The Eerily Ahead Of It’s Time Linkdump

This speech was made at the end of Chaplin’s first “talkie” titled “The Dictator” almost 60 years ago, but it seems like it could just have easily been written for us! Was he able to see into the future? Or just way ahead of his time?

• Strange and funny flight attendant.
• Google Roll Out GMail 2.0
• Your Blog Might Suck If…
• Battlestar Inferno (cuz I never thought rap music could be set to BSG til now)
• MUST READ George Orwell Describes The Right Wing Blurghosphere
• Is America Ready For A FLILF?
• Wikipedia in 2001
• So Tiny … Don’t Kill It
• Tests of faith over ‘The Golden Compass’
• Bill Maher: Scared of the Wrong Things
• The 160 Billion Dollar Typo
• “It Wasn’t That Hard to See Bush Was a Moron in 2000″
• YOU HAVE TO WATCH Jewish Singer to Coulter: perfect me.
• TCFW Bold Move Pays Off
• THE OFFICIAL GOD FAQ (Thanks GorillaSushi )
• Weird And Bizarre Plants: 8 Freaks Of Nature! [PICS]
• Forget Impeachment – Straitjacket Bush
• CNN’s Cafferty: Bush putting the poor out in the cold to fund war
• Diagram: What is terrorism? Here’s a good start
• STOP-LOSS TRAILER JUST FUCKING CLICK

Heaven’s Not Enough BSG Fan Vid of Awesome Proportions

Jim Flaherty, Canadians and The Surplus

Government proposes $60B in tax cuts, with further GST drop
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty has tabled a motion that calls for $60 billion in personal and corporate tax cuts over the next five years, including a further cut in the GST to five per cent, effective Jan. 1.

Well the magic Leprachaun has given us the good news, another huge surplus. Wow! Cool! Great! Yay! The New Liberals hmmm I mean the Conservatives, decided to, big surprise, give out tax cuts. Because sucking up to the contributors is the conservative thing to do right? NO! That’s what the liberals do. I thought the Conservatives would dump all the surplus on the debt. That’s the conservative thing to do.

Why the tax cut? Because it’s what everybody wants. But what everyone wants isn’t always a good thing. A tax cut. Right! A big fat 180$ a year this time. Even if it’s a 1000$ cash back in my wallet right now I wouldn’t care less.

I remember how we started the road to Surplus Heaven; by hack and slashing education and healthcare. So instead of getting a freaking tax break again so The Harpy can buy your votes and your acquiescence why not take those billions and re-fund the healthcare system and re-make the great social healthcare system into what it used to be, why not dump some of that cash in education. Educated and healthy Canadians are bigger money makers than unhealthy cretin Canadians. It’s just common cents.

Heroes: The Line… has been drawn.

Dear Tim Kring,

I can’t find a polite way of telling you to please go fuck yourself for ruining what was potentially the most original hero-based serial since the Buffy-verse went away. Now we are officially one quarter of the second season in and we haven’t had one action scene, well not a Heroes worthy scene anyway. What did we have tonight? Let’s have a quick run down.

We had Miss Cheerleader who just a few episodes ago was complaining that she wasn’t using her powers to their potential to maybe help people. And tonight, well she’s using them to traumatise a fellow cheerleader so she can steel her seat on the squad. Yup! This show is all about evolution.

Suresh, what a useless dolt. I’ll do it, I wont do it, rinse and repeat. Will the script writers write in some balls for Suresh please? And I’m not even gonna get into the languishing boredom of Hiro in feudal Japan

Maya her brother and Sylar just happen to hit a part of the border that left open and of course the Minute Men are waiting. Oh Come On! We know, we know, we goddamn know that she loses control and people die. We get it. It’s all we see every time there’s a scene with her in it. And I know that South Americans are religious and everything but are they so blatantly stupid Maya can’t see Sylar is FUCKING EVIL?

The Company Man Bob, wants to erase Monica’s power and after Suresh’s little hissy fit, he has crisis of conscience and changes his mind, takes her home himself and set her up with everything she needs? How fucking LAME can you goddamn get?

Noah Benet’s story was only mildly interesting. But of course we were growing to love Mr. Benet and his new fatherly ways. And then he cold bloodedly offs his mentor with little hesitation. Big Shocker! He used to be pure evil. I’m not impressed. This is what he used to do. Stop it already.

And then, then, Peter, goes to Montreal, finds a clue, clue magically dream-theater teleports him to future New-York and finds a leaflet about a future evacuation in 2008. Oh New-York in Danger again? Oh My! Where have I seen this plot before?
Hmmmm Oh yeah, that was last years fucking plot and you fucked that up also.

So in conclusion, I’ll go the geek way to mock your episode’s title and quote Captain Picard: “The line Must Be Drawn Here, This Far No Further” because I’m done with your show I’m no longer willing to wait to see if it gets better next week. It’s finished. I’ll never watch again. Chapter 11 on Heroes. Closing the book.

Previously Hyped:

• Heroes Season 2: From HEROES to ZEROES.
• Heroes Chapter 2: Leapin’ Lizards, was that Lame.
• David’s 2007 Fall TV Line-Up or How My PVR will Catch on Fire
• Canadian Heroes Season 2 Promo (Will Kring Screw us like he did with the Cliffhanger?)
• Super Slick Vibrant New HEROES SEASON 2 PROMO
• Heroes Season 2 – NBC Primetime Preview

Come Feel The Noise

I work in this office space where the cubicles are short and low. Plus it’s notoriously quiet. To top it off I’ve got very good hearing. I can hear someone chewing gum in a movie theatre during an action movie.

One of my pet peeves are repetitive and mouth based noises. And inevitably the Trifecta of Annoyers pop-up in every office environment I inhabit and I see a lot of them being a consultant.

- The Clacker. -

This is the idiot who slams the keyboard instead of typing. Either they are former IRC freaks who are so high on crack to change the 20 windows they are used to type in they don’t know how to slow down but most often it’s the engineer and their inability to rid themselves of old peripherals. They grow attached to these old keyboards from 20 years ago that make an insane amount of noise like it’s some kind of security blanket. And it doesn’t end there; The Clacker displays the same behaviour with the mouse clicking with feverish madness, like a schizophrenic patient in withdrawal trying to tap away imaginary bugs. The Clacker annoys me to no end because his tools of annoyance are used all day.

- The Slurper. -

That’s that fucking annoying little fucker who can’t help him self but to hoover his goddamn coffee while making as much fucking noise as humanly possible. And The Slurper does this rhythmically SLURP! One Mississippi two Mississippi three Mississippi SLURP! Arg! I swear, just this morning I could have unscrewed his head.

- The Flammer. -

Oh yeah, this is the one that just annoys my mind more than it does my nerves. Every office has that queer guy, like that Special K commercial with the office chick in the red dress. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but my office fag, when he speaks in his native French, speaks like he’s from Sorel and speaks in a manly tone. But when he speaks in English, he speaks in a flammey VallyGirl accent. WHAT THE FUCK? Come the fuck on, no one speaks like that, not even the valley girls. Cut it the fuck out.

So I’m just sitting here, shinning my grenades and prepping my 6-pack-attack grenade launcher for when I finally pop. I’m really gonna bring the noise.

My New Toy is Self Aware

Look at my new baby. I love it. When I turned it on it greeted me with “Hello David” so I dubbed it HAL.

It’s a Western Digital My Book Essential external USB Hard Drive

Formatting a 250 GB drive takes hours and hours and hours, but HAL will be a great trooper to back up all my detailed files from Prometheus The Ancient who will render its ghost in a matter of little time. And it seems that Dellilah can’t be trusted according to my Jedi Hamster. So this was the best purchase I could make for now. Plus my average photography outing has me coming back with more or less 500 MB of pictures. Hell It won’t be long before HAL is replaced with HAL2 (I’m already eyeing the 2 TB model) but HAL will do for now.

A Sad PostSecret

Face Off: Old School Cylon vs New School Cylon Picture

May the best toaster win. Just Looks Cool