As has become my nature, I will now review Superman Returns in one run on sentence. Yes, this is only to annoy the Heiro. No spoilers in the review, but very minor ones below a spoiler space there. I’m sure the comments will have spoilers.
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Apparently the Catholic church has decided that anyone involved with stem-cell research should be excommunicated.
Science: Making religious reactionaries act like idiots since the dawn of time.
It takes at least a slightly retarded marsupial to draw the lines between post Katrina NOLA and Post IC Star City. Monitor Duty has a pretty good post on basic economics in both disasters, and how Green Arrow clearly didn’t learn from NOLA.
Also, be sure to read the comments. They are ugly in the way that only an internet post about economics, capitalism, religion, and humanity can be.
Ken Jennings “The Guy Who Won On Jeopardy”, has a blog. Its mostly about, you guessed it, trivia. He’s selling his (giant, styrofoam) head on ebay. En excerpt from the description reads:
Use Giant Ken to celebrate holidays on your front lawn, make your living room into a Jeopardy! shrine, scare bratty neighbor kids, or add just the right finishing touch to a mini-golf hole. Fill Ken with fireworks, blow him up. Launch him from a catapult. Scream obscenities at Giant Ken. Clean his giant ears with a giant Q-tip. Hours of fun. Don’t miss this one.
Smart and funny? I think I’m in love, all over again.
So, you know how some shows make a living off of doing horrible things to people and then telivising it?
Imagine that, crossed with Junkyard Wars, and add a dash of Japan.
You get this.
Give it a minute to get going. Thanks again to Kaoru, without whom we would not know of 9/10 of Japan’s craziness.
Well, looks like the Oxford English Dictionary, the most authoritative dictionary for the English language, has added the term Google as a verb. This could be a very big step in the weakening of Google’s trademark.
I’m sure some Google lawyers may be practicing using some very colorful verbs today. Possibly along with some pronouns, too.
Update: Heh
As net neutrality fails, Senator threatens to block legislation without it
The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation has finished marking up the massive Communications, Consumer’s Choice, and Broadband Deployment Act of 2006. The last amendment to be considered was one that would have made the principle of network neutrality a matter of law. After an 11-11 vote on the amendment failed, the entire committee passed the legislation by a 15-7 margin.
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Net neutrality proponent Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) announced via e-mail yesterday that he has placed a “hold” on the legislation, due to its lack of an “effective policy” on net neutrality.
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As Commerce Committee Chariman Ted Stevens (R-AK) has noted, he lacks the 60 votes necessary to stop Sen. Wyden’s likely filibuster at this point. That could leave the bill dead in the water, unless a network neutrality amendment is offered from the floor. Other amendments may also be tacked onto or removed from the bill, with Sen. John Sununu (R-NH) on record as saying he may try to strip the broadcast flag from the legislation.
Since the bill faces uncertain prospects in the Senate and is radically different from legislation passed by the House of Representatives, it may not survive the 109th Congress at all. As fall elections near, this is an excellent opportunity for all of us in the United States to let our senators and representative know how we feel about the telecom reform bills in general as well as particular issues such as municipal broadband, the broadcast flag, and network neutrality.
I’m avoiding calling this ‘good news’, because the fact of the matter is the net neutrality amendment isn’t there, and the broadcast flag is, but it sure reads like the best bad news I’ve read in a while.
The US Supreme Court has ruled that the Bush administration lacks the authority to try terrorism suspects by military tribunal. Ruling was 5-3 along party lines; Roberts recused himself, as he had been involved on the administration’s behalf at an earlier stage of the case.
Guess that whole ‘equal protection’, ‘rule of law’, ‘due process’ thing really sucks, huh?
I look forward to the White House’s reponse.
This seems to fit on ZoD better than my LJ, where most of my interweb tests normally go. Go take test of 20 questions asked to applying immigrants.
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Well, I warned you (see title). This is quite possibly the scariest thing in the entire universe. Just proving that even though the crack that is fed in through Japan’s water supply gives us hilarious things, like FLCL and Puni Puni Poemi, it also taketh away things. Like our eyesight.
In case you haven’t clicked the link yet, imagine Japan does Paris Hilton.
… no, not like that. Shut up.
Hat tip: Kaoru
Dave, of the Long Box, has a very good, a very mathematical, review of Superman Returns.
He also has an open challenge to teh interweboshpere, to come up with a Superman Returns Christ Metaphor Drinking Game. A Superman Returns Christ Metaphor Drinking Game. How can there not be a Superman Returns Christ Metaphor Drinking Game? A travesty, truly.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go Google “Neo Christ Drinking Game”, and fire up my find/replace.
I have the History Channel on for background noise right now, as I often do, and something interesting came up. Its called Brothers In Arms: The Untold Story of the 502. From a content point of view, its pretty standard stuff for the History Channel, when they aren’t playing some stupid show about building choppers, but its got one really interesting gimmick.
They recreate a large part of their narrative footage from the three Brothers In Arms games. It really doesn’t seem like it’s a gimmick for the gimmick’s sake. It really just feels like it replaces archival footage. Pretty cool stuff. Too bad I have to leave now.
Apparently FoxNews is gearing up their answer to The Daily Show: A sad, sad ripoff.
As if its pretensions to journalism weren’t already hilarious enough.
I was playing around with a devotimational poster generator today, and, um, not working through any of my issues or anything. Here’s the three I saved (waning, its work safe, but some people are going to never be able to burn one of the images from their brain):
EDIT:These pics are wide, and don’t play nice with smaller screens, so here’s the direct links:
Pic 1
Pic 2
Pic 3
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Real Headline: French Google Earth rival crashes and burns
Funny Headline: French Google Earth rival reinforces French stereotype
For reference, Google says 6 million euros is about 7.5 million us dollars
This totally bodes well for France’s Google replacement search engine.
Okay, so I can’t resist sharing this one. I blame The Hermit for starting to put them up here. Via kootsoop, on Slashdot, in the most recent poll.
Someone mentioned “pieces of eight” and their response was:
“Pieces of seven! Pieces of seven!
Ooops. Parroty errors.”
So apparently, Bush issued an Executive Order banning Kelo-style takings.
Kind of.
Which, woo and all, but read that thing. Read it. Then come back here and tell me: (a) Does he have the authority to pass that sucker? (Not that that’s stopped him before.) (b) Does it actually have any real impact, or is it a pure PR move with no teeth to it?
Because it’s 7:30 AM, and I cannot parse this shit this early. But it looks like an overreaching PR stunt with no real bite.
Clearly, something is wrong with reality. I was reading Son of Gelatometti, and the Wildstorm folks had their upcoming line up posted:
I’m actively looking forward to at least five of those! I’ll probably get pissed at some heavy handed cop out “America is teh evil” plot in either Stormwatch or The Authority, especially Stormwatch: Team Achilles, but I’d give almost even odds that one of the two books won’t do that with every story arc.
Edit: Bold tags across more cuts make baby Jesus cry, and our entire site bold. Modified to make the rest of the site unbolded.
My sisters told me another joke that I’m posting here.
When you get a new house, you should make sure you get an emo lawn…
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