Monthly Archives: September 2007

Awesome Band Names!

Let's try it with * "would be an awesome band name":

    Cloven Nutsak
    Los Amish
    Bitchslap
    God and Animals
    Felching Linnwood
    Unplanned Cupcakes
    Politically Active Lycanthropes
    Lethal Sherry Enema
    Sleazy Shoe-Fuckers
    Inherit the Terrorstorm
    The Mome Raths
    Non Stop Erotic Caberet
    Designer Vaginas
    Custom Winnebago
    ButterDucky

Hmmm. I think there's a somewhat different quality to the names. They're still not great, but it's different

How about "that would be a kickass band name":

    Rancid Dwarf
    Tombstone Generator
    I Was Once A Fish
    Penis Enlargement Pills
    The Midnight Society
    Filth Tractor
    Assault by Vagina
    This Was Posted In The Wrong Forum

eh.

still bored. still waiting. still dreaming.

A Great Day For Great Band Names

In my surfing today, I've found three people making the "that would be a great band name" comment (ok, two, the other was me). Here they are:

"Disappointed by Bob Mould", "Grover's Bathtub" and "Tribes of Assertive Influence".

Let's see if Google can find any others... why yes, 10,000+!

    Teenage Hired Assassins
    disco roboto
    Mennonites at the Costco
    The Sleestaks (I think this one is already taken)
    Holy Weasel of Egypt
    Scandalous Ocelot
    Fuzzy Dwarf Lionfish
    RaptureChrist
    FireTwat
    Luf Waffle
    Flaming Manholes
    Frictionate My Weiner
    Feral Chihuahuas
    Spotty Britters
    Weird Meat Yankaloaf
    Concrete Zombie
    Sophie's Choices
    Totally Stupid Ennui
    Honeycomb Kid
    Day Of The Bad Smelling Juans
    CloneBenet Stranglehold
    Born Gay Hoax

... it goes on and on and on and on.

Bored? Me? How can I be bored? It's my muthagruntin birfday!

Project Manager Suicide

The Onion:

Project manager Ron Butler left behind a 48-slide PowerPoint presentation explaining his tragic decision to commit suicide, coworkers reported Tuesday.

"When I first heard that Ron had swallowed an entire bottle of sleeping pills, I was shocked," said Hector Benitez, Butler's friend and coworker at Williams Kennedy Marketing Consultants. "But after the team went through Ron's final PowerPoint presentation, I had a solid working knowledge of the pain he was feeling, his attempts to cope, and the reasons for his ultimate decision."

"I just wish he would've shot me an e-mail asking for help," Benitez added.

New Disemvoweller / Pie Filter: Matthew Yglesias' Blog

New pie filter, for M.Y.'s ThinkProgress blog, here.

Because the others are so useful, I've created a Greasemonkey script for Matthew Yglesias' blog, to disemvowel comments from users who aren't worth reading.

It works the same as the others, and the same caveats apply (works based on the name the commenter uses, etc). In addition to good old dsmvwllng, it also has options for replacing their text with a nice white-on-black    REDACTED    banner; or it can make the text really small: Look at me, I'm small!. It also has a special "I Like Pie" mode (thanks to d-p-u).

So, download and install, if you wish (you'll need FireFox and Greasemonkey, first). You'll have to do some minor editing on the script itself - to add your list of targets, and optionally, to change the comment-abusing style. Again, all the stuff you need to monkey (get it?) with is clearly commented.

If you're using FF v2.0, and you've installed GreaseMonkey, and installed this script, just go to the Tools menu, choose GreaseMonkey / Manage User Scripts, select the script and click Edit. The things you need to edit are right there at the top. It's basically just a matter of changing the default 'baddies' names to the names of the people you want. You can have as many names as you want. If you need more help, feel free to ask.

Brilliant!

I just received this spam:

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I love the completely meaningless spams I get - it makes me think the spammers don't know how to use their mail-blasters and end up sending out the dummy text while playing around with settings. Random words, no product mentioned, just a dadaist stream of nonsense. So this one was right up my alley - and I was going to post it on my big fancy blog!

So, I grabbed my mouse, started to select the text, and... aha!