Scare yourself.

[lederhosen]

DARPA (Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency) has a branch called the 'Information Awareness Office'. Their logo can be seen at http://www.reason.com/0210/artifact.shtml and I can't go past the description there: "a Masonic eye-in-the-pyramid blasting a sci-fi death ray across the globe."

The Department of Homeland Security also has its own logo: an eye staring through a keyhole, with an upside-down US flag in the background:

http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/ahrpa/opa/pulse/epulse/images/april/homelandsecurity.gif

As Tom Lehrer famously remarked when Henry Kissinger received the Nobel Prize for Peace, satire really is superfluous.

(Thanks to the Daily Illuminator for highlighting these.)

Comments

[silverblue.livejournal.com]

Utterly priceless.

Sometimes I wonder whether the weirdness I write could even begin to approach reality.

And on that topic, the new movie, XXX.

Has a Russian informer-type-chick called 'Yelena', who does all the financial stuff and who is the girlfriend of the eastern european crime boss. There are more similarities, but if I told you them I'd ruin the tenuous story.

[lederhosen.livejournal.com]

"William Gordon should be played by Vin Diesel."

[panacea1.livejournal.com]

Okay, that's it, Canada's too close.

Can I emigrate to Australia now?

[lederhosen.livejournal.com]

Sure, but you have to promise to vote against Little Johnny next election.

Death Star

[djfiggy.livejournal.com]

It's becoming clear that the International Space Station is really a death star.

It's indeed neither the East or the West side, nor the North or the South side.

It's the dark side, f00...

[turnberryknkn.livejournal.com]

(dark laughter) It's just so *beautiful* how much weirder reality is than fiction. Take medical insurance corporations and their policies, for example, among many examples --Kafka would have *loved* the kinds of things that happen on a daily basis. Or said it was too weird for him. ;-)