MetaFilter posts tagged with batshitinsane

The Legal Stranger Project

chronkite — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:40:41 -0800

The Legal Stranger Project "How do I explain to my child as it grows up that in our state, I am not your mom, that there are people out there who go out of their way to make sure our family cannot be complete? "

Pot meets kettle - none more black.

loquacious — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:06:14 -0800

Chris Dodd responds to the SOPA/PIPA protest and blackout on the official MPAA blog calling it an "abuse of power".

Storm in a tea state

Artw — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:38:53 -0800

Shakespeare's The Tempest banned by Arizona schools

Say Good Bye to the round pizza; and switch to the good vibes..

fearfulsymmetry — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 03:29:39 -0800

Pizza Boomerang (SLYT) (NSFW)

Life can be a challenge, life can seem impossible, it's never easy when there is so much on the line.

JHarris — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 21:52:50 -0800

Pokemon: Game Freak and Nintendo's series of cartoony monster-training RPGs that kicked off huge crazes among the kids of both Japan and the U.S. In these games, children take up the calling of "Pokemon trainers," capturing the titular animals and then keeping them as pets or fighting them against either wild pokemon or those of other trainers.
Nobunaga's Ambition: An even-longer-running classic series of historical strategy/simulation games produced by Koei. Noted for their realistic approach, their difficulty, and a high level of dryness. You grow rice, distribute it to your population to keep them happy, send out spies, guard against assassins, raise and train a military, and ultimately attempt to unite feudal-era Japan.
And now... Pokemon + Nobunaga's Ambition, a Real Thing that will Soon Exist.

AN ANACONDA UNHINGES ITS MAGNIFICENT JAW. INSIDE, THE BRIGHT SCREEN OF A FREE IPAD RESTS JUST WITHIN ARM'S REACH

The Whelk — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:22:47 -0800

Daniel Manitou is ActualPerson084 on Twitter. He writes slices of life about marketing and unspeakable horror. He is a real person and not a metal ghost in a rainbow box.

Pole Riders

loquacious — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 17:34:26 -0800

Pole Riders. A pole vaulting game from the maker of QWOP and GIRP.

Lets have a clever caption contest instead

infini — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 12:22:29 -0800

The sods must be crazy: OLPC to drop tablets from helicopters to isolated villages (Previously)

Documentary mistakes videogame footage for genuine terrorist footage

East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 09:09:36 -0800

Last night, British ITV broadcasted "Exposure: Gaddafi and the IRA", a documentary which included this 1988 Provisional IRA footage the filmmakers found on YouTube. Unfortunately, the footage is actually and blatently from videogame ArmA 2. ITV has stopped streaming the documentary.

"I don't have time for Laertes. He must know I didn't mean to kill his father," Hamlet said.

Faint of Butt — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 04:30:13 -0800

Orson Scott Card adapts Hamlet into poorly written anti-gay screed. Welcome to Hamlet's Father. Gone are Shakespeare's language and philosophy, replaced with Card's trademark homophobia. Spoiler alert: Old King Hamlet was gay, and he molested everybody and turned them gay too!

"I've beheaded that last child of Ghrotian VII, where should I spend my vacation?"

overeducated_alligator — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 11:00:59 -0800

Forget First World Problems. Fifth World Problems are irritations of Lovecraftian proportions. Stuck between alternate dimensions? Plagued by neighboring hyperlizards? Is your quantum state beginning to crystallize? You've got Fifth World Problems.

Save Our Snark!

jeffburdges — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 13:40:49 -0800

William Lawrence Cassidy has been indicted for a series of threatening tweets directed towards Alyce Zeoli, aka Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo, the leader of a Buddhist organization known as Kunzang Palyul Choling (KPC) to which Cassidy had belonged. There is however a small problem that federal prosecutors are employing a vague anti-stalking law that makes 'intentional infliction of emotional distress' through the use of 'any interactive computer service' a felony, rather than focussing more narrowly upon the outright threats. Law360 has a paywalled article. And there are weirder sources for the timecube fans.

Situations like this are why the phrase "Oh, snap!" was invented.

-->NMN.80.418 — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 12:25:59 -0800

Using a fake Facebook profile, Angela Voelkert got her ex-husband David to admit that he “planned to move somewhere warm with his kids, that he was still going to his next court dates, and would take off soon after” and ask his new teen-aged friend “to find someone at your school, there should be some gang bangers there that would put a cap in her ass for $10,000. I am just done with her crap!” Unfortunately for Angela, David was a step ahead and thoroughly played his ex-wife. All charges have been dropped and they are still Facebook friends.

The ladder of no opportunity.

wilful — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 17:19:59 -0800

The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, built on or close to Golgotha, has a very interesting administrative structure, formalised in an 1852 Ottoman Status Quo edict. Illustrative of the bureaucratic strictures on management of the church is this ladder, immovably stuck on an upstairs window. But wait, did somebody move it? via

The uncanny valley just got uncannier

logicpunk — Mon, 30 May 2011 11:45:19 -0800

Artist Landon Meier crafts realistic latex masks of babies.

Relax, it's Saturday

thsmchnekllsfascists — Sat, 28 May 2011 15:48:45 -0800

El Internet (sNSFW). via The Daily What

The Most Sensible Site You Will Ever See

Sticherbeast — Tue, 24 May 2011 18:46:34 -0800

UNOMORALEZ/IMG. UNOMORALEZ/LOOPS. Disturbing pixel art in a Hypercard-era style. (NSFW)

Not a cryptic FPP

Obscure Reference — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 05:33:16 -0800

Vortex-based mathematics is the most advanced ever known to mankind. Don't have time for a time cube? Time need no longer limit us. Here, Marco Rodin (inventor of the Rodin Coil) gives us the background.

Too crazy for Jan? Impressive.

FatherDagon — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 08:59:16 -0800

Jan Brewer, the Governor of Arizona, has vetoed the controversial 'birther bill' that would require presidential candidates to provide AZ's secretary of state with proof of citizenship before they could appear on the ballot, up to and including a 'circumcision certificate'

Now who will call us Hitler?

cereselle — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 13:41:53 -0800

Glenn Beck's television show has been canceled by Fox News. The reason seems to be that Beck is too crazy for Fox. Beck is keeping silent on his future plans, save for a warning that in one year, those on the Left will be crapping themselves. Beck's website, The Blaze, and his radio show will continue.

The end is/was supposed to be near!

daninnj — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 19:02:12 -0800

Pick a year to find out when the world should have ended/is ending/will end.

Psst. Hey buddy? Can we borrow $75,000,000,000,000?

zarq — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:30:16 -0800

Earlier this month, thirteen record labels tried to claim that Limewire was liable for between $400 Billion and $75 Trillion in damages. (For some perspective, the world's GDP in 2011 is expected to be a mere ~$65 billion.) Judge Kimba Wood called the assertion 'absurd' in a 14 page opinion. (pdf) Judge Kimba Wood made clear in a 14 page opinion that she found the request “absurd” and claims that it stretches copyright laws to their breaking point. She didn’t entirely side with the defendants, though, and said the damages should at least be one damage awarded per work, rather than per instance of infringement, which will still form quite a hefty bill. The defendants seriously-but-humorously note that the “plaintiffs are suggesting an award that is more money than the entire music recording industry has made since Edison’s invention of the phonograph in 1877.”

Happy Trails (of Tarnation) To You

Strange Interlude — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 15:48:46 -0800

Nicholas Gurewitch, the insane genius behind the surreal webcomic The Perry Bible Fellowship, is now the co-creator of a new online live-action series, an Adult Swim-ish psychedelic-comedy Western: Trails of Tarnation. The first episode is up...NOW. Previously on MeFi. Previouslier. Previousliest.

"If you tell me you care about something, I'm gonna smash it."

Strange Interlude — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 15:58:52 -0800

Marc Maron — comedian, former Air America host, and now podcaster of WTF fame — attempts and fails(?) to interview prop-comedy bête noire Gallagher. Total batshit insanity ensues. (Interview starts just after the 20-minute mark; WTF podcast is of course NSFW.) Previously (and previouslier) on MeFi.

Electing the Doge.

languagehat — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 06:06:16 -0800

The Doge was the leader of the Venetian Republic, which lasted for over a thousand years, so they must have been doing something right. Here's Wikipedia's concise description of the selection process: "Thirty members of the Great Council, chosen by lot, were reduced by lot to nine; the nine chose forty and the forty were reduced by lot to twelve, who chose twenty-five. The twenty-five were reduced by lot to nine and the nine elected forty-five. Then the forty-five were once more reduced by lot to eleven, and the eleven finally chose the forty-one who actually elected the doge." Sounds crazy, but Miranda Mowbray and Dieter Gollmann wrote a paper, "Electing the Doge of Venice: Analysis of a 13th Century Protocol" (pdf) explaining its virtues in terms that should warm the cockles of MetaFilter's collective geeky heart. From the abstract: "We will show that it has some useful properties that in addition to being interesting in themselves, also suggest that its fundamental design principle is worth investigating for application to leader election protocols in computer science." Interesting sidelight: "security theater" can be a good thing.