October 2008
Monthly Archive
Ruby Isle Sez: Anything can happen on Halloween
Its better than a video. So here are two:
Ruby Isle - “How It Hurts” from Taylor Coggin on Vimeo.
Have You Heard Session (kind of): Ruby Isle from HaveYouHeard on Vimeo.
Posted by dan on 31 Oct 2008 at 08:51 am
It’s not torture if you enjoy it!
Looks fun don't it?
According to a recently leaked or declassified (or some junk) memo, the Bush Administration, contrary to their previous claims, authorized the use of “waterboarding” on “Al-Qaeda suspects“.
However, the Bush Administration stays the course on its position that it does not consider waterboarding torture.
Oh, the huge manatee!
To get to the bottom of this issue, I propose a simple experiment to determine if the Bush Administration actually considers waterboarding torture.
- Waterboard them,
- If they get a boner, they do not consider it torture (or at least not the bad kind).
Posted by Bob on 15 Oct 2008 at 10:54 am
Classic McCain Moments…
Today’s classic McCain moment comes from August 29, 2005:
Here we have McCain and Bush celebrating McCain’s 69th (yup was even old 3 years ago) birthday while New Orleans was being obliterated by hurricane Katrina.
Tags: bush, capitalism, cheaters-always-win, corporations-will-be-the-end-..., culture-wars, fucked-up-shit, global-warming, katrina, mccain, natural-disasters, neo-cons, new orleans, politics, republicans, ridiculousPosted by ryan on 14 Oct 2008 at 02:26 pm
OBAMA versus MCCAIN: Last Blood, The Final Debate at GO BAR!!
ObamaRad.com / Kindercore / Vida Dulce Productions / The GO Bar PRESENT:
Come watch the final Obama/McCain debate on the huge projection screen at the GO Bar this Wednesday!
There will be McCain bingo, ObamaRad shirts for sale (all profits go to the Obama campaign!) and as many drinks as your little body can handle!
After the debate there will be dancing with DJ Fluid Karma and live music from The Matt Kurz One, Jordan & Enoch!
Party starts at 8 • Debate starts at 9 • Music until 2
Tags: be-cool-bitches, capitalism, corporations-will-be-the-end-..., culture-wars, debates, flags, get-your-freak-on, iraq, kindercore, mccain, music, nationalism, neo-cons, new-patriotism, obama, out of touch, patriotism, politics, pundits, republicans, Sarah Palin, Talking-Heads, television, the future, the stupid economy, voting, xenophobiaPosted by ryan on 13 Oct 2008 at 02:15 pm
Fantastic Obama Photo Gallery
The wife found this killer Obama photo gallery and I wanted to pass on some of my faves here.
Posted by ryan on 10 Oct 2008 at 02:36 pm
Hilarious!
Tags: election, mccain, out of touch, politics, the stupid economy, wtf
Posted by ryan on 10 Oct 2008 at 01:45 pm
Vote early, vote often
Do agoraphobia and the prospect of record voter turn-out leave you dreading election day?
Well fret no more!
31 (of 50!) states allow some sort of early voting, thru absentee ballots or by actually voting on a (recordless) electronic voting machine.
In Athens, you can vote early 8:30am-5pm, M-F downtown at the ACC Board of Elections (I know I am 
until Friday, 24 October 2008.
And here’s Georgia’s list of early polling centers all in one low PDF!
For the rest, I came across CanIVote.org while searching for mine own local early voting info. They have pretty ausum and easy to use resources which can help one to learn about aspects of voting in one’s home state including (but not limited to) finding yr polling place (he-he), what documents and IDs one might need and (come on, duh) procedures for early and absentee voting.
And yeah, my ladyfiend just called me on my bullshit.
I can’t jabber on the subject of voting without at least mentioning vote fraud and the stolen elections of 2000 and 2008 but Greg Palast does it better.
Voting may not make a difference, but subtraction does!
But at least make them go to the trouble of stealing the election.
Tags: election, voting, yr momPosted by Bob on 10 Oct 2008 at 11:40 am
It feels funny to root for cops
The Cook County sheriff has suspended enforcing foreclosure evictions.
He hopes that this action will prompt other government officials (e.g. judiciary or state legislature) to step in and alleviate some of the damage caused by the 43,000 foreclosures (in Cook MF’n County alone!) expected by year’s end.
While I feel greatly gladdened by this news, it would not have saved the boyhood home of Jake and Elwood Blues, as the orphanage owes property tax, not mortgage payments.
Too bad the anti-predatory lending laws of all 50 states were sabotaged in yet another glaring example of high crimes and misdemeanors.
Tags: foreclosures, the stupid economy, whoa!Posted by Bob on 08 Oct 2008 at 11:19 pm
Too Human: The MMORPG without the MM or the O
It has online co-op, so I guess that means it’s multiplayer and online, but it’s not massively-multiplayer and it’s not online in any sort of way that is defined by the O in MMO. Which basically means, Too Human has all the bad of an MMORPG (designed to waste your time, environments that lack any real substance, brain-dead enemies) with none of the good (meeting new people, playing with a large group of friends, feeling like you’re part of a virtual world).
In short, Too Human is a bad game. So why the hell did I play the whole damned thing? I mean seriously, this game is buggy, the story is nigh incomprehensible, and the game mechanics are completely vapid. Also, the game never explains itself half the time (wtf does “Soothing +44%” actually do for me? I rented the game from gamefly, so maybe that stuff was in the manual that I didn’t have, I guess.)
I played the whole damned thing for two reasons:
A. I really wanted the story to be good. I love Eternal Darkness, and the people at Silicon Knights are always good at story-based games. Towards the end, though, I gave up on it being satisfying and meaningful I kinda just wanted the story to make sense. It never was, and it wasn’t for lack of trying on my end. I was 100% on board for cyber-vikings and techno-norsemen, but they left me hanging. I have absolutely no idea what happened in the events of this story, and not in a pleasant “woah, surrealism is awesome” sort of way. I would have a hard time even summarizing it.
2. Just like an MMORPG, the game is deviously designed to rope you in. Even more than most MMOs, however, Too Human doesn’t ever let up with the endless stream of phat lootz. You just keep pushing the joystick towards badguys, and your brain just keeps on releasing endorphins, because the game just keeps on tricking you into thinking you’re actually accomplishing something. Some people would cite this as a reason to call this game “good,” but it’s only “good” in the same sense as eating a whole box of oreos is “good.” It’s tasty for a time, but ultimately unsatisfying, and leaves you with a tummy ache.
And then you look at that empy box and go “god dammit! I just ate that whole fucking box of oreos! What’s wrong with me??”
Tags: junk food, video gamesPosted by nick on 06 Oct 2008 at 12:42 pm
