Who’s Embarrassing Themselves on the Internet Today?
This is weird.
You are a trophy wife. Your husband, who is a major Broadway theater operator and a quarter century older than you, decides to divorce you. Since you signed a pre-nuptial agreement before you got married, you have no means for supporting yourself, and your future looks pretty bleak.
So, how do you make the best of a very bad situation? Post a video of yourself on YouTube, where you tearfully recount all of the abuses you’ve endured, slander your former spouses’ sexual prowess, and then call up his office and start screaming at the person on the other line!
How’s your Operating Thetan Level Today?
The feature story within this month’s Radar Magazine is about the Church of Scientology and the underground internet group that is taking them down. It’s interesting to see Scientologist opponents taking this tactical course, since the cult religion has been so clever about diverting criticism and using its massive resources to silence critics.
Here’s how the attacks on Scientology began (from the article):
On January 21, a video titled “Message to Scientology” appeared on YouTube. A brilliant work of agitprop, the video (embedded below) features a monotone, computer-generated voice speaking in staccato against a mesmerizing backdrop of gathering clouds. The message, which bears quoting at length, is ominous:
“Hello, Scientology. We are Anonymous. Over the years, we have been watching you. Your campaigns of misinformation, suppression of dissent, your litigious nature: All of these things have caught our eye. With the leakage of your latest propaganda video into mainstream circulation, the extent of your malign influence over those who have come to trust you has been made clear to us. Anonymous has therefore decided that your organization should be destroyed. … We are Anonymous. We are legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us.”
Within hours of the video’s posting, all hell broke loose. Almost immediately, the Church’s main website, scientology.org, went down under a distributed denial of service attack, a classic hacker technique that overwhelms a target’s website with phantom user traffic until it crashes. Scientology offices worldwide were flooded with prank phone calls and so-called black faxes—pages upon pages of blank black pages—tying up their phone lines and emptying ink cartridges. Dozens of proprietary Church documents—videos, lectures, and course materials worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in Scientology’s pay-to-pray scheme—beganshowing up on YouTube, BitTorrent, and countless websites.
Here is the video in its entirety:
You can also read the full article here.
Happy April Fools. Youtube.com RickRolls EVERYONE
WARNING, all of youtube’s “featured video” today get you RickRoll’d.
And thus ends the meme of RickRolling. That is all.
Note: Rick Astley call this “all a bunch of bull” and has joined the Church of Scientology
This can’t be real… can it?
Music video for McCain… by: The McCain Girls…
Ok, there is no way that is real…
“live delivery guaranteed”
An old advert, because it’s funny. And…well…cruel.
Everyday on the interweb is a new adventure…
Never trust robots. How in the hell did i miss this video?
This video/song was a big hit in 2005 but somehow i missed it. The song is We’re in Business by Andrew Thompson. It has some very important lessons about why one never should never trust robots. Don’t leave them with your kids, dont take them along for trips, and dont take them to work. Not only is it an entertaining video, but it’s a damn good song.
p.s. it reminds me of the robot song by flight of the conchords. also great. and a damn good show.
Chrono Trigger remake was in the works…
…but alas, Square put a stop to it in 2004… This video was leaked by the director of the project… Fast forward to 5 minutes if you actually want to see stuff you’ll recognize (besides the swinging pendulum…)
Particularly well executed phone prank…
Made me chuckle…
Hillary just made me throw up a little in my mouth
Obama got great press because of the “Yes We Can” video, which incidentally was not produced by his people. Now see Hillary’s version, that her people put out.
