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CAPS LOCK DAY

[ Comments Off ]Posted on October 21, 2010 by admin in Holidays

Thursday, October 21st, 2010

Yeah, it’s a tired trope, but it SURE IS EASIER THAN TALKING LIKE A PIRATE ALL DAY. PLUS, MISPELLING IS FUN.


Why is the caps lock key
labeled with lower case letters?

YES. ITS THAT TIME AGAIN. IF YOUR THE KIND OF PERSON WHO SENDS ADORING EMAILS TO PEOPLE LIKE GLENN BECK BUT POSTS THEM ON COMMENT THREADS OF ARTICLES MAKING FUN OF GLENN BECK YOU WONT EVEN NOTICE BUT ITS CAPS LOCK DAY AGAIN MAYBE I SHOULD HAVE ADDED A PERIOD BACK THERE BUT WTF LOL I THINK I WILL JUST KEEP TYPING. ACTUALLY THERES SOME DEBATE ABOUT WEATHER CAPS LOCK DAY IS ON ON JUNE 28 0R OCTOBER 22 BUT WE’LL GO WITH THE LADDER CUZ WE FORGOT ON JUNE 28 ANYWAY. THE GUY WHO HAS THE DOMAIN IS SMART HE SAYS ITS BOTH. IF YOUR CURIOUS ABOUT WHAT STARTED CAPS LOCK DAY WE ARE SORRY. IT IS ONE OF TEH GRATE MYSTERIES OF TEH INTRANETS. KNOWYOURMEME.COM THINKS IT STARTED IN 2004 BUT WE FOUND THIS 2003 PAGE. THE WIKIPEDIA PAGE FOR CAPS LOCK DAY SAYS THERE IS NO CAPS LOCK DAY PAGE WTF? I THINK ITS FUNNY THAT PEOPLE GET SO UPSET ABOUT THE CAPS LOCK KEY CUZ HEY JUST DONT PRESS IT DUH? I MEAN I FIND IT MUCH MORE ANNOYING that cuz of texting and em evrbdy lvs lttrs out n skps pnctuation cuz ur a bunch of textards hu r ruining teh eng lang HAHAHAHA. ONE BIG DRAWBACK OF TYPING ALL IN CAPS IS OF COURSE THAT AFTER A PARAGRAPH OF SCREAMING AT THE TOP OF YOUR INTERNET LUNGS PROBABLY NO ONE IS LISTENING ANY MORE AND THE ONLY WAY YOU WILL BE HEARD IS IF YOU RESORT TO BOLD OR BOLD AND UNDERLINED OR BOLD ITALICIZED AND UNDERLINED OR WORSE YET TO THE DREADED BLINK TAG. I MEAN IMAGINE IF THE INTERNET WERE PLASTERED WITH LARGE BODIES OF TEXT THAT WERE INCESSANTLY BLINKING WOULDNT THAT DRIVE YOU CRAZY? AND THEN ALL THAT WOULD BE LEFT TO YOU IS WEIRD COMBINATIONS OF MARQUEE TAGS AND ANIMATED EMOTICONS:

HAPPYCAPSLOCK DAY!omgomgomg

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The Books – The Way Out

[ Comments Off ]Posted on October 20, 2010 by admin in Music

Wednesday, October 20th, 2010

Don’t let reviewers’ inability to pigeonhole The Books’ sample-driven sound collages. Terms like “Folktronica” don’t begin to capture the essence of their carefully crafted found sound creations.

When a friend of mine recently suggested I absolutely had to check out The Books’ latest release The Way Out, I of course went to their Wikipedia page, since I hadn’t heard of them before. I have to admit I was briefly disturbed by the fact that the entry puts them in the hilariously-named genre Folktronica. As much as I enjoy some good Hick Hop, I wasn’t sure I was in the mood for whatever “Folktronica” might turn out to be. I’m glad I ignored that incredibly misleading description of what The Books do; when I finally got my hands on a copy of “The Way Out” and Thought for Food, I was pleasantly surprised by an eclectic and tightly-produced pastiche of sonic art that I might try to describe by saying something like “it’s sort of like Pinback meets My Life In the Bush of Ghosts“. Which also miserably fails to convey their exceedingly listenable inventiveness. Most of their music incorporates random samples of people talking and other sounds, but the musicalness of how they incorporate these sounds is so well-executed that you never really think of it as a guitarist and cellist playing with samples. The only decent comparison I can think of is the rather obscure Bill Nelson, who throughout the 80′s churned out a massive body of exceptionally musical sound collages that came across more like ambient music or the sounds of a film you weren’t watching. There’s a ton of press out there about The Books, which apparently hasn’t in itself led to a lot of unit sales for the duo. In many earlier interviews, they seemed to try to blame this on fans’ file sharing, something didn’t resonate as true for me, so I was glad to learn from articles like this more recent Boston.com article that they’ve since accepted that they have to tour. And they are as I type this; visit their site for show dates. Read the rest of this entry »

The Donner Party – When You’re Hungry For Change But All Hope Is Lost

[ 4 Comments ]Posted on October 19, 2010 by admin in Politics

Tuesday, October 19th, 2010

In the vast and brutal wasteland of contemporary American politics, sometimes there’s only one way to survive.

The massive expanse left between the extreme poles of America’s rabidly partisan politics these days leaves the voter in a vast unexplored frontier, where strange and frightening things can happen. Democrats have finally elected a genius IQ black president, and in their infinite and over-intellectualized whininess are still unhappy. Republicans had eight years of exactly what they wanted, the rootenest, tootenest, pro-war, pro-business, pro-rich cowboy the world could dream of, and they’re unhappy, fleeing in droves to the imagined solace of the nebulous and disparate solutions proposed by that bizarre collage of projected voter frustration called the “Tea Party”. Personally, I’m not falling for it; that’s why I’ve proposed innovative solutions like the Punk Party, the Facebook-based I Only Like You So I Can Hate You approach , and the Palin/Quayle 2012 campaign. But in today’s ruthless, winner take all political environment, there’s really only one thing left. Cannibalism. Although the Hannibal Lecters of the GOP will deny it flat out, the Grand Ole Party has a long-standing tradition of eating their young, and in their brilliantly honed campaign savvy, they’ve realized that when the American voter is this hungry for change, they’ll eat anything. That’s why they’re willing to throw them a questionable piece of meat like Christine O’Donnell. Anything to keep the party alive, right? Which is what inspired our latest idea for an alternative political party, The Donner Party. We’re still working up some graphics, but stay tuned for an expanded store, right now we only have an overpriced Palyn/Quail bumper sticker on CafePress. Read the rest of this entry »

How To E-Mail GlennBeck@FoxNews.com

[ 9 Comments ]Posted on October 18, 2010 by admin in Popular Media

Monday, October 18th, 2010

Some interesting insight into viewer intelligence.

It’s really quite simple. Log in to your AOL account, and put the e-mail address glennbeck@foxnews.com in the “TO” line. Then type your sycophantic drivel, and click “SEND”. Why I am I bothering to explain how to do this? Because a while back, I sent a heartfelt e-mail to Glenn Beck, asking for advice on how to improve my public speaking skills. I especially expressed interest in how he manages to get all teary-eyed at precisely the right moments during a broadcast. I guess I wasn’t all that surprised when he didn’t respond; I mean, he’s a busy guy, what with all that gold hoarding and restoring honor and whatnot, right? So although I sent one followup e-mail (see below), the only reason I’m even addressing the topic again is to share what I consider to be an amusing indicator of audience intelligence. When I sent the e-mail to Mr. Beck, I joked with a friend that I was probably going to get a deluge of e-mails intended for GlennBeck@FoxNews.com, because back in 2002, I sent a series of e-mails to BillOreilly@FoxNews.com, and posted them on the now-defunct echopraxia.org, an e-zine I maintained for a few years. In the ensuing six months, I received over 40 e-mails apparently intended for Mr O’Reilly. I might have bothered forwarding them, if it weren’t for the profound level of stupidity required for the senders to think they were actually sending an e-mail to their hero Bill. After my followup email to Glenn Beck below, see the screen grabs from the old site to see what I mean. And take a look at the interesting comments on the piece about my previous e-mail to Glenn Beck. Read the rest of this entry »

The Impending Global Shortage Surplus

[ 1 Comment ]Posted on October 17, 2010 by admin in Clean & Green

Sunday, October 17th, 2010

Don’t worry, there are plenty of shortages for everyone!


America even seems to be
experiencing a “fitness shortage”

There are times in big business when the marketing and product people should talk more with the engineers and scientists. I think this was true recently when companies like Apple and Research In Motion started pumping their mobile devices. As you may know, as a result of the explosive growth of this market, we’re now rapidly running out of the materials used in their manufacture, with China kind of cornering the market on them. The shortage of these materials should come as no surprise though; they are after all called (ahem) rare earth minerals. But since we also seem to have a shortage of common sense in America, this allows crafty neo-cons to point out that we’re now plagued with what could be called a “shortage deficit”. Meaning if those dirty liberals hadn’t put so many restrictions on mining these materials, WE could be running out of them instead of the Chinese. What these incessantly politicizing wingnuts fail to mention is that China is running out of water too. This will make it hard for the Chinese to capitalize on this shortage deficit for very long; it is after all harder to put the squeeze on anybody if you’re DYING OF THIRST. Besides, if you take a larger view, it quickly becomes apparent we’re running out of just about everything. We’re running out of oil, gold and silver, we’re running out of farm laborers (which is weird, because we’re not running out of people looking for jobs), we’re running out of drugs (at least the legal ones, the illegal ones are thriving), we’re running out of food…why, we’re even running out of internet addresses. Speaking of running out of food, the fact that we’re running out of tuna and red snapper (bet you didn’t know oil rigs were such a crucial part of the ecosystem, did you!) is probably a blessing since – as we mentioned – we’re running out of water to keep them in. Given the continued bailing out of the failed banking industry and the floundering global economy, I imagine that after years of being on the road to recovery, we’ll be running out of trees again to print all the cash needed to keep the party going. Ultimately though, I think what we’re shortest on is common sense, compassion, and patience.

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