A novel approach to CEO management...

from IndianExpress.com:

Sacked staff of Italy-based firm lynch CEO in Greater Noida

Pragya Kaushika
Posted: Sep 23, 2008 at 0150 hrs IST
 
Greater Noida, September 22

Sacked employees of an Italian auto-parts maker bludgeoned the chief of the company’s India operations to death following a violent disagreement with the management on the firm’s premises in Greater Noida’s Udyog Vihar on Monday afternoon.

Certain banking CEOs better take note....

Gotta Stop Slammin' My Head in the Door.....

STAR TREK™ Casket

The STAR TREK Casket styling has been inspired by the popular “Photon Torpedo” design seen in STAR TREK II: The Wrath of Khan. Caskets will be available beginning late 2008.

The Daily Blatt Now Banned in China!

Apparently, The Blatt is one of the many sites blocked in China.

I suspect it's really nothing we've done. Our sin is that we use a blog host (Blogger) which is probably being mass blocked.

Still, all in all a good example of how pervasively stupid and arbitrary the whole web censorship meme is.

Test your own site.

WWII Disney Propaganda Cartoon. Truly Amazing!

Disney Nazi Cartoon

Damn all this ever changing technology anyway....

Make my day.

 

Medieval Moment

 Who would I be in MCD AD?
Seems about right....

The Monk You scored 21% Cardinal, 69% Monk, 47% Lady, and 27% Knight!

You live a peaceful, quiet life. Very little danger comes your way and you live a long time. You are wise and modest. You have little comfort, little food and have taken a vow of silence. But who needs chatter when just sitting in the cloister of your abbey with a good book makes you perfectly content.

The Who Would You Be in 1400 AD Test written by KnightlyKnave

Via Boing Boing

 Sinister Ducks

Sheep Ringtone


Some people definitely have too much time on their hands.....

Robert Anton Wilson

from the San Jose Mercury News: 

Robert Anton Wilson, author of 'Illuminatus' trilogy, dies at 74


CAPITOLA, Calif. - Robert Anton Wilson, co-author of the cult classic "The Illuminatus! Trilogy," a science-fiction series about a secret global society, has died. He was 74.

Wilson died peacefully of natural causes at his home Thursday in Capitola in Santa Cruz County, his daughter Christina Pearson said Saturday.

Post-polio syndrome had severely weakened Wilson's legs, leading to a fall seven months ago that left him bedridden until his death, Pearson said.


Wilson wrote 35 books on subjects such as extrasensory perception, mental telepathy, metaphysics, paranormal experiences, conspiracy theory, sex, drugs and what he called quantum psychology.

Wikipedia

Wilson's Illuminatus books were the main source for the group mythology of my fannish cohort in the late 70's.

Life was frequently  explained by a reference from the books. 

I know I for one will never look at the number 23 in the same light again.

Thanks for the mindfuck, Mr Wilson.

Sam & Max Are Back!

Woo Hoo! from Pacian over at Space Cat Rocket Ship comes the news that Sam & Max have returned from the dead. New panels of Steve Purcell's beloved '80's indie comic have started appearing on the Tattle Tale Comics site. Check it out!

Sieg Meow!

Sorry, it's been a rough couple of weeks.

And Here I Am, Stuck Outside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again

Seems like a major hoot and a true holler. Oh to live in NYC. (at least part of the time).


Flarf Festival April 20-22 at Medicine Show in NYC:

THREE NIGHTS OF FLARF

INAPPROPRIATE EXPLORATION IN 21st CENTURY ART
April 20-22, 2006, Medicine Show, 549 West 52nd Street, NYC.
$8.00 per evening, general admission. $20.00 for 3 evening pass.
For tickets: 212-262-4216 and leave message. Tickets will also be available at the door.

Film, poetry, music and theater by members of the Flarflist Collective in collaboration with Abigail Child, Theresa Buchheister, Stelianos Manolakakis, The Drew Gardner Poetics Orchestra, and actors who have worked with Medicine Show, The Ontological-Hysteric Theater, and The Upright Citizens Brigade. Award-winning experimental ensemble Medicine Show hosts the celebrated and controversial Flarflist Collective for three nights as part of its ongoing Word/Play series, partially funded by NYSCA. Hosted by Jordan Davis.

I tell ya, there oughta be a law

There I was, taking the obligatory after class nap, dreaming (apparently) of the powerful position I would acquire upon graduation.

I was seated at a big wooden desk, surrounded by multiple screens of data, piles of paper and half unrolled maps.

My assistant's voice announced, "Richard Nixon on line 4,".

As I reached for the phone, my cell rang, awakening me.

Now I'll never know what the hell the rat bastard wanted.

In the Interest of Furthering the Bitter Struggle

Listen to this festive rendition of "The Internationale" , played by a Japanese klezmer band, Soul Flower Mononoke Summit.


Arise ye prisoners of syncopation!

AHHHHHH!!!!!! Make It Stop......

from Teresa Nielsen Hayden at Making Light:

I am informed that The Internationale can be sung to the tune of George M. Cohan's I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy.

And now you're stuck knowing it too.

Somethings require no comment

Thanks to doghouse riley at Bats Left, Throws Right for the image.

I just had to share.