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Wacky Neighbor takes a holiday
I'm in Greece for the next two weeks, so you're all on your own. This flash thingy should amuse you while I'm gone.
Boycotting GoDaddy
GoDaddy sounds pretty Mr. Nice Guy, don't they? Springs to mind the carefree days of the dot-com bubble. San Fransisco, circa 1999. Geek renaissance in full bloom.
Well, their leader's a crotchety old Republican with an axe to grind, and absolutely no compunction about using cliched right wing bromides. 9-11 changed everything, he says, and therefore we must use torture on Gitmo inmates. Nevermind the Aristotelian argument (quite obvious, I think) that torture simply forces people to lie until the pain stops. Nevermind the argument of trying to be an example of how democracy functions.
It'd be one thing if he kept his opinion to himself or kept some sort of division between his own politics and his business. But it's right on the front page of Godaddy.
I'm nauseated. I'm moving all my registered names. And it sucks, because I did like their service. But now that I think of it, all those add-ons and extras during the registration process did seem kind of sneaky.
And how can you trust someone who advocates torture? In the novel Moonraker, M suspects a member of his country club, Hugo Drax, of evildoing. Simply because he cheats at bridge. Crazed politics and a desire to put them up on the front of his business website are a smoking canary, to mix metaphors.
UPDATE: Bob has since retracted much of his commentary. I might still pull my domains, but when I went to look, I found out that most of them renewed like three days before. So I'll probably stick around for a while.
First Tents, now this:
From my incoming email:
I took a look at your site a couple of hours ago...and I want to tell you that I'd really love to trade links with you. I think your site has some really good stuff related to my site's topic of underpants and would be a great resource for my visitors. In fact, I went ahead and added your site to my Underpants Resource Directory
For the curious, the URD in question is just some sort of google feeder page. I really don't have good stuff related to the topic of underpants. But then, neither do they.
There is, however, an underwear gang in Cambodia, according to the guardian. Marlon Brando must be rolling in his grave. The horror...
Played out on top = pure irony underneath
Hipsters! Do you own a Scooby Doo graphic tee that's now knocked off at Old Navy? Are you sick of seeing 13-year-olds in the sparkly "Gem" baby-doll you found at Salvation Army in 1994? Make yourself some underpants.
Action Item!
Someone else hates email-speak. The Adventures of Action Item, Professional Superhero. "Own" is a new one for me; I always thought it was pure leetspeak (1 0wnz0r3d y0ur 60x 1u53r!). But apparently, snotty 14 year olds and middle management have something in common. Aside from having superheroes.
Playing God with pants
Anti-nanotech protests in front of Eddie Bauer? These kids are really worried that anti-stain fabric will kill them.
You've gotta be fucking kidding me. This is not an environmental problem. It's a caricature of an environmental problem.
Surf and Turf in a can
Not getting enough taurine in your diet? Behold the newest energy drink: Clamato Energia!
The Right's Greatest Hits
If you need a good campfire story, the quotes from these wack-jobs should get the kids screaming.
