www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcIEEdTiNak

You have to watch all the way to the end, though, to understand the true weirdness that is going on.

Lady Gaga, Bruce Springsteen, Elton John, Shirley Bassey, Debbie Harry, and Sting, all together, singing Journey’s Don’t Stop Believin

via eric who probably has the good excuse of being a Journey fan back when they were hot and no one new any better. I don’t have an excuses.

Michael Langan Mugshot

Independent filmmaker and commercial director Michael Langan is serious about his dedication to multimedia. With a degree in film and animation from the Rhode Island School of Design and a professional background in theater, graphic design and music, the bi-coastal artist makes great efforts to incorporate all of these elements (and more) into each of his projects.

Found this director a while back. Glad to see he’s getting some recognition. I suspect we’ll see him going places. His website is Langanfilms. You can view select works there.

Rock and roll is about sex and anger and declaring that you are alive, not making your fucking grandmother smile while she knits condoms with the Pope’s face on the side. It’s the hymns for the church of booze and pills and cigarettes and orgasms I’m talking about, not some walking colostomy bag in a bad hat singing through his nose about how he’s a waste of a good womb. It’s about being an epic fucking human being.

The Memoirs Of Cathcart Zen

The Many Wives Of Cathcart Zen

The Politics Of Cathcart Zen

The Rock Of Cathcart Zen

The Dinner Of Cathcart Zen

This guy is hilarious.

Hot chick and wordnerd.

Something Positive - R. K. Millholland

All my friends will be nodding their heads sagely about this point.

Glad the redesign was easy to do, as all I’m gonna wanna do around here now is spam the videos and pictures ya’ll love.

I will be spending my days reacquainting myself with Linux and various related systems for the aforementioned job. It’s gotten a lot more user friendly but you still gotta know what you are doing or you are gonna be lost (even with some googling you may be lost). Of course I’m checking out the server version in a virtual box right now. The desktop GUI version is even more friendly than the “console will make you grow man hairs” server version.

My compliments to Intel and the i7 processor. Watching videos, running a complete second OS under my first one, 16 or so tabs open in Chrome, Team Fortress 2 running in the background and it’s not even using the processors. I think I’m gonna start up a new virtual box and run ubuntu desktop, see if i can get them all up at the same time and talkin to one another.

Why? Dunno, cuz I can? To the downloadodrome!

I also have changed the bitrate to 320 so it wont be losing out on any bass or high end.

Download here or listen below.

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And, the link to the 3 of em pee that yours truly has worked over with the bit hammer.

the podcast below may show up in the RSS, or may only show up on the webs. your mileage will vary.

Indeed, the very ease with which pico projectors can be used to create social awkwardness could be a significant feature. Alexander Besher, one of the organizers of the pico projector film festival, thinks there could be significant use of pico projectors in political protests. Picture a nighttime war protest where hundreds of people have pico projectors showing graphic images of devastation on every available surface.

This was kinda ancillary to the article but man, what a great idea. Not one I’ve ever really heard before, either, but I can think of so many uses for these things now. Muwahahaha.

from this guy via that guy.

and

Fans of early 20th century design and graphics, take note.

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.

At the very least, they could have made sure the age in the headline matched the age quoted below his “photo.”

The cutest part is the little meows she gives.

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.

These measurements of the cosmic microwave background — a faintly glowing relic of the hot, dense, young universe — put limits on proposed alternatives to the standard model of cosmology and provide further support for the standard cosmological model, confirming that dark matter and dark energy make up 95% of everything in existence, while ordinary matter makes up just 5%.

So this means that we’re going to have to re-think the Kardashev civilization scale. 95% of the Milky Way can’t even been seen except by inference with our current tools.

There could be a type 3 civilization all around us and we might not even know it. Actually, according to the Kardashev scale, there could be 19 type 3 civilizations – A type 3 uses the ‘average’ power output of a whole galaxy, which is just the 5% we can see….

A couple proposals.

Maybe Einstein was right when he said that everything happened in an instant, and time is just how we perceive that. Maybe that ‘hidden’ 95% is the rest of the history and future of the Milky Way, in time. Since currently we only experience time linearly, we cannot test this preposterous idea with our instruments.

Perhaps string theory is right, and that other 95% are in higher or lower dimensions we can’t see.

Perhaps ‘light’ matter/energy is just like bits of data on a ‘dark’ matter/energy hard drive platter or bits in a quantum computer (qubits). Any data that exists in your computer cannot perceive the computer existing around it, though it could infer that the computer was there (assuming such things are possible, anyway – just stretching for a metaphor).

If this guy actually gets anywhere near popular enough to succeed in a presidential race, I have a horrid fear that he wouldn’t make it to the inauguration.

Found via Mish, talking about the death of Capitalism.

No empire has survived. None. The only question is when.

What has survived? Culture, families, cities. The idea of the rule of law. Corruption. Knowledge, both information and disinformation (see: Corruption).

Man creates and destroys nations with breathtaking swiftness in geological time. Compared to the tribe of man, nations are the blink of an eye.

The only question is when, and chances are you wont know it till it’s on you. You have to realize that, and then ignore it.

One idea that has survived a long time, the idea of democracy, has survived countless attacks over the years.

Part of the problem is “the government.” And not just the way we are governed, but even the idea of “the government.” As if it’s this… thing. This entity that’s sitting over us, like some kind of whimsical father, deciding who shall be punished and who shall be rewarded. But it’s supposed to be us. Yet all we can do is send a letter to a Congressman to be read by an aid, tallied for opinion and replied with formletter for issue X.

Hopefully we can metamorphose democracy into a new, digital, interconnected, actually-by-the-people era.

TL;DR All nations die, humans live, government dysfunctions, maybe facebook is the answer.

Good to see the anti-iPhone ball get rolling.