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Social development comes from gin and desperate housewives?

John — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:23:50 +0000

From Warren Ellis, a temendously interesting talk on ‘Web 2.0′, time and social development:

The Daily Show addresses the ‘Elitist’ ‘Controversy’

John — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 13:07:37 +0000

I love the line “for the first time in history, well-educated, affluent, white males are going to have their say”!

Though, have other people been finding that the player the ‘Daily Show’ uses needs to be refreshed every so often? It took me four gos to get that clip to play fully…

You are NOT the father!

John — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:54:19 +0000

Man, this show looks SO shit but this clip is just hilarious! Also, the Wikipedia page for this is absolutely brilliant, as it’s really badly written:

Usually, when the man is shown to be the father, the woman gets up, chases the man, victoriously declares that she told him so, and does the “give me yo money” dance which includes cash hand gestures. Then she challenges him to follow through on his claim that he will provide support to the child; there is usually no follow-up to see if this actually happens, possibly due to the rather large number of cases that appear on the show monthly. Upon such confirmation, most men accept the fact that they are the father. Conversely, when the man is proven not to be the father, it is common for the men to celebrate by performing dance steps or running in to the audience to high-five audience members while the women walk or run backstage crying, often collapsing (or sometimes even diving) to the floor into the fetal position. In such cases, the man rarely receives an apology.

‘The Word’ on Obama’s ‘Race Speech’

John — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:42:43 +0000

Cian’s already talked about this, but Obama does it funnier (sorry Cian) (Also, I apologise for the fact that ‘funnier’ isn’t correct English)

OBAMA RACE SPEECH DISCUSSED
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The history of Scientology

John — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:38:51 +0000

Thanks to Eugene for this:

A Decleration of ‘War’ against the Cult of Scientology

John — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:53:35 +0000

Thanks to Warrenellis.com for this interesting video:

Update: As Warren Ellis points out – what makes these videos so interesting is the sense of ‘threat’ within these videos as much as anything else….

The Dissertation Two

John — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:57:07 +0000

1,997 words. Currently starting into Kermit Roosevelt’s ‘counter-coup’ a rather interesting adventure romp and one of my major primary sources so far. On the other hand its an awfully limited book given the nature of the person who is writing it. I mean he’s hardly going to give an unflattering account of the whole thing and the people involved is he?

Two rather entertaining lists:

John — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 16:13:07 +0000

The Evil Overlord list featuring such classics as:

My ventilation ducts will be too small to crawl through.
One of my advisors will be an average five-year-old child. Any flaws in my plan that he is able to spot will be corrected before implementation.
If my trusted lieutenant tells me my Legions of Terror are losing a battle, I will believe him. After all, he’s my trusted lieutenant

And some 97 more.

Along with The 213 things Skippy is no longer allowed to do in the U.S army such as:

14.Not allowed out of my office when the president visited Sarajevo.
17. God may not contradict any of my orders
29. The Irish MPs are not after “Me frosted lucky charms”.
33. Not allowed to chew gum at formation, unless I brought enough for everybody.
34. (Next day) Not allowed to chew gum at formation even if I *did* bring enough for everybody.
48. I may not use public masturbation as a tool to demonstrate a flaw in a command decision.

And so on… There’s a pretty good website with this list explaining some of these stories here.

Hunter S. Thompson

John — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 09:40:58 +0000

A short audio interview given about ‘hells angels’;

and the problem between the blurring of fantasy and reality:
gonzovision:

Excerpt from ‘Bill O’Reilly, the opera’

John — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:30:21 +0000

This is hilarious:

Excerpt from “Mackris v. O’Reilly”, a baroque oratorio composed by Igor Keller. Libretto uses verbatim transcript of sexual harassment complaint brought against Bill O’Reilly in 2004