“Any company that is providing great content online in a way that’s easy to use with a fair price has a booming business right now. The people who don’t are trying to fight that future.
So here we have this legislation, with all of these possible harms, to solve a problem that only exists in the minds of people who are afraid of the future. Why should the government be intervening on behalf of the people who aren’t getting with the program?”
“Here’s an extremely amusing interview with “Rambo” look-alike Wayne Scott on a French TV news show filmed some time in the 80s. There’s even a pretty terrific dance routine towards the end.”
The Church of the SubGenius is a “parody religion” organization that satirizes religion, conspiracy theories, unidentified flying objects, and popular culture. Originally based in Dallas, Texas, the Church of the SubGenius gained prominencein the 1980s and 1990s and maintains an active presence on the Internet.
In 1996 the legal entity SubGenius Foundation, Inc. was established in Cleveland, Ohio. The Foundation’s president is “Reverend” Ivan Stang and the Vice President is Dr. Philo Drummond, a.k.a. Steve Wilcox. Publicly accessible cited figures from 1988 indicated a membership of 3,500,”more than 5,000” in 1990and “close to 10,000” by 2003.
The church started with the publication of SubGenius Pamphlet #1 in 1979. It found acceptance in underground pop-culture circles and has been embraced on college campuses, in the underground music scene, and on the Internet.
According to its “mythological” origins, the Church of the SubGenius claims to have been founded in the 1950s by the “world’s greatest salesman” J. R. “Bob” Dobbs. “Bob” Dobbs is depicted as a cartoon of a Ward Cleaver-like man smoking a pipe, an image originally seen in one of the many “can you draw this” ads commonly found in the back of comic books in the 1950s and 1960s.
Like the Interstate system, the U.S. Routes (mainly) conform to a numbered grid system. Evenly numbered highways run from west to east, with low numbers in the north (U.S. 2 is the lowest) rising to the highest numbers in the south (U.S. 98 in Florida). Numbers ending in a “0″ are considered “major” routes and are given their own unique colour on the map. Odd-numbered highways run from north to south, with low numbers to the east (U.S. 1) rising to high numbers in the west (U.S. 101 along the Pacific Coast). Numbers ending in “1″ are the “major” routes.
So rad. What can I say, except re-contextualized visual data gives me a boner. Read more about Cameron’s design (not my data boner) here.
Philly’s Federal Donuts, the joint that only serves fried chicken, gourmet donuts and coffee, may not have been great at fortelling supply and demand ratios (they always sell out before closing. What did they expect from Philadelphians!?) but they are great at having a sense of humor.
