Happy Halloween!

Get Your War On!

Click on the picture below to start from the beginning, or click here to see the most recent strips (updated through October, 2007).

Pure genius.

Books are available at Amazon…and as an added bonus: all royalties go to landmine clearing efforts.

The Darwin Awards

A celebration of stupidity…

For those of you who haven’t ventured outside of your tiny little world in the past decade heard of these before, I really can’t give a much better description than this:

“The Darwin Awards commemorate individuals who protect our gene pool by making the ultimate sacrifice of their own lives: by eliminating themselves in an extraordinarily idiotic manner, thereby improving our species’ chance of long-term survival. In other words, they are cautionary tales about people who kill themselves in really stupid ways, and in doing so, significantly improve the gene pool by eliminating themselves from the human race.”

A few of my favorites to get you started:

Death by Lava Lamp

The short, but sweet Firecracker Chainsaw Massacre

and finally, the rare Living Darwin Award.

The Death Report

“While you were entering this world, who was departing?”

This, and other “morbid facts about your birthday”

Wild Monkeys Bessiege Indian Capital

No shit.

10,000 wild monkeys roam Delhi, India. Have invaded government offices and killed the deputy mayor.– Courtesy of Raw Story.

The Boy Scouts

So, the city of Philadelphia has decided that the Boy Scouts  must begin paying fair-market rent (at $200,000 a year) for its city-owned headquarters because it refuses to permit gay members.

If the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) were a privately funded group, it could discriminate against and hate anyone it wanted to. But the Boy Scouts of America is dependent upon Federal, State and local government handouts.

The BSA promotes active discrimination against homosexuals and atheists, all the while taking tax-payer funds to support themselves – a clear violation of several government policies against discriminatory organizations receiving public funds or holding meetings in public buildings.

A few quick facts:

• 60% BSA troops are sponsored by religious groups.
• Mormons sponsor about 30,000 troops.
• $5 million in taxpayer money is spent on the National BSA Jamboree every 4 years.

It’s about time a major city decided to follow Fedeal Antidiscrimination Laws. Hopefully other cities will follow.

“Duty to God ahead of country, others, and self is the credo of suicide bombers.”  – Penn Jillette

Right Brain vs Left Brain

Is she spinning clockwise or counterclockwise? If you said “clockwise” – you apparently are “right-brained” (and vice-versa, of course).

What do I see?

Nipples.

Click on the picture for more (on the left-brain / right brain thing – not nipples).

The Political Compass

U.S. political opinion has been (ridiculously) labeled and divided and into predictably misleading black and white terms: the liberal left and conservative right.

While this makes name-calling much easier, this view is overly simplistic for today’s complex political landscape.

Enter the Political Compass. This was developed by a political journalist with a university counselling background, assisted by a professor of social history. In addition to the standard economic (left-right) scale, a social scale has been added to better show actual political viewpoints and leanings.

Take the test – it’s absolutely anonymous – and find out where you stand in comparison to current U.S.presidential candidates , famous composers or various historic political figures (this is supplied along with your results after the test has been completed).

Either click on the picture above or go to http://www.politicalcompass.org/index to take the test.

  

The Future of the Music Industry?

Following Radiohead’s release of their album here on the World Wide Web, it appears other big names may be following suit. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/10/09/nradiohead108.xml

Additionally, the following post from Trent Reznor showed up on the welcome page of the Nine Inch Nails website yesterday:

 Hello everyone. I’ve waited a LONG time to be able to make the
following announcement: as of right now Nine Inch Nails is a totally
free agent, free of any recording contract with any label. I have
been under recording contracts for 18 years and have watched the
business radically mutate from one thing to something inherently very
different and it gives me great pleasure to be able to finally have a
direct relationship with the audience as I see fit and appropriate.
Look for some announcements in the near future regarding 2008.
Exciting times, indeed.

This follows a performance in Australia last month, when Reznor expressed frustration with the high prices that labels charge for CDs.

“Steal it,” Reznor told the audience. “Steal away. Steal and steal, and steal some more and give it to all your friends.”

Hopefully, this is just the beginning.

Graffiti Archeology

If you’ve got a bit of time to kill, check out Graffiti Archeology (http://www.otherthings.com/grafarc/index.html), a very cool flash application that lets you scroll through years worth of Graffiti at single locations.

Cool shit.