Apple’s latest overpriced fetish-object, summed up by none other than Pee-Wee Herman. I’d make a joke about him watching porn on it, but it’s late and I’m tired.
Holy crap. Buckyballs are the coolest toy ever. I am definitely ordering a set of these. (via Boingboing)
EDIT: Way cheaper on Ebay. It’s too bad I’m poor, or I’d seriously consider the 2000 ball mega set.
The first official trailer for the new A-Team movie. Looks pretty badass. Shame about the picture quality, but what do you expect from an early leaked copy. The trailer is supposed to debut officially at theaters this weekend. Hopefully we’ll see some HD versions next week.
Best headline ever. (via Digg)
One jackass sticks an M80s worth of low-grade explosives in his underpants, and everybody loses their shit about the horrible threat of terrorism. Then the TSA ups the overreaction ante by enacting rules so infuriatingly pointless that even the recently exhumed and reanimated corpse of Niccolò Machiavelli suggested “They may be taking this whole ineffective bureaucracy thing a bit too far”.
Thankfully, someone who isn’t a complete fuckwit decided to crunch the numbers and see what sort of threat terrorism actually poses. The answer is, of course, almost none. Your chances of dying in a terrorist attack are so infinitesimally small, you would need to fly to the moon and back twenty four thousand times before you were likely to see someone blow up their own crotch in the name of Allah.
So here we are, pissing away half a trillion dollars a year on “homeland security”, while the actual risk posed by terrorism practically zero. Meanwhile, when the first guy in 8 years actually does try to sneak a bomb onto a plane, none of the security theater at the airports manages to catch him until after he detonates his skivvies.
Man, those two unnecessary wars may have been expensive, and we may have lost the good faith of the world by torturing and killing people for no particular reason, and sure, we’ve given up most of our constitutional rights for the illusion of security, but at least the system works, right?
For fuck’s sake.
(infographic via Gizmodo, but you can’t blame them for the rant)
Wow. There are fan films, and then there are fan films. Zelda: The Hero of Time is an independently produced feature-length Zelda movie that looks really good, despite its low budget. I can’t say I’m a fan of Link’s emo eye makup, but otherwise, bravo. You can watch the entire film on Dailymotion. I suggest you check it out now, before Nintendo’s legal dicks send a cease & desist.
Team Avatar: Pandora Police
The sad thing is, this mashup is probably better than the movie itself. (via Digg)
It’s been over two years since the project started, and about 14 months since they took pre-orders, but the first mass-produced Pandoras are finally being assembled. What a long, strange trip it’s been. Video here.
