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[cleolinda]

You know, after paring away all the massively outdated links (most of them relating to Cheney), I realized... I really didn't have all that much linkspam backed up after all. Huh. I did update dailydigestnews with some good stuff, however.

A (form) letter I just got from Common Cause--remember the Net Neutrality thing I linked to, like, twice? Yeah. It's worse than we suspected.

Dear Lauren,

The threats to our Internet freedoms just keep coming.  We learned this week that Verizon already has plans in place to create a privileged fast lane on the information superhighway to deliver its own services, and a slow lane for anyone trying to get anywhere else on the web.

Common Cause needs your help to keep the Internet open, fast and fair.

http://www.commoncause.org/KeepInternetOpen

We've already sent nearly 60,000 letters to greedy telecom executives, and we're working on a series of reports to expose the shady tactics that these companies are using to convince our representatives in Congress to put an end to net neutrality. 

We can do more with your help.  We're more than 2/3 of the way to reaching our funding goal.  Please help put us over the top!

http://www.commoncause.org/KeepInternetOpen

Thank you for all you do for Common Cause.

Sincerely,

The Common Cause Media Reform Team
Celia Wexler, Lauren Coletta, and Dawn Holian

Lost follow-up: Lost Media won't have screencaps up for a few days so I have nothing new to link to, but you may have noticed that the photograph the Army commander takes out, near the end of the episode? Is of Kate. He is, in fact, Kate's father. And we have seen him with Sayid before. Also, people are busy at work trying to translate the hieroglyphics, and so far I've seen three translations: SAYID, SAYIF ("say if"), and this.

First there were Freedom Fries... now there are Roses of the Prophet Muhammad.

Scott Stapp and Kid Rock Sex Tape surfaces from the depths of hell.

Uwe Boll to Retire from Video Game Movie-Making. Because Germany closed that tax loop God felt like he had to make it up to us for that sex tape, somehow.

Willie Nelson Releases Gay Cowboy Song. Oh, Willie, you trend-whore, you.

The Valley Girl URL Translator. The really funny thing to do is go plug the BPAL "Maelstrom"/Poe scents page into the translator:

"The Amontillado!" I said.

"He! Like, oh my gawd! he! Like, oh my gawd! he!—he! Like, oh my gawd! he! Like, oh my gawd! he!—yes, the Amontillado. But is totally it not getting late? Like, I am so sure! Will not they be awaiting us at the palazzo, the Lady Fortunato and the rest? Like, I am so sure! Let us be gone."

"Uh huh, uh huh, right," I said "let us be gone."

"For the love of Gawd, Montresor!"

"Uh huh, uh huh, right," I said, "for the love of Gawd!"

EEEEE! Here's the Avalon-series pendant I commissioned from Wearable Sculpture (actual size). It's the tower of Condwiramurs. The hit of the series so far seems to be akathorne's Isle of Avalon pendant, although I am also partial to this Lady of the Lake bracelet. (No, you can't tell what the theme of each piece is just by looking at the album. I only know those because I know the items' owners.)

Paris Exhibit Examines Picasso and Maar. I always liked his portraits of Dora Maar, and that whole period of his.

Greek Hiker Finds 6,500-Year-Old Pendant.

Cornwell to Help Solve Hunley Mystery. Oh, you mean the way she "solved" the Jack the Ripper case? ("Ripperologists and other critics of her theory point out that most, if not all, of the Ripper letters are considered hoaxes by all other authorities, so trying to prove that Sickert wrote one or more of them doesn't prove that he killed anyone.")

Tom Cruise rocks out at Kanye West concert. Plus: Paris Hilton proclaims own album to be 'hot.' Somehow, this is not the title of an article at The Onion.

Someone at Paramount is harassing Fark?

O RLY? RIP. NO WAI!

Comments

[handful.livejournal.com]

Oh, that Scott Stapp one pains us so, precious.

[theonlykow.livejournal.com]

The O RLY owl death is the best new of the week for me.

Now if only people will stop thinking they're clever for using this month's Internet Secret Funnyword I will be content with life.

[rebel-waltz.livejournal.com]

i'm kind of considering terminating my services with Verizon now, but i wonder if any of the other cell phone providers aren't doing something as well.


owl :(:(:(

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

See, if Verizon does it, why wouldn't everyone just leave Verizon? And doesn't Verizon know this? So I have this horrible feeling that the only reason Verizon would go ahead with this is that it knows everyone ELSE is going to do it, too.

[rebel-waltz.livejournal.com]

i wouldn't get that suspicious quite yet. i wouldn't be surprised if they're betting on people just being too lazy to switch to another provider. people will be mad, but in the end it will just be "too much hassle" for them to get a new phone and number and they won't want to pay the $100+ cancellation fee.

[rebel-waltz.livejournal.com]

i forgot to add if i can find out other people aren't doing it, i think i will switch.

[karl-moebius.livejournal.com]

uwe bol no longer making movies?! There is a God!

[tifaria.livejournal.com]

Gaah, for some reason the death of the O RLY owl made me teary-eyed. I'm sick of the phrase, but.. poor owl. :(

[okaasan59.livejournal.com]

At first I read your post as "Tom Cruise knocks out Kanye West at concert." Now that would be something I'd like to see. Not that I have anything against Kanye, but I'm sure we could all use some more Tomfoolery.

[skyblade.livejournal.com]

The full article the Boll snippet was taken from (http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=62899). It has the whole "Fine, you won't have old Uwe Boll to kick around anymore" rant. Arguing that his movies do make money on the ancillary markets (Who's doesn't) and pointing out that average people don't make a big deal about how bad he is. (You know, because they never heard of him, his movies, and many times the games he based them on)

It appears after attempting to be an epic filmmaker with Dungeon Siege, Postal is just unapologetic trash.

Also...Ron Perlman is a comedic actor? I seriously can't remember a single humorous thing he's done. City of Lost CHildren comes closest.

[lederhosen.livejournal.com]

I loved this line: "And I was standing there alone in the rain with my movie..."

[redbeardjim.livejournal.com]

He had some good lines in "Alien 3" and "Hellboy".

"Hey, you're the brains of the outfit, I mainly just hurt people!"

[melayka.livejournal.com]

Aye, Hellboy was nothing but sarcastic growls and knockin' the crap out of monsters.

[wtfbrain.livejournal.com]

It's interesting that in the actual Wikipedia O RLY page, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_RLY%3F) there is no mention of the owl's death.

[lederhosen.livejournal.com]

If you check the page history, it was there but got deleted for lack of sources.

[scotchwhisky.livejournal.com]

I will assert my total geekiness here and say:

SQUEE! A link to my comment! I feel all internet-special.

That is all.

[scornedsaint.livejournal.com]

How did I miss that was Kate in that picture?

Thanks for the hieroglyphic possibilities.

O RLY music

[michawhiplash.livejournal.com]

So sad to hear!

I was wondering if anyone knew the song that was playing on the linked website? It was really pretty.

:)

Re: O RLY music

[danibennett.livejournal.com]

That would be Aeris' (Death) Theme, from Final Fantasy VII and composed by Nobuo Uematsu. :)

Re: O RLY music

[pandaforlunch.livejournal.com]

lessien faster than I! Woe! Also worth listening to is the rendition of Aeris' death theme performed by mainstream-ish shima uta vocalist, Rikki, entitled 'Pure Heart', which was released [I think as a single] with the Final Fantasy X theme, Suteki da ne. Damn, now that's a run-on sentence. Along with the Uematsu tracks is the slightly more traditional Utikisama [composed by Rikki, herself, I hear].

They're all very lovely if you have or can develop an ear for shima uta styled vocals [though these are very mild as they are meant to be mainstream, of course]. =) *shutsupnow*

[pinstripe-bindi.livejournal.com]

"This is a punishment for those who started misusing freedom of expression to insult the sanctities of Islam," said Ahmad Mahmoudi, a cake shop owner in northern Tehran.

Trust me dude, that punishes no one. Except perhaps hungry Iranians who just want a f'ing pastry.

[mustang-bex1126.livejournal.com]

The Cornwell thing just cracks me up. I a thesis on Jack the Ripper, the Mythology, and the efforts to identify him around the time her special aired on 20-20. Everyone I spoke to, Historians, Criminologists, Ripperologists, all said exactly what I thought when I watched it... She's some low grade hack who was looking for some publicity; I'm surprised she doesn't end every sentence with "...like in my book "blah blah". STUPID MORON WOMAN! She actually still annoys me, 4 years later.

[rahrahmah.livejournal.com]

your icon makes my brain hurt in such a good good way...

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I'm kind of an amateur Ripper "enthusiast," in that I don't know everything by any means but I like reading about it. And she *still* rubs me the wrong way.

[sexion8.livejournal.com]

The O Rly obit is a hoax. Seems whoever wrote that "article" plagiarized the real article about the death of Keiko, the killer whale from Free Willie (http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Movies/12/12/obit.keiko.ap/). Insensitive cretins, I cried over Keiko. :(

[everstar3.livejournal.com]

May I use your icon with loving credit? It cracked me up.

[sexion8.livejournal.com]

Please do. My snark is free for all!

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

EEEEE! Here's the Avalon-series pendant I commissioned from Wearable Sculpture (actual size). It's the tower of Condwiramurs.

The power of the tower of the flower! It's a wow-er.

[prncssaurora.livejournal.com]

OMG, the music on the O RLY owl website made me laugh so hard I cried.

[quizzicalsphinx.livejournal.com]

Lookie! The Gay Cowboy Song (not the Willie Nelson version)! (http://s53.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2I0IFKZLU83171IW5FVVH3NHCL)

[wirrrn.livejournal.com]

Hey,

Scott Stapp frightens me. I never thought I'd be revolted by a cute guy in tight leather pants, and yet here I am *g*

[elbales]

Scott Stapp and Kid Rock Sex Tape surfaces from the depths of hell.

I need bleach. FOR MY EYES.

Or maybe you have some hot coals...

[roseredhoofbeat.livejournal.com]

Dammit, I LIKED Scott Stapp. I really did! Like as a person- not that I ever actually MET the guy, but... I love My Own Prison, and Wash Away Those Years brings tears to my eyes every time I hear it. It just seemed like someone who wrote something like that would HAVE to be cool, right?

Wrong.

And excuse me while I go poke out my mind's eyes.

[zikade.livejournal.com]

Cleo, you need to see this:

http://community.livejournal.com/lost_tv/1215812.html?style=mine#cutid1

the "correct" translation of those hieroglyphs in Lost :)

[corkdorkdan.livejournal.com]

Haha, you beat me by 15 minutes! I was just coming over here to tell her cause I know she likes seeing mentions of her OMGWTFPOLARBEAR out in the wild.

[elbales]

"Correct" meaning the person who posted it made it up? Or something else?

If Cleo's OMGWTFPOLARBEAR actually made it onto the show, I may have to conclude that there is a God.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Meaning that they made it up as a joke, yeah. : )

[elbales]

Well, damn. And I had such hopes.

[coconut-zebra.livejournal.com]

Hey - probably old news by now but they've (theoretically) finally cast a Bond girl - http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/movies/article.adp?id=20060216214009990017

[lotuseyes.livejournal.com]

you don't know how glad I am to know i'm not the only one busting out my hieroglyphic books. my dad said I was crazy but there was no possible way they didn't place those images there to screw with the fandom to the nth degree. Lost is all about screwing with the fandom I think sometimes

[maetang.livejournal.com]

Awwwww... Poor owl!

[entropy-and-me.livejournal.com]

I *heart* the 80's Valley Girl speak translator...so awesome. Thanks for another wonderful link that makes me smile endlessly for about 10 minutes. :D

[farasha.livejournal.com]

O RLY?
NO WAI!

[foresthouse.livejournal.com]

Haha, I put a page from my website into the valley girl thing, and it came out with "The Totally Dorky Crown Affair" (for Thomas Crown) "Spaz Mutter" (Scott Mutter), "Stud Puppy Palin (Michael Palin) and, my personal favorite, "Gag Me Depp." HEE.

Also:
"It was erroneously reported that the O RLY owl was a snow owl at the San Diego Zoo by the name of Jonathan, and that he died in the first week of February, 2006, due to pneumonia. This was a HOAX, and in an email statement by the San Diego Zoo, they said, "We have not had that species at the San Diego Zoo for many years and have never had one by that name.""
From Wikipedia.