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Read up on The Mighty Boosh at BuzzFeed. But only after you watch this clip from “The Legend of Old Gregg” (NSFWish?)
“I’m Old Gregg!”
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I would love to have seen this- Dateline mole outed at DefCon….
I’m especially interested in the taunting. Because if there’s one thing (other than typing in the magical patterns that make computers go*) I would imagine a Defcon organizer being good at, it would be taunting. Hackers can be really fucking funny**
Edited… Now with youtube video!
Kicking and running, Michelle Madigan*** has left the building
August 03, 2007 (IDG News Service) — It’s a story of betrayal worthy of an episode of Dateline NBC — and they’re already a step ahead on their at-the-scene-reportage.
Dateline NBC Producer Michelle Madigan was publicly outed at the DefCon security conference in Las Vegas Friday after show organizers were tipped off that she was trying to film show attendees with a hidden camera.
Madigan ran from the show after organizers publicly threatened to escort her from the event at the beginning of a 4 p.m. conference session by noted hacker HD Moore. “She literally kicked the door open,” said “Priest,” a show official who declined to be identified. “She made the mistake of running. Had she taken it like an adult, she would have been treated with kid gloves, treated with respect.
Update: Undercover TV producer booted from DefCon
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More from Wired:
Dateline Mole Allegedly at DefCon with Hidden Camera — Updated: Mole Caught on Tape
The DefCon site:
Welcome to DEF CON, the Largest Underground Hacking Convention in the World
*which is what I tell little kids I do for a living
**some day, when I’m not up to my eyes in shit, I’ll dig up some examples from back in the day that will make your eyes water with laughter
***I know the shelf life on the meme is not infinite, but I’m sorely tempted to create a lolmole, if just to make myself laugh- “i’m in ur defcon filmin ur dudes”
[edited to add- i did it. it was too tempting. I did chuckle a couple of times making it. I bet it will still make me chuckle tomorrow when I'm not drunk]
What a day of losses…
The news started with with Bergman, mentioned previously, then went through this amazing cast of characters:
I Hate Rachel Ray-
And I’m about to bombarded with her during Red Sox season:
Dunkin’ Donuts signs Rachael Ray
Let me just say it right now- “that sucks.”
She drives me absolutely insane. Her and her ilk drove me away from the Food Network and now, since Dunkies advertises heavily on Red Sox coverage, I’m going to have to deal with her shrill, moronic, banshee-toned voice and enormous head popping up forty five times a game for the next several months. I’m honestly at a loss as to who might be more annoying to me as a shill during Red Sox games and I’m drawing a blank. From my perspective, she’s quite possibly the worst person they could have chosen.
I’m going to end up breaking my TV or watching every game on time delay so I can fast forward through the commercials. Which of course doesn’t help me with the radio- my primary Sox interface during the preparation and eating of dinner every night.
Not that I go there very often, but I’m fucking boycotting Dunkin Donuts until they stop polluting Red Sox coverage with that gigantic meloned harpy.
By the way, from the article linked above:
“In TV ads set to begin airing in April, TV host Rachael Ray will allow Dunkin’ Donuts to bask in the halo of her culinary artistry.”
Culinary artistry? Da fug? Who is she Joël Robuchon all of a sudden?
Anthony Bourdain slays Food Network with keyboard.
I used to love The Food Network. I really did. I learned about crazy techniques and ingredients and learned about new chefs and restaurants to check out on my travels. It was a true food lovers paradise TV destination. And then they handed the Network to people like Rachel Ray and Bobby Flay (who I hate even more than Rachel Ray) and it all went to hell in a hand basket. It completely sucks now and it’s only momentum that keeps it on my favorites.
Which brings us to Anthony Bourdain, host of the best food/travel show on the airwaves, methodically attacking his former employers in this welcome blog post. He’s very funny and very, very right:
I’ve got to get HBO now.
First Preacher and now this:
By the way, between this and The Diamond Age on Sci-Fi, I’m having a proper nerdgasm today.
George Clooney to produce Diamond Age
Hopefully the next announcement will be for an 18 hour miniseries of the Baroque Cycle.
That’s My White Mama (MadTV)
“DON’T MAKE ME BREAK MY FOOT OFF IN YO ASS”
The obligatory youtube example:
The Rakes
Glad they mentioned it because it’s the single funniest thing I’ve ever seen. In #4 from The best ”Simpsons” episodes, Nos. 1-5: “We’re referring, of course, to the rakes. Think about it. How many other series would waste valuable prime-time real estate by showing a man whacking himself in the face with a garden rake not once, not twice, but NINE TIMES?!? If ever there was a gag genius in its repetitive stupidity (progressing from funny to not so funny to the funniest thing ever), this is it… “