William Gibson

After sleeping on it, I find I'm not quite as inclined to imagine that OBL's tape was a conscious effort to swing the election for Bush. It doesn't seem to me that he understands us quite that well, and it doesn't seem to me that I understand him well enough to be that certain of what he's up to. I think the message might actually have been: "Hi. 9-11 was all my idea. And you haven't been able to catch me, so I'll do it all over again if I decide to. I know you're having an election now, but that won't make any difference either way. In order to make a difference, you'll have to get your government to stop doing the things they're doing that keep me wanting to attack you again. 'Bye."

It gets harder, the more I think about it, to see that causing many of the remaining pool of undecided US voters to go Bush. I think OBL needed a logo moment, though, in terms of the ongoing validity of his global brand, and look what he's been able to pull off, with virtually no outlay: The world's full attention, as both candidates drop everything to respond.

You know who would've completely gotten OBL? Andy Warhol.

From William Gibson's Blog

Moral Clairty and Devout Spirituality

When young Bush was at Yale in the Sixties, he told the same joke over and over again for two years, according to some of his classmates. One of them still remembers it:

There was a young man named Green
Who invented a jack-off machine
On the twenty-third stroke
The damn thing broke
And churned his nuts into cream

Real Bush Outtakes

Moral Clarity

Devout Spirituality

Moral Clarity

Devout Spirituality

Moral Clarity

Further Proof that I steal all of my good posts from boingboing.net

Super Mario Ice Capades Featuring Alyssa Malano and other vintage tv stars.

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Save Us, Switch It

Remember thos Mac switch ads a couple years back? I was surprised to learn recently that they were directed by my 3rd favorite director Errol Morris. Even more interesting is the series of Republican switcher ads for the latetest election.

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Update on the Damned

GOOGLE CHACHED:

The Damned

Does anybody else think it's creepy that Yahoo Personals is using a photograph of Laura Palmer to entice new members?

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Yo Yo YO, I got some gmail invites to give away. So, all you have to do is promise to comment on my next three blogger posts so I feel popular. I only have five to give away so respond quickly

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DATE CORRECTION

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Don't blame it on the sunshine

Don't blame it on the moonlight
Don't blame it on Chris Pike
Blame it on the boogie

Transdimensia

This is a link to a text based game I was trying to write as a fourteen year old. I quickly gave up but follow the link to the html version I just made.

Those Meddling Kids

One of my friends in the TMK resistance brought this digital photograph from Redfern New South Wales to my attention. The population of this suburb near Sydney spans a broad spectrum of socioeconomic character (wikipedia.org). For my world viewers the Liberal party sent Australia into the war in Iraq despite an overwhealming majority of australians opposed to such a move. They also have an appaling record in the mistreatment of refugees. They were recently re-elected much to the chagrin of anyone with a soul.

New Shotz Sucks

Given that the new Shotz sucks the following image is out of date.