From Gawker:
Because he is an idiot, Glenn Beck tried in September to shut down glennbeckrapedandmurderedayounggirlin1990.com, a satirical site that used Beck’s insidious “I’m just asking the question” pose to advance the Fark-inspired meme that Beck may have raped and murdered a young girl in 1990, because, well—have you ever heard him deny it?
The proprietor was anonymous at the time, but he’s come out of the closet as Isaac Eiland-Hall, a Florida computer programmer who was sick of Beck’s posturing and enjoyed funny things on the internet. Beck complained to a World Intellectual Property Organization arbitration panel that the site was defamatory and infringed on the trademark he holds over his own name. Late last month, his complaint was denied.
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Read the WIPO decision [trust me, it's worth the read!]
The satire site has been taken down, but click here for a mirror site.
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Now that the hysteria has propagated from Western interpretations and distortions of the Mayan calendar, NASA has begun to debunk the Y2K12 madness.
Initial theories set the disaster for May 2003, but when nothing happened the date was moved forward to the winter solstice in 2012 to coincide with the end of a cycle of the ancient Mayan calendar.
But NASA insisted the Mayan calendar in fact does not end on December 21, 2012, as another period begins immediately afterward. And it said there are no planetary alignments on the horizon for the next few decades.
And even if the planets were to line up as some have forecast, the effect on our planet would be “negligible,” NASA said.
Among the other theories NASA has set out to debunk are that geomagnetic storms, a pole reversal or unsteadiness in the Earth’s crustal plates might befall the planet.
See also: Mayan Calendar and the End of the World?
As someone addicted to sci-fi, apocalyptic disaster flicks, and amazing special effects, I can’t wait to see the ‘2012′ film this Friday.
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I have to confess my 80s childhood crush on a relatively once-attractive Kirk Cameron. There’s not much context that needs to be added to the video below. All that need be said is, cue the theme song from the twilight zone. Disturbing, yet comical.
And of course, the response video:
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