HappyFunCommie Game with Comrade Lei Feng

Or like, whatever. Here straight from the horse’s mouth, or Yahoo‘s, and they must have all the hot poop on China, what with them being all up Chinese ass lately, is the latest in online roleplaying game innovation.

Doing good deeds, volunteering on building sites and obtaining Chairman Mao‘s autograph are some of the objectives of “Learn from Lei Feng,” a new online game starring the Chinese Communist Party’s legendary hero.

Lei Feng

“For beginners, sewing and mending socks is the only way to increase experience and upgrade,” said Jiao Jian, a young pupil and online game fan from the southern city of Guangzhou.

Boy, this guy is totally gonna be scoring all the chicks the D&D guys are pulling now, eh?

“As long as my experience, reputation, skill and loyalty satisfy the game’s criteria, I will win and meet Chairman Mao,” Jiao said.

Sooner or later, we all will, if we’ve been bad enough.

But wasn’t it “gators” you were supposed to watch out for?

I think this ad makes a nice contrast to the Lysol Feminine Hygiene post from earlier this month. Thanks to The Commercial Closet via BoingBoing. Sorry I can’t get it larger, for that all-important detail…I suggest you go view the source.

Cannon Towel Ad

Don’t drop the soap!

Chilling Effects: London Tube has no sensa uma, despite really pun-ready name

London TubeSorry about the ugly link. Firefox is, apparently, not as user-friendly as IE and SPARE ME your dork lectures. Had them already, when I complained about my bike being inconvenient to ride. “Oh, that’s just because you don’t have an A-47.6665DoRKTastic helmet and you insist on wearing regular clothes, rather than buying a whole bike-specific, dorktastic outfit that makes you look like a beefy extra from a 50’s sci-fi movie, and why do you insist on wearing a backpack? Everyone knows you have to use panniers and then when you get to the destination you take the panniers off because otherwise they’d be stolen and presumably you pull your backpack out of them and put them into the backpack and hit a public washroom to change out of your alien reentry costume before going to your meeting…hey, wait! I wasn’t finished! There’s more…

Okay, nevermind. Got IE back, and we, the raincoaster administrative staff, are purtifying our links apace! See, purty link right’cheer to Silly Maps of London Tube

In any case, ignore my bitter, ex-cyclist rantings and click on the link, where you will NOT be able to see a funny, fan-created anagrammatic map of the London Underground. And why can you not see it? Because the Tube Authority (wasn’t that in some Margaret Atwood book?) has decreed it violated copyright. Lest we fergit, Toronto did the same damn thing; apparently, brains are in short supply in the transit industry.

Best. Ad. Ever.

At least, in terms of the most eyecatching ever.

Best. ad. ever

NOW what’ll I do for henchmen livery???

VillainOne of my favorite websites, VillainSupply.com has apparently come under new management and taken the low road. Instead of offering sharks with frickin’ laser beams attached to their heads, secret island lairs, and the aforementioned henchmen livery, as they did back in my day, they offer:

Search Engine Optimization, Dating Chat, Dating Tips, Diethylpropion, Dirty Jokes, Flirt Chat, Live Chat, Local Chat, Lorcet, Lortab, Muscle Relaxers, Pharmacy Affiliate Programs, Other Pharmacy Affiliate Programs, Teen Dating, Tenuate, Wellbutrin SR, Affiliate Marketing, Affiliate Network Marketing, Astrology, chat, and Dating Online.

All of which strike terror into my heart. Anyone who will deal with  Network Marketing is obviously the bastard son of Beelzebub. Diet pills, search engine optimization, and sex chats. Daddy would be so proud. But it’s not the way it used to be. *sniff*

And look at The Way We Were:

Villain Supply
“www.villainsupply.com presents a complete inventory of ready-to-build kits that will provide you or your cabal with long-term, defensible secret housing with a minimum of fuss. For preexisting bases and lairs, visit http://www.evilrealtor.com.”