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The one where he's eating is my favorite: http://i.somethingawful.com/horrorsofporn/penishan ds/spaghetti.jpg

And BTW, Depp says he liked the movie:

http://www.boingboing.net/2004/03/11/depp_digs_edw ard_pen.html

True, I have high hopes for some of those, and especially Sam & Max (If it gets cancelled again I'm going to kill someone). Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy) was ok... the first half. For the second half, I agree with Something Awful.

I'm surprised PayPal accepts donations for PA. Remember when PayPal shut down the SomethingAwful.com Katrina aid drive without so much as a consideration for the victims? I thought their response was that PayPal doesn't support charities? Or was it a conflict of interest with one of the major charity groups that PayPal is contracted with?

Ideas and opinions, whether true of[sic] false, cannot constitutionally be subject to libel claims.

Frankly, I haven't been thinking about the issue for long enough to come to a proper decision. Perhaps it's because Something Awful is big and popular enough to get away with it, but weren't they doing it when they were small and vulnerable? I can remember a particularly controversial case when they insulted the mothers of stillborn children (don't worry, no pictures anymore).

Ideas and opinions, whether true of[sic] false, cannot constitutionally be subject to libel claims.

Frankly, I haven't been thinking about the issue for long enough to come to a proper decision. Perhaps it's because Something Awful is big and popular enough to get away with it, but weren't they doing it when they were small and vulnerable? I can remember a particularly controversial case when they insulted the mothers of stillborn children (don't worry, no pictures anymore).

Ideas and opinions, whether true of[sic] false, cannot constitutionally be subject to libel claims.

Frankly, I haven't been thinking about the issue for long enough to come to a proper decision. Perhaps it's because Something Awful is big and popular enough to get away with it, but weren't they doing it when they were small and vulnerable? I can remember a particularly controversial case when they insulted the mothers of stillborn children (don't worry, no pictures anymore).

D^amn it, Doesn't anybody have any bombs left? http://www.newpath4.com/millenialdawnpowerandlight secure21.htm .
Isn't there someone out there who can fly a plane?
http://tinyurl.com/7aaca .
Someone who isn't afraid of the Weather?
http://www.newpath4.com/WorldwideClimateEngineMsg. htm .

Hhmmm. Looks like the Wizard, Woody of Oz is real. For more information check my Comment under the main article > http://www.astrobio.net/news/article1798.html .

And trust the old weatherman before you trust the fresh guy out of college who is just learning the ropes eh? The "old dude" who has invented two new types of fusion -non nuclear fusion- that can power a home without combustible fuels... and no pollution by-products whatsoever. Hhmmm.

Gee, that sounds like the answer we've been waiting for.
End of global warming,
end of escalating healthcare costs from pollution asthma, pollution emphysema, pollution chronic lung diseases,
pollution made dead zones in the ocean and ozone layer,
pollution DNA damage that is now proving to be trans-generational in the womb...
weather aberrations from global warming such as hurricanes & tornadoes...
crude oil peaking out before it kills us all...
hybrid electric cars that electrocute the rescue people at an accident...

rising mental illness rates from lowered oxygen content in our atmosphere because OUR ENGINES USE IT BETTER THAN OUR LUNGS leaving the rest of us brain damaged to one degree or another from oxygen deprivation esp in our cities.

http://www.somethingawful.com/ does understand brain damage. Hhmmm. If I lessen the brain damage you all might lose 3/4 of your website traffic. Maybe you'll have to turn into real writers. Maybe you can use a reducing ray and be the brains in these new hopping bots of the Planet Mars. That would make a great story. You could call them something awful hopping bots (SAHB's). No need to send any royalties or thank-you fees; glad I could help you out in your moment of need.

Someone has finished the Manhattan Energy Project?
Saved lots of government-funded grant? >
money by not throwing rebel hordes of people at the problem? >
> http://www.newpath4.com/01manhattanproject20056789 fromnewpath410302005.htm .

For those of you in a big hurry, no time to check the referenced Comments, I'll save you the trouble. An electronic waterwheel that uses a stream of metal balls to turn a bi-directional dual generator, striking the paddle wheel fins in a continuous cycle. The remaining 40% of Mankind that doesn't have electricity is about to get a big boost.

The Millenial Dawn vaporgenerator can power a paired generator (or 2, or 3) that focuses force upward, overcoming Gravity. Our astronauts -accompanied by a select team of somethingawful writers recently laid off- can be vacationing on Earth's Moon by 2008 & Mars by 2010 once the News Media stops ignoring my new fusion engines.

You can all be sipping margueritas at a comfy Microsoft PC control station while the hordes of little hopping slavebots do the exploring, Courtesy of Internet Al (Gore) without whom I wouldn't be able

Coming right up!

...je'll act like this

If you're into really bad video games, or just poking fun at them, another place to check out is Something Awful's ROM Pit.

The reviews score the games in various categories (gameplay, sound, etc.) on a scale of -10 to -1, and the writeups are fantastic.

Unfortunately, the interviewer failed to ask the most important question.

Does Mark Healey have stairs in his house?

Sheesh...so many people are taking parent seriously. Take a break and read this.

Then, after you're done reading that, go watch the movie.

This has been a public service announcement.

You're incorrect on some very salient details.

While it's true that MySpace does offer some amazing features to its consumers--especially bands, and on "hive knowledge" like the Sony rootkit effect--many of the effects it has are undesirious. There are several specific points that you make with which I wish to disagree.

To wit:

1) Today it is called hooking up and generally not frowned upon. Incorrect. Even at my extraordinarily liberal school system (where, last year, fifty percent of the incoming freshman class had been banned from their eighth grade trip to D.C. because of marijuanna and heroin use) cheating was no more accepted socially than it has ever been. I've comforted too many girls who cried about their scumbag boyfriends to think otherwise.

More importantly, you are incorrect in your assessment of the teenage conception of MySpace. As has been posited before in other threads about teenagers on the web (notably this one), teenagers do not view their posts as being public. The teenage conception of the Internet is a strange one. I myself realized at an early age (9th grade) the public nature of the Internet, because I was disciplined at my school for making a website that ridiculed a fellow student. But I knew peers who, throughout their years, shared the same initial perception that I had: that while I knew intellectually the public nature of the Internet, its vast size made for effective anonymity. The only people who ever knew about my blog were people who I told! A girl in my senior class, who was kicked out of NHS for making derogatory posts about teachers on her public LiveJournal, was furious--she had thought of her posts as being effectively private, just because they were posted on a blog she hadn't explicitly told her teachers about. In this way, you can't expect that all posts made on MySpace are made with the perception that the teenagers are comfortable with the old internet rule of "would you show your grandma this." I guarantee that if you had shown any of the parents of the students who worked for you their promiscuous MySpace posts, you would have been vilified by your employees, because they would have been heartily embarassed to have their parents find out what they post "publicly."

2) If I had known that others existed with similar emotions or thoughts or habits, I think I would have matured at a faster past [sic]. You make a similar point to this one several times throughout your post, and I must gravely disagree that this tendency is beneficial. While I myself am totally in favor of the effect of the Internet on one's intellect--by vastly increasing the possibilities of exposure to new ideas, a quality never to be remanded--I am not in facvor of the Internet's influence socially. I am a member of the "Lowtax" school of thought. Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka, founder of Something Awful, holds that the problem with the Internet is that it takes an isolated extreme minority (e.g. furries) and allows them to meet others of their ilk. This is not a bad thing. However, the problem arises when meeting even five to ten other furries makes the one--who, remember, has been strikingly alone in their thoughts for all their lives--feel globally justified as the status quo (or at least as a significant minority). While I am no stickler for traditionalism, I firmly believe that the social effect of the Internet, in regards to the way it can seem to justify by numbers certain vile practices (esp. furries and pedophiles), can be very negative. MySpace is a key contributor to this problem--and while the concept is great, the actual effect is not so much.

Again, don't get me wrong, exposure to intellectual information is never bad. But asking someone to draw complex intellectual conclusions from MySpace is like asking a /. reader to derive a keen understanding of modern technology from reading onl

http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=3396& p=12

And they dress poorly.

everything will be wireless one day

Inlcuding the wire!

Please, credit where credit is due:
http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=926

An anonymous coward spews:

One of the longest running jokes in Internet history revolves around VRML... etc.

"Hilarious" and stolen from:

http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=926

I wonder what the consequences would be?

* Santa Claus - No more Christmas presents. Obvious.
* The Tooth Fairy - If you don't leave a tooth for the tooth fairy every so often, she comes and starts taking them herself.
* The Easter Bunny - You lose the ability to digest eggs.
* Superman - Lex Luthor turns you into Soylent Lex.
* The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Two words: Citizen Krang.
* Monkey Magic - I... don't know what this is, sorry.
* Jesus - No valet parking for you! No, wait, that's Jesús.

That reminds me of a fake SA page from a few years ago!

Daryl Musashi could kick his ass! Man, did you see him r0x0r in that X-Files episode? His strategies:

• He stares straight forward and tries not to blink.
• He shoots straight forward and attempts to hold back any facial expressions.
• He doesn't aim, just holds his guns in a "really cool" way and holds the triggers down.

Check out SomethingAwful's "Your Band Sucks" column on SOAD.

You'll probably appreciate this picture then :)

I guess I was being too obscure in my reference.
I must now kill the joke by telling you the terrible secret of space.

Your post said "slot loading is hte answer".

This made me think of an irc hoax (warning, last time I went to something awful from slashdot they were redirecting to gay porn) from something awful about "The Space Robots".

The Laziest Men on Mars made a song about it. After that this swf was created by Jonathon Robinson.

That (the song/swf) is why I asked if you had stairs in your house.

Here's a game for ya

http://i.somethingawful.com/inserts/articlepics/ph otoshop/fakegames/Murph_play.jpg

Here's a bettar review!

If you think that ol' skirt was NOT used in A Star Trek, then you need to see Turkish Star Trek. My God, why don't people learn that the actors can wear a skirt but it'll be a second show if the fabric is too thin? I mean, "Quirk here"; Earth to panties; Earth to panties; we have a runner in the Klingon Squadron; the ship is EXPANDING at an uneven rate; the proton torpedoes are discharging through the rising EYE of the CANON.

Of'course, reference to Turkish Star Trek review, with pictures near duplicate to my thoughts; as though I'm not the only one...

Too late.

Interestingly enough, this was the entirety of Gator's EULA:

Hahaha, dumbass.

Reminds me of Something Awful's recent lampoon of the same subject. Nobody reads these things because they're all in legalese. No wonder companies think they can slide in anything. And what are the users going to do, not accept the terms?

don't ask. they do exist. if you must check out the hentai game reviews over at somethingawful. i would love to see jackass thompsons reactin to that stuff

Linky

My thoughts can be summed up here: http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=1396. Seriously, I've never heard of anyone who dated someone they met online and had it end up well.

For those who don't know, Uwe Boll and Christian Slater working on 'Alone in the Dark'.

Oh, it's been done. See here. Looks fun!

There is a forum called "The TV IV" on the Something Awful forums. (It's "IV" as in "intravenous", i.e. getting our TV "fix".) This is where the idea to create this was born. We initially were thinking of a site to store info on the shows we like, but then we decided that if we invited others, we might be able to build something really good.

The TV IV stems from a forum on Something Awful so with all that goon power behind it I'm sure it will snowball shortly in to a quite concise database.

The cookery forum offshoot, GBS Food is doing wonderfully since it's conception!

Bill Nye is/was supposed to be coming back and there was a thread about it on the SA forums (sorry I don't know where the thread is anymore). Users asked and mods approved torrenting of the episodes when they came out.

Nothing was ever shared AFAIK :-(.

The "original" episodes were better, anyway.

Also, I'm 24 and I think I was too old for Bill Nye when it was on TV. Is the Slashdot crowd that young these days? I think I was in highschool. While I forget most of 3-2-1 Contact, it's more a part of my childhood than Bill.

The internet will make kids more creative? Hardly! The internet makes you stupid.

Just go to their site: http://www.somethingawful.com/.
It's front page news, there.

Well, the SA servers are now back online again so you can read Lowtax tell the story himself;

http://www.somethingawful.com/

and even if you did, paypal would freeze the account and refuse to give you your money: http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=3186

looks like at the funds will at least eventually get to where they were destined to go. Paypal still sucks :) Oh hah sorry for the typo in my post above http://www.somethingawful.com/

I finally got ahold of a Paypal customer support person this morning (when I called last night, their automated "screw off" system told me they were closed for the night). I explained everything to her and she asked me to fax in a bunch of junk like my driver's license, statement from my bank account, statement from my credit card account, and various other things. I guess I should be lucky they didn't ask for DNA and sperm samples as well.

I told them the only reason, and I repeat ONLY REASON I was using their service was to raise relief funds, and the representative made a comment along the lines of "well you can see how it's counter-productive to get this resolved when you're writing 'Paypal sucks' on your website." Gee lady, maybe the whole issue could've been resolved beforehand if your company actually gave a crap about their customers and made even the tiniest bit of effort to resolve things without immediately hitting the "off" switch like that one jerk from "Ghostbusters?" The representative herself was nice, and I don't have a problem with the people working there; I do, however, have a problem with their automated systems making arbitrary decisions without providing customers ANY time to rectify the situation without risking downtime / account closure. You don't run a business treating all your customers like criminals and making them prove they aren't.

I'll be faxing in that information right now, so the money you donated to the Paypal fund WILL get to the Red Cross, but it all depends on the speed of the world-famous Paypal Complaint Appeals Department or whatever the hell they're called.

Instead of writing a fucking essay about PayPal how about you FUCKING CONTACT CUSTOMER SUPPORT like it told you to do? I wouldn't be fucking surprised if you photoshopped those pics (because text is so hard to photoshop) and took the money. You're not even doing anything to get the money back.

Yeah, okay. Thanks again for the support, Internet.

Still no ETA on when the servers and SA will be up again. No idea when we'll be able to get the servers and move them to another hosting facility either. Running a small business is awesome because, not only are you in charge of making sure a bunch of people get service and employees get paid, but you're constantly responsible for everything and you can't stop worrying about what will happen. At least your standard 9-to-5 job lets you leave work at your office when your shift is over; a small business is a boulder you carry around on your shoulders every hour of every day. Some days the boulder crushes you, and this past week has been a series of those days.

Have already done this - and have been posting the following message on every forum and messageboard I am a member of: Subject: Paypal robs Red Cross of $20000 ______________ http://www.somethingawful.com/ Comedy site Something Awful recently organised a Paypal donation drive for the survivors of Hurricane Katrina (they could not use their normal credit-card processing as their servers are located in New Orleans). Because there were over 3000 dollars an hour flooding in, Paypal suspected fraud and have suspended the account, which then stood at over twenty thousand dollars. Paypal do not usually release funds on suspended accounts. They look set to keep the lot (on top of the 2.35% fees they charge anyway). Please contact Paypal at this link http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/websc...contact-gene ral to ask them to forward the funds to the Red Cross immediately, and reinstate the account so people can continue donating. Thanks for your help P.S. feel free to copy to other forums or forward by email

Something Awful is Somewhere Awful After the plug was pulled on the popular somethingawful.com, Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka of SomeThingAwful.com, hoping to focus the community's efforts on raising money for the Red Cross, in exchange for SomethingAwful.com merchandise, found his fundraising drive cancelled, by PayPal.com, when they shut down his account and stole the $20,000 dollars the members had raised for Hurricane Katrina. Everybody needs to see the complete insensitivity that PayPal has. They have no shame. They have taken money that was going to the Red Cross, used their policies against a fine internet community, and has stolen Hurricane Katrina fund money. This cannot go unpunished.

I actually said the worst hurricance, not the strongest. Katrina was Cat5 over the gulf, and maximum sustained winds were 175 MPH with gusting up to 205 to 210, according to the National Hurricane Center and NASA.

Yes, like I said, it's been under sea level since they built the levees (after flooding), but it was not built below sea level. In any case, you can't simply abandon a city of 1,000,000 that routes ~25% of the nations energy because of that.

I've also read the National Disaster Plan (former military), though that was before the creation of DHS. The governor should have asked sooner, but even without an immediate request for aid, I don't see why they weren't prepping like the DoD.

It was a failure on all levels. The NOPD has been rife with corruption for as long as I've been alive, and buying new radios just wasn't on the agenda. That being said, they -did- do the best with what they had when it hit. While corruption and failure to prepare properly (as in the radios, not necessarily the supplies) certainly contributed to the situation, they stepped up to the plate a lot faster than the federal government. The state seems to be impotent.

I don't honestly know why they didn't prepare better. I don't know why he didn't commandeer buses (school buses were probably out of the scope of his authority to take, though). A lot of people didn't expect it to be as bad as it was in NO, and some of it can be attributed to that. It's a failure in every possible way, but my point was that once the scope of the disaster was realized, it took too long.

I don't expect the guard to be waiting at the borders to every state when a hurricane hits, but when it's a Cat5 (as Katrina was until shortly before landfall), they certainly should be. They were for Andrew. It took about a day for troops to make it there. Ft. Polk is a 6 hour drive from NO, and it's the seat of the JROC as well as OpFor. With DoD directives in place, a federal state of disaster should have been declared IMMEDIATELY, like it has been for every other major (and a few minor) hurricane in the last decade, and aid would have been able to make it much faster.

I think the problem is that the buck never stops. Ray Nagin will blame it on the fed, who'll blame it on the LA governor, who'll blame it on FEMA, etc. Somebody's going to have to take the fall for it eventually, and we'll just have to see who. I think Something Awful says it much better than I could...

http://www.somethingawful.com/

SA was apparently hosted there so has gone down ("either underwater or strapped to the roof of a stolen vehicle that is also underwater.").

They've got a page up at the moment with their feelings about the whole business which is worth a read (scroll down a bit till you get to "Bless This Mess")

For an interesting perspective on the esteemed Mr. Boll and the way he operates, check out this report:

http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=2649

As someone who has worked in the film industry, this story just rings entirely too true.

http://www.wwltv.com/ (a New Orleans TV station) is webcasting live streaming video of their newsfeed, and http://www.somethingawful.com/ (a very large humor website & forum), which is hosted in downtown NO, is still operational. I guess that in this case the Internet is working as designed, and routing around damaged nodes (however I've heard the bandwidth in and out of NO is much lower than normal due to damaged/destroyed/inoperable routers, switches, cables, etc.).

Who the hell says interweb?

Cliff Yablonski does.