Muad'Dib! What is best in life?

Market hipster charity yay

"Who would want to put their trust ina piece of unknown software written by unknown people?"

" A member of the hacking collective Anonymous broke into the website of Britain's biggest abortion provider and planned to publicly release the details of women who used the service.

" James Jeffery, 27, stole around 10,000 database records containing the personal details of women who had registered with the site before "boasting" of his crime on Twitter. "

" Jeffery later confessed to his crimes during interviews with detectives, telling police two friends had had abortions which he disagreed with, the court heard. "

RT @cstross: Kony redux: #cynicismRUs

RT @substitute: Once you see this guy, you'll understand why #Kony2012 has some problems. #christwhatanasshole

RT @MikeElk: top 1% captured 93% of income gains in 2010.

This week in the fall of the Republic: Andrew Breitbart and the sorry state of US journalism

" Two weeks ago while visiting a friend who covers conflict in South America I was privy to a conversation between two experienced conflict journalists, each with more than a decade of experience. One was considering going to Syria. What followed was a very intense conversation that focused on logistics, fixers, money, outlets, and equipment. And this was a guy who has been published everywhere and regularly been caught in heavy gun battles between opposing forces. Nothing was taken lightly. Every potential setback was weighted.

" Citizen journalists have contributed many stories of value, especially with the Occupy movement. But journalism is still a skill. Grainy iphone footage does not a journalist make. And Syria is NOT an occupy protest. Your failure to prepare can lead to other people getting killed. Even if you are prepared, it can lead to people being killed. 13 Syrians were killed trying to help get Paul Conroy out of Syria. "

Shorter: Stata fun but wrong tool.

Cat truth.

(1) These are flawed characters, not writer stand-ins. (2) Keep watching Andrea. (3) Michonne.

So Archie comics will be having a gay wedding issue, and the AFA is having a shit hemorrhage over it.

Occupy Toronto: no room for any actual working class participation

RT @TheAnonMessage: URGENT RT!!: #Anonymous declares "OPEN WAR" on the United States Government. #OpV

"Spying" on PETA? Please. Any company or university involved w/ animal research asks these questions.

animal rights activist charged w/ "soliciting a hit man to fatally shoot or slit the throat of a random fur-wearer"

Mess around with Antarctic lakes and what do you get? Yuggoth, that's what.

" The conservative gay rights group, GOProud, was banned this year, but two prominent white nationalists were allowed to appear on a panel opposing multiculturalism.

" And they were hardly sent packing. Iowa Republican Rep. Steve King of Iowa fawned over Peter Brimelow, founder of the white nationalist site VDARE, saying, “I read your books!” Tomorrow, white nationalist Bob Vandervoort is scheduled to appear alongside two other Republican members of Congress. "

" Meanwhile, the family that OWS claimed to be putting into the vacant house has not yet permanently moved in. And it turns out the family is not a random victim of the foreclosure crisis, but cast for the part, thanks to their connection to the OWS movement.

" OWS last week said it has spent $9,500 breaking into the house and setting it up for the homeless Carrasquillo family. A photo of the smiling family covers a window, under the slogan, “A place to call home.”

" The head of the family, Alfredo Carrasquillo, 28, is an organizer for VOCAL-NY, a group that works with OWS. His Facebook page shows him in a “99 Percent” T-shirt at an OWS protest in November.

" The Post visited the Vermont Street home last week — six weeks after OWS announced that the Carrasquillos were moving in — and the family was nowhere to be found.

" In fact, the only people occupying the house were occupiers themselves. "

Just discovered FATAL: the rapey RPG w/ mechanics for body orifice circumferences & "retard strength".

Humanities "methods"? Also some courses on how to write coherent paragraphs, because, ironically, …

"I don't want them remembering what I had yesterday - I don't want them to remember me at all"

Going public doesn't mean you're not the crazy one. She knows people. And she brought her mom.

" While great for short bursts of fundraising or getting out a timely message, purely digital mobs like Reddit or the hacktivist collective Anonymous are not well-suited for thoughtful, sustained participation in the political process. Fuck the "Wisdom of the crowd." The thinking of the internet hive mind is shallow and frantic, scrambling from one outrage to the next. "

"It's all political," says squatter? non-rent-paying tenant? finally evicted after months of dispute.

I enjoy seeing the hypothesis that family-tight circle of obligation => functional sociopath.

Implicit: "My or a future administration *could* authorize the indefinite detention without trial of American citizens"

I, too, enjoyed Grant Morrison's _The Invisibles_ and have thought it'd go great with weed.

All I'm saying is that this precious cupcake fad needs to end and at this point I don't much care how.

RT @substitute: Today in Disturbing Products Nobody Asked for: the "Urban Turban"! #no #advertising

Runaway train never going back / Wrong way on a one way track

Scientology trying to recruit by using Occupy Wall Street themes?

For entertainment purposes only: the coming cyberpunk decade

FUS RO DAH!

Pepper-sprayed UCD protesters were blocking in police & literally asking for it.

That UC Irvine security issue is related to the Koran-burning pastor.

Asia is the Evilest country. Boycott Asia. Avoid Asians.

You can't dox an idea: Pepper spraying cop is a policing model, not a bad apple.

Also the "California Security Council" is involved. It seems to consist of just one angry dude.

Remember the Koran-burning Florida pastor? He's coming to UC Irvine.

Mildly interesting: the phrase "animals and the earth" in Occupy statements.

RT @revmagdalen: #OccupySeattle protester's miscarriage claim questioned, several inconsistencies emerge

Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li!

Submission for The Annals Of Fuck That Guy: Malcolm Gladwell starts speaking tour for Bank of America.

Bad life choice: protesting police line next to asshole charging barricades & brandishing guitar

" Only 33% now say that they are supportive of its goals, compared to 45% who say they oppose them. That represents an 11 point shift in the wrong direction for the movement's support compared to a month ago when 35% of voters said they supported it and 36% were opposed. Most notably independents have gone from supporting Occupy Wall Street's goals 39/34, to opposing them 34/42. "

Southern Poverty Law Center on animal rights groups

" Last night the drumming was near continuous until 10:30 PM at night. Today it began again at 11 AM. The drummers are fighting among themselves, there is no cohesive group. There is one assemblage called Pulse that organized most of the drummers into a group and went to GA for formal recognition and with a proposal. "

" Generation X is tired of your sense of entitlement. Generation X also graduated during a recession. It had even shittier jobs, and actually had to pay for its own music. (At least, when music mattered most to it.) Generation X is used to being fucked over. It lost its meager savings in the dot-com bust. Then came George Bush, and 9/11, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Generation X bore the brunt of all that. And then came the housing crisis.

" Generation X wasn’t surprised. Generation X kind of expected it. "

This October, let's remember the reason for the season.

" Though we do not encourage the involvement of the police in our community, the survivor has every right, and the support of Occupy Baltimore, to report the abuse to the appropriate law enforcement. "

" After smashing the living fuck out of the Walgreens window in a blatant attack on capitalism, several attendees of Occupy Chicago not only tried to kick me out of the march but actually chased me down and attempted to make a citizens arrest. They told me I did not represent them and tried to grab me, screaming for the police. I managed to throw them off as a few comrades in support delivered some street justice to the faces of the disgusting protectors of property. "

When this song makes the charts radio stations will by law have to play it #lolno

When this song makes the charts radio stations will by law have to play it #lolno

Iä! Iä!

Shockingly, Company Not in Business to Facilitate Global Crime Revolution

" No, the discomfort I endured last semester was something new. From the start, I realized that many students in the class were not as interested in exploring the seminal issues of U.S. military history as they were in finding solace, seeking closure, or securing an understanding of their own—or, in many cases, their loved ones'—recent military experiences. "

If you can't spell it you don't get to inflict it. #vengeAnce #alsoGeoCitiescalled

Animal liberation crazy cites multiple Scientology anti-psychiatry sources, with predictable results.

...to protect the identity of a leaker. RT @sambowne: Ethiopian journalist ID*quot*d in WikiLeaks cable flees country

I would like to rent a plate and a table. If I find free foie gras on the plate, I will not complain.

FLAWLESS VICTORY

"Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!…You're all nuts. Shut up, let me talk." - Free Waterfall, Jr.

Scientology's anti-New Yorker parody, or Why political humor tends to fall flat.

Protip to other sociologists: Acting like pretentious, uninquisitive asses makes us all look stupid.

" Two men told police they were attacked early Sunday morning when they came upon a group of people throwing garbage and street signs into the street and questioned why they were doing that. "

Anarchy: Because cleaning trash off the street means you need a mob beat-down.