Archive for May 2006
"kill kill kill, die fuckers, praise the lord" and other things
If you replace the word Christian for Muslim in the description of the left behind game posted on BoinBoing it sounds exactly like a game about 911 where you play the role of the terrorists
And in other news:
Breakfast Club's "angry principal" dies at 67
Paul Gleason played the angry principal in the 80s “Brat Pack” flick The Breakfast Club. He died on Saturday at age 67 from mesothelioma, a rare lung cancer.
Sad day. :(
USATODAY.com – ‘The Breakfast Club’ actor Paul Gleason dies at 67
The State of Classical Music in America
Check the Numbers: Rumors of Classical Music’s Demise Are Dead Wrong – New York Times
All this has of late become the subject of countless blogs, news reports, books and symposiums, with classical music partisans furrowing their brows and debating what went wrong, what can still go wrong and whether it’s too late to save this once-exalted industry. Moaning about the state of classical music has itself become an industry. But as pervasive as the conventional wisdom is, much of it is based on sketchy data incorrectly interpreted. Were things better in the old days? Has American culture given up on classical music?
"This is all utter bullshit."
The FBI’s raid on a corrupt Congressman’s office has sparked a Constitutional “crisis”. Yeah, right.
This uproar over the raid smacks more of self-preservation than preservation of the Constitution. When all this hype dies down, all of these political ostriches will go back to sticking their heads in the sand. And what will remain? An imperial Presidency, a tattered Constitution, and the painful, continued silence of a Congress that doesn’t give a damn about democracy as we know it.
More: Daily Kos: So Now, Everyone Gives A Damn About The Constitution
A Michael Show?
Saw this headline and all I could think of was "What, is he a dog now?"
"Progress" in Iraq
BBC NEWS | Middle East | Iraqis shot ‘for wearing shorts’
Witnesses said the three were dressed in shorts and were killed days after militants issued a warning forbidding the wearing of shorts.
Other Iraqi athletes have been targeted in recent incidents.
Oh yeah, things are getting better…
"See No Evil" review on Macsimum News
Macsimum News – Don’t see ‘See No Evil’
As long as folks keep shelling out good money for junk like this, trash like See No Evil will continue to haunt the multiplexes. This is another gore-filled film in which an almost superhuman killer mutilates and mauls young people. This is entertainment?
It seems that they don’t like it very much. That’s not really surprising, though, it’s a movie from the WWE. :-/
Ugly Gateway all-in-ones
I was doing some Googling for something that I can't remember anymore and came across a C|Net article from 2002 about Gateway disparaging the Apple iMacs.
As first reported by CNET News.com, Gateway on Monday unleashed an aggressive ad campaign that directly targets the iMac and released six new Profile 4 PCs that closely match the pricing and configuration of Apple's trendy all-in-one PC.
Gateway's assault on iMac comes two days after Apple released a major upgrade to Mac OS X and amplified its "switchers" marketing campaign aimed at wooing PC users to the Mac.
But Gateway has an ad campaign of its own, which will pit Profile 4 against iMac in head-to-head comparisons–a rarity in the computer industry. Both companies target their all-in-one computers to consumers and use their own company stores to either promote or sell them.
Here's the Profile 4 and its then-competition:
And Gateway's current crop of all-in-ones and, just for funsies, its "competition":
Hastert, Cheney in cat fight
Denny let Dick have it with both barrels recently because, as he sees it, his “good friend” Porter Goss is being made a scapegoat for the Administration’s intelligence failures, among other things.
“That wrath reflects the feeling in the House Republican cloakroom that Goss, who gave up a safe congressional seat from Florida for a thankless cleanup mission at the CIA, is being made a scapegoat for the government’s intelligence mess. But Hastert’s discontent goes beyond the CIA. The GOP mood on Capitol Hill, particularly the House, is poisonous.”
"I don’t think anyone got a hard-on watching this film."
Film seeks to demystify sex by making it real
The opening sequence prepares audiences for what is to come, with three different sex scenes.
One features a young man performing oral sex on himself in front of a camera, another a young man masturbating as he is whipped by a dominatrix and the third a couple having acrobatic sex in their apartment.
Mitchell succeeds in making the on-screen action less shocking than it sounds, and rather than gasps from the audience at a press screening, there was laughter at the comedy.
I’m guessing we’ll have to wait for the DVD here in America…
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