May
05
2006
Me and My Toys in There
Originally uploaded by RichPav.
A furnished house, a tree with a hidden loft, hot tub, sandbox, two buggies, a monster truck, a feelium ball (it was a freebie) and an invisible hoverboat.
Why? Because There.com is as addictive as crack.
And if some Eastern European nutjob decides to take up residence next to me, I can simply pick everything up and put it back down someplace else.
The rest of the podcasting world can stay in Second Life. I like There.com a whole lot better. Less cluttered, less smutty, less complicated and better physics.
You're all invited to our house. Just send an IM to "Pavster".
Update: Here's the teleport link. Don't worry about interrupting me in the middle of cybersex. I don't have the imagination for it.
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May
04
2006
From The Washington Post:
The traditional media's first reaction to satirist Stephen Colbert's uncomfortably harsh mockery of President Bush and the press corps at Saturday night's White House Correspondents Association dinner was largely to ignore it.
Instead, the coverage primarily focused on the much safer, self-deprecatory routine in which Bush humorously paired up with an impersonator playing his inner self.
The result, however, was a wave of indignation from the liberal side of the blogosphere over what some considered a willful disregard of the bigger story: That a captive, peevish president (and his media lapdogs) actually had to sit and listen as someone explained to them what they had done wrong; that the Bush Bubble was forcibly violated, right there on national television.
Now the mainstream media is back with its second reaction: Colbert just wasn't funny.
Yes, it turns out Colbert has brought the White House and its press corps together at long last, creating a sense of solidarity rooted in something they have in common: Neither of them like being criticized.
When was the last time a political event was so ignored by the mainstream press but caught fire on the internet to the degree we've seen with Colbert's performance? Never. Because it shouldn't have been ignored. Adding it here was my contribution to helping make sure the press couldn't get away with sweeping it under the rug. The US is the last nation in the world where something like that should ever happen.
There's a quote about evildoers and the people stand back and let them do evil. I can't remember it right now, but the point of it is each person in the category of people who do nothing are less guilty individually, but as a whole carry much more guilt. Something like that.
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May
01
2006
He also made me rethink my staunch heterosexuality. Me, Stephen Colbert and John Stewart in a three-way, hmmm….
If you haven't yet seen Stephen Colbert's performance at the White House Press Corps dinner last week, rest assured you'll be hearing snippets of it for years to come. And your grandchildren will be studying it along with Johathan Swift and Mark Twain.
Did you see the movie 8 Mile? Did you get goose bumps watching Eninem rap his nemesis into the ground? It's like that, only way better. Remember John Stewart on Crossfire? Better than that too. The videos of it on You Tube have been watched over 100,000 times in the past 24 hrs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcIRXur61II
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HN0INDOkFuo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJvar7BKwvQ
Someone set up a web site at http://thankyoustephencolbert.org where people can send messages of thanks to Colbert for speaking the truth right there in front of the president. Bush was clearly not amused.
I hope it gets translated and shown on TV here. (Obligatory reference to Japan.)
P.S. Word is the bittorrent of the video has 3500+ seeds.
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