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This was a presentation of Ed Wood's infamous film Plan 9 from Outer Space, featuring riffing by the RiffTrax guys. In short, the movie was bad and the riffing was hilarious. I made the mistake of trying to eat Junior Mints while watching this which resulted in me nearly choking on a 'mint, causing me to go into a coughing fit and get dangerously close to vomiting. Good times! I had never seen Plan 9 before this, so it was definitely educational, in the sense that I now know how bad a movie can get... Michael Bay, you still have a long way to fall...

The rating I am presenting here goes mostly to the quality of the riffing, not Plan 9.

4/5

You have to say that title as if you are Frankenstein's monster waving his arms at a lit torch in order to get in the spirit of Southestern Conference's (SEC) soon to be announced social media policies. The policy posted earlier this month read:

Ticketed fans can't "produce or disseminate (or aid in producing or disseminating) any material or information about the Event, including, but not limited to, any account, description, picture, video, audio, reproduction or other information concerning the Event."

So basically, if I were at a game (HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!1!) and I posted a tweet (HAHAHAHA!!!) saying "We're ahead by 3!" the SEC could... what... wave their arms and yell "social media baaaaad!!!" I mean, seriously, what are they going to do? Would they even know, by the tweet, who posted it? Would they get a court order to view my cell phone records or Twitter account history to verify I posted the offending update to the four and a half users subscribed to my Twitter feed? Would they issue a take-down notice? Do they really want to prevent people from getting interested in their events?

This is reminding me a lot of the record labels' fight against online radio stations like Pandora, because you really can't calculate the the massive damage caused by fans discovering your artists music and using these new mediums to purchase albums/songs and rave/rant about these artists. After all, it's all about ensuring you maintain the smallest audience possible in order to guarantee your collapse in the unavoidable world of the Internet.

Way to go asshats.

You can read a more thorough presentation of the issue over at mashable.

Update: I heard on the radio a few minutes ago that the policy has been revised to only ban live video streams. I haven't yet found an article explaining this.

Have you ever thought about why people who wear face concealing masks/helmets are always evil? Examples: stormtroopers, Darth Vader, Cobra Commander, all of the soldiers in Cobra, uhm, Scarecrow, Dr. Doom? I think that's all I've got, but feel free to contribute your own!

Hmmm... But Iron Man isn't evil. Nevermind.

Also, people with mustaches are generally portrayed as evil.

As a character in a choose-your-own-adventure story, you live a life of pain and, will most likely end in death. Over and over and over again.

Wells Fargo has filed suit against itself as the holders of the first and second mortgages on a condo in Florida. I sure hope Wells Fargo didn't receive any taxpayer money to support such stupidity...

Nevermind.

I love the word "scrunchie." It's a fun word to say. I don't really feel anything for what the word represents. Then I saw this banner ad and I wasn't entirely sure how to react...

So I just patched Vista up to Service Pack 2 and after the required reboot I get this dialog telling me it may be possible to fix some problem with a Logitech device that I never knew was a problem. So I say sure, go ahead and fix it and I click the big Fix It button and it opens a tab in Firefox and tells me that this problem cannot be fixed automatically because this isn't one of the supported browsers. Fine, whatever, I copy the URL and past it into IE8 and I get the same message, which follows:

You'll note this is IE8, the final release version, that is apparently not good enough to be supported for such important fixes... that I didn't know the machine needed... Clearly Microsoft needs to fix their system for fixing user's systems.

Thank goodness MySpace is here to keep me up to date on these things... For a minute there I thought it might be something that doesn't suck, but I guess that decision has been made for me already.

News is breaking around the webiverse that infamous 3D Realms, the creators of the irreverent Duke Nukem series, has been shuttered. The followup to Duke Nukem 3D was originally announced back in 1997 and has now been vaporware for (doing the math) ~12 years. I've known at least two people who worked on that project at some point and the stories we've heard... wow.

I seriously doubt anyone will shed a thought about shedding a tear over this news, though it's always sad to see developers lose their jobs... it might just be time to move on, folks.

I seriously hate the word "swine." Like in a "Knights who say Ni" sort of way, as if speaking this word would cause me physical pain, or at least mild discomfort. This declaration of hatred has nothing to do with the current outbreak of Influenza A H1N1 2009 ("swine flu"), but obviously, the constant utterance of this word lately in connection with the outbreak is causing me a great deal of discomfort.

But you know, I'm dealing...