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Haven't had the time or the energy to post here as regularly as I'd like. For what I do the Facebook is just as good or better. I'm moving the focus of my idiocy over there. If you want to keep up (and there will be more of what makes me so Zoddamn wonderful over there) then drop me a line and I'll hook you up with the friend request or whatsit.

Kick it.

OK Cats and Kittens I'll make you a deal. When you go about making the movie of my life. This has to be the trailer. I love you all, but this you will do for me, or you'll feel like you were hit by a Truck.




Found at FARK -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUHmQ0rfejw&feature=player_embedded

So, I worked most of the weekend. We're doing some big fun stuff (BFS) at work and I was trying to work some magic and make things easier for everyone. It was a time consuming lost cause, but worth the effort. As I closed out my working on Friday night and Saturday I started rolling through a ton of new albums I've been meaning to check out. It was largely disappointing (as it usually is) but some real gems rose to the surface. First the winners, then the losers.


Citizen Boris by Golem is described as gypsy punk. A definite win that tripped my trigger. Will be checking out their other releases.


Guns Don't Kill People... Lazers Do by Major Lazer reminds me of a Crystal Method meets MSI with some MIA thrown in. Frantic dance tech. Super keen.


Pink Limousine EP by Rootbeer is just great. Who knew that Pigeon John and Flynn Adam would work so well together? I'm late to this game, but I'm down with it.


Asleep in the Bread Aisle by Asher Roth is like what I want Eminem to be like. Fast and furious but douchebag free. Not 100% on this yet, but it certainly is worth further exposure.

Dissapointments:
Divided by Night by The Crystal Method I always (ALWAYS) find at least a few tracks to keep me moving on a CM cut. Not this time. It's like they grew up and moved away to college and then came back and stole my girl with their smooth beats. I want the old "let's get wrecked" CM back. I had to go listen to Name of the Game just to cleanse my pallete. Leonard's Loser? Crystal Method.

Easy Star's Lonely Hearts Dub Band by Easy Star All-Stars It's one of those rare things. A perfectly executed album which in no way grabbed me. It's an all reggae/dub cover of Sgt. Pepper's. It's clean and sharp and just not for me.

Invaders Must Die by The Prodigy Usually there's one track every few Prodigy outings that is worth the time. Not this time. I think they've moved on. Could hear greatness from where I was, but knew it wasn't going to get there.

The Lives of Lee Memorial by Lee Memorial I'd never heard them. It's green, but not for me by any stretch. I'm not sure WHO it's for, but then again that's why there's tons of stuff out there.

Addicted to Distraction by Black Landlord almost made the cut. Too far out of my line of country for me to take to it quickly. Will investigate furthe, later and see if I was wrong. There's a lot going on here. I do like me a big band.

I listened to 5 or 6 others as well, but most of them didn't get past the two or three track sample stage ( will someone please tell Doom to go back to using MF in front of his name, it was so much better then), and others are still on the table (The Ecstatic by Mos Def) to be checked out. I just wish I had more time to really dig in and listen.

Has anyone else heard anything good lately?


Found at The Internets

If you have an HDTV, you’ve noticed the wasted screen space when you’re on certain television channels. That’s a little inconvenience that Studio FRST has remedied with their Double Aspect Ratio 16943 concept, a TV with a slightly odd shape that can handle two viewing formats: a 16:9 format for films and 4:3 for television (hence the name). The clever design makes it clear why it is referred to as a ‘technological sculpure in levitation’. The black screen rests on a clear glass base, giving it the illusion of floating, and the 120mm thickness surprisingly conceals a DVD player.

I love this. I love everything about this. We're constantly flipping between widscreen and regular TV aspect ratios. More stuff like this needs to be out there. And not just as concept pieces, but as real world whatsits. Where the fuck is my flying car?

Found at Josh Spear -
http://www.studiofrst.com/works/169431.html

• 10:58 Think we've finally located the lost temple of Hanuman. At last we'll find out whether the legend of the monkey crown is true or not. #
• 13:11 The crown is real! I wore it and grew a fiery tail. I'm stronger and faster now. Don't know if I'm a monkey god or a pokemon. Crave bananas. #
• 17:27 That was a big waste of time. It should say "X # Charges" on any and all magical artifacts. At least it's worth a pretty penny. Oh well. #

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• 08:51 Found out that the two that uncle B picked up at DroidMax yesterday were on a rebel ship. They say they're old Lucias Clay's. Probably BS. #
• 13:13 Hitched a ride with this full on redneck. "Ain't like dustin' crops boy." What a tard. Ben is pretty cool, but keeps giving me hard candy. #
• 16:47 Good day. Have a lot of chemistry with this girl. Solo is a suck wingman. Which X-Wing is mine? It's the one that says "Bad Motherfucker". #

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• 09:53 Exploring "mysterious" caves in Argentina. Our guide is called Zanzabar. I think he's messing with us. Looking for cave fish. Wish us luck. #
• 12:45 Zanzabar has vanished into the dark. Kat thinks he's been grabbed by mutant catfish we saw earlier. Camcorder is gone too so I'm skeptical. #
• 16:03 Z came back with great shots of weird crystals and such. Negotiating a price for the locations. He wants $20. I love it here in the wild. #

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I don't even have the energy to comment on this. President Change is changing things, mostly for the worse. While he's a better speaker, he's as bad or worse on policy than President Expansion of Executive Authority was, which is pretty hard to imagine. On the little things he gets some stuff right, but on the big ticket items he talks a good game, but then fucks us. Same old thing, only worse and worse for us as time goes on.

Found at Boing Boing -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uuWVHT1WUY&feature=player_embedded

Sorry for the TMI, but when one loses ones bangmaker due to internet horror one just kind of blurts it out like that.

I'd love to think it's a joke, and of course it is. I just don't know if it's a joke like when someone tricked all those hipsters into wearing trucker hats, or if it's Darwin's last laugh on us.

Found at Cool Hunting(which may be dead to me now) -
http://www.cap-sac.com

• 11:40 Found out my best friend is a sleeper for GSG 9, which is both confusing and scary at the same time. You'd think his German would be better. #
• 17:48 OK, he might not be GSG 9 after all. He keeps whispering about "Operation Feuerzauber" being at risk. I'm even more scared now. #
• 20:02 Locked him in my shed. Had him wait for Ulrike Meinhof. I've been lacing his drinks with Ambien. I think he'll have to go away for a while. #

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Why didn't anyone tell me that there was a new Yeah Yeah Yeahs album out?

I hate you all.

Shame And Fortune is already my new favorite song.

Found at Uncrate
http://www.amazon.com/Its-Blitz-Yeah-Yeahs/dp/B001UJIMF0/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1240268742&sr=8-1

• 10:25 Off to shoot a jungle adventure movie on an island with strange dancing natives and a big ass wall. Wish us luck! #
• 11:23 I mean really? I'm busting my hump to save a girl from a giant ape and he's yapping about Mendel, epigenetics and the weight limits of bone? #
• 17:23 You'd think Robert Armstrong killed that monkey with the power of his mind alone. What a douche. Fay is so stupid. #

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• 11:30 Note: When representing yourself in court, it's frowned upon to refer to the opposing council as "the learned retarded wombat". #
• 13:39 "Liar liar pants on fire" is not the most effective rebuttal to an outrageous accusation. But it will get a few laughs from the jury. #
• 15:25 You know, I'll bet there's not one episode of Perry Mason where he accidentally set his briefcase on fire. BTW, don't fuck with Exhibit B. #

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I love XKCD. Not only is it lovably nerdy, but it doesn't pick sides. It's easy to pull the sheet off of the bastards who're selling both Molotov cocktails and fire extinguishers to the world and expose them for what they are, but that doesn't give a bye to everyone else talking about it. Most everyone talking about the "financial crisis" doesn't know shit about shit. It's just like when a celebrity has an operation and everyone wants to talk about the procedure. These media fucks aren't Zoddamn surgeons, they don't know how the world economic game is played any more than you or I do. Now, when they have stories about where to find tranny hookers, or how professional grifters work, then I'll listen. That's what they know. Not Economics.

Am I the only person around who doesn't really care that bad people running firms badly are inappropriately spending bailout money? Not only does it not shock me, it would shock me if they did any different. They overleveraged to the Nth degree. They did this and that and a bit of the other and got into a giant mess. So when they're handed free money they spend it like drunken sailors? That's the only thing that should be expected.

Found at XKCD -
http://xkcd.com/558/

• 10:05 You know, to be one of the greatest private collections of Renaissance art in the western world, breaking in here was pretty damn easy. #
• 13:28 So, I'm trying to decide between the Gainsborough and the van Strij. Only so much room. People don't understand that thieving isn't easy. #
• 17:52 Why would anyone have so many dogs? All apparently starving. On the other hand I didn't know I could climb a pine tree until just now. Help? #

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I know. But let's start with the basics: these are hand-painted, hand-sculpted dioramas, about $30 each, depicting a famous Trek scene. While I don't remember the episode where Spock and McCoy walk in just as Kirk finishes giving a blowjob to Swamp Thing, I'll assume it's accurate.

Holy fuck. Kirk is really on his knees, throwing his head away from the alien's crotch. The alien's hands were clearly holding Kirk's head just seconds ago. Spock and McCoy -- what the fuck are they even doing? Why are they standing like that? Sweet jeebus, I think their arms are actually intertwined! Are they dancing?!

For me, the cherry on this delightful cake of perversion is the expression on the alien's face. He's looking right at you, without an iota of shame any any of the decadence happening around him. You can judge him if you want. But he'll keep on sodomizing Kirk while Spock and McCoy tango behind him... and you can never make him feel bad about it. Sign up to order yours -- along with other, less horrifyingly perverse figurines -- here.

Topless Robot is my favorite nerdgasm site on the net. It's got the right sense of "I love this, but it's stupid as fuck" that I love about great fandom. I'll cop to spotting The Man Trap as the ep this is from. It's not a bad ep, but it would have been better had Swamp Thing actually been forcing his attentions on Kirk. And just so's you know? Spock and McCoy are in fact dancing. McCoy lets Spock lead, but he complains about it every second.

Found at Topless Robot -
http://www.collectiblestoday.com/ct/product/prdid-917175.jsp#

On January 31, 2009, KEI submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to USTR for copies of seven documents containing much of the negotiating text of the proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). Today the White House office the United States Trade Representative denied the request, claiming the documents are “information that is properly classified in the interest of national security pursuant to Executive Order 12958.”

Here is a PDF copy of the letter denying the FOIA:
http://www.keionline.org/misc-docs/3/ustr_foia_denial.pdf

The negotiating text of ACTA and many other documents, including even the lists of participants in the negotiations, are secret. The White House claims the secrecy is required as a matter of national security. But that does not mean the documents are off limits to everyone outside of the government. Hundreds of advisors, many of them corporate lobbyists, are considered “cleared advisors.” They have access to the ACTA documents.

Who are these cleared advisors? They are the members of these 27 USTR advisory boards:
http://www.ustr.gov/Who_We_Are/List_of_USTR_Advisory_Committees.html

The list includes players from every major corporate power in the US from Eli Lily and DuPont to the RIAA and MPAA. They get to see, and subsequently affect, the ACTA while creators and consumers are considered security risks. Now President Obama is probably well within his legal right to denay FOIA requests to anything which is a security issue, but this stinks. It stinks and it's sadly proving me right. I'd love to be really mad about this, but it's just what I expected. He's a tard and he'll fuck us every chance he gets.

With this, his FISA stand, and his other pro-gov'ment anti-citizen positions he's showing that he's just more of the same. He's as much an enemy of the US populace as the last guy. And we'll be worse for it unless something, you know, changes.

Found at Boing Boing -
http://www.keionline.org/blogs/2009/03/12/acta-state-secret/
http://www.keionline.org/blogs/2009/03/13/who-are-cleared-advisors/

• 08:32 Ate my gun a few days ago after IAD caught up with me. Now I'm back and hungry for some brains. Friends are all weirded out. Well, were. #
• 11:52 Confused. I'm the undead shambling husk and you're tasty brainmeat. Why are you not running? Fighting me goes against the natural order. #
• 15:48 It's just, when you aim for center it's wasting your time and mine. Get an ax or a machete, then you're in the game. Put the pistol away. #

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