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Darnit! I submitted this a few minutes ago, but with this addendum. See what you can make of it. I'm not sure.

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That's old news. But this image, discovered by a Something Awful forum user in a time of election uncertainty, is new.

From the post:

"I was browsing google maps today and came across something a little creepy. I moused over something on the map, and a preview page came up. (This is with a firefox extension that loads a URL you mouseover in a preview box.) It had people's legal names, familiar names, precinct, and political affilations. It seems to have had a lot more information than that, but I didn't scroll.

Thankfully I took a screenshot when it first happened, becuase I couldn't make it happen again. It's weird how codey the whole thing looks, isn't it? It obviously wasn't meant to be seen by people like me--it looks like it was meant to be parsed by a computer. What kind of database is Google hiding behind its maps? (I don't mean to sound tinfoil here, as this probably isn't some joint Google/NSA operation. I just wonder how they got this information and what they're using it for.)"

What is Google doing?

Darnit! I submitted this a few minutes ago, but with this addendum. See what you can make of it. I'm not sure.

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That's old news. But this image, discovered by a Something Awful forum user in a time of election uncertainty, is new.

From the post:

"I was browsing google maps today and came across something a little creepy. I moused over something on the map, and a preview page came up. (This is with a firefox extension that loads a URL you mouseover in a preview box.) It had people's legal names, familiar names, precinct, and political affilations. It seems to have had a lot more information than that, but I didn't scroll.

Thankfully I took a screenshot when it first happened, becuase I couldn't make it happen again. It's weird how codey the whole thing looks, isn't it? It obviously wasn't meant to be seen by people like me--it looks like it was meant to be parsed by a computer. What kind of database is Google hiding behind its maps? (I don't mean to sound tinfoil here, as this probably isn't some joint Google/NSA operation. I just wonder how they got this information and what they're using it for.)"

What is Google doing?

Forget Super Mario and Wing Commander, there are some classic franchises that NEED to be brought to the silver screen...I don't know about you, but I'd pay $10 to see Tetris: The Movie or Dig Dug: Forever

Movie posters kindly provided by Something awful.

Here is a nice one for this Vastu person:
http://www.somethingawful.com/jeffk/

I've already seen the "LCARS Standard Board" when it was featured as an Awful Link of the Day on Something Awful.

The problem here is not necessarily the defamation and publishing falsehoods, but the impersonation of somebody else that I feel is the real concern. If the kids had simply made a post saying that their principal was a lesbian, this may not be true but it's ultimately less harmful that actually impersonating the person. Because they impersonated another person in order to defame them however, I feel strongly that they should be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law. I don't mind people saying bad things about me, but impersonation (and ultimately things like identify theft) make me boil over with moral outrage. Yet another reason why, as http://www.somethingawful.com/ so accurately states, "The Internet Makes You Stupid".

Here ya' go

Reminds me of the gas over broadband prank that somethingawful.com did. Pretty hilarious.

http://www.somethingawful.com/index.php?a=296

How bout Gas over the internet?

Here's a potential solution to your "industrywide problem": Stop treating us (your users) as nothing more than a market. We're individual human beings. Right now, we just look like sacks of money to you and your "research" consists of trying to extract that money from us.

who else would have the phenomenal insight to give us such gems as

http://i.somethingawful.com//sasbi/2006/08/docevil /8-21-06_21.gif

http://i.somethingawful.com//sasbi/2006/08/docevil /8-13-06_26.gif

and of course

http://i.somethingawful.com//sasbi/2006/08/docevil /8-21-06_9.gif

who else would have the phenomenal insight to give us such gems as

http://i.somethingawful.com//sasbi/2006/08/docevil /8-21-06_21.gif

http://i.somethingawful.com//sasbi/2006/08/docevil /8-13-06_26.gif

and of course

http://i.somethingawful.com//sasbi/2006/08/docevil /8-21-06_9.gif

who else would have the phenomenal insight to give us such gems as

http://i.somethingawful.com//sasbi/2006/08/docevil /8-21-06_21.gif

http://i.somethingawful.com//sasbi/2006/08/docevil /8-13-06_26.gif

and of course

http://i.somethingawful.com//sasbi/2006/08/docevil /8-21-06_9.gif

After reading part one and part two of Something Awful's search logs his customers better want blood.

After reading part one and part two of Something Awful's search logs his customers better want blood.

not everyone uses the same search terms

...female robot and the robot that can "play an organ" into every man's dream?

Nooooooo, not every man's, but I think the Chinese have Mr.1055962 covered anyway:

Wanted; RealChimp

Bottom of the page.

KFG

No, the article on Something Awful has some that top that. It's been posted before under this article, but another link can't hurt. Mind you, some of them are kinda disturbing.

At least, before this leak -- as beautiful as it is, this might finally be the tipping point in getting Joe Average AOLer to understand the gravity of the drastic erosions of privacy the Western world has experienced since 9/11, and stop trusting the unencrypted text submission these logs prove we often so completely and utterly, soul-baringly do. And no one acts anywhere near the same when they have even the slightest feeling they're being watched (and, more importantly, judged). In a world where Diaries are implicitly public, who have you ever trusted more than your search bar?

Especially as, judging by these search logs, Joe Blow has a lot more to hide than even my cynical ass ever imagined. Might make some people realize the terr'rists aren't the only ones who'll be caught, charged, sentenced and executed for having something to hide.

And this leak has finally given credence to the long-cynically-mocked, longer-held Sci-Fi ideal that, in teh big, unknowable futar, all Art will be on, be of, Technology. And this horrific breach of privacy is also the greatest set of Artistic and statistical data to have ever been released to the public. I would say, since it's raw data and not just a single interpretation, it's more important than the Kinsey Report. Which is tragic, because it can never be allowed to happen again, if we want any semblance of a feeling of privacy and freedom in our civilization. It's becoming unexpectedly apparent that this will be the form of major (mainstream, big-A-)Art of the future.

Don't believe me? Read 'The Search Engine Confessions of AOL User 23187425' and tell me it expresses any smaller torrent of hte raw, beautiful essense of what it is to be human than any Keats or Basho;. And that's only one piece among the very many a quick search can reveal. Many more at SomethingAwful's special edition of the Weekend Web, one of the primary progenitors, whether it was intended to be or not, of this kind of art.

Somethingawful posted what is presumably the first part in a series of gold from the AOL search logs: http://www.somethingawful.com/index.php?a=4016 These would definitely fit in the 'basketcase' category...

Please see this for background information.

PAK CHOOIE UNF

Sure, this photographer is at fault, and you can make assumptions about his political motives for photoshopping this image. But what's worse is how did Reuters let such a piece of crap into the system? The guys on SomethingAwful or Worth 1000 all do a much better job, and that's just for the glory of the contest. They're not trying to pass their stuff off as "news." Even the guys at Fark aren't this bad (not even Heamer :-) No, this photoshop was of "The Daily Show" quality -- comically bad.

The only conclusion I can come up with is that Reuters isn't actually looking at the images that come in the door. Even if someone at Reuters had the same political agenda as the photographer, he should have had the good sense to deny that picture because the photoshopping was so obvious. Actually, neither conclusion is good news for Reuters at all.

'Tell them to fuck off'

Also, refer to:
http://www.somethingawful.com/index.php?a=3853
and
http://www.somethingawful.com/index.php?a=3885

'Tell them to fuck off'

Also, refer to:
http://www.somethingawful.com/index.php?a=3853
and
http://www.somethingawful.com/index.php?a=3885

On SA, there is a column, "Art of Warcraft." Recently, one of the editors has been posing as a female character not only to get massive amounts of gold, but also for the simple pleasure of humiliating gamers.

See Part 1 and Part 2.

On SA, there is a column, "Art of Warcraft." Recently, one of the editors has been posing as a female character not only to get massive amounts of gold, but also for the simple pleasure of humiliating gamers.

See Part 1 and Part 2.

Forget that silly wiki link. This article explains stuff in a much more amusing way.

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s= 69fc2a15bdc51cc2768b86195629762f&threadid=1888999& perpage=40&pagenumber=6 On the contrary, he posted this month.

Hey, buddy
I don't need to 'play the game'
I read the Something Awful article

Indeed. When local governments mess with peoples' property, they cause otherwise rational people to construct killdozers and go on rampages of mass destruction. (scroll past the annoying bit to the story, it really is worth it)

SomethingAwful's amusing doctored image with StarBucks' RoboCup!

"Careful, the beverage you're about to enjoy is extremely hot, Creep." --Jonah in RoboCop Archive forum thread.

I'm supposed to believe that ANY game could be more harmful to society than the simulation of rape?

Maybe a rape simulator?

Review of Zenra Ballet 2 (not safe for work)

"You have not lived until you have seen a Japanese pirate rip a boner out of his leotard and plunge it into the waiting food-hole of a sassy ballerina."

Download a "1000 NES ROMS" pack (e.g. from a torrent site). Play some of the games. There are a few gems like SMB 3, but any NES collection with any aspiration to completism has tons of completely shit games.

See also somethingawful's ROM pit, dedicated to remembering the crap of yesteryear:
http://www.somethingawful.com/rompit/

Now I've broken your rose tinted spectacles you'll be able to see the sneaky pink elephants better.

Epic Mounts, Part 1 and Part 2.

Epic Mounts, Part 1 and Part 2.

Unable to sense him, the robot's powerful hydraulic arm kept on working and accidentally pushed the engineer into a grinding machine.

With such cutting-edge graphics, it's difficult to tell what is reality and what is VRML.

....the adventure CHOOSES YOU!!

I prefer the Something Awful Choose your own Adventure books.

http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=2777

I think I see your problem, or part of it. You sell CD's online, and ship them in the mail. People want instant gratification. Discreetness is a concern as well. They want to play X-Change 2 right now and they don't want anyone to know about it. Irrational fears about sharing their payment info with an online porn retailer is also a factor, but there's no getting around that. You definitely have no trouble marketing the stuff: http://www.somethingawful.com/hentai/

I've gotten flame emails from people who think my shareware should be freeware, and some have even released partial cracks, back when all my programs were $5. Some people will never pay for software. I basically gave up on shareware years ago though.

As for the disappearance the thepiratebay.org, there will always be another site to take their place. As long as it's possible to communicate over the internet, there will be massive piracy over the internet.

"Some of people had the fibers that grow from their skin analyzed. They are cellulose but do not come from clothing."

Bullshit. There have been no verified reports of "non-clothing" cellulose, however there are numerous practitioners who debunk this on a regular basis. This is a huge non-story, and it's sad that people are taking these nuts at face value.

This SA thread also goes into further detail-

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s= &threadid=1874719

That after having pushed the orbiting satellite at 5 feet per second,
investigators found that the robotic shover space probe is heading toward earth to protect your grandmother from the Terrible Secret of Space.
Last message recieved from the robotic space probe was :
" Please go stand by the stairs, so I can protect you... "

I have mod points, but I couldn't find anyone pointing this out to mod up. The post includes a link to the entire service manual. Apple's complaint is NOT about the single page showing the thermal grease, it's about the posting of a PDF of their copyrighted service manual in its entirety. Now, they're still threatening the wrong person, since the file is hosted somewhere else, but there is real infringement going on.

It looks like Apple have now gone after the right person as well. The link to the manual returns a 404.

I think that would be SomethingAwful and their Awful Links of the Day.

> No, its not even a page. The SA forums have a *link* to a page on another server, owned by another entity. Even the original way it was an utter perversion of the law, but with a link its completely fucking ridiculous.

At least we'll get new entertainment on SA's legal department.

where is the link to the letter that Apple sent?

Right here.

The post includes a brief excerpt from Apple's Service Source Manual which Apple wants removed.

I have mod points, but I couldn't find anyone pointing this out to mod up. The post includes a link to the entire service manual. Apple's complaint is NOT about the single page showing the thermal grease, it's about the posting of a PDF of their copyrighted service manual in its entirety. Now, they're still threatening the wrong person, since the file is hosted somewhere else, but there is real infringement going on.

You obviously didn't bother to check out what happened.

Some guy linked to the entire service manual, hosted on his own site. This isn't over the one image that is still there, it's over the PDF that was removed some time ago.

Read this page on SA to see the second notice, sent directly to the guy who was hosting it.

But really, with a UID that low you should know better. Try to make sure you have the facts before you get all excited and post something that ends up having no bearing on the discussion at hand.

Fuck, man if don't want it fixed, just say so.