Nerds Gone Wild
http://www.progressivefuture.org
This is the organization that is being founded by the my shadowy umbrella organization to organize around the 2008 elections, with the overall goal of getting people who actually care about progressive issues in to the White House and in to Congress.
We figured, since we don't do expressly electoral stuff, and since we're sick of all taking leaves of absence to go work for MoveOn, why don't we start our own gig. This thing is going to be powered entirely by people like ourselves, and also is working on issues that in part came out of discussions with frequenters of the mighty Jackblog.
Dang. Anyway, Here's to having a government that doesn't bulldoze public housing or kill renewable energy bills, or actually takes global warming seriously, or stops funding fucking jokers like Blackwater and Halliburton. Jimmy Carter, where you at?
Labels: Jetpacks, tasers n' shit
feliz navidad!
superlatives continued
most popular tag:
nerdcoremost notable business opportunity::
mission businessmanbest political commentary:
jeanne's state of the union recapmost thought-provoking posts: that is, those which elicited the most comments:
4.:
robot-on-robot violence,
mooninites terrorize boston,
SOTU recap,
ayatollah's film review;
3. snowballin' arrives;
2. going to namibia;
1. untitledbest selling jackshoppe products:
1. LJB t-shirt,
2. ken's classic wall clock,
3. ken's trucker hatworst selling jackshoppe products:
ken's classic thongthe year in crotch-themed jackblog posts: "
this week in crotch history", "
this blog in crotch history".
incidentally, this is the jackblog's 1000th post.
Labels: end of year lists
top jackblog surprises of 2007
3. junior high school is born: we knew he'd be the first dad among us from the moment we laid eyes on his fuzzy green backpack.
2. the nootz shocker: free nootz.
1. ayatollah's LARP adventure: in the span of one mere post, all our hopes and dreams came true
Labels: end of year lists
Cowboy,
How about this label?
Labels: fuck you
Dumbest Jackblog Labels of 2007
here is the first in a series of requisite end-of-year 2007 superlatives.3. "awesomeness": not a word, and irrelevant as we already have the tag "Spy Jobs/Bond Porn."
2. "dan sucks.": i have more of an issue with the punctuation than the message.
1. "Boxer Briefs": if this were one of those underwear consumer report blogs, maybe.
Labels: end of year lists
worst band names of 2007
the onion AV club recently released their
worst band names end-o-year feature.
among the hits:
- "The Asbestos Tampons"
- "Slut Barf"
- "Hooray For Earth"
- "Count Dracula's Weed Smuggling Jam Engine"
i'm convinced that my proposed band with duncan and john wickhart, "The Buddy System," would have made top billing in the "Cutesy Bullshit" section had it materialized.
Labels: music
Attention Talawanda Band Alumni
J.J. on the sousaphone, yours truly on the trumpet - Who's
coming with us?
Forties and stogies surely to precede/follow...
!!!!
Have a drink tonight...
i just got back a not guilty verdict on all counts for a gun and drug charge in federal court.
Many Bothans died to bring us this information.A long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away? Or maybe right here, right now? Some nerds built a totally sweet
X-Wing replica and actually launched that bad boy. There's a video in
this Wired article that captures not only the lift-off, but also the spectacular full-system failure and explosion that happens
very shortly thereafter. Rad stuff. I have a shackled computer here at work that I can't listen to audio on, so I don't know what the rocket guy says in the interview, but if you want to skip to the good part, the launch happens at around 2:50 of the video.
If nothing else this is a clear indication that we will shortly have the space defense we need against encroaching
galactic threats.
Long live the Rebel Alliance.
Labels: awesomeness, nerdcore, religion
Ninja Writers
AskANinja.com has advice for the striking writers and it is
fucking brilliant.
Clearly every strike needs Vikings and a for Chevy Chase to be funny again.
(I fixed the link)
Labels: celebrities, film, Ninjas
