Author: Adam

Five Great Comedians Who’ve Lost It

From Cracked, the magazine “you only stole if the store didn’t have Mad magazine”:

Steve Martin, Mike Myers, Jim Carrey, Eddie Murphy and Robin Williams: who they were then, who they are now, when they changed and possible salvation. Brilliant perspective, brilliantly put.

Bizarre to see something like Cracked running on Nuke btw. Yet oddly cool. Was is Cracked or Mad had the fold-in things on the back cover?

Know any Finns?

I need to register a .FI domain name and they require a local presence. If you know anyone up there that would be willing to help for a few quid, please let me know.

Cool Camels

Not often I to point to a true story on Snopes, but this is a “real” photo by George Steinmetz, featured in a 2005 Turkish National Geographic article about deserts, funnily enough. Very cool.

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The Ultimate Blog Post

Obviously it couldn’t be this post, because I’m not a blogger. And the post itself isn’t either, because it’s not on a blog. And it’s really not an Ultimate anything. But it is funny. Because it is true.

Cue outrage from bloggers, or possibly some kind of long diatribe on why the sites in question aren’t blogs at all, why the writer is unqualified to comment, why the sky is blue and why I’ve fallen asl…

10 news stories the media is ignoring

I consider myself fairly with it in the Governments And Corporations Are Bastards dept, and I hadn’t heard of half of these. And Project Censored has another fifteen.

  1. The Feds and the media muddy the debate over Internet freedom
  2. Halliburton charged with selling nuclear technology to Iran
  3. World oceans in extreme danger
  4. Hunger and homelessness increasing in the United States
  5. High-tech genocide in Congo
  6. Federal whistleblower protection in jeopardy
  7. U.S. operatives torture detainees to death in Afghanistan and Iraq
  8. Pentagon exempt from Freedom of Information Act
  9. World Bank funds Israel-Palestine wall
  10. Expanded air war in Iraq kills more civilians