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Speaking of crazy pictures, Pauly and I were ebaying old stuff last night, and we started getting fascinated with all the crazy racist stuff that was perfectly acceptable back in the days when cavemen roamed the earth. Okay, not that long ago, but it seems like it.

This place absolutely takes the cake. I've never seen something so racist in my life. Apparently there was a restaurant called "Coon Chicken Inn", where you had to walk through a huge stereotypical black face in order to get inside the restaurant. Everything inside the place was themed with the huge black face with massive lips.

Look at this place. I wish I had a time machine so I could go back and experience it in its full absurdist glory.

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pwned

Those of you who surf the web too much like I do will have seen that little animated gif where a baby is walking by some bushes, and then a cat jumps out and tackles the kid.

It's pretty funny, but today I found an even better version.

Someone Street Fighter'd the picture, making it into Zangief pwning the kid.

the park of doom

Here are some really cool looking pictures of an abandoned amusement park in Japan.

All I can think of when I look at these is that the place really needs some zombies. Mmmmm, brains.

episode 3: a lost hope

Thanks to Ryan for sending me this.

It's a hilarious mockery of Episode 3, complete with completely annoying Anakin.

http://www.compfused.com/directlink/610/

God Bless America

Things like this make me boggle.

We're a very, very weird country.

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If anyone can figure out what the hell this screen cap is from, you will be my hero forever and a day. It was posted on some random LJ community I read.

It's so insanely ridiculous that it must have a backstory. Or be from a stupid movie.

Japanese World History

I mentioned a few days ago that I really wanted to see what other countries wrote for world history.

Boy, did I find it. Check out this doozie of a history plaque, from Japan:



How did World War II happen, you ask? Well, the US was in a depression, so we made up a fake war to get ourselves out of it. We embargoed Japan to force them into war, and then... woo! Happy days!

I think we also dragged the Japanese over into China and forced them to rape and kill hundreds of thousands of Chinese, and then burn their towns.

We're such assholes.

PostSecret

Alternatively funny and creepy as hell, this blog is worth a look.

People are invited to mail in their deepest darkest secrets on postcards, anonymously.

http://postsecret.blogspot.com/

World History

Have any of you read any World History books from other countries? I was just thinking tonight that it'd be fun to get my hands on one of them to see how other people write the history of the world.

For example, I'd love to read England's take on the Revolutionary War. Or Germany's World History's books section on World War II.

Light shed on 'unbreakable' code

We need to get our collective heads around hacking.

For example, this article on CNN blew my mind:

"Laser beams which are used at the moment send billions of photons, making it easy for hackers to steal some of them and break the code, said Rabeau." (link at bottom of this rant)

Come on. There aren't hackers running around with vampire taps, stealing photons from AT&T's fiber optic links.

99.9% of all "hacking" reported in the world today is one of three things:

1) Someone working inside a company using that access to get information that they shouldn't. (Credit cards, medical access, etc)

2) Someone realizes that there's a hole in a new piece of software, and writes something to use that hole to get access to information they shouldn't. This is usually fixed very quickly by the software manufacturer. This leads us to the most common....

3) Someone uses an old hack to get access to a machine that hasn't been upgraded with enough security patches. IE, the problem has been completely solved, but your IT guys aren't very good, and you're still wide open to attack.

Seriously, that's pretty much it.

The reason this is important is that we've lost the distinction between theoretical hacking and actual hacking. When a new cryptosystem comes out and is found to have some incredibly tiny flaw that no one would ever actually spend the time to write the exploit, it's still discounted. (Not that it shouldn't be.) People spend so much time and effort making things like a "single photon datastream" that they start describing the ability to break into the physical data path of some company as "easy". It's not easy. It's actually probably never been done.

So the millions of dollars go to research (which I approve of), but almost no money goes to training your employees how to avoid being socially engineered. And many, many companies still don't keep their internet-facing machines up to date when it comes to security patches. Which ends up making all the money spent on theoretically secure data transmission completely wasted.

CNN.com - Light shed on 'unbreakable' code - May 3, 2005

onion on jews

Man this article is hilarious. I never read the Onion anymore, because I think it got a lot less funny over time, but this one is a trip.

http://www.theonion.com/opinion/index.php?issue=4118

I Can't Stand It When Jews Talk During Movies: some excerpts

Where did these people learn to whisper? An Israeli helicopter?

No wonder they wandered the desert for so many years—they can't even watch a Vin Diesel movie without getting lost.

That theater was as loud as an Elders of Zion meeting.

no... way...

Read the last sentence of this paragraph a few times, slowly:

"A recent survey conducted for BBDO Worldwide, the advertising agency, found that 75 percent of cellphone owners in the United States kept their phones turned on and within reach 16 or more hours a day. And when asked if they had ever answered their mobile phones during sex, 15 percent said yes."

FIFTEEN PERCENT. ANSWERED CELL PHONE. DURING. SEX.

That is totally insane.

I know we're cell obsessed, but my god. I wonder what that number would be like in Europe or Japan, where their cell phone obsession makes ours look like a hobby.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/04/technology/techspecial/04lohr.html?ex=1272859200&en=e979623632027ecd&ei=5089&partner=rssyahoo&emc=rss

netflix friends

This friends feature on netflix is really cool. It shows you where you disagree and agree with friends on movies, blurbs from any reviews your friends wrote, and movies highlighted from your friends queues. That way you can influence each other's movie choices and expose each other to movies that you might not have seen.

I'd like to add all of you who use Netflix to my friends list, because it gets more powerful the more people you add. If you want to just add me manually, use tcoziahr at hotmail dot com. Or just email me with the email address you use on netflix and I'll add you to my friends list.

Just think, without the Friends feature, I never would have found this insane movie with Gimli the dwarf fighting a fucking chupacabra.

The Final Countdown

I just added this to my Netflix queue, because I couldn't believe the synopsis. Has anyone out there seen this? Is it really as absurdly stupid and wonderful as it sounds?

The Final Countdown

"What would have happened if a circa-1980s U.S. aircraft carrier (with all its modern firepower) time-warped back to Pacific waters just outside Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941? World history -- to say nothing of the U.S. entry into World War II -- might have played out very differently. That's the intriguing premise in this sci-fi adventure that stars Kirk Douglas, James Farentino, Katharine Ross and Martin Sheen."

WWII

I was paging through ebay for some cool old WWII propaganda, and I found this. I immediately bid on it, because I MUST HAVE IT for my wall. It's one of the best ones I've ever seen.