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I wonder what PETA thinks of this? http://www.goats.com/archive/980301.html

Er, but I'm guessing it was something to do with the seventh-generation iPhone.

A 7G iPhone? Is it the model with the ham dispenser?

*note: goats.com has nothing to do with certain horrific things that have goats in the name.

Does Kirk shoot the giant squid with organic web shooters? And I bet they get Radioactive Man's origin story all wrong! And they cast Daniel Craig as both Good Hitler and Space Hitler! Don't they know he is blond!

http://www.goats.com/archive/050315.html

(check out goats for the Space Hitler reference)

Obligatory: http://goats.com/archive/081127.html

http://www.goats.com/archive/081127.html

No, there's a Space Pope

Or perhaps the Chaos Pope

Oh man, don't even get me started on kittens...

(they are, however, great at making poptarts)

It's only a matter of time before we have this:

http://goats.com/archive/060403.html

Goats reference?

You got the rhetoric down, but forgot to link to "Bush / Cheney 08 Why should the laws stop us *now*" bumper sticker?

http://www.lisaandjacob.com/uploaded_images/Bumper_sticker.gif

Although personally I think "
Bush / Cheney 08
The laws don't apply to us anyway"
scans better.

If you want a nerdier and subtler way to say it, try Goats.com's infamous t-shirt
"Republicans for Voldemort" http://www.goats.com/store/tshirts.html

http://www.goats.com/archive/990517.html

That is just sick and wrong. Everyone knows that you can't convert kittens into hydrogen. Now, Pop Tarts, on the other hand... And don't go on about converting Pop Tarts into hydrogen, unless you wish to be shunned. SHUNNED! I tell you... SHUNNED!

What have you got against satanic chickens, fish that live in beer, biker trekkies, mayan programmers, cow computers, and pub-oriented transdimensional travel anyway?

I apologize for rambling on like this, but I thought it was important that I get all of this out of the way before I tell you that the BitPass experiment was a conclusive and absolute failure. It failed on such a tremendous level that I was surprised when we discovered new and previously unimagined ways in which it could have failed. It failed so badly that we actually lost money.

But lori's so hot!

Actually, fish are the future of porn storage: http://www.goats.com/archive/050127.html

also, if you go to their store, you can get it on a tshirt.

Not true. One must know that beer is the mindkiller.

2034

After it merges with Jello, and Bill Cosby's brain takes over as CEO (chief enforcement officer?).

Congratulations! You are formally invited to attend a meeting of the International League of Pedants! Please arrive at precisely 1927 (notice the lack of a colon; it's military time) at Elk's Lodge 52 on Weinburger Rd. Any later, and the cucumber sandwiches with be mushy, and no pedant likes mushy cucumber sandwiches.

But where are the poptarts?

Content-free news is an epidemic in the news world buddy, at least it is in the US.
The trick is finding sources that provide rich content. The feed for Slashdot includes the full post text, including the links to TFA. That way, I can hit up the news I want without being tempted to read comments and post replies (I save that for killing time at work, like, oh, now).
Another rich feed is that of the comic strip Goats. Unlike many strips, which only feed the comic title, or the fact that it has been posted, the feed the comic itself plus all their new items. That's one less site I have to check. It's there in my Straw each morning.
So, just like with real news and entertainment, most sources are devoid of content. It's all a matter of hitting on the good ones.

I mean . . . it's not that hard. Intarweb is new tech, in that society had really integrated phones until about half a century after their invention, and we are still within three decades of the DARPA network. The market hasn't really figured out what works paid and unpaid on the internet -- hence the juicy webcomic discussion/controversy over whether or not micropayments work. But we can count on the fact that there will always be some stuff that is paid content (because the cost of development and provision far exceeds the potential income derived from advertising or marketing while providing the content free) and some stuff that is free. Things like the CNN streaming of live video is just the market settling -- and I guarantee that the streaming video will incorporate advertisements, so by some definitions, it's not exactly free. Seeing anything in the CNN decision regarding the larger issue of charging for content on the internet seems to me like sophomoric thinking -- unless I'm missing something?

Regards,

Moiche

I'm going to write to my elected representative and demand that we implement personal time zones! That way, I can always come to work at 9 AM, s20451 standard time (sST), regardless of what the time is in "new york" or "shanghai". This proposal will lead to energy savings by eliminating the need for alarm clocks and wristwatches.

My next project will be to change the length of the workday to three units of time.

I'd have to vote for Sinfest.

That's like asking if there are any nice versions of Hitler.

Funny you should mention Good Hitler, as I was just reading about him a few mintues ago.

(Note: not the famous evil link. The sadly somewhat less famous awesome webcomic. I swear on my sub-2000 slashdot user id.)

Please.. that is so 1930's. These days evil is characterized by , Voldemort and anything RIAA/MPAA are up to.

I concur. they'd get some impact on the bottom line for sure - though whether you count brand synergy as advertising (i.e. 'bundling' with happy meals) would of course need to be defined

Anyway, as for the HFCS thing, Greg Critser's 'Fatland' and Eric Schlosser's 'Fast Food Nation' are recommended reading, as is Felicity Lawrence's 'Not on the label', a more UK-focussed diatribe against the food industry.

For geeks, I particularly recommend checking out the sections on how chickens and potatoes are mechanically processed into nuggets and fries. Neat tech that'll put you off your lunch for sure.

I'd give you the goats.com link for chicken nuggets but the site's down. how about a google Cache or possibly wrong link?

Jesus loves Dick.

Who cares about being able to bench cars? Admit to yourself how rarely this would be useful and grow as a human being.

Of course, usefulness has little to do with the first cybernetic implant on *my* christmas list in 2020.

The Mr Stud's Implant.

Every robot will have a 12" steel johnson.

...here.

Whaddya mean, "but that's another webcomic"?

Neither of the mainstream candidates is nearly evil enough. Vote Voldemort in 2004!

It may need a warning label.

You haven't come across Republicans for Voldemort?

Then you'd like the Republicans for Voldemort shirt these guys do.

[please not slitherin... please not slitherin...]

Oh, it's not that bad. They get cool t-shirts and everything.

yeah yeah... but it was safe.

here's another that's safe for you: Goats: the comic.

For an example of the donation button, check out:

The Donation Box at E2

Can anyone think of any other large, donation based projects that publish their revenues?

Also, Jonathan Rosenberg of Goats seems to have the whole 'pay me, pretty please' thing down pretty well. Just perusing his site should be a 101 course in internet capitalism.

It might help to describe what kind of project you're working on, to get a better sense of what sorts of commercial options would be most appropriate.

I use the Trepan-A series of tools.

As if you need to ask

Clickey...

-Ted

If I only knew what mad props were, I'd give you some.

I must drink beer. Beer is the mind-killer. Beer is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my beer. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. When the beer has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

Reference

This is clearly ripped from Frank Herber's DUNE.

And truly the antidote to the daily grind.

I must drink beer. Beer is the mind-killer. Beer is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my beer. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. When the beer has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

reference

I'm not clicking any link with the word "goat" in the path.

I'm not clicking any link with the word "goat" in the path.

...to the number of books L. Ron "If you really want to make a lot of money, invent your own religion" Hubbard has written and published after he died^Wpassed on^W^Wshed all his thetans, or whatever they're supposed to do.

Besides, the Ebert review of the Tupac movie was favorable, and he's usually got a decent eye for such things.