Guess how many links they have in the article to the new startrek.com website? That’s right, zero. Fucking zero.

Guess how many links they have back to their own websites? 4.

You know what, space dot fucking com? I’m not even gonna link your article.

Share the love, Space.com, share the love.

I, unfortunately, am broke. However, I will do what I can, and spread the word around.

“ … serves as an uncensorable and untraceable depository for the truth, able to publish documents that the courts may prevent newspapers and broadcasters from being able to touch. ”
— In praise of… Wikileaks – The Guardian, October 20, 2009

I’m sure there are many in goverments and businesses around the world that would love to see this website shuttered because they expose ugly truths that otherwise would not see the light of day. They’ve been involved in some pretty heavy-duty shit.

A copy of Standard Operating Procedures for Camp Delta – the protocol of the U.S. Army at the Guantánamo Bay detention camp – dated March 2003 was released on the Wikileaks website on 7 November 2007.[42] The document, named “gitmo-sop.pdf”, is also mirrored at The Guardian.[43] Its release revealed some of the restrictions placed over detainees at the camp, including the designation of some prisoners as off-limits to the International Committee of the Red Cross, something that the U.S. military had in the past repeatedly denied.[44] emphasis mine

So, they exposed a lie the US goverment told. They have faced legal challenge after legal challenge, and one of their spokepeople’s houses was raided in Germany. They are considered very dangerous. Knowledge, after all, is power. And power is dangerous to those who jealously hoard their own power over others.

A memorial for the 13 people shot at Fort Hood in Texas in November. It was the deadliest domestic terrorism attack of the year.

This article is actually about how, for the most part, “terrorist” activity in the US last year was disorganized, and, in part, armed by dud weaponry supplied by FBI informants. Later in the article, there’s this:

Exactly 14 of the approximately 14,000 murders in the United States last year resulted from allegedly jihadist attacks: 13 people shot at Fort Hood in Texas in November and one at a military recruiting station in Little Rock, Ark., in June.

So why the scary caption on the photo? It was the deadliest attack by 90+%.

The Internet continues to prove a powerful tool for radicalization, as long-distance propagandists stir the ire of young Muslims about American wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Yeah, but for the most part, these retards on the internet are just retards on the internet, and nothing but bitching will come of it as they sip their lattes. Just remember they are young, and young people are dumb. They will make mistakes (one of them becoming the terrorist in the first place, i suppose) but I bet your chances of dying from non-al qaeda associated violence in your own home is higher than dying from al qaeda related violence anywhere in the world.

In July 1990, Sedlmayr was found dead and mutilated in his bedroom. Through lurid reports in the Munich tabloid press, his homosexuality became a matter of public knowledge for the first time. In 1993, half-brothers Manfred Lauber and Wolfgang Werlé, former business associates of Sedlmayr, were sentenced to life in prison for his murder. They were released on parole in 2007 and 2008.

Hey guess what you stupid idiots? Trying to change history or get your name and notorious crimes removed from the public knowledge gets you this: published everywhere. So go ahead, murderers Manfred Lauber and Wolfgang Werlé, sue me too. Sue me because you brutally murdered and mutilated Walter Sedlmayr and now want history to forget about it.

You two had life sentences and were released less than twenty years after your crime.

You can read about the details on the UK Guardian, who can’t publish their names because they publish a German edition.

But thanks to me understanding their tricks, some obscure internet forum got some ad impressions from me. What I’m most curious about, though, is exactly how effective such a trick is at generating A) pageviews and B) new sales.

And I’m guessing the answer is probably “depressingly effective.”

Also, I’d like to note that those health and beauty products are not government regulated. Despite the fact that your skin is the largest organ in your body and highly chemically permeable, there’s no safety standards for cosmetics.

About a minute in, shirtless Charles Bronson bathes, Axe-style, in this Japanese cologne called “MANDOM”

What I’d like to know, though, is where that manly pipe he was just gripping in his teeth moments before, when he flung grinning his shirt across the room with a manly pirouette? He has it in his mouth when he uncorks the MANDOM, but when he lifts the MANDOM in front of his manly cut chest, the pipe has disappeared.

It IS Charles Bronson though. Maybe he just ate that fucker.

“Ham Doctor” was just one entry in a horrifying list we made up to shock the future. Here are the others, if you are so inclined:

Voltron Nightgown

Strawberry Smurf

Cherry Split

Caramel Pollock

Greasy Pumpkin

Tangy Slipper

“The Prestige”

Some of those definitely sound like they will have stories attached to them shortly. Especially since oh between 200 and 300 thousand people read the site this was posted on, on the update days.

Hopefully I’ll never run into a picture of a Greasy Pumpkin online. I can’t imagine the chthonic horrors involved.

Recently, several people have received double hand transplants (a few even switched from right to left handed with zero explanation currently known by science). Wow, Futurama comes true.

In another episode, New York, sometime after the 21st century, contracts the mob to launch their garbage problem into space. Solving it once and for all. Until it comes back as a garbage meteor.

Today, I read about a giant garbage slick swirling around in the mid-Pacific, twice the size of Texas. The New York Times wants to do an article on it, but the graduate student contracted needs $10,000 to take the trip to the garbage to photograph and then write the article. She needs $3,800 to complete her goal to get this story noticed. This garbage slick wasn’t even discovered until recently.

Wiki on the Garbage Patch. I tried to find it on Google maps, but they’ve stripped out pictures of the surface of the ocean, it appears. (ed: in favor of ocean bottom topographical data.)

Here is a NPR story on the subject.

And last but not least, here’s the TED talk on the man who sailed through this marine shitstain, Captain Charles Moore.

I am going to see if I can find it with Google Earth – but if anyone has some satellite imagery of this, I beg of you to post it to twitter with the tag #GreatPacificGarbageSpot – this should be one of the Seven Great Shames of Humanity.

Thanks to @zoecello and @sarawinge on twitter for diggin this up.

Sibrel may seem crazy, but he has company. A 1999 Gallup poll found that a scant 6 percent of Americans doubted the Apollo 11 moon landing happened, and there is anecdotal evidence that the ranks of such conspiracy theorists, fueled by innuendo-filled documentaries and the Internet, are growing.

Twenty-five percent of respondents to a survey in the British magazine Engineering & Technology said they do not believe humans landed on the moon. A handful of Web sites and blogs circulate suspicions about NASA’s “hoax.”

And a Google search this week for “Apollo moon landing hoax” yielded more than 1.5 billion results.

President Bush left office with a higher approval rating than people who believe the moon landing was faked, according to the same Gallup polling – what does THAT say? I keep trying to find a Gallup Poll to see if any percentage of Americans truly believe in a flat earth, or hollow earth – I know some nutters claim to, but how many? Statistically comparable to the amount who believe in the moon landing hoax theory?

Well, I just became the 1,500,000,001st page to return a hit for the term “apollo moon landing hoax” so I guess CNN will chalk that up to another believer.

Honestly, if the moon landing was fakable, you’d think someone would put their money where their mouth is and PROVE IT BY FAKING ANOTHER ONE.

Seriously, if we could fake it, then China and Russia would have “landed on the moon too.”

Argument over. And seriously CNN, an argument over astrophysical matters without consulting Phil Plait? Epic fucking fail. Oh wait, there he is, once sentence at the end. No mention of his scene-by-scene refutation of the Fox film.