All The News Thats Fit But Skipped
f you thought your town was boring, imagine living in a town where EVERYTHING is boring!
Boring Oregon has a pretty dull road sign.
I thought it was implied that offices were boring?
Who would want to go to this tavern?
Here is the local fire dept:
I used to think my school was bad…
Everyone hop on the exciting bus to Boring, Oregon!
I hope you enjoyed these images!
I found them in a photography book by Martin Purr published by Phaidon Press Lmt. Ny, Ny.
Milo and Otis was a popular flick int he late 80’s that starred a puppy and a kitten as the film’s main characters. They go on a series of adventures that include fording rivers, jumping off cliffs and falling into death pits. Unlike the computer animated films of today, Milo and Otis was filmed using all real animals. And I emphasize the “s” at the end of animals. Rumors have it that the filmmakers may have gone through as many as 27 tabby kittens and several pug dogs. The movie was originally created in Japan by director Masanori Hata and it wasn’t until later that it was released in the Unites Stats. Because there was no such thing as laws forbidding Animal Cruelty in Japan during the 80s the film became a huge hit without much controversy.
As you can see from this extremely poor quality YouTube video, that cat was lucky to survive. Unfortunately, many of its predecessors on the set were not so lucky. This excerpt was taken from the more censored American version; in the original the scene is extended to show the cat trying to climb up onto the rocks after falling from the cliff while getting pounded by waves.
Because of the lack of special effects technology at that time during the 1980s, there is no way these scenes can be fake.
Now I understand that times have changed and with them our views on animal cruelty, and I’m not pointing any fingers here or saying that anyone who likes the movie is an evil kitten killer (but you are). I simply find it an interesting study in the history of film making.
Thought I would stop by 4chan this fine Friday night to see if I could discover something new and disgusting, but instead of the front page, this is what I found:
Welcome To Did It For The Lulz!
Looks like 4chand has become a victim of the of the Lulz it is so famous for. I have to admit the sight did give me lulz, which made the 4chanless night all worth it.
Update: 12/14/07
Looks like 4chan is still gone, but there is a new page in place:
Suspeneded Page. It appears that 4chan’s servers were not compromisd, but the site was a victim of domain name hijacking. Its surprising how such a huge site is still unacessable after so long a time. Maybe the admin, Moot, just doesn’t care and would like the weekend off anyways.
Update: 12/15/07
Suspended page has been updated again, with the text at the bottom reading:
Glexia is in constant contact with Moot and other 4chan executives and we are working both with them and the FBI to resolve this situation as soon as possible.
(Last Edit: 15/12/2007 @ 1:48 PM Eastern)
I went onto Lulz’s IRC channel (irc.diditforthelulz.com) to see what the whole “FBI” deal was about. They told me that some 4channer’s posted cp on the diditforthelulz site as retribution. Talk about a LOL when I heard that one. Anyways, 4chan.org still points to the suspended page, but you can access the site by going to the ip address.
God I love the internet.
Hey all, just wanted to share an awesome story written by one of my alltime favorite authors, Isaac Asimov. Its called
multiVAX
Here is was Mr. Asimov had to say about it:
“This is by far my favorite story of all those I have written. After all, I undertook to tell several trillion years of human history in the space of a short story and I leave it to you as to how well I succeeded. I also undertook another task, but I won’t tell you what that was lest l spoil the story for you. It is a curious fact that innumerable readers have asked me if I wrote this story. They seem never to remember the title of the story or (for sure) the author, except for the vague thought it might be me. But, of course, they never forget the story itself especially the ending. The idea seems to drown out everything — and I’m satisfied that it should.” –Isaac Asimov
Take the time to read it, you won’t regret it.
Here on Forest floor 1, we like to take our pranks seriously. We are in a constant state of war. Everyone is on their toes, everyone is watching their backs. We are warriors.
This weekend the battle turned in favor of Mike, Alex and I.
The method was simple. We bought 4 packs of poppers that contained 4 bags of poppers each. We then removed the rocks from all of them, and separated them into piles - undoing what the unfortunate child labourers in China did to make them. I then wrapped these piles in pieces of a plastic bag and closed them up with scotch tape. These were our bombs. The biggest one, MOAB, was placed inconspicuously in the hall and watched. Soon enough, Kainoa came by and picked it up, it promptly exploded in his face. The noise of 2 1/2 packs of poppers was deadening. We were hysterical. But we had better plans for the next 3, I took them into the bathroom and placed them very carefully under each toilet seat. An intense 45min passed while nobody had to use the bathroom. Eventually Shane, the guy with the ridiculously loud speakers went into the toilet to relieve himself. We listened, and sure enough there came a huge “BAM!” followed by “WHAT THE FUCK???” We were absolutely in stitches. It worked perfectly. Shane came out holding his ears. The next to victims were Myles and Trevor.
We also had some fun that night setting up tripwires with confetti poppers.
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