Hackers of the Free World: Unite and Humiliate These Bastards!

Hey, so I was reading a post at North Korea zone titled Do They Read NKZone in Pyongyang? and it pointed out that the official websites for the DPRK are mostly hosted on servers in China and Japan. Guys, ladies, if there’s someone who deserves continuous DOS attacks and having their site hacked and replaced with all kinds of hateful mockery, even more than Microsoft, it’s the DPRK. Come on, hackers. Show us that you really care about freedom in this world.

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‘Uncovered Meat’???

So, what I think is causing pressure on the sane, sensible Muslims of the world is when asshead clerics say things like women who are not covered in a headscarf are “like uncovered meat”. Female Muslims have been among the most vocal in calling for the cleric’s resignation over references in his sermon to women being soldiers of Satan who were responsible for 90 percent of adultery. “In due course, I will take the necessary decision that will lift the pressures that have been placed on our Australian Muslim community and that which will benefit all Australians,” said al-Hilali, who …

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BigHominid on… crapping’ your pants.

BigHominid linked to someone who noted that crapping one’s pants in public is a universal crisis, one that transcends all human boundaries. Actually, it reminds me of something I realized, I think, in late elementary school. A teacher had walked out of the bathrooms of our little school house, and whether it was his or not, there was a big poo left behind in one of the toilet stalls. It was then that I realized: teachers go to the toilet and take stinky dumps, just like anyone else. Priests do it. Nuns do it. Parents. Pretty girls do it. Ugly …

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Antti on Dr. Hwang’s Evil Buddies

So Antti’s got a post up on the PD Memo team’s having received prssure from the government not to out the fact that Dr. Hwang was a lying bullshitting son of a —–. Because, what, it might be embarrassing to Korea? Yeah, covering this kind of thing up is even more embarrassing, because the truth often comes out. So if politics can interfere even in what science news gets published, what discipline is safe? It’s hard to trust academia in a country where the government is censoring the very mechanisms by which bad, fake, dishonest science is outed and discredited. …

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Flandersland

To those Canadians and other Commonwealthers among you, you might remember that today is Remembrance Day. I was explaining this to a Korean friend I met today, and I said, “You know, when they commemorate all the young men being shipped off to Europe and the Pacific and North Africa to die. There are gymnasiums full of Canadian kids right now, listening to speeches and explanations of the War.” And I wondered, to myself, whether some of the kids are thinking that the teachers and old guys are talking about Iraq. I certainly had no real idea which war was …

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