Plutonians are teh s uck

Name this tune

2009-08-24T23:58:56Z

I have an old cassette recording from when I was about 12 years old (1982-ish) of an early Doug E. Fresh tune and I would love to track down a good copy. I don't know the name of the song, but here's some of the lyrics. Please help me figure it out...

I'm the human beatbox known as Doug Fresh,
and I'm - known for more and not for less,
See, my rhymes are good as gold in a treasure chest,
and the way I rock people think I'm blessed,
And if by now you haven't guessed,
I'm the human beatbox soloist,
So fresh the ladies can't resist,
and they love it when I just go like this...........

UPDATE: I found it...

Dougy Fresh - The Original Human Beat Box - 1984
http://www.discogs.com/Dougy-Fresh-The-Original-Human-Beat-Box/release/58009

How Healthcare Killed His Father

2009-08-15T19:06:37Z

Here's a great article about the American health care system. It identifies the root problems that exist in our current system and why the proposed "reform" isn't really addressing any of them. Personally, I'm for health care reform. It's obvious that the current system is broken and unsustainable, but if we don't address the fundamental problems in the system, passing health care reform is just flushing money down the toilet.

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200909/health-care

A taste:

Accidentally, but relentlessly, America has built a health-care system with incentives that inexorably generate terrible and perverse results. Incentives that emphasize health care over any other aspect of health and well-being. That emphasize treatment over prevention. That disguise true costs. That favor complexity, and discourage transparent competition based on price or quality. That result in a generational pyramid scheme rather than sustainable financing. And that—most important—remove consumers from our irreplaceable role as the ultimate ensurer of value.

From later in the article:

Health insurance is different from every other type of insurance. Health insurance is the primary payment mechanism not just for expenses that are unexpected and large, but for nearly all health-care expenses. We’ve become so used to health insurance that we don’t realize how absurd that is. We can’t imagine paying for gas with our auto-insurance policy, or for our electric bills with our homeowners insurance, but we all assume that our regular checkups and dental cleanings will be covered at least partially by insurance.

Comprehensive health insurance is such an ingrained element of our thinking, we forget that its rise to dominance is relatively recent. Modern group health insurance was introduced in 1929, and employer-based insurance began to blossom during World War II, when wage freezes prompted employers to expand other benefits as a way of attracting workers. Still, as late as 1954, only a minority of Americans had health insurance. That’s when Congress passed a law making employer contributions to employee health plans tax-deductible without making the resulting benefits taxable to employees. This seemingly minor tax benefit not only encouraged the spread of catastrophic insurance, but had the accidental effect of making employer-funded health insurance the most affordable option (after taxes) for financing pretty much any type of health care. There was nothing natural or inevitable about the way our system developed: employer-based, comprehensive insurance crowded out alternative methods of paying for health-care expenses only because of a poorly considered tax benefit passed half a century ago.

In designing Medicare and Medicaid in 1965, the government essentially adopted this comprehensive-insurance model for its own spending, and by the next year had enrolled nearly 12% of the population. And it is no coincidence that the great inflation in health-care costs began soon after. We all believe we need comprehensive health insurance because the cost of care—even routine care—appears too high to bear on our own. But the use of insurance to fund virtually all care is itself a major cause of health care’s high expense.

The Angle of the Dangle is Inversely Proportional to the Heat of the Meat

2009-07-26T06:22:37Z

Tanking Advantage of the "Angle"

Crazy Photos

2009-07-19T23:09:26Z

The picture below is just the tip of the iceberg...

http://fishki.net/comment.php?id=30819

Wii Emm Cee Ayy

2009-05-21T21:42:05Z

I really hope that they make this available in the US...

Battle of the Guitar Hero Robots

2009-05-14T21:05:34Z

In this first video, an enterprising person built a custom computer, wired it into an XBox controller, and fed it the note sequence for the song. It took him a while, but he eventually got it tweaked to the point that the "bot" can get a perfect score.

Compare that to this video, in which some students at a technical college built a robot that "watches" the screen and physically plays a real guitar hero guitar controller. While their robot doesn't get perfect scores, it's a little more impressive in my opinion. Plus, it can play ANY song, unlike the first "bot", which can only play songs that it's explicitly programmed to play.

http://tinyurl.com/guitar-hero-robot

Best....App....Ever....

2009-04-24T04:26:28Z

Excuse me if I offend, but I find this fucking hilarious...

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-talk-baby-shakerapr24,0,6874829.story

Apple just learned that lesson the hard way. The company apologized Thursday for selling a 99-cent iPhone application called "Baby Shaker" in its online store. The application allowed iPhone users to silence a virtual crying infant by shaking the device. After enough shakes, the baby on the screen stopped screaming and a large red "X" appeared over each eye. Apple first posted the application Monday, the start of Shaken Baby Syndrome Awareness Week.

"Anybody with any decency would be appalled by this," said Jennipher Dickens, the mother of a child with the syndrome and a spokeswoman for the Sarah Jane Brain Foundation. "An application that simulates killing a baby, because it's crying? What sick person would come up with that?"

Google "Mail Goggles" helps prevent emailing while drunk

2008-10-07T16:46:44Z

I bet some of the people on my friends list (not naming any names) wish they had this feature on Livejournal...

When you enable Mail Goggles, it will check that you're really sure you want to send that late night Friday email. And what better way to check than by making you solve a few simple math problems after you click send to verify you're in the right state of mind?

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/new-in-labs-stop-sending-mail-you-later.html

Stalin... I mean... Palin

2008-09-29T22:30:07Z

Separated at Birth: Davros and Lucy

2008-04-06T19:12:17Z

Unborn Baby Ornament - US Troop Model

2007-12-04T20:19:47Z

Unborn Baby Ornament - US Troop Model

Protect our troops - from the womb to the war. What if the fetus you were going to abort would grow up to be a soldier bringing democracy to a godless dictatorship?

Plastic replica of an 11-12 week old fetus, 3" long, holding a firearm in its precious little hand, with an assortment of other military paraphernalia, encased in a translucent plastic ornament, with a patriotic yellow ribbon on top. Includes a metal ornament hanger. If only a womb were this safe, attractive and reasonably priced!

Show that you support the "culture of life" by buying and proudly displaying one of these patriotic unborn Americans.

World of Warcraft : tank + paladin = tankadin.com

2007-08-21T02:45:41Z

I just launched my new site, http://www.tankadin.com. A site dedicated to World of Warcraft paladin tanks. I also installed forums at http://www.tankadin.com/forum/.

I used Joomla! for the main site and Simplemachines Forums (SMF) for the message boards. I tied it all together with the Community Builder plugin from Joomlapolis and the Joomla-SMF plugin from JoomlaHacks. Finally the look of the site is courtesy of a template called Rubicon from Joomlashack. The theme on the forms is the default SMF theme heavily modified to make it look more like the main site.

Joomla, SMF, Community Builder, JSMF

2007-08-08T18:46:17Z

Dear Internet,

Does anyone have experience building a website using Joomla for the CMS, Simplemachines Forums (SMF), Community Builder (CB), and the Joomlahacks Joomla-SMF (JSMF) bridge?

I snagged a wonderful domain name and I'm putting together my first community site. My hosting provider offers Joomla 1.0.13 and SMF 1.1.3 in their included script bundle.

I'm planning on throwing CB 1.1 into the mix (as soon as they release it [taps foot] ) and tying it together using JSMF so there is a single login.

I'm an experienced software developer and I've done my share of web work (html/xml/php/etc...) but this is the first time I've done anything like this using off the shelf packages and I'm wondering if there are any pitfalls I should be aware of and actively trying to avoid.

The ReDistricting Game

2007-06-19T16:07:03Z

The ReDistricting Game
http://www.redistrictinggame.com/

JediInsider.com Star Wars Celebration IV: Family Guy Preview

2007-06-05T22:05:13Z

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-ehLDVoujI

Mmmmm.... that's good soup.

2007-04-19T23:03:51Z

Warcraft camel toe

2006-12-04T17:27:25Z

This is an actual un-photoshopped screen shot from World of Warcraft...

Those wacky Japanese and their fetishes....

2006-10-05T23:41:35Z

Click if you dare...

If you like it, you can buy the whole DVD...
http://deeps.net/html/dvd_list/2004/h1611/uma095/index.html

Who voted for the "torture bill"?

2006-09-30T17:41:46Z

See who voted for the "torture bill" (click picture for detailed stats)

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h2006-491

Why The American Media Sucks: In Four Simple Pictures

2006-09-25T23:44:07Z

BS Alert.com - Why The American Media Sucks: In Four Simple Pictures

Jacqueline Mackie Paisley Passey: High Quality Woman

2006-08-21T19:37:57Z

Jacqueline Mackie Paisley Passey: High Quality Woman

Vault Disney

2006-08-06T05:16:23Z

Robert Smigel does it again...

Missed it by that much...

2006-07-05T05:34:12Z

On the news last week, I kept seeing a crawl at the bottom of the screen about North Korea and their long range missile that could hit the US.

I read this article today that featured the picture below showing that "could hit the US" actually means "thought capable of reaching Alaska".

This is another classic case of the news outlets trying to stir people up about stupid shit so that they don't have to report on real news items like our corrupt politicians and the corporate lobbyists that own them.

Phallic Ice Cream

2006-06-30T13:58:31Z

I'm not really sure what to say about this...

Dear lazyweb...

2006-06-29T16:23:29Z

I was listening to MSNBC (or CNBC or whatever they're calling it now) on the way home last night on my XM radio.

They were talking about a guy who digs up dirt and exposes bad companies (think Enron) on his website with the intention of short selling their stock. I thought it would be interesting to see what kind of dirt he digs up.

I can't for the life of me remember the website. If anyone knows (or can find it), I will be eternally grateful.

Plutonians are teh s uck

Name this tune

How Healthcare Killed His Father

The Angle of the Dangle is Inversely Proportional to the Heat of the Meat

Crazy Photos

Wii Emm Cee Ayy

Battle of the Guitar Hero Robots

Best....App....Ever....

Google "Mail Goggles" helps prevent emailing while drunk

Stalin... I mean... Palin

Separated at Birth: Davros and Lucy

Unborn Baby Ornament - US Troop Model

World of Warcraft : tank + paladin = tankadin.com

Joomla, SMF, Community Builder, JSMF

The ReDistricting Game

JediInsider.com Star Wars Celebration IV: Family Guy Preview

Mmmmm.... that's good soup.

Warcraft camel toe

Those wacky Japanese and their fetishes....

Who voted for the "torture bill"?

Why The American Media Sucks: In Four Simple Pictures

Jacqueline Mackie Paisley Passey: High Quality Woman

Vault Disney

Missed it by *that* much...

Phallic Ice Cream

Dear lazyweb...

Missed it by that much...