Remember, remember the Fifth of November, The Gunpowder Treason and Plot, I know of no reason Why the Gunpowder Treason Should ever be forgot.
Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, ’twas his intent To blow up the King and Parli’ment. Three-score barrels of powder below To prove old England’s overthrow;
By God’s providence he was catch’d With a dark lantern and burning match. Hulloa boys, Hulloa boys, let the bells ring. Hulloa boys, hulloa boys, God save the King!
A penny loaf to feed the Pope. A farthing o’ cheese to choke him. A pint of beer to rinse it down. A faggot of sticks to burn him.
Burn him in a tub of tar. Burn him like a blazing star. Burn his body from his head. Then we’ll say ol’ Pope is dead.
Total rubbish. If the members of the Tea Party were about deficits and big government, then they should have gone nuts under Bush. No such thing happened. They only went nuts when the president became black. There is nothing more to them than that.
Don’t these people see an echo of the swastika in their new power symbol? Don’t they realize that the early Nazi Party was (among other things, obviously) also overtly anti-capitalist?…Don’t they know that the early Nazis tried to garner sympathy with street rallies and marches?
One month in, conservatives still have no idea how to respond to Occupy Wall Street and it is freaking them the fuck out.
They’re talking about the hashtag buy the way, the way Twitter is searched, aka, the number symbol: #
And one more political quote for you, this one from Conservative blogger Andrew Sullivan (as seen on The Daily Show, not sure where it came from first):
Bush and Saddam – One Trillion dollars and thousands of US lives.
Obama and Qaddafi – One Billion dollars and zero US lives.
And finally, I’m going to go ahead and say that Bachmann looks like Grand Admiral/Chief of State/Deposed Chief of State Daala. Yes, from Star Wars. I’m a nerd, and the comparisons are strikingly similar. Except for the fact that Daala is a genius, and Bachmann is, well, not even close:
Okay, one more thing, watch this. And be confused. Oh, Shatner:
Quick update for everyone. First up, enjoy this awesome orchestrated version of the Mega Man 2 theme:
Clintus posted this to his blog, and it’s strangely profound:
Did you know that Herman Cain is running to be the president of Sim City? Maxis’ response is priceless, although I wish they would have added “reticulating splines”:
We encourage politicians to continue to look to innovative games like SimCity for inspiration for social and economic change,” said Katsarelis. “While we at Maxis and Electronic Arts do not endorse any political candidates or their platforms, it’s interesting to see GOP candidate Herman Cain propose a simplified tax system like one we designed for the video game SimCity 4.”
Adopting such a simple tax structure, Katsarelis said, would allow fantasy political leaders to focus their energy on infrastructure and national security. “Our game design team thought that an easy to understand taxation system would allow players to focus on building their cities and have fun thwarting giant lizard attacks, rather than be buried by overly complex financial systems.”
Here’s the actual trailer for the Muppets Movie:
The comments with this Occupy Madison Avenue flyer are awesome. Seriously, who still uses Lotus notes, and no I will not make the logo bigger.
And here’s a great video from Occupy Seattle:
I kind of want to make this cable manager, it’s an AT-AT from Star Wars!
Once again, Benstonium hits it out of the park (I know wrong sport metaphor):
I’m not sure if this is somehow connected to the book about the Subway system, but there is an indy documentary about the font “Helvetica.” I need to find a way to see this!
Lifehacker has a good article about how to protect you stuff. I especially like the idea of setting up a fake porn folder with your contact and reward information on a flash drive. Genius! And here is their article about free apps, check it out.
Hardcore Gaming, which is a strangely very static, web 1.0 type of site, ran an article a while back about Myst. Check it out if you’re interested, and haven’t heard enough about it from me before.
Here’s a cool video about what if Mozilla made a cell phone:
