The Smug Baldy Speaks

You’re surrounded by Ghost Whisperers, Allison DuBuois, and freaky kids seeing dead people, so it’s only (super)natural to ask yourself, “Hey, could I be psychic?”
Take our little test and find out if you have a hidden psychic ability. Have any of these things ever happened to you?

I was sent a link to this on the Escapist Magazine today. This is where Zero Punctuation peels back the cover on Sim City Societies, and finds an existential vacuum.

HT to Angry Alex

World Leaders Gather To Roast Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

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Donny (Dane maybe?) really needs to take a vacation, but will he make it?.
Good demo of the Color Range selector tool, and no juice boxes were harmed in the filming of this episode.

They say that Truth is the first casualty in war. Not now. Not in this war.
A week ago, a hacker group calling themselves Anonymous posted their Declaration of War against the “Church” of Scientology, shortly after they were able to bring down one of the church’s websites. Then afterwards, Anonymous posted a […]

This comes from MyDamnChannel by way of LifeHacker - it’s a bit tongue in cheek while it takes you through a photoshop tutorial. Very funny indeed.

This comes by way of Fark.com via Bad Astronomy, and should be required viewing for any STOS or Elton John/Bernie Taupin fan. Witness history, my friends:

This is a nice little video from loadingreadyrun.com about the future history of the world following Halo 3.

I recently posted some thoughts about the US recent decision to sell $20 Billion of advanced weaponry to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. I just saw this quote by the Daily Show’s Jon Stewart on the subject. Enjoy:
“A few weeks ago the White House announced plans to sell $20 billion in weapons to […]

Let’s face it - spam is not going away, not ever. Spam’s resilience in the face of our contempt and outrage is simple to explain: It works. Every so often, there’s a perfect storm of sender and subject line that will entice some poor schmuck to go against his better judgment and open […]