Posts Tagged ‘Colbert’

Somewhere in the midst of reading about the Rally to Restore Sanity, wishing I could be in DC sometimes, and thinking that if I were straight I should marry either Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert, I came across this post by Chris Greenland, about a book called Machine of Death. Back in 2005 Ryan North wrote a Dinosaur Comics strip which mentioned a series of stories about a machine which predicted, albeit in a cryptic manner, how its user would die. Continue for a bit of politics...

There’s an organization called 10:10, which is dedicated to reducing carbon emissions.  It’s based in London, but has global reach.  It’s organizing a day of action on 10/10/10.  And it just released (then pulled) a truly awful video to promote its work.  I’m not using ‘awful’ because of its content: you can decide for yourself what you think by watching it here.  (There’s also short description after the break, which you may prefer if you’re of a nervous or delicate disposition.)  I suspect the intersection of the set of people who grew up with Monty Python and the set of people who find this funny (or inoffensive, at least) is pretty much the union of those two sets.  So, other considerations aside for now, what is unequivocally ‘awful’? Read on to find out...