So yesterday the feds busted up Megaupload, the “50-million+ daily visits and 4% of all web traffic” file-hosting website for SURPRISE! copyright infringement (among other things). Then hacker collective Anonymous, displeased with the fed’s operation, decided to go on a website killing spree, taking down the FBI, Department of Justice, Recording Industry of America, Motion Picture Association of America, BMI, Universal Music, and other related sites with quickly orchestrated distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks (basically pounded a server with access requests until it shits the bed). Oh God please don’t do Geekologie next. So, yeah — no word what’s gonna happen to RapidShare, Box, FileSonic, FileFactory, uPload, Wupload, 4shared, Oron, Badongo, DepositFiles, Uploading, zShare, FileServe, MediaFile, MediaFire or Hotfile. But me? I already know what’s gonna happen to me. I’m gonna get rich making and selling mix-tapes out the trunk of my car . Come over quick and bring boomboxes! Feds Kill Megaupload [gizmodo] and Anonymous Goes on Megaupload Revenge Spree: DoJ, RIAA, MPAA, and Universal Music All Offline [gizmodo] and Feds Shutter Megaupload, Arrest Executives [wired] Thanks to everyone who sent this in, the majority of which expressed a real concern with where their next porn-fix was gonna come from. IT’S THE INTERNET PEOPLE, NOT PRISON (not yet anyways).

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Feds Shut Down File-Hosting Giant Megaupload, Anonymous Goes On A Website Killing Spree

Reality hits you hard, bro. This is a video of a guy who knows how to give a f***ing interview . He was in a car accident (everybody’s okay) that caused a telephone pole and power lines to come crashing down, which ended up shocking his car. I think the electricity may have had some lasting effects. I’m talking superpowers, folks. Super STORYTELLING powers. He may not foil any murders, but my God can he put my ass to sleep with a bedtime story. Hit the jump for the video. Oh, and try to ignore the newscasters — they’re cheeseweasels.

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Cool Story Bro: Dude Gives Interview Of Life

Last week, we premiered the provocative and fantastic new video for the song “ Go Outside ” by Cults . Directed by Isaiah Seret, the video is made from archival footage of Jim Jones’s Peoples Temple before the mass suicide of more than 900 people in Guyana. Over at Turnstyle, Noah Nelson interviews Seret about the project: “When the idea [for the video] came about,” Seret tells me, “it came about in a spontaneous moment. And I really feel that afterwards I had to check it: Wait is this being exploitive? What is this going to be? That process of checking back in actually helped me shape the story. “It became this sentiment that I want to put the band in this historic story, to take the audience back into that historical experience. So when I was building the band into it, at first I had this thought: ‘Oh I should do a narrative, like a sub-narrative of the band’s story. They should be in conflict whether to leave Jonestown because you read accounts and this was going on with a lot of people.’ “But then when I got all those videos from Jonestown and I was studying the footage I realized there would never be a moment of sort of… basically everyone was so brainwashed when the camera was on. To put on the positive face and present Jonestown in a positive light to the world that the camera would never have captured a moment of uncertainty, conflict, any of those things. It’s just not in the records. Until the very end when everything is falling apart in the NBC clips.” “Go Outside” Director Isaiah Seret on the Specter of Jonestown ? Go Outside, by Cults – Boing Boing

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Isaiah Seret on his Jonestown video for Cults

This video was made from surveillance footage of correction officers chasing an inmate around New York’s Albany County jail. A jail investigator made the film a few years ago while looking into the events leading to an officer’s injury during the chase. That former corrections officer sent the video to the Times Union newspaper this week after losing a federal lawsuit “that claimed he was the butt of derogatory comments by his co-workers.” From the Times Union: Robert D. Hunter, who sent the video, said it was evidence in his 2008 lawsuit… He led the chase, but feels the video ridiculed him and was shown for humor’s sake at the police academy and a CPR training session. He said he experienced racial slurs because of his part-American-Indian heritage. “You ran after that guy like he stole your land,” Hunter said a correction officer said to him. “ Benny Hill behind bars? ” (Thanks, Gil Kaufman!)

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Prison chase Benny Hillified

Because I’ll continue getting this tip for days to come if I don’t post it, here it is — a parody of the New York Times article about President Obama announcing that terrorist Osama Bin Laden was killed, except with Darth Vader announcing the death of Obi-Wan Kenobi instead . One tipster (Jim) even went as far as to included this note, “Post it up pretty boy. Or else i’ll come to your house and start krumping in your living room.” Jim clearly appreciating my delicate facial features aside, the last thing I need is a krump-fest in my living room while I’m trying to write. An excerpt: In a late-night appearance in the East Room of the Imperial Palace, Lord Vader declared that “justice has been done” as he disclosed that agents of the Imperial Army and stormtroopers of the 501st Legion had finally cornered Kenobi, one of the leaders of the Jedi rebellion, who had eluded the Empire for nearly two decades. Imperial officials said Kenobi resisted and was cut down by Lord Vader’s own lightsaber. He was later dumped out of an airlock. You can hit the link to read the much-more in depth article, which, admittedly, was fairly humorous and very well written. Not unlike Geekologie. “Pfft — in your dreams you grammarless hack!” Again with the trying to hurt feelings — what happened to you when you were growing up to make you like this? “I banged your sister!” HA — that would explain it (sorry, Stacy). Obi-Wan Kenobi Is Dead, Vader Says [galacticempiretimes] Thanks to The Honorable Grant Lemasters, sammy, Erin, Plarix, Stormtroopah, Nick, TK 745 and Jim, who agree MOST news is just a parody of what actually happened. Hey I’m with you.

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Vader Announces Death Of Terrorist Obi-Wan

Antimatter my ass, those are UFOs! Scientists, having accidentally pointed a telescope at thunderclouds instead of into outerspace (great job, guys!), discovered that lightning may give off antimatter , effectively explaining the long-running mystery of why getting struck can kill a person. BOOM — VAPORIZED! Such storms have long been known to give rise to fleeting sparks of light called terrestrial gamma-ray flashes. But results from the Fermi telescope show they also give out streams of electrons and their antimatter counterparts, positrons. It deepens a mystery about terrestrial gamma-ray flashes, or TGFs - sparks of light that are estimated to occur 500 times a day in thunderstorms on Earth. They are a complex interplay of light and matter whose origin is poorly understood. Thunderstorms are known to create tremendously high electric fields - evidenced by lightning strikes. Electrons in storm regions are accelerated by the fields, reaching speeds near that of light and emitting high-energy light rays - gamma rays - as they are deflected by atoms and molecules they encounter. These flashes are intense - for a thousandth of a second, they can produce as many charged particles from one flash as are passing through the entire Earth’s atmosphere from all other processes. Somebody’s gonna be playing on the monkey-bars during the next thunderstorm! Me, dummy, me . So like, how does this superpower thing work? Do you get the power you’re thinking about the hardest when you’re blasted? “Come on x-ray vision or invisibility. X-ray vision or invisibility. X-ray vision or — anything you touch turns to fish-sticks…” *KA-KRAAACK!!* Fuuuuuuuuuuuu. Antimatter caught streaming from thunderstorms on Earth [bbcnews] Thanks to Skarett and TOM THE BOMB, who both have superpowers but haven’t discovered them yet. Well they can’t be that good, just sayin’.

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Yes — Superpowers, Here I Come!: Scientists Discover Thunderstorms Produce Antimatter

Back in 2008, Pittsburghers Aaron and Christine Boring ( *yawn* ) began the process of suing Google for invasion of privacy after a Google Street View car trespassed 1,000 feet up their private drive (marked ‘NO TRESPASSING’) to take pictures. Finally, a settlement has been reached, with the Borings ( *Zzzzzzzzzz* ) being awarded the life-changing sum of $1. Demand all nickels! The Borings said in a statement released by Zegarelli that the amount of the judgment isn’t the issue. “This is one sweet dollar of vindication,” the statement said. “Google could have just sent us an apology letter in the very beginning, but chose to try to prove they had a legal right to be on our land. We are glad they finally gave up.” Both sides will pay their own attorney fees. Whoa whoa whoa — paying your own attorney fees?! So you spent thousands to win a single point-proving dollar? Somebody needs to learn how to pick their battles! Because I’m not gonna lie — this was a bad one. If this had been a Pokmon battle you should have chosen ‘Run’. Google admits trespassing in Pa., pays couple $1 [newsvine] Thanks to Bobo Smurfer, Eric and Melissa, who would have sued for a Google treasure map.

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Couple Wins Google Lawsuit, Awarded $1

Seen here looking a little spacy herself, this is a news report by Adrianna Iwasinkski regarding the dangers of digital drugs leading teens down the slippery slope to analog drugs and, eventually, to turning tricks in the mall parking lot to get their next fix (been there done that, amirite?). If you’re unfamiliar with digital drugs, you can read the old Geekologie article about i-Doser , or jump right into the video. But just a heads up (in case my parents are reading): Geekologie does not condone drug use of any kind — be it digital, analog, digilog OR analital. Except booze, which isn’t so much a drug as it is a miracle elixir that keeps me sane ($5 HJ’s if you bring me an Orange Julius). Hit it for the parental fear that’s sweeping the nation.

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Parents/Law Enforcement Concerned Digital Drug Use May Lead To Analog Drug Use

For realz. On their heads . The species is only a few millimetres wide and scientists say it looks like a flying saucer with a cluster of gonads, or sex organs, on top. “It’s absolutely different from every other jellyfish that’s ever been known,” Dr Gershwin said. “So we not only put it into its own new species and its own new genus, but it’s actually a brand new family.” “Quite possibly and quite humbly the greatest discovery of my career, ever. I mean I’ll be lucky if I ever get a discovery even half as incredible again,” she said. The new species has been named Csiromedusa medeopolis, meaning “jellyfish from CSIRO” and “city of gonads”. So basically discovering the city of gonads is the highlight of Dr Gershwin’s career. That’s, uh, that’s really something. TOO BAD I ALREADY DISCOVERED IT IN COLLEGE! Been there, done that, is there a pube between my teeth, amirite? Experts astounded by ‘city of gonads’ jellyfish [abc] Thanks to Laurel, who doesn’t wear a crown of gonads because she has no interest in being the nut queen. Well let me wear it then. I SAID STOP HOGGIN’ THE BALLS!

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I’d Do It If I Could: Newly Discovered Family Of Jellyfish Wear Their Gonads Like A Crown

I always suspected Jughead was gay too, he’s just not open about it. You’ve gotta admit — dude loves the meat. Get it? Because he eats a lot of hamburgers ! Wimpy from Popeye too. On September 1st, Kevin Keller, Archie Comics’ first openly gay character, will be welcomed into the town of Riverdale. “The introduction of Kevin is just about keeping the world of Archie Comics current and inclusive. Archie’s hometown of Riverdale has always been a safe world for everyone. It just makes sense to have an openly gay character in Archie comic books,” stated Archie Comics Co- CEO, Jon Goldwater. VERONICA #202 features the full-issue story, “Isn’t it Bromantic?” that introduces Kevin, Archie Comics’ first openly gay character. Kevin Keller is the new hunk in town and Veronica just has to have him. After Kevin defeats Jughead in a burger eating contest at Pop’s Chocklit Shoppe, she desperately latches onto him. Mayhem and hilarity ensue as Kevin desperately attempts to let Veronica down easy and her flirtations only become increasingly persistent. Way to step into the 21st century, Archie, that’s awesome. Or you know, awful if you’re a stupid homophobic bigot. Hit the jump for a panel of the comic in which Kevin and Jughead discuss Kevin’s gayness.

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Archie Comics’ First Openly Gay Character