Strong Language | A sweary blog about swearing. Flying Circus Outtakes (including the infamous phone number) Jonathan Winters on The Jack Paar Show. Louis CK: Live at the Beacon Theater. People of Earth (minus the ones who don't give a shit about this): it's been amazing to conduct this experiment with you. The experiment was: if I put out a brand new standup special at a drastically low price ($5) and make it as easy as possible to buy, download and enjoy, free of any restrictions, will everyone just go and steal it?
Will they pay for it? And how much money can be made by an individual in this manner? It's been 4 days. A lot of people are asking me how it's going. First of all, this was a premium video production, shot with six cameras over two performances at the Beacon Theater, which is a high-priced elite Manhattan venue. The development of the website, which needed to be a very robust, reliable and carefully constructed website, was around $32,000. The show went on sale at noon on Saturday, December 10th. 12 hours later, we had over 50,000 purchases and had earned $250,000, breaking even on the cost of production and website. I also got an education. Louis C.K. Reflects On 'Louie,' Loss, Love And Life.
Hide captionLouis C.K. has written for The Late Show with David Letterman, The Chris Rock Show and Late Night with Conan O'Brien. In the FX TV series Louie, comic Louis C.K. plays a divorced father of two struggling to balance his comedy career with being a single dad. The show, which has just been picked up for a third season, is often based on events that have happened to C.K. in his own life. C.K.'s boundary-crossing humor has always appealed to other comedians, but in the past year, the stand-up comic has also racked up a series of honors from more mainstream sources. GQ recently called him the "funniest comic alive" and named him their "Comic Genius of the Year. " Rolling Stone said C.K. is currently the "darkest, funniest comedian in America. " C.K. writes, directs, edits and produces Louie, which has been nominated for several Emmys.
An Unorthodox Way To Release A Comedy Special Note: This video contains content some will find offensive. Within hours, though, C.K.' Making 'Louie' Louis C K - Children and their secrets. Jamie Kilstein - Conan O'Brien Show talking War Torture Drones. Jamie Kilstein on Gay Marriage With Lewis Black Ron White And Kathleen Madigan. True Facts About The Angler Fish. Munificent/vigil. The Penis Files Official Trailer #2. Learn English with Ricky Gervais - Pilot Episode. MIT Gangnam Style (MIT 강남스타일) "Three Strikes You're In!" ABC News coverage. THAT IS ALL, secondverse: Newt Gingrich was the prototype... Amazing Cat Dries Her Face with a Bath Towel. Eye catchers / How much do cats actually kill? [Infographic] - The @Oatmeal. Seasonal linguistic pun. Condescending Literary Pun Dog - santas helpers you mean subordinate clauses. Free at Last, Free to Blast - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 05/03.
Jon Stewart on TLC's Disappointingly Terror-Free All American Muslim. Just like how Mitt Romney is a strict constitutionalist, who doesn't think it should ever be changed, except for the parts that need to be changed, like making English our national language. The fact is that all religion, just like all political or financial systems, fails the moment it leaves the page and interacts with humans. The human factor kills all, whether due to misogynistic amendment or simple personal greed.
The premise behind most religion, like "no killing, stealing or other such shenanigans" are genetic to many species and a great base to build on. The problem is the building. The tower always ends up leaning one way or the other and people get dumped on. I suppose this brings me to my point. I think we should take some large measure of comfort, monkeyracing, in "the fact is that all religion, just like all political or financial systems, fails the moment it leaves the page and interacts with humans. " Stark. Jon Stewart interviews George Carlin.
Kabulvision - A New Lowe - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 12/13. Linus Torvalds goes off on Linux and Git. I was in a coffee shop in Portland, Oregon and happened to spot Linus Torvalds sitting alone at a window table. I asked the creator of the Linux operating system and the Git source code control system if I could join him. Over the next fifteen minutes we talked about programming and programmers. Typical Programmer: It’s been 20 years since Linux was released.
Now it’s one of the most widely-used operating systems. How does that make you feel? Linus Torvalds: Surprised, frankly. Linux is mainstream now. I don’t think it’s any easier, but there are a lot more resources now. Lost interest? No one is excited anymore about transparent console windows or Kate color schemes or being the first to post on Slashdot how to get some weird sound card to work. What about all of the Linux distros out there? There are more Linux distros on a single Linux Format disc than Microsoft has versions of Windows. You released the Git distributed version control system less than ten years ago. So what’s next? Vy4X6. Eye catchers / 418 Error Code. The Yes Men. The Ministry Trailer. Corporate Twits. Corporate Twits Boring As Heck: <font color=Red>AMERICAN OUTRAGE</font> boring-as-heck: Blogged by Rod Barnes: Part-Time Blogger, Full-Time PatriotWell, friends - we lost. America lost. To quote conservative luminary/Love Connection host Chuck Woolery, ”Government, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.”
Well Chuck, it looks like the fire is burning out… Hey this is from my new personal “comedy blog.” Reblogged from Boring As Heck November 11, 2012, 2:37pm 108 notes Permalink Reblogged from bransonbranson June 04, 2012, 9:48pm 253 notes Permalink ← Older entries Page 1 of 12 About dedicated to all those hard-working individuals manning corporate twitter accounts. sometimes you believe really stupid things. on twitter: @boring_as_heck @corporatetwits Blogroll Search Colophon This tumblelog is powered by Tumblr and was designed by Bill Israel. California Department of Corrections » Media. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - March 25, 2014 - San Francisco, California Corrected Billboard Defends Transparency at Guantanamo Bay The California Department of Corrections (CDC) has unveiled a new billboard campaign to assist the U.S. Navy with transparency at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility.
On March 24, 2014, the CDC successfully apprehended, rehabilitated and discharged a billboard in San Francisco, located at Oakdale Avenue between Bay Shore Boulevard and U.S. Highway 101. The ad was released from custody two weeks after a landmark lawsuit, Hassan v. Hassan is a Yemeni national who has been detained at Guantanamo Bay for twelve years despite being cleared for release in 2009. Although half of Guantanamo's inmate population has been cleared for release, 154 detainees are trapped in legal limbo at the U.S. naval base. In a reversal of previous operating procedure, the U.S. EXCLUSIVE: photos of BofA's new #OWS-themed ad campaign. Anchorage. The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows is a compendium of invented words written by John Koenig. Each original definition aims to fill a hole in the language—to give a name to emotions we all might experience but don’t yet have a word for.
The author's mission is to capture the aches, demons, vibes, joys and urges that roam the wilderness of the psychological interior. Each sorrow is bagged, tagged and tranquilized, then released gently back into the subconscious. ▸ visit the facebook page to hear the backstory behind each word ▸ follow on twitter (@obscuresorrows) for whatever reason ▸ send me a tumblr message describing emotions you need words for ▸ send me an email via obscuresorrows@gmail.com JOHN KOENIG is a designer and commercial director who lives in St. He is currently writing a book version of The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. Copyright © 2013 John Koenig. 5 Reasons The Future Will Be Ruled By B.S. Everything from that second tier to the capstone, they can get at a cost that rounds down to zero, if they so choose. We Internet types are so busy haggling over video games with DRM that we're not grasping the scale of this. We're like a dog who's been cooped up behind a fence his whole life, and now a storm has knocked down the gate.
The dog looks out and thinks, "Wow, out there is the front yard! " No, Fluffy. Well, shit, Utopia's here! House music and MDMA for everyone! Wait -- did you forget the thing about the baby formula? Because this is where shit gets absurd. Public libraries have been lending out books to people, for free, for the last 500 years or so. But then the publisher invented a better book. 5 Reasons Why Mashable is a Bad Influence for the Web | x-pose.org. Very recently Mashable created a post on their site indicating 5 more reasons why “Internet Explorer 6 Must Die“.
(Yeah, no shit!) I was so inspired by their post that I decided to create 5 reasons Mashable is bad for the Web. Mashable has so many bad habits incorporated into it’s site that I fear the rest of the web industry will think it’s okay to follow their footsteps. It’s unfortunate that no industry leaders have stepped up to say how much their site blows the big ones. (Or perhaps I’ve missed them?) Now, onto my top 5 reasons . . . 1. For those of you unfortunate enough to have been linked to a Mashable story (my apologies), you’ll notice that it takes a LONG time to load.
Keep in mind that I am using the fastest browser possible at rendering javascript and web pages in general. 2. In case you haven’t noticed, Mashable has 15 advertisements on their homepage. According to their traffic numbers and apparent influence on the modern web, you don’t give a shit. 3. 4. 5. Or Google. This is just the start and it never fucking ends | Inanities. After reading this gem in the New York Times, we prevailed on Thomas Friedman to provide us with a part two.
And here it is. Future historians will long puzzle over how I was given an international platform to freely pontificate on the Arab people and be remunerated handsomely for it. It is true that I am not the only person in the world who formulates dubious theories based on scant or no evidence which I then harangue people with. Other people do it. Since I’ve been here in Egypt I’ve been putting together a list of “the-absolutely-irrelevant forces” that have captured the captive Arab mind and ignited the simmering coals of the instant garden BBQ that is the Middle East.
I started my last extremely important column with an introduction in which I listed tyranny, rising food prices, youth unemployment and social media as the “big causes”. But there are other critical factors integral to an understanding of my bollocks theory on the Middle East. Add it all up and what does it say? Why Arabic is Terrific. I just finished a summer studying Arabic at the Monterey Institute for International Studies, an enjoyable adventure that I hope to write about in more detail later. MIIS offers a nine-week program in a bunch of languages and is just down the road from a grim military counterpart called the Defense Language Institute, where young men and women learn how to eavesdrop on the nation's enemies, provided that the enemies speak slowly and limit their conversation to hobbies and the weather. The DLI is big on hiring native speakers, and ever since the scary men in turbans replaced godless Communism as a mortal threat to America it has not been hard to find good hummus in Monterey.
About two thousand soldiers grind their way through a sixty-three week intensive Arabic program each year, while about sixty civilians attend the unrelated and much shorter programs at MIIS. And don't fall for the bait and switch with Chinese or Japanese! The Root/Pattern System Broken Plurals The Writing System Dual . The Malcolm Gladwell Book Generator. Kieran Healy's Weblog – Text Editors in The Lord of the Rings. Prompted by a passing thought about TextMate, I thought I’d make a comprehensive, accurate, unbiased, and irrefutable survey of text editors by way of comparison to locations in The Lord of the Rings.
TextMate: Minas Tirith A once-great but now decaying city. Only the King has the power to renew it, but he is a long absent, indeed half-legendary figure—though there are persistent rumors that he is alive still in some distant land. In his stead, the city slowly falls in upon itself, kept in some sort of working order by its melancholy people. They can repair but not truly rebuild it, and they pray daily for the Return of the King. BBEdit: The Shire A quiet, long-overlooked land populated by simple folk who keep mostly to themselves. Emacs: Fangorn Vast, ancient, gnarled and mostly impenetrable, tended by a small band of shepherds old as the world itself, under the command of their leader, Neckbeard. Sublime Text 2: The Grey Havens Gateway to Valinor, the elvish paradise.
Vi: Moria. Textually Active. Relativistic Baseball. What would happen if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90% the speed of light? - Ellen McManis Let’s set aside the question of how we got the baseball moving that fast. We'll suppose it's a normal pitch, except in the instant the pitcher releases the ball, it magically accelerates to 0.9c. From that point onward, everything proceeds according to normal physics.: The answer turns out to be “a lot of things”, and they all happen very quickly, and it doesn’t end well for the batter (or the pitcher). The ball is going so fast that everything else is practically stationary. The ideas of aerodynamics don’t apply here. These gamma rays and debris expand outward in a bubble centered on the pitcher’s mound.
The constant fusion at the front of the ball pushes back on it, slowing it down, as if the ball were a rocket flying tail-first while firing its engines. After about 70 nanoseconds the ball arrives at home plate. Suppose you’re watching from a hilltop outside the city. Sustainable. Veena Malik - The Naked Truth, The Dirty Picture. Time Travelling « what things do. Time Travelling by Kevin Huizenga 26 August 2010 From , volume 1, November 2009.