You scored as Mermaid.

Mermaid: Mermaids are also known as Sirens. These creatures were beautiful women who tricked sailors into becoming completely entranced by their haunting voices and found death soon after. Not all stories of Mermaids are about gentle loving sea people. They are mystical, magical, and extremely dangerous. They have a way about them that brings anyone they are around to seem enchanted. They are very mysterious creatures and to meet one… Would mean certain Death. Let the song of the Sea fill your soul, for you are a Mermaid.

What Mythological Creature are you?

If you’re a geek — and I am — then these lads and ladies have some funny filmed vignettes to tickle your fancy.

Pure Pwnage

“Hot Shot City” “WoW is a Feeling” and “FPS Doug” are particularly good.

This is a conversation from Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, one I’d like to have with some of my clients. I have no will to create, only to spew forth pre-manufactured genius from my Xerox machine of a brain.

Nick the Greek: What else does it come with?

Tom: It comes with a gold-plated Rolls Royce, as long as you pay for it.

Nick the Greek: I thought it included the amp.

Tom: It doesn’t include the amp. It doesn’t include the speakers. And it’s not supposed to include me getting the hump with your questions. You want it, Nick, you buy it.

Nick the Greek: Dunno. Seems expensive.

Tom: Seems? Well, this seems to be a waste of my time. That, my friend, is 900 nicker in any store you’re lucky enough to find one in. And you’re haggling over 200 pound? What school of finance did you come from Nick? “It’s a deal, it’s a steal, it’s Sale of the fucking Century!” In fact, fuck it Nick. I think I’ll keep it!

Nick the Greek: Alright alright, keep your Alans on!

[Peels off notes from his wad]

Nick the Greek: Here’s a ton.

Tom, Eddie: Jesus Christ!

Eddie: You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you’re haggling over one hundred pound? What do you do when you’re not buying stereos Nick? Finance revolutions?

Nick the Greek: 100 pound is still 100 pound.

Tom: Not when the price is 200 pound it’s not. And certainly not when you’ve got Liberia’s deficit in your skyrocket. Tighter than a duck’s butt you are. Now, let me feel the fibre of your fabric.

Something Awful created these honest text book covers, and the RPG community responded with these Overly Honest RPG Book Covers. There’s a lot of repitition and extreme geekery, but interspersed genius, as is true of the commuity at large. Think of it as allegory.

Proliferated from Headless Hollow, a man of many talents and a great sense of humour, particularly since his work (or the stuff encased within his work) receives a great deal of ribbing.

(A vignette in media quotations.)

Let me e’splain… No. There is too much. Let me sum up:¹

My life happens to, on occasion, suck beyond the telling of it.² Now that’s a hard motherfucking fact of life.³

No, I’m pretty fucking far from “OK.”³ But when you can’t run anymore, you crawl. When you can’t do that, you find someone to carry you.⁴ You gotta have your true friends by your side.⁵

But no one seemed to understand. In his heart he knew the artist must be true, but the legend of the rent was way past due.⁶ And I need just a little more silence, and I just need a little more time, the courage to pull away. There will be hell to pay.⁷

But then, if we never _take_ time, how can we ever have time?⁸

(answers here)
(more…)

Hey, this makes sense!

10 reasons why gay marriage should be illegal

“The mentally ill are a lot like spiders. We’re more afraid of you than you are of us. And some of us can walk on ceilings.”

Taken from some LJ site.

At first, the young soldier is conversing with the captain of the large starship about what sort of things change a man, how witnessing horrible things can change your perspective, your life, your morality, etc.

The ship is attacked and the captain and the young soldier deploy two fighters to intercept whatever hit them. After a brief battle, the only survivors are the two fighter ships and a strange automobile-like starship which attempts to escape.

The young soldier, emboldened by his victory so far, chases after the car and blows out the back “windshield.” A strange creature, like a leopard-spotted manta ray chimera with a face similar to the standard alien (large, dark almond eyes, no mouth) flies out into the vacuum, apparently unaffected, and soars over the young soldier’s ship, completely obscuring his vision for a moment.

The soldier maneuvers the ship to face the thing which is now behind him. It swirls until it becomes a hypnotic morass in front of a colorful void, a wormhole seemingly. For a moment the creature hovering in front of the wormhole resembles Michelangelo’s painting on the Sistine Chapel, as seen from the perspective of Adam in the painting, God’s hand reaching out to him.

The ship is pulled into the wormhole, where the soldier now stands — unprotected by ship or suit — in the vacuum, witnessing the galaxies around him as spiraling circles of flame, spinning in their orbits at an incredible rate. The true infintiessimal nature of space is overwhelming and his mind reels. He flinches, unable to tolerate the obscene size of it all. And he seems to be watching it all coalesce in extreme fast-forward, which only makes it more boggling.

He passes out. And wakes on a planet where there are people with their eyes torn from their sockets. He has not been driven mad enough to do the same so he sees their world in ways they cannot. They are peaceful, but ignorant of the problems around them do to their blindness. But he cannot be their savior. He has seen much of what they have seen and cannot forget, cannot blind himself to it.

He eventually wakes up on the ship and it was all a dream. My subconscious really needs to work on those endings.

Screenhead uncovered this beer ad that puts all other beer ads to shame. If you love beer — and who doesn’t? — you should watch this ad while pulling back a draught of your favorite. Bonus: barley.

Carlton Draught – No Explanations (Low Bandwidth)

Non-spoiler character development (and viral marketing for Serenity) for one River Tam. Watch them in the order I posted, which is the order they were “leaked.” (all are .mov files, which require Quicktime.)

Session 416, excerpt 2
Session 1, excerpt 1
Session 22, excerpt 1
Session 165, excerpt 1
Session 416, excerpt 1

And yes, her interviewer is the infamous Joss Whedon, who agreed to act when the short notice didn’t allow them to find an actor. But he’s SO good I wonder why they bothered to look in the first place. Repeat after me you non-believers: Joss is boss.