MySpace

MySpace is the Devil. Cruddy websites for idiots.

MySpace Being Sold on the Cheap

Rupert Murdock is going to jettison the crummy MySpace acquisition that he bought for almost 600 million bucks for a paltry 30 million dollars. I’m thinking the infrastructure is worth at least that much. The sale also brings massive layoffs.


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Crazed Hawaiian Eco-Religionist Takes Hostage At Discovery Channel

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This is Lee. He is an insane Hawaiian environmental nutbag who fired shots in the lobby of the Discovery Channel Building in Silver Spring Maryland today. He is demanding an end to TLC and Discovery Programming that promotes reproduction and instead demands new TV shows show people how to sterilize themselves and stop growing food.

Kinda funny demands from a fat Hawaiian.

You can see an original protest site he created here at Archive.Org where he talks about getting arrested for protesting at Discovery back in 2008.

And of course this idiot has a MySpace page here.

Lets hope this person becomes “an hero” by the end of the day.

UPDATE!  BOOM, Headshot!  Snipers have taken this idiot down.  I hereby lay claim and salvage any carbon credits this loser has now forfeited.  If he were to have lived 60 years as a normal sane person, I figure I can take his unspent carbon credits-  about 30 years worth- and give them away to my liberal friends for Festivus.


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The Amazing CanTab Chair

You know all those pull tabs from soda cans that most normal people throw away? A friend of mine, Brad, collects them for his amazing art. And he gets his friends to collect them too. He wants thousands of them so he can make artwork like his Amazing CanTab Chair pictured below.

The silvery portion of this chaise lounge chair is made out of interwoven Can Tabs. Over 40,000 of them. Here is the closeup of what the weave looks like.

He has lots of pictures of the build and design process for this piece of art on the MySpace page. And his chair is for sale too. According to his site on MySpace here:

The frame was constructed of two pieces of ¾” plywood on each side, held together with 3/8” all thread steel rod. The seating surface is made of aluminum can tabs, 40,000+ of them, strung onto 1/16” galvanized steel cable. It took me about 3 years to design, collect tabs, and build the chair. The chair is for sale, but I have no idea how much. I am very interested in displaying it in galleries, museums, etc.

The chair is currently on display at Artomatic, an artist’s festival and gallery running now in Washington DC. Check out details for the show here.


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Lori Drew Indicted- On Hacking Charges

Lori Drew is rightfully the most hated person on the internet. She impersonated a boy on MySpace with the express intention of hurting Megan Meier, a little girl who was her neighbor. That girl, brokenhearted over drama resulting from the fake MySpace page, committed suicide.

I never covered this story since it was so well covered by Trench here, here and here. But now she has been indicted in Los Angeles on federal charges for conspiracy, fraud, and get this- hacking! What hacking? She violated the terms of service on Myspace.

From Reuters here:

A 49-year-old Missouri woman accused of pretending to be a love-struck teenage boy on MySpace and driving a 13-year-old girl to suicide with cruel messages was indicted on Thursday on federal charges.

Lori Drew and others created the fake MySpace persona of a 16-year-old boy to woo neighbor Megan Meier for several weeks, then abruptly ended the relationship and said the world would be better off without her.

Meier’s 2006 suicide by hanging, just hours after she read those final messages, made worldwide headlines and prompted calls for social networking sites like MySpace to crack down on cyber-bullying.

The indictment, which was handed down in Los Angeles after Missouri authorities declined to prosecute Drew, was a first of its kind and could stretch the bounds of the federal statute on which it was based.

Drew was charged with accessing a protected computer to obtain information, a statute typically used against defendants who hack into government computers.

Drew, who faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison if she is convicted on all of the charges, was expected to surrender to authorities in Missouri.

I think Lori Drew deserves punishment of the harshest type. But if the Feds are going to step in and prosecute based on the violation of the Terms of Service agreement, which is a civil agreement between private individuals, this is a bad idea. First, the feds have neglected to do this for every creepy web predator that rapes kids they entice on MySpace. Second, no federal laws were actually broken under the code cited, which is Title 18 Section 1030, a code every cyber security professional is familiar with. In order to prosecute under this section, Drew would have had to steal a password or compromise the system- Not use the service in an unintended way.

The conspiracy and harassment charges should stick. But also think about this- when was the last time any prosecutor in Los Angeles was able to get a conviction? Unfortunately, I think Drew will walk on this charge.


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Not All Clowns Rape

Some just take a half million dollars from 90 year-old widows.

 

Meet Carrie Williams.  This despicable woman stole a half million bucks from a grieving 90 year old widow.  What makes this woman even more intolerable is that she is a clown.  Now she will be making balloon animals for fat Rhonda in the Arizona State Pen.

From the Daily Courier here:

Police arrested Kooki the Clown on five felony charges relating to her allegedly defrauding a 90-year-old woman of more than $500,000.

Carrie L. Williams-Thompson, 48, who portrayed ‘Kooki’ at fairs and city events, also worked as a bereavement counselor.  She met the victim shortly after the victim’s husband died.

“The woman’s husband passed away in 2002. She (Williams-Thompson) gained power of attorney soon after that. The theft hasn’t been going on that long”.

The victim and her bank noticed that Williams-Thompson appeared to be “making unusual use” of the victim’s money. Williams-Thompson used the victim’s money to buy homes, vehicles, a fifth-wheel trailer and more.

California police officers arrested Williams-Thompson in Corona, Calif., where she was performing as Kooki with a California fair. Authorities soon will extradite her back to Arizona, where she will face felony charges of fraud, theft, financial exploitation of a vulnerable adult, forgery and unlawful use of power of attorney.

Clowns behind bars always make me laugh.  Wanna see this clown’s MySpace Page?  Click here.


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