Sweet Dreams, Internet
April 7th, 2006 | brainjuice
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Miss Piggy?s Teaches of Peaches
Coilhouse - 20 Nov 09
Every time an issue of the magazine goes to print, things somehow turn Highly Inappropriate here at Coilhouse. This is apparent to anyone who was there on Twitter during the hours of our final revision deadline last night. And it’s only going to get worse before Issue 04’s out.So to celebrate, a video of Miss Piggy singing “Fuck the Pain Away” by Peaches. It’s that kind of day.
[via Shannon]
claytoncubitt: Will Blanche, ?The Newly Constructed Towers of...
Brian Wood - 20 Nov 09
Will Blanche, ?The Newly Constructed Towers of the World Trade Center Seen From the South Side on West Street, May, 1973? (via These Americans)
See also:Mitch Epstein, ?West Side Highway, New York City? [looking towards World Trade Center] 1977
Percy Jackson trailer
Kung Fu Monkey - 20 Nov 09
Seriously, if I were 12, this would have melted my brain. I love this trailer.
JOURNAL: How to Break and Open Source Insurgency
John Robb - 20 Nov 09
Short Answer: divide it.
It's long been my contention that Iraq was stabilized at an acceptable level of controlled chaos due to a happy accident by al Qaeda (in an attempt to expand/lead the loose insurgency in a new direction). What did they do? They blew up the Golden Mosque in Samara in 2006. This act of symbolic terrorism did indeed disrupt social networks as anticipated, however the consequences were ultimately disastrous for the Iraqi open source insurgency.
The reason for this is it broke the dynamics of the open source insurgency in ways the US and Iraqi government's COIN efforts could not. First, it created a permanent split between Sunni and Shiite insurgent groups/militias. Coopetition ended. Second, it motivated large Shiite militias to start an ethnic cleansing of Sunni areas. This put acute pressure on Sunni guerrilla groups who were too small (by design to avoid US counter-pressure) to defend themselves against large militias operating in the open. The result was an opening, very close to the one I described in my 2005 NYTimes OpEd, that allowed the US to convert Sunni guerrilla groups into militias that were not loyal to the central government (in direct contradiction to its COIN manual).
It's a nice example of the dynamics of many to many conflict, social network disruption, and the development open source counterinsurgency.
See this excellent description at the blog, "Musings on Iraq" for more detail on the ethnic cleansing operations. It also includes this money quote: "the majority of the Sunni insurgency gave up and switched sides to align with the Americans rather than face annihilation at the hands of the Shiite militias, Al Qaeda in Iraq, or the United States."
NOTE: it's pretty clear from the above that social network disruption (either through attacks on symbolic targets or blood and guts terrorism) is like playing horseshoes with live hand grenades. It's ultimately a losing strategy for advancing an open source insurgency. Social network disruption is very likely to break standing order 6: don't fork the insurgency.
Twitter Updates for 2009-11-20
Girl Farts - 20 Nov 09
- @ibrill That podcast was fun. Thanks for the link. in reply to ibrill #
- @Alejandrobot TEASE! in reply to Alejandrobot #
- Well I didn't spend the day on the work I'd planned, but it was a productive day nonetheless. Best to be grateful for that much, I guess. #
- @dustinharbin Oh, you are not kidding, my friend. in reply to dustinharbin #
- @ivanbrandon Remember that screechy "READ THE BILL!" woman? I just DL'd it. It's TWO THOUSAND PAGES LONG. #
- @ivanbrandon Here's what concerns me: has ANYONE read it? in reply to ivanbrandon #
- @ivanbrandon Awesome. in reply to ivanbrandon #
- @BrianReed I'm tempted to do a search for that string. in reply to BrianReed #
- And sometimes a cat pees on your kid's blanket and beloved sheepskin rug. #
- @laurennmcc I like this plan. in reply to laurennmcc #
- I don't remember what I was going to say. #
- @JHickman Pluck or wax! in reply to JHickman #
- RT @JHUniverse …On Black Friday, from 7:00am to 9:00 am at both JHU Locations, EVERYTHING IN THE UNIVERSE will be 33% off! #
- Depressing news of the morning: Jobless rate for African-American men is 17.1%. SEVENTEEN PERCENT. #
- RT @mtvsplashpage: 'Wire' Star Idris Elba Joins 'Thor' Cast As Heimdall http://bit.ly/6NTSGc #
- I want a lime green tablecloth, 120" rectangular and NOT PAPER. Why is that hard? #
- @amosborne Yeah, or Hunter or Forest. But I want something a little more lively. Apple or Lime, I'm hoping. May just forgo it for a runner. in reply to amosborne #
- @Karajo Yeah, it's for Thanksgiving dinner, so I'd rather something in actual fabric. in reply to Karajo #
- @Karajo Ariana may have found one for me. I'm also told to check Crate & Barrel and Pier One. in reply to Karajo #
- RT @SteveNiles: Fangoria Interview http://twurl.nl/1y2ulh #
LINKS: 20 NOV 09
John Robb - 20 Nov 09
Some random items of interest:
- Vigilante militias in Rio are displacing the drug gangs -- favelas under the control of militias has grown from 108 in 2005 to 400 in 2008 (out of 965). Why? They have a better (albeit parasitic) conflict/business model than the drug gangs since they act as a substitute for missing public goods/services normally supplied by the government. First, they provide a minimal level of security and conflict adjudication. Second, they make more money than the drug gangs by "taxing" everything from propane to cable TV to the gray market.
- US gray economy estimated at $1 Trillion (not including criminal, outside of the evasion of taxes and regulation, activities) and growing faster than the "legal" economy.
- Proposal and wiki for an open source fabrication lab.
- Somali pirates are expanding operations into the Indian ocean. The combination of positive feedback loops (maritime insurance + rapid payoffs by crisis negotiators) and legal ambiguity (the biggest fear of a western navy and governments is that they might arrest a pirate -- prompting a massive/expensive legal tussle with few certain penalties and the forced extension of a visa to the former pirate once he is released from his short incarceration). Is a franchise model for other locales possible?
- A business group in Ciudad Juarez asks for UN peacekeepers. Hilarious. "Ciudad Juarez, population 1.5 million, has an average of seven homicides a day, with the total at 1,986 for this year through mid-October."
- Seccession.net. County based secession effort.
Yume no Byouin Project
Jean Snow - 20 Nov 09
Beautiful (and simple) site design featuring the illustrative work of Yorifuji Bunpei. Via Paul Baron.
Kodai
Jean Snow - 20 Nov 09
Coming up at the Kakitsubata gallery in Nakameguro is the show “Kodai,” running from November 25 until December 6.
Chip?
I should’ve captioned this DEEP INSIDE CHIP ZDARSKY.
Spider sense TINGLING!
When they’re done I bet the room is covered in gooey ropes of webbing…
Which one is the boy Chip and which one is the girl Chip?
CHIP IS CHIP.
hoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooot
Waitaminute– if that was a picture of Chips, they’d be in a sixty-nine.
Unless Chip is the bottom AND the top.
CHIP®: all things to all people. At the same time.
©HIP: I got holes in places most people don’t even have places.ˇ
I’ve seen this sort of thing at parties. Those are the ones that play shit music.
I see no penetration. I am, in ways I don’t want to think about, disappointed.
ahh. my day is finally complete. thanks, Warren!
You’re a bad, bad, wonderful man, Mr. Ellis….
Now if only they were wearing the hi-tech suit from the movies, I’d never have to leave the house….
Now, if one of them had been dressed as Black Widow… THAT might’ve been hot.
Is Spidey banging his clone..?
I feel sick… must lie down.
;x
Strangely, this doesn’t disturb me. At all. What-so-ever.
I’d say that I was broken to the point of no return, but I know that the second I say that, someone will post something utterly terrifying from thefetus.net and I’ll whimper in terror.
You just *have* to love Marvel continuity!
ok - and now I need to go pour bleach into my eyeballs.
Finally, Spider-man has 8 limbs!
this sure beats multiple covers as a sales device
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Ah, good. My hatred of humanity was starting to diminish slightly.
For all us who hate the PC, child-friendly comics, this sort of thing is a godsend.
Thanks, Warren!
Why are so many people disturbed by this. Surely everyone knows that comicbook super-heroes have no genitelia. They’re like Ken and Barbie dolls. This is just friendly horse play. Right? Please?
Mah Head Asplode!
I’ve got to start reading this site later in the day…
I didn’t know Real Dolls had a Marvel license.
you are bad,out of this world bad
I want to say something about white sticky stuff spraying everywhere, but… I’m not.
Is this an outtake from the clone saga?
Sigh. Filthy minds, all of you. It’s clear what’s happening here; clear to somebody who isn’t utterly, irrevocably damaged by a lifetime of exposure to corruption and filth.
The upper spiderman is clearly unconscious. We have no way of knowing how, exactly, but let’s pretend it’s the result of an encounter with some villain who had some sort of…‘neural nullifierator’…hidden under his big flowing cape. So anyway, yes, he’s unconscious, and falling from a great height.
The lower spiderman (or spidergirl, perhaps) has just watched all this fine and wholly unpredictable action unfold from the ground below. So s/he’s swung on up there to catch him before he hits the tarmac. Success! But he’s too heavy, so they fall. The Lower Spiderman tries to break his/her counterpart’s fall as they punge together through the roof of a conveniently-situated motel room and land square on the bed.
In the next shot (which we don’t see here), the pair rise from the bed to reveal a comically spiderperson-shaped piece of plasterboard. Upper Spiderman is fine, by the way; he has a mild headache for a while but eventually finds out who the villain is, catches up with him, and blah, blah blah, blah blah.
That’s what’s happening there.
That is not two spiderpeople having the sex.
It’s a strange world…
…and this is what we have to deal with because of that.
Yeeuugghh.
Yep, my mind’s gone way down the gutter. I actually find this image cute and romantic.
The only thing I can think of, watching that pic: the sound that shiny fabric is doing. Sfhiizzzz, sfhazzz…
Damn you, Ellis, for not putting that image behind a “Don’t Look” link.
The beast with 8 legs–the spider IS an arachnid after all.
Why am I not phased?
I waiting to see if the Female Spider-Man eats her mate after they procreate.
Must be hard to get out your safe word out while your web-ball-gag hasn’t dissolved yet.
finally, the mising wizard world con pic.
and after mayo jar cock, it’s kinda cute.
at least its not spidey and venom…
What do you think happens after nerd prom?
Jason Abbot has a good point.
after nerd prom comes nerd sex. awkward, costumed, no-penetration nerdsex.
what the hotels hosting nerdprom don’t tell you is that they coat all surfaces that may be exposed to nerdprom with a spray-on prophylactic that can be absorbed through the skin, because the last thing they want is to be ground zero of a nerdbabyboom, as all those polyhedral dice are hell on the vacuum cleaners.
Hate you so much.
No, no, no! They got it all wrong! It should be the CLASSIC Spider-Man having sex with either the ULTIMATE Spider-Man or the BLACK Spider-Man! Sheesh!