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[from wikipedia]

I am here today to tell you about Johnathan Sharkey, one of Eris' strangest children.

http://scifiwire.com/2010/03/self-described-vampire-to.php

Sharkey, a self-described vampire who'd previously announced plans to run for governor of Minnesota on the Vampyres, Witches and Pagans ticket, has called off that campaign, even though Minnesota seems like a state suited to eclectic candidates. After all, it sent a former professional wrestler to the statehouse, didn't it?

But Minnesota's loss will be Florida's gain, because Sharkey has now set his political sights on the Sunshine State, according to citypages.

"Instead of running for Governor of MN, I will now run in Florida as a Republican for probably a nation position. I have unfinished business in Tampa Bay, too," said Sharkey in his announcement. "I intend on seeking support from my fellow Republicans in the House and Senate to pass federal laws to address child protection and harsh criminal punishment upon those who abuse their children."

This guy is such a great character! Truly living the American Dream.

Under his iron fisted reign, terrorists will be punished by being impaled on wooden stakes and displayed in public.

from wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathon_Sharkey

On July 7, 2009, Sharkey was extradited to Marion County, IN and jailed at Marion County Jail II (CCA)on 2 counts of D Felony Intimidation in which he is alleged to have threatened a Marion County Judge by typing allegedly threatening emails or other documents on a Speedway Indiana Public Library computer. Specifically, he was alleged to have stated "I promise this Court while I am executing [Judge David]Certo his family will violate one of the offenses punishable by death, and I will then execute his loved ones as punishment. From the YOUNGERST [sic] (baby) to the oldest."

there's a documentary about the guy, called Impaler.

the trailer is here: http://www.impalerthemovie.com/


Obligatory: LOL FLORIDA

[Hate Rant Discordians]

you guys are gonna love this:

from http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Discordianism ...

Hate Rant Discordians


The Hate Rant Discordians welcomed me with open arms.
And fists full of rocks.

"Look around you. Look at these cold, black bars. The colorless ceiling. The hard ground. That's your universe. That's the world you're going to be living in for the rest of your life here in Prison."
~ The Black Iron Prison

"Or kill me."
~ The Black Iron Prison

The next group of Discordians saw me first. I figured they had heard of my mission, and were coming in the shape of a five-sided pentagram to give me something to eat, like hot dogs and cabbages or something. By now I was getting pretty hungry. But when they got closer, I saw they were arranged more like an oblong and were carrying stones and rocks. I knew they were Hate Rant Discordians, and I can tell you I was totally worried. But they totally ignored me.

I swallowed hard. In my profession I have a lot of practice doing that. I said, "H-Hi everybody. I'm Minnie Rae and I'm on a mission from Goddess."

One of them was a black dress-wearing, dark-skinned woman with black hair named Saint Sin. That was the name of her hair. The woman's name was "Goth." She sniffed and said, "Something smells funny," and threw a rock in a random direction. "Just practice," she said to no one in particular.

"Do those rocks and stones represent Starbuck's pebbles?" I asked, hopefully, "so that if you scatter them randomly some people will see patterns in the randomness, and assume the universe is ordered, but you're here to show people differently? If so, can you like help me save the world and stuff?"

Then the group made an opening, and this middle-aged, bald man with a white beard walked out. He face was furrowed with angry scowls and crevices so deep you could use them to hide butcher knives. "We heard about you, DAP," he spat, and where he spit smoke rose up. I knew I was in really real trouble; this was the angry Reverend Roadkill! "You're one of those Really Real Discordians who think everyone should agree with you, aren't you?," he spat. More smoke. "Well, we know the real Discordia, a hateful, vengeful Goddess with a cold, steely knife hidden in her dark bosom. We heard you plan to throw seriousness in the garbage, dine on non-existent freedom, and save a sliver of hope for dessert!" exclaimed Roadkill. "And we hate that!"

"Hate!" "Fail!" "Hate Fail!" they said, nodding their heads in agreement with each other and scowling in disagreement with me.

"Reverend Roadkill is right!" said one. "Nobody can tell us what to think!" said another. The others said; "Roadkill is totally right!" "Two Mittens up!" "10 mittens!" "Infinite mittens!" "Infinite Mittens and w1n!"

"Sorry," this long-haired, bearded man in a dirty white robe named Pope Ratsass whispered to me, "but we must hate you on principle alone. Nothing personal." Then loudly he said, "I give Reverend Roadkill five mittens!"

"FIVE MITTENS?!" said the group all together. "Isn't five that old smelly Erisian number?" "Isn't that from that old smelly hippie Principia Discordia?"

"ALL CONDEMNATION TO FOOLS AND TOOLS!!" said the group as they held up their stones. I mean their rocks, not their private parts. I was totally terrified they'd start throwing them at me! That's not the way I like getting stoned. I wished I really could fly like Peter Pan and I did in the story so I could zip out of there. But then I saw they were all looking at the long-haired man in the white robe.

The man made the Discordian peace sign and said, "Peace." Somehow, I knew that was totally the wrong thing for him to say. I ran away like a mouse in a cat house!




Prisoner Number Six is the patron saint of the HR Discordians. You know, the guy who said he was a free man not a number? Only, like, he escaped!

MAKE YUOR OWN!

My name is Cramulus, I've been into Eris for a few years now, I just wanted to stop in and introduce myself. Nice board you guys have here. Lots of interesting stuff to read. So hi there, and I'll see you around the board!

In case you haven't seen it, here's Grant Morrison's heady talk at Disinfocon: (circa 2000)

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoID=1391124753


it's a little bit rambling because he's coming up on drugs. 

topics covered in the talk:

(1) are wilson, mckenna, crowley, all those psychonauts full of shit? Morrison talks about the experiences he had while testing out their propositions and the revelation that humanity is still in its larvae form.

(2) sigil magic - "it totally works". Morrison relates his experiences with the hypersigil called the Invisibles, and how King Mob reached into reality and changed his life. He explains how to create and charge a sigil, and reccommends that the disbelievers actually try it out to see if it works.

(3) interconnectivity and the nature of the individual

(4) One of my favorite quotes of all time ---

"We made this idea [ego] that we are somehow separated from nature .. bullshit. I read this thing in New Scientist about how we've got to control nature. Bullshit! We are nature. There is nothing on this planet which is not nature. Radio stations are nature.  Atom bombs are nature. Because nature made us to make those things. Either you trust nature or you don't trust nature, and I trust nature."

(5) We're living in an "Apocalypse Culture" which is obsessed with destruction. We created cops to protect us from our own nature, and we venerate terrible figures like John Wayne Gacy. What could be outside of that apocalyptic theater?

(6) Abandon individuality, it's only baggage. It was useful for the last 2000 years of history, but now we have to move into something more meaningful than becoming islands. Upgrade and patch your personality - become a guy who likes hip hop (or whatever), become a guy who you wouldn't even recognize.

(7) Let's think of history as if we're in the victory lap. We survived two world wars and guess what - there was no apocalypse, there was no second coming, no rapture, none of that stuff we've been worrying about, and now we're here together at the dawn after a very long dark age. So now what?

(8 ) Do we want to change things? Do we want to transcend individuality? The first step is to transcend the self. If you like world music, and I think it's shit, I can tap into your love of world music and I can love it now too. Let us become complex creatures, able to take in new personality traits and new ideas, able to adapt and extend our boundaries into what we thought was enemy territory, until there is no Other.

[Mascot]

http://www.harleydbrownforcongress.org

He's pretty much the best guy for the job. Reasons:

• Mascot: the "sea bee"



• Slogan:



• Slogan:
• see also: "Combat is NO place for women"



• Direct Quote: "Please consider sending a loud mouth passionate demolition expert to Washington DC. I will destroy mediocrity and politics as we know it. Congress needs someone crazy like me to combat their insanity."



• "9/11 should have been more than enough provocation for us to use our "HEAVY EQUIPMENT.""



• Immigration Policy: "Content Comming [sic] Soon. But for now its Adios Amigos."



• re: Obama's Birth Certificate: "If it is proven Obama is not the legitimate president, then everything he has done while in office and all the people he has appointed and everything they have done will be nullified.
  
  This would really dump hot coals into the shorts of those communist liberal progressive politicians.
  
  It would be like Luke Skywalker dropping his bomb into the ventilation shaft of the Death Star in "Star Wars."

and finally,

the most important reason is his resemblance to a beluga whale:



you can feel free to send Harley any questions or comments you might have using his contact form: http://www.harleydbrownforcongress.org/contact.html

Didn't want to dump a gigantic image wall in the pics thread. So I present to you this:







PART TWO








PART THREE

I'm going to collect some links where people on the web have referenced the BIP


I know there's at least two threads of this stuff already but I can't find them for the life of me.



hxxp://www.freesteader.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=7782

[Warp speed]

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18775-mysterious-radio-waves-emitted-from-nearby-galaxy.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news



Mysterious radio waves emitted from nearby galaxy
14 April 2010 by Stephen Battersby, Glasgow

There is something strange in the cosmic neighbourhood. An unknown object in the nearby galaxy M82 has started sending out radio waves, and the emission does not look like anything seen anywhere in the universe before.

"We don't know what it is," says co-discoverer Tom Muxlow of Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics near Macclesfield, UK.

The thing appeared in May last year, while Muxlow and his colleagues were monitoring an unrelated stellar explosion in M82 using the MERLIN network of radio telescopes in the UK. A bright spot of radio emission emerged over only a few days, quite rapidly in astronomical terms. Since then it has done very little except baffle astrophysicists.

It certainly does not fit the pattern of radio emissions from supernovae: they usually get brighter over a few weeks and then fade away over months, with the spectrum of the radiation changing all the while. The new source has hardly changed in brightness over the course of a year, and its spectrum is steady.


Warp speed

Yet it does seem to be moving – and fast: its apparent sideways velocity is four times the speed of light. Such apparent "superluminal" motion has been seen before in high-speed jets of material squirted out by some black holes. The stuff in these jets is moving towards us at a slight angle and travelling at a fair fraction of the speed of light, and the effects of relativity produce a kind of optical illusion that makes the motion appear superluminal.

Could the object be a black hole? It is not quite in the middle of M82, where astronomers would expect to find the kind of supermassive central black hole that most other galaxies have. Which leaves the possibility that it could be a smaller-scale "microquasar".

A microquasar is formed after a very massive star explodes, leaving behind a black hole around 10 to 20 times the mass of the sun, which then starts feeding on gas from a surviving companion star. Microquasars do emit radio waves – but none seen in our galaxy is as bright as the new source in M82. Microquasars also produce plenty of X-rays, whereas no X-rays have been seen from the mystery object. "So that's not right either", Muxlow told New Scientist.

His best guess is still that the radio source is some kind of dense object accreting surrounding material, perhaps a large black hole or a black hole in an unusual environment. Perhaps the phenomenon also happens occasionally in our galaxy, but is more common in M82 because it is a "starburst" galaxy – a cosmic cauldron where massive stars are forming and exploding at a much higher rate than in the Milky Way, creating a lot of new black holes.

Muxlow will report the discovery at the Royal Astronomical Society National Astronomy Meeting in Glasgow, UK, today.

[Cram]

I was talking to Payne about the author Lewis Carroll, and I learned something very interesting...

Cram   I don't know much about the guy
Cram   other than that he loved math and hid a lot of it in the books
Payne   well this is it
Payne   he WASN'T a guy
Payne   his transparent effort to hide the fact that he was really a woman, for example
Payne   cause you know he just switched his first and last names, right?
Payne   cause who the fuck has a surname first and a first name second?
Idem   are you guys talking about ayn rand
Payne   CAROL FUCKING LEWIS, BITCHES
Payne   well
Fred   i thought his real name was charles or somethin
Cram   wasn't that kind of common in that era?
Cram   because women didn't write books
Payne   maybe Men really being Women was
Payne   not to mention his infamous Chain Dancing Video

Cram   so is it just because he has a woman's first name as his last name?
Payne   yes
Payne   he just switched his names


after processing these data, I had a revelation...


Cram   OMG
Cram   ANNE FRANK IS REALLY A MAN

This topic has been moved to Bring and Brag.

http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=24416.0

I just wanted to share a little snippet I read yesterday on Chaos Marxism, because it sent me reeling...

The Sufis teach that the nafs (aka ego, aka "false self") is the trickiest little bugger, and will continually disguise itself as something else (God, the Greater Good, ascended Space Brothers, the Muse) in order to continue your slavery and addiction to it.

So the Nafs is the ego, the false self, and it tricks you into thinking that it is God, or Money, or True Love, or whatever it is you're burning yourself up to get. It's really just a hungry little god in your belly which constantly demands food.

Researching the Nafs, the idea seems to be tied pretty deeply into Sufi/Muslim values, so I don't want to go too far into that. They identify the nafs with the animal nature, something that needs to be trained and refined and polished over time. Greed, envy, lust, betrayal, malice, all the things which muslims condemn is within the basic unrefined state of the Nafs. Isn't it interesting that in this framework, one's basic desire to unite with the divine is obfuscated by one's an animal nature? Or to be less dualistic - the unrefined self?


I was chewing on this in IRC, and enki pointed out that this sounds awfully similar to Choronzon, a thelemic demon which dwells in the abyss. Chronozon 333 is your internal monologue, a force which distracts and obsesses you. Wikipedia notes: "Carroll himself states ... that Choronzon is simply the name given to the obsessional side-effects of any deluded search for a false Holy Guardian Angel, or anything which the magician would mistake for his own profound genius itself."


It's disarming, right? Because if you give credence to this idea, it suggests that you may be on the wrong path. All that stuff you toil for may be just a distraction from the Divine, however you conceptualize it. And is there any way of knowing? But luckily, conceputalizing this internal force as an external entity allows you to regard and evaluate it with a certain degree of objectivity. And, if you choose, banish it.

When you think about the comments posted on youtube, it doesn't seem like these are the people who are going to save the world. However, new research hints at the potential power represented by crowdsourcing.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=problem-solved-tic-tac-toe-blog

In a blog post in January 2009, Gowers asked whether spontaneous online collaborations could crack hard mathematical problems—and if they could do so in the open, laying the creative process out for the world to see. Web-based scientific collaborations and even "crowdsourcing" are now common, but this one would be different. In typical online collaborations, scientists each perform a small amount of research that contributes to a larger project, Gowers pointed out. In some cases, citizen-scientists such as bird-watchers or amateur astronomers collectively can make significant contributions. "What about the solving of a problem that does not naturally split up into a vast number of subtasks?" he asked. Could such a problem be solved by the readers of his blog—simply by posting comments?...

The project took off a lot faster than Gowers expected. Within six weeks, he announced a solution. Turning the proof into a conventional paper took longer, especially because the argument was scattered across hundreds of comments (blogs may not be the ideal platform, and ad-hoc collaboration tools may turn out to be better suited for math). But last October the group posted a paper on the online repository arxiv.org under the name of D.H.J. Polymath, where the initials are a reference to the problem itself...

Rafael Núñez, a cognitive scientist at the University of California, San Diego, who has studied the mental and social process of doing mathematics, points out that problem solving is just another human activity. When mathematicians work together in front of a blackboard, they communicate in subtle ways with their voice and body language, clues that will be lost in online collaborations. But mathematicians will adjust to the new medium, just like people have adjusted to doing all kinds of other things in a connected world, Núñez notes: "Anything we do online is different, not just mathematics."

In the end, the open nature of the project may have been its most important feature. As Gowers wrote on his blog, Polymath may be "the first fully documented account of how a serious [math] research problem was solved, complete with false starts, dead ends, etcetera." Or, as Tao puts it, the project was valuable because it showed "an example of how the sausage is made."

This is an innovative example of how to harness the power of crowdsourcing to solve complex problems.

A few people are thinking very creatively about how this resource could be deployed to solve more relevant problems. For example, there are a few Alternate Reality Games which use this same principle -- http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/99240-ARG-Designer-Believes-Online-Gaming-Can-Save-the-World

For example, in Superstruct, players propose solutions to the problems which threaten the world in 2019.

Evoke is another game, run by the World Bank. PlayThisThing describes it as "a World Bank-funded game set in 2020, when ecocatastrophes of various kinds are in progress. Ostensibly, its purpose is to crowdsource solutions to global problems, with 'winners' appearing at a World Bank event later this year to pitch their 'solutions.' It's not much of a game qua game; unlike traditional ARGs, there's no prescripted solution to puzzles, so it's more a chatterblog about global issues, which is mildly interesting in its own right, of course."

The idea that an ARG might save the world is perhaps a bit far fetched. Katharine Neal's satirical response to this concept is her own game, called Invoke, which is basically just a comic which pokes fun at this concept.

There's something about state sponsored PSAs which make the thing they're demonizing look WAY COOL.


anybody who grew up in the early 90s has seen this one, with or without the ninja turtles

"I'm no chicken, you're a turkey!"



One of the best things about PSAs is that they often involve hornswaggling some celebrity who's hard up for cash. Pee Wee Herman, for example, doesn't strike me as the best spokesman to tell kids to stay off drugs.





This one's kind of interesting. It's an anti-drug PSA aimed specifically at african americans. "Drug abuse is the new slavery."



Who doesn't love Captain Lou dressed up as Mario?
"If you do drugs, you go to hell before you die."
^{Unrelated - but if you haven't seen it, you really must experience Captain Lou on the super mario brothers super show. Intro with captain lou rapping - Outro with captain lou singing.}


In the 80s, a lot of cartoons got away with being a pretty violent show because they had a Moral at the end. (the animaniacs parodied this with their Wheel Of Morality) Some of those GI Joe PSAs were pretty out there!

[THE CURSE OF GREYFACE AND THE INTRODUCTION OF NEGATIVISM]

The Principia has this to say about creativity and destruction:

THE CURSE OF GREYFACE AND THE
  INTRODUCTION  OF NEGATIVISM

      To choose order over disorder, or disorder over order, is to accept a trip composed of both the creative and the destructive. But to choose the creative over the destructive is an all-creative trip composed of both order and disorder. To accomplish this, one need only accept creative disorder along with, and equal to, creative order, and also willing to reject destructive order as an undesirable equal to destructive disorder.

      The Curse of Greyface included the division of life into order/disorder as the essential positive/negative polarity, instead of building a game foundation with creative/destructive as the essential positive/negative. He has thereby caused man to endure the destructive aspects of order and has prevented man from effectively participating in the creative uses of disorder. Civilization reflects this unfortunate division.



POEE proclaims that the other division is preferable, and we work toward the proposition that creative disorder, like creative order, is possible and desirable; and that destructive order, like destructive disorder, is unnecessary and undesirable.

      Seek the Sacred Chao - therein you will find the foolishness of all ORDER/DISORDER. They are the same!



Question for the class:

Why is creation preferable over destruction?

This the output from a very bleak form of "LARP Solitaire"

http://www.scribd.com/doc/29798601/The-World-is-Over-and-I-Am-the-Only-Survivor

This is a journal I kept in 2004, when I convinced myself that the world had actually already ended, and my day to day life was just a delusion, a phantasm I had constructed to keep myself sane.

All the original text is unedited, so as to preserve the specific type of insanity I was experiencing. If I ever present this to a larger audience, I'll probably edit and retype the text.


Just to cover my ass:
Unlike most of my work, this is (c) 2004 all rights reserved

[regulate our behavior]

New York, and several other states, are having trouble balancing their budgets. (surprise!) One balancing act which is being juggled around in Albany is a SODA TAX. If you haven't heard of the soda tax, the reasoning is this:

• There is research which correlates the price of soda with diabetes rates. If we make soda more expensive, there will be less diabetes
• Diabetes rates are related to the cost of health care. So by taxing soda, we pay less for hospitals.
• Soda is bad for you and Americans should drink less of it. See also: Obesity

Reasoning sounds okay. And yeah, I'd like the average American to drop some pounds, if only so that I have a little more room in the elevator.

But here's what I don't like about it: This is the state's way of trying to regulate our behavior through financial incentives. And people are in support of it because "soda is bad for you". It seems that we're okay with behavioral controls as long as they're being used to punish somebody that's doing something wrong.

This is a greater pattern I've been paying attention to, this idea of punishing people who "deserve it". In a recent discussion, we talked about how people would love to enact brutal and grisly tortures upon your children's molesters. Parents have an understandable "mother bear" response when their children are threatened, and that seems to justify all sorts of inhumane behavior to be inflicted upon perceived threats.

Nietzsche, in his Genealogy of Morals, talks about this phenomenon. He thinks that it comes from the ancient relationship between creditor and debtor. In the old days, if somebody screwed you on a debt, you'd be able to take a pound of flesh from them. Nietzsche thinks that this is the real essence of it, that the autonomous individual wants to inflict suffering as compensation for breaking a promise. This punishment is carried out without regard to the culprit's free will, autonomy, accountability, etc. The consequences of this punishment are swept under the rug of justice.

For example, this guy Aaron Vargas was sexually abused as a child, and later in life, killed his molestor (Darrell McNeil). McNeil, an active member of the Big Brother / Big Sister program, was shot to death in front of his wife. While I sympathize with Vargas, who seemed to believe he was protecting his infant daughter, I also feel bad for McNeil's wife and the kids he mentored, who didn't seem to live in the same universe as McNeil sick side. The community has turned out in favor of Vargas. The fact that Vargas was molested does not excuse the murder, it only confirms the motivation and degree of premeditation.

I think that we can agree that while child molestation is wrong, murder is also wrong, perhaps even more wrong. But the local community is defending Vargas because of that "mother bear" instinct. We feel very strongly about protecting our children. And in our minds, that makes it okay to do things which we would normally condemn.

And we feel very strongly about the economy, so it seems justified to tax behaviors we don't agree with.  But where do we draw the line? Soda raises the cost of health care. So does cheese, red meat, and alcohol. In 15 years, when everybody's driving hybrids and electric cars, maybe they should tax the fuck out of gasoline just to encourage people to be more environmentally conscious. Or buy domestically manufactured products. Maybe they should medicate you so that your behaviors and preferences don't create a financial burden for the rest of us.

My roommate is missing a video camera. He has stated that if he finds out who stole it from him, he's going to put him in the hospital. My roommate described, at length, the horrible things he'd do to this alleged thief.  Because you can't just let people steal from you, you know? You gotta send a strong message.

(BTW - I think he probably just lost the camera)

I agree, I just find it a little weird that behaviors we would normally find reprehensible are totally okay as long as somebody deserves it. Nietzsche suggests this is 'cause deep down, we're hunters, and we don't have an outlet for this violence. We want to be fucking tearing people up, but we have to sublimate these urges in order to participate in society. And Punishment is this gap in the civilized world into which we can channel our animal rage.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2010/04/08/obama_medvedev_sign_treaty_to_cut_nuclear_arms/

PRAGUE—Seeking to end years of rancor, President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday signed the biggest nuclear arms pact in a generation and envisioned a day when they can compromise on the divisive issue of missile defense...

The pact will shrink the limit of nuclear warheads to 1,550 per country over seven years. That still allows for mutual destruction several times over. But it is intended to send a strong signal that Russia and the U.S. -- which between them own more than 90 percent of the world's nuclear weapons -- are serious about disarmament.

obama's speech on the matter, in prague, is here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8609298.stm

Global Disarmment, fixing the strained relationship with Russia, a unified front discouraging Iran from arming itself... I think this is what the nobel peace prize comittee was waiting for.

[I decree that from the 15th of Discord (29th March) that Discordians and all loving-entities initiate Project Silver Screen. Which is described below.]

I found this over at http://discordia.egypt-media.com/project-silver-screen-how-to-change-the-world/ -- a discordian blog I hadn't yet read. The tl;dr version is: the social revolution isn't coming, people are too easily distracted by movies and TV. So instead of resisting it, let's celebrate it by watching movies and TV that promote the revolution.





I decree that from the 15th of Discord (29th March) that Discordians and all loving-entities initiate Project Silver Screen. Which is described below.

Most of us love a good movie. Some of us are paranoid of the television. And some of us love to study it. But what gets through to each and every one of these three is a unique vantage point and inspiration that helps us frame our understanding of the world around us.

Movies teach us not only about conceivable futures and iminant political dangers, but they can also teach us about ourselves, other people, society at large, and the various collective and individual issues which have plagued us all this time.

To switch subject now:

Whatever it is that we're doing, when we try to alert our fellow Human Beings to the present dangers and the present potential of this moment (The Time is Now), we are confronted with anything from disbelief, fobbing off, or hostility. And for any seasoned armchair sociologist the answer is plain: They don't want the truth.

But could this conclusion be true? Or is it possible that the mode of expression is fatally flawed?

We plaster the Internet, libraries, telephone poles, and any available space with our messages. Messages of government conspiracy, Esoteric studies, foreign concepts, and whatever weird ideas we have that week.

All SWAMPED by the clutter of millions of other direct assaults: Buy That, Eat This, Don't Park There, Don't SIT There, Take a Ticket and Wait, Pay This Bill, Hold the Rail. Few of us have the time to stop and appreciate any dissenting voice in this madness.

We try to directly approach people on these issues: "Look at the Chemtrails", "Look after your Marcaba", "Don't drink tap-water", "Why don't you stop paying tax?". People don't appreciate being told what to do. Nor do many people appreciate the truth, if they haven't come up with it themselves.

Nothing is true for the Human Being unless he or she has had a direct inner-experience of that truth. Evidence is immaterial to the Ego and its structures. Truth is a thing that is revealed, and thus has always been there. The opening to genuine experience is to open to yourself.

We then even try to congregate. Come together in groups, discuss things, and put plans into action as if that is a prerequisite to Social Revolution and not a product of Social Revolution.

Needless to say these congregations tend to fail, and if they don't fail they expand into a whole load of a lathergic nothing, and if they don't do that they'll put up posters....

The Collectivity of our longed-for and lusted-for Social Revolution is, I have the balls to say, counter-progressive.

The need to collectivise, uniformitise opinions, "educate" one-another, and keep eachother company stems from a social convention of our time: Together.

We don't know what exactly it is, but we're going to do it together. We'll all get together some day, and physically remove the demons who're praying over us.

This is a massive insult from everyone, to everyone. And if you don't feel insulted, please note that collective insanity doesn't make you sane. And it's insulting for the following reasons:
---It assumes we all want the same thing.
---It assumes that the majority of Humanity are lovely people.
---It assumes we want something to do with Mick and Joe, 15 miles away.
---It assumes that for positive change to occur, we must all think the same way.
---It also assumes we want another world government, to replace the current world government.

I for one, am insulted by the gesture that most of the time and energy of well-meaning activists is being pissed down the drain trying to mix milk with oil.

Another reason for the dreadful failure in our Social Revolution is what we've come to call "Apathy" and "Laziness". Humanity is so ready to jump down eachother's throats about this issue. Everyone likes to complain about how everyone else is dragging their heels, getting distracted, or simply not caring. This situation is typical of any kind of social-change group. And activity within such a group occurs when the threat of iminant danger is rearing its head.

As a side-note: Cult leaders (from Harry Rae of TnS to Jim Jones of Jonestown) have noticed this proclivity in their herd. They need a game to play, they need to be toe-to-toe with the police, the NWO, or whoever, if they're going to actually move and create the illusion of progress.

We Humans Live in Our Illusions. We Only Endure Our Reality.
Robert Anton Wilson

We LOVE to feel like we're acheiving something. And it must be together, because we cannot change the minds of others without some form of threat, and we are always aware that multitude in a belief will eventually break the banks and infect everyone else. Rarely do we want to do something REAL with our time and effort. Like explore ourselves, improve your immediate environment, or teach another how to look after themselves.

In conclusion: The world will NOT CHANGE, and if it will it will not change due to Alex Jones yelling through a microphone, getting a news article on the front page of Digg, or organising "meetups". The direct approach no longer works... but what does?
These things can still continue, but most of our energy needs to be redirected. We still need seminars, websites full of info, books published, and the odd local meetup. But what we need more than these things is for people to take advantage of them for a change.

There are 100's of films and TV Shows, unknown for the most-part, some really famous, with which we can learn about ourselves and the world around us. What if the answer was simply to watch these movies, TV shows, listen to this music, and let your creative mind absorb the deep tennets and parables, absorb and explore the archetypes. Let your whole self change you, instead of relying on your conscious mind of absorb linear information and somehow amend your behaviour to a more acceptable mode.

Then share it!

Find the movies, shows, and music that you have found to be an inspiration in your life or have taught you some amazing things. And share them all. The less direct, the better. For instance; don't hand someone a DVD of The Matrix, a CD of Rage Against the Machine, and a DVD of "The Young Ones". Don't even mention anything out of the normal, just share the media.

The idea behind this is to be as least obvious as possible. The Ego is very quick and discerning, even in the "dull" folk. Don't whisper a word of insurrection.

Official Project Movie/TV List
The China Syndrome
The Prisoner (TV)
Soylent Green
Waking Life
They Live
Network
South Park (TV)
Fearless
Equilibrium
One Hour Photo
What Dreams May Come
The Edukators

to be expanded....

So you all have your orders. Seed this media on the torrents, burn off DVDs and CDs, always carry an external hard drive full of this stuff, suggest people watch these movies.

We can't change the world, we can only inspire it to change.

This topic has been moved to Operation Mindfuck.

http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=24709.0

[ITT, we're going to list "Discordian Activities".]

ITT, we're going to list "Discordian Activities".

The intent is to be able to pull stuff from this thread in the creation of an Intermittens article / issue called "Playbook". Please note that I am not committed to this yet, but if I do make it, I want to have some material to draw on. So here's where you come in - we're going to come up with activities that you can do at home or with your cabal which are "Discordian" in nature. This means whatever you'd like it to mean.

What I'm looking for: one to two paragraphs of text, tops. Could be as small as a few lines. You can also phrase your answer in the form of an anecdote. After reading this article, you should be excited to go get your friends and go have some fun.

What I'm not looking for: suggestions which are impossible, dangerous, or stupid. Remember the "101 ways to make everybody's day weirder" thread? It rapidly turned into "101 ways to make everybody think you're mentally unstable and avoid you."

You get bonus points if you attach an image

It's okay to recycle text from other projects

Everything in this thread will be released into the public domain.

[Abe Lincoln:]

You may have been missing out on this awesome sketch comedy troupe. They had a show on FX for a while, and then they got moved to the independent film channel. I've been following them since they were in college.

It's hard to pick some good skits to introduce you to them, but here are a few gems which have been floating around the internet:


Abe Lincoln:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4Uf9rsBbhc

Motorcycle Mamas:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTAD8JMkU88

Happier and with your mouth open:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBbRjvf1kPI&feature=related

Opposite Day:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEqgTw7N_88

You can see me?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lExK9xuMxzo&feature=related

Movie Ideas:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baDFBpjb47M

[GLOWCAPS MAKE DRUG USE FUN AGAIN]

Have you been forgetting to take your pills?

heh heh, yeah. YEAH baby!
             \



Is that why my scrotum is pulsing?
           \




What?? I don't even have a prescription for bees
               \




You need GLOWCAPS



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bulo-Lw2B6o&feature=player_embedded#at=169

Lots of people have trouble remembering to take pills everyday, so I'm not really sure what I find so deeply unsettling about this invention. Is it the creepy red light which appears when you forget to take your meds? Is it that your medication will now call your cell phone all by itself? Is it that the glowcaps website prints "progress reports" for your family and caretakers? I'm not really sure, but I know this:

GLOWCAPS MAKE DRUG USE FUN AGAIN

[BURN THE MOTHERFUCKER DOWN]

Those of you who have known me for a few years now will recall various turmoil I've endured at work. I'm just a low-paid assistant with neither responsibility nor upward mobility. At the beginning of 2009, they reduced me to part time and sequestered me on this island where I'm the only one working on an impossible year long project. I've had a lot of emotions relating to this, many of which are expressed in the BURN THE MOTHERFUCKER DOWN thread. (for the one-page summary, check out these womps about capitalist purgatory)

I've been living real tight, learning to live a semi-monastic lifestyle on peanut butter sandwiches and free Internet downloads. I'm in the process of moving to an apartment in new york which will cut my rent cost in half. I've had a real rough year.

Anyway, today the good news is that they're going to hire me back full time. It's still an assistant position, it still has no potential of promotion, but I'm getting a full time salary again, including health benefits, sick days, and vacation time!

This job is shitty, and I'm too smart for it, but I'm still stoked as fuck to be employed full time in an office in the year 2010.


for me!

Happy Noodle Boy is an incoherent doodle inserted randomly into Jhonen Vasquez' comic Johnny the Homocidal Maniac.

He communicates nearly entirely non-sequitor, if you could call it communication.


Enjoy--

YOU MUST CHOOSE!

I'm an elf too.


GREETINGS, BROTHER

I'm looking for a system which accomplishes the following task:

Users must register in order to upload or vote.

Documents (or links to documents) are submitted by users.

Users can comment on documents, and may vote by giving the document 1-5 stars.

If the document passes a certain vote threshold, it is automatically moved to an OFFICIAL area.



Does anybody know of a system which might work for this?




I want to use it for the Dreaming LARP, as a means of aggregating user-submitted content, but it could also be VERY useful for organizing documents, booklets, Intermittens, guides, anything where there are multiple articles submitted by multiple users.



also, I'm looking for somebody with a little bit of CSS knowhow to help me re-layout the dreaming site. It's a bit busy right now, hard to read, hard to find what you're looking for. If anybody is willing to help poke around, I will be in your blowjob debt.

[Not to become famous, or even good.]

Wrote some lyrics during an 8-hour (round trip) road trip. Recorded them. The beef is hither:

http://www.myspace.com/525991563



ETA:
We've got a few more songs coming down the 'pike. Our band's stated goal is:

Not to become famous, or even good.

anybody can join the band. In fact, you're already a member. We have 4.6 billion members and growing!

I'm hunting for some part time income. The job market is icy and tight, so I'm looking for more "work from home" kind of opportunities.

I was considering doing that thing where you take marketing surveys and get paid like a buck a piece. I found a good list of companies that offer this, with reviews, here: http://itsfree.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=surveys&action=display&thread=15234

Does anybody have any experience with this? There are a lot of scams out there, but some of these companies look okay.


I also recall Suu had a job where she answered text message questions for like five cents per question or something. How did that pan out? Anybody else have any experience with that sort of thing?

Hi Pee Dee. I've been noticing something recently, and because we're such good friends, I think I should bring it up. I mean, if I had something disgusting stuck in my teeth, I'd hope you'd be a good friend and let me know about it. So I want to tell you something and I'm not going to sugar coat it.

You're not the same board I used to know. You've changed, and it's a bad change.

Those changes include weight gain, recklessness, promiscuity, waking up in weird places, getting beat up and arrested. You also have a weird look on your face that reminds me of those zombie drug addicts you used to see in the vacant lot on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Those people end up dead in the weeds.

I love you and I want to see you get back on track. This is hard for me to say, and it's going to be hard for both of us, but it's time to quit the 'stache. Your facial hair is getting out of control. It's not just affecting not your life, it's affecting all of us. You're not the same person when you're wearing a moustache, you become a mad with power. You get this look in your eyes, this insane fever, and it scares me.

We've had some good times. Everybody loves a stache now and then. It's a cheap ride. But it's getting out of control.

But I'm here for you. I'm going to help you get over this. Together, we can overcome the 'stache abuse.  You're going to need a straight edge razor, and then this can be done. Do you remember what it used to be like? What it was like to have a clean shaven face?



stand with me!
be strong!
overcome!

A few years ago, chemists invented Marinol, the prescription version of pot. These synthetic pot pills supposedly worked just like regular weed, except that they take an hour (rather than minutes) to kick in. They're also super expensive, often $700 for 30 pills.

Some people in China and Korea apparently took another crack (no pun intended) at synthesizing THC. Their product is currently being sold in the US under the name K2. It's also known as Sunset Gold and Nirvana.

I learned about it from a Discordian who is on parole, and smokes K2 because it's still legal and doesn't show up on drug tests. A few states are in the early stages of banning it, but it's still legal in everywhere in the US.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K2_(drug)
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/22708093/detail.html


The current media reaction focuses on the lack of clinical data about the drug, but apparently, the results are already in. They use words like, "addictive and dangerous" and "looming menace". I'm pretty sure we'll see drugs like K2 and Salvia slowly be outlawed because they don't fit within the double-standard of acceptable drug use in the US. (ie, speed is bad for you, unless you have a prescription)

I wonder though, if the results come in clean, if there will still be a witch hunt. Ecstasy turned out to be relatively clean (at least, the E that was being sold in the mid 90s... all over the glove, E quality has gone down while prices rise), and in fact is quite useful in treating certain types of ailments, but it's still considered FECKING CRIMINAL by the law.


This is unrelated, but Regret linked me to an article about Meow Meow, something they're calling the "new ecstasy". It is only mentioned here because of the following quote:

there have been a number of people admitted to hospital with bizarre side-effects, including a teenage boy, who is reported to have had such severe hallucinations that he ripped off his scrotum.

have you guys heard anything about either of these?

Alright, the whole internet is talking about it, somebody had to start at thread about it.

You literally cannot script reality TV this good. This is an instance of real racial tension and a savage beating, caught on film. It spread like wildfire across the Internet.

Here's the original video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH8gBlgoHic (about 4 min)

Here's an interview with the 67 year old white guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf8ZDs-D8Ysm , which contains the relevant clips from the original video. (about 9 min) If you're only going to watch one of these clips, this is the one.

The radio host from the last clip had Michael (the black dude) on his show yesterday, here's the clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I1r3dhMUO4 (Michael starts talking at 0:55). I haven't watched this one yet.

Earlier this week, the google-owned youtube pulled down Rick Astley's annoying masterpiece, "Never Gonna Give You Up". It turns out the video was mistakenly flagged as spam, but its disappearance did cause a bit of internet ruckus.

Linked in the above article, one of Never Gonna Give You Up's lyricists complains about being "exploited by google"

Waterman, co-author of the song, compared his plight to the "exploitation of foreign workers in Dubai."

"I feel like one of those workers, because I earned less for a year's work off Google or YouTube than they did off the Bahrain government," Waterman told the paper."


do these people just not fucking get it?

google-youtube does not owe you any royalties. They are not a label, they are a distribution platform. PEOPLE are linking each other to your video, that's what they do. They don't owe you money for that, the free exchange of information is how you got famous again to begin with. When your song was on the radio, Waterman, people talked about it. They hummed it to each other. They put it on mix tapes and gave it to their friends. And they did not owe you a single penny for that. What I'm describing is not you being "exploited by google", but fame itself.

Fame doesn't make you rich. Capitalizing on that fame does. I am certain that, based on the Rickroll phenomenon, Rick Astley could have relaunched his career had he wanted to. Waterman, you hack song writer, you could have cashed in on that too. But instead you're crying about how you're internet famous and nobody's cutting you a check.

The South Park Kids got it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e-VDXhXPSE (please note that this link contains copyrighted feckin video)


This looks like a good place to quote our good friend Synaptaclypse Generator:

Public domain allows works to become integral parts of other works – Alice
in Wonderland is a good example. It has been borrowed from by thousands of
artists for thousands of reasons, and because of this, the story has lived
on and grown with us to the point of becoming archetypical. This is not
possible with works that are still under copyright for obvious reasons.

In the information age, our cultural heritage has gone global.
Scheherazade’s work is almost as much a part of our cultural heritage as
Shakespeare and Carroll. Innovations and enhancements on all of their works
enrich the scope and power of the original to inform our global culture and
provide a familiar framework for the innovator to work within.

For Eris’ sake, even weather data is under strict copyright – the National
Weather Service is limited on what weather data it is allowed to provide free
on its website, since the private sector owns pieces of the information.

I find it especially disappointing that the company that has benefited most
from information in the public domain is leading the fight to keep their
versions of those public domain works under strict copyright.

As annoying as it was, Rick Rolling was a legitimate cultural event. If you were alive a few years ago, and you are hip enough to know that the internet isn't, like, some kind of home appliance or something, you probably got rickrolled. And I want to point out that Rick Astley took this joke very well. He certainly didn't go on a crusade to remove the video from the internet because he thinks somebody should be paying him whenever anybody makes a joke involving him. So Thanks Rick, something unique happened in our culture because you're not being a territorial dick about your precious IP.

I'm also baffled that OK GO's record label pulled down the music videos which relaunched their career. Don't they understand how much money they actually made from the free trade of information? That's not theoretical internet money, that was actual album sales.

If Waterman released an album a few years ago, and had the liner notes said "BY THE CO-AUTHOR OF NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP", I bet he would have made some good scratch off the notoriety. I know a few people that bought actual Rick Astley CDs because of the internet craze. So it's possible to capitalize off it if you're in the right place at the right time. But don't try to pretend that somebody owes you cash just because kids are talking to each other about your work.

Thanks to Enki for the original link

I created a pamphlet to help out the cats over at 1km1kt.net, who are all about independently publishing noncommercial roleplaying games.

check it out:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/27385853/1km1kt-Pamphlet

I haven't actually played any of these games, but some of them sound like a lot of fun! If you're hunting for links to them, they're here.

Here's a short story I've been working on for a while. I'm trying to get back into the swing of fiction writing. This is a comedy about two futuristic cowboys (?) engaged in a neverending feud. Enjoy!

http://www.scribd.com/doc/26944637/The-Showdown

This thread may contain SPOILERS, so read at your own risk



I just saw INGLORIOUS BASTERDS.

I will say, for the record, that I really did enjoy it. It was engaging, through provoking, and evocative. It's been two days and I'm still thinking about it.

It's very much a typical Tarantino movie. I have mixed feelings on Quentin Tarantino - I love some of his films (pulp fiction and reservoir dogs are two of my favorite movies). Others make me feel like he doesn't have a lot of respect for his audience. He knows exactly what the American Cinema audience wants: sex, violence, and a feeling of righteousness all bathed in cinematic ultra-style. Leave the nuance at the door.

I'm amazed at how Tarantino manages to get completely two dimensional characters to deliver excellent, compelling dialogue. And that's my biggest complaint about Tarantino - there really aren't a lot of characters in his movies. Just caricatures. All the Basterds are just names and about three sentences worth of description. Who is Brad Pitt's character, other than a brutal nazi killer? We don't know. Does the Bear Jew have a life outside of killing nazis? Why does that german officer kill 13 soldiers and then defect to join the Basterds? The only hint is a two second flashback in which he recalls being whipped by nazis.

What I found so odd about the movie was the use of brutality. There is no moral relativism here - nazis are continually presented as evil to the core. (The only exception in the whole movie is the german soldier who doesn't want to fight because his son was just born - he's only "innocent" in the whole film.) And the most brutal violence in the movie - the really sickening gut wrenching close-ups of people's head being carved up or bashed in - it's delivered by the good guys.

Tarantino knows that you went to the movie to have your guts twisted in a knot. So he serves you just what you want, but the trick is that it's not something you feel bad about. The violence is not being done to anyone you sympathize with. You feel that the good guys torturing the bad guys was righteous justice. World War II is wrapped up very neatly by a bit of the old ultraviolence. I thought it was an odd feeling.

When I was watching Deathproof, I thought: Damn, Quentin is so obsessed with writing slick dialogue that he forgot where the movie was going! He does write really beautiful dialogue. So beautiful that his movies get lost in them.

I think Basterds is the most black-friendly movie he's ever done. I get the sense that the interracial love story was thrown in there specifically for Spike Lee, who thinks Tarantino's been locked into niggermode for a decade now.

The ending to the movie took me by surprise. I mean they actually killed hitler? hahahah what a great anachronism!


anyway, I wanted to hear what you guys think of Inglorious Basterds -----& Tarantino.

Jon Stewart's had a kickass week. He seemed genuinely psyched by Obama's appearance at the GOP conference. If you've been waiting for Obama to start telling bitches off, check out this video:

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-february-1-2010/q---o

During the interview later in the show, he told the white house guy that it was the "best thing he'd ever seen on TV".

Jon Stewart called up Bill O'Reilley and got a spot on the O'Reilley Factor so he could tell it to Bill's face. Here's how it appeared on TV:

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWb-Ygu1VcA
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmbvZeqScO0
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vA6rSGLF4Yk

this is a HOOT. Jon and Bill throw each other around a fair amount. It's very interesting to watch.
it's also heavily edited. The full version is here, but I haven't watched it so I'm not sure if it contains bill's commentary.


In part 2, Bill sits down with a body language expert to analyzes the interaction. This part made me want to tear the skin off my face.



Jon followed up on the interview here:

Jon Consults His Therapist
Jon works through his feelings about "The O'Reilly Factor" interview with his therapist, Dr. Rubin.

[Featured Right now:]

This thread was inspired by 000:

tip: start a new thread in this subforum where you post links+extracts to new 23AE entries, kind of like Kai's science thread.

Featured Right now:

The Parable of the Gong, by yours truly

exerpt:

"My wise friend Nopants, I have come to ask you a question," said Golden Rod, "What is Bureaucracy?"

"In India," said Nopants, "they tie elephants to trees using thin cords. An elephant could easily snap the cord, yet they remain tethered in place. Why do you think this is?"

Golden Rod itched himself and shrugged.

"When the elephant is young," intoned Nopants, "she is too weak to break the cord. She tries, but eventually she gives up. When the elephant grows up, she does not try to escape her puny bonds because she believes she will fail."

"So the cord isn't the thing keeping the elephant in place," said Golden Rod. He squinted at Nopants, "That's very interesting, but what does that have to do with Bureaucracy?"

"Bureaucracy," said Nopants, "is waiting for a red traffic light in the middle of the night when no one is coming."

Across space and time, a gong sounded.

(Edit - Sticky removed - Dok)

[You can win one of three copies of "The Lost Studio Session" by writing your most inspired homage to R.A.W. in the comments section below. (Contest ends February 8th.)]

Reality Sandwich contest: Win a copy of The Lost Studio Session by writing an homage to R.A.W.

...You can win one of three copies of "The Lost Studio Session" by writing your most inspired homage to R.A.W. in the comments section below. (Contest ends February 8th.)

A free sample track has been posted on Creative Commons of this newly released material form the man whose goal was to “get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not agnosticism about God alone but agnosticism about everything.”

http://www.alterati.com/gspot/Namu_Amida_Buddha.mp3

check it out:

http://www.realitysandwich.com/raw_beyond

I'm writing a live game, called The Dreaming. In some ways, it's part LARP and part ARG. I was yammering about it a little last week.

This is meant to be a game that any of you can play - you don't need to drive to some campsite in connecticut, you can play it wherever you are. There will be a game community on the internet as well as wherever you make one. In part, it will involve snooking friends to game with you. Your actions in your respective towns and cities can impact the game world as a whole.

This has been brewing for a while ... I wrote / ran a game called Tales of the Dreaming back in college. I ran it for two years, and it continued without me for several years after I graduated, sustained on its own energy. I had given life to a community, an organism. Something that would grow up and out of my control. I thought that was beautiful -- But I digress! We carried a little of that energy into the discussions about projects codenamed ARGGASM and LARPGASM. But my mind keeps coming back to the Dreaming... It became the setting for my new game..

I've kept some of the goals we had during the LARPGASM discussion:



To create a game which is ....

-a mindfuck to both players and nonplayers
-scales well. It can be played with 2 people or 2000 people with no extra work on the admin's part
-content generated / aggregated by other players
-playing the game also advertises the game



So my game is a LARP which could take place at any time, in any place, without the need for game masters.  I think it's finally at the stage where I can show it to people and it might make some semblance of sense.

I don't want to spend too much time explaining it, because I'm curious to see if the website is self-explanatory.

I'm curious to see if it makes sense to everybody, especially people who have never played a LARP before. Can you visualize it? Does it sound interesting? Does it sound like fun?



http://dreamings.ning.com

[W]

^{we had to restart the thread. In the name of TRADITION, the original post follows. I may modify it to insert faces. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.}

Presenting: the Wrath Of MS Paint cabal's dump of* your horrible faces.

Payne and I have been semi-meticulously stealing your faces. But ever since he died, I haven't been able to open the WOMP vault because the combonation dial gets all slick with tears (due to sobbing*) and I can't quite grip the thing. But now I've worked up the strength to go on, and I'm unsealing the vault.

Feel free to add yours. You know - just so everyone knows what kind of spag they're dealing with. If there is only a bad picture of you, post a better one or suffer everyone thinking you look like that.

By the way - If your face is posted here and you want it removed, PM me and we can work out some sort of quest you can go on to get it unlocked.

NOW AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD: THE COMPLETE SPAGBOOK ARCHIVE
http://rapidshare.com/files/338567846/SPAGBook_picture_archive.zip

*read: on


*read: sarcastic sobbing




000




Cain





Nigel





Baron Von Hoopla





Faust





Cainad







I Am Not A Rhombus





LMNO






Ratatosk






Vexati0n




Hunter S Durden






Squeak
(RHWN's Cat)






Suu








Ten Ton Mantis





LMNO as a Gay Cowboy





CAIN





Net






Cramulus





Idem





Your Mom




The Good Rev. Roger







Bonar the Barbarian





B_M_W / Kai





Cthulhu's Squidling






the Pterodactyl Handler's largest and most oversexed Pterodactyl, Crampy.




Ratatosk







 paaaaaaaaaaaaaayne  





Lysergic





LHX





Richter





That One Guy





Darth Cupcake







East Coast Hustle





Fred





Hunter S Durden









Ambassador Klok Kaos





LMNO





Mourning Star





I'm not really sure







P3nt4gr4m











Rev What's His Name





Syn





Eve





Pixie





Pariah






GA (Golden Applesauce)








rumckle






General Stewart





Broken AI   /revidc   /   Dr. L Jon Heracy




Iason  --- that fucker!




BDS (Borderline Simpleton)





Subtract Eight!





Itpuous





Badger





Dr. Goofy





NWC





Jesus - we're a bunch of mutants

[The Thread:]

yo, it would be so super cool if somebody could make a .pdf of this thread's "meat".

if you make it, I'll help pass it around


I shall call this
CHI-GASM

The Thread: http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=18255.0

oh somebody please do, cause I've been meaning to read this thread from whenever it started. yet i never come around to it.

encoding the whole thing into a document is going to be a lot of work -- but many hands can do it more easily

I've pasted the first page of this thread onto my sandbox wiki --- feel free to paste more on there, it'll make it easier for [whoever does it] to make it into a sexy pdf

http://principiadiscordia.com/cramulus/index.php?title=What_is_Chi%3F

[1.]

This is the opposite of an "ask me anything" thread. Feel free to answer any questions you feel you're qualified for. These are kind of random (and specific) because they relate to various creative projects I've been brewing.


1. I'm putting together an english to conlang dictionary. What FONT should I use for the body? (in b4 "lol arial") Right now I'm using Centaur, but it doesn't look very good bold at 9pt size.

2. Id / Ego / Super ego (freud). Lion / Lamb / Bull / Eagle (leary's circuits 1-4). These are two ways to describe the forces underlying individual human psychology. Do you know of any other ways to categorize the forces within the human mind? (the function of this question is actually to brainstorm different races one might play in a weird live adventure game)

3. If you were to sort all Gods into five or six categories, what would those categories be? For example: Love, War, Nature, Wealth, Trickery, Sovereign. (function: same as above)

4. Is anybody interested in playtesting a larp? This means actually gathering up 3-5 friends with boffer weapons and playing this game I'm writing. If not interested in play testing, anybody interested in reading over some rules and telling me if they're comprehensible?

5. I need a new career. What would I be good at / have fun doing?

6. Can you recommend a website which will teach me web design / css? I want to start putting together profitable projects, and one of the key elements is learning how to design a goddamn wobsite. I dabble in html, but feel like I should advance my knowledge until it is worth cash-money.

We've had this old scan of the BIP kicking around since July 2007. It was created by me printing it out and then scanning it to PDF. Unfortunately This means that you can't select the text! The whole pdf was one big image. And a kind of medium-quality one at that.

I finally got off my ass and updated the PDF, here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/25101030/The-Black-Iron-Prison

PDF collectors may also want the fresh copy of "23 things to amuse yourself while you wait", which is also a much cleaner PDF than previously. I've also removed the america-specific references for our non-american friends.


Iason and Raph VonMercer- you may want to update your scribd PDFs with this new, more readable version.

Alright, I get it

Anarchy isn't going to work. Which is a shame because I really really like the idea of not ever having a boss, and my labor supporting my local community rather than wall street's drug habit.

And socialism is iffy. I don't even trust the government to deliver the mail, let alone provide actual needs. But its heart is in the right place.

But I have this idea about governance in general - which is that the larger the group of people, the less adequately the government addresses their needs. I think a good government should be able to adapt and respond to issues without getting gridlocked in partisan politics or compromised by financial incentives. The smaller government we're talking about, the better chance it has to do this. As globalism is on the rise, we're all becoming world citizens, and I want an alternative.

Our pal Ed Wilson (co author of Art of Memeics) has a new blog, and this entry seems to be pointing in the right direction. Ed asks -

With our alternate visions we can begin building alternate structures in the gaps of the current system. We can take the innovations and legal structures that already exist and adapt them to our purposes. Corporations, Churches, Non-profits, Co-Ops… these are things that already exist. How can we use them differently?

so consider this

would anarchy or socialism work on a really small scale, suspended within the aether of democratic capitalism?

Imagine living a community of 40-100 people, perhaps on a farm in Montana somewhere where land is really cheap. Would those wacky idealistic government options work?

We'd still have the protections of democracy - like there being a police force to stop roving bikers from taking our drugs and women. But within the community, we wouldn't have to worry about landlordism, taxes, etc.

Perhaps the backdrop is that we would all be employees of some company. Obviously somebody in the community would have to interface with the outside world and sell them things we make. Somebody would be in charge of paying rent and taxes and getting us all insurance.

I'm reminded of the "republican reservations" in Transmetropolitan. Its an area which is walled off to the outside world so the people inside can pretend they're republicans in the 1980s. They created this little bubble within society where they could build their own form of utopia.


Do you think it could work?

I have this terrible disease. It involves collecting pictures from the internet. When I see an awesome image, I have no choice but to download it. I save these pictures into folders organized by year. It's the end of 2009, so my folder for the year is about finished. For your visual stimulation, I have re-posted some of my favorite images from the year's harvest, below.

This topic has been moved to Operation Mindfuck.

http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=23444.0

http://urbanprankster.com/2009/12/security-notice/#comments

(according to Ray Cadaster)

http://copybot.wordpress.com/2009/04/07/the-50-most-interesting-articles-on-wikipedia/

Can you beat these? post your most interesting links ITT