Bigger, Longer, and Uncut

I just realized that this year is the tenth anniversary of the release of the South Park movie. I've been celebrating by listening to the sound track constantly.

This will probably be old news to most of you, but I only found this recently. During the movie making process, the MPAA gave some input so the movie would not gain the dreaded NC-17 rating (causing movie theaters not to show it). This is the memo that Matt Stone (one of the creators of South Park) sent to the MPAA, updating them on their progress:



Or the version you can actually read:

Here is our new cut of the South Park movie to submit to the MPAA. I wanted to tell you exactly what notes we did and did not address.

1. We left in both the "fisting" and the "rimjob" references in the counselor's office scene. We did cut the word "hole" from "asshole" as per our conversation.

2. We took out the entire "God has fucked me in the ass so many times..." It is gone.

3. Although it is not animated yet, we put a new storyboard in for clarification in the scene with Saddam Hussein's penis. The intent now is that you never see Saddam's real penis, he in fact is using dildos both times.

4. We have the shot animated that reveals the fact that Winona is not shooting ping-pong balls from her vagina. She is, in fact, hitting the balls with a ping-pong paddle.

5. We took out the only reference to "cum-sucking ass" in the film. It was in the counselor's office and we took it out.

6. We left in the scenes with Cartman's mom and the horse as per our conversation. This is the one joke we really want to fight for.

Call with any questions

Matt

P.S. This is my favorite memo ever.

This is my favorite memo ever as well.

Hands Off My Joojoo!

Formerly named the Crunchpad, Fusion Garage's new web browsing device, the "Joojoo" aims to take the market from the iPhone and iPod touch.

The Joojoo

You may not be able to tell from the picture, but the Joojoo is a gigantic (as compared to the iPod touch) 12 inches diagonally. If you're looking for a portable device, this probably isn't it.

I'm dying to know why they made the name change. I'll agree that Crunchpad isn't the most eloquent of names, but Joojoo? I'm feeling some antisemitism in this company. Pretty soon, everyone's going to want to "own a Joojoo". I thought we were past this.

What this device is good for:
Web browsing
and...
Well, that's pretty much it. It's operating system is a modified version of Linux that has been stripped of almost all functionality. Want to run an iPhone app? Sorry, no can do. Want to run any sort of Linux application? Again, sorry.

The final blow to the device is it's $500 price tag. Really? I'm not sure of anyone who is going to spend $500 for a web browser. Add some Linux functionality and I may be tempted, until then this looks like a fun toy for the rich.

(via CNET news)

Google is Taking Over the World

Google's new feature Sidewiki allows you to comment on every web page you come across. Thus proving that Google bought way more servers than it's ever going to use.

The feature is slated as a way to explain what a web page is about. I can't imagine that the comments are going to stay productive or in any way civilized. I can just imagine the shit storm that's going to happen on Answers in Genesis or any other controversial web page.

Click for Sidewiki's homepage

Good luck with the server overload Google.

End of the World?

The large hadron collider (LHC) is expected to be online by this Christmas. Some crazy people think that this device, that accelerates tiny particles to nearly the speed of light, could cause a black hole to form, destroying the world. Fortunately, no scientists that anyone takes seriously are saying this.

The LHC was expected to come online around this time last year, but has been fraught with problems. First, it was inadvertently flooded with helium. Then magnets fused together, causing failure. Somehow a bird dropped bread crumbs into the machine, causing bad readings.

These problems have inspired Dr. Nielsen, who was interviewed by the New York Times, to say that the LHC is destined to fail. He posits that the particles the LHC will create (Higgs-Boson particles) will be so abhorrent to nature, that they will send ripples back in time. Thus preventing the device from working. Right, if only there were evidence for him saying that rather than "Oh, bad things keep happening to the LHC, that's a strange coincidence".

You may wonder how we would know if the world was ending (due to the LHC). Well luckily, someone has set up a website with up to the minute information on whether the LHC has destroyed the world. Click here for an update.

(via BrandX)

Class Registration

This is going to be a rant. But it's my blog and I'll rant if I want to. I had a wonderful time, as I do every semester, registering for next semester's classes.

Here at Purdue we get certain time slots for signing up for classes, based on year in school and (maybe?) academic achievement. Which means if you're lucky enough to get an early time slot, then you might get the classes you want for the next semester. As if this isn't a problem enough, at the beginning of every time slot, everyone else that shares your time is furiously clicking the refresh button on their browser to try to log in and get their classes before you. Is it not possible to enter your schedule beforehand and then have some computer program enter you into classes based on class standing/grades? Apparently not, Purdue would rather have us have an arbitrary contest over the internet. Maybe some Purdue administrator is getting a laugh out of it.