You too can run a Corporate Police State
http://www.nationstates.org --> Jennifer Government's Nation States simulated game...

For those of you who have ever wanted to start up a new Region and a new Nation to play with.

I mean, maybe evil empire is really the way to go, if YOU were the dictator. Or maybe you’d like to try your hand at a compassionate and liberal country. Whatever you choose, you can do it. Come on, I know you want to ...

- posted by Anonymous @ 8:34 PM 2 comments

 
Condoleezza Rice's cross-dressing drag queen gay first cousin says she was a fridgid lesbian
At least she was until she began her affair with George Bush.

This leaves me squinting in absurdity. There is a certain fakeness about the page. The comment following the post of "Vaginal Creme Davis," allegedly her first cousin, is repeated three or four times (just scroll down). Furthermore, the comment is not only repeated, but is visually and contextually composed so as to appear to be chaotic. It took me a moment of speed-reading down the page to realize that I was reading duplicating information.

Which leads one to wonder: is this some cruel prank, contrived as a sick "fuck you" to Rice now that she's been confirmed?

Wonder I did, so I looked up the domain "Vaginaldavis.com" at netsol.com, and found some interesting information. First of all, the domain has been registered since August 7, 1999, to one Larry Roberts of San Francisco. A Google of "larry roberts san francisco vaginal davis" turns up many references between the two in the San Francisco performance scene. Plus, some of the comments on mefi indicate knowledge of Vaginal Creme Davis as a real person.

So now the question is: is this too good to be true? And by "too good," let me assure you that I have no love for Condoleezza Rice whatsoever. I think she's a hard worker and very dedicated to her job but is craven for power, and will kill any number of thousands of foreigners in order to fulfill the agenda she has sworn to serve. Which is really quite Satanic when you think of it, and in some way I appreciate it but with something that is definitely not "love."

Anyhow, you be the judge. Pray to all of your dark gods that this gets picked up by Keith Olbermann.

Link [mefi, natch]
- posted by frank crist @ 5:09 PM 2 comments

 
angry post
(I really have no intention of making any apologies here. But it is Frank’s blog, so if my frustrations are not welcome here, that’s fine, I’ll just find something mind-numbing-absurd to take its place. Gee, I’m sounding more and more hateful with every breath. So much for my promotion of non-violence and peace. I think it is time to re-embrace the whoop-ass-attitude.)

Education secretary condemns public show with gay characters
Firstly, this is wrong. There are not gay characters. Buster, the rabbit is visiting a lesbian family - they are not characters on the show. He is visiting them, as friends. I mean, this is like saying that Ellen can have a show, but can't host it because she is a lesbian. Or rather, Ian McKellen can't be a guest on the Tonight Show because he's gay, even though the topic is about lord of the rings, and not about sexuality. What I'm saying? It's not about the family being lesbians, it's about family. Period.

Spellings wants PBS money back
And you know what, once you have donated money - you don't get it back. That's why it is called a donation. It's not like some sort of stock market, when you put money in, and when you don't like how things are going, take it out again.

Leave Buster Behind.
As for homosexuality being an epidemic, that's just fine. I shall lead a force so great, we shall destroy all those who have opposed us for so long, I shall smite the ruin of all who would see us destroyed.

* * *

I am a supporter of PBS. It used to be "free" from all those other big networks, it used to provide education and news without the influence of special interest. But now a show, which I have been know to watch is being censored for exposing (note, NOT promoting) viewers to a lesbian couple. "Postcards from Buster" and spin-off of "Arthur" are shows I have been known to watch, and explore all aspects of different people and cultures. I first watched it when it dealt with a character who has dyslexia (like myself). The show also explores religions from Mormonism to the Islamic faith.But now, with all this diversity, there is one sort still not tolerated? I’m sorry. I thought we were teaching our children tolerance, not ignorance and fear.

But now a children’s show is being accused of promoting a "gay agenda". What the hell is a gay agenda? I think I would be aware of such a thing if it existed. I mean, my god. Yes, MY GOD. Andrea Lafferty, of the Traditional Values Coalition (WTF is that supposed to mean?!) says: "American’s and tax-payers don’t want their dollars spent promoting homosexuality". I’m sorry. So us homosexuals don’t pays taxes? We aren’t Americans?! Fuck you lady! See if I pay any more taxes to this country!

- posted by Anonymous @ 11:24 PM 5 comments

 
Top 100 Most-Subscribed-To RSS Feeds
Not surprisingly, Wired News is #1. Here is the top 5:

1. Wired News
2. Scripting News
3. Tomalak's Realm
4. The Motley Fool
5. Dictionary.com WOTD

Link
- posted by frank crist @ 11:13 AM 0 comments

 
Want to Purchase an Antique Map?
Prices as low as $25.00 for, allegedly, maps created in the 19th century. Someone buy one and tell me if this is for real.

Link
- posted by frank crist @ 9:02 AM 0 comments

 
The Old Lady and her Dancing Dog
I didn't know dogs could be this well-trained, really, but this is quite an incredible feat. I have no idea how this lady got her dog to do this stuff, but one thing I do know: that dog loves to dance.

Link [thanks gwen! (o^_^o)]
- posted by frank crist @ 8:21 AM 0 comments

 
The World's Most Maniacal Cat
Tell me this doesn't destroy you from the inside....

Link
- posted by frank crist @ 5:23 PM 3 comments

 
Kerckhoffs' law
An interesting law about security that I've never seen before. Basically it states that "a cryptosystem should be secure if everything about the system, except the key, is public knowledge." I agree, but isn't hiding the key still security through obscurity?

Link
- posted by frank crist @ 12:01 PM 0 comments

 
The Picture of Everything
Just in case you've never seen it, here is the picture of everything. Click on the sections of the picture for a much more detailed view.

Link
- posted by frank crist @ 11:57 AM 0 comments

 
ChicagoArt.Net
A resource for the various galleries in and around Chicago. From the site:

As a Patron you can pick the galleries from which you want to receive e-mail. If you add your e-mail address no information will be asked, no statistics will be generated, no ads will be included in e-mails or show on-line, and the your e-mail address will never be sold or passed to others, not even the galleries.

ChicagoArt.Net - Home Page
- posted by frank crist @ 11:55 AM 0 comments

 
Random Frog Generator
As advertised.

Link
- posted by frank crist @ 1:00 PM 3 comments

 
Baby Polar Bears
I'm hungover. I feel like shit. Every time I burp I taste gin. So, here for your viewing pleasure, and my sanity, is a page full of baby polar bears.

Link
- posted by frank crist @ 12:55 PM 0 comments

 
Dimed Out
Eris bless you, Mark Dery, destroyer of the hipocracy that is "Not One More Dime Day" and liberal ass-growers everywhere.

First, the whole business reeks of bobo sanctimony and cultural elitism. Any member of the Adbusters-reading, Supersize Me-watching leisure class who honestly believes she can Stick It to the Man by keeping her dimes firmly in her hand-knitted Guatemalan rucksack, right beside her manically underlined copy of Chomsky's Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance, is unlikely to be seen rolling a 55-gallon drum of Miracle Whip out of Wal-Mart or rejoicing in fried offal at the local McDonald's. The NOMDD demographic consists largely, if not entirely, of inconspicuous consumers.

o/` Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right... o/`

Link [bb]
- posted by frank crist @ 1:58 PM 1 comments

 
POPOMUNDO
For those of you who are interested in being an International Idol (rather than settling for Americna Idol) ... you can play POPOMUNDO!!! It's a simulation/role playing game where you train and thrive (or fail) in the music industry.

Anyway, just another reason never to leave your computer - because who needs to go out and get rejected when you can be sucessful right at home.

(Sarcasm doesn't translate too well ... but it's there).

- posted by Anonymous @ 1:32 PM 1 comments

 
A-Team Movie
I'm sorry, but did you say A-TEAM MOVIE?

YES!

My cast:
Hannibal Smith = Tommy Lee Jones
Howlin' Mad Murdock = Johnny Knoxville
Face Man = Wayne Newton
B.A. Baracus = MR T FO-EVA

Link
- posted by frank crist @ 1:20 PM 0 comments

 
The Dude is the Buddha
In the age of increasing darkness, it is nice to know that there is enlightenment yet to be found.

In a Buddhist understanding, the Dude is not lazy: he just doesn’t concern himself with unimportant things, or at least important things in the Western sense. Money seems of little value to the Dude. He isn’t employed and he doesn’t care to be. He even ultimately resists the temptation of the ransom money.

Link [mofi]


- posted by frank crist @ 1:05 PM 0 comments

 
Journal: Not sleeping...
It hasn't been working. I finally got some sleep last night, but it was from 2:00AM to 1:00PM. Tonight: 4:18AM, and I'm still a) downloading stuff; and b) playing tiny spaceships. I got a lot of sleep last night, but it was that "unhealthy sleep" that you're not supposed to have. I could take a pill, but they kill my body so much that I realize that I can't move my real body in my dreams, so I keep alternating between waking up and not realizing that I'm still in a dream until it's too late, or waking up and no being able to move so I fall back into my dreams of not being able to wake up. Plus I sweat on the pills. Sweaty body + immobile body = bad body. But there's no alternative. I have to sleep. I have things to do tomorrow. But I can't sleep. Argh.

I haven't had restful, healthy sleep in about a week now. I dunno if winter is getting to me in some strange way or what, but tonight I feel like I could kill someone and not even notice.
- posted by frank crist @ 4:18 AM 0 comments

 
Murderess X
I have actively restarted work on Murderess X. Go check out continuing episodes at http://murderessx.blogspot.com.
- posted by frank crist @ 8:12 PM 0 comments

 
It pays to have a nice ass in Russia
..and this guy has collected many handfuls of Russian ass.

Link [lifi]
- posted by frank crist @ 2:14 PM 0 comments

 
Have you escaped from the Meatrix?

Take the blue pill, and deny yourself the truth (don't watch then) ... take the red pill, and well, just go to the site.

- posted by Anonymous @ 11:21 AM 0 comments

 
Evil Spyware Assholes!
Ack! I had a Freestats.com tracking banner on my page so I could get stats until about a minute ago. The reason for removal: when I was viewing my blog, I noticed that something from "gator.com" was loading via the banner. Gator! No! They are the most evilest of evil spyware assholes in the world! So I have removed the banner and will exist without stats until I care enough to write my own hit counter.

DO NOT USE FRESTATS.COM.

Also, I'd like to apologize to anyone that got spyware from viewing my blog, and then I'd like to call all of you who were infected "stupid morons for using IE," and offer up this helpful clue instead.
- posted by frank crist @ 9:33 PM 0 comments

 
Laura Bush Defends Gala in Time of War and Disaster
From the article:

With less than a week to go until her husband's second inauguration, Laura Bush on Friday defended the decision to hold the $40 million celebration as planned despite a war abroad and the tsunami disaster in the Indian Ocean.

Inaugurations, Mrs. Bush said, are "an important part of our history."

And by "our history" she is, of course, refering to the Bush family history.

The New York Times > Washington > Laura Bush Defends Gala in Time of War and Disaster
- posted by frank crist @ 9:32 PM 0 comments

 
Blood capacity of a penis.
From the thread:

How much blood is in an average erect penis?

Scientific hilarity ensues.

Link
- posted by frank crist @ 9:01 PM 0 comments

 
Museum of bad album covers: the worst album covers ever!
Link [bb]
- posted by frank crist @ 1:39 PM 0 comments

 
Skeptic's Annotated Bible
For all of us skeptics out there, this is the ammunition that you take to those family outings where your Presbyter uncle uses scripture to endorse the War in Iraq. (Also contains the Quran and the Book of Mormon)

Link
- posted by frank crist @ 9:17 PM 0 comments

 
An Intellegent Article on the State of the Army
One of the best articles on the Iraq war that I've read in a long time. Talks about how the "old soldiers" (i.e. boomers) are unwilling to take risks, therefore are being unsuccessful in Iraq; while the "new soldiers" (i.e. gen xers) are more flexible and able to handle the various situations. The article explains it's POV in a concise and poigniant kind of way, and doesn't seek to discredit or bash the army in general. IMHO, well conceived and well executed.

Link
- posted by frank crist @ 9:29 PM 1 comments

 
Pimp the Backhanding
Holy dogshit. White Wolf has come out with the coup de grace of card-based games everywhere: PIMP: THE BACKHANDING. From WW:

Now you can experience the dizzying highs and soul-bending lows of exploiting women, pushing drugs and dodging undercover cops. Will you become a Mack Daddy, leasing out high-priced call girls to discriminating clientele, or a lowly fishmonger making a sticky bankroll off the diseased crackwhores you’ve gotten hooked? Or will they find your unconscious body pistolwhipped into submission, lying in a storm drain?

On sale Feb 14th, and the perfect valentine's day for that special ho in your life.

Link [lifi]
- posted by frank crist @ 3:21 PM 0 comments

 
100 things we didn't know this time last year
An interesting collection of facts from the BBC. Example:

85. Poets die young... "On average, poets lived 62 years, playwrights 63 years, novelists 66 years and non-fiction writers lived 68 years," according to California State University's James Kaufman.

Link [mofi]
- posted by frank crist @ 4:25 PM 0 comments

 
from dancingjesus.com
Ant City. Playing god is so much fun, everyone should do it. I fact, I think I will.

Burn. Burn. Burn. Dog on fire. Explode!

... and ...

The end of the world. I love it.
"All us Californians have to worry about is breaking off, and going to hang out with Hawaii, Alaska can come too."

... and finally ...

Cow song. WTF?!
"Mmmmooo! I'm a cow, can't you see?" (Farmer Browns isn't what he seems) A good laugh, if nothing else.

- posted by Anonymous @ 5:11 PM 0 comments

 
disturbing might be the world
Church of Euthanasia and the Save the Planet, Kill Yourself campaign ... there's a music video too. All ... very ... yeah.

- posted by Anonymous @ 1:00 PM 1 comments

 
Yes, it's an Internet Questionnaire

Your Dominant Intelligence is Linguistic Intelligence

You are excellent with words and language. You explain yourself well. An elegant speaker, you can converse well with anyone on the fly. You are also good at remembering information and convicing someone of your point of view. A master of creative phrasing and unique words, you enjoy expanding your vocabulary. You would make a fantastic poet, journalist, writer, teacher, lawyer, politician, or translator.

- posted by frank crist @ 10:42 AM 0 comments

 
Anatomy of the Sword
A great reference site if you ever need to know the difference between a button and a quillion block.

Link
- posted by frank crist @ 9:25 AM 0 comments

 
On second thought, don't use Flagfox
So, after a few days of using Flagfox (cited previously), I realized that it sucks. The reverse IP-to-country mapping is slow and inexact, and it keeps cheesing up my browser. So I uninstalled it. It seemed cool, but it's not. Use at your own risk.
- posted by frank crist @ 9:15 AM 0 comments

 
Hear the International Phonetic Alphabet
For speed freaks and nerds everywhere... now you can hear all of those weird characters you see, like the one with the bar and the curl that looks like a "Z" but sounds like "FDLKJVD"

Link [mefi]
- posted by frank crist @ 9:11 AM 0 comments

 
When karaoke goes bad
Uh...

Link [mefi]
- posted by frank crist @ 8:53 AM 0 comments

 
Crash Different
"Mac has killed my inner child."

Link [mefi]
- posted by frank crist @ 8:51 AM 0 comments

 
Burton, with Jefferson, reminisces about MTV
A web comic. Artwork 0 out of 10. Writing 9 out of 10.

Link [mofi]
- posted by frank crist @ 10:03 PM 0 comments

 
How to Tell if your Prostitute is an ET
From the Weekly World News, natch.

Link [lifi]
- posted by frank crist @ 4:01 PM 0 comments

 
Rabbit Ransom
From the page:

I promise to eat this baby rabbit for Easter Sunday if my account doesn't show a balance of at least $1,000,000 by latest 27th March 2005

Hossenpfeffer! Yum!

Link [lifi]
- posted by frank crist @ 3:54 PM 0 comments

 
Flagfox
Flagfox is a neat little firefox extension. It does a reverse IP to country lookup for web pages and displays the flag of that country in the lower-righthand corner of your browser. Very unobtrusive and, yeah, ok, it's worthless, but it's neat.

Link [lifi]
- posted by frank crist @ 3:49 PM 0 comments

 
Laval Virtual Exhibition
Laval Virtual 2005, a VR trade show in Laval, France, is looking for whitepapers concerning, among other things, the role of storytelling in virtual reality.

Link
- posted by frank crist @ 2:58 PM 0 comments

 
Irvine Welsh <3 Jane Austen
Irvine Welsh, ex-resident author of Columbia College's Fiction Writing Department (my home away from home), and Scottish author of, among other things, "Trainspotting", talks to the BBC about his influences, citing his love for 18th and 19th century literature, notably Jane Austen.

Link [thanks Gary!]
- posted by frank crist @ 1:59 PM 0 comments

 
yg Library Documentation
So the 3D library that AI (and EVL) uses for VR is called yg. Here is the API and documentation.

Link
- posted by frank crist @ 1:42 PM 0 comments

 
Birkenau Information
The following are some resources laying around in my email about the Birkenau camp, and the holocaust in general. If you're wondering why I have these, and what kind of a fucking Nazi I really am, go look at the project that they're for: Special Treatment, a collaborative project that I wrote dialogue for. The group is Applied Interactives, and our show is this Friday, Jan 7th. If you're in the Chicago area, come on down and see it!

A Good Birkenau Site
Yiddish with Dick and Jane
Wikipedia on Auschwitz (and speaks about escapees)

- posted by frank crist @ 1:35 PM 0 comments

 
Randy Pausch on Electronic Arts
With all of the recent court actions against EA, I thought I'd post this great insider's look at Electronic Arts. Randy Pausch, Professor of Computer Science, HCI, and Design at Carnegie Mellon University, spent a summer at EA in residence, and analysed their business models, corporate culture, and tried to get at what makes EA the 5th largest software manufacturer in the world (!).

From the executive summary:

Facts academics should know about EA:
• EA plans to fill over 1,000 positions/year in the near future.
• EA has traditionally hired 10% of new hires from universities and wants to increase that number to 75%.
• Making games at EA is a team sport: between 20 and 200 people work on each game.
• EA is a huge company, bigger than Apple and Pixar combined. EA has a $15B market capitalization and $3B/year in revenues.
• EA is a ruthless meritocracy with a brutally honest culture, especially for critique and feedback.
• One of EA's major strengths is in management of people and process.
• The largest sin at EA is not delivering your game on time.
• EA has a very young, energetic work force.
• People at EA work long hours, in large part because of their great passion for making games.

Link [via Toddy]
- posted by frank crist @ 1:30 PM 0 comments

 
Tiny Camera, Giant Eagle
Animal Planet mounted several tiny cameras on a trained golden eagle, Tilly, and captured the results in six videos. The dogfight with the buzzard is pretty incredible.

Link [tcl]
- posted by frank crist @ 7:00 PM 0 comments

 
Emilie's Don't Yawn
Here's the game: watch this site for five minutes without yawning.

ha!

Link [lifi]
- posted by frank crist @ 7:58 PM 0 comments

 
The Skeptic's Dictionary
A Collection of Strange Beliefs, Amusing Deceptions, and Dangerous Delusions (and how to think critically about them)

Link [mofi]
- posted by frank crist @ 7:28 PM 0 comments

 
Someone Keeps Stealing My Letters
Imagine, if you will, an interactive refridgerator magnet set composed of those big, colored letter magnets. Now put fifty random people on the job...

Link [mefi]
- posted by frank crist @ 7:23 PM 0 comments

 
CreativeBits: Speed up Firefox
Wow.

Link [mefi]
- posted by frank crist @ 7:18 PM 0 comments

 
Gotta Get My Stuff Done
The narration of procrastination. I'm just blogging this so I won't forget where it is when I'm trying to get my stuff done.

Link [mofi]
- posted by frank crist @ 3:02 PM 0 comments

 
Fetusmart: The Magical Land of Fetuses

I adopted a cute lil' poison fetus
from Fetusmart! Hooray fetus!
- posted by frank crist @ 1:41 AM 0 comments

 
CyberSEX Gone Wrong
Cracking my shit up. Excerpt:

bloodninja: Baby, I been havin a tough night so treat me nice aight?
BritneySpears14: Aight.
bloodninja: Slip out of those pants baby, yeah.
BritneySpears14: I slip out of my pants, just for you, bloodninja.
bloodninja: Oh yeah, aight. Aight, I put on my robe and wizard hat.
BritneySpears14: Oh, I like to play dress up.
bloodninja: Me too baby.
BritneySpears14: I kiss you softly on your chest.
bloodninja: I cast Lvl. 3 Eroticism. You turn into a real beautiful woman.

Link [mofi]
- posted by frank crist @ 1:03 AM 0 comments

 
Bald Girls
Well, nevermind how I found this link, or why I was looking ... but this is a fun link. You pick one of your favorite stars, and then click on on the image and it makes them bald! winona ryder and kate winslet never looked better.

Bald Stars

- posted by Anonymous @ 9:15 PM 0 comments