The only reliable news source in the world — the BBC — posted the following story regarding the Internet Governance Forum’s warning that the internet would likely be broken up.
Given the growth of the internet, particularly in Asia, this doesn’t seem all that surprising to me. Here’s the scoop:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6037345.stm
I’m on the lookout for a reasonably authentic Mooby’s uniform/costume from Clerks 2. I just need the shirt, namebadge and hat.
I have found absolutely nothing on eBay, but I assume someone may have created one, or that these articles exist.
So if anyone can give me any leads, that’d be great.
As for “why?”, I made the off comment that I’d like to dress up as one for Halloween and since there’s a Halloween party going on at my work place (although we can’t call it that, since it may “offend people”, so the name “Octoberween” has been created for the politically correct crowd), I’d like to dress up as one.
It’s either that, or a Circuit Chitty employee.
Or, barring that, I’d like to get my hands on a Battlestar Galactica costume. Perhaps one of the simple green deck/maintenance uniforms.
Update: I got the nametag and a Mooby’s hat from Jay & Silent Bob’s Secret Stash. They apparently have pre-orders for the shirt, so the whole shirt-thing might be a problem, unless I can find a reasonably authentic one from somewhere else.
I couldn’t take sitting home trying to enjoy the final 24 hours of my vacation before the coming hail-of-shit storm. I tried cleaning my room but I had knots in my Godsdamned stomach…
So I went to see Hollywoodland, which is a story dealing with the death of Superman actor George Reeves — not to be confused with Christopher Reeve, who portrayed Superman in the movies. (I wanted to see All the King’s Men, but that doesn’t come out until the 22nd, so I settled for this.) All in all, it wasn’t a bad movie. The movie was stylishly done and the cast was pretty strong. The plot was predictable, but solid. The one thing I wasn’t overly fond of was Ben Affleck, though he did a decent job as playing the sick-as-hell-of-being-stereotyped Reeves, and he did get Reeves’ mannerisms down fairly pat. (I remember watching the Adventures of Superman back in my own youth when they were being re-run on Nick-at-Nite, so the movie did bring out some nauseating nostalgia in me.) The only good thing in the movie was, well, Adrien Brody. Other than that, the movie could have easily been an HBO special, since there was nothing there that made the movie a theater-only experience.
After the movie, I walked into my Best Buy to make sure the place hadn’t burned down. (Oh, I would pray for that, but prayers are nothing but an exercise in vocal and pseudo-spiritual masturbation.) Much to my astonishment, everything was running fairly smoothly and there were only a few minor issues I was brought up to speed on. Armageddon didn’t come… yet. While there, I picked up the special box set of The Office and the new tin of the original and unraped Star Wars. Finally, versions of the original trilogy that the revisionist hack-fuck-frakwit George Lucas didn’t pervert with his CGI revisionist jihad. Georgy boy needed to realize that art is only abandoned and never finished. And there was nothing wrong with the original trilogy anyway, except for the Ewoks. (And, no, calling them muppets is an insult to muppets everywhere.)
So that’s where I’m at.
Good night, and good luck.
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I’ve been toying with a major idea for a while now. (Not the quitting-from-Shit-Buy-idea-which-I-can’t-afford-to-do, but another one…) The idea for a major wiki.
For those who don’t know what a wiki is, it’s a website where people can come together and add information to, without knowing how to actually run a website or write up the code to generate a web page. Wikis are typically good for assembling encyclopedias and reference resources because it’s not one person doing the work. For instance, Battlestar Wiki and the venerable Wikipedia are wikis.
The major wiki idea comes from the fact that there isn’t a central place for science fiction/fantasy information. Or a repository for “all things sci-fi” in terms of pictures, information and so forth.
In the event that you didn’t know this, the Internet is one big fucking disorganized mess. It’s a central place people go for decentralized information, which is both a good and bad thing for reasons I don’t really care to list here.
But my idea is to create a major wiki with reliable information on all-that-can-be-known about science fiction.
And I’m sure people thought of trying the same thing, or are attempting something like it (on a generic level), and probably found the task to be the massive beastie that it is.
But like all massive problems, it’s all about breaking it down into smaller, more managable components.
So, for the sake of needing some proper noun, I’m going to call this project “The SF Hub”. It’s a hub because in its center is one wiki, which is the foundation to the hub. Call it the gateway or portal. It’s the foyer to the exhibit, where people can walk in and look around. The “foyer wiki” is basically a place where people can find out general information on a subject and are introduced to the topic. However, the foyer won’t have every single detail about a subject, so that’s where the other exhibits will come in — like a museum.
Each subject, like Battlestar Galactica or Babylon 5 for example, will have a “exhibit wiki”. An exhibit wiki is basically a sub-wiki that has all the detailed information about that one subject.
The beauty of having something like this is that everything can be interlinked. Let’s say an actor has participated in more than one sci-fi show — there’s no need to have duplicate information on three different wikis. Those three wikis can share the same information without one entry on said actor contradicting another entry on said actor on another wiki.
This also addresses another serious problem with the internet. Everything tending to contradict one another or be incomplete. For instance, Wikipedia may have a general article on William Shatner with his achievments and biographical landmarks, yet a Star Trek wiki, like Memory Alpha, may have a more specific article covering Shatner’s Star Trek career. Merge the two together and you have a better, more detailed resource.
If we can take a lesson from Wal-Mart, it’s that (most) people want to go to one place to get everything — the mythical “one-stop shop”. Not only does going to a one-stop shop save time, but it allows people to do other things with the time they didn’t waste on visiting five different places to find that one minor item.
Now, how will this look?
Essentially, you would enter “The SF Hub” by going to its main website, say http://www.sfhub.com
From there, you would find a directory of “exhibits”, sorted by alphabet, time period or what-have-you. Using a bulleted list form, it would look something like this:
So everything is in one place, but only in different exhibits, very much like a virtual museum-meets-encyclopedia-meets-”all-knowing-reference”.
So that’s my idea. At least in its nascency, beacuse I think the logistics of setting up such a thing are fairly enormous and require a dedicated team of people not just for the bureaucratic bullshit, but to build upon and maintain the content of such a beastie. Oh, and money… we can’t forget about that. Being on the net isn’t cheap, particularly when you’re possibly going to use a whole lot of resources.
On Thursday, I received my signed copy of the Declaration of Principles. I have # 245 out of 500. Fucking A.
It also came with some pretty cool stuff, so I’ll be taking a picture of that and posting that for all to see (or not to see) when I feel like it.
In the event that you are not a Babylon 5 fan, none of this will mean nothing to you, so get the hell out of my galaxy.
The Declaration of Principles, which was one of the few reedeming features of the fifth and final season of Babylon 5, is going to be available for sale in a limited edition framed print that will be available to order Monday, July 31 at 10:00 AM Pacific. Only 500 of them will be available… or, as the case may be, only 499 will be available for grabs as one. will. be. mine.
(Although I can take a picture of it for you folks so that you can hang it on your wall as well. It’ll just be a picture of a picture of something on my wall. If that makes any sense.)
It shall be mine. No exceptions. No surrender, no retreat.
Visit http://www.declarationofprinciples.com for more.
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