Operation Global Media Domination: BoingBoingSplat

the crew of the good ship BoingBoing 

I finally get my link. After what, a year of praying and sitting through interminable load times (honestly, the website is mostly space; what could take it so damn long to load? Is it all the felt clogging the tubes of the internets?) and interminable billions of posts about Disney’s bloody Haunted Mansion and godawful felt crafts of the neo-repulsive school, I finally got a link on BoingBoing.

Sing Hallelulia! Let all creation sing,
That raincoaster from obscurity has risen,
Glory to the Boing!
Sound jubilation! Let every bell ring clear,
And joyous peals proclaim the message,
Our pwnage of Technorati is here.

Or not: One hit.

Ou sont les A-List Coattails d’antan?

Perhaps panda poo paper just isn’t popular? I even had to replace all the images because this was during the great Photobucket bandwidth blankout of 2007, not that we’re complaining. That would be so unlike us.

Oh, very well; the detail-oriented and sharp of memory among you will recall that we made it once before. All I can say to that is that the halflife of celebrity is clearly short online. In that case, I submitted the story and so my link was on there from the get-go, even if it wasn’t the go-to link. In this case, I submitted an addendum to a several-hours-old post, from which I conclude that BoingBoing readers read it pretty much in realtime, so if you want the glory and the kingdom, for ever and ever, or even for long enough for Technorati to pick up the link, you need to be the submitter of the link in the first place.

Timeliness: just what has been so difficult around these parts lately. I have learned, over the past two weeks of having a roommate, that I am willing to share space. I am willing to share food. I am willing to share even toothbrushes, okay, no, but almost. Point is: I’m fine with sharing most things. But sharing the internet connection, as in he has it some of the time and I have it some of the time?

No.

When you pair that with the fact that he’s an internationally known raw food chef whom I have allowed for the sake of experiment to put me on a special green smoothie juice fast just to see if there’s really anything in this chlorophyll hokum, and that green smoothie fasts apparently make me homicidally enraged from the moment I awake to the moment I lose consciousness, raining curses down upon the heads of my enemies as I drift off to sleep, and furthermore that I am PMSing at the moment, you’ll see that something had to give, and that it sure as hell wasn’t going to be me. Sic transit gorilla mozilla.

Cthulhu Tract

So the router he got seems to work well. We’ve even got our first pirate leeching off the signal, but as long as I can blog, I care not. Share the wireless luv! Information wants to be free!

Also, so do gastrointestinal systems. If I had any cash I’d hit the brunch buffet at Griffin’s like it’s never been hit before! As it is, I intend to scramble eggs with gorgonzola cheese and wash it down with a latte, then follow that up with pan fries. WITH ketchup and Tabasco. Sic transit gloria chorophyll.

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the Spaghetti Harvest, 2007

The Spaghetti Harvest 

Yes, the BBC did a groundbreaking documentary on the Swiss spaghetti farming industry back in 1957 (crappy Realplayer version here), but that’s soooo 20th Century. Here is an update on an independent spaghetti farmer working the family farm in New Jersey, and his valiant fight against corporate Big Spaghetti.

and remember, if you want to grow your own, just follow the advice of the BBC:

place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best

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100% plastic: the Anna Nicole Smith doll

Anna Nicole Smith, the resemblance is uncanny 

So inasmuch as it’s completely synthetic, it’s that much more perfect a representation of the gawdy trainwreck that was Vicky Lynn.

Buy it now on eBay! Before Howard Stern gets custody

Beautiful One of a Kind Custom Doll
Inspired by Anna Nicole Smith

Artist Tina Lia‘s original creations have been featured in Rolling Stone Online Magazine

This stunning doll has been customized using a new from the box:
Obitsu 27cm Fleshtone Head with Rooted Light Blonde Hair
Obitsu 27cm Fleshtone Soft Bust Body

Handcrafted Fashions by Tina Lia are designed for gentle removal
Dress this gorgeous doll up in all your favorite outfits

Anna Nicole Smith nude doll

or not, as the case may be.

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“No More Drug War” Filmfest Double Bill

Pivot Legal Society is proud to support

“No More Drug War FilmFest Double Bill”  

The British Columbia Compassion Club Society and the Vancouver Island Compassion Society cordially invite you to the No More Drug War Double-Bill Filmfest featuring two exceptional documentaries exploring very different aspects of our failed drug prohibition: Damage Done: the Drug War Odyssey, directed by Connie Littlefield and sponsored by the National Film Board of Canada; and Waiting to Inhale: Marijuana, Medicine & the Law, directed by Jed Riffe and supported by the Sundance Independent Film Festival.

A community dialogue will follow the screenings with the directors of both films and special guests from Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) including former Mayor of Vancouver Senator Larry Campbell (at the Vancouver showing).

When and Where:
Saturday April 14th in Victoria – Roxy Theatre (2657 Quadra Street)
Sunday April 15th in Vancouver – Vancouver International Film Centre (1181 Seymour Street at Davie)

Both locations: 12:30-4:30 p.m. (doors 11:45) Tickets (door only): $10 Regular / $5 Seniors & VICS/BCCCS members.

Special sponsor tickets with reserved seating are also available for $50 each, please call us in advance if you would like to purchase one of these. All proceeds will go to the British Columbia Compassion Club Society (www.thecompassionclub.org) and Vancouver Island Compassion Society (www.thevics.com).

For more information contact:
Victoria: Philippe Lucas, 250-884-9821;
phil at thevics dot com
Vancouver: Rielle Capler, 604-875-0214; rielle at thecompassionclub dot org

We hope to see you there! Rielle Capler and Philippe Lucas

P.S. Special thanks to the following supporting organizations:
The National Film Board of Canada
TIDES Canada Foundation
The Center for Addictions Research of B.C.
Canadians for Safe Access
Creative Resistance
Voices of Substance
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
Pivot Legal Society
B.C. Persons With AIDS Society
Society of Living Injection Drug Users of Victoria B.C. Civil Liberties Association

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quiz: what flavour frappuccino are you?

Or however you spell that. Real women drink coffee and iced Americanos and mochas. Barbie dolls drink Frappuccinos. In SUVs. On their way to the mall. And then they purge in the public bathroom because they’re worried about the calories.


Mocha Frappuccino


Hyper and driven, you’ll take your caffeine any way you can get it. Frappuccinos are good, but you’d probably chew coffee beans in a crunch!

What Flavor Frappuccino Are You?

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