Science, Mad. And some movies.
PRODUCER: you know what this cartoon is missing? A theme song by incredibly small Japanese punk girls.
LACKEY: how about… Ex-girl?
PRODUCER: smaller!
LACKEY: Cibo Matto?
PRODUCER: punkier!
LACKEY: uhm… Aya Matsuura?
PRODCER: you’re FIRED. What the FUCK?
LACKEY: how about Puffy Ami Yumi?
PRODUCER: eh… go get me coffee, buttslave
(PRODUCER dials phone)
PRODUCER: Frank! I have a brilliant idea!
Incidentally, it looks like there is a whole Puffy Ami Yumi show! That rules!
Yikes! Very weird- talking heads embedded on a web page. Check out their portfolio of clients if you want to be really sketched out.
Web link of note: SitePal
(At http://www.oddcast.com/sitepal/)
Cool idea- send links to politcal ads like e-cards.
Minor problem- there are only Kerry / anti-Bush ads. Ah well, at least most of my friends will be happy.
Web link of note: P2P Politics
(At http://p2p-politics.org/)
Courtesy of Samuel John Kass:
He’s expanded the Rock-Paper-Scissors game (aka じゃんけんぽーん) to include 5 possibilities.
Notice that as in Janken, any two symbols results in one player winning and the other losing. My favorite is “Paper disproves Spock.”
You think that’s retarded; you should see the “replacement of foo” article.
Web link of note: Rock Paper Scissors Spock Lizard
(At http://samkass.com/theories/RPSSL.html)
According to this article ( a summary of the report from the Tax Foundation), the same states that voted for Bush in 2000 were the same ones that receive the most Federal aid.
Tell me Bush doesn’t practice partisan politics! Look at the change from 1992 to 2002!
Oh, there were a few anomalies: for example, people in Alaska, why would you vote for Bush? He completely screwed you guys!
It makes me wonder: is this why swing voters or Bush supporters don’t see a giant crisis in America? Because they’ve been getting better services as a reward for looking the other way while Bush and his friends literally destroy the country? Of course they are against government spending! They don’t need more money- they are getting all of ours.
So wouldn’t this be an argument to vote for Bush’s reelection? No way. We are just the canary in the mineshaft, ladies and gentlemen. Once the budget starts running out of our money, you red states are next. And you’ll see what we’ve been missing. It’s happening already.
Example: Fire departments. The fire department in Richmond is completely gutted. The Berkeley Fire Department has had cuts also. Those are the first two cities I checked, there are probably more just in my neighborhood!
If this pattern is left to run unchecked, the United States will become a cross between ancient Rome and modern India. A place that was once great, with crumbling evidence everywhere of monuments and utlities which once worked. But 95% of the population will be uneducated and permanently poor. More of what you can look forward to:
Why should you care? That will just be for poor people right? Wrong. Are you in the top 5% of the population? There is an easy way to figure this out- Last year, the top five percent of taxpayers made more than $189,835, and the top one percent more than $462,053.
Is that you? No? Then forget it. Your tax cut was a wad of table scraps to make you shut up. You will not be above the widening gap. You’re one of us, and until you wake up, you are just a burden to those of us trying to solve the problem.
More reading:
DOOM!
A robot which blogs neo-con rhetoric.
Pretty funny… but how do we know Rush Limbaugh’s shows aren’t written the same way? Maybe his producers should save some money and just hire R Robot.
R. Robot — who has passed an unofficial Turing Test a couple of times — is a rhetoric simulator. He shuffles grammatical chunks into into thousands of loathesome new templates. He’s a Perl CGI script, hooked up to a Movable Type engine for good measure — making him the first blogger who is also a computer program (to the best of our knowledge.)
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His adjectives and nouns are taken from a Newt Gingrich memo called “Language: A Key Mechanism of Control.” It recommends using words like “candid,” “pristine,” and “reform” for your team’s ideas, and imagery like “machine,” “abuse of power,” and “decay” for the other guy’s.
Web link of note: R Robot
(At http://www.rrobot.com/weblog/)