Archive for July 2012


For Those About To Be Hacked We Salute You

July 26th, 2012 — 10:44am

According to the security company F-Secure, a cyberattack shut down the automation network at two of Iran’s uranium-enrichment plants, then in the middle of the night the computers started playing AC/DC’s Thunderstruck at maximum volume. Apparently the hackers couldn’t secure the rights for Flock of Seagull’s I Ran.

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Best In Peep Show

July 19th, 2012 — 10:09am

Actor Fred Willard was arrested  for lewd conduct at the Tiki Theater, an adult movie theater in Los Angeles last night. At least Willard, known for his roles in Fernwoody 2 Night, Everybody Loves My Raymond, and Idle Hands, wasn’t sitting next to Pee Wee Herman when the undercover cops, uh, grabbed him. In the immortal words of Mike LaFontaine, the character he played in A Mighty Wind, “Wha’ happened?”

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Are We Not Olympians? We Are Devo!

July 13th, 2012 — 11:00am

No sooner did Ralph Lauren show off the uniforms he created for the U.S. Olympic team than people started screaming because it turns out the uniforms are being made entirely in China. Never mind that the athletes will be mistaken for flight attendants should they foolishly wear them on the airplane on the way to London. Nor that it makes them look like they’re on the cover of Devo’s Greatest Hit Or Two. On the positive side, at least Lauren won’t have to worry about the Chinese counterfeiting them. They only do that if there’s a market for them.

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