You've gotta respect these guys. Crossing the Atlantic and sailing all over the Americas and Europe doing anything they can for marine wildlife, and getting some great video while they're at it. I love the soundtrack on this vid as much as the video itself. Just perfect.

 

I was watching The Universe on Hulu, like any good wannabe-scientist, and I recognized some scenery from their special on The Sun. Apparently, the 'riots' which took place in my hometown of Madison, WI on Halloween several years back is the best example they could use for the 'chaos' caused if a huge solar flare causes problems.

With the exception of extremely overzealous cops and tear gas floating down the block into my apartment, it was a pretty damn good party.

Pirate. Download software, music, videos, and text. Don't pay for it. Mix it, mash it, cut it, paste it. Don't bow to the RIAA and MPAA. They are the evil power which must be defeated. Civil disobedience needs to keep pace with the oppression of those with power.

We're never going to be truly free until we stop laying down and fight back. Tell the RIAA and MPAA where to stick it.

50,000 people can't be wrong? Then distribute. If everyone has and shares the material, there's no possible way everyone can be prosecuted.

Recently, something from GDC Europe 09 caught my eye. My favorite game's developer, CCP Software, have announced a new console MMO which will tie into my current crack, the EVE Online PC MMO. The new title is "Dust 514", a clever use of the Reykjavik telephone prefix bringing Iceland into the game much as they have using ISK (the same abbr. as Icelandic Kronurs) as the monetary unit in EVE.

 

Now I can't speculate as to exactly how it might tie into EVE but if it involves taking over planets to gain Soverignity in EVE I'm 10000000% in. I used to play a game called Planetside which was similar, though it was a neverending quest to turn blue to red before red turned back into blue. Not as engrossing and certainly not tied in with any other awesome games of which I have been playing for almost 5 years...(ahem, EVE).

I eagerly await what comes out of CCP Shanghai in the way of Dust 514. Don't let me down guys!

America: Wake up. You are currently a pit of despair for anyone with an IQ over 100. If the 'special guest performer' on America's Got Talent last week is any indication of what passes for talent in this country, we're fresh out.The group was called 'LMFAO' - a popular net-speak term meaning Laughing My Fucking Ass Off. Indeed, I was laughing my ass off.

I wasn't laughing at their hideous trying-too-hard faux-nerd outfits complete with huge fake glasses. I was laughing at the fact that a multi-million viewer national TV program actually booked them. Their monotone and extremely offensive 'Rap' was a complete waste of whatever they paid these clowns. I fully expected three 'buzz-outs' by the judges because 99% of the talent in the show was much better than these idiots. I can come up with a better act in 10 minutes, and I probably should if these fools have "The top summer party song". Also, their DJ is fucking fake as hell. He's running Serato Scratch LIVE™ which is commendable, but he's just playing their backing music. He might as well be using iTunes or an iPod. He clearly also has no talent.

 

 

On a related note, who the fuck lets David Hasselhoff judge talent? Sure, he's 'The Hoff' but he's a moron. His drunken late-night cheesburger munchdown - filmed by his daughter, whom should not be subjected to such things - or his thinly-veiled suicide attempt - a chandelier fell in a hotel bathroom and slit your wrist? Bullshit. - should disqualify him from judging the best interstate hamburger, let alone serious singing or dancing talent.

I swear it's like having Robert Downey Jr. as the judge on "Who Wants to Go to Rehab?".