Quote of the Day: im in ur bibul, rewritin ur storiez

(((LOLCat Bible; genius; Matthew; annunciation and stuff)))

In the spirit of the season. You know. Sort of.

Da burth of Jesuz Christ

18 Now, teh burth of teh Christ was liek dis: After Marry and Joseph waz all "We's gonna get marrieded, kthnx", but before dey could had hankiez pankiez Mary was all pr3ggerz from Teh Forse.19 Joseph was liek "I has virjn - NOOOO dey be stealin my virjn! Must hied hur".20 But when he was tihnkin, zomg, a WallCat frm Ceiling Cat was liek, "Oh hai! I'm in ur dreemz, givin u messij. Don't be scairdy cat. Take Mary as ur wife - is virjn. But teh Forse is strong in tihs wun, lol! HoverCat is on hur, givn hur feetus, srsly.21 "And she gonna made a son, and you gonna call him Jeezus, cuz he save kittehs frum bein bad kittehs. Kthxbye."22 So all dis was all did cuz Ceiling Cat had sed it wud be. His proffet was all liek:23 "Hay guise, look! teh virjn iz all preggers, and dey gonna call him Immanuel", dat be joospeek for "Ceiling Cat wit us"24 Then Joseph waked up, done wat teh angel frm Ceiling Cat tolded him to, and was all liek "U wit me now lol" at Mary.25 And dey didnt has teh HARBL GOES WHERE!?!? til affer dey gets a son and calleded him Jeezus. Ktnx.

Blowback Chronicles: The Tehran-Managua Axis

According to the model (Rome/Berlin/Tokyo), you need three members for a proper axis (aka, "axis of evil"), despite the fact that an axis typically is a single line between two points. Two members should be the primary partners, and at least one should be in East Asia. With Iraq now safely a Western-style democracy, Iran and North Korea have been interviewing potential new partners. It looks like Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, after considering such contenders as, well, most of the world, has finally settled on Daniel Ortega's Nicaragua.

The relationship between Iran and Nicaragua goes back to the 1980s, when Ortega was a former scrappy revolutionary fighting a US-backed right-wing counter-revolution, and Ahmadinejad was a soldier-engineer-student fighting a US-backed invasion by Iraq's then-dictator, Saddam ("The Hammer") Hussein. US President Ronald Reagan, famous for thinking out of the box before thinking out of the box was cool, funded the Nicaraguan counter-revolutionary freedom fighters known as the "Contras" by selling weapons to Iran (via Israel) for the war against Iraq that he was also supporting. A case study in success now referred to in NSA circles as the "Moebius Gambit," but more widely known as the "Iran-Contra Affair," Reagan's operation projected Oliver North and John Poindexter to fame and fortune, first in congressional hearings, and later on FoxNewsChannel, the History Channel, and in the US government's Total Information Awareness program.

Iran and Nicaragua have engaged in a barter trade deal, while Iran and North Korea support each other's nuclear ambitions. Adding Nicaragua to the partnership opens axis access to the volatile anti-US Latin American region, including particularly Venezuela's populist former-commando Hugo Chavez and Cuba's long-time post-revolutionary dictator, Fidel Castro.

Axis of Evil (NDAQ: EVIL) shares rose on the news.

tags technorati : Axis of Evil, Iran, Nicaragua, Ortega, Ahmadinejad, North Korea

 

Standards Do, After All, Facilitate Communication

A spec for My Enemy's Enemy is my Friend (MEEF), via nettime.

Abstract MEEF, My Enemy's Enemy is my Friend uses the World Wide Web Consortium's Resource Description Framework (RDF) to allow for automatic generation of ontology for networks based upon shared antipathies.

Status of this Document. This is the first draft proposal specification for MEEF. It provides a description of a basic vocabulary which can be used in generating MEEF applications. MEEF files can be added to documents and web resources as Unicode. Versions of MEEF will incorporate the FOAF vocabulary in order that friends of your enemies can also be readily identifiable.

Sample properties:

Property:tv
This property identifes the enemy's favourite tv programme.

Property:social
This property specifies social networking mechanisms used by the enemy. Where FOAF is not used, other tools must currently be used to identify their 'friends'.

Property:love
Enemies love some things. It is important to be able to identify them.

Property:rumour:URI
This property locates a URI where a rumour concerning the entity can be found. Rumours may be generated without including any of the identifying characteristics of the entity and assigned to multiple enemies. The re-use principle is important.

And let's do a declaration:

A sample MEEF declaration incorporating FOAF:

<meef:Entity>Bush</meef:Entity>
<Property:Antipathy:open/>
<foaf:person>
<foaf:name>George Bush</foaf:name>
<foaf:homepagerdf:resource=
http://www.whitehouse.gov/>
</foaf:person>
<meef:property:love>cocaine</meef:property:love>

tags technorati : TEOMEIMF, MEEF, Enemies, Politics, Blowback, Terrorism, War on Terror,Bush, Cocaine

 

The Real Scientific World

Scientism! The Reality TV Series

By FERDINAND THROTTLEGRIP, Associated Press Writer

31 Minutes Ago

LOS ANGELES, Calif - Television and movie producers, eager to cash in on the success of deity ass smacking books such as silver tonged Brit reductionist Richard Dawkins' "The God Delusion" and bathtub gin distiller/ part time writer Christopher Hitchens' "God Is Not Great" are running, not walking, to develop film and television projects based on the middle finger to the sky zeitgeist.

Noted reality tv producer Mark Burnett is currently in talks with Dawkins to create a new series tentatively named Shut the F*** Up, Sit the F*** Down and Have A Hot Cup of Science! It's also known as Hot Cup of Science, for short.

"We're very excited about this new project with Prof Dawkins" Burnett said during a recent Hollywood Reporter interview. "It's going to be a hard hitting show - this one's really going to ruffle some feathers, cause fur to stand on end, make grandmothers lose their false teeth, bring 19 year olds to orgasm and generally shake things up - which always means ratings and later, new private jets...for me."

The show will send Dawkins, dressed in a silver jumpsuit and accompanied by a space suited chimp named Reason, around the US. "Let's say there's a little Bible study group meeting in the basement of a quaint, Midwestern US town; Dawkins and Reason will pop in, uninvited of course, and tell everyone to sit the f*** down and enjoy a hot cup of science!"

When asked by Hollywood Reporter what the intrepid atheist team would do if everyone was already seated and provided with beverages, Burnett said "those details will be worked out as the show takes more solid shape."

[Posted to LBO-Talk by Dwayne]

tags technorati : science tv religion dawkins hitchens