Off with their thumbs and the mark of the beast

The mayor of Las Vegas, Mayor Goodman has been in the news lately with his comment of his recommendation of putting taggers on tv and severing off their thumbs. If you don't know why its because thats the finger you use for a spray can. Some suggest such a problem wouldn't be as it is if action hadn't occcured much earlier such as when people complained and it literaly went unanswered. But there is somethings being done such as the fineing for defacement of property, that is if they are able to catch the culprit of the crime. Mainly being charged per brick of the wall sprayed on and the service of cleaning it up. It has since increased as many are being tired of having to pay, its especially a group effort it a lot occurs within a neighborhood. Im a bit amazed at the effort that is done to mark their spot with eccentric monikers and anonymous three lettered crew initials. From abandoned buildings, billboards, water towers, school roofs, the list goes on and on. I think simply fineing them is letting them off easy, especially if they can afford all those cans(there not exactly making a profit from it). It should include community service of removing taggings regardless if its theirs or someone elses(they'll be punished eventually). Imagine how funny it would be if there picture was put up at any place that sells spray paint prohibiting them to purchase anymore, though people will just get around it by having others buy for them. Heck, why not step it up a bit and rip a chapter from big brothers book and make use of rfid tags? They're already in use that truckers are worked to the rim and never have time for breaks and in products like shavers so that when you pick one up a secret picture is taken and is matched with those that purchased on(I know its in development but not sure if its used yet. But if theres more info to be desired the much syndicated [blank] for dummies got your back(they really do!). So um' ya simply figure out where the most tagged spots are, put rfid tags there, then get your premium round up of spray paints and have them out fitted with those tags too. When these tags are near proximity of a no spray zone(that have rfid tags) the can will disable and no tagging will take place, voila problem solved. For paint that is, but markers will be another story since children and teenagers alike still make use of them in class rooms and when making banners. Guess you can't take care of all the surrounding problems, but thats what you get with messing with Big Brothers bag of tricks and treats(technology itself has no morals!). And a word to taggers, please please stop with the pointless chicken scratch, you want to make art then do so, I find it very retarded that much ink and paint is wasted on rocks, trees, and mailboxes. A graff artist once wrote(sprayed) thats its much a sin or travesty for a creative artist to not share his style and inspire others(atleast I think thats how it went). There used to be some interesting pieces(art) done on walls and now all I see is advertising and shitty crew names and street numbers...and I cant wait for them all to be crossed out and painted over. Then again maybe the mayor wasn't over his head with his recent comment on punishing taggers either.

Free is good

Not much has gone on recently even halloween was slow, I basically stayed and handed out candy and to my suprise there were no drones and armies of costumed mischief this time of the year. No tp'ed houses, no eggings, nothing noda, zip, zilch occured. For a second I actually thought I had gone mad for going outside with a bowl of candy thinking that it was Halloween, and luckily I wasn't as there were people(though few at most) arrived. Not much news today huh? On another rhetorical and unimportant anouncement Belgium have their very on .com extension which is .be and there actualy is a site giving away atleast 10 free domains per individual till the end of January good for one year! But Im not gonna give out the site(theyre been mention Im sure on other blogs, forums, del.icio.us, and digg) since I too want to get in on one(or ten). Theres also a list out there that lists the numorous says that end in "be" for people to capitalize on the .be of the domain.

Also theres word that the fifth generation Ipod(I pood) is doing much better than the Ipod Nano(ha ha). I really don't care, maybe if Apple make enough new and improved products then some day I'll have enough to pick up one(doesn't matter how old) and the good ole cd player can R.I.P. in that box filled with forgotten and neglected tech toys in the bottom desk drawer(i.e. Palm Pilot and the N-Gage).

W00t W00t link of the month *drum roll*.......*trumpets* is http://tinyurl.com/byboj
Its a link to a cool ebook search engine with links to download ebooks of sorts submitted by members. First timers get a good week or two and then have to upload, the site even shows a few links where to find some that get refreshed and that you can use to submit. But since Im feelin' nice: sn: suck pw:suck , and for those that use this account I just showed ya you have 35 days left for it to work(unless you feel nice and add some links for that account hint hint).

Should the RIAA just shut it?!?!

Don't get me wrong recording artists have every right to protect their songs but is it really worth all the trouble. If Im not mistaken on average an artist won't make much per record sale, about around 30 cents or so is what they take. Hence going gold can really ruin your career and render it short. So alternate means have arised to bring in more revenue for these artists, insert concerts, merchandise, appearances and there music being licensed for movies, commercials and allowed for cover songs to be done. So should they really care about "losing" there money from folks at home downloading their songs(when only 2 or 3 are actually good of an album). The bottom line is they don't make much unless they have a shitload or licensed crap and sold by the truckloads. Thats why pop music and boy bands make so much, from their merchandise and re-releasing albums with bonus(bogus) songs and dvd special. Big deal if record sales are going down-does it really mean that these suckers are making anyless. Nope--they should just get over it and understand that piracy will never end or at least not on there terms. They should be more concerned on how their music is being leaked before there release. As I stated they really don't make much to begin with from record sales alone, from marketing, studio time, manufacturing of the discs, the delivering, and the music videos and music being played on stations, and lawyers and legal fees. Even worse if your a rapper, you get signed, uncle sam takes half commision, got half a million left, then you need a chain, a car, and a house and then theres your crew left to take care of. Then whats left of that you need to shoot a music video. Pray you get good sales and get the green light to tour and work on another album and the groupies shall come in drones. Basically the only real product is your shiny popular ass and everything else is either to advertise or monopolize on top of that image. So they you have it folks an open plea for the RIAA to just shut it and the noobs guide to economics in the recording industry.

The unoffical-unrecommended-nonresponsibly-not-so-safe-guide to being famous! Part one

Have a niche, steal, rob, brutalize, do drugs, whatever, heck do em' all at once.

Crash celebrity parties.

Pretend to be a relative of a celebrity.

Marry and knock one up.

Audition for American Idol, make sure your either the worst or your the second best.

Appear on COPS during Spring Break.

Make it as a child actor.

Judge Judy...

Pick a fight w/ Gary Coleman.

Try out for any if all the reality shows.

When you get on one make out and get drunk as much as possible.

Streak during the World Series.

Abuse steroids.

Develop a habit.

Win a million on Jeopardy.

Woo a super model.

Join scientology...

Run away and return within a day or two worth of news coverage.

Then accept a half a million contract with ABC to do a special on you.

Petition the Prez and join the likes of Michael Moore.

Do a collaboration w/ Modonna.

To be continued---

But how does he do it???

If anyone has been watching A&E lately especially on wednesday you'll now of a show called Mindfreak. A show about a magician who does hyped up stunts by stalling with cool street magic and then doing his crazy yet awesome stunt at the end leaving us in awe and completly confused at the same time. I have just like everyother person who has tuned in up till now to try and figure out how he does it everytime only to come up with a blank slate. Or up until now that is-his recent stunt was to play chicken with The Amazing Johnathen. Originally chicken is where two guys are at opposit ends for some distance and then charge head on in their vehicles in hopes of being the bravest and turning the last second right after the other dude to avoid collision, i.e. first dude to turn away is a chicken hence the name. In Chris Angel's stunt he's up against a wall as a target for Johnathen to charge his car at. Instead of dodging the car at the last second Chris stays put and gets pummeled through the brick wall and is left in a pile or ruble in front of the car playing dead or that he's badly injured. To our suprise he's alright and rises up without a scratch. Now to figure out how the hell he did that. I think part of the wall is real but the mid-section where the car and Chris crash through is fake. In indie video production whenever they need to erect a temporary wall of some sort they use real bricks but use folded gray towels(martha stewart brand!) and lay the bricks on top of it instead of using mortar. The result is stunning and realistic and doesn't call for a wrecking crew to disassemble the wall. So first the fake portion is set up and the real brick in mortar is built around it(otherwise all those bricks would've came crashing down on him. Now those fake bricks-yup I think the mid-section is made up of cheap bricks ready to crap out as he and the car passes through. Since there was an audience cheezy foam bricks weren't used. Most likely cheap clay bricks were used-heck over baked dough can look realistic and crumble just the way in a realistic fashion. The car- the front bumper and hood were probably fiberglass, sturdy enough to keep form yet flexible to give way to anything slamming down on it(unless your using in axe, it just punctures through). So there you have my have baked explanation on how the chicken stunt was accomplished with out pointing out to conspiracy theories or the use of cgi. Just don't try this at home kiddies, remember Chris Angel is a professional Mindfreak and only such folks as him are capable of completly leaving an audience stunned and confused, except for this weeks stunt(thanks to me!). Now to figure out those awesome card tricks...

Hollywood hates Hackers!

Notice the great lengths good ole Hollywood goes to demean hackers? Like portraying them as always some social shut-in looking fella with a poorly lit room(they spend all their money on cool light up keyboards) with grunge music or something playing in the backround. Apparently when they're not trading movie spoilers on irc or downloading porn they're wrecking havoc and being a pain to the NSA and CIA. And its a poor portrail also, like they have cool looking interface that are some basic yet smart, just type its command in plain basic english and it understands it performs in a matter seconds. Does'nt matter if your on a 26k modem-just guess some simple password and you get access to all the governments files from its website. Only if it was that easy to change your school grades from at home and not resort to cheating or switching papers. Oh no just locate the local checker wearing Chettos eating hacker and he can have access in no time with his computer that looks like its displaying a power point presentation and making all kinds of beeping each key he taps. The media is no different everytime theres a new virus attacking servers and the like. In my pointless and uninformational opinion a hacker is just a person with great interest and skill applicable to computers(more or so of what Kevin Mitnick describes in his book), plain in simple. But now in this age this label has taken on a much darker meaning with its liberal use of those loose lip gossipers others refer to as the media. But yeah, all you need is a laptop and cell phone and you too can be enemy of the state. Here's an interesting link with a list of hacker cliche's used in movies.

Why Im not an Apple fanboy...

I don't know about you but I really don't understand Apple's game plan. Every time they unveil something its just another re-imagining of the wheel. I never liked their computers, the last time I messed with one was when they had that hockey-puck mouse and that was at school. Why do people keep buying these pieces of shit?! The second you buy one its already obsolete--a few months down the road they already got another model coming out leaving you in the dust. You can't really upgrade their junk on your own but you could send it back to the factory for the big boy technicians to fix and screw you out of more of your hard hustled cash. Atleast with a pc I know if something new comes out I can still keep it and just upgrade be it the ram, proccesor, hard drive, video card or whatever. Heck, if I had enough I would buy the new blu-ray burner and be able to add it to my pc. It wasn't until the mac mini that the Apple folks were able to overclock their computers. The only reason I see people buying an apple computer is for imovie, garage band or final cut pro to edit video and make use of Apples' supposed photoshop killer coming out soon. So yeah go out a buy a Ipod Nano(and its shitty breakable screen) or Ipod video, it'll just be another over shadowed product in a few months.