Memewatch 2011 - Angry Soccer Dad

I bet you thought your dad could really hurl some invective at his shitty futbol club whilst they got their asses whupped on national television. Well, you haven't seen this guy yet. He is a 683 on a scale of 1 to 10.



He's inspired a meme of sorts, which is gaining some steam. A sample:

Congress, Just GTFO!

Seriously.

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The Broncos Have A Pass Rush Again

Check out human wrecking ball and Butkus award winner Von Miller, recent addition to the Denver Broncos linebacker corps of, well, him and a couple of other guys. This is his highlight reel just from 2010. This guys a fucking animal. Watch.

9/11's 10th Anniversary Is Just Around The Corner. Great.

Yeah, it's that time of year again. 9/11 (remember, that dastardly thing the gubmint did back there in Aught One) is only six weeks away, and this year is special because it's the tenth anniversary (which one is that? burlap? coal?) and because bin Laden is muerto. So be prepared to see and hear a whole lot of crap, America. Here is the first salvo:

Yeah, that's right. We're gonna do a 9/11 fashion photo shoot this year. Word to the mothership. By the way, can we please for fuck's sake get a building built where that goddamned hole in the ground is already? It's been ten years.

ComicCon 2011 Rules It At Least As Much As ComicCon 2007

If you don't believe me, see for yourself:

I think you should go next year.

This should be your costume:

Leapord Attack!!!

Fuck Yeah!

In this July 19, 2011 photo, a leopard attacks a forest guard at Prakash Nagar village near Salugara, on the outskirts of Siliguri, India. The leopard strayed into the village area and attacked several villagers, including at least four guards, before being caught by forest officials, according to news reports. The leopard, which suffered injuries caused by knives and batons, died later in the evening at a veterinary center. But he was a badass.

God Gets 52% Approval Rating (+ or - 4 pts)

So Public Policy Polling decided to get a little cute and/or surreal on it's July 20th poll (my birthday, incidentally), asking voters "If God exists, do you approve or disapprove of his or her performance?" Turns out God is only polling at around 50 percent, not good numbers for someone who actually has the power to control the outcome of the poll.

Rupert Murdoch's Hot Chinese Wife Knows Deadly Kung Fu

Check this shit out:



That's Wendi Deng in the salmon-colored jacket, using the deadly eye rake maneuver from Shao'lin kung fu. The dude she's attacking was attempting to plaster one of those novelty whip cream pies in ol' Rupert's face. Notice how slowly his bodyguards react, while Wendi just goes right at him. Maybe she is his actual bodyguard. Anyways, the piethrower guy is in critical condition after losing his eyesight and damage to his cerebral cortex from her cobrastrike. Well, ok, not really, but it would've been awesome.

Now The Shit Is Getting Real

Well, most of us, anyways

16 Anons got arrested today in what is the biggest ever 'hacker sweep' ever by the FBI. Here's the skinny from CNET:

Sixteen people were arrested in the United States today in connection with hacking attacks by the Anonymous group of online activists, as well as one person in the U.K. and four people in the Netherlands, the U.S. Department of Justice said.

An indictment filed last week in San Jose, Calif., names 14 people accused of conspiring to intentionally damage protected computers at PayPal last December in retribution for PayPal suspending WikiLeaks' account to prevent supporters from donating to the whistleblower site. The arrests were made in Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, the District of Columbia, Florida, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Mexico, and Ohio, the DOJ said. The defendants were expected to make initial appearances throughout the day in federal courts in their areas.

In two other separate indictments, a Sarasota, Fla., man was arrested on charges of intentional damage to a protected computer for allegedly accessing the Web site of InfraGard Tampa Bay, an FBI partner, in June. The complaint alleges that he released instructions on how to exploit the Web site.

Another man was arrested in Las Cruces, N.M., for allegedly stealing confidential business information from AT&T servers and posting it publicly in April. The defendant, who works as a customer support contractor for AT&T at outsource provider Convergys, is charged with accessing a protected computer without authorization for allegedly downloading thousands of documents, applications and other files and then posting them on the Internet, the indictment says. The LulzSec hacking group publicized the release of those documents on June 25, according to the filing.

The arrests of the defendants, who range in age from 20 to 42, followed the execution of more than 35 search warrants throughout the country by the FBI as part of the investigation into hacking attacks coordinated by the Anonymous online activist group, officials said. More than 75 searches have taken place in the U.S. to date as part of the investigations, the DOJ said.

There's more but it's all tl;dr. But it is a pretty huge story. Apparently using proxy servers doesn't work as well as advertised. At least, not for everybody. Are the lulz done for good? Stay tuned for Internetquakes.

Check Out The SunHack

LulzSec has apparently weighed in on the Rupert Murdoch Situation by hacking News of the World 's sister publication The Sun (italics added for extra legitimacy) today. They posted a cool, official looking article reporting Murdoch's suicide by ingestion of palladium. Nice.