Some hideous but enjoyable creations are to be found at this obviously named website.

Here’s an incredibly important presentation that took place at the New York Public Library. This particular excerpt features internet champion, Lawrence Lessig talking about YouTube’s influence on the sharing of media.

The full program can be found here.

This new venture by the Pentagon should be filed in the “wasn’t this a terrible idea 60 years ago?” bin.

As pleasing as the idea of Orwellian surveillance blimps are, I just can’t imagine there won’t be some absurdly cheap way to thwart them. Like an industrial-sized dartgun that can reach 70,000 ft.

To quote Wallace Shawn, Hey DARPA, why don’t you give me half the money you were going to spend, we’ll go outside, I’ll kick you in the nuts, and we’ll call it a day!

actually encouraged patients to fight each other for the sheer pleasure of the staff goaders. Of course, anyone who actually absorbed Fight Club would know that fighting was just an outlet for post-modern male blue-collar angst and should not be the object of violence fetishists.

Why haven’t you told me that this exists? I demand to know now. This is clearly my destiny — to be the greatest Chess Fighter in the world. The only way to start is to hire a Thai Guru that makes me kick a palm tree until my shins bleed, then demands a recitation of Sicilian variations.

Someone needs to establish a US league, and pronto.

That’s some A+ production value for a random Swede-like Euro creation. I am ever increasingly impressed with this.

Here’s how to turn that old piece of electronics into something really useful. But don’t forget to use marshmallows! I cannot stress this enough.

This pleases me greatly. Thank you random web-designer homepage spawn point.

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Yet another reason why the TARP bailout packages failed the American public… Explained in a recent article I wrote for Scenario Magazine.

“Banksters, Enronites, Ponzi schemers, pin striped pimps! Public rage against bankers and the banking industry has never been stronger since the recent economic meltdown. Raping our IRAs, forcing us all into poverty, and foreclosing on the middle class seems to be the bankers’ business plan. People would really blow up if they realized that there is still another category of ongoing financial crimes that is flying completely under the radar. Just like all the others, this type of financial crime is firmly entrenched in the banking community and is part of the Business as Usual mentality. The forgotten outrage? Money Laundering.

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Via cartoonist Dan Meth’s website.

I wish I could be more excited about the Watchmen debut this weekend. Unfortunately, I saw the movie 300, the only movie of note in director Zach Snyder’s repertoire. And 300 was a steaming pile of mastodon dung.

So, yeah… I won’t be standing in line this weekend. But I’m open to being happily surprised when it hits HBO.

It’s a Brave New World out there. Legalization debates have gone from the fringe of freak counterculture circles, to the front page of the most revered conservative economic magazine in Europe.

While it’s encouraging that the mainstream public (or at least the internet public) is starting to rationally discuss possible endings for the half-century debacle known as the War on Drugs, I don’t believe we’ll see any substantial changes from the Obama team.

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