furtive explorations

With meanness like that, you know you want to read it... Baby's Named a Bad, Bad Thing: A Primer on Parent Cruelty.

• All Your Base Rapsody... too stupid good to describe.
• Tetka... is a physics demo mixed with a physique demo. Brutally fun.
• And... since I'm posting silly stuff, this made me laugh: Skirt!

And, who ever thought the reasonable solution to rolling out Google Images as an option was to BLINDLY FORCE every blogger user to suffer their "tested in the labs" HTML addition to every post needs to be smacked. The option should have defaulted to OFF and the instructions for using the Images tool should have explained how to turn it on or what you could add to the template.

Once upon a time, when Ev ran things, this wouldn't have happened... because he published his blog to a markup-file and then a local script picked up the blogger created file and parsed it into his blog page. And BTW, WHO THE FUCK SAID EVERYONE EVEN USES BLOGGER TO CREATE HTML? This bullshit really is more and more unacceptable. I wouldn't complain if they'd done it only to the blogspot users, who really are just along for the ride... but I have my own site. Why would I want to be forced to opt in to their corporate nonsense?

Gah.

Fucking Google OWNS Fucking Blogger.

/* FUCKING GOOGLE. */
.post-body div { clear: none !important; }

OTOH, AntiQuark seems to be fundamentally weird.

Let's say Becks visits hostile and decides to get a tattoo of the loveable Hostile smilin' alien (shown here for the blind) done by Mark. (Stupid, stupid Becks) Becks decides to sell sneakers and gets pics of himself wearing the shoes and the smilin' alien prominently visible. I'm cool with that. Mark sold him a copy of the alien and even attached it to Becks personally. He's not reproducing the alien per se so it's even legit via copyright.

Now Becks decides to show just the shoes and the smilin' alien image. Bang, my brain says 'no.' The smilin' alien is Mark's creation and predates Becks deciding to get a cool tattoo. Why should Mark lose control of the smilin' alien just cuz Becks wants to sell shoes? Copyright as I understand it says Becks bought one copy (his skin) but cannot reproduce the design.

So in summary, photo of actual tattoo good, tat design bad.

This of course goes out the window if this was a custom design in the vein of "work for hire."

I hate to say, but this tattoo fight may be bunk. Further searching on the topic shows the source for the "information" to be the Mirror, which is, at best, tabloid journalism.

Read "tabloid" as "same category as National Enquirer and Weekly World News." Given Becks' high-profile friendship with the artist in question, I wonder how much truth there is to these "facts."

However, flip-side, Molloy can be found in other references to be accusatory to other tattoo artists for creating slightly similar works. So it is entirely possible Molloy is an egotistical prima donna who is suing his long-time client Becks. Who knows? I'd say this being real is about 30% likely.

If it is likely, I'd hope the doofus doesn't have a legal leg to stand on. Unfortunately, thanks to recent changes in British IP law (a loosening lobbied for by...ahem...corporations) MAY allow the fuck-stain to successfully prevent Becks from using his own skin in advertising. Sad. Personally, I think the fucker should shut the fuck up and advertise he did the work, so he can shoot the same design into the skin of random soccer hooligans who crave cheap knockoffs of Becks' tats.

That is just some crazy shit if he can sue someone for letting people photograph a tattoo. Crazy.

#!/bin/sh
for FILENAM in $@; do
 perl -pi.bak -e 's#<div style="clear:both;(?: padding-bottom: 0.25em;)?"></div>##g;' $FILENAM
 chown nobody.nobody $FILENAM
 chmod 744 $FILENAM
done

Yes, it is fucking sad that I didn't write the whole thing in perl and it's even more sad that I have to rip HTML back out of my blogger page. I'd love it if they'd actually mail me back...

Now, there isn't particularly any significant order to them, so let rearrange them to spell something rude! id+ s-u-ck fox-- B9el-t... well, "I'd suck fox Belt" probably isn't that rude... but it sure is funnier. Others:

• Bi ex fucks dolts Heh.
• Loxed fuck bits Mmm, fishy.
• Fickle stud box Heh.
• Six elf duck bot I'd buy one.
• FBI extols duck Hero duck?
• Slut be dick fox Ah, Transvestite humor.
• Dick to flex bus Now that's power.
• Sick flub detox BING! Perfect for blogging!