In "Unsung Heroes of the Internet", I will highlight some of the magnificent images that float as JPGs and GIFs through the tubes, being replicated from server to server, client to client, having long since shed any indication of authorship or origin. The unsung heroes of the internet are those selfless photoshoppers (and gimpers) who cast their creations into the sea without any expectations of recompense or renown.

Today I present a good old fashioned Mendelian memetic-allele-swap. I'll leave the tracing of lineage to you. Just lookit the pictures.

 
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Last week's tasering of an Iranian-American student by campus police is just another sign that the combination of citizen reporting and instant, free, accessible online distribution is becoming a truly powerful force on the planet, one that governments and individuals should learn to fear. What would once have been a local event has ignited a firestorm of interest on the intarnets. The internet also provides us with our choice of alignment in the issue, both in favor of the student, and against him.

But that's not the point of this post. The point, rather, is that the cost barrier for entry into the multimedia-reporting-enabled populace has been demolished. Even my 14 year old niece carries a mobile phone that records video to SD cards, and that was a two year old hand-me-down. You can pick up a phone that can record video now for a whopping *negative* twenty five bucks (usual caveats about agreeing to contracts apply). If 80% of the world's population and 71% of America's owns a mobile phone, and if service providers are more or less paying you to take the phones in exchange for service agreements, then it would seem possible to ensure that no event in society would ever go unnoticed, forgotten, or suppressed.

This of course, can be good, bad or very, very, very bad. But let's focus on the good for now. Cameraphones and indeed, ubiquitous media, have been responsible for the apprehension of a number of criminals and the resolution of many cases which otherwise would have suffered from a lack of evidence.

Where television brought the Tiananmen Square Massacre into the world's collective field-of-vision, the internet brings us foreign programming that defies any form of suppression:

Of course, empowerment of the public is not necessarily a good thing. In fact, instantaneous dispersal of information can be a downright awful thing as Koreans are now demonstrating to us what a technology-obsessed population benefiting from the world's highest broadband penetration rates is capable of accomplishing, in the most unpleasant of ways. It cuts both ways. You're giving a mouth and a pair of eyes, connected to your own, to everyone in the world, regardless of whether or not you want to hear what they have to say or see what they see.

 

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In the wake of the 2006 midterm election results, there was obviously some grumbling to be done. Not by myself, of course, nor my fellow liberal babykilling brethren. We obviously partied, and partied hard. In fact, yesterday was such a good day for liberals that I aborted three fetuses and committed no fewer than SIX acts of indecency. Oh, and I played Yahtzee with a group of islamofundamentalist terrorists (they won, how ironic!). So I spent the evening licking the balls of a gay Mexican migrant worker to celebrate our gains, but how exactly were the members of the opposition grieving their losses? To find out, I took a quick swing by Free Conservatives to see what the buzz was on their messageboards. Here's a tasty freebie, with more quotes after the jump:

I voted among a flurry of unwashed, pony-tailed men, and hairy-legged, fat women - Portland, as you know, is a liberal hellhole. Man, you never saw a shabbier, sorrier-looking bunch of losers.

I voted straight Republican. I had the pleasure to vote for Michael Beardsley, a Christian conservative running against the Snowe Cow. I know. He has as much chance of winning as I have of becoming rich overnight. Still, it gave me particular satisfaction to vote against Snowe.

...interested in reading some more?

O-kay...:

If there is a silver lining to the dark cloud of a Santorum loss : He will now be able to devote all of his time to a Presidential run Run Rick Run!!!

 

Not surprising:

I am watching Fox News, I always enjoy their coverage on this sort of thing. Brit Hume and the rest of the guys are great.

 

Odd, isn't, how each side views the other as sheep?

It becomes increasingly evident that the voters are too stupid to understand anything that requires an IQ higher than 10, and will vote for whomever lies the most shamelessly. The sheeple strike again. And then they'll bitch about Bush when the RATs f'k them.

 

ALALALALALALALALALALA!!!! Prepare the bomb!

Looks like we're toast.
God, have mercy.
The MoHamHeads will be celebrating big time in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.
Higher taxes will be the least of our worries, though we'll probably see that before we get hammered by a MoHamHead bomb somewhere.
The Dhimmicrats will be gloating, I'm sure.

 

Odd, isn't, how each side views the other as ruthless and without moral qualms?

Terrifying thought: if something happens to Bush and Cheney, Pelosi is the next in line. And given the RATs' penchant for destroying the opposition by any means required ...

 

Si, senor.

Hayworth lost in AZ. I guess Arizonans are telling Mexico:' Please send us more illegal immigrants'.

 

Note that the following posting was accompanied by the Beauregard Battle Flag

All I have to say is if they push their lefty agendas in accelerated mode!!! There better be some uprising by REAL Americans. Do not allow them to push their homo shit on the rest of us. O.K.!!!!! Nor, everything else.

 

Of course, no rant, debate, or discussion is complete without a comparison to Nazis or Nazism (it's practically canonical netiquette now):

Josef Goebbels would be proud that his fellow leftists, the Democrats and their willing accomplices, have been so adept at his Big Lie Propaganda.

 

And the coup de grace:

The Americans are everything Nasrallah said and more. You gotta love it when terror dons prove your electorate as dopey as they appear. I bet that fat fuk is gumming some of that imported Gaza strip 9/11 hard candy right now and washing it down with well-aged GI blood.

Its a good day to be a terrorist. It really is. It means that when Nancy Pelosi decides to pull on Bush's leash and hiss heel, he will obey... or else. I would be sharpening my scimitar right now if I was in the Sunni Trapezoid. I'd feel like one happy droog as I pulled up my jock strap around my white pants, slapped on my bowler hat and reached for my cane. Just siiiining in the rain *bootkick to lower abdomen* Just siiiinging in the rain *backhand to whore's head* what a gloooorious feelling, I'm haaappy again!

As a terror dope, I'd know that I just got greenlighted for lootin season! I just got an all expense paid, cherry Winnebago for the Rape Promotional Tour, Iraq Family Values. As a terror jockey, I'm not only going on tour, I'm living it with my fans! Check out the MySpace linkage, bro. Snuff flickage gif files for all you punks.

I would also know that all my sploshuns just got validated like a parking ticket stamped at Bloomingdales! That all my head-lobbing-offs just became noble, now enshrined as an act of resistance. See the way the A-mer-ick-cans voté? They liiike me, they really do!

What an ego boost to be a terrorist today! Its like winning the golden ticket at the Wonka Factory. All that's left now is to cut off Veruca Salt's head and you can inherit the entire Candy Kingdom.

Sorry, folks, but I'm feeling a bit jaded tonight. Amerikkka just voted in the Ayotollah all over again, except this time its worse. Forget about understanding that one trolls. You'd have to have been around in the seventies to even know what I'm talking about, and remember, I was shitting out solved Rubic's Cubes before you were born. *ploop* Six shades of brown.

Bring on the euro appeasement technology of caring foreign policy. Sure, Bush didn't hit Iraq with authentic shock & awe. I get that. But, now we're going entirely in the other direction.

What a freakshow.

 

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"His people made him a leader. The empire made him a renegade. History made him a hero." I love Christopher Lambert. I make no attempt to conceal the fact. He has brought us more laughter than any comedian has, and the following demonstrates the fact.

In 2001, Christopher Lambert played the lead in the Frenchy-flick "Vercingétorix" (pronounced 'very chris lambert awesome crotch'). In 2005, the idiot-savants at SomethingAwful produced a genius wordless review of the film. Go ahead and "read" it. Doesn't it just beg captioning? Well, I've gone ahead and done just that.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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