So Stupid. Somehow I don't think they'd agree with a person exercising the right to wear an anti-McCain shirt. Go eat some more crayons, boys.

>> ^Duckman33:
I posted 5 pictures and you pointed out 2 of the 5 that allegedly show "clear" scorch marks. Not very convincing, sorry. If they are there, then all 5 would show them. Not 2 of 5. Yeah, that's credible all right....


Correction: I pointed out 2 pictures that show them clearly, it is actually showed in all of them. Very credible, especially since YOU provided the pictures claiming nothing was there.

I would take them and put them through photoshop, highlight the areas, give you a quick run-through of light sources and shading in photos, showing why they arent shadows (there are no light sources that could possible account for a BROWN area directly beneath the landing vessels main thruster in an otherwise, everywhere, in every picture, GREY lunar surface, claiming 'shadows' just wont do when every other object and light source has their shadows accounted for in the picture), but honestly all that would be redundant since they are VERY CLEARLY THERE already. If you simply choose not to see them now, then no 'evidence' put forward by me is likely to change it.

This is precisely why I said that trying to use logic to defeat these "theories" is an exercise in futility, since there is nothing logical about the theories in the first place, and they have already made up their mind about what they see and how to interpret it.

[EDIT] Ok I wanna apologise a bit because I feel I might have come across a bit more hostile in this and other posts then was called for. Duckman, if you are acting devils advocate in this matter I certainly applaud the exercise in critical thinking, although I would question the topic since I feel these things have been around to the point where they are less of a discussion and more of a googeling competition, but that's beside the point.

I've had lots of these discussions before, and I'm starting to be more then fed up with them, which is why I thought I'd try and stay out this time. But since I have the self control of a monkey in a mango tree I manage to get roped in every time regardless.

All of the discussions I have had on this topic invariably turn into one of two things when you present evidence to the self-proclaimed "free-thinkers" of the conspiracy crowd; they either disprove your argument by putting forth another more outlandish explanation for your evidence that will still be able to account for their conspiracy, or they dismiss your evidence with a "it dosent prove anything" because you didnt manage to dispell every fabric of lingering doubt in the universe.

Absolute certainty is a philosophical impossibility and there is, in my opinion, such a thing as having too much doubt. Not every argument can or should be held as creditable (which it seems to be today), not every theory out there is worth hearing out, there has to be a limit. There has to be a point where we can say 'no, we've been over this, let's move on'. These discussions have been around since the actual moon landing (if/when/how/or/maybe/plausibly/possibly such a thing occurred), and have been disproved again and again, but somehow those guys always seem to turn up that need it proven to them, personally, in crayon, again. And that just gets to me, sorry if I went on a bit much. [/RANT]

Zifnab doesn't just like dragons, he thinks he is one. This disturbing phenomenon is known as "otherkin" - AKA Furries amped up about 700% and then set on fire. He wobbles around theme parks on weekends in a skintight green suit and papier-mâché mask with glowing eyes, waving animatedly at the children who think he is an employee paid to dress like a walking Disney cliche. If only their parents knew the frightening truth. There's a damn good reason these sick mind-fucks were hunted to extinction and now are only an old legend.

Those cardboard wings with crayon-drawn scales and Christmas tree light costumes are expensive though, so Zifnab maintains a side-job as a body artist. Revel in the beauty of his latest work.

While the Miley jokes were mildly amusing, this gets the upvote for the final comment about Etchisketchistan. Oh and for the Crawl!

"Oral-B recalls combination toothbrush and razor following string of horrific injuries"

"Report: US Metabolism falls to 5 year low"

"New York Police Department reports supervillain who fell from building into river certainly dead"

"Sports Update: Michael Pelfrey throws 1000mph pitch thanks to performance enhancing typo"

"News from Montana: Newly discovered cluster of dinosaur bones suggest existence of a 200-million-year-old natural history museum"

" 'The idea of Portland' tops Time Magazine's list of "America's best cities" "

" McDonalds adds employee benefits to dollar menu"

"Plans for invasion of Iran canceled after Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accidentally CC'ed on Pentagon E-mail"

"News from Uganda: Last Remaining Mountain Gorilla just wants to be left alone"

"Crayola Crayon Factory named nation's most miserable place to work"


Love the Onion...

How the hell are those bad? Sure, there's a couple in there that look like they were done with crayons, but for the most part, they were actually really good. Especially the first couple.

"'See, I dun proved it' virtually written in the markers in crayon." Haha. Olbermann rocks.

wow. that was one hell of a fury delivered in that segment! (and rightly so!) I hope this message reaches all who can hear it and may it have similar effect!

"See, I done proved it, written in the margins with crayon" That one had me going :-D well done Keith Olbermann!

He's like that one kid who used to sit in the back corner and eat his crayons when I was in second grade.

cross culture problem.. WTF are pencil crayons? They just look like coloured pencils to me?

pencil crayons? I'm in.

ew for dubs, as a rule.

Crayon Shin-chan is a typical example of the lower level crude humor aimed at young boys in Japan. And yeah, it deserves terrible lol.

I "graded" your quiz

1. What do you do when you are not at the computer?

• Paint - That figures
• Watch DVDs - Wow you don't leave the house?
• Attend movies - By yourself most likely
• Work Sudoku puzzles - Afraid of real math?
• Get together with friends - Free meals at the soup kitchen don't count as "get together with friends
• Dine at restaurants - Translation: Dig in the dumpsters behind restaurants
• Attend art presentations - Staring at the back tattoo of a tranny prostitute hardly counts as "attending art presentations"
• Attend Mac meetings - ...
• Visit art museums/exhibitions - You already said that, but then again you probably don't have much going on in your life
• Take digital photos and videos - Draw "cave paintings" on the walls of the overpass you live under.
• Attend parties/receptions - Always the crasher never the invitee?
• Read books on art - Read...books...on...art. hmmm...fascinating

2. What is your favorite of your posted videos?

“MANtage” - you spelled "MANspooge" wrong

3. How many avatars have you had since being a member? What were (are) they?

Ten
• dot art – levee break waves
• dot art – 40 shades of blue
• dot art – green Chinese lion
• dot art – purple design from plaster relief
• dot art – leopard-like patterns
• dot art – eye shapes orange on black
• rainy windshield photo
• Dutch Alley blur
• pond goldfish photo
• Chinese dragon float profile photo (current one)
^Just can't quite encapsulate your mediocrity through visual aids, eh?

4. What non-self-involved site do you visit most often?

Apple Movie Trailers - To look at coming attractions nobody will ever invite you to see

5. If you had a time machine would you keep it clean?

Clean?!? What does that mean?!? - You know, clean like how you feel after your bimonthly dip in the sewers

6. What is your ratio of pairs of shoes to underwear?

1: 21 - Make that 1/2 : 1

7. Is that underwear boxer, brief, or birthday?

Boxers - Women's panties

8. Do you run a Mac OS, Windows, or Linux?

Mac OS - Coincidently Mac & Cheese is your main source of nutrition too

9. Would you most prefer to be involved in a monumental one-of-a-kind hiking expedition, working on a breakthrough cure for a debilitating illness, or presenting the discovery of a revolutionary new way to parse data?

presenting the discovery of a revolutionary new way to parse data - Pretending to have a girlfriend while dry humping his semen encrusted matress

10. What is your favorite ice cream topping? Favorite (non-ice-cream-related) spice?

Topping – chocolate syrup - By the time you get to the ice cream, it's already melted
Spice - saffron - Dried eucalyptus leaves

11. Are you a tits, ass, or legs man?

Yes - Translation: "I'm desparate"

12. What kind of pet(s) do you have? Include name(s).

Used to have cats:

Red (orange tabby) - killed and ate it
Storm (gray tabby with white socks – picked out Spring 1991 during Desert Storm) - Road kill that you found and dragged around on a leash for the summer of '91
Pierre (peppered fur mix) - Make believe animal that keeps me company during those lonely nights

13. What kind of pelt(s) do you have? Include name(s).

None. However, a former girlfriend brought me The Australian Lucky Pouch when she returned from her trip her trip Down Under. - Hahahaha! girlfriend...that's rich

14. What is your favorite kind of soup?

Turtle with a splash of sherry - Whatever's being served at the shelter

15. What is your most frequented source of news?

WWL Radio - 2 week old newspapers that you use to wipe your ass

16. What is your beverage (poison) of choice?

Iced Tea - "...you know how I know you're gay?"

17. Have you ever been arrested?

No. - The Phantom Pooper still hasn't been caught

18. What’s your go-to move for making a good first impression?

Get a person talking about her/himself and pray its not over my head. - Try not to get close enough to the person to be smelled

19. How would you describe your coif: bangs, balding or rug?

Thinning - HAHAHAHAHA

20. Is your face clean-shaven or do you have a beard, a goatee or a mustache?

Beard - Translation: I can't afford a razor

21. List your five most cherished possessions.

• House - Cardboard box
• Volvo - Shopping Cart
• Mac - & Cheese
• Camera - Old crayon or feces drawn on walls and sidewalks
• DVD player - "I can't play it, cause I don't have a TV but it sure is pretty and it'll score me a couple crack rocks"

22. What religion, if any, did you practice as a child?

Roman Catholicism - suppressed memories

23. What about now?

Same. - Translation: I do to little boys what was done to me

24. What is your favorite memory?

Surprise trip to Disneyworld even though us kids were told to pack for Gulfport, MS - Finding a quarter on the ground

25. What was your favorite childhood television show?

“Speed Racer” - It was really "My Little Pony"

26. How would you describe your personal style/sense of fashion/taste for life/artistic flair?

personal style – put my stamp on what I do - Translation: I fart wherever I am
sense of fashion – I like color, except the days I prefer black - "OH, woe is me I'm such a DEEP artist type"
taste for life – take time to appreciate whom I’m with, where I am and what I’m doing - Translation: Sit in an alcove yelling at people who don't give me spare change
artistic flair – experimentation and reinvention - Translation: Crap nobody will like and stealing other people's work

27. What is a reason not to go to Burning Man?

I already live in a hot climate. - No transportation, no friends, no car, no water, you're missing a shoe

28. Who is your favorite Sift Hero?

Fedquip - Translation: Rottenseed

29. Do you have any image(s) of yourself online that you're willing to share?

‘Will link shortly. - "uh...er...well you see is, I'm horribly disfigured and I hope everybody will forget about this question"

30. What goal to you have while a Videosift member?

Contribute to the “good of the order.” - Find somebody that'll love me for the stinky, poor, pseudo-artist I am

31. Do you upvote comments more for their originality, sense of humor, or self-deprecation?

I upvote on impulse, PERIOD. - "I can't read."

Rock, Paper, Shotgun has an excited write-up of the game.

Oh heck, I'm going to quote them at length - hope they don't mind. They're so keen at RPS about it that they'll probably appreciate it.

... I have the suspicion this will be this year’s Peggle, in terms of the surface-simple Puzzle game which takes over the PC-mainstream.

Except that’s not really true - it’s a much more traditional PC game-game than Peggle, whose puzzles are purely abstract things, with the whole thing’s plot being obviously deeply tongue-in-cheek - hell, the whole graphical style’s appeal is that it’s so obviously ironic. Conversely, there’s little of that in World of Goo. It’s a surreal little, perfectly considered, coherent world, and while it uses irony neatly at a few points, it’s proper-irony rather than so-shit-it’s-good quasi-irony.

And I’m going off on one, which I’m trying not to do - there’s lots of pretentious things to say about it (Hell - for me, everything has a few pretentious things to say about), but they’re not what’s key. It’s just a charming, funny puzzle game. When Jim saw it, amazed by how slick it feels for a two-person show, he noted it passed his girlfriend test in the head - that it’s something he can imagine his other half playing and adoring. When Alec saw it, he thought it was quite something, paused in the MSN window for a few seconds and determinedly stated that it was something we should Champion. And John’s been playing fellow IGF-finalist Crayon physics Deluxe, so no news on that front yet. I bet he likes it.

We’ll hopefully have an interview with 2D Boy just before World of Goo’s release, but you want, you can pre-order the game for twenty dollars from their site. That allows you to become a Beta Tester, if you so desire, and gives access to the pre-order specific profanity pack, which swaps the eeks and ooks of your Gooey charges for my usual brusque idiom.

Looks like Crayon Physics.
http://www.videosift.com/video/Crayon-Physics-Deluxe-on-a-Tablet-PC

You can get the protoype (Crayon Physics) for free here.