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Chances are you’re a pervert

May 9th, 2008

Don’t feel bad. Most of the people who frequent our site are.

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Nature’s answer to nightmare weapons

May 8th, 2008

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GAU-8/A Gatling Cannon, a weapon so awesome we gave it wings

Unknown to most Americans, the United States military has since the First Gulf War been using a weapon which was conceived in the darkest days of the cold war when the threat of nuclear annihilation and the total extinction of all life on the planet was an everyday possibility. This weapon was so fearsome that the very threat of its use kept hordes of Russian tanks behind the Iron Curtain and kept the cold war from going hot. This nightmare weapon is now being used generously by the United States in Iraq and Afghanistan, and has also been generously used in Kosovo and Serbia. This nightmare weapon is a toxic waste, of which we have a stockpile of nearly 500,000 tons. The name of this weapon is Depleted Uranium.

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Our incipient machine rulers

May 1st, 2008

We’ve no choice to supplicate ourselves before robots that can reassemble themselves after being destroyed.

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Metallica makes old Napster users hate them more

May 1st, 2008

What’s this? The band that brought down Napster is now embracing file sharing?

We have FLACs and MP3s for sale. It was never about downloading per se. We have the Vault where you can download shows from twenty years ago for free, full-on and it’s been there for years. You can download recent shows days after they happen for cost. Back in the day there was a much bigger question about “on whose terms?” We said, “Wait a minute, it should be about the artist.” Then all hell broke loose and we sat on the sidelines for a while. We’ve always been fiercely independent and controlling; sometimes to a fault. That’s why we exist and why all these people show up.

This is why Slayer will always be better. That, and the gratuitous anti-religion screeds. And the talent. You can’t forget the talent.

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The many uses of Twitter

April 25th, 2008

If any of our writers get arrested in a Islamic theocracy they know what to do: Huddle in the fetal position and cry uncontrollably. Or Twittering. That’s indisputably less embarrassing.

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