entombed in the shrine of zeroes and ones

torkington: RMS: "Copyright a tyranny that is intolerable, unenforceable, and must be changed."
ronebofh: we really need an RMS bingo game. or drinking game. probably both.

Fap on! *fap* *fap* Fap off! *fap* *fap* Fap on, fap off... the Fapper.

I think that the Kindle is a complete failure.  How the hell do you start a fire with this thing?

If you ever wondered how Jeph Loeb got a job writing Batman, Warren Ellis found his submission letter.

During the "don't ask don't tell" repeal hoohah back in March, i learned a new historical tidbit: the US Civil War started because the Union wanted to station gay soldiers at Fort Sumter.

The Vatican is a rogue nation run by people who systematically protect pedophiles worldwide; it's time to invade and provoke regime change.

When i see the iPod silhouette ads, i amuse myself by thinking that they depict people who've just been shot.

How to get from Wank to Fucking in about 3 hours.

analogue n. a conversation that originates from the talker's behind.

To the woman in the red Volvo station wagon with the "A GODLESS NATION CANNOT REMAIN FREE" bumper sticker: die in a fire.

A Yes on 8 sign has appeared on our neighbors' lawn.  My first reaction was to try to get a hold of a No on 8 sign and put it on our lawn.  Note that we like our neighbors and that, despite being really Jesusy, they're not pushy in the least about it beyond offering to pray for us in our endeavors (like when i mentioned i was going for a job interview) and wishing that God bless us, which fifteen years ago would have had me seething, but now i don't mind at all because i'm not that much of an asshole anymore.

The way things are going, it looks like Ecuador will have same-sex marriage before the US will.  Who saw that coming?

Found in the men's bathroom in a Barstow gas station.

Via truehoop: Mike Penner, a sportswriter for the LA Times, comes out as a transsexual (registration required).

I broke the news to Tim by beginning, "Are you familiar with the movie 'Transamerica'?"  Tim nodded.  "Well, welcome to my life," I said.

Tim seemed more perplexed than most as I nervously launched into my story.

Finally, he had to explain, "I thought you said 'Trainspotting.'  I thought you were going to tell me you're a heroin addict."

The [Naperville Public Library System] this week signed a $40,646 contract with a local company, U.S. Biometrics Corp., to install fingerprint scanners on 130 computers with Internet access or a time limit on usage. [...] Library officials say the added security is necessary to ensure people who are using the computers are who they say they are.  Officials promise to protect the confidentiality of the fingerprint records.

Three emergency-room doctors called Friday for long, pointed kitchen knives to be banned in a bid to reduce the number of stabbings in Britain. [...] The doctors argued that the use of dagger-type pointed knives rather than the blunt-tipped variety owed more to tradition than culinary necessity.

After scoring this goal two years ago, Andrew Goldstein decided to come out of the closet to his team and everyone.  More proof that goalies rule.

Tom DeLay gets zinged on Law & Order: Criminal Intent and get his panties in a twist.

Lastly, fuck American Idol and every other "reality" TV show.

Don't you hate it when the media takes a perfectly derogatory term and sanitizes it by taking the irony out?

The term metrosexual was coined by British journalist Mark Simpson. He developed it in 1994 in a book on male identity and used it in a more recent article published online. He says he meant it as both a "cold observation" and "cheeky satire."

"I used (metrosexual) to describe a kind of narcissistic, insecure masculinity shaped, if not invented, by film, advertising and glossy magazines," said Simpson in an e-mailed response to questions.

The metrosexual, Simpson suggests, is more vain and self-indulgent than he is feminine or sensitive.

Howard Dean calls himself a metrosexual in another attempt in a series to look like he is hip and "with it". Instead, he has revealed his true self: a narcissist and a no-talent ass-clown.

If a gay man and a gay woman marry, is it a gay marriage?

[Supreme Court Justice Antonin] Scalia said the Texas ban did not infringe a "fundamental right." [...] "The court has largely signed on to the so-called homosexual agenda," Scalia wrote for the three, according to the AP. [...] "The court has taken sides in the culture war," Scalia said, adding that he has "nothing against homosexuals."

I was musing to myself on the train to work today that, in my dotage, i will be offering a class at the local junior college, "How to Eat Pussy". It's a necessity for every straight man. I will be there, grey and dignified, clamping my lips around a Fleshlight in front of 25 barely-out-of-high-school punks who wouldn't know what to do with pussy if they fell out of one, and teaching them the immortal alphabet. And they will LEARN how to please a woman, because if they want to please themselves, they goddamn well don't need a woman for that.