It’s just a good of thing to think of in the shower as anything else. Everyone thinks about exotic Cossack dances from early 90’s movies while in the shower, right? I know I do.
–Morticia Addams
I just purchased the new Roku Netflix Player. It was mainly an impulse purchase, but I got a sweet $150 bonus at work last week (I call it the ’spit in the face bonus’) and so I’m buying technology with it. My friend at work reads Gizmodo very regularly and linked me an article about it. Apparently this fancy box was released today making me an early adopter, hooray!
This bad boy hooks into my Netflix account and into my television providing me with delicious streaming television. It’s like an AppleTV but way cheaper and a large free library of great movies. Sure, it doesn’t let me do the YouTubes, podcasts, music or photos but hey, I wasn’t going to do any of that anyway. Ok, I’ll miss out on the YouTubin’ but whatevs.
Movies and TV episodes in your Netflix Instant Queue appear right on your TV screen. Use the included remote control to browse through the items you’ve added to your Instant Queue and pick something to watch — whenever you want. You can even read descriptions and rate movies, right from the comfort of your couch.
The Netflix Player lets you explore even more possibilities from the world’s largest online movie rental service. Access a growing library of over 10,000 instant movies and TV episodes. Watch as many as you like, as often as you want—with no additional fees. You’re in control with the power to play anytime and finish watching whenever you like.
I’m also pretty certain that two awesome things will happen with this guy too. I’m certain that I can transport this from house to house and movie enjoyment will follow me wherever I choose to go. I’ll be like the Pied Piper of movies with a lot less children drowning! Secondly I bet (but am not certain) there will be a sizable hacking community built up around this item. Hopefully these masters of hack, lords of zeros and ones and divas of databases can conjure up some magicsauce. Then I’ll be YouTubin’ all day long mofuggah!
Tara was nice enough to send me this link about a Yale student allegedely inseminating and then aborting herself “as often as possible”. She is using the blood and videos from the miscarriages/abortions in an art project that will be on display later in the year. Thanks Tara!
Art major Aliza Shvarts’ project has attracted reactions of disgust and outrage since the Yale Daily News broke the story of her upcoming exhibit on Thursday.
“It’s clearly depraved. I think the poor woman has got some major mental problems,” said National Right to Life Committee President Wanda Franz. “She’s a serial killer. This is just a horrible thought.”
Critics on campus said the exhibit sounds like a shock-and-awe look at the highly sensitive issue of abortion and called it a sick stunt to get attention.
But Shvarts said the goal of the project is to spark debate and discussion about the connection between art and the human body.
At Wonkette SayItWithWookies offers:
Y’know, nowhere in the article does it say any of these insemination attempts was successful, or that she took any kind of pregnancy test. And I have a feeling that an abortifacient would produce more or less the same result whether a woman was pregnant or not (what with an early-stage foetus being too small to see anyway).
Hate to throw a bucket of blood on this parade, but I’ll bet you dollars to zygotes that she didn’t throw the baby out with the bloodbath.
Personally I think this is fine. If someone wants to get pregnant and then abort it, collect the juices and smear them on a cube with video playing on the walls that is fine by me. I just worry about her Rug Doctor bill. Oh dear, was that a double entendre? Thoughts?
Here is the article at Yale Daily News and an interesting story by the artist about her first period.
UPDATE:
Ms. Shvarts (which rhymes with farts) has posted a statement. I like to think that she was giving her womb a good napalming every few weeks but apparantly not (or so she says)
Ms. Shvarts is engaged in performance art. Her art project includes visual representations, a press release and other narrative materials. She stated to three senior Yale University officials today, including two deans, that she did not impregnate herself and that she did not induce any miscarriages. The entire project is an art piece, a creative fiction designed to draw attention to the ambiguity surrounding form and function of a woman’s body.
She is an artist and has the right to express herself through performance art.
Had these acts been real, they would have violated basic ethical standards and raised serious mental and physical health concerns.
It is stuff like this that keeps me adding to my growing collection of toys at home and at work. I believe that my extended male adolescence has kept me from accepting any real responsibility while keeping my interests in sweet ass toys quite high. The new Hasbro Cloverfield Monster Movie Toy is totally awesome. It’s more than totally awesome, it’s fucking sweet. Anyone who gets this monster is automatically a rockstar. I, myself, am considering purchasing one in the near future.
- 70 points of articulation and incredible life-like detail
- Authentic sound
- 14” tall
- 10 parasites
- Two interchangeable heads
- Statue of Liberty head accessory
- Special Cloverfield collector’s edition packaging
In conjunction with the launch of the highly anticipated CLOVERFIELD movie release, Hasbro, in a partnership with Bad Robot and Paramount Pictures, has produced a super-articulated and highly detailed limited collector’s edition Cloverfield Monster.
The Cloverfield monster is available exclusively through HasbroToyShop.com. Reserve your Cloverfield monster today to have the opportunity to receive it when it ships later this year. Limited quantities are available.
Are you kidding me!? 10 extra parasites!? 70 points of articulation!? CHOAKING HAZARD!? I’m pumped to see this bad boy, that’s for sure.
While it doesn’t have cold riveted girders with cores of pure selenium, isn’t nearly as tall and it wasn’t architected by Ivo Shandor the Ghostbuster’s Building does hold a special place in my heart. This building is actually an art deco influenced apartment building located at 55 Central Park West. This building is known for being different both internally and externally to all the other buildings on Central Park West. It was added to the list of buildings in the Central Park West Historic District in November of 1982, two years before Ghostbusters was filmed in it.
When the building opened in 1930 it had apartments ranging from three to nine rooms, the largest of which had four bedrooms. The apartment living rooms featured a dropped living room, developed by the Earle brothers, which set the interior apart from most others constructed around the same period. An original rental brochure shows the dropped living room nearly entirely open to the entrance gallery; traditionally the gallery was held as different room.[2]
The six apartments on the top five floors of the building are considered the most desirable in the building. Two apartments in particular, 19 and 20F, are the mostly highly sought after. Together the two units form a 4,500 square foot penthouse, sporting eleven-foot ceilings, two functioning fireplaces and a 1,000 square foot terrace.
It is not a coincidence that Dana Barrett’s apartment was the corner penthouse of spook central, although I doubt she could afford it being a philharmonic musician.
This location was also used as Buddie’s new home in Elf. Zooey Deschanel, oh my god, so hot.
It doesn’t directly apply though you all remember my Vigo the Carpathian shinanigans.
And here is another gem from the YouTubes
This is one of the most interesting articles I have seen on the tubes in a while. It is an excerpt from a larger book called
by Matt Mason. I will post the text in it’s entirety under the cut. There is a website/blog for the book at http://thepiratesdilemma.com as well.
The Pirate’s Dilemma: The Problem With Information (and how to fix it)
BY MATT MASONThe same way light confuses scientists by existing as particles and waves at the same time, information increasingly seems to confuse us. Information is getting cheaper and more expensive at the same time, and it appears that many of us, especially those of us who own or control a great deal of it, no longer understand how to observe or use it.
We live in a world where it is legal for a company to patent pigs, or any other living thing except for a full birth human being, but copying a CD you bought onto your hard drive is considered an infringement of someone else’s rights. A place where an average law abiding citizen could owe more than $12 million dollars in fines if they were sued every time they accidentally violated copyright law in a single day. A society where it’s ok for each of us to be hit with 5,000 advertising messages every 24 hours, usually without our permission, but creating a piece of art and placing it in public yourself without permission can land you in prison. This isn’t just about the pros and cons of file sharing - this is about an entire species losing its sense of perspective, failing to understand the potential of one of its most precious (and yet most abundant) resources.
Many of us are confused about whether our ideas should count as information, or property. When we have a new idea, there are two opposing forces at work. At the same time as we are thinking “how can I get this out there?” we’re also asking ourselves “how can I benefit from/monetize this idea?” We want to spread ideas as information, but capitalize on them as intellectual property. This problem with information is something I call The Pirate’s Dilemma.
Oh my god. Oh my god. This can’t be. Tay Zonday doing Dr Pepper backed extended commercials for new Cherry Chocolate Diet Dr Pepper!?!
I’m in shock! He’s a weatherman! He’s a rap singer! He’s a lady-killer! Flying chocolate! Dr Pepper in champagne flutes! Chocolate covered squirrels!
A student’s review of 2 Girls 1 Cup gets a 0%. I do not believe that this is fair. Her (I’m assuming it’s a her because a male teacher would have given the author a high-five) misunderstanding of this work lead her to disgust instead of to giggles. My favorite part is his comparison of the cup to an inverted phallus (which she apparantly didn’t understand).
He also calls the cup a sacred chalice. Brilliant. I have also included a video of someone’s grandmother being shown this movie. Enjoy.
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