This Week In Miscellanea: “Chaotic Neutral”

1. Remember this guy? He seems to be delivering on promises made during the recent US elections. This is probably going to lead to a lengthy legal battle, but the language they’ll be fighting over is encouraging;

additional guidelines would prevent the operators from discriminating, or acting as gatekeepers, of Web content and services.

Sounds good to me.

Very Tame

2. Rammstein are in the habit of stretching boundaries in their videos. Their latest, “Pussy,” makes much of what has come before seem very tame. Warning: link extremely NSFW.

3. Briefly mentioned in the Dead Space review was my consumption of Micheal Muhammad Knight’s The Taqwacores. Little did I know that the Taqx have been hanging out on WordPress since April. Ping!

4. There is a fleet of Ghost ships achored off the east coast of Singapore. The global economic downturn has led to a massive slow-down in international shipping – a staggering 12% of the Earth’s container fleet are sitting around with the waves barely brushing their Plimsoll lines. The consequences are hard to predict – apart from crippling the South Korean shipbuilding industry – but 514 expat Tripp sees an opportunity…

Who wants to charter a bulk carrier for a cruise? Maybe this is the time to run the Lotus Eater hurricane rave-cruise ship? 

5. Assuming that your stocking is now going to be empty because there are no ships to bring your burrough goods, what will you ask for at xmas? How about a collection of Halo shorts in the style of the Animatrix and Gothan Knight? Maybe one that had both Toei and Production I.G. listed as contributors?

What about… how many times has rusty been burned getting his hopes up about this sort of thing? Will he be burned again? Oh woe!

This looks... tight?