Web Series: Pioneer One
Pioneer One is a web series that is gaining a lot of momentum with the drama and sci-fi fanbases alike. The creators initially raised $6000 for the pilot through the funding site Kickstarter.com. Within the first week the pilot episode had been downloaded 420,000 times, 170,000 more downloads than predicted. Distributed through vodo, bit-torrent and Vimeo, the pilot was featured at the New York Television Festival and won Best Dramatic Series. They are gearing up to release episodes 3 and 4. And I have to say it's a must watch. the production is impressive given the low budget and the story itself as with the acting are on par with a larger flick.
From the website:
A mysterious spaceship enters Earth's atmosphere, spreading radiation over hundreds of miles of rural Montana. Officials are quick to bring up the possibility of a terrorist attack, specifically the detonation of a dirty bomb, but an investigation of the debris in Canada uncovers a live human being in a Soviet space suit in an unstable condition. A note handwritten in Russian found at the crash site says that the man is the child of cosmonauts living at a base on Mars.
Check them out at: http://www.pioneerone.tv/
I'd also highly recommend sending some cash their way after you buy me a beer for telling you about such a great series.
Help Mom, There are liberals under the bed!
Kids Book???
In case you missed this monstrosity, I present to you Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed! Kill me now....
From the description on Amazon.com:
This full-color illustrated book is a fun way for parents to teach young children the valuable lessons of conservatism. Written in simple text, readers can follow along with Tommy and Lou as they open a lemonade stand to earn money for a swing set. But when liberals start demanding that Tommy and Lou pay half their money in taxes, take down their picture of Jesus, and serve broccoli with every glass of lemonade, the young brothers experience the downside to living in Liberaland.
From the Publisher
Would you let your child read blatantly liberal stories with titles such as "King & King;" "No, George, No;" or "It's Just a Plant?" Unless you live in Haight-Ashbury or write for the New York Times, probably not. But with the nation's libraries and classrooms filled with overtly liberal children's books advocating everything from gay marriage to marijuana use, kids everywhere are being deluged with left-wing propaganda. "Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed" is the book conservative parents have been seeking. This illustrated book -- the first in the "Help! Mom!" series from Kids Ahead -- is perfect for parents who seek to share their traditional values with their children, as well as adults who wish to give a humorous gift to a friend. Praised by Rush Limbaugh and hailed as "the answer to a baseball mom's prayers" by talk radio host Melanie Morgan, this book has already been the subject of coverage in The Wall Street Journal and Harper's magazine. Written by a self-proclaimed "Security Mom for Bush" and featuring hilarious full-color illustrations by a Reuben Award winning artist, it is certain to be one of the most talked about children's books of the year.
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Be sure to click to have a look inside the cover and read a few pages. Anyone else think this is supposed to be a joke, or seriously for kids?
Katherine Debrecht has more recently graced us with another fine literary work called Help Mom, Radicals Are Ruining My Country.. The description reads:
"A hilarious and entertaining way for parents to sit down with their children and teach them the origins of the new Tea Party movement and the importance of standing up for liberty and the American Dream.Follow Tommy and Lou as they struggle to keep their swing set business afloat despite 246 czars, onerous regulations and sky-high taxes in these troubling times. Will Tommy and Lou finally decide to join the other kids on the corner in standing up for freedom or will they continue to fear being vilified by the press and demeaned by Marxus Obundus (“the One”)? "
Unfortunately even the publisher has pulled this one from their website making it difficult to make fun of.
IPv4 Countdown, down to the days.

Are you ready for IPv6? Only a few days left until the ipv4 apocalypse.
Some interesting links:
Fox news has no idea what they are reporting on:
"Web developers have tried to compensate for this problem by creating IPv6 -- a system that recognizes six-digit IP addresses rather than four-digit ones."
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/01/26/internet-run-ip-addresses-happens-anyones-guess/
Twitter Feed reporting the countdown:
http://twitter.com/IPv4Countdown
Facebook Page
http://www.facebook.com/pages/IPv4-Countdown/162683847102050
Want a countdown widget thingy? On your phone perhaps?
http://ipv6.he.net/statistics
For those who aren't in the know of this techno-apocalypse wikipedia has the answers for you:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4_address_exhaustion
Mel’s Hole
Broadcasting from his double-wide trailer in Nevada, Art bell was good at what he did, and in his heyday, there was one broadcast that had me completely enthralled. Mel's hole is one of those stories I listened to on the edge of my seating cursing commercials because they where too long.
I came across some mp3s of the broadcast(s) and here they are. The story is basically this
The hole, the story goes, exists outside of town on land once owned by a man who calls himself Mel Waters. For years, he said, it was used as the neighborhood dump for trash, old appliances, dead cattle. When the hole never filled up, Waters measured its depth by lowering weighted fishing line into it. After 80,000 feet, he gave up. Amazed by this odd place (which dogs and birds avoided), Waters called radio host Art Bell, whose late-night show on conspiracies and the paranormal attracts a huge national audience.
Download The Radio Broadcast Here:
http://files.tnlsoft.com/melshole.zip
A short video about Mel's Hole
http://www.uwtv.org/programs/displayevent.aspx?rID=5160&fID=1474
News Story:
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20020414&slug=melshole14m
A quick google search for Mel's Hole will bring you tons more information.
I run a radio stream that plays all of Mel's hole plus a lot of similar things at http://www.u7radio.org
TweetThe Great Credit Card Prank

This is hilarious.. be sure to check out the great credit card prank II linked at the end of the article!
Credit card signatures are a useless mechanism designed to make you feel safe, like airport security checks. So my question was, how crazy would I have to make my signature before someone would actually notice?
http://www.zug.com/pranks/credit/





