The Maudlin Press

Not entirely SFW. Be forewarned. Just a song for the ladies, by Jon Lajoie

From the Gizmodo article:

I was already astonished to no end by the tour of the Lego factory. No, this was something else, something bigger than the impressive view of the 4,720 Lego sets inside this lair. These weren’t just simple boxes full of bricks. These were tickets to ride a time portal to emotions and simpler days long forgotten.

This is fascinating from a content perspective as well as the shear speed with which the first presenter can talk.

My god.. watch the drummer. Quote from the original Esquire article,

“You could be wheelbarreling a supermodel offstage right while watching the Super Bowl and this guy would still be having more fun than you.”

.. I know one person whos is going to hyperventilate about this.

From the linked article:

“It takes some serious game to rise above the legions of mediocre DIYers out there and stand tall as a true legend. Judging by the video posted up after the cut, James Houston can now consider himself one of the elite. Somehow, this cat managed to tackle the nearly impossible task of remixing Radiohead’s Nude without defacing it entirely (read: merging bits and pieces of the tune into a 4/4 arrangement and calling it a day). Instead, he utilized a host of aging hardware (Sinclar ZX Spectrum, Epson LX-81 dot matrix printer, HP Scanjet 3c, etc.) to create a rendition that even Yorke could admire”

I really do. I have the books, I have the movies. Its a remarkably well written series. The whole universe holds a special place in my heart. I do get mildly irritated when my other half calls the Sorting Hat “The hat of choosing” and blatantly makes up crap.

That said, the PPP is pretty funny..

I realize this might be slightly controversial, but what the hell.

A spate of recent stories lead me to as what the F@#$% is wrong with the English. Honestly, as Nice as the British Isles are, I don’t think I could ever live there.

Perfect example would be this

Miss Maxwell’s local council has decided that the pool - which is only 2ft deep - needs a lifeguard. The 47-year-old divorced mother of three has also been told she must have insurance before she can inflate the toy outside her house in Portsmouth.

And This:

A football fan says police ordered him to remove an England flag from his car – because it could be deemed racist.

Aaaaannnd this:

For 150 years, it has stood in splendid serenity on the village green, harming no one and pleasing many. Over the decades, the monkey puzzle tree at West Cross, near Swansea, became a much-loved local landmark. But now it is facing the chop … because, in modern Britain, the needle-like points of its leaves are deemed a danger to health and safety.

Some people may not be aware of the TV tax as well:

In the United Kingdom, citizens must pay a licence if they own a television set. That’s right, a TV tax. For Americans, the whole idea of an annual tax to own a television borders on the absurd….

And how can they tell if you have an unlicensed TV? well..

Part of the work is done in special “detector vans.” The TVLA website explains that “every TV contains a component called the ‘local oscillator’, which emits a signal when the television is switched on. It’s this signal that the equipment on our vans picks up. But, what if you live in a block of flats or a house without road access? Well if this is the case our enquiry officer can simply use one of our hand-held scanners. Measuring both direction and strength of signal, they make it easy for us to locate television sets in hard to reach places.”

Apparently the British authorities are determined to remove anything remotely offensive or dangerous from their society, usually at the expense of free speech, personal liberty and property rights. We often complain about the laws and limits placed on us by our government, but life in Brittan is quickly approaching the totalitarian society depicted in “V for Vendetta”.

I’ll be the first to admit that America has its problems as well, with our war-hawk government attempting to be the world police, poor fiscal policy, drug use  and so on.. But any attempt to enact the level of control the English take for granted would result in a rebellion.

USA to Briton: Your a laughingstock to the free world. Get your head out of your colective asses and do something about it.

Although I don’t broadcast it, I am an Atheist. This comic pretty much sums it up for me.

This is brilliant and a little nuts. It was done as a part for a DHL advertising campaign, but don’t let that spoil it. a suitcase fitted with a GPS broadcaster was shipped via DHL with very specific routing information. The GPS was tracked, and when plotted, it drew a portrait of the artist.