I barely even remember this blog, until someone posts a comment and I get an email to Approve it.
Every single one is in response to “I Hate Xeni Jardin”. In fact, looking at my stats it’s one of the main reasons anyone finds this blog. And while I’d originally hoped we’d all come together for our shared love of HDR photography and my childish attempts at flash fiction, I guess having a headquarters for the Bitch-needs-to-get-her-ass-off-boingboing Society isn’t such a bad thing.
Below are some of the comments posted agreeing that Xeni Jardin is offensive to all 5 senses, and is pretty much the antithesis of what boingboing is supposed to be. I would attach the standard, boilerplate “views represented are those of the poster, and do not reflect the position of the owner of this blog” but, no, they really do.
Comments are shown as they appear, without censoring.. because what kind of self-righteous fuck would censor the comments of someone just because they disagree with them? If you feel misrepresented, have changed your opinion, or wish to expand upon your comment please feel free to notify me.
Filed under: IT, Internet, Sysadmin | Tags: comic, Eviljaymz, IT, programmer, Sysadmin
So somewhere along the line I became the number one Google result for
I hate Xeni Jardin. I am so proud of that fact I could just shit my pants. I rank higher than a website called xenisucks.com. Go there, btw. It hasn’t had anything new or interesting to say since 2006, but then neither has Xeni… Zing!
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Having to look at her annoys me most.
She takes photos of fucking everything. Like, it’s not enough just to go and see the yodelling goatsmen of Upper Whoogivesashit, you have to take a thousand photos and stream them to your flickr as well. Or else how will people know you where there?
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You also have to be in the photos along side the oppressed but determined people of Lower Fuckoffistan. Or else how will people know that YOU were there?
Oh well, at least we don’t have to listen to her anymore. Thanks to science.
Filed under: Internet, Make, Rant, Science, Tech | Tags: drugs, mind control, orgasm, tms, transcranial magnetic stimulation
Today on Mystery Science Theatre: The Open Stim Wiki
An open wiki for Transcranial Magnetic Stimulator technology; a method of applying magnetic fields to the external of the skull, creating electric currents within the neurons of the brain resulting in modifications to cognition.
The project hopes to encourage backyard brain experimentation, create a community of amateur brain hackers and hopefully even produce a low cost, simple-to-build mind altering device.
Dr. Ed Boyden displays the small prototype Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation machine built by his students at the Neuroengineering and Neuromedia Lab at MIT. The copper coils generate magnetic fields that creates a current in adjacent brain tissue.
Quote: “Our goal is to design a simple, safe, effective TMS device for modulation of emotion, sleep, attention, and other central nervous system properties. Many commercial entities sell TMS hardware and software, often for prices exceeding $50,000. We will devise a TMS device that will be constructable by a practitioner skilled in electrical engineering, for less than $400.”
This is, without hyperbole, the single most exciting and scary thing I’ve ever heard.
This project aims to create a world where a sparky with $400 can build a device that allows him to manipulate his, or anyone else’s sensations and emotions. Is this legal? Disseminating information for building simple, cheap, easily made devices for harmlessly, temporarily and non-invasively manipulating the working of the human brain? This is ok? Hell, I’m fine with it. Transhumanism FTW. I just assumed this was another one of those areas where I’d be on my own, shrugging and going “..what? Just me?”.
I mean, this is drugs. From a practical standpoint, isn’t the end result of experimenting with the working of the brain through applied magnetic fields almost indistinguishable from doing the same thing through pharmacology?
The results people fear from legalized access to drugs would be just as likely to stem from widespread use of TMS for central nervous system modification. In certain ways I’d imagine TMS to be more dangerous. List? Sure.
1) Drugs are consumables. Even if you manufacture the drugs yourself, there’s still a monetary and time cost involved. This limits availability. A TMS device could constantly induce a hilarious, delicious orgasm within a person forever, and requires nothing more than electricity.
2) Larry Niven fans will tell you; the most dangerous and fear inducing weapon in the world is one that can give you pleasure against your will. Imagine a government, corporation or employer with the ability to give you pure joy. This technology with either become mainstream, used by everyone. Or will be controlled and used only by those in power. Either situation is terrifying.
3) Once perfected, TMS would be a much purer science than pharmacology. Using direct electric stimulation to create desired neurological patters vs. relying on drugs as a medium. Experiences could be tailor made and 100% reliable. Imagine the popularity of a drug that could perfectly recreate the first moment you felt pure love.
4) Instantaneous gratification without continued effect. You can’t shoot up and expect to go work right after. You could, however, hit the ‘Cum From A Blowjob From God’ button a hundred times and then go commute. This, along with the next point, would lead to a cataclysmic increase in “drug” users.
5) Drugs are stigmatized, not for their successes but their failures. It’s the unintended side-effects of drugs that people fear. Health, mental function, addiction, association with crime. None of these things are the goals of drugs or drug users, they are consequences resulting from the imperfect nature of the medium. Without any of these consequences, using TMS to achieve a perfect state of never-ending happiness forever would be.. obvious. Why wouldn’t you?
Which leads to my final most terrifying point;
If all existence is the pursuit of happiness, in one form or another, and happiness is now bottled.. what’s the point of anything else?
Filed under: Internet, Meme | Tags: /b/, 4chan, fgsfds, Harald Schmidt, macro
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An image of a person, index finger extended, with the macro’d text ‘fgsfds’.
One of my favorites. Originating, as all things do, on 4chan back in the days of yore when anonymous replied to a random thread with a left handed keyboard mash.
Seeing as how this is 4chan and random is the watchword, another anon macro’d the text onto a picture of German talk show host Harald Schmidt, seen here.
Anon decided this was filled with the potential for lulz and decided to run it into the ground. The upward pointing index finger, it was silently decided, was all-important and so the meme became a person, an upwards pointing index finger and fgsfds.
To be used when one finds a threat or topic pointless, or just whenever the fuck you feel like it.
And now you know.
Filed under: Internet, Make, Tech, Toys, Video Games | Tags: Commodore64, Guitar Hero
Proving once again all you need is a soldering iron and a dream.; Shredz64 is a Guitar Hero port for the Commodore64, using a PSX64 board to interface the PlayStation GH controller.
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It allows for imported songs and can detect when the controller is lifted up, to activate ’shred’ mode. Lord.
Filed under: Internet, Rant, Tech, Xeni Jardin | Tags: boingboing, cory doctorow, hate, xeni
This pretty much covers why. She’s that friends girlfriend that doesn’t know the difference between interesting and loud. She’s the kind of person that’s probably never seen a real smile in her life. The closest she’s elicited from people are fixed grins of weary tolerance, as shows above.
I wouldn’t mind so much if she’d just stop posting on boing boing. You’re nerdy and that’s cool, we get it. Your mother and I are very proud. Now can you be quiet please? I think Cory needs me to be angry about intellectual property law in Sweden.
