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.
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):
Romney is gracious enough to allow people who love each other to have hospital visitation rights (even though that’s now a right that the LGBT community fought to achieve). But he can’t allow people who love each other to marry, or even form domestic partnerships. He wants to create something new, something even more insulting.
Sigler wore a homemade T-shirt to school last Tuesday that said “GSA: We’ve Got Your Back.” A teacher ordered Sigler to cover up the shirt in the future. Sigler, knowing he had a right to wear the shirt, wore it again Friday, and resisted an order to remove the shirt. Sigler says that Moser then ordered all students out of the classroom, except for Sigler’s sister Jessica, who refused to leave. According to both students, Moser then grabbed Sigler’s arm, shoved him, and chest-bumped him repeatedly while asking “Who’s the big man now?” Sigler’s mother reported that when she arrived at the school, she saw her son seated in a desk with Moser leaning over him and shouting in Sigler’s face. The Siglers filed a report about the incident that afternoon with the Madisonville Police Department.
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:
Here’s an incredible little story. Father and son at the first and last shuttle launches:
I think we all knew this was coming, and honestly, I think it may even make reruns more relevant, and fun to watch to spot them, but now there are new ads inserted into old sitcoms.
This story is for all who love Randall, and if you haven’t, make sure you check out his horoscope hotline, a bunch of us call it every morning at work. And by the way, Honeybadger doesn’t give a shit, just in case you forgot.
Remember the shooting spree at the summer camp in Europe? Check out this string of text messages between a girl on the island and her mom. Touching and amazing.
Myths Retold is pretty awesome, although each one is long, so I sadly don’t read it as much as I should. But here is one of my favorites, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Here’s a cool time-lapse of the front page of the New York Time’s webpage through the years:
And winner of irony goes to this story. I haven’t done much on Google+ because not many of my friends are on it yet, but this just makes me want to hug everyone at Google.
The LGBT community are kind of used to being outcasts. We’re the underdogs, even if we make the world function from behind the scenes (to say nothing of the so called “glitterati” that conservatives are so afraid of). But we can more and more acceptance as people realize they know, are friends with and are related to gay people.
The same I think can be said for the kinksters. The more open they are about their lives, the more accepting the world will be. And for the record (I think I’ve posted it before), I wish more people would follow the simple advice that I picked up (probably from Dan Savage) along the way:
It doesn’t matter what goes on between my ears, what I have between my legs or what I do between the sheets. Live and let live, my sex life doesn’t affect you (as I add with snark, ‘but thanks for thinking either that I’d be interested in you or somehow obsessing about me naked’).
ANYWAY…a New York DA lawyer was fired. Not because she was bad at her job, not because she lost a case, or did something unethical, but because her bosses found out she is a kinkster. One of my favorite bloggers, who happens to be a gay kinkster, covers it here.
