Satanosphere

And you can too, if you’re on MySpace. And if you’re not but still want to keep up with Lindsay, we added her to your left-hand column towards the bottom. Isn’t that awesome!?

Barney Smith represents everything. Everything!

With the greater and greater advances of miniaturization in computing comes greater and greater opportunities for us all. Wearable computing is on the forefront, just across the very near horizon. Devices smaller and smaller are becoming more and more intelligent. It used to be a joke, “Can you imagine?! a Beowulf cluster of _______?” (Say, Furbies?)

Now, just in time for the cruisewear season, it’s revealed there is now a cube form-factor computer that runs a full-fledged distribution of linux …

… that is SMALLER THAN MY BALLS!

Can you imagine?! A Beowulf cluster of these …

IN MY PANTS?!

I bet none of you jerks watched the stunningly sad video I posted yesterday about how John and Cindy McCain own tons of houses while the rest of us teachers and public servants and medical technicians own zero houses.

Now, all of a sudden, the shit is BLOWING THE FUCK UP ON THE INTERNET today. Here’s an article off of the Associated Press: A housing issue: McCain not sure how many they own.

So here again, in your face, is the video. WATCH THIS SHIT. It should make you sad and then break your fucking heart, and then get you a bit riled up:

So, not only is the guy a rich bastard, he is also a clueless, fuzz-headed arrogant rich bastard:

In a forum last week with the Rev. Rick Warren, McCain was asked to define the word “rich” and to give a figure. After promoting his tax policies, McCain said: “I think if you are just talking about income, how about $5 million?” The audience laughed, and he added: “But seriously, I don’t think you can — I don’t think seriously that — the point is that I’m trying to make here, seriously — and I’m sure that comment will be distorted — but the point is that we want to keep people’s taxes low and increase revenues.”

I guess to some people, that’s the american ideal: To be so rich you don’t give a shit.

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In what is billed as a “Wedding/Moving/Final Sale” I learn today that one of the neatest “internet photographers” I’ve come to appreciate is seemingly quitting the business of taking naked pictures of herself. Katie West (that’s her flickr) is loved and respected by comic book god Warren Ellis. That’s really all (besides her photography) that you need to know (well, if you’re me, that’s all you need to know).

So buy up lots of really awesome $10 photographs to hang in your bachelor pad because I won’t be able to.

diosa_en_disfra: Wedding/Moving/Final Sale

In awkward international news this week, the Spanish national basketball team has been recognized for it’s inability to show any racial sensitivity whatsoever towards this year’s Olympic host nation, China. Britan’s Guardian newspaper initially broke the story:

The advert features two large photographs, one of the men’s basketball team, above, and one of the women’s team. Both squads pose in full Olympic kit on a basketball court decorated with a picture of a Chinese dragon. Every single player appears pulling back the skin on either side of their eyes. The advert carries the symbol of the sport’s governing body.

No one involved in the advert appears to have considered it inappropriate nor contemplated the manner in which it could be interpreted in China and elsewhere. No offence was intended by the advert, but whether the Chinese see it that way is a different matter and it is likely to provoke more criticism at a delicate time for Spanish sport. The failure to recognise the potential consequences is striking in the light of the problems Spain has had with issues of race and the Spanish Olympic committee’s continued desire to host the Games in Madrid in 2016 or 2020.

Oops. You can see the offending photo here along with an explanation by NBA and Spanish national player, Jose Manuel Caldron of why it is really all just a big misunderstanding. Whatever. I just really wanted an excuse to post that great photo from Vice Magazine’s Dos & Don’ts. xoxo

[redacted] - The World of Web Trolling - NYTimes.com

The only thing wrong with this article about internet “trolls” is the stupid malapropism created for the title which I will not repeat. That’s the **ONLY** thing wrong with this article.

“I want everyone off the Internet. Bloggers are filth. They need to be destroyed. Blogging gives the illusion of participation to a bunch of retards. . . . We need to put these people in the oven” — some tard named Weev

[ UPDATE : 8/5/08 : Jason Fortuny, featured in the article, now faces lawsuit.

I admit it. This fucking article about the good old days of The Internet, before everthing got so goddamn flashy and Stylesheet shitty, made a bitter, acrid hint of a tear start to form in the very corner of my bleary old bloodshot eye:

R.I.P Usenet: 1980-2008 : On the text-only Usenet of my memory, nobody knew whether you were a dog, or a kid, or Finnish—only what you wrote. There wasn’t the obsession with photos and video that overruns today’s social networking sites. Yeah, I know that sounds like “get off my lawn you darn kids” crotchetiness, but there’s something really nice about just talking to people and not caring what they look like.   – Sascha Segan

Amazon.com has for long been the internet’s everything place. At first when they decided to sell things besides books, we were mad at them for polluting the most incredible bookstore in the world with CDs and stuff. They’ve continued to grow of course, and they’ve added some pretty incredible shit.

From almost day one, you’ve been able to write reviews of anything they sell. Like vacuum cleaner bags. And create your own lists of things, about, say, World War Hulk.

But slyly, all along, Amazon.com has also become a place to “hang out” online. And wherever enough people are hanging out online, soon porn gets involved.

You have to check out Amazon.com’s Lists & Guides tagged with adult

These are just a sampling of cover art from the first page of resutls. Homina!