BATGRU

For real - this is in the lobby of the Russian GRU. Kinda their NSA/CIA/MI/Unnamed spook agency/other agency of the global war machine. Batman's logo. Intentional? Unintentional? Ironic? Means something else? Who knows - Google it yourself! What do I look like, your Google servant? Having a Google servant would be pretty sweet, though, I admit.

Also, sick segue, right? You know where this is going.

Taasty Braains

Mmm, brains. So sweet and tasty. For a zombie, of course, but how 'bout for you? Ever eat brain? Some folks have, all fancy like no doubt, and in the past (way back) most folk did, I reckon - would you pass up any food in 26,000 BCE?

This is a thing, by the by - brain cupcakes. Ask the Great GIS, you'll see. And I marvel at it, as I do all things ridiculous and over the top and just plain wacky, for it is in our creative frivolity when we are most human, aye, when in fact we define humanity par excellence. For it is in luxury, splendor, absurdity that humanity is defined apart from all other life, cuz seriously, what other form of life could even conceive of brain cupcakes?

So I see it too with vegetarianism, also by the way. It's a luxury, a decadence for a scavenger species. We are so well off as a species that I, vegetarian, can forsake biology and evolution and forge a new path, one arguably more healthy and beneficial to the Earth as a whole, but still, a luxury. For when that asteroid hits and sends our planet into decades of darkness, I would not refuse a bite of jerky or hard tack, or even fresh brain. Calories would be all that matters, then. Now? Choice.

And it is in the choosing we are human - in the luxury of choice.

Maquis Special Forces

An actual image shown on a major tv news network - N24, from Germany. In their zeal to post something on the OBL killing (remember that? If a republican had been involved, you sure would), they got an image from the great GIS that was actually fan art from a Star Trek online game. Here's a closeup:

Note the phaser, the Bat'leths, and the Klingon skull with eye patch. And oh yeah - the Maquis were either French resistance fighters in WW2, or resistance fighters in the 24th century fighting both Cardassian and Federation oppression.

Nice work, N24!

For reference, here's the actual Seals Team VI patch (every unit gets a patch - it's like Cub Scouts):

Doublethink: We (USA!) must have the biggest military by far, and often use it, for peace. War for peace. Go figure!

These are the Voyages

Bravo to the dude who, so many movies ago, came up with the meme: Hey! Let's make a porn parody! And thus, a never ending stream of puns was born.

Of course, there are parody Star Trek porns - go ahead and ask the Great GIS, if you dare. You probably shouldn't. Unless that's your thing. Anyways:

I've heard surprisingly good things about this one - regarding the production quality. I mean, look at those actors - they had to fly in the bald dude from England! They've got the whole TNG cast, in porn version. Including, I'll note, shapely Ensign Ro.

I'd never heard of this one before GIS told me. However, from my brief perusal, the production qualities are not as good.

There should be a "Hef Law": Any technology will first be used for porn. I bet the first piece of data sent on the internet was ( @ Y @ ). Or not. I won't take that bet.

Art of the Deal

I spent WAAAY too long today searching for this picture on the intertubes, only to fail. :( I have it at home, and thus my overzealous attempt to find it in the cyberwild. 80's kid, 80's kid olan mills, laser olan mills miami vice, etc.... My googlefu failed, and for that I feel as if I failed myself. After all, how did I first find it if not from the interweb?

But seriously, most of the time it takes me no time at all to find a good pic - I've got mountainloads already stored, and need only search my archives. Or, to the internet. But every once in awhile, one certain idea will grab me and I will search, and search, and search. And certainly, sometimes the failed search turns up something else. But still, the lesson: Know when to hold them, know when to fold them.

Also, too:
80's Sleestack. Make it stick, Google!

Drones 'n Bots (oh my!)

This cheerful fellow is a Navy drone, fully autonomous. Just a few weeks ago, the Navy lost control of a drone like this one over Washington DC. Think of it! For several hours, a robotic killing platform was flying over the capital of the Empire, completely uncontrolled. They did get it to finally land, but I suspect how they did that is "confidential". Surely, no lessons can be learned from this experience.

Here's the MDARS, another fully automated drone. The Defense Department is officially rolling these out as roving security systems covering vast tracts of land in Nevada (nuke sites and the like). They just drive around looking for stuff, all day all night. They're not armed (yet), but as with most of the coolest military toys, it won't be long before some scaled down version reaches the big police departments, and then onto your town. I'm sure they can be reasoned with if they pull you over.

And finally, for now, from the ranks of private industry, comes the Googlecopter. Google's been buying a ton of these bots from a German company, and their plan is to use them to augment their Street View service. And surely, they would never be used for any other purpose.


I could go on - and I will, later. But I hope my point is clear: It's only a matter of time.

This World is My Canvas

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Not just mine, but all of ours, of course. Sad part is most of us are terrible artists.

This is an interesting new art form though - putting up large scale pictures and letting the satellites do the rest. Another new art form I've seen is setting up art for Google Street View, such that a series of still images becomes  a short movie when the Google Van drives by.

Google Maps - Sympathy Killa

This is all Google Map's doing - I was not involved at all.