Oh lord.
A democratic candidate for probate judge, bearing the surname of Parks, tossed out candy cigarettes. (helpfully wrapped in a campaign sticker)
I have learned that pocky is served at fancy restaurants to cleanse your palate after a meal.
Pretend for a moment that you’re running a international group of crazy people from your cave in Afghanistan, and you want to talk to your super secret switchboard in the capital of your fathers birth country.
So you just take out your satellite phone and call direct to HQ. To provide some level of security you speak in using code words like you’re an 8 year old with a secret clubhouse. Your sinister bearded operatives in foreign countries also call direct to your communications hub to receive your orders.
As you somewhat openly plot your moves, the agency motoring your calls (NSA) refuses to share intelligence with other agencies due to interagency rivalries. Similar issues of non-communication occur to a lesser extent with the CIA & FBI.
While they’re bickering you bomb 2 US embassies, the USS Cole and hijack 4 planes which you crash into various buildings of significance.
Congratulations, your operations are now at international mastermind level; and your enemies have hamstrung themselves.
ps: watch the whole nova program on this, it’s very interesting.
If The Beatles came on the show we would have said, ‘We’ll take those three - Paul McCartney, John Lennon and George Harrison - but probably lose the drummer.’
In which Simon Cowell demonstrates (once again) how terribly useless reality tv is at choosing good talent.
Coalescing in an online chat room, members of the group, known as Pranknet, use the telephone to carry out cruel and outrageous hoaxes, which they broadcast live around-the-clock on the Internet. Masquerading as hotel employees, emergency service workers, and representatives of fire alarm companies, “Dex” and his cohorts have successfully prodded unwitting victims to destroy hotel rooms and lobbies, set off sprinkler systems, activate fire alarms, and damage assorted fast food restaurants.
But while Pranknet’s hoaxes have caused millions of dollars in damages, it is the group’s efforts to degrade and frighten targets that makes it even more odious. For example, a bizarre July 20 prank ended with a hotel worker actually sipping from a urine sample provided by a guest at a Homewood Suites in Kentucky. Additionally, at least twice this year, fast food workers—fearing that they would suffer burns after being doused by chemicals from a fire suppression system—stripped off their clothes on the sidewalk outside their respective restaurants.
It’s a good thing this article isn’t alarmist terribly alarmist or filled with personal attacks. Is this what passes as reporting now?
ps: I love their use of dehumanizing language such as “creature” and “subspecies.”
(via azspot)
“Are you afraid of losing your information? I thought that Gmail would never be in danger of losing anything.”
Lino Uruñuela (commeting on “How to back up your Gmail on Linux in four easy steps”)
*facepalm*
2009 Gathering Of The Juggalos Infomercial
These people are serious. (via wigu)
“£400 million ($668 million) will be spent on installing and monitoring CCTV cameras in [20,000] homes of private citizens. Why? To make sure the kids are doing their homework, going to bed early and eating their vegetables. The scheme has, astonishingly, already been running in 2,000 family homes. The government’s “children’s secretary” Ed Balls is behind the plan, which is aimed at problem, antisocial families. The idea is that, if a child has a more stable home life, he or she will be less likely to stray into crime and drugs.”
Britain To Put CCTV Cameras Inside Private Homes
Read the full article. Then hide in a corner and weep.
ps: children’s secretary Ed Balls.
Is this really how teenage girls look now? Do they really think they look attractive like that? Protip: You look like leftover 80s glam metal band groupies mixed with diaper-shitting toddlers. You don’t look cute. You look laughable.
“It’s one thing to stop selling them. It’s something else entirely to remove them from the Kindles of those who already bought them. That this happened with 1984, of all the books that have ever been written, is simply incredible.”
Albuquerque Public Schools’ job application process is going green! It’s now online only, so trees are saved. They will also be setting up 8 internet connected computers for applicants without the ability to apply from home. The scale of the application process is not something i’m deeply aware of so I may be wrong, but seriously, cut this crap about online billing, registation, newsletters etc. being inherently better. Most of America’s electricity comes from coal, which isn’t and will never be clean.
inky:
Ireland’s Blasphemy Bill not only criminalizes free speech, it also gives the police the authority to confiscate anything deemed “blasphemous”. They may enter and search any premises, with force if needed, upon “reasonable suspicion” that such materials are present. […]
Satirizing religion in any way, shape, or form, if it “causes outrage”, is now a prosecutable offense in Ireland. Saying anything negative about a religion, if it “causes outrage”, can now be prosecuted as a crime.
Witness the return of the Dark Ages.
Don’t tell anyone I own Monty Python’s Life of Brian.
I pity you.
Once Michael Jackson finishes dying on national TV we can return to our regular ‘reporting’ about how the entire internet is filled with pedophiles we should be deathly afraid of.
Remember kids, any male over 30 that’s nice to you (doesn’t ignore you) is a creep. Run home and report him to your parents so we can all be safe.
