I was just now looking at the Barack Obama Wikipedia article and was surprised to learn about his religion:
Obama, how could you???
I refreshed the wiki article, and the vandalism disappeared. Click here to see what it looked like when it was active.
…Shinytology?
A new calendar system!
They brought us into the golden age. It’s about time SOMEBODY did.
Awesome logo!
Why can’t Amazon.com be this organized?
Learn under the glorious tutelage of LRH
This is how you will be processed.
How much worse can the LRH Congress be than the US Congress??
Shades of dictatorship here.
NEWS ALERT: Congress can increase your IQ by 6 times!
If only I could understand the grade chart in the first place…
Can’t… find… Scientology… book…
I finally understand Scientology now. It is an elaborate system whose sole purpose is to promote book sales. Look at the altar here. Books. Everywhere. You authors out there should take notice. Next time you write a book, start a religion.
And now, if organizational emphasis and jargon meant to confuse outsiders aren’t enough to convince you of Scientology’s cult status, then feast on the personality worship:
“I’m looking at you, Suppressive Person. Yeah, you. I know it’s fashionable to make fun of Scientology. But we are the authorities of the mind. Don’t you forget it.”
Please study these items from the LRH technical terminology reference carefully. Professional illustrations are provided to illustrate difficult concepts:
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Scientology is weird.
ALSO, THIS JUST IN:
Water is wet!
…
(do not be afraid, Supressive Person; click the image above to expand the thetan within)
To recreate this strangeness, go to Google Translate, select English to Spanish, type in “Heath Ledger is dead”, hit translate, and bask in the glow of Google’s oddity (at least, for as long as it lasts until they possibly fix it).
(Thanks, Josh, for the story, which he found on 4chan)
I have nothing to blog about. Therefore, I must show you this:
That is all.
(Thanks, Galen.)
Posted in animals, bizarre, crackbaby, funny, meaningless
The UK Daily Star confirms that I am not wasting my time with my fruitless pursuits of the Zodiac killer’s unsolved mysteries:
But that’s if [Britney Spears] can tear herself away from the internet where she has been indulging her latest obsession – trying to solve crime.
The star has become fascinated by the unsolved Zodiac killings that took place in California in the late 1960s.
They are the US equivalent of our Jack The Ripper murders. The recent film Zodiac about the case starring Jake Gyllenhaal, 26, captured Britney’s imagination.
She has been spending hours on a website called zodiackiller.com and is convinced she can crack the case as many people believe the culprit is still alive.
Gimme my Cheetos, y’all; We’re gonna crack this thing!!
From Microsoft’s Help and Support pages:
Computer Randomly Plays Classical Music
View products that this article applies to.
Article ID : 261186
Last Review : March 27, 2007
Revision : 3.3
This article was previously published under Q261186
SUMMARY
During normal operation or in Safe mode, your computer may play “Fur Elise” or “It’s a Small, Small World” seemingly at random. This is an indication sent to the PC speaker from the computer’s BIOS that the CPU fan is failing or has failed, or that the power supply voltages have drifted out of tolerance. This is a design feature of a detection circuit and system BIOSes developed by Award/Unicore from 1997 on.
Anyone remember the famous scene in 2001 when HAL the computer gets shut down?
[HAL’s shutdown]
HAL: I’m afraid. I’m afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel it. My mind is going. There is no question about it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I’m a… fraid. Good afternoon, gentlemen. I am a HAL 9000 computer. I became operational at the H.A.L. plant in Urbana, Illinois on the 12th of January 1992. My instructor was Mr. Langley, and he taught me to sing a song. If you’d like to hear it I can sing it for you.
Dave Bowman: Yes, I’d like to hear it, HAL. Sing it for me.
HAL: It’s called “Daisy.”
[sings while slowing down]
HAL: Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do. I’m half crazy all for the love of you. It won’t be a stylish marriage, I can’t afford a carriage. But you’ll look sweet upon the seat of a bicycle built for two.
Another evil incarnation of “turduckenology” arose yesterday at work. From my virtual Windows XP instance running inside Parallels Desktop on my Mac, I needed to make a remote desktop connection to my Windows XP desktop, which is running a Virtual PC 2007 instance of a virtual machine that itself had a remote desktop connection over a VPN to a client machine on their network:
That’s me diving through the rabbit hole of *four* instances of Windows via my Mac, so I can install our software on a client’s machine. The horror!
What really bends my noodle during this is figuring out how to copy and paste all the way up and down the chain of Windows instances. And it’s really easy to lose track of which Windows XP you are in when you are clicking around – it’s easy to run the wrong program in the wrong place!
These are the kinds of memories that will preoccupy my demented dreams when I am an old man in a nursing home.
The is an old find, back when we were looking for places to stay near Shenandoah:
Looks to be in good shape despite its name. Or is it? They don’t show pictures of the inside…
(in case you don’t know what FUBAR stands for)