Author: Falldog
Playmobil’s Security Checkpoint
My girlfriend sent me a link to this rather odd offering from Playmobil…
That’s right. Playmobil has made a set depicting the romping grounds of authority crazed TSA employees. The set comes complete with a conveyor X-ray machine and metal detector. Everything a small child* needs to fantasize his afternoon away. Unfortunately points are lost due to the lack of accuracy. No trashcans full of water bottles? Whatever will employees fit over?
Despite this disheartening lack of detail Playmobil has attempted to raise appeal with the following description…
POPULATION: None
| It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not everyone of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination. |
Top Coat Guide – Updated
Just wanted to post a note that I’ve updated the Top Coat Guide to include picture comparisons. Go me!
Sometimes, Digg Confuses Me
Throughout the primaries and presidential election of 2008 I was witness to some of the most ignorant speech regarding candidates on Digg. From both sides, Democrat and Conservative. To be fair, some of the most idiotic shit came from the conservatives trying to muster false accusations against Obama.
This leads to the fact that Digg is a primarily liberal place, especially with the application of technology and electronic freedom. One thing that should follow alongside that idea is the freedom of speech. The freedom to say anything you like (to some sort of reasonable extent, e.g. shouting fire in a movie theater) regardless of what other people think. Somehow, I think Digg disagrees.
Things I hate Vol. 00001: Shopping Malls
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It is difficult to comprehend the radical import of Dawn of the Dead without briefly considering the significance and history of its setting — the shopping mall. The dawn of the shopping mall age in the 1960s was met with widespread enthusiasm, and mass hysteria was even reported at several newly-opened malls (Morris 405). In recent decades, mall hysteria may be less common, but the shopping mall remains a cultural fascination in capitalist countries, while in cinema, malls have become a staple location for smart-ass American teen movies, like Amy Heckerling’s Clueless (1995). It is easy to underestimate, therefore, the relative novelty, in 1978, of Romero’s simple but inspired idea of setting Dawn of the Dead in a mall.
According to Meaghan Morris, one of the most exciting and attractive aspects of the shopping mall is the contrast between its massive structural stability and the constantly shifting composition of its population (394). In this sense, a mall is like a theatre or a stage: a space demanding action and transformation. Romero certainly recognized the dramatic potential of the mall, which may be regarded as both the epitome of corporate capitalism and — for the same reason — a potential site of resistance to the forces that regulate consumerism. [Source]
imgDump.info Updates
First off, my apologies if your accounts are missing in action. A clean copy of the DB was made a few weeks ago, edits were made against that copy, and was used for this version of the site. If you registered at the old site between then and now your account no longer exists. Please register again.
Awesome New Features:
– Adult Content behind approval button. Okay, probably not the best title for it. From now on you don’t have to become a registered user in order to view adult content!
– New Ads. Maybe not the most awesome feature, but they help pay for the host.
Sci Fi vs Gurren Lagann
As many of you know by now Gurren Lagann has begun its first airing in the United States. Every Monday at 11PM EST you can catch two new episodes, airing only on the Sci Fi channel. Sounds great right? An amazing series with an average dub getting air time is always great. Unfortunately Sci Fi, best known for bringing us epic series’ such as Battlestar Galactica and countless original movies no one will ever watch, is ruining the experience.
If you’ve yet to tune in you might be asking how. Let’s start by looking at some basic times…