BW&BK: “There are a lot of authors, especially a guy like Noam Chomsky, who believes a lot of consent in the US is manufactured by politicians and corporations—”
JS: “Talk about one of the fuckin’ ultra leftist spin doctors of the world, Noam Chomsky. You buy into that crap?”
BW&BK: “Well, I read a lot of his stuff.”
JS: “But do you believe it all?”
BW&BK: “I have a degree in political science, so I believe some of it.”
JS: “Hmm. Yeah. Well. And how old are you?”
BW&BK: “I’m 22.”
— Jon Schaffer, in the best rock interview everSo the next HelloVenus single is about candy...
[Update: more teasers, or teasing; bit of both]
…or perhaps eye candy…
How sausage is made...
From TheWorstMuse:
If your alien culture isn’t a thinly veiled allegory for contemporary politics, what’s the point?
Not included: a text editor
From today’s Emacs 24.4 announcement:
Highlights of this release include: - A built-in web browser (M-x eww) - Improved multi-monitor and fullscreen support - "Electric" indentation is enabled by default - Support for saving and restoring the state of frames and windows - Emacs Lisp packages can now be digitally signed - A new "advice" mechanism for Emacs Lisp - File notification support - Pixel-based resizing for frames and windows - Support for menus in text terminals - A new rectangular mark mode (C-x SPC)
Looks like I’ll need to add a few more disabling commands to my .emacs file…
Not your usual title string...
Amusing QA error on a maid-cafe web site; the title and keywords section of the page header are error messages of the form: “Warning: mysql_fetch_array() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in /var/www/html/www_maid/S/wp-content/themes/maid2013/functions.php”.
This is the sort of thing that announces to the world, “Hi, we’re clueless PHP users; please try to crack our site”.
Also, I have to say that while I understand what they were trying for with the maidreamin.com domain, my initial parse of the URL was a bit… anal.
Sad attempt at a halloween costume
On sale now at Amazon: The Lame-Ass Samurai.
Badly-held sword and ninja socks not included.
This is far from the most cringeworthy “asian” Halloween costume available…
[Update: Sigh. Genghis Khan Samurai Costume (cosplaying for the other team?); Ninja Warrior Set (extra-shiny, to blind opponents when you fail your Stealth check). ]
Ranking the modern Doctors
- Eccleston
- Tennant
- Hurt
- Smith
- Morrissey
- Capaldi
Dear Amazon,
I can find a very faint trace of relevance in the first recommendation, but not in the second one. Please enlighten me.
(and the reason this image is so large is that I took the screenshot on my Surface Pro 2, which has a high-density 1080p display, and Photoshop refuses to make the fonts readable if I shrink it any further)
Dear Former President Obama,
When Jimmy Carter calls you a sissy, you have failed utterly at foreign policy.
