This week, England’s Telegraph UK, featured the SarcMark, a purportedly new innovation for warning others of your not so sincere tone. A life-long ironical satirist myself, the SarcMark seemed to offer the prospect of more directly insulting the oblivious. Unfortunately the SarcMark isn’t a novel idea — at all…
Good Festivus Tidings to all and sundry. For those rare few seeking a spiritual awakening on this Ancient Pagan Equinox Festival (otherwise known as Jesus Day), here is a clip from your local endocrinologist/lecturer/Indian Peter Sellers, Deepak Choprah, who doesn’t want you to use recreational drugs unless you already have an innate perception of the nature of the world. Isn’t that like asking you to refrain from using a bowling ball until you record a perfect 300 game? I remain skeptical.
I’ll admit to being more than a little shocked that Russ didn’t have this up first, but it’s too good to pass up. This is “Ataque de Panico,” a sub five minute science fiction film directed and produced by Fede Alvarez. Pretty cool, but nothing you haven’t seen before in some form or another, right? But I wonder if your opinion might change if you knew that it cost $300 to make.
For the uninitiated, Wafflepwn is the YouTube handle of a newly-minted 16 year old internet celebrity. Over the course of a year, Wafflepwn has amassed tens of millions of video views and over 200,000 subscribers by broadcasting the flaily tantrums of his emotionally disturbed big brother.
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Virgin made a potentially huge announcement in the scope of human civilization yesterday as it publicly debuted the first piloted commercial spaceship.
Looks like Mr. Obama is finally going to earn that Nobel Prize of his. In one of the more devious moves in recent presidential history, the big O has sent out nearly the entire US army to lamely wander the deserts in Afghanistan.
Though I can’t independently confirm it, I’ve heard tell that this Mark Logan is actually Twitter’s official spokesperson. That fact alone makes this video pretty darn funny, though I think he should have stuck to his own rule-set and delivered his burn in under 140 characters.
So, it could have read something to the effect of: