Luther of 21st Century, well not quite

This really is an amazing list. Its 95 theses for geek activists, its really well done and thought out. As far as I'm concerned it should be regarded as, 95 theses for anyone living in the 21st century who wants to be part of the solution. Here's too the solution!!

Top-100 videos of all time, with a twist!

Ok its not a M. Night Shamalalalalon caliber twist, but the internet allows us to do some neat things. The list itself is pretty reasonable, but there are some things missing (TOOL? Are u kidding me?? No tool videos?) Some of the rank ordering doesn't seem the way that many people would handle it. Also the blurbs at times are downright pretentious. But the cool part is, for every video there is an onsite www.youtube.com link.

He'll crow. He'll fight. He'll fly. And then... he'll die.

Apparently crows are very smart, like unusually smart. I couldn't help but think of the crow's from disney's dumbo the whole time I read this.

The Green Fairy wasn't evil after all?

I love how as we learn more about pharmalogical sciences, it tends to turn out that campaigns against many things were likely just political razmatazz. Apparently when brewed properly (ie. like absinthe manufacturers from before the worldwide ban) absinthe is completely harmless and contains about .0005% toxin. And the best part is a native new orleaner has essentially unearthed those brewing practices, to bad its still illegal in the states. Yippie for misconceptions based on propaganda!

North American Union

When did that happen? Is anyone else severely offended by the lack of news coverage in this nation, on anything that goes on worth even a shred of interest? I'm not sure what to think about this whole thing here. Two things crossed my mind when I read it. One, this really reeks of nepotism, right thru Texas, huh? Gee I wonder if the presidential administration knows anyone there that they might be hooking up with obscene cash flow. Two, quite anti-union isn't it?

source: my main man sponger.

Nintendo's Expo

Every year there is an Expo held in America, called the Electronic Entertainment Expo (commonly called E3 for shorthand). The expo is held so that journalists can be spoon-fed stories about what electronic entertainment companies (mostly videogame publishers) have in store for the coming year. Over the years the biggest attraction has been Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft (and previously Sega) showcasing their new videogame hardware.

There is always a whole hoopla made about which company was the most impressive and garnered the most interest. Well this year it seems like there is no question. That is a 6 hour line of press folks waiting to try out the Wii (formerly known as Nintendo Revolution). In comparison both Sony and Microsoft's booths had approximately a 10 minute waits for people to try out their demos.

On top of that, when Sony revealed their "new" controller for the PS3 they announced that it would have tilt sensitivity (essentially a cheap copy of the Wii-remote's capabilities), I would say this really shows that Nintendo's call for innovation in gameplay and control (as opposed to graphical updating) is actually influencing the videogaming industry. If this expo is any indication, Nintendo might have a pretty good shot at getting back on the path to leading the market once again.

The Truthiness Hurts

Expect your friendly neighborhood Stephen Colbert to have a field day with this any minute. POTUS has nominated Gen. Michael Hayden to be the new head of the CIA, less than two years after nominating Porter Goss to the post. Goss has exited in a shameful tide of partisan backbiting. But that's not the coolest part.

Hayden is one of the parties primarily responsible for keeping POTUS' illegal wiretapping scam under wraps, making him the perfect candidate to lead the charge of the U.S.'s least-secretive secret agency. And here's where we have to ask the really, really tough questions. Hayden is a three-star general, also known as a Lieutenant General. Only three stars? We can't get a four star general to be head of the damn CIA? Mind boggling. Absolutely mind boggling.

Three stars? That's all we get is three goddamn stars?

Coolest Beer SLideshow

Beer enthusiast and friend Elise says:

Just found this. Forbes just ran a story about cool beers.

For the story click here:

http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,70792-0.html?tw=wn_story_mailer


For the slide show click here:

http://www.forbes.com/2006/04/25/cx_np_0426featBslide.html?partner=lycos

Enjoy. Happy Wednesday everyone.... 2 more days till Cinco de Mayo- Anyone throwing a big fiesta???

~elise~

Stephen Colbert FTW!

Stephen Colbert has some real serious skill. He pulls his shtick with a straight face, like no other. Even if you don't think he's funny (howie), you have to appreciate his ability to sit next to Bush and play his character without breaking out at all. Thanks Stephen Colbert, you are the Ballz!

First Look: Nintendo Revolution

The latest issue of Game Informer magazine has an exclusive first look at the upcoming Nintendo Revolution console. They don't show you the console straight up, it's more of a third-party look via the developers of signature FPS launch title "Red Steel." The screenshots provided in the magazine are pretty impressive, but I was hoping for a more Nintendo-themed launch title like Super Smash Brothers or Mario, something like that. I'm sure Red Steel will be sweet though.

Like the Xbox 360 and PS3, this console is going to be mucho expensive and probably won't be available when it is released later this year. But it looks SO COOL. I'm interested to see how the new motion-sensitive controller plays...but the only place I'll be able to find out is at Best Buy, if they even have the console in stock when it launches.

Mature Mario

So if Nintendo was from communist China and also decided to make Super Mario gruesome and mature, this might be what they ended up with. I was thoroughly entertained, I hope you are too. Red scare for teh loss.

If you liked this, maybe check out the other blog I contribute to: SuperBlogBros.

"Rock this cult hymn, sock your mean younger boss, Psht - [Adult Swim], 'Aqua Teen Hunger Force!' "

News alert! [adult swim] is hip and I mean super hecka hip, in particular the Williams Street guys. And not in the I live in Hollywood and hang out with Paris Hilton and where cool clothes are the 'hip' clubs kind of way. The whole establishment at [adult swim] headquarters is teeming with excess social currency (and as of recently, probably a bunch of US currency too).

They are lending their hands to help out on another underground hip-hop album. Less than a year after volunteering their characters from numerous Williams Street produced shows, on the Danger Doom - "The Mouse and the Mask" album.

For those of you whom aren't in the know. DangerDoom is the collaboration of the underground rapper MF Doom from the "Stones Throw" label (the label [AS] is working with again), and Danger Mouse. Danger Mouse is most known for putting together the Grey Album mash-up (a mix of the Beatles' White Album and Jay-Z's Black Album) and he also produced the latest from Gorillaz, "Demon Days". If you want to check out that DangerDOom album, its available off emusic.com and you can get it for free with your free songs.

Ever Been to Gray's Papaya?

A while back I had an idea for a movie that takes place at New York City's famous hot dog and juice joint Gray's Papaya. We always go there after shows at the Beacon Theatre, often times in altered states and there is always something something crazy going on in there. This cabbies story on her blog, New York Hack, about some yelling line cutters confirms that:

The yeller yelled, "Put every motherfucking thing on it." Then, after giving it some more thought, he added, "And put some fucking pussy on it, too! I want me a pussy dog!"

A Gray's experience including the "Recession Special" consisting of 2 hot dogs and a juice for $2.75 just would not be complete without some drug crazed New Yorkers creating some kind of spectacle.

Geeks and Nerds FTW, am i rite??

Oh man, our secret is out! I'm not sure what to do now, its gonna be difficult for me to fend off all the fly hunies. It was already nearly impossible to stay single for as long as I have, I think that I might just abandon all hope. big LOL.

Everybody Hybrid Peoplenow

South Park was the shiz today. Kyle's dad gets a hybrid and then moves to San Franciso. Stan writes a song to convert eveyone to hyrbid's so that the Broflofskies will move back to South Park. Hybrids, such as the PIUS, catch on causing everyone to spew terrible bullshit into the air which forms a huge smug cload. This smug cload begins to merge with the smug cload from San Francisco, where everyone loves the smell of their own farts, alot. It forms a giant supercell smug cload which threatens to destroy the whole area, so they all destroy their hybrids, But its too late!...No worries, the broflofskies make it home safe with help of their guardian angel and Kyle lays down the lesson which is drive hybrids and don't dont be smug about it. This is "simply too much" for the people of South Park who go out and buy gas guzzlers. Oh yeah, and Kyle baby trib balls in SF.

Neo Street Art

This is a kind of graffiti I can get behind. I really want to make a bunch of these LED Thowies, its a shame it costs quite a bit just to use them as grafitti. Check out www.instructables.com while you're at it, its a pretty cool website with picture howto's for doing all kinds of weir off the wall do-it-yourself projects.

the creative juice squeeze

These are the results of my good friend squeezing her soul:

seeing is believing or believing is seeing no matter how it goes or where you happen to be in the world at the moment in time and if i saw what i believed than i would see a world where there is no deadline and no nine to five and no outrageous airline fees to prevent me from going to where i want to go when i want to go and who i may want to go there with and i would see a world where people do not die by the hundreds of thousands from diseases that are preventable and i would see a world where drugs that are needed are infinately cheaper than the lives that are taken. i might see a world where justice rules supreme as i travel by hot-air-balloon and i might even see international acts of compassion and if i look close enough i might be able to discern a world that exists without the concept of Quid-Pro-Quo and i might even see the brotherhood of humanity and of life.

but if i believed what i saw then i might not see any of those things instead only seeing things gotten in exchange for other things with not even a care paid toward those who toil and struggle and suffer from those wink-wink nod-nod exchanges and i would only hear hyperbole and double-speak from independently contracted think-tanks and i would see only the sullen defeated looks on the faces of people that have been tricked by the priorities in life that others have insisted upon placing on all of us and from my hot-air-balloon i would see thousands of species of flora and fauna go extinct as i pass overhead and i would hear languages and dialects that tell the story of vernacular evolution and beauty extingiush and cease to exist as i pass overhead.

from my hot-air-balloon i would see a costa rican feverishly reading and passing along my "dontated" copy of Ishmael and i would see my friends surfing the coast of costa rica and i would schools of hundreds of hammerhead sharks swimming in the seas below and i would see olive-ridley turtle hatchlings make it safely into the water as they struggle to begin their lives that last for so long i would see poachers being poached for poaching big cats for skins in india and tibet i would see reef systems being rebuilt and preserved and i would see that the last 600 ethiopian wolves in africa-the last wolves in africa-live on and on and on and on and from high above in my hot-air-balloon i swear that i could see sri lanka and sumantra and the pakistani region devestated by earthquake and the city of new orleans and its citizens standing proudly again.

the most amazing thing that i have seen on my travels in my hot-air-balloon by far are the flushed faces of each and everyperson on the planet having just been infused with the lifeblood of hope realizing that we are the answers to the problems of the world which is why ive descended from my hot-air-balloon to roll up my sleeves to help.

-Kate Singer

Annie are you ok? Are you ok Annie?

This bird is the front runner for best dance moves in the non mammel category. He clearly grew up during the 80s. I bet he could do a wicked headspin.

Fun with perspective

This guys art is pretty amazing, I'd love to be walking down the street in NYC and stumble upon some of this work.

The Simpsons...

This is a really neato recreation of the intro to one of the greatest things television has ever had to offer.