The Mep Report | Debate Podcast: Recent Episodes
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Download Mep Report #166 Storey Enjoys Snow, has a Sandwich, and Becomes a Father Getting the Swaddles: a Game-Changer Clayton v. American Health Insurance Don’t Cut the Umbilical Cord! The Horrors of… JAUNDICE! The Power of Saying No Making Birth an Emergency BABABAMAMFAPHDDOI (Yellow) Pumping and Dumping MepCoin Danny Trejo’s Ex-Wife Rips Off Russ The […]
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Download Mep Report #165 2020: Everybody Dies Storey’s Thesis Storey’s Thesis on Universities as Pyramid Schemes Greg Cashes in His Elixirs to Not Die Have You Heard the Good News About Hy-Flex? Harvard Could Build Another Harvard College, Huh, Who is it Necessary for? One-Year Mandatory National Service Social Media Doom and Despair Do You […]
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Download Mep Report #164 Trump the Comic-Book Villain Darkest Timeline is Dark Black Lives Matter Almost Live from the Pittsburgh BLM Protest The In-Inevitabitility of Inevitability Evaluating the Lockdown Can COVID Crush Capitalism? Optimism is Not Naive What is the Proper Outlet for Anger? Storey Doesn’t Always Break Stuff, But When He Does, it’s Glass […]
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Download Mep Report #163 Coronavirus: Pence Will Save Us?! Storey Flies in the Face of Caution Donald Trump’s Katrina Dyin’ in Beverly Hills Children are Our Future… Survivors Return of the Credulous Character Will Trump “Postpone” the Election “Indefinitely”? A Serious Debate About the Nature and Future of the Democratic Party We Can All Agree […]
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Download Mep Report #162 EMERGENCY: Russ Fires Up the Conch Shell Emergency the First: My Corona (Virus) Russ’ Guide to Surviving a Pandemic Laments of Gooberman the Soothsayer The Darkest of Webs Emergency the Second: The Death of Kobe Bryant, Complicated Prince of LA Does Death Warrant a Grace Period on Criticism? Emergency the Third: […]
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Download Mep Report #161 A 90-minute deep-dive into the final (for now) Star Wars movie, laden with spoilers and surprising agreement. A follow-up to TMR #155, wherein we gave The Last Jedi the same treatment.
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Download Mep Report #160 Midsummer… or is it? Neil Gaiman Stories Poe vs. Lovecraft Smart? Speakers Angels of Boredom Libra vs. MepCoin Our Utopian/Dystopian Corporate/Governmental Future Storey and Greg’s Stump Speech for Elizabeth Warren Russ Joins the Yang Gang An Extensive Analysis of the American Electorate Fear of a Jeffrey Epstein
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Download Mep Report #159 The More Tech Changes… What’s in a Title? The Dreaded Phdmabs As a Non, I Sequitir As a Homeowner… The Vanishing Point of Humility Twitch Kappa and the Twilight of the Crumbling Republic George Orwell’s Huck Finn The Search for the Universal or Objective Molecules of Freedom Liberty Mutual Scoops the […]
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Download Mep Report #158 British Parliament: A Study in Well-Spoken Collapse Greg’s Ancestry with Amistad Storey’s Wandering Genes Russ the Merman The Triumphs and Travails of Russ the Renegade Scooter Returner RIP Russ’ $9 Million Bitcoin Mansion Mepcoin Still Available!
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Download Mep Report #157 Take Me Home, Country Roads Those Who Can, Teach; Those Who Can’t, Teach Pedagogy Musical MFA Chairs at WVU Russ Becomes a Legit LA Star Russ vs. the Unions Gooberman Baseball Team Expands Death of DAoC and/or Free Time Cardboard Nintendo! Chopping Pennsylvania Poker Greg Keeps a Secret Hold Your Breath […]
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Download Mep Report #156 Three Meppers Randomly Walk into a Ballroom in Hollywood Mep Marriages The Muppets Take the Goobermans 1990s Baseball Cards Revisited Greg Sees LA But Misses the Bachelor Party LA’s Fine Dining Scene ft. Chick-fil-A Storey Loooooves LA Why Russ Belongs on the Westside The Misery-Fandom Index Russ Tries to Get Storey […]
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Download Mep Report #155 A two-hour odyssey of analysis on Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Featuring Russ as the Prosecutor, Storey as Defense Attorney, and Greg as Bailiff.
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Download Mep Report #154 The Meppers dive in for an extended serious discussion of the Me Too movement, its fallout, and its future. With an early note on Star Wars, Coco, and Pixar.
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Gulf Coast Reflooded, A Pipeline We Can All Agree On, The Ever-Escalating Pace of News, Trump Learns Getting Elected is Not Governance, A Grand Debate on Who and What to Blame for Trump's Victory, Guns are Not Speech, Storey is So Politically Isolated He Makes Nazis Look Popular, Clowns in Bad Makeup Will Save Us All, Nightmare at the Charlottesville Walmart, Russ Goes Tennessee-56 on a Rival Harry Potter Fan Group, and Some Clown Triumphs at Toastmasters.
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Download Mep Report #152 For the 152nd Time! Trump’s Final Four Mepper Milestones Birth of Future Movie Star Lulu Gooberman Swimming Like a Sperm TrumpTreason? (TM) The Art of the Fail Storey Presents #UnpopularOpinions Do We Care About Climate Change? Maintenance v. Growth Extra-Stemmy Stem Cells Russ’ Super-Knees
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Download Mep Report #151 Executive Orders The Role of Third Parties in American Politics Going Green Doug Phelps and the Secret PIRG Mountain of Money RIPrius A Hybrid/Hybrid Hybrid Greg Explains the Necessity of Minivans Where Did PokemonGo? Harnessing the Power of Video Games
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Download Mep Report #150 More Wilsons Than There Have Ever Been Before How The Last Bookstore Got its Name Storey Drives Drunk… People Grand Theft Uber Greg’s Tipping Point Danger New Orleans Driving as an RPG CashCab Confessions Lost in DisneyWorld Jailbyrd: the Prison App
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Download Mep Report #149 Mourning the Original Mep Report 149 Storey Quits His Job and Actually Applies for Other Jobs Clouds for Dinner 6th Grader 3-D Prints Prosthetic Arm Greg Becomes a 3-D D&D Miniature Russ’ Damn Yankees Steph Curry: Not a Human LeBron James and Klay Thompson and Damian Lillard: Also Not Humans? Hockey: […]
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Download Mep Report #148 In the Year 2222 Why Don’t Greg and Russ Like Doctor Who? Bowling is Up Storey’s Alley Kevin Smith and the Last 20 Years Naming Conventions and the Destiny of Unusal Names Rehabilitating Stalin Russ Defends the Unabomber and/or Malthus The Case for the Maintenance Society Time-Traveling Murderers
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Perhaps the most tragic casualty of the 2016 Republican Primary hecatomb, has been the ritual sacrifice of Jeb Bush. Once the baby brother and inevitable successor to Idiot-CLown-Commander George Bush, Jeb has been tossed aside in the fervor for the new Donald (Furor). There may come a day when we all regret casting aside this […]
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Download Mep Report #147 Iowa’s Outsized Influence President CornGuns Russ Offensively Tries to Solve World Politics Mep Reports 126 and 127: a Russ Horror Story Storey and the Several Not-Evil Exes Wedge Antilles with a Crayon Russ’ Immortal Love of Winning Greg on Cooperation Over Competition Life and Death with Diplomacy and 1830 Closeness and […]
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Download Mep Report #146 Very Early Sports Video Games Fear and Boredom: the Great Motivators The New York Times Hates Tetris Dreaming of Chess Complementary Activities Drugs and Creativity A Grand Debate on the State of the 2016 Election Featuring Bernie vs. Hillary Bush and the Star Wars Prequels Surprisingly Strong Independent Political Tickets The […]
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Download Mep Report #145 Storey Breaks Luminaria Record, Doesn’t Sandbag The Roof is on Fire Happy New Year Three Hours Late! Russ vs. Christmas: Fight! Memories of a Glorious Pangya New Year Greg Against Humanity Some Real BS Star Wars Episode 7: Maple Syrup from a Teddy Bear that We All Love In Defense of […]
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Download Mep Report #144 The Vegetarian/Vegan/Halal/Kosher/Gluten-Free/Hypo-Allergenic/Raw Meal, Raisins: Nature’s Nightmare Fuel, People for the Protection of Cinnamon Rolls, I Turd It Through the Grapevine, Our ADD Culture, Young Tom Riddle–er–Ted Cruz, The Emu Goes on Russia Today, Post-Apocalyptic Interest and ISIS, Building Community on the Internet, and the Failings of George Lucas.
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Download Mep Report #143 The History of Canadian and American Thanksgiving, Thank-You-Note Day, America Exports a Holiday, Who Wants Trident… Missiles?; We Call Out Toastmasters: Why Does Toastmasters Exist?, Toastmasters Anonymous, Fisher Price My First Speech, Today You are Not a Man, Golden Brown Toast, Toastmasters Younger than 75; and The Sad Sordid Tale of […]
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Download Mep Report #142 Do You Want Money or Not?, A Day Where You Live in Famy, Bill Hicks Aborts Miley Cyrus, If Tolkien Were Hitler then Beggars Would Ride, Gandhi the Face-Eating Lizard, Attack of the Emu!, A Failure of Emurality, Steph Dwarfs Russ’ Klout, Do You Really Want to Live Forever?, Nominees for […]
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Download Mep Report #141 Don’t Empty the Trash!, the Benefits of Binge-Watching, Ichiro and the Technical Difficulties, It’s World War III You Guys, I Learned it on Facebook!, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Slaves, We Live in the Matrix (Statistically), Neil DeGrasse-Tyson v. Philosophy, Lawrence Lessig for Debate, Twitter v. Facebook, and the One World […]
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Download Mep Report #140 140: The Plauge of Locusts Anniversary, Locusts in a Jersey, Bringing the Grasshopper View to the Locusts, Greg’s Good Old Gaming, Shark-Shark Locusts, Neo-Retro Gamers, 7 Billion Locusts, Being the Best Locust You Can Be, Locusts Anonymous, Russ Sells IMDB, Coaching as Methodone, Living in the Moment, Performative Body Departure, Storey […]
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Download Mep Report #139 Stealin’ Steelers and the Fantasy Draft, Draft Picks?! We Don’t Need No Stinking Draft Picks!, Twitchers and Tweakers and the Men Who Review Them, Population Doubling and the Numbers Obsession, The Donald vs. The Bible, The Donald vs. The Putin, The Donald vs. Obama, Losing Control of Your Right to Be […]
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Download Mep Report #138 Storey Definitely Doesn’t Have a Rabbit, How Many Superheroes Can We Fit on the Head of a Pin?, Jurassic Minecraft, Camelot Unchained, Death Comes for the RPGer, Greg Fears the Sex Scene, Rachel Doelezal, The Future is Now, and Science Fiction is Hogwash.
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Download Mep Report #137 Deal or No Deal, Sportsageddon, Russ Fought the 4DX and the 4DX Won, Ruining the World with New Technology!, Demographic Bingo, The Third Sign is Worth Millions, Youtuber Review, Watching Gamers Talk About Gamers Talk About Gamers Playing Games, Greg Antagonizes Storey About the NBA, and Steph Curry: Kinda Good at […]
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LP, or the ‘Let’s Play’ genre has made a full-scale assault on YouTube. Forget Beiber, forget Gaga, forget Grumpy Cat. It’s video gamers recording themselves playing video games that rate the most subscribers and the most views in the billion dollar landscape of digital video. Sitting atop the LP pinnacle, is a slightly affected Sweedish […]
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Download Mep Report #136 Remembering how Ronald Reagan forgot, Russ takes performance-enhancing drugs… for life, Russ embraces Hemingway and runs with the bulls, Box and won, Russ is as cold as ice – he wants you to sacrifice, Rutgers: home of unending disaster, Freely choosing to limit all future choices, Flowers for Gooberman, Gooberman’s Choice, […]
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Download Mep Report #135 Hey!, Greg Lives in a Snowbank, The Computer Prevents Russ from Discussing his Love of “Snowpiercer”, Violence in Movies: Good, Bad, or Indifferent?, Minor Spoilers for “Snowpiercer”, Major Spoilers for “Snowpiercer”, Okay, We’re Just Going to Tell You the Whole Movie Now Shot-for-Shot, Birdman vs. Boyhood, Greg Picked a Bad Year […]
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Download Mep Report #134 Snowpocalgeddon Jumps the Shark…Again, Finland the Permanent Frozen Wasteland, Russia is Lucky (Not Happy), Katy Perry Almost Jumps the Shark, Everyone Hates 2014, Don Lemon Jumps the Shark in a Blizzardmobile, Russ (Commercially) Jumps the Shark, Storey (Pacifically) Jumps the Shark, and all our Sports Teams Jump the Shark.
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Download Mep Report #133 Storey Lights Bags, Shatters Records and Blows the Minds of Local Television Broadcasters; The Horrific Face of Traditional Christmas Lights; Greg is Appropriately Called Out by Storey on Promotion and Blames the Police; Storey Seeks a Sponsorship; Russ Has Himself a Merry Little Saturnalia; Je Suis…Charlie? The Interview? Something?; Speech Has […]
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Download Mep Report #132 Never Have I Ever Had Needles Stuck In Me…Willingly, Everyone Loves Their Anesthesiologist (When They’re Asleep), Shady Items Bought From Shady Vans Are Shady, Old Coins Are Old, Putin Steals More Super Bowl Rings than Ukrainians, Greg Doesn’t Want Racist D-Bag Medals, and America is Burning (and How to Put It […]
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The newest viral music meme features a disabled Latvian pop-star, Viktoria Modesta. I find this video fascinating for reasons that have nothing to do with music. While overtly the marketing machine behind Modesta (Moskalova) is angling to display her as a role-model for the disabled (and not a moment too soon), the neo-fascist distopia portrayed […]
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Download Mep Report #131 You Will Not Crucify Us on a Cross of MepCoin, Barnacles on the Bitcoin Boat, Greg Doesn’t Want to be Mr. Potter, How Much Coin Could A MepCoin Mep if a MepCoin Could Coin Mep, Greg will [REDACTED] when Russ [REDACTED] because Storey [REDACTED], The Only Winning Game is to Mep, […]
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While the carnage of Black Friday is behind us, it’s not too late to gather around the warming glow of the Ronco Showtime Rotisserie Cooker and give thanks for all the rival Target patrons we’ve drop-kicked, all the piece-of-crap iPhone 5S’s we’ve trashed, and planned obsolescence we’ve fueled. A Happy Cappy day to all.
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After a half-hearted attempt at garnering an indictment of Ferguson officer Darren Wilson. Ferguson’s law enforcement apparatus ended their facade of due process yesterday. Several days beforehand, Governor Jay Nixon declared a state of emergency in Missouri, no doubt having gathered that the state’s judicial system had no intention of punishing one of its own. […]
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Odell Beckham Jr, son of a track star and a football player, broke the internet tonight by making a physics-defying catch in the Giants-Cowboys Sunday Night NFL game. The fine-pointed concentration and preternatural feel it takes to complete the following action is Bruce Lee-like. It’s what legends are made of. And this kid is a […]
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In much the same spirit as Too Many Cooks, The Human Show takes a warm, fuzzy childhood trope and turns it into a walking nightmare. Congratulations are in order for Sethward Allison, and the other talented LA-area improvisors and clown-folk who assembled this skin-toned abomination.
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Download Mep Report #130 Storey and The Big Freezy, GamerGateGoingGaga, Nice Guys Deserve–Nothing?, Gooberman Shrugged, Laser Falcon Will Destroy Your Face (If You Make a Noise), Storey Needs His Shady Avenue, and the Secret to Happiness is Abject Fear.
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Casper Kelly is the Salvador Dali of uncomfortably long 80s trope-fests. His masterwork, Too Many Cooks, is a sewn together series of shorts that aired on stoner cartoon haven, Adult Swim. The video’s references are vast, covering the gamut from Family Matters, The Brady Bunch, Married with Children, Step By Step, Law & Order, Battlestar […]
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Having just returned from the Arclight Cinemadome, having watched Christopher Nolan’s three-hour love letter to Stanley Kubrick on a ghetto-IMAX 70mm screen, I am resisting the urge to tear it apart. After all: I am a huge lover of ‘hard’ science-fiction. Crafting a subtle post-apocalyptic United States that is slowly succumbing to the mistakes of […]
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Download Mep Report #129 Russ Is Caught–In the Net!; Ebola’s Gonna Get You (Unless Mitch McConnell Can Stop It); ISIS, ISIL, ISEETHISISNTWORKING; Hypocrisy for the Win; Elections Have Consequences; and How Many Emus Can Dance on the Head of a Mep Coin?
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Despite running in the most liberal state in the nation, Democratic Attorney General Martha Coakley conceded defeat in the Governor’s race this morning, admitting she could not overcome her embarrassment from an incident nearly eight years ago. The incident was chronicled by The Mep Report in this iconic video: Coakley arrested and charged two men […]
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After almost three and a half years without a podcast, The Mep Report is officially back! Download Mep Report #128 Just in time for Halloween, the Meppers are back from the dead! Hear Greg, Russ, and Storey relate what they’ve been up to the last forty months of wandering in the desert. Expect more regular […]
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Hello internet crickets and empty void. It is I, Russ. I would not be authoring this were it not for a mind-numbing, world-is-a-grapefruit-like coincidence of immense proportions. Via this three year old BBC News Health article, there is a going scientific theory that the number of moles you have can be an indicator of the […]
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On the 15th of May, film enthusiasts all over the world will once again convene in France to witness the annual Festival De Cannes. In its 66th season, expect an even better and more competitive festivity in the silver screen industry because it is the award winning Steven Spielberg himself who will spearhead the board […]
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As you may have guessed from the silence around these parts – the emu-themed blog action has wound down to an end. I want to thank everyone who has followed the journey of this video-centric blog since its inception in January of 2009. The podcast won’t be affected by this change – it will still […]
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Amidst the Professional Left’s sackcloth and ashes routine about a debt deal result which they helped engineer–by kneecapping President Obama at every turn and depressing turnout in the midterm elections, giving us Speaker Boehner and the petulant childrenunrepentant racists/mighty party of Tea–was this extraordinary sight: Nearly eight full months after being shot in the head […]
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If you haven’t caught on – Rangers pitcher CJ Wilson is set to dominate not only the AL West, but the Twitterverse, as well.
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The unheralded maker of movements is wonderfully highlighted in this instructional piece.
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By which, I mean, remember yourself. By which, I mean, remember that your sense of individuality is merely an illusion. You are a manifestation of everything, that is. Or, as a famous fictional Martian once said, “Thou Art God.”
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From the inside, with new eyes – so long as those eyes are copyrighted by Apple Corp. Thanks to Aaron from Clarion Content for the heads up.
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Which is a much nicer way of saying that you are murdering your Earth Mother – or similar guilt-targeted enviro campaigns.
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I’m thinking of taking a little scenic tour up Sepulveda, this weekend. Should be a pleasant little jaunt. Who’s with me?
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Rupert Murdoch, by all accounts, the singularly most evil global media tycoon ever to scuttle along the Earth’s surface (apologies to William Randolph Hearst) is finally getting his comeuppance.. Meanwhile, all of the little pygmy media tribes now feel safe in coming out of the woodwork to tell other stories of Murdoch abuse and deceit…
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Apparently, Tardigrades can not only withstand super-extreme temperatures, but can also thrive in the vacuum of space. Doesn’t the prospect of space-enduring critters provide a totally plausible alternative to evolution? I, for one, would like to welcome our new Moss Piglet Overlords and pray that they can defeat our Immortal Jellyfish tormentors.
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Internet Avatar Lessig speaks not of a dependency on people, but instead, an institutional dependency on money.
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Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizzek argues here that acts of charity within corrupted capitalist societies do nothing but perpetuate harmful economic systems. Only the allowance of unabashed cruelty can accelerate the demise of such systems.
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Having dabbled in Mep-themed ‘Anti-Ads’ for several years, I was elated to see Wikileaks’ execution on this Mastercard spoof.
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Is it just me, or is international economic dialogue thousands of grade levels above that of the US?
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You should know by now that I always appreciate metaphysically reflective mashups. Bonus points to this piece for pulling material from They Live, Zeitgeist, and Bill Hicks.
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Leave it to Andy Griffith to remind us of the principle of due process of law – and the reason why the Patriot Act is an abominable document.
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What does it tell you about our society when the vast majority of talented animators, designers, and graphic artists who aren’t destitute are in the advertising industry? To Hell With Ads from Jake Roper on Vimeo.
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Part 3 of the Sagan series, a YouTube mashup string inspired by the works of astronomer and meta-human, Carl Sagan. Created by 25-year old Canadian philosophy student, Reid Gower.
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What? US funding is actually going towards this digital-activist-as-human-server project? Are we allowed to keep these domestically for use against Sony Corp?
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Been meaning to pimp this site for a while now. Hours of entertaining book summaries ahead that will save you countless days you could actually spend reading instead. Now you can laugh instead of read. That’s the future of English, right Professor Wilson? But seriously, it’s a really cool site. And will probably promote at […]
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Who needs elected representatives? With one fell swoop, Italian citizens today approved a handful of absolutely necessary reforms, and completely ignored the pleadings of their cartoonishly corrupt and incompetent leader to do so. Benfatto.
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Perfect Girl Exposed! (No, It’s Not What You Think), Shrooms Exposed! (No, That’s Not What You Think Either), Russ Wins at 12th Dimensional Chess, Jackie Hates Perfect Girl, How Long Does It Take to Write the Perfect Text, Always Carry the One When Calculating the Rapture, When Atheists Attack, and Storey Exposed! (No, It’s…Well, Maybe […]
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Paul Simon is not easy to improve upon – and I’m not saying it was done successfully here. But it’s hard to argue with a banjoist sitting on a creek in a fireman’s coat.
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While I’m not sure it can quite measure up to Russ’ brilliant video link from the other day in concision, it must be noted that capitalism is unfortunately pervasive beyond domestic borders. Thus I proudly present the Consequences of Capitalism Quiz: In case you’re wondering what I got, it’s this: You’re Medical Malpractice! Thanks to […]
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Casual physicist Aaron O’Connell explains how he turned a tiny piece of metal into a quantum object that violated the laws we assume apply to all things in our larger world.
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While Google and Facebook actively conspire with government agents surveiling law-abiding US citizens, Mozilla Firefox stands alone as the only internet behemoth willing to buck the forces of censorship.
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Utter brilliance from The Whitest Kids U Know.
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You blew it all up, you damned dirty buffalo!
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As efficient and functional as one can be alone, sometimes you just need someone else’s help to break through.
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This ingenious Venn diagram aside, think about it. They are on the opposite side of the power hierarchy from you than are prostitutes. They sexually force themselves upon for no money. And they are the least fun people on the planet. TSA agents are Bizarro Prostitutes.
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In this Russia Today snippet, financial muckraker Max Keiser is scratching the surface of something very interesting. In discussing societies that engage in ‘financial repression’ Keiser sees a US in which saving money is not only considered passe, but is actively discouraged. And while it could be argued that we’ve already been doing this for […]
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Call me crazy, but there is something about the leisurely pace of baseball that lends itself to a profound level of goofiness. Yet another reason why it is the finest sport ever invented.
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Was surprised to learn that Keith Olberman is yet another Bill Hicks disciple. I suppose it shouldn’t come as a surprise, given the anti-authoritarian, silly streak in both of them. Yet, this was a pleasant and totally unexpected convergence. Happy to have attended the LA premiere of this.
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I heard it bandied about in a YouTube comment thread that there is a growing belief that Bill O’Reilly invites Jon Stewart to his show so much because he is, in fact, a double agent working to destroy Fox News from the inside. I support his efforts.
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I don’t know how I missed it in its original go-round, and am a little bit irritated at my digital arts media fare for not calling attention to it sooner, but Synecdoche, New York, may be the finest film I’ve ever seen. This piece is almost completely indescribable. It is an Escher-ian meta story that […]
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Want to play. Badly. Mao. MAO! MAO! MAO! (BLAM)
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Ever think to yourself, boy, I really hated the execution of Gaspar Noe’s Enter the Void, but loved the concept. Could you maybe find a Native American version based on an ancient Sanskrit epic without the gratuitous sex and violence? Yes, says the internets, I believe we have that.
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Lecturer of MoveOn.org fame, Eli Pariser, delineates the newest threat to information freedom – taste algorithms. This is an automated ‘service’ provided by the likes of Facebook and Google that shield you from things you’re less likely to be interested in, while facilitating your access to all sorts of useless drivel that you may spend […]
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From the new Broadway sensation, “The Book of Mormon” comes the most outstanding showtune I’ve ever heard. Warning: This song is NSFW and NSFChurch. Hasa Diga Eebowai
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Tremendous old school South Park-style samurai epic.
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There’s awesome, and then there’s awesome squared. Welcome to the latter.
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Epic hip-hop libertarian-socialist commentary WIN.
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Here’s a neat sketch on all four forces. And some unknown ones, to boot. Dark Matters from PHD Comics on Vimeo.
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Why must everything be guided by Force? Isn’t a lack of Force the seedling from which transcendence emerges?
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From The People’s View, a fascinating article about where the Glenn Greenwalds and Jane Hamshers of the world–you know, the ones who became liberal when a black man took office and dared to create and sustain progressive policies without consulting them first–get their respective bread buttered. The next time self-described left wingers start throwing the […]
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Let’s make the assumption that you are God, for a moment. Discuss…
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This video should be mandatory viewing for any and all American citizens. The closing Dostoevsky quote sums it up, “While nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer, nothing is harder than to understand him.”
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There’s a reason that Conan O’Brien yawns at the sight of Tom Cruise, but gets all jittery when in the presence of Jonathan Winters.
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Really enlightening tutorial remix entitled “How to Dance to Dubstep.” Incidentally, this is also the universal mating dance for Jello Pudding Pop Aficionados.
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An absolute must-see documentary that premieres this weekend in selected theaters. For those not in the know, Bill Hicks, is considered one of the patron saints of contemporary stand up comedians. He used comedy as a conduit to changing people’s perceptions about their world. In doing so, he levied the harshest possible criticisms of the […]
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Thought provoking montage of quotes + imagery set to Clint Mansell’s The Fountain soundtrack = attention capture win.
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I readily admit, I am becoming less and less attached to what was once an important childhood tradition. Feel free to blame Joseph Campbell for this. Anyway, here’s a digital recap of that famous Egyptian/Babylonian/Sumerian Old Testament tale of the Sword in the Stone. By which, I mean the Staff in the Bush. With frogs… […]
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Give a Man a Quarter and He Can Play One Game, Teach Him to Write in Basic and He Can Feed a Village (Really), They Don’t Make Video Games the Way They Used To (and Get Off My Lawn!), Russ Can’t Help Falling In Love…Again…, Is This the Text That Launched a Thousand Ships?, How […]
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New evidence that the internet is making traditional media sources obsolete. After all, without it, we likely never would have seen the long-awaited vampire-themed sequel to When Harry Met Sally.
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I’m going to award an early Emu Peck of the Week to this righteous AMV that seems to draw its coloring and alienness from the 1981 classic Heavy Metal. It hits me directly in the center of my sci-fi erogenous zone. Das Pop: The Game from Big Active on Vimeo.
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Came across a Reddit user today by the name of AParanoidEmu. Today he was calling the internet Hive Mind’s attention to the Great Emu War, an Australian military campaign designed to eradicate 20,000 brave Emus who refused to leave their homeland. If you should happen to participate in the Reddit community, I urge you to […]
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Watch closely. This is the only Mep reference you’re likely to see to the Angry Birds smartphone gaming phenomenon. It’s so artfully done, though, that I can’t deny it entry.
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Half the Meppers now officially work with undergraduates and Russ works on the Internet, so everyone should be aware of the insane viral hit “Friday” by Rebecca Black. What you might not realize is that the song is actually a work of genius that was just sung wrong in the original and salvaged in this […]
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Great recut trailer of Ferris Buehler’s Day Off in the style of something akin to 500 Days of Summer. Hat tip to Aaron Mandel for the linkage.
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Richard Dawkins puts a human lifespan in an alien, yet refreshing context.
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My favorite headline of the day today, care of Reddit, read: “Obama Has Fired More Cruise Missiles than All Other Nobel Peace Winners, Combined.” Really? This was a tabulation that was going to be close? Seems like a ripe time to recall an old and underappreciated Mep collaborative video win:
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I’ve been reading a bit about Islam recently, incidentally, via Joseph Campbell’s massive treatise on comparative religious history, The Masks of God. What struck me about the core values of the Koran, is that it is, in principle, an incredibly egalitarian system. Before I explain my meaning after the jump, here’s a remix of an […]
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Fantastic homage to British comedy, Withnail & I.
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Much like Texas, everything in America is done in a big way. We don’t half-ass things – we fully-ass them. So, while Japan is reacting to a totally legitimate and quantifiable crisis caused by a natural disaster, Americans are panicking at the hoaxy spectacle of radioactive particles traveling 5,000 miles and settling right on top […]
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Experimental music video featuring a techno-warlock. Why not? Zaptra – “The Wise” Music Video from Danny Kim on Vimeo.
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Anonymous made an appearance at the ever-growing (yet largely mass-media ignored) Wisconsin solidarity rally today. Meanwhile, a parallel branch released the following video condemning the Federal Reserve…
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Fridays have more of a typical significance these days, in the life of this Mepper. That being the case, this animated piece screams Mep Friday, despite the fact that I uninstalled World of Warcraft last night. Oh noes, the Alliance is doomed!
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Here’s an amazing conceptual piece by video artist, Keiichi Matsuda. In it, he depicts the fusion of computer interface with actual reality. Continuing with the trend of human reliance on machines, Matsuda’s futuristic first-person protagonist doesn’t know how to make a cup of tea on his own without looking up the recipe. Eerily prescient.
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Craig Fergusen with some unusual insight into the demographic targets of our consumer culture. Leave it to a Scotsman to solve our problems of perception for us.
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From time to time, I use this space to relate my frustration with the trappings of capitalism and its various profit-motivated aggravations. It is a constant wonder to me how badly people will treat each other when small pieces of dirty green paper are on the line. I’ve banked with Wells Fargo for about a […]
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This short film was shot with the eye of a wayward soul returning home. It is worth watching. the causeway from ben joyner on Vimeo.
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To the best NBA analyst on the planet, go the spoils of Cool & Dre.
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This pretty much sums up what is occupying the attention of Americans these days. Sorry, Libya. Some of the notable Sheen updates/remixes of the week: Jimmy Kimmel’s Charlie Sheen as Charlie Brown. The inevitable Dubstep remix: And the tour de force mashup, High Noon in Crazytown: Picture Source.
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Is it possible that Charlie Sheen has plunged so far into the depths of celebripravity that there isn’t enough crazy mojo left out in the ether for Mike Tyson anymore? This is a potentially transformative time for Iron Mike.
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Unless you’re the Grizzly Man, or some other luddite, malcontent living in a cave. Anthropologist Amber Case explain exactly why.
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Greg Runs the Gauntlet of the Spa Castle, Uniforms Vs. Au Natural: Fight!, To Every Horde, Turn, Turn, Turn, The Horror of Red Bumperman, The Joy of Having One’s Skin Ripped Off, and Zombie Kings. Download Mep Report #125
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This is one of the most beautifully crafted CGI pieces I’ve ever seen. Great theme, great storytelling, great music. Before I over-kvell, by the way, the theme of this video is dependence, and the burden that we bear in carrying it around. Which is, of course, why I live in a void-vacuum where nothing may […]
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Went to the park last weekend to catch up on some reading. One of my little known habits is that I prefer to sit on the bleachers, in view of an empty baseball field. For some reason, I’ve always found baseball fields to be a very calming presence, and good for doing serious thinking. I […]
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I’m not entirely sure why Star Trek: The Next Generation has stuck in the minds of so many mashup artists. Most likely it has to do with the timing of the show, arriving in the early 1990s just in time to conquer the brain-spaces of kids who grew up to be today’s internet meme-creators. Admittedly, […]
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Not to take the debate back to Greg’s and my epic battle over the Rose Art Museum, but this example of modern art is where most such “art” belongs – in the landfill. What’s great about this is that it’s so innocuously obvious. The trash collectors of Albuquerque are charged with keeping the city’s streets […]
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Kudos to Bill Murray who just won his first official Pro-Am golf tournament this weekend. Does it matter? You tell us, Bill.
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In everyday speech, I try to be direct as possible, regardless of social context. This may explain my lack of understanding of most people. Experimental psychologist, Steven Pinker has some insight on this matter.
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Took a tour of the Griffith Observatory over the weekend and took in an awe-inspiring show inside its planetarium. It took us through man’s eon-long journey for understanding of the unknown. While I can’t replicate it for you here, I can leave something that will hopefully instill some residual sense of wonder:
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Last night, I went to the EchoPlex for a mashup-type show, starring a bunch of vaguely familiar-looking internet people. As we moved through the crowd, we came across one in particular. He was a burly-ish Australian with a handlebar mustache who was bare-chested except for two star-shaped nipple pasties. As he stopped to survey the […]
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Russian viral videos always seem to exploit some clever aspect of science or engineering. Even these bathtub idiots have a better grounding in reality than 99% of American viral fare.
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Otherwise known as, we probably have no genuinely new ideas. Ever.
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Apologies for the downtime here. There is so much to report, and so little time to do so. An unprecedented freedom movement has broken out through the entire region of North Africa and the Middle East. Tunisia’s dictator has been deposed. Protests are breaking out in Saudi Arabia. Martial law is being declared in Jordan. […]
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The Internet has become the lifeblood of Democracy. It’s up to all of us to speak for those who do not have it – or who have had it taken away. I think I safely speak for all Meppers when I say that our thoughts and hopes are with our brothers and sisters in Tunisia […]
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Another dubbing masterpiece from DJO.. Welp, I’ve got to skedaddle. I’m having a tattoo of Jesus waterboarding on my shoulder…
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Kick ass mashup of the Coasters song, “Down in Mexico”, set to The Empire Strikes Back. via Milk and Cookies.
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On the eve of the State of the Union, thought I’d take the time to display some recent exposition I participated in about the nature of our country and where it is relative to our founding ideals. Featuring three Brandeis debaters! Mini Cup Round 3 (Brandeis A vs Brandeis/BU) from Will Crocker on Vimeo. Warning: […]
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For those of you who may or may not enjoy quasi-legal forms of entertainment, this may enhance your own internal odyssey. It’s the final sequence of 2001: A Space Odyssey, with the soundtrack replaced by Pink Floyd: Echoes. This is the lesser known version of playing Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon, to a sequence […]
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Ok, things here have been a bit dark lately, I’ll grant you that. But good omens are to be found on the internets as well. I bring to you now, the GREATEST MINI-GOLF PUTT IN THE HISTORY OF THE CIVILIZED WORLD. Prepare for pandemonium.
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…thing from the lefty blog with the flightless bird mascot about how modern civilization is a farce? Yeah, I totally read that.
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Our teetering economy is completely based on an ongoing imperial campaign to dominate resources around the globe. Our country’s primary contribution to the rest of the world is death. We export death, that we may import gadgets and trinkets and nonsense. So says Joe Rogan. Any other divisive political footballs only exist to distract you […]
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The big political news today is the new Congress’s attempts to rescind Obamacare. As a consummate radical, I actually believe they’re doing the right thing, if for the wrong reasons. Mandatory private health care does nothing but prop up a staggeringly broken system. Dennis Kucinich elucidates the reasons that our for-profit health care system will […]
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Wikipedia is quickly becoming the most used, most revered source of information the planet. As vast as it is currently, it could still be only a seedling for a future Encyclopedia Galactica-scale compendium. Here’s a great infographic explaining how wiikipedia works (including the strata and rankings for high-level Wikipedia dorks — err.. moderators)
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That vaguely sounded like something out of a Peter Cetera entry on the Karate Kid Soundtrack, it would look like this:
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Fascinating…
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I don’t have any problem with making a choice to believe in God. That is your own business. However, if you’re a Pascal’s Wagerer who believes in God because it’s some sort of theological safety net, you are participating in some serious ontological laziness. It seems fitting then, that I’m about to provide you with […]
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A remix of the classic Fatboy Slim music video that is arguably better than the original.
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I’ve always felt the turning point in the 2008 U.S. Presidential campaign was the moment when the sight of then-candidate Barack Obama after wrapping up the Democratic nomination was almost immediately contrasted with now-failed-candidate and angry man John McCain, in front of a sickening green background and performing to an audience which sounded more like […]
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Pretty great mashup here, even if you’re not the Sunday comic reading-type.
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Those of you familiar with the podcast, know my feelings on Disney. More than a land of magic, and reverie, and joy, it is a land of price-gouging, irrational exuberance, and toy-fetishism. Not to put too fine a point on it, Disney Propaganda can explain the specific psychoses of a huge number of American adults […]
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Beyond expressing my sorrow for the lost and injured and all those affected by this tragedy, I have little to say about the horrific events in Arizona yesterday except one thing. Regular Mep readers / listeners will know all of us here put a high value on communication and the power of rhetoric; the two […]
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Good morning. Have the highest resolution photo ever taken of a nebula (specifically, this is the Carina Nebula.) Alright, you may now go about your business. Never mind the utter wonderment that is commonplace in our universe. Go get yourself a decaf latte that you might sit and properly worry about the scratched spoiler on […]
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No commentary for you this evening on the Arizona political depravity egged on by vapid celebriticians. Suffice to say, it’s bad out there. And it will get worse before it gets better. No fretting about that now, though. It’s Saturday night. Have some Norweigan mountain ranges. Nobody has shit on them yet, as far as […]
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Been staying up past my bedtime and re-watching Network. If you’re not familiar, the Paddy Chayefsky creation is one of the finest screenplays ever written. It also eerily predicts the rise of pundit-driven entertainment/news. Many commentators have noted that NewsCorp’s Glenn Beck is a rather transparent re-creation of Howard Beale… There is a very good […]
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The following piece features the voices of Joe Rogan, Bill Hicks, and the Bizarro Reagans. In posting this, I do not wish to convey that drugs are necessary to transcending the narrowness of your daily perceptions. They can help, if used properly. The real point is that it is your responsibility as a human to […]
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Thousands of dead blackbirds plummeted out of the sky and fell on Beebe, Arkansas this morning. Though this is hardly a novel occurrence, it may be that the planet is trying to tell us something — in the way of a choking victim desperately pleading for a Heilmlich…
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I’m not usually one for New Year’s resolutions. But, if I could offer one to you Meppers, by way of suggestion: spend the year tempering your use of facebook. Let’s face it, facebook is 98% nonsense and 2% usefulness. You could take up professional lawn bowling this year and have a much more productive life […]
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Only five years or so late, RedLetterMedia has finally released its critique of the final installment of the Star Wars prequels. And it was actually worth the wait.
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Our population doesn’t sound so massive when it’s in those terms, does it? Nor when it is explained that, shoulder to shoulder, the world’s population could fit in Los Angeles. If only we didn’t eat, burn, and crap so much, we could totally sustain this species.
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Another TheraminTrees piece, this one on conformity studies. Particularly of note, was the Weaver study, which established that hearing something multiple times makes it more convincing even if you are hearing it repeated by the same source. Could Fox News and friends have incorporated this bit of social engineering into their broadcasting style any more […]
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Greg Gets a Mortgage (and Becomes an Adult), Russ Gets a Bear (and Becomes a Psychic), Storey Gets a Twin (and Becomes a Skeptic), Kobe Bryant and Jimmy Kimmel Destroy Society One Video Game at a Time, The Meppers Get Immersed, and Everything is Awesome In Sloooooowwww-Moooooo. Download Mep Report #124
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An old Fry and Laurie sketch that may be more prophetic than they anticipated.
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Scientists at the California Institute of Technology claim to be one step closer to mimicking plant-like energy production in the lab. Apparently using a Cesium-Oxygen-Nitrogen mixture, they can create a potent fuel from scratch using concentrated sunlight as the only catalyst. Exciting stuff. This would seem to get us out of the problem of our […]
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A clear and thorough explanation of what is meant by ‘austerity’ measures to make an economy more competitive. In a phrase, it is to intentionally lower the standard of living of a populace, to convince people to accept lower wages, less benefits, and less job security in the interests of maximizing corporate profits. A valuable […]
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Here’s some needed Monday fare. It’s an Alan Watts lecture snippet about nothingness. I’ve read a fair amount of Watts since college, and I find him to be the most effective philosopher at temporarily separating the reader from his or her daily routine, and allowing for some metaphysical reflection. Of course, just as nothingness exists […]
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Though it isn’t quite a tricorder, Patrick Stewart’s life is now dependent on his iPhone. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got to get a block of cheese from the replicator.
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Admittedly, my non-Celtic fan Mep friends may disagree…but this picture, taken right after Paul Pierce’s game winning shot against the resurgent but still not rival New York Knicks, is priceless. (Not pictured: Nate Robinson almost killing himself jumping over Pierce, and Spike Lee almost killing himself in an apoplectic fury off camera as Kevin Garnett […]
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Apparently, Arnold Schwarzenegger has his own, little-seen YouTube channel, through which he addresses netizens and informs them of California’s progress. What seems initially to be a farce, actually turns into an informative lecture on, among other things, California’s bulky permit process.
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If you learn one thing from the Mep Report, let it be this: Do not ever fry gnocchi. That is all.
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A mini-documentary on the Leonardo Da Vinci of the modern era, Nikola Tesla.
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This article at The People’s View should be required reading for all those interested in discovering what some parts of both the right and left of the blogosphere have to gain in trying to destroy (fortunately unsuccessfully, I think) President Obama–or, more accurately, what they have to gain in upping the ante on false outrage […]
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Here’s a treat for you Meppers. It’s a full-length documentary about Wikileaks and the intrepid man of mystery, Mr. Assange. Confidence is low that this link will remain up forever, so enjoy it while you can.
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You may not know this, but there is only one diving pool in the entire country of Japan. At least they use it efficiently.
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Who knew that Chaplin was so politically motivated? This clip comes from The Great Dictator (1940). If the armband and moustache look vaguely Hitler-like, it’s intentional. Chaplin plays an autocrat for most of the movie, in addition to playing a doppleganger who switches places with him, in time to rally a fascist regime to nobler […]
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I don’t know if this really qualifies as human news, but, nevertheless, here’s a recently discovered old gem. It’s Hunter Thompson interviewing Keith Richards in 1993.
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As many of you know, it is our sworn duty here at the Mep Report, not only to report on the pressing human issues of our day, but of the Emu-related ones as well. It seems as if one of our flightless brethren escaped his confines in a Rhode Island farm and is currently AWOL. […]
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Hans Rosling and his team of statisticians organized an unfathomably huge swath of historical health statistics since the beginning of the 19th century. The results are eye-opening.
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One of my favorite YouTube pages, TheraminTrees, recently released an addendum video to its series on Transactional Analysis. Here, the narrator is presenting the psychological basis for religious fundamentalism, and much of it comes from an implanted desire to chastise, scold, and belittle others. For further reading on Transactional Analysis, I recommend going to the […]
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In the 19th century, British Economist Thomas Malthus, famously predicted that while societal food production can only grow numerically (due to limitations in technological development) population grows exponentially. He concluded that overpopulation would inevitably overburden and overwhelm our resources. And, he may be correct in that projection. But his premise of exponential population growth has […]
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I really don’t know how I missed out on the whole Paul is Dead, urban legend. But this piece sums it up rather nicely.
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I’m sort of amazed that this video from 2007 hasn’t been more widely seen. Perhaps because the bombings that it discusses are only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to US foreign policy incursions into other sovereign nations.
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The man may be a lame duck, but he is certainly going out in style. Charred Earth, Alan. Burn it all down.
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In what is possibly the greatest unintentional cultural commentary of all time by a scientific journal, the Times reported today that the Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders has removed narcissism from its list of mental disorders, along with four others. Narcissism, is defined as elitism, or indifference to the plight of others. Apparently, this trait […]
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I’ve just discovered this young commentator who hilariously calls himself Hennessey Youngman. And I dig his work.
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Anyone feelin’ the post Black-Friday blues can follow me on down to the Gulf of Mexico. The land is so rich thar’ that you kin pull black gold out of the sea with yer own two hands! It’s 1849 all over again, except wetter. Weez all gonna be rich! Yeeeeee haw!
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The greatest American hero may not even be an American. It is hard to overestimate the importance of WikiLeaks, already perhaps the most controversial website in the history of the relatively fledgling Internet. If you’ve been near any source of either news or Internet, you’re aware of the fact that said site, despite enduring a […]
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While our nutty country is forgetting its troubles with some good old capitalist ecstasy, let’s take a moment and remember some of the core ‘values’ that brought us to our current desperate station…
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Here’s a Thanksviging-y Mep classic to celebrate your food coma.
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Dear Lord, we’ve found it. We’ve found the main emotion nerve of the internet. And this is what it looks like… A shrill beacon of raw emotions, pulsing into the ether. Perhaps this is a condition of being fed nothing but creepily ecstatic kitten videos and Norweigen Clog Porn. If you were the excretion receptacle […]
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On my Virign America jaunt over to the right coast, I spent some time watching the recently defunct BoingBoing Video channel. Came across an interview with Peter Serafinowicz, co-creator of Tarvu, and this inspired short:
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Presuming that you’re an American reading this, the odds are fairly strong that you heard this juicy tidbit in the internet/sports rumor mill today. The story is about a woman who is adored for her ability to play pretend, who filed for divorce from her husband, who is adored for his ability to throw a […]
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Now, I realize the level of nerdiness that goes along with the admission that I used to play one of these “arcane mages” in an “MMORPG” entitled “World of Warcraft.” Be that as it may, I found this to be a very enlightening tutorial on some of the nuances and finely tuned-skill development that are […]
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Did anyone else know that Rex Ryan, the outspoken, self-effacing, boisterous, former defensive-coordinator now coach of the Jets has an outspoken, self-effacing, boisterous, twin brother, Rob Ryan, who is the defensive coordinator for Cleveland? Apparently they both played defensive end for Southwestern Oklahoma State University, as well. And, other than the facial hair, and relative […]
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The meme that always steals my heart, is a meme about the Dude. The Dude abides.
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