this too is from boing boing

i was always addicted to tv and i watched practically everything that was ever on it. however, i do have to say, i did NOT follow the brady bunch. sure, i've seen the show and all, just never a big fan.

i needed to share this video and i implore you to watch it ALL the way through. if you have an addiction to drugs or alcohol, THIS my dears WILL CURE YOU



Love to Love You Bradys: The Bizarre Story of The Brady Bunch Variety Hour

man this is THE best thing i've read ALL week

cory (don't you just LOVE cory!!! well MOST of the posters there are incredible)


at boing boing

points us to Atheists who'll take in your pets after the Rapture
Posted by Cory Doctorow


it's a real website, i'm just sort o' thinkin' they're having a bit o' fun wit us (those wild and wacky atheists)

Eternal Earth-Bound Pets, USA

a new low for that 'human' called joe francis

as far as i can tell this is REAL.
from kevin underhill at lowering the bar
(by the way, i'm subscribing to his blog feed simply because i loved the bio he wrote for himself)


defendant gone wild
"He has put a lot of this foolish behavior behind him," said Joe Francis's lawyer in 2007, but guess what? He had plenty left. Back then, Mr. Francis, who some of you may know as the purveyor of "Girls Gone Wild" videos, was about to do a month in jail on contempt charges for yelling obscenities during a mediation. His lawyer was suggesting that Francis had turned over a new leaf, but that has now been called into question.............

..............

Francis showed up late, failed to produce documents, and then, once the questioning started, seemed to experience a severe decline in brain function, operating well below even the Francis baseline. The cynical magistrate suspected Francis of faking, of course, charging that he was simply "pretend[ing] not to know the meaning of common words to avoid [giving] a straight answer." True, these were words that Francis certainly should know the meaning of by now, like "felony" and "jail":

Q. Have you ever been convicted of a felony?

A. I don't understand what that means.

...

Q. You don't understand what being a convicted felon is?

A. No. Can you explain it to me?

Q. Did you serve any time in jail?

A. What do you mean "serve"?

...

Q. Do you know what a prisoner is?

A. No....................

found via cory at boing boing

ok, where can i get ME a pair of these trou?

via

it's rather intense

i'd most likely NOT watch this at work (well i personally CANNOT watch it at work. they've blocked youtube)

88 lines about 44 women
the nails



via

this ALSO is way too good NOT to post

via

i knew NOTHING about this

i didn't even know it existed.



un effing believable! i'm pumped for today now!
Walt Disney and Salvador Dalí's Destino film
Posted by David Pescovitz
Here is Destino, the collaboration between Walt Disney and Salvador Dalí. Production began in 1945 and the film didn't premier until 2003. Apparently, it will finally see an official home DVD release in 2010 along with a documentary about the two artists' history together. Destino (Wikipedia) (Thanks, Kirsten Anderson!)

due to the language in this video (from coal-THUGS)

it's nsfw. just watch it



Abusive "coal-thugs" try to break up anti-mountaintop-removal festival
Posted by Cory Doctorow,

Apollo sez, "This is a YouTube video of some West Virginia pro-coal thugs (dressed in Massey issued uniforms) crashing the peaceful 23rd annual Mountain Keepers Festival. The festival is a gathering of West Virginians who live in the hollows that are being destroyed by Mountaintop Removal mining, and their fellow advocates from all over the country. At one point the most vile of the thugs threatens a man and his child verbally and with a throat slitting gesture. Simply appalling."

Mountain Madness - Invasion of the Coal Thugs (Thanks, Apollo!)............

sometimes i forget just how much i love this song

via boing boing Posted by David Pescovitz,

wow or what?

how scary is this?

Comics artist Mark Sable detained for Unthinkable acts

By Ian Randal Strock

May 13, 2009

Boom! Studios sends word that comics writer Mark Sable was detained by TSA security guards at Los Angeles International Airport this past weekend because he was carrying a script for a new issue of his comic miniseries Unthinkable. Sable was detained while traveling to New York for a debut party at Jim Hanley's Universe today. The comic series follows members of a government think tank that was tasked with coming up with 9/11-type "unthinkable" terrorist scenarios that now are coming true. (See this article for more on the series.) Sable wrote of his experiences: "Flying from Los Angeles to New York for a signing at Jim Hanley's Universe Wednesday (May 13th), I was flagged at the gate for 'extra screening'. I was subjected to not one, but two invasive searches of my person and belongings. TSA agents then 'discovered' the script for Unthinkable #3. They sat and read the script while I stood there, without any personal items, identification or ticket, which had all been confiscated...........

ht: boing boing

when i read this yesterday (in boing boing of course)

i was in the state of shock. i cannot imagine turning over even which social networking sites i belong to much less my passwords. as one of the comments states: ...........

#58 posted by bardfinn, June 18, 2009 7:23 AM

Yowza.

"As providing the requested information would cause me to be in violation of the respective contract or respective contracts that I may have entered into with the particular entities in question, I must decline your request;

Further, I will inform you that as you have solicited me to violate those contracts to which I am a party, I am required by such of those contracts as I may be party to, and which have such terms requiring such reportage, to disclose to the entities in question the fact of your solicitation of violation of those contracts as I may be party to, and the fact that you seem to have a standing process that would seem to solicit others to violate those contracts to which they may be party.

Further, I must inform you that if it is reasonable that this application for employment was approved, denied, or considered based on my response or lack of response to this portion of the application, I reserve all remedies available to me under civil, federal, state, and municipal law, including but not limited to those available under the following statutes: blah blah blah blah blah"

Disclaimer: IANAL, IANYL, ATINLA. For entertainment purposes only. Party on............

but do read ALL of the comments they're worth it. i'm still shaking my head over this one though. big brother IS real

City in Montana requires job applicants to hand over all social network logins and passwords for background checks
Posted by Cory Doctorow
Cliff sez, "Bozeman City, Montana now asks all applicants for jobs to 'Please list any and all, current personal or business websites, web pages or memberships on any Internet-based chat rooms, social clubs or forums, to include, but not limited to: Facebook, Google, Yahoo, YouTube.com, MySpace, etc.,' the City form states. There are then three lines where applicants can list the Web sites, their user names and log-in information and their passwords." The anonymous viewer emailed the news station recently to express concern with a component of the city's background check policy, which states that to be considered for a job applicants must provide log-in information and passwords for social network sites in which they participate. ..............

there's a wicked cool posting on fireflys at

boing boing (who knew about syncronized smokey mountain fireflies? NOT moi)

Syncronized Smokey Mountain Fireflies

Posted by Dylan Thuras,
..................

So to contrast with the giant industrial holes and moon poop Josh and I have been posting about, I am going to highlight one of my favorite bioluminescent wonders in the world.

Happening right now, and for the next few days the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee will light up as P. Carolinus fireflies begin to blink in beautiful, astonishing unison. The fireflies, who can sense when their neighbor fireflies are flashing and attempt to flash before them, send waves of light to cascading down the Tennessee hillsides. One of the best spots to see them is in one small area, near the Little River Trailhead in Elkmont, TN..............

please tell me we're NOT this lazy?

pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Beanzawave: The World's Smallest Microwave


...........The Beanzawave, which measures just 7.4 inches tall by 6.2 inches wide and 5.9 inches deep, doesn't even need to be plugged into an electrical outlet. The device contains a USB port, so mid-afternoon snacks can be heated up at the computer without expending excess power..........


(come on now, geeze. )

(via boing boing)

i'm going to download this

and listen to it when i get home from work today (it's 2 am and i'm not doing it NOW)
Life of Emma Goldman on Tank Riot podcast
Posted by Cory Doctorow,
Viktor from the excellent Tank Riot podcast sez, "The Happy mutants at Tank Riot dedicated a show to the one and only Emma Goldman. The team discusses the intriguing life of the controversial 'Red Emma', an anarchist, free-speech advocate, social activist, and spokesperson for women's freedom and birth control rights............................
here's her wiki entry (i'm not all over being an anarchist but i AM all over women having equal rights, women speaking their minds and women being heard and listened to). i find her story interesting

this is something i'm not normally interested in

but this is FASCINATING



bumping high security locks

Marc Tobias and Tobias Bluzmanis attempt to bump the high-security Medeco³ cylinder lock.

via boing boing

.......Wired's Charles Graeber has an astounding piece up about master lockpicker Marc Weber Tobias, who challenged Medeco's claim that its locks are "bump-proof" (that is, that they can't be simply broken by filing down a key, inserting it, and tapping it, sending a shock down the metal that makes the pins jump). Medeco launched an aggressive campaing to market its products to people who were worried about bump keys, but Tobias shows that their locks aren't substantially harder to bump than cheaper models from competitors. Medeco sent Wired a note that said Tobias's claims were true and implied that Wired might be sued for publishing them, so Wired set up a test, and then Medeco raised a flurry of vague, lame objections to the test. But the test speaks for itself -- the Medecos fly open at Tobias's caress. ...........

hey young cons YOU SUCK

and NOT in a good way



(via boing boing .............In this short video, sneering rappers from the young conservative movement bust rhymes about drilling in Alaska, forcing women to bear foetuses to term, eliminating social programs and merging Church and State.......... Posted by Cory Doctorow)

i am afraid of and hate ALL bugs

(except of course for lady bugs - a name one of my friends even calls me). i found these pictures of insects in flagrante strangely intriguing and beautiful

i can't seem to find who the photographer is; but the pictures came from webphemera via boing boing)

wonderful! (but viewer discreretion advised)

(ht: boing boing)

mary roach at ted ideas worth spreading

this appears to be a real legit story

it's sick and it's sad and it's a statement on who we are

and i want to scream


Verizon to cops we won't help you track down sick, possibly dying man unless you pay his $20 phone bill

Posted by Cory Doctorow
A 62-year-old man had a mental breakdown and ran off iafter grabbing several bottles of pills from his house. The cops asked Verizon to help trace the man using his cellphone, but Verizon refused, saying that they couldn't turn on his phone because he had an unpaid $20 bill. After an 11-hour search (during which time the sheriff's department was trying to figure out how to pay the bill), the man was found, unconscious. Two K-9 units, several fire departments and 100 individuals on foot also were involved in the search for the man, who Sheriff Dale Williams said fled his residence on Kensington Rd. after a domestic disturbance call to deputies... Williams said he attempted to use the man's cell phone signal to locate him, but the man was behind on his phone bill and the Verizon operator refused to connect the signal unless the sheriff's department agreed to pay the overdue bill.............

boing boing points us to some

liberal vs. conservative 'humor'

first, here is some liberal 'humor'. you see, the artist made all the republicans INTO CLOWNS. funny, huh?

secondly, here is some conservative 'humor'. you see the artist talks about KILLING non-conservatives. funny, huh?

those conservatives sure are funnier, huh? a gun sure is wayyyyyyyyyyyyy more funny than a red nose, huh? yup. i can certainly see why THEY are so much better (than the rest of us poor soon to be DEAD SLOBS)

(boing boing posts by Mark Frauenfelder,)


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