Operation Global Media Domination: Nawked

TIAThat’s not a strange Britishism; it’s the word for when Gawker uses not just one, but two of the YouTubes you posted in a single day without referencing you even indirectly. And no, it’s not carryover bitterness from the time I gave them Cold Desert’s Absolut ads and they didn’t gimme so much as a “via raincoaster.” No, I’m so over that! 

Perish the thought!

Well, at least Metafilter gave me the luv, which was worth a good 1200 hits in one day, and, bizarrely, Chubby Bunny seems to be going viral, days after the posting, leaving all mango porno-related posts in the compost heap. I guess there’s a lag time with marshmallows: who knew?

Other link-luvvers include CBS News (FFS!), Digg, WordPress.com, TotalFark, an awful lot of self-hating people who clicked through when I told the readers chez Guido to go fuck themselves, and VampireFreaks, which brings us to…

Kimveer Gill’s Blog continues to be popular with illiterate teenagers who hate everyone and only want to be left alone because they’re peaceful, loving people and who have come to my blog to threaten me for saying otherwise, although I hadn’t, but they wouldn’t know that because they, of course, don’t read the post or the comments. Occasional flashes of insight are posted in that thread by people who don’t know the saying about pearls before swine; the latest swine was someone pretending to be Anastasia deSousa’s brother. His IP is 24.236.230.153 if anyone is interested in taking it up with him.

Hits indicate that everyone is still interested in Beautiful Agony, Blackzilla, and watching Steve Irwin die. Except me. Oh, and some reaaaaaaaly longtailers are just catching on to Lucy Gao now.

BTW, I have five bucks riding on my whining getting me banned from Gawker. Time will tell; they won’t wake up for another ten hours.

why the squid?

How many times have I been asked about my fascination with the Giant Squid (and spillover fascinations with the Colossal Squid, Giant Sharks, Octopus, Cthulhu, and, really, anything big and crawly or big and carnivorous in the ocean)?

I understand that there are those who do not get this. These poor, deprived people have mild, torpid souls like vast expanses of blancmange, studded here and there with a dollop of something white and fatty, but never a hint of danger, of spice…

Of Squid.

Why the squid? Here’s why.

how dinosaurs became extinct

The dinos never saw it coming

Betcha thought it would be that Far Side cartoon, eh? Naw, this is a photoessay from Momentary Lapses of Insanity. Click here for the whole, moving saga. That poor stegosaurus never saw it coming…sniff. This is truly the most tragic, wrenching photo essay on penguins vs dinosaurs it has ever been my sad duty to screen for you.

giant crustacean invades US, commandeers transport

Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn no more!

from Fark

Ia! Ia! Cthulhu nafthftagn!!!

Greets from Antarctica!

Finally, a hit from the southernmost continent. Behold the ship of Carinthia’s son, somewhere off Tierra del Fuego. As far as I know they haven’t run it aground in Antarctica, but I’m still counting this as a hit! So that’s all the continents, then.

So where are the penguins?