Not Just McCain Who’s Technologically Illiterate

Only Karl Rove doesn’t have the POW excuse.

Watch Rove’s outrage on Fox at the hacking of Palin’s Yahoo mail account :

No wonder he’s upset – he’s been screwed by technology himself:

[Interviewer] In the new edition of your book, ARMED MADHOUSE, you report on the theft of the 2008 election. How do know what they’re doing? Any way to stop them?

[Greg] Palast: I know because I have Karl Rove’s emails. No kidding. He and his team aren’t the sharpest knives in the drawer. They sent copies of their plans to GeorgeWBush.ORG instead of GeorgeWBush.COM addresses — and, heh heh, they ended up in my in-box. Who says this job ain’t fun?

He learned fast though – remember that ‘mixup’ with the White House email? Somehow records of communications regarding the deliberate corruption of the Justice Dept got wiped. Dashed pesky intertubes, however did that happen? Poor old Republicans, they really haven’t got to grips with this modern world thingy – except when it suits them.

UPDATE

A commenter at the Christian Science Monitor’s Vote Blog:

I find it both incredible and hypocritical that McCain is so upset about someone hacking into Palin’s email when he obviously condoned this very same behavior when he named Carly Fiorina as his economic adviser. Wasn’t she the same CEO who paid to hack into Hewlett Packard’s Board of Directors personal emails?

So it’s been said. HP has certainly admitted to it and she was the boss.

Temporary News Antidote

What a day.

Nothing soothes the frazzled pysche or wallet like kittens but with the news as it is the kittens’ll have to be tuned up to maximum cuteness. I’m up to the challenge and so is YouTube… take this, could this get any cuter? Look, it’s Puss In Boots!

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Awwww. Still not cute enough to get inflation and/or redundancy off your mind, at least temporarily? Maybe munchkin kittens will do the trick:

Still having thoughts of market chaos, systems unraveling and the economy going belly up? Time to break out the ferrets *and* the kitten *and* the paper bag….

Urgh. I just heard the market news. There’s only one thing for it. I have to go ballistic. I’ve been saving this up for exactly such on occasion. Ladies and germs, I give you the one, the only, ferret in a bunny hat:

If that doesn’t divert, even momentarily, then we really are all fucked.

Bonus clip:

Ninja kitten, going viral all over the place.

Even Apeldoorn Bellen…

There’s not much joy to be had out of Dutch tv – it’s mostly turgid, incomprehensible soaps or mammothly dull talkshows, punctuated by a rotating series of about five ads, randomly interspersed with big-jawed women with unbrushed hair or a squint reading endless repeats of the provincial news. Either that or wall to wall music videos punctuated by sexline ads. Entertainment it ain’t.

But one bright spot is Apeldoorn’s Central Beheer insurance company’s hilarious series of commercials. All of these are SFW, except for the bonus clip, which is emphatically not.

You don’t need any Dutch to get this joke:

If you’ve been thinking about getting a tattoo – don’t watch this.

Sometimes there are very few advantages to being a minor sleb.

Bonus Clip [NSFW]

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This Is For My People

Can it really be 31 years ago? For those youth who think they and they alone invented clubbing and getting out of your head, and for those like me who were there (and for those who just pretend they were there) here’s Wigan Casino as it was, from the 1977 documentary, This England:

I’m going to watch this over and over and see who I recognise. Looks like half the lads I went to school with were there.

Damn, I want my misspent youth back so I can misspend it all over again; only this time I’ll make sure to cop off with the bloke with the floppy fringe. Or I did I actually do that? It’s all gone so hazy….