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Spanish Elmo

Oh hell, this is funny!

Katie's Revenge

Inmate tattooed with name of victim. At least they spelled it right.

Yet ANOTHER Cartoon Featuring Intelligent Woodland Creatures

I swear, if I see another advertisement for an animated film featuring cute woodland creatures acting all human-like, I'm going to have to do something cliche -- like shoot up a school or something. Hollywood really needs to get a handle on their release schedule. The least they could do is stagger these stupid movies by a few months so they don't overlap each other!

Reverse Graffiti Art

This is the height of Postmodernism. Graffiti created by cleaning dirty walls. This would go over well in cities with anti-graffiti ordinances, which is pretty much all of them.

Gone for a Couple of Weeks

Vacationing in Hawaii for a couple of weeks. Will resume the blog in late September, provided I survive the shark attacks.

C-ya!

-Noir

Dismantling Hurricanes

I've been pondering the weather lately and wondering why the world hasn't done anything to stop it. Yeah, I said it.

Every fall, we're spoon-fed a non-stop stream of scary media regarding storms. It seems as if every week we're told to worry about Tropical Storm Such and Such. Katrina is barely a year behind us, and though I feel for all that has been lost and left unredeemed in Nola, we really need to be looking ahead, not dwelling on what's already passed; because let's face it: storms happen every year. And though I don't intend on analyzing the political validity of the existence of Global Warming, we should be looking at ways to prevent a disastrous storm from striking a heavily populated area again. Because yes, it will happen again if we do nothing about it, guaranteed. Maybe not in New Orleans this time. Maybe it swings out of the gulf and smacks Houston, or Mobile, or Key West. Because Storms happen. They happen every year.

The fact: sometimes these storms will threaten urban centers containing millions of lives.

We should have already developed a system for eliminating, or weakening, those rare, high-intensity storms. This could be a weapon of last resort that we could implement only when major cities were directly threatened by Category 5 hurricanes. In this way, we could ensure the lives of millions of people in urban areas. In fact, concentrating people in nearby urban areas while storms were knocked out would be more intelligent than letting people race across the countryside as they try to flee approaching hurricanes.

I have no doubt we could develop the technology today.

• Might not a large, super-hot, high-intensity laser shot into the eye of a storm cause it to do something? Apparently, we'll never know.
  

• Could we not "seed" a hurricane in such a way that caused it to drop most of its moisture and dissipate?

• Or how about the opposite, by bombing a storm cloud with an intense hygroscopic, like Calcium Chloride powder, to rob the storm of precipitation.

Now I know I'll get a wad of hatecomments about how messing with mother nature is bad and how we can't trust science to do it right, or how my meteorilogical knowledge is off. I'm not saying any of those techniques would work. They might have already been investigated, in fact. My point is that we still have no solution to the problem.

It's unfortunate we can't afford to study further so we can come up with that solution. The $85+ billion dollars that went "missing" in Iraq could have easily funded our solution.

Too bad for the people in Nola. Too bad for us. And too bad for the world.

9/11 An Inside Job

Yet more damning evidence at the Information Liberation site. Anyone who wants to stick his head in the sand and pretend otherwise is just plain ignorant, or getting paid.

TV: Big Brother All Stars (CBS)

So it has finally come down to these two: Erika and Mike "Boogie".

I am so furious with this outcome that I've decided to boycott the show from now on. Neither of them are even worthy of being in All Stars, much less winning. A friend of mine told me he wouldn't watch next year if Mike "Boogie" won this time around. I have to agree that it's no longer worthy of my eyes, either way.

Erika was instrumental in riding everyone else's coat tails throughout the game. She lied to people's faces, betrayed her best ally, and even resorted to a showmance with Mike to cement her position. Mike "Boogie" was a member of the "Chill Town" alliance, which consisted of himself and the evil Dr. Will. Although I give kudos to Chill Town for bouncing back from overwhelming odds, I have to give the real credit to Dr. Will for being the catalyst in most of the strategy involved. Mike was a hanger-on for the majority of the show, barely managing to squeek out a couple of wins, the last of which made him this week's Head of Household, thereby giving him the power to eliminate the true All Star of Big Brother, Janelle. Hell, even Dr. Will deserved it more than either of these two shlubs.

I can no longer give praise to a show that fosters so much deceit and outright backstabbing. Celebrating the ability to betray someone is not really entertainment worth watching.

Website: ColorJack

I really like ColorJack for choosing colors. Not that we use much color here at the Propaganda Sifter, but it's certainly easy to use and contains a vast amount of information. Worth checking out if you do anything with color (from printing to photography to web development).

Online Game: Disaffected!

New online game, Disaffected!, allows you to become a disgruntled Fed-Ex Kinko's worker. Do your best to service customers under the particular incompetences common to a Kinkos store. Whoa, this one's gonna be fun the next time we have game night.

Enlightening Ebay Feedback

This ebay feedback is awesome!

Video: Burger King Customer Calls 911

Ah, another satisfied customer! lol.
911 Operator: "...well, what are we protecting you from, a wrong cheeseburger? Is this like it's a harmful cheesburger or something? I don't understand what you want us to do. Oh, so classic!

Video: Muscle Beach Traveling Rings

Here's a Video Game just waiting to happen. Extreme Ringing! Not.

...They Spinnin'!!!

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And to think, I'm still rollin' on plastic factory hubcaps.

Video: A Golden Oldie

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One word: Wow.

Website: VDiddy

VDiddy is my new favorite video aggregator. Check it out if you have a couple hours to waste.

Video: Bob Marley - Get Up, Stand Up

Bob Marley - get up stand up
Uploaded by drakan

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Because it's Friday night and the Revolutionaries are getting restless. Enjoy some music by a poet and a prophet!

Why I Don't Ride Motorcycles Anymore....

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Okay, so I miss the good old days, racing along on my 450 Honda Custom without a care in the world. But looking at this video is a great reminder of why it's better to drive a convertible. Hell, if nothing else, you don't need to wear a helmet!

Website: Cassette Generator

A wonderful mix-tape, guaranteed to give you hours upon hours of ensued hilarity!

Actually, I generated it at the Cassette Generator Website. Now to get signed by a major record label and have my soul neatly packaged for presentation to Satan!

Propaganda Sifter Seal of Approval

From now on, I intend on adding the Propaganda Sifter Seal of Approval to those media items deemed worthy. Created using the Official Seal Generator website.

My Own Twist On Personality DNA

Since the last description of me made me sound like some sort of butch, sadistic hippie, I decided to switch it up a bit. Hover over the colors with your mouse for my customized Personality DNA.

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Oversized Mental Bodybuilding Midget

MP4 Player Review

An excellent example of good sifting!

Video Blog: Ashen's Video Review

Here is an excellent site featuring a Brit reviewing electronics. Sifting at its best!

[Doctor Ashen's Birdhouse]

Website: Personal DNA

Generous Builder

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The Personal DNA test is very cool! This is probably the best Personality Test I have seen on the web. Get a DNA strip of your personality. To get more information, mouse over the colors! Simple, and easy to put into your own blog. I don't know why no one else has linked to this yet.... I suspect Boing Boing will show up any minute. The results were slightly off, in some respects, but eerily accurate in others.

Addendum: The great part about all of this is the code they give you for your own blog. It's easy to tweak it around and come up with your own, funny--okay, HILARIOUS popups. [More to come].

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Generous Builder

Website: Knobtweakers

Here is an excellent website dealing with electronic music. They have several free MP3's available for download (at the bottom of each post). [Knobtweakers].

Video Blog: lonelygirl15

Okay, so maybe it's fake. But It's a really good fake. I was convinced after seeing her go swimming in a one-piece that she truly was being held in the clutches of conservative religious parentage. After all, which religious girl would actually wear a bikini?

These silly little videos by lonelygirl15 are trite and boring, but also strangely addictive. To garner a true appreciation, you need to see them for yourself. Some are funny, most are boring, but a few seem to have a certain timeless quality about them. I have no doubt this will be made into a feature-length film before long.

Click the link to start from the beginning of lonelygirl15.