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Once upon a time, animation was painstakingly hand-drawn in multiple stages by sweatshop teams of artists who mad no pretensions to realism. Preferring in general to portray speaking animals and magical figures, the first cartoon mills freed filmmakers, particularly the late Walt Disney, from the necessity of building sets, costuming actors, and obeying the laws of physics.

In those days, work on a major production like Peter Pan took years of careful, repetitive draftmanship. Today, the gruntwork is done by technological marvels like Flash Animation and high-end rendering programs like LightWave 3D. And the home cartoonist can now unleash their vision from a single desktop, recording the soundtrack from a simple desktop studio, achieving results which, while not necessarily meeting current standards for image and sound quality, would have been the wonder-struck envy of Walt’s team of tireless re-illustrators.

Computer animation goes way beyond funny cartoon images, however. Game designers have eagerly adapted the technology to provide an interactive experience which transcends the boundaries between artist and spectator. The graphics and storylines are often dark and hyper-real, taking advantage of the medium to generate 3D animations which rival the real thing.

Animators of all stripe have one thing in common…they are working in the cutting-edge medium of the age. Multimedia animation is perhaps the ultimate art form, allowing a single artist to write a script, code the actors, compose the soundtrack and distribute it via sites like Aniboom.com, where up-and-coming video artists can compete to spread their work throughout the world.

We’ve come a long way, Walt.

The beauty of an ironic cool retro T-shirt is that you can flash the creativity and humor of the designer, and get all the credit for the cleverness.

Just wearing a T-shirt is a statement. Long a symbol of non-conformity, perhaps the most appealing feature of the design is incompatibility with a necktie. The freedom to define what appears across your chest is unknown in the stiff world of corporate boardrooms, armies, and the uniformed masses of identically clad service workers who every day let someone tell them how to dress in exchange for a meager paycheck.

Even if you happen to be one of these unfortunates, hopefully the weekend offers you the chance to pick out your own clothes. Some choose to use it to give free advertising to favorite band or product. Others devote that space to political or philosophical messages.

We Morons, however, have weakness for the weird, like this hysterical Head Zeppelin Funny Heavy Metal Rock T-Shirt. Reminds me of that guy we let crash on the couch because he really knows his licks.

Are you an Adrenaline Junkie? Was your family kidnapped by ninjas? No matter what the special needs of you twisted sense of humor, among these unique designs there will surely be something that speaks from the depths of your misunderstood soul.

Tired of getting bothered by every boob in the bar checking out your boobs? Let them see this Speak to the Hand Funky Women’s T-shirt when they try to sneak a peak while angling to drop a pick up line. Ladies, you don’t have to put up with these jerks! Now, you won’t even have to waste your breath on them.

Sex Scandal Revelation Rocks Repubican Restrooms

(A.P.*-Toostoned, AZ)

In a shocking turn of events carefully calculated to distract attention from the plodding economy and deteriorating situation in the Middle East, Repubican Residential candidate Aridzona Senator Jon McCane has become the latest casualty in a domino of political sex scandals that have befallen members of Congress like a virulent STD over the last year.

From soliciting the vice squad in airport restrooms to ordering high-priced internet “escorts” online, the mighty have been falling in a series of ever more perverse and disturbing sex scandals.

The Senator has been linked to another online prostitution ring…but unlike recent tabloid celebrity Guvner Elliot Spitzher of New Yoke, Senator McCane is being investigated for being the provider of paid sexual services.

“We’re all very shocked,” an undisclosed source high within the Repubican party claimed, distancing himself from charges of a cover-up. “We thought Jon was clearing at least a hundred bucks an hour.”

Like the recent allegations against Spitzher, these charges revolve around a filthy online escort service. The website- DirtyOldMenDoItForMoney.info- appears to be a sleazy call-boy service which caters to the niche market in age-weathered studs who’d be otherwise put to pasture. The domain is registered to one “Dick Chainey” and hosted on offshore servers located in the jungles of Tanzania.

Users of the site can bid from $20-$100/hour for the services of a distinguished older gentleman. The menu includes such exotic specialties as groping, slobbering, and the premium “Ham and Cheese” service.

“We’re not sure whether the Senator has ever actually had any clients,” admitted FYI director Bob Mullett. “In fact, there’s a strong suspicion that McCane himself set this up, in an effort to compete with such headline grabbers as Larry Craig and Bob Packwood. There’s a feeling around the McCane campaign the Jon isn’t the kind of sexy candidate that commands the attention of the Murican people.”

“So our preliminary investigation suggests that Jon wasn’t being paid at all, but rather setting up fake profiles and leaving himself obscene comments to, um, look cool.”

The McCane campaign had no comment other than to note that the website does not define what “It” is, and could in fact refer to anything. When questioned as to what else “It” could possibly mean, spokesman Buck Rogers suggested that “It” might mean golf, which McCane plays religiously.

When asked what the “dirty” meant in that context, however, Rogers back-pedalled and decided that “It” must refer to camping, after all. “Gathering wood can make even the most hygienic old men dirty.”

* AP Associated Pranksters

Happy Holy Fool’s Day!

The Great (.asia) Land Grab

Outside of the webmaster world, the average internet user can barely spell TLD, let alone define it. For domainers and SEO-driven site flippers, however, the availability of a new ICAAN-approved domain extension means opportunity. Languages, like land, are vast but finite…and each word can only be used once per extension.
For those who think SEO was a pop-rock band of the eighties (possibly Speedwagon?), the appearance of a new TLD is like finding a new continent to plunder. The dictionary, long worn out for .com and most .net and .org domain names, suddenly becomes virgin territory.

If you host with a full service registrar, you may have received an invitation to invest in the newest public offering, available as of March 26: .asia. Touted as a valuable tool to reach the gigantic market of the Pacific Rim, this release seems more like a ploy to bring vast resources to the coffers of registration entities.

Certainly, nearly half of the world’s population resides in Asia. One might even argue that a significant number in each nation are literate in a Latin-lettered laguage. The covered area includes Australia, for example, for reasons which are a bit unclear, since the Land Down Under already has its own .au extension and is generally considered a continent distinct from Asia.

Most other affected countries also have national Top Level Domain assignments, such as China, India and Malaysia, in addition to being able to use the internationally available standard extensions. So the notion of a “regional” TLD for Asia seems redundant.

In general, the pitch is to those who are after ranking on google.com, not google.asia. Although there is a technical requirement that the registrant have ties to one of the 73 participating countries, the real duckets are being poured into English-language terms. Naturally, the premium words have all been reserved and auction at absurdly high prices reflective of the quick-buck nature of the release.

But these domains are not being registered by primarily by Asian companies, nor (except for the gullible) those who wish to market to Asian consumers. After all, when you market to a population, you do it in their language. And the undeniable reality is that the vast majority of Asians use a written idiogram-based system which will not regard .asia as any different from the other foreign symbols which appear in international search results.

Overall, it looks as if the major participants in the mad rush for short, dictionary .asia domains have not been internationally minded commercial concerns vying to be more accessible to the Asian audience, but, like .cn before it, cybersquatters and spam-oriented darkhatted SEO’s who know the value of keyword-rich domains.

So please stop coming to my house. There’s a reason there’s no welcome mat. Besides the fact that we live in a bus.

In fact, the Book of Moron was one of those all-too-common great ideas concocted a little too soon after Northern California’s harvest season: a brief religious tract emphasizing the sacred nature of profanity. This text would explicate the Magma, a set of changing disbeliefs, and serve as the main holy text for the Church of the Mountain’s Daughter of Latter-Day Pranksters.

See? Our thing is totally different.

Unfortunately, the project was heavily outweighed by its predecessors…some of which have been reviewed below and others in postings to come.

If you feel that your religion is somehow besmirched by this blog, then I have one question for you: why does www.mormon.org pay to be listed in Google for the phrase Book of Moron?

Chincy bastards…they only bid enough to rank third!

Next the Flying Spaghetti Monster people will come after us because they think they invented joke religions too.

Well, we can't go anywhere until at least a million of you have visited and in some way contributed to enriching our PayPal account; therefore, in kindness to you, our reader, we have devised a handy list of the ways that you can support Book of Moron and the Church of the Mountain's Daughter of Latter-Day Pranksters.

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Afraid take the plunge because instead of making everyone sorry, no one will even know or care why?

Well, they still won’t care, but you can leave your funny famous last words, just as if you had done something noteworthy and memorable with your life.

Thanks to the miracle of the internet, you can now speak your peace and get out-at LolDead.com

Of course, no one around here actually advocates suicide. If you wander around humor sites looking for psychiatric help, though, you need…well…psychiatric help.

If, instead, you came to satisfy a deep inner sickness and deep-seated need to cackle like a hyena at the Angel of Death…leave your electronic epitaph at LolDead.com

Of course, it’s not necessary to die now. In fact, we recommend putting it off for a few years. You never know. You might win the lottery or fall in love. Stay in the game. But let’s cut to the chase-how do you want the game to end?

You can get a jump on the procrastinators by planning your death now, making sure your hopes and dreams for that Final Voyage are fully documented for the Grim Reaper, who I understand has become an avid subscriber to the RSS feed.

It’s a little like those letters kids send to Santa Claus-except instead of listing a bunch of worthless junk that you’ll get tired of in a few minutes, you are making a wish list for eternity.

The hell with diamonds. Death is forever.

With four easy questions (we’re not making any assumptions about your ability to take tests…but this one’s a breeze), you can define your dreams and desires for the perfect demise.

Completely lacking in legal status and seriousness, LolDead lets you leave your last message to the world…even if you plan on sticking around for another 50 years.

We don’t do this for our own sake, however, despite popular misconceptions. We do it for you. We know you only have a limited amount of time to waste, and you don’t want to waste it looking for ways to waste it.

That is where our valuable service comes in.

As far as nosy neighbors, disapproving relatives, and our next job applications are concerned, this is an “online publishing company” and finding the best funny videos, ironic images, and bufoonish silliness on every corner of the web is all “part of the job”.

But there comes a time when watching others being idiotic just isn’t enough.

After investing hundreds of hours in gawking at would-be daredevils, extreme sports nuts, and skateboarders injuring themselves in wipeout after digitally captured wipeout, one can start to get a little jealous.

Through great dint of effort, we uncovered the Holy Grail of addictive, visceral, vicarious risk-taking. Adrenaline Challenge is the Web 2.0 interactive Flash answer to the eternal human need for inducing self-injury.

This game allows you unlimited opportunity to land on your head without incurring the intensive care bills that driving this insane course would rapidly result in real life.

The only problem is that we don’t get to call in sick to work. But hey, with a job like this…stumbling over to the laptop and clocking in isn’t so bad.

Enter the Sitefin blog. Apparently someone out there was due for a karmic spanking. Now I don’t know much about web development, but just leave it to Sitefin to joyfully and continually point out every single website error Pyron Technologies has ever made.

From bright red illustrations of errors maps, to pictures of Rosie O’Donnell as the unqualified project manager you will find a few giggles and will also undoubtedly cringe in disbelief. So toss Prawn Legs a couple of beers (lead sitefin web developer) and sit back and read a few posts about the Sitefin Project.

You will be disappointed, but I think that’s the whole point.

And from our Time Consumption Department:

More great ways to avoid whatever you were supposed to be doing

El Dorado Quest

This is your chance to become a real treasure hunter! Join Bob and Jane on their captivating adventure into the Amazon. You will go step by step into the ancient Incan civilization to find the lost city of El Dorado. There will be stops in your journey where you must piece together forgotten artifacts from this bygone culture. Solve the puzzles of the jungle and guide Bob and Jane to the treasures of a powerful empire.

» Invigorating Incan art.
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We’ll see you when you get out of the Jungle.

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I go completely insane.

What with three of the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse hanging out in Badagag Saloon, fires, flood, and human devastation, there’s a lot of muck to wade through in order to find what I really want: pictures of mangled skateboarders with their heads inserted literally up their ass.

Fortunately, the web is getting wierder every day. Very strange people and perfectly normal animals performing acts of supreme stupidity proliferate in every corner of the net, especially among the “YouTube Myspace and I’ll Google your Yahoo” crowd.

There are also some great humor forums that are worth looking in on a daily basis. The nuttiest of the net surface with the strangest comedy in these havens of madness.

As far as I’m concerned, there are 11 types of people in the world…those who understand binary, and those who don’t.

So in between agitating for worldwide reform and wrestling with mod_rewrite, I schedule some real productive time…screwing off on joke sites and hunting down ironic images.
Forget Prozac, Xanax and even Viagra. Doctors should prescribe these websites for what ails you. You might die anyway, but you die laughing!

Mostly I check-out weird news and funny pics but sometimes I look though online entertainment directories for new ideas. Just like an apple a day keeps the doctor away, I believe a few ripples of laughter a day keep the shrink away!

Principia Discordia: The Magnum Opiate of Malaclypse the Younger

In 1662, Sir Isaac Newton composed the Principia Matematica, setting forth the finest declaration of the laws of order, thus composing the crown jewel of the age of Reason.

In 1965 a couple of crackpots calling themselves Malaclypse the Younger and Lord Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst, mimeographed and began distributing primitive copies of the Principia Discordia, an exposition on the theology of randomness, and proclaiming the primacy of the Holy Joke.

Central to the myth is the Greek goddess Eris, the mischievous incarnation of Chaos, otherwise best known for starting the great War for Vagina between the Trojans and the Spurtans.

For those who slept through their Homer, the War began when Eris tossed a golden apple marked “Kallisti” (for the fairest) in a hall where the Goddesses of Marriage (Hera), Love (Aphrodite), and Strategy (Athena) all competed for primacy.

Naturally, Chaos won out.

Worshiping a troublemaking Goddess like this takes a lot of mind-altering substances and a yen for the Cosmic Laugh. The genius of the Principia Discordia is that out of the absurdities about hot-dog buns and flax, a cogent and fulfilling philosophy actually emerges, one that encourages reframing static ideas with dynamic ones.

Packed with zen-like contorsions and paradox-packed puns, this text is a genuine cult classic that influenced and interacted with the work of many great countercultural writers, most notably the late Robert Anton Wilson.

Some quotes from the text:

The Book of Lies by Richard Metzger

THE FIVE COMMANDMENTS (THE PENTABARF)

The PENTABARF was discovered by the hermit Apostle Zarathud in the Fifth Year of The Caterpillar. He found them carved in gilded stone, while building a sun deck for his cave, but their import was lost for they were written in a mysterious cypher. However, after 10 weeks & 11 hours of intensive scrutiny he discerned that the message could be read by standing on his head and viewing it upside down.

KNOW YE THIS O MAN OF FAITH!

* I - There is no Goddess but Goddess and She is Your Goddess. There is no Erisian Movement but The Erisian Movement and it is The Erisian Movement. And every Golden Apple Corps is the beloved home of a Golden Worm.

* II - A Discordian Shall Always use the Official Discordian Document Numbering System.

* III - A Discordian is Required during his early Illumination to Go Off Alone & Partake Joyously of a Hot Dog on a Friday; this Devotive Ceremony to Remonstrate against the popular Paganisms of the Day: of Catholic Christendom (no meat on Friday), of Judaism (no meat of Pork), of Hindic Peoples (no meat of Beef), of Buddhists (no meat of animal), and of Discordians (no Hot Dog Buns).

* IV - A Discordian shall Partake of No Hot Dog Buns, for Such was the Solace of Our Goddess when She was Confronted with The Original Snub.

* V - A Discordian is Prohibited of Believing what he reads.

IT IS SO WRITTEN! SO BE IT. HAIL DISCORDIA! PROSECUTORS WILL BE TRANSGRESSICUTED.

* The Hell Law says that Hell is reserved exclusively for them that believe in it. Further, the lowest Rung in Hell is reserved for them that believe in it on the supposition that they’ll go there if they don’t.
o HBT; The Gospel According to Fred, 3:1

* IT IS MY FIRM BELIEF THAT IT IS A MISTAKE TO HOLD FIRM BELIEFS

Liber Kaos by Peter J. Carroll

The Golden Secret
* NONSENSE AS SALVATION

The human race will begin solving its problems on the day that it ceases taking itself so seriously.

To that end, POEE proposes the countergame of NONSENSE AS SALVATION. Salvation from an ugly and barbarous existence that is the result of taking order so seriously and so seriously fearing contrary orders and disorder, that GAMES are taken as more important than LIFE; rather than taking LIFE AS THE ART OF PLAYING GAMES.

* If you can master nonsense as well as you have already learned to master sense, then each will expose the other for what it is: absurdity. From that moment of illumination, a man begins to be free regardless of his surroundings. He becomes free to play order games and change them at will. He becomes free to play disorder games just for the hell of it. He becomes free to play neither or both. And as the master of his own games, he plays without fear, and therefore without frustration, and therefore with good will in his soul and love in his being.

An irreverent guru being channeled through a Southern California cynic, Ram Tzu sets the very idea of wisdom on its ass.

“If you are serious in your pursuit of enlightenment you are in for a rough ride. Ram Tzu does not coddle. His truths are self evident to some and heresy even blaspheme to others.

The pages of this book are filled with incredibly funny and intelligent paradox, that is all the more stunning because it is delivered at the most dizzying heights of mankind’s most cherished beliefs.

Ram Tzu is a Zen Master’s Master. And like a Zen Master of old if the Student is blinded by his own flame the Master smacks him, on occasion. Ram Tzu laughs at you… But only when you need laughing at. An example form the book: ‘Ram Tzu knows this…You indulge in self improvement… and…All you have to show for it is an improved self.’

If this makes you mad you missed the point. Losing the self is the point not improving it. This book is not for the pious, those that take themselves too seriously.

To the truly enlightened, nothing is sacred. Ram Tzu is truly Enlightened.”

“This book will slap you back into your senses. To quote from the book: ‘You are your own worst enemy. Ram Tzu is your friend, so he will have to kill you to save you from yourself.’ “

* Quoted material from Amazon Reviews

Read No Way by Ram Tzu