Palin 2012!
You got to watch this short video (Linked Fixed!!). I watched it four times. It looks like the chick damn near had the back of her scalped scalped.
Overall, I’d call it damn impressive.
(H/T: Curmudgeonly)
[Editor's note: To limit the hateful comments and the hate mail, the victim's name has been elided from this post.]
I was Googling to see if there has been any new information on [a certain] murder case I wrote about involving the young pregnant woman who was shot in the head while riding a motorcycle last Sunday. So I start with the simplest search using the victim’s name. On that search, my friend Trench over at News of Doom is #1.
After clicking through several pages of results, I notice first that only a couple of the entries on the first page had anything to do with story. But then I notice that my site is not included in the fist five pages. That is not a good sign for my PageRank. So I do a little more checking. I do a search for ‘[Victim's name] shot’, no quotes.
Pretty much the same results. Trench is at the top, then ABC news, then the random combinations of the victims first name and last name begin. Hmm. I’ll try the “[victim's name] shot”, using the quotes to limit results to only the victim. Only five listings and my site is not among them. Now I’m pissed.
I click on the Google message at the bottom saying some similar sites were left out but by clicking you can see the omitted results. There I am at number three. I was culled by Google. Rastards.
And, by the way, there has been no recent coverage of the investigation into this tragic case, if there even is an investigation.
Previous stories on this site about [the certain murder case]:
From a site called Damn Interesting, Lake Peigneur: The Swirling Vortex of Doom
Despite the enormous destruction of property, no human life was lost in this disaster, nor were there any serious injuries. Within two days, what had previously been an eleven-foot-deep freshwater body was replaced with a 1,300-foot-deep saltwater lake. The lake’s biology was changed drastically, and it became home to many species of plants and fish which had not been there previously.
I don’t know if this is a true story or not, but it sure is damn interesting.
This is some funny stuff. A clip of real-life Simpson’s opening. Ha Ha HA!
I found it over at YouTube. Sites like this are the doom of television as we know it. Like I said in the previous post about the hilarious Outrageous and Contagious Viral Videos show I saw on Bravo, TV will soon be about brining viewers the best of the Web, which I think will be hugely successful if they can only figure out a better way to deliver advertising. Commercial interruptions suck.
There are only 10 types of people in the world;
those who understand binary and those who don’t.
You heard it here a two years ago and several times since. It has been slow in coming but check out this article about a rock band making it big without backing from a big record company.
What makes Arctic Monkeys remarkable is that they are an indie band on an independent label, and that they achieved their sudden success almost entirely through grassroots promotion on the web.
The foursome got together in 2002. They started playing shows around Sheffield and passing out free CDs at gigs. They encouraged their fans to trade the tunes online and to post them to websites and P2P networks. Yes, they encouraged file trading. Eventually, more and more people found them on MySpace or on their website via word-of-mouth, and their reach started to widen. Fans started booking them in venues farther and farther away from their hometown. Wherever they played, everyone in the crowd knew the words to the songs. This is all before they even signed to a record label.
Curiously, after achieving phenomenal success on their own, they contracted with a record company. A better deal, I think, would have been cut with Wal-Mart. Heh, a distribution deal with Wal-Mart is better than a deal with one of the powerful RIAA members. The kicker is that all it cost Wal-Mart to provide the service is some disk space and a few minutes of a webmaster’s time. Maybe $150 bucks.
I wouldn’t surprise me at all to see Wal-Mart open low-cost, state-of-the-art recording facilitiesLocated in regions like Austin, Memphis, L.A., New York–wherever this is a robust music scene–for use by artists with whom they have distribution deals.
The main reason the RIAA are so vicious in protecting their copyrights is because they know that in the very near future that music is all they will have the rights to sell. They are not worried about the future because they rightly figure they are not in it. The musicians will finally wake up and small the java realizing that the web is the only place they need to be. Then they will realize that they don’t need a big record company with expensive production equipment and media contacts to do it. They just need a good web strategy and a good web development team.
My previous articles on the demise of the big recording companies and RIAA :
I am sitting here on Sunday morning sipping a cup of joe, surfing through the channels, and on Bravo I find a television show called Outrageous and Contageous Viral Videos that has a narrator running the audience through clips that you can find at any number of sites on the internet. Here are a few of the viral video clips featured:
Bet you’ve seen some of ‘em. As a matter of fact, I bet that half of everyone with broadband has seen at least one of the clips featured. But I bet very few people with dial-up connections has seen any of them at all. Curiously, I don’t recall any high-speed internet commercials during the show.
They teased the video clip of the week over at Bravo.com. Gotta spread the traffic around. Pretty smart application of media convergence. Soon the blurring lines between the wired net and the broadcast net will not exist at all.
Outrageous and Contageous Viral Videos would have been way better than surfing for the clips if it weren’t for all the same stupid commercials that viewers are constantly bombarded with on television. But the show was still pretty good relative to everything else on the dial because I didn’t have to look at a lot of bad clips to find the few really good ones. It doesn’t take a lot of time to download just a few clips, but it does take a lot of time to download a dozen or two, most of which are not worth the effort.
The people programming the television channels don’t “get it” and therefore bombard their customer’s with repetitive, asinine commercial interruptions. Maybe the majority of people aren’t bothered by the interruptions but I will rarely endure them, preferring to watch my entertainment uninterrupted.
The networks are in desperate need of a better way to present advertisement. Until they figure that out, the network’s will continue to bleed customers and television bandwidth will be all about delivering the best of the internet to their remaining customers who do not yet have access to high-speed internet.
From the mailbag, a comparative analysis:
How To Shower Like a Woman:
Take off clothing and place it in sectioned landry hamper according to lights and darks.
Walk to bathroom wear! ing long dressing gown
If you see husband along the way, cover up any exposed areas.
Look at your womanly physique in the mirror – make mental note to do more sit-ups/leg-lifts, etc.
Get in the shower. Use face cloth, arm cloth, leg cloth, long loofah, wide loofah and pumice stone.
Wash your hair once with cucumber and sage shampoo with 43 added vitamins.
Wash your hair again to make sure it’s clean.
Condition your hair with grapefruit mint conditioner enhanced with real passion fruit.
Wash your face with crushed apricot facial scrub for 10 minutes until red.
Wash entire rest of body with ginger nut and jaffa cake body wash.
Rinse conditioner off hair.
Shave armpits and legs.
Turn off shower.
Squeegee off all wet surfaces in shower.
Spray mold spots with Tilex.
Get out of shower and stand on bathmat.
Dry with towel the size of a small country.
Wrap hair in super absorbent towel.
Return to bedroom wearing long dressing gown and towel on head.
If you see husband along the way, cover up any exposed areas.
How To Shower Like a Man:
Take off clothes while sitting on the edge of the bed and leave them in a pile.
Walk naked to the bathroom.
A tongue-twister accident:
A guy with a black eye boards his plane bound for Pittsburgh and sits down in his seat.
He notices immediately that the guy next to him has a black eye, too. He says to him, “Hey this is a coincidence, we both have black eyes; mind if I ask how you got yours?”
The other guy says, “Well, it just happened. It was a tongue twister accident. See, I was at the ticket counter and this clerk with the most massive breasts in the world was there. So, instead of saying, I’d like two tickets to Pittsburgh,’ I accidentally said, ‘I’d like two pickets to Tittsburgh.’ So she socked me a good one.”
The first guy replied, “Wow! This is unbelievable. Mine was a tongue twister too. I was at the breakfast table and I wanted to say to my wife, ‘Please pour me a bowl of Frosties, honey.’ But I accidentally said, “Thanks for ruining my life you evil, self-centered, big-assed, bitch.”
I just watched a news report about the following things which some studies show can be good for you:
Flavinalls and anti-oxidants are given the lions share of credit for providing the health benefits. Note that there are limits to consumption for each substance. Therein of course lies the problem. Setting limits on things people really like is an exercise in futility. Heck, even cocaine is harmless if you only do a little bit at a time.
The study of which substances are good for us and which ones are bad for us is a big agenda-driven farce. Someday we may be smart enough to understand the full complexity of the human physiology but for now it is just folly. The infinite interactions between chemicals in our biological systems is too much for our current technology to understand. Scientists think that 98% of our DNA is “junk DNA” simply because they have no idea what it does.
Evolution has been relatively slow because the ever advanced biologic functions, functions that could have been pre-defined in the DNA code, have relied on naturally occurring triggers to turn them on. The systems turn on only as required for survival. All that junk DNA might be thousands and thousands of separate little biological “programs” that we will someday figure out the trigger to turn them on, or off.
For all we know junk DNA may be dormant programs for advanced mathematical computations (Rain Man) or precognition. Maybe there is a program for extremely low voltage wireless communications (telepathy) or musical ability (Bach, Beethoven). One way to look at it is that only 2% of available DNA has been utilized and there is and 98% reserved for future use.
But for now, with our rudimentary understanding of science, we rely on limited studies to figure out what we should and should not put in our bodies. Some studies say coffee is bad then another study says coffee is good. Other than cutting down on fat, I have never followed these periodic hype fests that this food (movie popcorn) or that product (cigarettes) is bad for us and should be banned. I just pretty much ignore them and go about my normal lifestyle. If my body says to make an adjustment, I make an adjustment.
My motto is “everything in moderation” and so far so good. You follow my motto and you will do well too.
