…why is it that people who watch Fox News as their primary source are fundamentally dumber than the rest of America (more)? The following poll was conducted by PIPA (and for those reading this that do watch Fox, even the US government has admitted that there are no such connections):
Now, please consider reading this… If you like that, read this.
These funmails aren't particularly inspired (thus no replies), so I apologize for that. Anyway, this first one is to “matfli” in Germany, who sent in some well-known stolen pictures from PFIQ and from Creative Art Collective:
>I'd rather send in some pictures.
>mfg
>tat2fly
Thank you so much for sending in your pictures. I'm not sure what city in Germany you are in, so I am unable to contact you directly. I have instructed our operatives to place your password in a small orange cannister. It has been placed into the sidewalk stream in Freiburg and will be floating there for the next 72 hours. After that it will be fired in a rocket toward Liel, where you can find it in a RED cannister located at the West end of town assuming our targetting is accurate.
Enjoy the site, and thank you again for sending in your photos,
Frank O'Derby
Department of Members
PS. More information concerning this matter can be found at www.freiburg.de
Diego from Argentina forgot to remove the GooGirls logo when he sent in “his” photos:
>hola..
>diego
Thank you so much for sending in these photos of your piercings. Without people like you sending in photos of themselves, the site could not survive.
As a thank you, we have created a membership in your name and donated it to cancer victims in Fiji. I'm sure you must be very happy about this.
Enjoy your membership,
Frank O'Derby
Department of Donations
Finally, this one is from our buddy “Crusayder” who sent various pix stolen from BME and elsewhere, also in Germany (almost all the stolen pictures I get come from France and Germany, with a much smaller percentage coming out of South America and eastern Europe):
>Hi people,
>i send u some gooood stuff….
>poease send me my free password now!!!
You sure did, thank you so much for sending in these photos of yourself and your wife. Without good couples such as yourself, the site wouldn't get any photos.
As a special thank you, I have instructed our operatives to capture a small cat or dog at the local park. This animal will be tattooed with your username and password. After three days of rituals the creature will be skinned. A small carpet, suitable for a 1/30th scale home, will be made from this and mailed to the German Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq where you can retrieve it and the password tattooed on it.
Thank you again for sending in your photos,
Frank O'Derby
Department of Small Animals
PS. If you have any concerns about this, please contact our headquarters in Tikrit and ask for Shannam.
Saturday, October 4, 2003
I have a theory that states that if I deface everything I own — plaster my computers with dumbass stickers and so on — that no one will ever steal them. I lived in downtown Toronto for ten years and never locked my doors, even when I was out of town for extended periods. What, you thought that segment in Bowling for Columbine was kidding? That was my neighborhood. Thanks to those of you who send me stickers from time to time. I do put them to good use.
Saturday, October 4, 2003
I've talked about Titan (one of Saturn's moons) here before as a possible place for non-Earth life in this solar system. Earth is a water-based biosystem, and the Earth exists at the tri-point of water — water simultaneously exists in solid, liquid, and gaseous form here. Titan on the other hand is at the tri-point of methane (an energy-rich organic substance); the surface has long been thought to be convered in methane lakes and methane icebergs, evaporating into methane gas — an ideal environment for life. Recent radar scans (more) confirm it… I have to admit I'm very much looking forward to seeing the results when ESA splashes down its Huygens probe in January of 2005.
Along those lines you may remember just over a year ago (more) when I mentioned the possibility of life on Venus as well (here's another link on that). In November of 2005 the Venus Express probe launches to investigate that further… These are exiting times to be alive — we're watching civilizations crumble, cultural and spiritual revolutions, and perhaps even mankind's solid realization that we are but a tiny piece of a gigantic living universe.
I'm sure things must have seemed exciting in the Renaissance as well, but I sure am glad I'm alive today. Of course, I'm pretty sure that by the time I'm a hundred I'll be wishing I'd been born seventy-five years later! Rachel says that all my recent photos make me look older than I actually look… Maybe I'm seventy-five already?
Saturday, October 4, 2003
I haven't been posting on this subject much lately (too much “real” work), but the latest thing blown up in Israel by a suicide bomber is the Maxim Restaurant in Haifa (more) — twenty people killed, fifty injured. Now, I'm definitely sympathetic to the cause of the Palestinians and I understand why they're desperate enough to launch these types of attacks. However, why blow up a restaurant that's jointly owned by Jews and Arabs? Seriously. If your goal is peace and some level of unification, then things like jointly owned businesses should be a symbol of a better future.
Oh right.
I forgot.
No one wants peace.
Along those lines, I wanted to mention another story on how US troops are getting screwed over by their employer. OK, you know how even if you're on active duty you get occasional two-week vacations to cool off and recouperate? After all, a two year tour in Iraq must be hell.
Well, tough luck for all but the wealthy.
US troops in Iraq are being expected to pay for their “vacations” (more). That is, if they want to go to Spokane, WA to see thier kids, or just to Budapest to party, they have to foot the bill. If not, “have fun on your vacation in Tikrit.” Feel free to take a look at expedia.com and see how much it costs to fly home commercially from George Bush International Airport in Baghdad…
Either offer vacations or don't. But telling troops that only those from rich families (it's not as if a military grunt wage covers this stuff) can go home on vacation is pretty messed up…
