Life Imitates Satire
In the increasingly surreal battle between the RIAA and music listeners, reality and satire can be hard to discern
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Four out of Five People Wash Their Hands.
Four out of Five People Wash Their Hands. Don’t be that Fifth Guy. While you’re at it, cover your mouth when you cough and stay home when you’re sick. Really, how many times do we have to tell you? Wash. Your. Hands. Seriously.
Who’s the Fifth Guy? “The Florida Department of Health set out to prepare people for the potential of a flu pandemic, but they faced a tough challenge: No pandemic on the horizon … Then they built the campaign around what does matter to people: Fitting in.”*
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Put Wet Towels On The Sensor
How to wash your hands and ride the elevators in the new New York Times Building.
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Seven Girlie Things That Men Would Have Fun Doing
An amusing list of activities which are normally associated with women, but that men would enjoy.
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Jackass 2.5 to be released online first
Sequel to the two-time box office hit, Jackass 2.5, will skip multiplexes entirely
and be distributed online first. Perhaps this will herald a new age of online-first movie distribution?
Please pardon the dust, but, as you can see, Jackassworld.com is indeed
open during construction. This is where you will eventually be able to
come and, not only find all of your Jackass needs, but a lot of new
stuff as well. “Growing the brand,” was, I think, the phrase they used?
So, while there will be no shortage of dudes kicking each other in the
balls just like in the old days, we’ve got a whole butt load of new
shit planned for your face on this site in the near future. But this
is-and this is what they told us-only the “soft launch.” (Yeah, we kind
of giggled when they said that too.)
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The Story of Stuff
From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in
our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is
hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes
the connections between a huge number of environmental and social
issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just
world. It’ll teach you something, it’ll make you laugh, and it just may
change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever.
Written and presented by Annie Leonard; produced by Free Range Studios.
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Net.Art Generator
The net.art generator automatically produces net.art on demand.
This version of the net.art generator creates images. The resulting
image emerges as a collage of a number of images which have been
collected on the WWW in relation to the ‘title’ you have chosen. The
original material is processed in 12-14 randomly chosen and combined
steps.
The net.art generator was programmed by Panos Galanis from IAP GmbH,
Hamburg, and was a commission by the Volksfürsorge art collection…
Have fun and become a net.artist!
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How Many Five Year Olds Could You Take In a Fight?
This short survey will tell you approximately how many five year old
children you could fight at once. Results are based on physical
prowess, training, swarm-combatting experience, and the flexibility of
your moral compass. Here are the ground rules:
* You are in an enclosed area roughly the size of a basketball court
* There are no weapons or foreign objects
* Everyone is wearing a cup (so no kicks to the groin)
* The children are merciless and will show no fear
* If a child is knocked unconscious, he is “out.” The same goes for you.
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You’re in the jungle baby; you’re gonna die!
Teacher Barricades Herself Inside Classroom After Hearing ‘Welcome To The Jungle‘
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Gissa job la? Go on, I can do that. Gissa job?
During the latter half of the twentieth century, Liverpool writers made
an enormous contribution to television drama. Writers like Willy Russell and Jimmy McGovern have been hugely influential. But the daddy of them all was unarguably Alan Bleasdale,
whose television dramas dominated our screens during the latter half of
the 20th century in a manner that was unmatched by anybody besides the
late Dennis Potter.
Though many of his television dramas were to win praise and awards, it was his two series, Boys from the Blackstuff, an examination of the lot of the Liverpudlian working class under Thatcherism, and GBH, which turned his gaze onto the local political scene — then dominated by the Trotskyite Militant Tendency
— that really cemented his reputation as one of the top three British
television dramatists of the second half of the twentieth century.
Now you can find large parts of both Boys from the Blackstuff and GBH on YouTube.
Quality viewing for Telly Friday.
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Essential Video Resources
Of particular interest were
1)A Quick Guide to Digital Video Resolution and Aspect Ratio Conversions
2)the DV FAQ
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Do Do … DoDoDo … Do Do … DoDoDo
Merry Christmas, Kids! Even if you don’t celebrate Christmas, you still might enjoy this fun bit of flash goodness.
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A Zen Mind.
The Zen Mind – An Introduction. A Day in the Life of a Zen Monk. Zazen – A Guide to Sitting. Interview with a Zen Buddhist Priest.
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Evel Dead
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Beads by Natasha St. Michael
Not your average beadwork. Natasha St. Michael creates organic-inspired structures from beads. Lots and lots of beads. I mean, wow, that’s a lotta beads.
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The 9 most badass Bible verses
Funny Cracked article about nine “badass” parts of the Bible. (When did Sylvester P. Smythe’s humor magazine start using such naughty words?)
We’ve all been there. You’re walking along, minding your own business, when a gang of cocky, young bastards start hurling abuse at you. Most of us would just keep walking, or maybe, yell some insults back or flip them the bird. Elisha (commonly regarded as the Luke Skywalker to the Prophet Elijah’s Obi-Wan Kenobi), however, decides to take it one step further. Invoking the name of God, he summons motherfucking bears to come and claw the shit out of them.
Christians are constantly asking for prayer in schools to help get today’s kids in line, but we beg to differ. We need bears in schools. If every teacher had the power to summon a pair of child-maiming grizzly avengers, you can bet that schoolchildren nowadays would be the most well-behaved, polite children, ever. It’s a simple choice: listen to the biology lesson, or get first-hand knowledge of the digestive system of Ursus horribilis.
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Tase! or “Youtube Justice”
Refusing to sign a speeding citation in Vernal, Utah? That’s a tasing. Requesting an investigation of the incident? That sounds like a job for YouTube.
I was also struck by the bizarre levels of politeness demonstrated by both parties during the incident.
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Cancer-resistant Mouse Developed By Adding Tumor-suppressor
A mouse resistant to cancer, even highly-aggressive types, has been created by researchers at the University of Kentucky. The breakthrough stems from a discovery by UK College of Medicine professor of radiation medicine Vivek Rangnekar and a team of researchers who found a tumor-suppressor gene called “Par-4” in the prostate.
The researchers discovered that the Par-4 gene kills cancer cells, but not normal cells. There are very few molecules that specifically fight against cancer cells, giving it a potentially therapeutic application.
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Union Jack to be redesigned?
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Tasers
Is it just me, or are a lot of people getting zapped by tazers lately with very adverse effects? I’ve read a ton/seen a ton in the news, and its getting rather disturbing. A buddy of mine tazer’d me once as a test (I was a willing subject) and I was fine… Now its starting to worry me a little bit.
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Taser death at Vancouver Airport
Here’s a video of the distraught non-Engish speaking man from Poland who died from being tasered at the Vancouver Airport. He can be seen throwing a chair and trying break other things. When security arrives, he calms down and doesn’t appear to be acting in a threatening manner. It’s hard to tell though, because the video was taken through a pane of glass with glare.
Recently police at the Vancouver airport were attempting to question a recent immigrant that could not speak English. They tasered him after 24 seconds of speaking with him. The man had spent 10 hours stuck in the airport with no-one helping him.
The 40-year-old construction worker, who had never left Poland before, was immigrating to Canada to join his mother, 61, who lives in Kamloops, about a five-hour drive from Vancouver.
They had arranged to meet at the baggage carousel in the international terminal at YVR….
Mr. Dziekanski arrived at about 3 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 14.
“He made his way to primary customs in the ordinary fashion … he went through there in the normal time frame … he then proceeded through and was directed to secondary customs, which is normal for someone who doesn’t speak English and is immigrating to the country,” Mr. Kosteckyj said. His papers were in order and he proceeded without difficulty.
But what happened after that was far from normal. For nearly 10 hours, Mr. Dziekanski stayed in the Arrivals Hall, growing increasingly frustrated and eventually becoming frantic.
Outside, in the public area, his mother spent nearly six hours pacing the corridors and, in broken English, asking airport officials for help in locating her son.
Mr. Kosteckyj said she visited one booth in international arrivals “at least three to four times and conveyed to them that she was concerned about her son being in the area and she wanted to get a message to him and how could she do that? They wrote her name down and said that they would make inquiries.”
At about 10 p.m., she was told he wasn’t there. She made the long drive home, only to find a phone message waiting, saying her son had been found.
“She called back to immigration when she got in, which would have been around 2 a.m., and spoke to someone there and was advised that her son was somewhere in the area and was fine. And she advised, you know, ‘Please take care of him because he can’t speak English and I’ll get there as soon as I can.’ And of course he had died, been killed really, some time on or about 1 or 1:30,” Mr. Kosteckyj said.
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Police in UK taser man in coma
From the BBC: The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) in England is investigating an incident involving police who tasered a man in a coma because he was unresponsive.
Mr Gaubert said he was on his way to meet friends when he suffered a hypoglycaemic fit on the bus which left him slumped on his seat clutching his rucksack.
Armed police were called to the bus depot in Headingley and when he failed to respond to their challenges he was shot with the Taser.
He said as this was happening, another officer was pointing a real gun at his head.
He was restrained and eventually came round in the police van.
He said it was only then that the officers realised it was a medical emergency, despite him wearing a medical tag round his neck to warn of his condition, and took him to hospital.
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