Not-politics – Page 1226

Pulp genre – was some helpful links, now mostly about that post about the court case.

As you can see, I’ve added Conan to the Wish List, mostly because my wife thinks that we should pick those movies up at some point. My wife happens to be a stone-cold pulp fan, although oddly she’s more a fan of the Conan movies than she is of Robert Howard‘s books (probably because she associates the latter with local TV station weekend afternoon movies).

And while looking up to see whether the Doc Savage stuff was still available online now that they’re reprinting them both in dead-tree and Kindle form I came across this absolutely fascinating post about a court case with Conde Nast. I still don’t know who won that one.

Moe Lane

PS: My wife raved about The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril: A Novel: I haven’t gotten to it yet.

If you don’t feel like driving a tank…

…you could always try the Seabreacher Dolphin Boat.

I saw this on Wreckreation Nation, too – and did you know that individual episodes of that series are on Amazon’s Video on Demand? This particular one wasn’t, but the Tank-Athalon that I caught earlier was.

http://www.driveatank.com/

I don’t need to elaborate, do I? I came across Drive A Tank while visiting my in-laws yesterday (I don’t have cable TV*), and it’s almost perfect. They won’t let you shoot actual rounds at things. Blanks, sure; shells, no. Probably an insurance thing.

But it looks like “driving over a station wagon” is still on the menu:

So there’s that.

Moe Lane

*Surprisingly little, although I tend to gorge on various marathons when they happen to intersect my view. But I have noticed: people watch a lot more television than you might think.

Quiet days ahead (pledge drive post).

I’m traveling, and where I’m going the Internet connection’s going to be spotty, at best. Normally, I’d bring the laptop, but as you know it’s busted; hence, my recent exercise in crass commercialism by having a pledge drive on the subject.

So feel free to hit the tip jar…

Can you give away a fully loaded iPod?

Why is this a hard question?

(Via Hot Air Headlines) A very interesting discussion here and here about whether President Obama’s gift of an iPod with preloaded MP3s to the Queen of England is, in point of fact, legal under current copyright law. Short version: yes, but only because of diplomatic immunity on the one hand and sovereign immunity on the other. If we were talking about two private individuals… nobody apparently bloody knows, one way or the other.

On a personal note, I am forced to admit: I am waiting with some cruel joy to hearing an increasingly querulous tone come into the EFF‘s discussions of this particular administration. I shouldn’t: the EFF is one of the few critics of the last administration that I actually retain a basic respect for. But that’s going to be counterbalanced by the vicarious pleasure of watching them wake up from their unicorn dream.

Crossposted to RedState.

PS: Crass commercialism alert; if you like the site, by all means hit the tip jar. I got a laptop that needs replacing.

Today’s strange website: Joe Mathlete Explains Today’s Marmaduke.

Joe Mathlete Explains Today’s Marmaduke. Yes. The comic about the big dog. The one that rivals Garfield* in being – and I know that I’m going to hear back on this one – hideously unfunny. That one. Mr. Mathlete feels the urge to explain it. It’s a measure of the day that I’ve had – and the weekend that I’m going to have, which is likely to be not chock-full of posts, so be forewarned – that I found this stuff hysterical.

Via Nodwick.com, which doesn’t need weird days to make me think it’s hysterical.

*But check out Garfield Minus Garfield. Which has its own book now.

PS: Crass commercialism alert; if you like the site, by all means hit the tip jar. I got a laptop that needs replacing.

Say Hi to Barry.

As God is my witness, that’s what they named it.

Barry is a four foot long sea worm that terrorized a British aquarium for some time before they figured out that it was there. This sucker can bite through fishing line, and is of course poisonous, so it now lives in its own tank. Personally, I would have called in whatever government agency in the UK it is that handles alien invaders – every instinct I have is telling me that this thing has a saucer parked offshore, and maybe a cave lair full of cocooned victims – but then, I’m not a marine biologist.

Via a somewhat disquieted Fark.

Moe Lane

PS: Crass commercialism alert; if you like the site, by all means hit the tip jar. I got a laptop that needs replacing.

Well, George Karl certainly couldn’t be a professional socialist.

I don’t normally cover sports – particularly basketball, which is a fine game to play, if not to watch – but when I get forwarded this comment by Denver Nuggets head coach George Karl about the NBA’s quote-unquote ‘Green Week’:

Karl said. “I think it’s a great week. I’m an amateur socialist, I’m going green.

…and I see that the man is currently under an extension option for a $3 million/year contract, I’m pretty much require to say: dude, this socialism thing?

You’re doing it wrong.

Crossposted to RedState.

PS: Crass commercialism alert; if you like the site, by all means hit the tip jar. I got a laptop that needs replacing.