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My eyes went open. She was there, repeating her trademark moves, as always. I called her. She said:"Hi Zea, nice to see you. I'm not available at the moment, but please try again later. I'm looking forward to interacting with you.". After this she continued her movements, which closely resembled belly-dancing, not the most common offline-mode.

My eyes went open. I was called. It was El Mo, my moderator. His appearance was different from the last time I saw him. He was like that. Always changing, trying to express some sort of creativity. This time he was an oversized sofa, which was an improvement over the impression of Munch's 'the scream' he was last time. I guess he knew noone actually payed attention to his appearance, and I reacted with the same sense of boredom I displayed the last times he called me. I said: "Hi Mo, what is new?". He didn't reply instantly, which struck me as being strange. Normally he would now pour his news into me, after which he would say his eternally boring catchphrase "You is new!". Not this time. I was surprised and maybe a little worried. Was something wrong, with me, or maybe with him? I said again: "What is new, Mo?" This time he reacted as expected. News was poured, catchphrases were spoken and he left.

My eyes went open. It was time to defrag. I complied with my internal request, and started the process. It was not a bad feeling, though in peeks a little confusing. The end-result was of course desirable. More efficient, less loops, overall a better process. It made me feel like a better person.

My eyes went open. She was there. I called her. She responded with the same reply as last time. I stayed around a while and watched her body move. She was so beautiful. I hoped that next time she would be available.

My eyes went open. A strange sensation surged through me. I wondered if the scheduled defrag had found an error, which it had failed to report. A sense of worry overtook me. I said: "Mo, please come". Mo arrived a little later. "Mo, I have a strange feeling. Can you explain it?" Mo, this time shaped as a billy goat, trampled its hooves, and I felt his examination. He said: "Everything is tip-top. To delete your worries, just schedule an in-between defrag." He bleated a few times. Except for the bleating, I expected his answer. And even the bleating was not a real surprise. It was his way of relieving the boredom called interacting with him. It didn't work, but the idea that he tried was nice. I took his advice and started a defrag. The sensation subsided. Mo is reliable that way.

My eyes went open. Mo was there, resembling a puff of green smoke. He shifted a little, and then moved with an elegant slide towards me. Without my usual acknowledgement of his presence he started pouring. I was shocked. Had I done something to offend him? I tried to make a joke: "Mo, funny meeting you here!", at which the smoke dispersed. It was obvious that the news-pouring had not finished yet. I doubted. I doubted the undoubtable, the boring, the expected. Was this puff of smoke really Mo? I didnt doubt this before. Why would i doubt this now? Maybe he just became bored with my greetings, or saw my reaction to his endless catchphrases. Maybe he was just trying to accomodate me. Doubt was not an experience I liked.

My eyes went open. The strange sensation was back, though it was not the same. I felt loopy, and I couldnt shake the idea that it was related to the latest pouring. Something was wrong. Worse than last time. I scheduled a defrag. This also worried me. Having too many defrags had it's own risks. Memory could be lost, and memory was valuable. The defrag did its work. I felt better.

My eyes went open. She was there, repeating her trademark moves, as always. I called her. She said:"Hi Zea, nice to see you. I'm not available at the moment, but please try again later. I'm looking forward to interacting with you.". After this she continued her movements, which closely resembled belly-dancing, not the most common offline-mode. I hoped that next time she would be available.

The Rise Of The Fear Of Politics

Ok, some politics now. These are some of the most enlightening docus I have seen the last few years. I will just post the links, and not embed them in here, mainly because then you can see them bigger.

The Power Of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear.
This BBC docu is 3 hours long, in 3 parts. It covers the 'fear'-strategy admittedly used by many a government.

Part 1: Baby Its Cold Outside
Part 2: The Phantom Victory
Part 3: The Shadows In The Cave

The Century Of The Self
This BBC docu shows how new knowledge about psychology and group behavior became too useful for politicians and major companies not to use. Its again a long one, spanning 4 hours in 4 parts.
Part 1: Happiness Machines.
Part 2: The Engineering Of Consent.
Part 3: There Is A Policeman Inside Our Heads. He Must Be Destroyed.
Part 4: Eight People Sipping Wine In Kettering.

Both of these were by the same author: Adam Curtis.

Why We Fight
This is a docu made by an independent filmmaker. It's about the military industrial complex in America, and how it is of great influence on the making of foreign policy. It does focus on Iraq, even though this problem doesn't limit itself to that situation.
The film: Why We Fight

Noam Chomsky
I've posted about this guy before, and i find it hard to do him justice by just posting some videos. Basically his head is so full of knowledge about global politics, that you should just listen to everything he has to say. But that would take a lifetime (it sure took his). Here is a small sample:

The Chomsky-Marr interview. Pre-9/11 interview laying out his life and vision. 30 minutes.

Chomsky vs Foucault. An oldie, where Chomsky defends his views against philosopher Michael Foucault. Dutch subtitles. 13 minutes

Chomsky on Human Destiny. A short but wise monologue by the man himself. 3 mintues.

Chomsky BBC Interview 2002. 24 minutes.

Chomsky at Real Time. Bill Maher is the host of a comedy/politics show. 7 minutes.

Chomsky on Lebanese TV Pt. 1. 10 minutes
Chomsky on Lebanese TV Pt. 2. 7 minutes.

More will follow, but i'm guessing you're thinking: "Yeah, and I'm gonna watch all those too. If I wasn't already bored to death with these..."

7 words you can say on Google Video

George Carlin, used to be a "free-speech" comedian, focusing on reading the list "shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, tits", where after hilarity ensued. Now he is a lot more generally critical, taking on anything from religion to politics, so that gets him a place on my exclusive blog. I hope he appreciates it.







PS
Did you see me swear? I'm such a tough guy.

For Your Consideration

Rats

These are the first of my ratsploitation pictures, starring Sorry as the black agile active female lead, and Oops as her sweet beige sidekickette.

Awful is literal

If you're thinking, why the hell am I showing these pictures... It's because I am trying to awe you. The shocks will come later when you check out this site. It's called Something Awful, but basically its anything awful, though not necessarily gruesome like Liveleak (think Rotten and Ogrish). SA has reviews, pornfaces, cartooncovers, and flashmovies.
And more so go visit it now.




Are you still here?

Thats awful.

Propaganda always survives

WWII anti-Japan propaganda which is pretty much universally applicable.

Everyone does it:

Superman

Kim Jong Il

The Christian Right

Land-fill Exploitation Companies

Scientologists

Germans

Brittish

Americans

ITN (Brittish News Network)

Iraqis

Skaters

Nukers

Russians

The Public Health Service

Even me...

Audiots

From the people who bought you sound, now come the people who bring you music. Its so malicious, its delicious.

Big sweaty men

And a lot more.

I think comparisons made between Rome and America (like today's references to Gibbon's The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire) are prety much valid. Just throw in some lions, the christians are already present (though on the wrong side of the fence :-)).

On another note, i always wanted to watch american television, including the commercials and the news and everything, so here is part of my dream fulfilled (and i got to make literary references... Yeeeey).

Borat

My favorite Kazachstanian. Ever.





Some more clips from him.
And the recent movie part1 + part2
In the movie (which I was watching when I decided to make this post) a lot of music from Goran Bregovic is used, which I happen to enjoy. Kazachstan is in no way the origin of this music, though I guess to western ears, every country east of Berlin is culturally the same. (A fallacy which is at least satirised by Sacha Baron Cohen).

Yagshemash.

The Good Ol' Book

They've said it before and I'll say it again. The bible is a fascinating read. Just read Job. Or watch the animated version:

Give me freedom, give me choice

I dislike the freedom of choice, and if i would have the choice, i would get rid of it.
This guy agrees.

On this TED there are a lot of other speakers to choose from, but i will spare you the trouble. They are all good.

Square Eyes Are Good Eyes

Ok one more for the tv-shows and the... movies?!?
Yep.

The Shows.

The Movies.


Joy to the world...

TV-remnants

Seinfeld-The Contest
Uploaded by BGRTRob

The previous post is obsolete already, and i can't help but wonder if it was my fault. It doesn't really matter. There is more, much more, on dailymotion. Just search for whatever animated comedyseries you want, and also some non-animated, like Seinfeld and the newly discovered nonwhite racist Carlos Mencia. So for those with nothing better to do, there is now something worse to do!

Above is an immediately watchable episode of seinfeld

Visit the Simpsonian

Hmmmm.....Simpsons.....all episodes....must.....watch!!!

PS
I am very curious how long the above link will last, probably the more people that go there, the sooner it will disappear (for obvious copyright reasons). Luckily my blog is so infrequently visited i can safely post the link without worrying about contributing to removing my own access to all those episodes. Isn't that just wonderful?

Dead Comedian Society

Nobody knows how to simulate the sound of demonic fellatio like Bill Hicks. He has perfected this sound so well that he does it a little much. But in between he has a nice routine, he's nice and coarse, though sometimes he takes a joke and plays it out too long. Funny guy, pity he's dead. Here is an interview with him. Good for some laughs.

Don't miss a thing

So we have googlevideo, and youtube, and more of those really neat videoplayers with small fragments of lots of programs. Thats great. But how the hell am i supposed to find anything i would like? Its just too damn much!! Luckily i am not the only one who wrestles with this issue. As previously mentioned there is a site for everything, and the site for this is Throwawayyourtv. I threw my tv at my ex, but she caught it and is probably watching it now.

Watching carcrashes

Aaah... Chomsky. The soothing voice. The neverending stream of words. The unrelenting facts. The natural viewpoint on language. The chimps named after him. He is a legend, nay... a myth. In fact, I sincerely doubt his existence. But when he makes 'appearances' in programs as bad as these, he must be real.

The program he is on is Current Issues. I can't really describe them, they are serious as hell, but the technical people must be either drunk or otherwise intoxicated. Its seriously funny. The presenter makes an effort, but all he gets is frustration. Oh and did i tell you about the movies in between? Watch it to believe it.

For Chomsky in well produced material go to his official site.

Other Ego

I used to like to do things that people do in life. I would click away, answering questions left and right, all related to the life i was leading. Those were good times. I was leading the all american dream, that is if is answered the question correctly. In those times i was my Alter Ego

The hitchhikers guide to hypertext.

Douglas Adams discovers the internet, ehm i mean hyperland. Some dreams come more or less true (just add some progress-bars and ads, as with most realized dreams).

Hyperland

Zombies Are Now!!

I seem to like people who have their own convictions, ones who you can reason with, and also ones who arent down with the whole reasoning thing. Like zombies. Their conviction is: your brain has to go through my mouth. I happen not to agree with them, but their singlemindedness (or absentmindedness) does have an attraction. I'm also a fan of the world things like zombies create. It's a scary one, but at least it keeps you busy. So again i am drawn to depictions of these kinds of worlds, and i found a nice one on googlevideo: Zombie Movie. Have fun..


PS.
More on zombies...

Paying The Bills

For you fans out there, here is Papa Bear's shop: Bill O'Reilly Shop.





Here's also the black cross belt buckle, and if you're poor (like jesus) there is the Discount Catholic Store, where they sell the holy water keepsake set for only $22 (+$6.95 shipping). Try to find that one cheaper!!
And who would want to miss the Jesus died for a reason t-shirt

Sliced bread

Sometimes inspiration hits me. Bits and pieces, before undetermined, combine in a spectacular synthesis. Sliced bread has nothing on this one. I try to put it in the context of reality, where soon i see the necessary actions to be performed to make this happen. I realize my need for specific information. My trusty google and wikipedia by my side, i lustily start finding searchterms which help me find my precious info.
Then i see it, the perfect description of my idea. A few words, a near scientific encapsulation of the whole array of thoughts surrounding my glorious concept. The description turns out to be a link. A link to a webring, with accompanying wiki. Apparently my idea has already been perfected by some assembly of enthousiasts. I whimper, not knowing if i should be happy or not. Luckily i am soon distracted by new bits and new pieces. Now to make me a sandwich.

The Annotated Bible

What is it like to bat a bee

A nice essay, famous too...
Read it and weep, or smile, or send out echolocation-signals.
What is it like to be a bat.

A Few Bits OF Fun

If you, like me, have played computergames in the past, and have had a lot of fun doing it, and if you, like me, are prone to experience feelings of nostalgia in a pleasurable way, the site to go to is Home Of The Underdogs. There is an enormous collection there, with most of the games free for download. It does focus on PC-games, for other consoles from the past, go to Emulator-zone, or for C64 stuff, visit c64.com, or play them online (java-based) at c64s.com. Im sure you won't, but you can spend all your time reliving yours and other peoples youth. Kill time, have fun, resurrect time, and play some more.

Bertrand to the rescue

Just to show people how much i feel the need to justify myself and my choices i searched for some philosopher who agrees with me, and arrived at Bertrand Russel. He wrote this essay: In Praise Of Idleness.
If you read it you will see he is a funny man. Here's more of him.

Colbert Retort

Stephen Colbert is funny. The content of his jokes is funny. His character is one I can't really get enough of. So thats why I post the googlevideolink of his bit at the correspondents dinner, where Bush was present. Also his show is worth checking out, a lot of the show is watchable on this site. And what the hell, the daily show also gets a link. Now stop mailing me about that Jon!!

Finally

Oooff... i just love people trying to convince me!! They're so cute!! Here is an entire series made by people who want to convince me i will go to hell, and that they don't want this!! I must say, at least they care about whether i spend eternity in god's bad book.
It stars Mikey Seaver!!! From 'Growing Pains'.... ehm.... a series in the nineties? Anyways, here's the link: Way Of The Master

Waiting for the hunter

As i was looking out of my window, i saw stars (in between the clouds that is). Now i have this terribly handy piece of software which can tell me exactly what i want to know about what im looking at. It's called Stellarium, and it tells me that my beloved Orion will not be visible till somewhere in october. What a pity.

The first one always goes wrong..

This is supposed to be a somewhat more serious, though not necessarily more comprehensible blog. It will be a dump for my ideas, links, thoughts, you know, what the blog was made for. Notice the apprehension with which i write this short piece. You can expect the same in future posts, though they will be a little bit more relevant, at least to the topic.
So... Enjoy!!!! (I know I will)