Really SICK cover of Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb.” You do NOT want to miss this one. Even if you’re not a Floyd fan (commie), this cover totally SHREDS.
Postage Paid Protest of the Day: YouTuber ransackedroom — a San Francisco-based “poet, editor, and marketer” — has come up with a rather ingenious way ordinary people can support the Occupy Wall Street movement without ever leaving their homes.
It involves taking the business reply mail envelope that comes with most unsolicited credit card offers, and sending it back to the banks with a message inside that ransacked hopes will help open “a dialogue.”
He says:
This isn’t really about running up the postage bill on the big banks, although that’s a nice side effect. The real effect of this is to force banks to react to us.
If they start getting hundreds and thousands of weird responses to their credit card applications, well they’re going to have to have meetings. They going to have to develop new procedures and every hour banks spend reacting to us is an hour banks don’t spend lobbying Congress on how to screw us. It’s an hour banks don’t spend foreclosing on our houses.
So I think that that’s progress.
YouTube Comment of Note: “This supports the United States Postal Service also, maybe keeping several thousand postal workers out of the unemployment line. Good idea.”
[thanks mike!]
Earlier generations have weathered recessions, of course; this stall we’re in has the look of something nastier. Social Security and Medicare are going to be diminished, at best. Hours worked are up even as hiring staggers along: Blood from a stone looks to be the normal order of things “going…
(Source: New York Magazine)
EU
(via fuckyeahdementia)
Lights Out: Actress - “Supreme Cunnilingus”
[yayeveryday.]
Ojai Valley Taxidermy TV Commercial of the Day: Is this the greatest local ad spot for taxidermy services ever produced? YUUUUUUUUUP.
[reddit.]
I’ll Just Leave This Here of the Day: On the Australian television program The Gruen Transfer there is a regular segment called “The Pitch” in which two advertising companies are tasked with “sell[ing] the unsellable.”
Among past pitches: “[I]nvading New Zealand, compulsory euthanasia for the elderly, cosmetic surgery for children and introducing a parent licence.”
For the show’s most recent episode, the ad agencies were asked to create a marketing campaign for the banning of all religion.
It was the first time in the show’s history that ad agencies declined to participate.
Lights Out: Professional wingsuit flyer Jeb Corliss launches himself like a flying squirrel off a cliff in Switzerland into glory.
[dpaf.]
This Is Informative, You Should Watch It of the Day: Turn up the volume and let recreational mathematician Vi Hart hand-hold you through the fascinating science and math of sound, frequency, and pitch.
[vihart.]
(Source: fuckyeahdementia)
