Self-Harm Cover-Ups for Emo Crybabies
[ Comments Off ]Posted on June 28, 2008 by admin in Lifestyle & Culture
Now you can get pretty tattoos to hide your half-baked suicide attempts.
When I was a young first-generation punk, we cut ourselves because we meant it. Good news for all you peer-pressured, conformist emo rebels though. Now you can get some decorative branding to hide all the little disposable-razor cries-for-help that you posted on MySpace (actually it was Xanga, but only you and your silly Emo friends know what Xanga is). Comfortably enter the already tattoo-friendly youth job market with lovely Carp (oh, I’m sorry, “Koi”…) skin branding that hides your wimpy suicide attempts. For the blind self-cutter, there are always braille tattoos. But this obviously begs the question: Why would you want a tattoo if you couldn’t see it?
Bill Gates’ Screen Goes Blue Today
[ Comments Off ]Posted on June 27, 2008 by admin in Technology
So long Bill. Hope you found a decent crack of Final Cut for your personal editing needs.
The rich man we used to love to hate, Bill Gates, is leaving Microsoft today. Although I’ve often cursed Bill for the daily headache otherwise known as Microsoft Windows, I got a little reminder that the the Indians are sometimes more responsible for things than the Chiefs. Check out this e-mail, wherein Bill chews his staff a new one over the frustrations he experienced trying to download Windows MovieMaker. My favorite bit is probably where he says: “So I gave up and sent mail to Amir saying – where is this Moviemaker download? Does it exist? So they told me that using the download page to download something was not something they anticipated”. So long Bill, I’ll always remember you as the nerdy guy who got busted for speeding (see mugshot, left). Keep up the (presumably) good foundation work, and if you ever need someone to watch the house, just let me know.
Beyond the Uncanny Valley of the Robo-Dolls
[ Comments Off ]Posted on June 26, 2008 by admin in Lifestyle & Culture, Technology
Welcome to the Uncanny Valley, where things are getting creepier every day.
Welcome to your creepy robot future. The ACM-R5 Amphibious Robot Snake pictured here is not a CG effect created for the next Alien
Everybody Has A Stupid Brother
[ Comments Off ]Posted on June 26, 2008 by admin in Lifestyle & Culture
Who would have guessed that the Dalai Lama has a plain-talking brother?
Jimmy Carter had a stupid brother. Bill Clinton had a stupid brother. George Bush probably IS the stupid brother (in that photo at left, the Dalai Lama is showing him where normal people’s moral standards are). But who’d have guessed that the Dalai Lama has one? Okay. I don’t know if he’s stupid, but things that he says are definitely a little “un-Dalai-Lama-like”.
Example:
Interviewer: At a young age, you, too, were recognized as a reincarnate of an important man, right? Tendzin Choegyal: Oh, that’s bullshit. I don’t believe it.
The interview is worth reading just to hear his take on Steven Seagal. By the way, don’t tell my brothers you read this; I’ll have some explaining to do…
Record Industry Begs World: “Please Stop Buying Music!”
[ 1 Comment ]Posted on June 25, 2008 by admin in Music, Popular Media
Why does the recording industry want radio stations to stop playing music?
In the ongoing saga of the RIAA just not getting it, they are apparently tired of suing old ladies who don’t even have computers and dead people and are now trying to kill their oldest and most reliable channel of cheap promotion, radio. Although the recording industry historically was quite happy to pay the broadcasting industry to play music (illegally, in fact – it was called payola), they now seem to think it should be the other way around. Click on the image at left for a detailed flow chart of how the RIAA decides whom to sue.