No joke.

Bandaids that look like a fresh strip of bacon.

LOL

Truly random stuff: Bacon bandages

In short, start buying a lot of stuff from the above website, particularly if you're not involved in a high energy physics study track at your local uni.

How to get on a watch list

Some straight talk from a very serious child. heh.

Why you need health insurance.

I just had to meme it because they're so damn cute.

This will freak you out coming from me

Tragically, Patrick Lee died last Saturday after having taken a bunch of drugs and winding up in an altercation with the police. Unfortunately the family and a few friends are acting "a-fool" and apparently trying to claim this is a case of police brutality, regardless that the responding officers demonstrated remarkable restraint in their attempts to restrain a guy who was basically running around a parking lot naked.

I've gotten more than a little irritated about this, since under normal circumstances a Taser is a really safe thing to be using (as opposed to batons and bullets), and taking them off the streets is just going to get more people hurt that could probably have been brought under control with a taser. Therefore I have summarized events and countered some of the deliberate misinformation in hopes that this information is going to make it's way into the proper hands and hopefully put some minds to rest.

Regardless of whether he was relatively irresponsible, he will be missed.

The death of Patrick Lee was an accident

One of my geek friends who I've yet to mention this site to (I think... Nobody smack me.) has put up a little blog for his adventures in Florida.

While for we here in Nashville, it will merely mean blessed rain, it's apparently gotten pretty exciting down there. But as long as the intarweb is intact, all will come out well in the end. :)

On-the-spot coverage of Hurricane Dennis

I have bestowed this award upon you for your ability to craft targeted and strategic posts to piss off the largest amount of people possible. I also award you for your own sexual insecurities that allow you to imply that homosexuals are not "actual human beings." Kudos to you! Oh, and please do not neglect to visit the url below to receive this prestigious award. Thank you for your time...and attention.

And because of your unique disregard for human life and everything that pertains, we will stray from the normal policy of not feeding the trolls. Eat up.

Let it be noted that Vile has generated more complaints then any other user in MemeStreams history.

World's Greatest Poster Award - given to Vile

Leading the way in demonstrating that the internet percieves censorship (as well as injunctions) as damage and routes around it, Bram has just incorporated trackerless torrent publishing into a new beta release of BitTorrent. Get it. Use it. Love it.

'Disruptively cheap' web publishing!

...for when you're attacked by Zombies.

...although probably the same goes for Conservatives.

Read it.

Oh, and fuck Kentucky in the goat ear.

Important Survival Considerations for Zombie Attack

Well, it's finally happened. Sony has given in to Almighty Greed and decided to cash in on the craze so many Chinese college students got out of the sneaker business for--online game item selling.

Here's a little quote from another article on the subject where the head of Mythic Entertainment (the guys who make that "other" medieval online game that aren't Blizzard) was asked to comment, and specifically Sony's spin on the situation in response to this, as recited by everyone's favorite ass-kissing Giant Gnome, John Smedley:

(from: http://biz.gamedaily.com/features.asp?article_id=9464&section=feature&email= )

"Unsanctioned virtual property auctions are now rampant, and will continue to grow whether or not publishers implement their own auction sites. Every MMO company has to assess the needs of its own player base. It is clear to us that we have many loyal and honest players who simply don't have the time to take multiple characters through the game's higher levels of play and want a sanctioned, secure means to broaden their play experience. Increasingly, our customer service department has had to bear the brunt of futily attempting to assist these players when they are cheated by unsecure transactions. Station Exchange will enable these honest players to use an auction service without concern that they will be scammed."

Translated into actual language (as opposed to utter bullshit masquerading as factual statements) it goes something like this...

"As a company, we have completely failed to enforce our EULA which strictly forbids allowing mafia into the virtual mugging and hijacking market. We have also noted over the years that unlike a casino, where arbitrarily changing the rules of the game to increase profit margins (things like declaring that the dealer now wins on 18 or higher and that no slot machine may payout until the user has been seated and feeding it coins for a minimum of 8 hours non-stop) simply causes a stampede of players to the door, an /online/ game can get away with making completely absurd rule changes at a moment's notice, provided that the players are merely given an online forum where they may post their grievances and be assured that someone official is reading them. (...which is a really inexpensive thing to tell them.) Through careful attrition and marketing campaigns, assurances we were building a new game from the ground up, and unofficial leaked statements from anonymous staff members who have now been thoroughly scolded (naughty, naughty!), we successfully transitioned our player base from EverQuest I to EverQuest II without anyone ever noticing that it was just a graphics engine change (it's amazing how easy it was to get the players to "demonstrate an interest" in the exact same gameplay as before) and even drew players who had gotten away from us back into the fold in record numbers. Knowing that either the end is near or the human race is doomed for self-destruction,... [ Read More (0.1k in body) ]

Sony Online Entertainment Opens Online Gambling Franchise (no ID req'd!)