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I hope this earns me good will with the IRS. I created them a new logo.
Indeed.
FRICTION TAPE
Inspired by agitators
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I wasn’t looking for a reason to watch network television, but it appears as though I may have one now.
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I.R.S.’s Lerner: We Lied about Targeting Tea Party Organizations in ‘12 Cycle
2012: “We’re not targeting conservative groups!”
2013: “Sorry we targeted conservative groups.”
These people are the scum of the earth and the enemies of freedom.
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Now that Wrigley is yanking its caffeinated gum from the market, you’ll just have to guzzle your super powers in liquid form again. #CrackedClassic
Team Coffee.
(Source: cracked.com)
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This morning we looked at Lucas Arts’s “Full Throttle” and Dreamworks’s “The Neverhood Chronicles.” This afternoon, we turn to Sierra’s “Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers.”
Within the horror genre, the stuff with religious themes tends to unsettle me more than the rest. In film, titles like Rosemary’s Baby, The Omen, or even tame stuff like The Exorcism of Emily Rose always tend to leave me with more questions than answers, and that’s how I know those stories are stories told well.
The designers and writers behind “Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers” pulled this off in epic fashion in the early 1990s, and I spent hours glued to the screen and the story because I couldn’t turn away … but also because I didn’t want to have to try to sleep.
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Following on this morning’s post on Lucas Arts’s “Full Throttle,” I also found this morning this great YouTube playlist of gameplay footage of “The Neverhood Chronicles,” a claymation adventure/puzzle game designed by Earthworm Jim creator Doug TenNapel, and produced by Dreamworks Studios. Some of my favorite features of this game were its clarinet-heavy, jazzy soundtrack and absurd/surreal characters and universe.
“The Neverhood Chronicles” has a Facebook page, and Matt Pearman (whoever he is) has preserved the old neverhood.com for posterity.
Anyone know where I can get a copy playable on a Mac?
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Lucas Arts’s “Full Throttle” was one of my favorite desktop games when I was in high school, not least because one of the characters in the footage above and I share a tattoo design.
I ran across some other game footage earlier this morning, in a mashup of “life lessons learned playing Lucas Arts games” (which is clever), and I just lost about a half hour looking for a non-pirated version of “Full Throttle” to buy and download … but LA only ever released the game on CD-ROM. I’m skeptical that the quality of a $20.00 purchase from Amazon will yield a high-quality experience, mostly because I don’t believe the seller when they say they have a “new” copy of a nearly 20-year-old game.
Then again, it’s only $20.00….
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Internet Strengthens Institution of Marriage
Is there anything it can’t do?
New research that says thanks to the Internet, marriage rates among young people, which have been declining for years, are 15% to 30% higher than they would be without the Web.
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The Corporate Lobbying Proxy War
An excellent WSJ editorial tackles the astroturf campaign to use the Securities and Exchange Commission to order DISCLOSE Act-like regulations by fiat, even though shareholders routinely and summarily reject these types of initiatives in the normal course of proxy voting and corporate governance:
If the targeted companies won’t roll over, the liberal and union fall back is to browbeat the SEC to make it a proxy requirement for all companies. “If we have to go company by company” that “is a very long and drawn out process,” Mr. DiNapoli says. “It is the appropriate role for the SEC to set a standard, industry wide so that all of these corporations that are publicly traded will do the right thing in terms of disclosure.”
Liberal activists boast they’ve collected some 500,000 comments in support of an SEC rule to require disclosure, but over 99% of them are form letters originating with the same activists. New SEC Chairman Mary Jo White is under particular lobbying pressure from unions, Democrats and the liberal press, and whether she succumbs will be the first big test of her political independence.
Liberals claim universal disclosure is right for corporations, but they want a different set of rules for their own donors. Take the liberal outfit, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (Crew), which has been resisting an effort to subpoena its donor information. The group, which has lambasted conservative groups for failing to disclose their contributors, claims that its donors are protected from disclosure by the … First Amendment.
Be sure to read the full piece by clicking the link above.
Heh.
(via ronpaulproblems)
