here's a new and utterly marvelous idea: if you simply look like someone else who has a criminal record, you will have your driver's license cancelled.

Would you like to see the second-tallest television tower in the Netherlands collapse? Okay!

The photo came from this article. Ukrainian cops don't fuck around. (And yes, the article implies that they routinely force confessions from innocent people.)

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2011-07-15T22:08:00.000-07:00

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And here's the animation!
And twats are si mpering at each other about it on glorious, glorious Metafilter!!!

JUST LOVE OL' ARIZONA SUCK SUCK SUCK! ! ! ! !

Insane Artist Corner: just wanna stick something in
about the large number of obsessive Winx Club fans on Deviant Art,
like this nerd. BLECH!

"Give me incandescent blubs, or give me deth"
sez de teabaggers yo yo!

Wanna know who the biggest users on Google+ are?
Have a look!
There ya are, all the biggest, smuggest assholes in
the tech world, in one handy-dandy list hurray!

Remember that story a few weeks ago, about the NC Highway Patrol cop who harassed
the wife of a local trial lawyer? Well, the officer was not guilty of anything woo hoo!

LASER BEN IS A RIPOFF! @#!*&^%!@#&*&%!*(@&#

Best thing about this? The stupid whiny comments below it of course yo ho!

Paul Ebert is a hero! Not really!

Ever wondered why people in Nevada consider Fernley to be a shithole? Try this, dooood!

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Where was I? Wouldn't you like to know.

2011-07-09T23:31:00.001-07:00

Mebbe I was up your ass.

Mebbe I was fisting you dad.

Never know.

Hell is "libertarian summer camp".

Blog Hell: I ask ya, can a blog get more awful and more nerdy than Fashion It So?

Insane Artist Corner: this guy. Done.

And if you're looking for real self-abuse, go to the Gathering Of The Juggalos. Ha ha ha.

Oh, you think your job sucks, is that right? Would you prefer to work on a Siberian gold dredge instead?

And if you ever need an example of why my part of California sucks, try this.

Beer Advocate. Vomit.

2011-07-01T14:04:00.000-07:00

Just a few words about the perversion of "Web 2.0", "crowdsourcing", and all that guff.

What Wine Spectator is to wine tasting, Memory Alpha is to Star Trek, and Anime News Network is to Japanese animation, Beer Advocate is to beer. A hangout for nerds, trolls, snobs, and asswipes, and a hostile environment for everyone else.

Like the other nerd sites, Beer Advocate's top-rated beer list is extremely predictable. It's created by reviews written by the site's users--beer snobs. Creatures that didn't really exist only 30 years ago, so they do not have the weight of history that wine snobbery has accumulated. So, the beer dorks are making up for lost time.

Top-rated beers on BA tend to be extremely obscure European trappist ales, very dark porters, and stouts. All high in alcohol and saturated with hops. And the one thing that really makes BA reviewers useless to me: their tendency to rave about Russian River's notorious super-IPAs, Pliny The Elder and Pliny The Younger. Since they're local, I've tried them, and could only describe them as "beer flavored cough syrup". They are so incredibly bitter, I wanted to gag, then wash my mouth out with milk afterwards. No one else I've met has been impressed with them. Yet there they sit, rated as the second and third top beers in the whole world. Plus, BA nerds tend to hate on beers that are low-alcohol, sweet, fruit-flavored, "summer", and anything else that isn't "brutal", "manly", "puke-inducing" or the like.

It fits with my general observations of the midlife-crisis male, who seem to make up most of the audience for beer snobbery, along with other nerdy subjects: he tends to go for things that taste awful and/or might sicken him. He loves extreme hot sauces, hot peppers, raw meat, raw eggs, single-malt Scotches, and extremely bitter beers. Apparently it's some kind of "self-proof" that he's still alive, and capable of feeling something.
Conclusion: Fred Flintstone runs the internet.
(Assuming Fred Flintstone is into loli-manga porn and really bitter beers.)

Wanna see more nerdy boy-men in action?
Go to a Rush concert. Here is a recent example.

You will be amazed to learn that Flush The Web is still in business. I had not seen it since 2002, and it appears that most listings haven't changed since then.

This is one of the most stunning displays of Stupid Coppery I've ever seen. The middle-aged woman he decided to pick on was the wife of a famous trial lawyer. At the same time, this complaint by the North Carolina attorney general ran. Yes, violent crime is at a 33-year low, but he still demands more money to fight it. That, dear friends, is what a state run by Republicans looks like.

Now you can go out and extinguish the fire in your barbecue. Don't forget to order take-out.

What does Eric Clapton taste like?

2011-06-24T23:30:00.001-07:00

Bitcoin is going.......going........going.........

Say byebye to Empire, Nevada. It was hell while it lasted.

"When it came to social self-confidence, about half of freshmen questioned in 2009 said they were above average, compared to fewer than a third in 1966. Meanwhile, 60 percent in 2009 rated their intellectual
self-confidence as above average, compared with 39 percent in 1966, the first year the survey was given.

In the study, the authors also argue that intellectual confidence may have been bolstered by grade inflation, noting that, in 1966, only 19 percent of college students who were surveyed earned an "A" or "A-minus" average in high school, compared with 48 percent in 2009." And how is your self-esteem, Captain Buttplug?

Michael Ian Black has a little story for you.
So sweet. Taco.

Insane Artist Corner: I was going to go with Paco Pomet,
or Al Farrow, or maybe even the incredibly-insipid Sam Carter.

But one look at Millie Brown's "performance" settled it.
Even faster than her first gag reflex.

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2011-06-15T03:28:00.001-07:00

I DON'T CARE.

Wanna see proof that adult Lego fans are brain-damaged?
How about this?

Linux is great, sure yeah. Most of the time.

The twat-boys at Goldman Sachs are better than you and me. Oh baby.

Has the word "bronie" reached your conscious level yet?

That's nice. Still don't care.
Boogabooga.

Hey, boys'n'girls!

2011-06-10T15:12:00.000-07:00

After years in the wilderness,
one of the early web's most
bizarre, insane websites,
the Multiple Breast Art Page.......
is back.
Why? Because only four breasts ain't enough!

Did you know that Pabst Blue Ribbon is being marketed as a "premium" beer....in China? They even have a special edition, for $44 a bottle......

Guess what......the US Postal Service is near bankruptcy......And if you think privatizing the mail will be a good thing, consider what happened when they tried it in Europe.

Insane Artist Corner: Dave Kendall, because everything he does looks dead.

Viceland used to be listed in the sidebar as an interesting link, but not anymore. Because of this.

Meanwhile, Jobs wants to build a giant new office building in Cupertino. And the Cupertino City Council responded....by asking him to give them free wi-fi.

Are you a KNO*B???

2011-06-03T22:08:00.000-07:00

If you don't think My Little Pony is an important cultural landscape in its own right, what about Equestria Daily?
Or PonyChan?
Or, uh, this?

Oh yeah, great price!

I can't think of a better headline..... than
"Sesame Street's pinko puppets brainwash our kids"!
(Perhaps we should buy Ben Shapiro an Eroscillator?....)

Hairy-Mail, anyone? (Apparently it is being run by the anti-tobacco lobby....)

News Flash: North Las Vegas is a shithole. You're welcome.

And Texas is full of bigots. Whoop-dee-doodle.

Time to switch....to Wacko Search!!!!

Bitcoin mining. (cue hysterical laughter)

2011-05-30T13:55:00.000-07:00

What is Bitcoin mining? The latest insane fad.

Bitcoin is an "open-source" online monetary unit, whose value and reliability are based on encryption, rather than on existing currencies or other real-world value.

As it turns out, it is possible to "generate" Bitcoins, simply by brute-force computation. The usual scheme is to use a PC (or multiple PCs linked via ethernet), equipped with the fastest video cards available. Software is available to reprogram the vector processors on the video cards to recalculate hashes, thus creating Bitcoin value. It's not "theft", because the computing power is adding value to the entire Bitcoin system. It basically converts PC hardware and electric power into Bitcoins.

Is this a worthwhile pursuit? There's no agreement at the moment, because it's still a new idea. The hardware and electric power usage might make it economically feasible, maybe, in the near future--if enough miners and other users add enough value to it.

Because it's too new, the government hasn't addressed its legality---and the IRS and other tax authorities haven't addressed its taxability yet. The real-world value of a Bitcoin is very unstable and difficult to pin down. However, there are already numerous businesses accepting them. And there's even a number of trading exchanges set up around Bitcoins.

It doesn't help that some of the dork "pundits", like Jason Calacanis (blecch), are already calling it "the most dangerous project we've ever seen".

Because it smells (ever so slightly) like "something for nothing", and has an "outlaw" aspect, there is now a "community" around Bitcoin mining. And it's rapidly growing. People are already being harassed by police for "using too much electricity".

Result? Atrocities like this.

And I have a new meme for you: "redneck supercomputer".

Why I learned to hate Drew Curtis.

2011-05-26T19:43:00.000-07:00

Let's see........

it's not just that Fark deliberately caters to cheap-beer-guzzling fratboys with a room temperature IQ. They've always done that, and it clearly is a successful formula for ad sales. It works for Digg and any number of other "wanking lad entertainment" sites as well.

Nor is it that they really ought to tag all of their posts with STUPID and OBVIOUS, because stupid and obvious is what they do best. In fact, I daresay it's about 90% of Fark's actual content. The "Florida", "Scary", "Dumbass" and other tags seem increasingly superfluous as time wears on.

Nor is it that Drew and his buds are quite eager to permaban anyone who criticizes them, no matter how valid the criticisms are. Googling for Fark ban-victims leads to thousands and thousands of complaints, spread everywhere online. Apparently Fark will kick you for saying something defamatory about Hillary Clinton, for crissakes. (They've banned so many people, there's a site for people who were banned from Fark.)

And I won't even go into the sheer snobbery of TotalFark, a "private" subsite that Drew and his buds created specifically to restrict membership. Perhaps so they wouldn't have to put up with criticism, or with anyone they don't like (which I suspect includes women and ethnic minorities). The creation of TotalFark pissed off so many users, they created a parody called UltraFark. And yet, TotalFark makes a mint every year. (Their dickish terms of service might have some relation to this.)

Nor can I fault their soon-to-come "redesign", that doesn't appear to be much of a redesign at all. Why change the perfect site for white male assholes? A major appearance change might scare off the dedicated masturbator, perhaps?

My main issue: the links themselves---the main reason for Fark---are stupid. And, I suspect, getting stupider as time goes on. Bannination seems to have vastly smarter and more interesting links, which is ironic considering how famous Fark has become.

I might add, though, that Foobies is probably the smartest thing Drew ever did online. A site that collects links to free naked-women pics.....it can't lose. Supposedly most of Fark's readership goes to or comes from Foobies, but you'll never find any citable proof of that.

Because another thing Drew does really well: secrecy. Which is strange.

If his users are morons anyway (which he seems to believe implicitly), why so much secrecy about the site's internal operations? Is it because Drew's afraid someone will steal his "brilliant invention"? Or is he afraid that his users, who apparently sit around with one hand down their pants, will find out how much actual contempt he has for them, and abandon his site? Or does he have really small genitals, and is fearful that his faux-badass nerd fan-following will laugh at him?

Does anyone really care anyhow? In my research, I found that the last time there was any substantial "MSM" coverage of Fark and Drew, was in 2007, when his snark-laden book came out. Since then, it's like they've both dropped out of sight. Maybe he's like Todd Rundgren, an aging star who's got a built-in substantial fan following, and makes money just by touring every year, despite not having had a hit record since the 1980s?.......

The wind, it blows

2011-05-23T17:30:00.001-07:00

Bloody Mormons.
Too damn paranoid.

And yet, idiot parents keep
demanding signs.

Lookit this high-quality
law enforcement work!!

Oh, you think Canada is a "friendlier" country?
Ask Byron Sonne.

Yes, Reddit is run by bastards.
Getting rid of one of them will not fix it.
All of their users are guilty of something.

I can't help it--this crap keeps finding me......

2011-05-18T17:57:00.000-07:00

One of the best America-Is -Doomed things I've seen recently:
White Whine.
Mostly Facebook comments from various all-American idiots,
complaining about one damn thing or another, usually stupid.
(It currently features beauty queen Alyssa Campanella,
bitching that guys hit her up at the gym. Poor thing.)

Want even more proof that America Is Doomed?
How about the Triple-Double Oreo?

According to this, Jack Kirby was the
Nostradamus of Marvel Comics. Pbbbt.

Blog Hell:
someone's trying to rewrite The Wizard Of Oz.
So far, so good.
Plus: Fuck Yeah Girls And Guns.

Last Sunday, this notorious article ran on
Psychology Today's website.
And it was swiftly removed, because
it set off a hellstorm of accusations
of racism. I've given up counting
the scores of angry bloggers and
twitterers who complained.
The author, Satoshi Kanazawa,
is apparently famous for stirring up shit.

Ever heard of Julie Watai? Well now you have.
Performance artist, former idol singer, cosplayer,
and well-rounded crazy woman.
Plus: here's a video of her circuit-bending a Furby.
In a French maid costume.

San Francisco! The city of joy!

So, okay, I posted it. So what.

This is why you should hate and distrust software coders.
SSDs die prematurely because they have limited write-cycle lifetimes,
and those "professionals" should fucking well know better.

(Wanna give me a nice birthday present?
Pull Sankaku Complex down. Permanently.
You would fill me with so much joy.)

Bad corporation! No pedia!

2011-05-14T12:37:00.000-07:00

No doubt, you've heard far too much this week about Facebook's ridiculous attempt to destroy Google's "Social Circle" system. They even tried to silence criticism--on Facebook itself.

Just before all this hit the media, Burson-Marsteller did something on Wikipedia that violates Wikipedia's internal regulations. And stinks to high heaven.

The Wikipedia article about Burson-Marsteller used to be full of stories about the company's sometimes-rotten PR work, for bad clients. This is how it looked. Yes, Burson has always been remarkably flexible about its customers. From the military dictatorship of Argentina, to the tobacco industry, to helping Union Carbide get over its Bhopal "problem", Burson-Marsteller will cheerfully make the vilest PR feces smell like lavender---for a price. They aren't terribly picky about who pays them, or what they have to do for it.

A Wikipedia user named Flatiron 230 -- who openly announced he was a Burson-Marsteller employee -- completely rewrote the article, to make Burson look like just another honest-as-George-Washington, friendly good-'ol neighborhood company.

He posted the draft article here. All that embarrassing stuff about Bhopal and Romania and cigarettes and Three Mile Island was removed.

And on May 7, a Wikipedia editor named Banaticus, at the behest of Flatiron 230, cheerfully deleted the old Burson-Marsteller article, and replaced it with the "sanitized" version.
This was done with no discussion, no notification to Wikipedia's Arbcom. No public input was sought. This violates so many Wikipedia official policies, I won't even bother to list them all.

Uninvolved editors have been reinserting the stories about Burson's PR nasties, but the article is still about twice as long as it was before, and still reads like a corporate puff piece. You have to scroll down some distance before seeing the bad clients.

Not that anyone cares, of course. (Especially not at Wikipedia. This little event still has not been discussed on the administrator's noticeboard or elsewhere.)

There is no spoon. Just a fork in your ass.

2011-05-11T19:48:00.000-07:00

Do you like to use your California public library?
Well, there's an ugly battle over funding them. Supposedly a few right-wing assemblymen want to shut them all down, to "punish" the Democratic majority, and to privatize them--so their businessman buddies can provide the tax-funded "services". Plus, a ballot measure to float a new tax to support the libraries will likely be shot down. (And you won't find much written about this online, because the Assembly and the governor are trying to keep it quiet.) If you care, there's a Facebook.

Who's the most egotistical, annoyingly-upbeat programmer nerd you've ever encountered? How about Wesley Zhao?

Just in case you haven't heard of Pippa Middleton yet.....

Ask Wikipedia: who is Otto Middleton? Well, he's a dog.....and now, the subject of a lecture.

For your reference: Oklahoma, writ small.

Wanna see a yuppie bitch complaining about her mother wanting to have some fun in her old age? Try this.

British tabloids just have to grease things up. Here's the original story in local media, and here's the Daily Mail treatment.

Blog Hell: if you hate your mythology teacher, introduce her to Myths Retold. Heh heh heh. Plus, this guy is my kind of asshole.

Metafilter Is Shit: someone tried to post a serious story about the last German U-boat sunk during WWII, and the first comment was a stupid Simpsons joke. (And 43 assholes upvoted it.)

Watch out for bomb-throwing babies! Ya never know!

Insane Artist Corner: daresay, that Namio Harukawa likes his women big and chubby. And sitting on men's faces. (They deserve it.)

Do you like to see giant electric-power wind turbines on fire? Here ya go!

sweetspringtimeAGGGHHCASTRATIONCASTRATION

2011-05-04T17:21:00.000-07:00

Wanna talk about Texas?
This is the essence of Texas.

The Japanese are not all that different from Americans. They, too, willingly take orders from corrupt corporations.

Insane Artist Corner: most of Matt McKeown's work is a bit dull. But he finally "justified" his "career", by getting this posted on Reddit. Haw.

I bet you think you're "safe", in your front-yard doing a bit of gardening.
Wrongo, dOOd.

Don't go to an Ivy League school! Become a California prison guard instead!
The pay is better!

Metafilter Is Shit: "No no no no no. This absolutely cannot be true. This is awful.
Oh god, now I know that the grave gapes for me too, as one by one all the heroes of my youth pass on."
Sooner the better, nerd. Joanna Russ left worthwhile fiction behind. What have you done, other than post bullet-points of your snivelling insecurity on Metafilter?

Saggy pants are awesome! Yeah!

The attorneys are coming for you, Aaron's Rentals.......(background)

Blog Hell: There is nothing I can say about Fox Mulder's Wristwatch. Thank you.

(Is anyone going to show up at the synth meeting in Berkeley on Sunday? Is anyone out there?)

Beware the Phantom Pantser!!!! AAAGGGHHHH

2011-04-28T01:25:00.000-07:00

Who? This guy.

I keep telling people how corrupt Russia is, and no one really quite believes me. Well, have another horror story.

Yeah, sure, run out and buy that nifty Android smartphone. Just remember one thing: Android is starting to attract malware makers......

Insane Artist Corner: just another Deviant Art freak who draws anime chicks with massive boobs. It's a disease.

What is the Chicago PD doing these days? Gawking at things that are none of their damn business, as usual.

Meanwhile, what is important to the British press? The fucking wedding.....and this 5-year-old hellspawn.

Remember long-dead sites that specialized in beyond-stupid Flash animations, like Dickcream?
There's a new site that gathers them all up: m0ar.
I like the sausage one.
Such a valuable public service.

Poor Gawker. Poor, poor Gawker.

Metafilter Is Shit: "Man, I am sitting at my desk at work trying not to cry mainly because there is no way I could make anyone here understand why I am so affected by this... I still remember the first time I heard Oh, Bondage off a mix tape while driving around in my old station wagon and just being floored by the power of that voice. I fell in love with Poly the first time I heard her and while trapped in my suburban hell I dreamed of meeting someone like her." And I always thought her main talent was being loud.

Yes, twit, Google Earth doesn't handle topo data properly.

I won't mention this, because nobody outside Chile seems to care.

Happy Easter, and fuck the pope.

2011-04-22T19:41:00.000-07:00

The shit-rain keeps falling, and what do people in Wine Country care about?
The richest man in Sonoma County died.
He was an attorney who owned a massively popular winery, of course.

Reddit! Run on Amazon servers! And when Amazon's servers go down, the whining starts!
(And don't forget their extremely valuable poop section!)

Plus: "Do fat girls belly buttons get deeper and deeper as they get fatter or do they stay the same depth/get shallower? Wondering if belly button sex would be possible with a big girl. I need about a 3.5" hole for complete penetration. "

Metafilter Is Shit: ever heard of Elisabeth Sladen? If you're American, probably not. But she played Sarah Jane, Doctor Who's most popular companion. Sort of a nerd sex symbol. And when Sladen died of cancer the other day, Metafilter's neckbeards were sad to the point of self-parody.

And speaking of which, did you know that Dilbert creator Scott Adams has accounts on both Reddit and Metafilter? They don't like him, hee hee hee!

Homeless? Don't go to the Salvation Army for help; they might send you into the woods.

"Hammerbacher looked around Silicon Valley at companies like his own, Google, and Twitter, and saw his peers wasting their talents. "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads," he says. "That sucks.""

Blog Hell: it speaks for itself. Georgie Girl. Pure, shallow agony.

Why is Daily Variety suing punk band the Vandals? And slowly losing?
Mebbe 'cuz they're going to shit.

Like fast food? Hope you learn to love pink slime.
And antibiotic-resistant staph. Yum yum.

nice spring day lalalalalalalala (gag hork)

2011-04-16T15:59:00.000-07:00

Ever heard of El Bulli? It's one of the most notorious restaurants in the world. Well, owner and equally-notorious chef Ferran Adrià recently announced he was closing the place, so Slate ran a nice piece that describes the sick, disgusting relationship between the restaurant (which is in the middle of nowhere, on the eastern Spanish Costa Brava) and the world's yuppie food snobs. It's the kind of thing that makes you want to torture a New York social-climbing writer. And eat him. With a garnish of foamed tuna and mussel cream.

Apparently I haven't said enough defamatory things about Catholic League high pope Bill Donohue. So I'll let him do the talking for me.

Blog Hell: asshole lowbrow cartoonist Mitch O'Connell now has a blog, boiling over with stupid and trivial things.

This is one of the funniest, and most disturbing, childhood reminiscences I've ever read. And here's dad's website. Yes, he's a patent attorney who specializes in high-tech crap. The divorce was quite a public mess.

I like pudding too, sweetie.

2011-04-11T20:25:00.000-07:00

The economy is still weak,
and America is mired in three guerrilla wars.
But what do people in Pleasanton care about?
"Domus is coming back! Woo-hoo!!"
(What is Domus? Just a really disgusting
yuppie knickknack shop.....)

Why should your little pumpkin be vaccinated?
Because stories like this are becoming more
and more commonplace.

Blog Hell: anyone up for starting a proper eugenics program?
So that, hopefully, the kind of morons who make
Too Big For Stroller possible will be prevented from
making babies? Just a thought.

Oh yeah......hey, remember Henry Nicholas?
I giggled at him 3 years ago.
As it turned out, a federal judge threw out all the charges against him.
Because this prosecutor engaged in dirty tricks.
Hah. So, it's okay now, to take drugs in a sex dungeon?

And remember my pointless rants about Miku Hatsune,
the world's first computer generated pop star?
Now there's Mikuchan. The place to post your Miku porn.
(If you can find any. Whups, I guess somebody did.
Me all laffy now.)

Reddit! Where you can post close-up pics of your snot!

What the hell is a "Gordon Warren Epperly"?
He's a "Great Patriotic American".
Who doesn't believe that women should be citizens.
Same for "non-whites".
And here's his ugly, fake-legalese-choked website.
Good luck figuring out what Grampaw's trying to say.

Americans love billboards so much,
they even have a website about billboards
that are fading away to unreadability.

This has been making the rounds.
But people are still crowding into
IKEA stores, every day, to buy more
cheap crap.

I just have sooooo much love for Philly!

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2011-04-07T12:45:00.001-07:00

Even Joseph Stiglitz knows that America is doomed.

More Reddit -is-a-shithole?
Here you are, and feel the love.

America is at war in three countries,
the economy is in the shitter, and
what do people in Delaware care about?
Basketball hoops being torn down.
(And the state trooper who started all this crap,
Lt. Jennifer Griffin? She's got a Facebook now!
Tyranny! Tyranny! Tyranny! Have a lovely day!)

As usual, Americans do not want to talk about the apparent
laundering of Mexican drug money by Wachovia, one of America's
largest banks. So we have to read British newspapers to learn of it.

Slate does it again:
yet another stupid article, written
for stupid imperialistic American twats.

Ever heard of a BDC? It's a special investment device that US tax law
created in 1980, supposedly to "encourage the growth of small businesses".
Unfortunately, BDCs are rare, and usually kept secret from the rabble,
so that really wealthy people can quietly take full advantage of them.
Read this for an example. It talks about Ares.
(Good luck opening an account at Ares. Ha ha.
Enjoy the 1.5% interest your bank pays on savings accounts. Slave.)

I think I've made my point about Metafilter.
But just for dramatic effect, have one more.

John Steinbeck was a great novelist.
But his modern-day deranged fan following is truly disturbing.
(They're even worse than Moog fanbois, I daresay.)
For example: it's been revealed that his "nonfiction" travel book
Travels With Charley was full of fabricated bullshit.
And here's Bill Steigerwald's blog, in which he details
how he arrived at this conclusion, plus some
of the hostile reaction he received from Steinbeck's fans.
(I'll tell you another reason why they don't like Steigerwald.
He writes for right-wing websites like townhall.com and WND.)

If you're running a right-wing college,
Pell grant money is your friend.
(Get the money first, then you can indulge your
bitching about liberals, taxes and government waste.)

Got big rims on your car?
Don't go to Cincinnati.

And tell Chris Randall to read my blog.
He deserves to suffer. Heh heh heh.

Here, kitty kitty kitty.

2011-04-02T13:15:00.000-07:00

Yes, this is a well-established practice.
And idiots keep falling for it.

So.....Reddit's officious twats found out that G4TV and
GamePro had hired someone to spam-and-sock Reddit's
gaming section. Result was predictable: mock outrage,
bannings, threats, etc. And here it is on Metafilter and
here it is on Boing Boing. Social media at its finest. :P

The Wall Street Journal has always tried to tell its readers
to spend carefully and save for retirement. But only
recently have the editorials turned completely crazy.
(FYI, this is why self-made rich people are often insane.)

San Jose, it's such a friendly town!

Blog Hell: plenty of blogs are pathetic sewers
of self-involved babbling neurosis.
But few of them are as blatant as Heidikins.
She also has a Twitter, predictably.
(How did she become so popular?
Partly by hanging out on the unbearable
Shoe Per Diem blog.)

Ever looked at rifle porn? There are fewer more
pornographic gun websites than Barrett.
The kings of .50-caliber sniper rifles----
the most obscene weapons one can buy in a
gun shop....without a federal firearms license, anyway.

If you're in LA, I'd suggest skipping
Roscoe's House Of Chicken N' Waffles.
The Denny's for ironic hipsters. So fuck 'em.

Insane Artist Corner: doing a comic strip?
Don't do it the College Dog way.

This happens more often than you might realize.
Your bank is not your friend.

Say byebye to the new Pizza Hut!

There's something on your head.

2011-03-28T23:05:00.000-07:00

In typical "mainstream media" fashion, Business Insider posted this embarrassing story about Reddit's more disgusting and maybe-illegal subsections. (You know, places like r/nigger, r/bestiality and the like.)

And in typical Reddit fashion, the Redditors denied everything, and tried to attack Business Insider. (When they weren't calling each others idiots, of course.) A troll is a troll, yo ho yo ho.

Yes, fellow Americans, you have recreated something that was outlawed 180 years ago: debtor's prisons. Congrats, you Star-Spangled Dipshits.

Ask Wikipedia: why Ironholds, one of their most popular (?) administrators and obsessed editors, felt the need to post this blog entry the other day. Welcome to the Shit Factory, Oliver! Sucker.....

A probable sign that the Glorious American Empire is shitting itself: when they start jailing 8-year-old boys for beating up playmates. If this were actually a crime, 90% of all 8-year-old boys would be in jail right now.

Blog Hell: notorious financial dorkblogger James Altucher said that he will never buy a house.
I'll let you find all the abuse he took for saying that.

Metafilter Is Shit: They did not receive well the news of a Hollywood-made, probably-mismanaged live-action version of Akira. Poor little nerdies.

Wanna see a perfect example of the kind of smug, self-obsessed, money-grubbing bastard who helps to make San Francisco suck? How about this twit? (Of course, all SP readers have homes in Pacific Heights and Maui, yes? Yes?......)

Insane Artist Corner: who else, but Rob Granito? It took the comics community several years to figure out that Granito was an untalented liar, and they're just starting to do something about it. They even have a Facebook!
I wonder how many tens of thousands of dollars he scammed out of the (pathetic types of) nerds who attend Comic-Con.......

There's only way to follow up all that: with the news that religious people are prone to getting fat. Surprise surprise.

Nothing else? Ha ha, tough shit.
Do your own blogging, you lazy snot.

Die on your kiddie-train!

2011-03-23T23:56:00.000-07:00

Wanna see a truly pointless and insipid way to die?

That nice young man is Benji Easler.
He's dead. Why?
He was killed when a kiddie train went off its tracks.
And here's the video and here's the first lawsuit.

Now I'd call that pointless. And insipid.
And FWIW, you'd be surprised how many people are killed
or injured in miniature train accidents every year. If you must
gawk, Ride Accidents has more.

Meanwhile, in beautiful Arizona......Joe Arpaio has a tank!
Thanks for keeping us safe from Steven Seagal, Joe! Fuck a dog, Joe!

Don't stick that autistic kid on the short bus just yet--
he might turn out to be a brilliant physicist.

Still love ol' Philly! Love love love!

Here's the US Army, keeping us safe from....something.
Thanks, guys! Suck it, guys!

Blog Hell: still like to know what this is--other than a really weird linkfarm.

Whenever I run across Why Was I Banned, I can't help but go in there, and giggle at the hapless Xbox Live users who were kicked, usually for pathetically stupid reasons. Teenaged boy gamers are the vaudeville of our age.

Insane Artist Corner: I'd tell you about Monster Girl Booru, but it's too embarrassing.
So consider yourself ignorant.

Ya know what? Hackers aren't the godlike geniuses they think they are.
They tend to do their dirty-trick planning on IRC channels--openly.
And then, they end up being mocked on Gawker....

You're dumb enough to read this blog. Hah.
Your kiddie-train awaits.

and fuku you too

2011-03-20T16:30:00.000-07:00

They're shitting on your nice white beach!!!
Ha ha ha ha ha!!!!

Blog Hell: if you think stupid suburban housewives can produce blogs that are clever and interesting, don't read this one. Because it's not.

Even more hellish: Brittany Reagan is a 20-year-old college student from Tennessee. Who evidently spends all her waking hours online, seeking attention (and not studying). Because, in addition to her wildly popular Tumblr blog above, she has a popular Facebook, a popular Myspace, a massively popular Flickr account, a Twitter account, a Dailybooth account, a YouTube account (full of stupid music videos), a Vimeo account, etc. etc.
(And don't confuse her with this cheerleader from Syracuse, NY.)

Safe to say that you can write off the SXSW festival, henceforth. Mainly because it's becoming a pathetic nostalgia fest. How pathetic? That miserable squeaky 80s synth-pop outfit, Orchestral Manouevres In The Dark, went on stage to play at SXSW....and were upstaged. By a falling camera boom. (video!)

And I'm not the only one who thinks SXSW is done. Try this. Or this.

Insane Artist Corner: I don't know who Dirty Potter is,
but just based on this, I'd like to hire those little bastards.

News flash: did you know that Skype does not love you? Just sayin'.

Neither do the Republicans, you silly twat. Hah.

You wanna save the world? You could start by getting off your fat pizza-eating ass, go out, and murder some of these bastards. Oh looky, it's Phil Falcone! I mentioned him last month.....

We're all screwed! Ha ha ha!!!

""Kids at the end of the cul-de-sac actually saw some prairie dogs on fire, running and screaming,"
Middleton said of a previous Rodenator sweep. "

And here's the website! Burn those little fuckers!!! Burn burn burn!!!

Doodly-Doo

2011-03-16T13:45:00.000-07:00

Tech blogs (like, say, Engadget)
exist to cater to the idiot caveman.
Example.
Complete with 607 comments:
"YAY I love angry birds!!!"

And if you don't think Boing Boing is run by idiot cavemen/women/things:
first, on March 14, Maggie posted this "good news".
Six hours later, "Xeni" posted this fearful rant.
Three hours thereafter, the crazy woman posted this.
"Xeni", dear, you make a shitty reporter. Go back to bussing tables.

Violence in video games aside,
you have to admit, this is damn funny.
There are some sick bastards working at Rockstar.

Various idiot bloggers and trolls have discovered this disaster map
in the past few days. It's been there since 1998, btw.

Did you know that the Internet Archive has a forum?
And that the most popular part of it is the Grateful Dead area?

Blog Hell: wanna see a sterling example of a
female blogger with garbage for brains? Here ya go.

Yep, Microsoft screwed Nokia.
And Nokia's board of directors helped them.
Enjoy your worthless stock certificates, fools.

Casey Heynes is a hero. Or not.

Is fallout from the Fukushima reactor coming for you?
Yes! No! Whatev!

You like my boner?

2011-03-13T14:50:00.001-07:00

If I owned a German company that made automated production machinery, no matter how venerable or well-regarded it was, I'd seriously contemplate changing the name....if it was called AFAG.

Anime burlesque, anyone?

Have lots of fun! Move to Sonoma County!
Or don't! Yeah, maybe not.....

It's worse in Phoenix, of course.

Why hate Eric Clapton? Let me count the reasons. (I like that "primitive, magical thinking" part, it accurately describes the massive insanity of collecting.)

This is shaping up to be a major embarrassment for the state of Florida. And btw, Mr. Chandler is a notorious anti-government conservative troublemaker. Kinda old-fashioned of him.

Blog Hell: If you ever need proof that Etsy is an online hellhole for stupid women (who knit), try Sad Etsy Boyfriends.

Got a Bank of America loan?
Don't read this, baby! Hah!

Where do people get the idea that Canada is a much friendlier, less corrupt place than the US? What about stories like this?

Although ya gotta say, that's chickenshit, compared to how they do it in Chicago.

Why the South sucks.

2011-03-11T17:15:00.001-08:00

Y'know, Shawn Cleary is from Kentucky.
Let me show you why he moved to Santa Monica.

Eh? What?

2011-03-09T15:13:00.000-08:00

Free advice: if you were arrested in Danville for DUI recently, you might want to contest it.

Remember that story two years ago, about new-age spiritual healer James Ray and his sweat-lodge of death? Well, the natives are restless!

Yet another YouTube polluter: DayJob Orchestra takes clips from various Star Wars and Star Trek things, and redubs them with staggeringly-stupid dialogue. Disgusting. (Yet funny.)

And btw, the drug companies lie about everything.
You are the patsy. Congrats.

Plus: Tosh.0, a tv show made up primarily of content stolen from online sources, is now the biggest hit on Comedy Central.

Bill Eickmeier of the University of Waterloo is still running the BeeHive, supposedly one of the oldest web pages in existence--it dates from 1992. And predictably, most of the links are no longer valid.

Insane Artist Corner: Tracey Emin, for various reasons.
See? Madness is a valid career choice, after all.

Next time, take British Airways! And enjoy the bedbugs!

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Just another Metafilter atrocity for your reading pleasure.......

2011-03-02T19:49:00.001-08:00

Last Friday there was a little-noticed news item that said Fox News boss Roger Ailes might be indicted for obstruction of justice. It's a bit stupid, but that certainly hasn't stopped federal prosecutors from being stupid in the past.

It wasn't mentioned anywhere on Metafilter over the weekend. So I posted it on Metafilter, with extra links to news organizations and blogs, pointing out that large chunks of the MSM were ignoring this story.

And as I expected, even though plenty of people were posting reasonably intelligent comments, one person complained---and that shrieking bitch "Jessamyn" promptly deleted it. For completely asinine/no reasons. Even though the original complainer later admitted it didn't deserve to be deleted.

I figured she would do this, and not because it's a bad post. She did it because she personally dislikes me, and wants to silence me. I've had the gall (the sheer gall!) to criticize her and her MetaTurd moderator pals in the past. They are just like any number of Wikipedia admins, and just like the bastards who run Reddit. Every online community that pretends to be "free" and "open" becomes the private property of a small group of manipulative shitheads.

(Best part: shortly after the bitch killed my post, News Corpse ran this item.)

And today, there was another item that effectively demonstrates that Metafilter's userbase is a bunch of snivelling wimps and toads. They are practically begging insecure asshats like "Jessamyn" and "Cortex" to run that little "group blog" as if it was their own private fiefdom.

None of this is surprising. It's basic human nature, unfortunately for everyone (involved in the hijinks or not). Another example: this. And how did this happen? How did a corrupt, greedy family like the Al-Khalifas manage to become the rulers of the miserable sandbar called Bahrain? They did it the easy way: the fucking British installed them!

Why does Phoenix suck? Might it be stuff like this? And this and this and this and this and this and this and this and this?
Phoenix is basically Chicago, if Chicago had palm trees and was run by insane Republicans (instead of insane Democrats).

On Tuesday, Charlie Sheen got himself a Twitter account.
And within 24 hours, he had 1 million followers.

“When a newbie couponer is birthed they are very much like baby vampires,’’ Feehan wrote on her popular blog, The Coupon Goddess. “They go on a couponing rampage that wreaks havoc at every store they descend upon . . . Carnage.’’

Why do I despise Apple? It's not Apple I despise, they are just another big greedy corporation. My issue is with their deeply neurotic fan following.
The day before Apple announced their new iPad, Ars Technica ran this idiocy.

Blog Hell: allow me to introduce you to Nerdfit. It apparently tries to make nerds look cool, by reviewing obscure brands of hard liquor with snotty asides.

What does Hell On Earth look like? How about The Villages?
If you really hate gramma, send her there.
(It was mentioned in this horrific Slate article about golf carts.)

And speaking of Slate......
I can't think of a more disgusting example
of constipated yuppie-foodie writing..........
than this.

Nobody loves you, kill yourself, etc.

2011-02-26T19:20:00.000-08:00

Need an example of an extremely annoying YouTube attention whore? How about bony-assed, failed actress Brittani Taylor? Her YT posts are bizarrely popular, despite being unwatchable........

And speaking of attention whores: even Japan produces them. Consider Minako Komukai. Idol singer, gamer nerd, model, stripper, actress in BDSM films.....and now, fugitive.

Insane Artist Corner: Derren Brown. They look accurate to me. (Bonus! He's also a successful magician and TV show host! Attention whore, anyone?)

Nerds, anyone? How about this blog? He really doesn't like Piece Of The Past.......I have a news flash, lots of sleazy auctioneers do things like that. (Worse yet, the Star Trek junk blog is listed as one of the "top 100 science fiction blogs".)

And now, for some real Blog Hell: this one is dedicated to attacking the ever-popular and ever-sleazy Encyclopedia Dramatica. And ED deserves it. The blog has a list of ED admins, and guess what, some of them are notorious hackers.

Remember the Loongson processor chip being developed by the Chinese government? It's starting to stir up trouble in the chip industry. Tsk tsk.

Metafilter Is Shit: ever heard of comic-book writer Dwayne McDuffie? Neither had I. But the MeFucks whined up a storm when McDuffie died recently.

I'd love to kick Nick Denton while he's down. His traffic, that is.

Here's another free tip:
if you see a wacky, stupid Internet meme, and want to publicize it by posting it on group blogs, and such, you might check to see if it's already old and run out.
A good place to start is Cream Of The Crap.

Yes, Nokia is done for. Okay.
I never bought one of their phones anyway--early adoption is for fools.

All of this is shit.
Your food prices are going up, the price of clothing is going up.
Recession or no recession. Bend over and spread.

Presenting THE FUTURE of Euro modular synths!

2011-02-21T15:34:00.000-08:00

I've had my ass sandwich thank you sir.

2011-02-17T22:55:00.001-08:00

This is Steve Brookes. He's the city attorney in my town. Okay?
Last week, Steve was a bad, bad boy.
(Note that he got a misdemeanor charge. If you did this, would you be charged with a misdemeanor, and be able to bail out of jail immediately for only $5k? I don't think so.)

Ever wondered what it costs the state of California,
to own a cursed SUV? How about $400,000?

Meanwhile, the state says it's okay to treat your strawberries--
with carcinogenic methyl iodide. Yum!

Joe Lizura, the face of the horror of midlife crisis.

Insane Artist Corner: Norn Cutson, yet another cartoonist who obsessively cute-ifies everything. (Do not go to his main website--it runs a stupid Flash animation that will probably crash your browser.)

"The Wealthiest Nation On Earth", isn't it?

Meanwhile, what do they care about in Alabama?
Football. And related idiocy.

Don't buy gold, you idiots! Buy gallium! It's far scarcer, rapidly becoming a major industrial metal (because it's used to make cellphone chips and LEDs), and because GalliumSource will sell raw gallium metal direct, apparently to anybody! One kilogram is only $824! BARGAIN!!!!

This website sells copies of Nazi-era German exercise books and "art books", which just happen to be full of pics of "beautiful naked Aryans". They appear to be originals, which makes me wonder why most of the books are selling for "only $115". I thought original Nazi memorabilia was worth more than that. Nazi porn not a growth market, eh? Ha ha, tough shit.

Seen a recent photo of Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis?
(Or is that the Cryptkeeper?)

Why does Arizona suck so much? Partly because it's crawling with elderly white morons........like this guy.

Supreme techno-nerd and Dork About Town Joi Ito recently shared with his equally-neurotic Boing Boing readers something: the contents of his shoulder bag. Including a battered Macbook, four different jailbroken cellphones, a massive stack of credit cards, diving paraphernalia, first-aid kit, still camera and video camera, etc etc etc..........

Ever been dinged by a flying dong?

Who is Dr. Blofeld? (and ps, happy valentines' day)

2011-02-13T16:02:00.000-08:00

If you're prone to misanthropy, this is a great week for it.

The Haight, the world capital of hippiedom, is finally getting its first Whole Foods store.

If the web is not a vast river of shit.....what about Niggermania?

This guy is not well loved in NYC.
(Meanwhile, what's the top story in the Daily News? This.)

In case you hadn't heard.....California is doomed.
Everybody gets some blame: Pat Brown, Reagan, Jerry Brown, Prop 13, the right, the left, your mother, your dog, whatever. Schwarzenegger was just a patsy.

And, oh yeah: if your local library suddenly shuts its doors, you can thank Jerry Brown. Similar things are happening in Texas. Imagine that---Jerry Brown and Rick Perry, a match made in hell.
I can just see the brethren of the lunatic right going to their local library, finding the doors locked, and bitching.
"Just don't raise those taxes, or else! Jesus Saves!"

All that might have something to do with the current LA district attorney, Carmen Trutanich, and his deranged attempts to be the toughest lawman in the west. I think he's just an asshole.

Meanwhile, in Texas county jails......

Blog Hell: if you simply must see your favorite perky female celebrity's head attached to the latex-clad body of a BDSM model, Head Swap Harry is your man.

If you ever need to see a website run by a cranky old mediocrity (other than me), how about Roger White? He is a nephew of famed photographer Margaret Bourke-White, he opened one of the first personal-computer shops in Utah, got married, made four kids, worked for Novell, went bankrupt, lived in fear of the IRS for years, and endured an ugly divorce. And now he writes really awful science fiction. (His website has existed since 1996, making it a time-capsule of the early web. If Roger's so damn smart, why hasn't he discovered CSS and Mambo and Joomla yet?)

The FCC, in its infinite "wisdom", has approved a plan by a company called LightSquared, to use a band adjacent to the GPS band for a new 4G broadband service network. GPS users are predicting that GPS will be rendered useless--and they have evidence to back it up. The mainstream media barely noticed this story.

And what about Phil Falcone, the founder of LightSquared? Where did he get the money to start this maniac scheme?
Easy---he screwed his investors.......
Don't come crying to me if your GPS device suddenly stops working, complain to Phil....if you can find him.

Who is "Dr. Blofeld"? He's not an international criminal mastermind, he is one of Wikipedia's most obsessive editors, and also a university student in Ireland (who evidently doesn't attend classes). He has made 333,000 edits to Wikipedia articles, making him one of the world's top WP freaks. It is not unusual to see him work 16 hours a day, seven days a week, on Wikipedia. A few days ago he said something on Jimbo Wales's talkpage that Jimbo didn't like, was harassed for it, and decided to "quit Wikipedia" (which he has done before, albeit not for very long). So he came to Wikipedia Review, possibly to seek "moral support". Various people jeered at him, and I was quite rude to him. He exploded. Methinks I perhaps hit a raw nerve. Shame on me.

(And how was your week?)