THE NEW, NUANCED, BLOGGIN' NIXON

ITEM: President Nixon starts his own blog today.





Yes, I know he’s dead. What’s yr point?

Okay, it’s actually the Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation’s blog. And evidently, it riffs off the Nixon legacy of reinvention:

"Those who participate in the dialogue on The New Nixon blog will themselves be part of creating the next new Nixon, the nuanced new Nixon.”

So, it’s like blogs are a chance to reinvent yrself, see? Because on the Interwub, no one knows yr a dead ex-President who resigned in disgrace for wiretapping yr own office and believing that it’s not illegal if the President does it. You know, back when secret wiretapping was illegal.

Having grown up under the mushroom cloud of Watergate, I find it amazing that there are still people who will defend Nixon. On the other hand, eight years of Junior Bush makes almost anyone look good in comparison. And 25% of the country inexplicably still thinks Bush is awesome, so sure, why not give Nixon his own blog?

It’d be more fun if Nixon wrote it from beyond the grave. But then none of the presidential candidates actually write their own blogs, so I guess it’s no different.

Happy presidents day.

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THERE WILL BE BLOOD

Or, “Things People Send Me At Work, Part 3,821”.

Meet Bloody Bunny.

BLOODY is the action bunny that comes to life to search for its lost little girl owner, ALICE, who disappears while working for an evil doll factory. Beyond the innocent looking dolls at the factory lies something sinister that BLOODY will have to overcome to find ALICE, and discover the truth about its own origin.

See, this is why Hollywood is failing. They don’t come up with ideas like this.

FUN FACT: Bloody Bunny is reportedly big in Thailand, according to 2:Spot, the company that came up with him. Here’s what else they do.




Some bad rabbit,

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THE SINGULARITY: JUST 22 YEARS AWAY

ITEM: Machines will achieve human-level artificial intelligence by 2029, by which time we will be implanting nanobots in people's brains to make them more intelligent.

Source: Ray Kurzweil at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Boston.

Cool. What could possibly go wrong?

Oh, and according to The Telegraph, we will achieve this using souped up PlayStation 3s. No, really.

God, I love the future.

FUN FACT: Way back in the late 90s, the Rev Animal wrote a serialized story for my zine Go To Hell, in which he claimed to have met the elusive Paul GiPson, who had been hopping between different universes using a souped-up Gameboy. I thought he was kidding. I may owe him an apology.

Here’s yr future,

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