red riding hood in the information age

Brilliant animation from Tomas Nilsson:

unlikely, but...

Anyone have an extra FFFFOUND! invitation they could spare?

2009's stupidest person of the year

Yes, I know 2009 isn't even a quarter over, but it strikes me as very unlikely that the next nine months or so will provide a credible challenger to Ms. Michelle Owen of Whiteland, Indiana.

According to The Smoking Gun (follow that link at your own risk), on February 27 of this year, Ms. Owen (pictured at left) requested to speak to a detective from the Johnson Country Sheriff's Office. It was a particularly convenient request, in that she was at the time a resident of the Johnson Country jail, where she was being held on a public intoxication charge that violated the terms of release of a prior DUI case.

The reason she wanted to speak to a detective was that she was involved in a child custody dispute with her ex-boyfriend, Heath Pierle and, to quote from the detective's report:

Detective James Bryant took the initial report in which she advised him that she had discovered some search history results on her laptop computer which were possibly child pornography. She described the searches as being related to underage children and requested that we search the laptop for any child pornography. She told detective Bryant that she was going through a custody dispute with Pierle and thought that she would report suspected illegal activity from the past. Owen signed a consent to search form for the laptop.

Ms. Owen arranged for a family friend to bring the laptop to the police department, where it was subjected to a forensic examination. And what did the detective discover upon searching the computer? Two videos of Ms. Owen engaged in illicit acts with a dog.

When told by the detective that he'd found videos of her on the computer and asked if she, "knew what those files might be," she replied, "The one with the dog."

According to Owen, the videos "were just something she did when she was drunk and barely remembers it," and that she "remembered trying to delete them the next day when she was sober."

Ms. Owen has been charged with Bestiality, a Class D Felony. I'm guessing this isn't going to be a real plus in her custody dispute.

shorter paul krugman

We're screwed.

And sadly true:

47%

That's the percentage of people responding to a new national survey commissioned by the California Academy of Sciences who did not know that it takes the Earth a year to go once around the Sun. 

As I believed I've mentioned before, we are so fucked.

a question

What do you think would happen if you had an insurance policy and failed to pay any premiums for 10 years?

Just asking.

medical wackaloon

Tax time has sucked up all recent opportunity for blog writing, so here's something from some other actual creative person.

(From Rebelmacaque at Hell's News Stand.)

ピストル自殺

From manga artist Shintaro Kago (via SAME HAT! SAME HAT!) comes (the NSFW) Pistol Suicide.

two flowers

foreplay malfunction

the future

(From Where's My Jetpack. Click for a more easily readable version.)