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Latest cover of Private Eye magazine, on the current situation of Julian Assange

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Lulzsec hack Ceefax in retaliation for arrests 

From The Poke (a UK satire site similar to The Onion):

Technology News: Computer group Lulzsec have hacked the BBC’s Ceefax service in what is thought to be retaliatory act for a number of arrests of its members yesterday. 

The Ceefax pages have been replaced by a message from Lulzsec and a crude 8-bit penis, which the group says represents the ‘puppet BBC acting as the lapdog of the totalitarian regime which controls us all’.

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Adobe Flash found dead in seedy San Jose motel room

San Jose, CA — Out of friends and out of luck, Flash took his own life last week in a 10-dollar-a-night San Jose motel room.

A handgun was found near the body, along with a rambling farewell note.

“He was an icon,” said Danny Winokur, Flash’s best friend and Adobe VP of Interactive Development. “He had it all. Good looks, millions of fans, he was a moneymaking machine. I can’t believe he’s gone.”

Indeed, Flash was invited to all the parties—until 2007, when he wasn’t invited to iPhone’s party.

“That hurt him, for sure,” said Richard Pinkers, author of Flash In The Pan: The Rise And Fall Of Adobe Flash. “He said he didn’t care, it would all work out… but he cared. Trust me, he cared.”

After being slapped in the face once again, this time by iPad, Flash started spiraling out of control. “That’s when he started with the drugs,” said Pinkers. “He’d crash even more than normal.”

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We Are The 1% Bitches!

A satirical Tumblr featuring the whining of the 1%

http://wearethe1pctbitches.tumblr.com/

The Onion: Latest Sarah Palin Speech Opens Sixth Seal

IDAHO FALLS, ID—Speaking unto an audience of anti-immigration advocates, global-warming deniers, and members of the Tea Party Nation, former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin gave forth utterances Monday that reportedly opened the sixth seal of the Book of the Apocalypse.

“Wow, it’s good to be here, just shootin’ the breeze with a bunch of real, hardworking Americans who love their freedom,” said Palin, her words echoing across the Idaho Falls Civic Auditorium as mighty tremors caused great unrest beneath the land and the sea. “So are the little guys like you and me gonna fight these Washington insiders with their big government agenda? You betcha we are!”

And lo, there was then a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair; and the moon became as blood; and “gosh” was spoken repeatedly; and the stars of heaven fell upon the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken by a mighty wind.

More of the apocalyptic account can be read here

pixelpolitics:

PM uses graffiti backdrop…

Faux sincerity +5

The Onion: God Diagnosed With Bipolar Disorder

NEW HAVEN, CT–In a diagnosis that helps explain the confusing and contradictory aspects of the cosmos that have baffled philosophers, theologians, and other students of the human condition for millennia, God, creator of the universe and longtime deity to billions of followers, was found Monday to suffer from bipolar disorder.

… Evidence of God’s manic-depression can be found throughout the Universe, from the white-hot explosiveness of quasars to the cold, lifeless vacuum of space. However, theologians note, humanity’s exposure to God’s affliction comes primarily through His confusing propensity to alternately reward and punish His creations with little rhyme or reason.

More ‘insight’ can be found here

The Onion: Radiohead Denies Influencing Local Band

“There is absolutely no evidence to support Hitler Hairdo’s claim that listening to OK Computer for the first time changed the whole way they thought about music,” said Yorke, flanked by the other members of Radiohead, producer Nigel Godrich, and the band’s lawyers. “It’s preposterous to think that, as genre-bending pioneers of post-punk techno-rock, we had anything to do with influencing this at-best average band. Anyone who’s listened closely to their demo CD could tell you that.”

Hitler Hairdo, whose MySpace page cites Radiohead as a “major influence,” has been playing house parties and open-mic nights around the Dayton area for more than a year, but has yet to gain a substantial following. In “Bassist Needed” fliers distributed last month, the band describes itself as “a mix between Radiohead and Smashing Pumpkins, but primarily interested in the earlier guitar-driven sounds of Pablo Honey and The Bends.”

Hitler Hairdo plays a song that in no way resembles the pristine melancholia of Radiohead’s music.

“That’s absolute shite,” Yorke said when asked for a response. “The epochal, full-bodied shoegaziness of early Radiohead is completely absent from the sample tracks they put online, and where are the bracing yet approachable guitar patterns?”

“And just look at their stupid band photo,” added Yorke. “Radiohead would never dress like that.”

More stupidity found here

Cybersecurity Emergency Assange By Krystian Majewski

Can’t really be called a game - it’s too simplistic - basically its a Gameboy Contra, but far, far less sophisticated. Worth looking at just for the title screen, which has animated Assange eyebrows.

[Link to game]

Rock Fans Outraged As Bob Dylan Goes Electronica (The Onion)

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