Turing, the Arab Spring, and "RATS": digging into the revived card game Netrunner and why it's important, right now.

Six years ago today, a major metropolitan area shut down due to fear of a viral advertising campaign for a cartoon featuring fast food products that don't solve crime.

Today commemorates one of the darkest days in our nation's history, a mere four years ago, when a weird ad for a goofy cartoon shut down the largest city in New England. Thanks to the watchful vigilance of those fine Massachusetts-ens, the city was not destroyed by the quad laser of pixelated aliens from... the Moon.

We who survived those ( Read more... )

Yesterday marked the three-year anniversary of a day that will live in infamy, when an American city was brought to its knees by a bunch of weird advertisements for a cartoon that features a talking meatball ( Read more... )

Remember, remember the fifth of November,
Gunpowder treason and plot.
We see no reason
Why gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot!

( Really?... )

1 Million Strong Against our SOCIALIST Fire Departments"For too long now, fire departments across the United States have been socialist organizations, resulting in taxes on the American people ( Read more... )

In case you forgot, Japan is cooler than you.

Click on this. It's a short YouTube film. I don't care if you actually watch it or not. It's for a friend of a friend, who is in a contest and the winner is picked by hits, and this kind of viral tomfoolery is really what the internet is all about. Plus, there's a scholarship on the line, and I know you're pro-education. If you know of a good, ( Read more... )

Two years ago today, a bunch of people in Boston created a terrorist scare when they decided that a bunch of Lite-Brite looking devices advertising a cartoon about fast food products solving crimes in New Jersey were clear evidence of a terrorist attack ( Read more... )