teh l4m3=Teh Funny

Plus Tigra and Bunny were super-cute on the second album cover. Were they 14 or something? Never mind. Oh wait, let's mind:

And the Counter-Example to Gore Is...

Al Gore can do anything, right? An Oscar is only a small part of Gore’s bag of tricks, the poster child for grade inflation in our generation.

Man of letters - Professor Gore
Expert ranter - Populist Gore
Invented the internet - Entreprenureal Gore
Honorary Doctorate of Climatology - Doctor Gore
Nobel Peace Prize? - Al Gore, Man of Peace
Vice President - Yes-man Gore

What can’t Al Gore do in one lifetime?

Lead.

Boo hoo. Somebody got a prize and I didn't.

My Work Sends Me Cum Shot Mail

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KMFDM vs. Kylie Minogue

Is A Drug Against War really more aggressive than Come Into My World? If so, why?

Quoth Richard Nixon

In my idiotic quest to download and reread every crappy comic that mom sold at some garage sale when I was off playing video games or throwing melons off buildings, I've come across some sad panels, but this one's a real downer:

...And the Degenerate Mistress Ladyfinger!

Look, if I had a superhero called Captain Cookie I might have a use for someone called Von Wafer.

My Fair Lady

Computing award goes to female for first time

(AP) -- One of the most prestigious prizes in computing, the $100,000 Turing Award, went to a woman Wednesday for the first time in the award's 40-year history.

Frances E. Allen, 74, was honored for her work at IBM Corp. on techniques for optimizing the performance of compilers, the programs that translate one computer language into another.

This process is required to turn programming code into the binary zeros and ones actually read by a computer's colossal array of minuscule switches.

Allen joined IBM in 1957 after completing a master's degree in mathematics at the University of Michigan. At the time, IBM recruited women by circulating a brochure on campuses that was titled "My Fair Ladies."

[...]

Learning Photoshop

There's always an excuse to be a dick learn something new:



Smudge tool, clone brush, 3D transform, eraser like fucking crazy, colour balance, rotation, variation, pencil, lasso, Star Wars letter contraction and so on.

Attention Women

Thanks.

Language and Television Captions

My kid is a fabulous reader, as she's learned from me how to occupy time while sitting in one place for-fucking-ever. Anyway, as a result we watch TV with the captions on because babbling that's hard for her to catch is spelled out before her eyes. She had never watched a movie all the way through before we set her up with The Incredibles with subtitles.

As a result of this, I became aware that most music videos have captions on them, and now we have at a minimum learned the alternate meanings for hood and crib. This is also a good trick for use on other-language channels if you want your kid ostracized at an early age.

Christian Faith: Distinct

The Conservapedia needs a faster server: it's just not that funny if you have to wait two minutes for the comedy to load.

Weddings vs. Genocides

Thers writes about the latest outing and the mental gymnastics required to land face-first in the mud-puddle. Josh Treviño comments and in doing so reveals a literalism common to the right.

On the OI Statement of Principles itself, the issue of anonymity/pseudonymity was third out of four, and qualified, at that. This Statement was a compromise document -- drafted by a left-wing majority -- and as such, does not reflect my own views on the subject, nor anyone else's, 100%. All this has been public knowledge from the beginning.

This reading of the third out of four principles in isolation is the kind of thing that loses law cases. It's pretty clear from the rest of the principles set out that revealing personal info is supposed to be a bad bad thing. Much like constitutional literalists who think that because the constitution has nothing to say about X that you can't apply constitutional principles to X, JT scoffs at the penumbra, while reasonable people read the OI statement - which purports to simplicity - and see someone being awfully weaselly.

The Online Integrity Statement of Principles is simple:

1. Private persons are entitled to respect for their privacy regardless of their activities online. This includes respect for the non-public nature of their personal contact information, the inviolability of their homes, and the safety of their families. No information which might lead others to invade these spaces should be posted. The separateness of private persons’ professional lives should also be respected as much as is reasonable.

2. Public figures are entitled to respect for the non-public nature of their personal, non-professional contact information, and their privacy with regard to their homes and families. No information which might lead others to invade these spaces should be posted.

3. Persons seeking anonymity or pseudonymity online should have their wishes in this regard respected as much as is reasonable. Exceptions include cases of criminal, misleading, or intentionally disruptive behavior.

4. Violations of these principles should be met with a lack of positive publicity and traffic.

There's also the limited takeback in operation with the "does not reflect my own views on the subject, nor anyone else's, 100%" bit, which also fits neatly with those who love readings in isolation: authorial intent is a big deal to the right-wingers who would limit legal interpretation to what the authors of the law could possibly conceive of at the time. (Some make such a big deal of authorial intent in novels that they out others over it: the doctrine is personal as well as political.) Tacitus is, I suppose, being consistent in the way he thinks legalese should be used.

Anyway, for the latest trigger to be a not-purloined wedding photo (though I think I would have agreed to dispose of the picture in question) as opposed to whether or not concentration camps are a good idea is just sad.

Complaining About Free Stuff

Also complaining about stupid stuff. Bonus! Many thanks to Azureus.

The following are all drawings of one woman, who's supposed to be a combination superhero/newswoman.



Her scarily meandering features remind me how depressing it was that Roy Lichtenstein was so crappy at composition in comparison to the people he was ripping off. Yes yes, that was not the point of putting that stuff on the walls of an art gallery, but it could have been better stuff instead of what was delivered.

Thanks Worldnut and Newsbusters!

Without you I would never have known that someone called The Decider an idiot again.




Keep that left-wing propaganda machine in high gear please.

Heroism in Afghanistan

Every now and then I think about Afghanistan (because I'm not supposed to be paying attention to Iraq) and I despair at the chaos. One of the things I can't put out of my mind is Massoud, l'Afghan, a film about Northern Alliance leader Ahmed Shah Massoud.

It's been a while since I saw it so much of it's foggy to me. I remember it as an odd film, anthropological, political, and worshipful to its subject. There was a set of scenes involving an attack on Kabul. Massoud and his men make their way to some hills overlooking the city with various broken down vehicles, set up a crappy firing rack (like a giant-sized slanted cookie sheet) and set rockets up on it aimed loosely at the city (the rockets would roll around on the rack a little). In a technique I was familiar with from near-constant cartoon-watching, they touched off the rockets by applying fire to their ends.

What I thought at that point was that it was an awful crime and that someone, anyone, filmmaker included, would have been justified in shooting those men where they stood. The rockets flew off in whatever direction destroying whatever was at the end of their arcs for symbolic purposes, as this was the kind of attack that nobody in Kabul would surrender to or could cheer on unless by dumb luck each and every rocket hit Taliban personnel only.

Thus endeth the discussion of the only Afghan hero I'm aware of.

Fark Provides

I vote streetlight.

In the Headlines

I guess if the principal had been less devoted the story would have led with the broken traffic signals.

Remarkable

No editors at Town Hall I guess. Kevin McCullough:

So if the Democratic Party, which ironically enough founded the Ku Klux Klan** as tool by which to intimidate blacks into voting Democrat, has in fact become the modern day plantation to black voters, Hillary is without question the plantation madam. On her plantation are the house slaves - Revs Sharpton, Jackson, and most recently South Carolina state senators Robert Ford, and Darrell Jackson.

[...]

The job of these four modern house slaves (and others for all we know) is to "be black" and to publicly cast doubt on Obama's "blackness, ability to win, his true blackness, experience in public office, and once and for all why he's just not black enough."

I believe that this was suddenly why a few weeks back Sharpton began getting all uppity to Obama, "Just because you're our color doesn't mean you’re our kind."

To Click or Not to Click

Town Hall has not convinced me that I will see funnies.

There's Something Strange About This Headline

But I can't quite finger it.