Just one question--do you like random facts? If so, this site may be right for you!(BTW, if purple doesn't bring to your mind surprise, excitement, mystery, importance, etc... what is wrong with you? XD No, really, it's one of my favorite colors and brings back childhood memories. It will appear somewhat frequently, so...thinksurprise, excitement, mystery, importance, etc...)
This pic has almost no relation to the post whatsoever. Hi! :)
Sneeze is a site we found way back in or neopet days, loaded with surprisingly useless and un-neopet related facts and data. In other words, a little piece ofHeaven. (Cue choir music)
So, yes, just thought I'd mention it. Good day, dear readers.
[Note: just FYI, they have some samples of his art on this post, and there are some women in revealing clothing and what appears to be a zombie at the very end...If that doesn't bother you, you should be fine. His art is exquisite, I definitely recommend you check it out!]
Points to whomever recognizes that quote paraphrase...
Wow, you're memory must be good. (Or you really liked that movie for some reason XD. I know I did :D)
Anyhow, this is the Japanese version of the opening (as I understand it) from How to Train Your Dragon.
It's awesome by the way.
I really liked the Jpop twist, and I think the song both works with the movie, the characters, and the visuals, as well as corresponds to the glow-y, fantasy/adventure...ness How to Train Your Dragon entails. It also reminds me heavily of an anime theme song, and thus bring the presence of Japanimation to the movie; a strange, but no less tasty combination.
Well, very early today, just after midnight, I attempted to look up Marilyn vs Savant, one of the most intelligent people in the world on wikipedia, and this is the image which enveloped my screen.
"Oh." I said to myself. "That's right. Today is blackout day."
Today, as many of you probably know, wikipedia blacked out their site in a bold effort to protest against SOPA and PIPA, two bills the government has been considering for a while.
Now I can't claim to know all that much about this. I haven't been following the debates and all the controversy surrounding these two bills. I barely knew of them until a day or two ago. And can't claim to know enough facts to really declare an opinion about them.
However, today, in honor of the blackout, I have searched around a bit for some information, and found a post (on Boing Boing, ironically) that was most helpful.
Now I'm not sure how much of this is accurate or objective. I can vouch for it because it's on Boing Boing, but only so far.
But...
I must say it affected me. Not everybody uses the Internet in a way that glorifies God, or is good or proper, or even with good stewardship and vigilance, but I also don't believe in the government foolishly attempting to solve every social ill in the U.S. through our finite and very flawed human means. Yes, evil and wrong should be fought and brought to justice. But obstructing good things, sacrificing what you seek to protect (in this case, the prosperity and security of individuals on the Internet) is very wrong. Controlling the voices and freedom of people by gaining almost complete reign over any site, people's personal property and platforms of speech, with almost no reasonable cause (especially considering that the Internet is very inter connected, which is both one of its merits as well as its downfalls, but no less its nature ) is not only unconstitutional, but self-defeating. If the information I have been given is truth, then this law is very troubling indeed, and I find myself taking a strong stance against it.
However, I do believe that more information is warranted; not everything on the Internet should be taken at face value (of course, then again, neither should most bills). But something i do stand for is Freedom of speech and Public access to information and connection. These are all very precious, valuable things, things which are to be treasured and protected, and never to tossed aside with abandon.
