Katze mit Wut

Is it just me, or does the Riddler (from Batman, right) kinda wear the hand-me-downs of professor Tournesol (of Tintin fame, left)?

Upon her birth, Francesca Brandlynn's parents had the horrifying realization: They had fallen behind in the mad dash to come up with the strangest name they could and soon, the Soviets would perfect the Ultimate Dumb-Ass Name.
Thanks, Tal.

Bonne année! Here come the new year's resolutions.
Quick, to the cat-mobile! (via Erdferkel).
Fur & purr, hiss & claw (via catwalk).

Rather eerily, googling for Ungl'Unl'Rrlh'Chchch renders six pages full of results. Turns out there's a band called that, but none you'd want to listen to. (I'll stick to The darkest of the hillside thickets for my Cthulhoid music needs, thank you). Unless of course, you're into really weird stuff.

So apparently, I'm lain.
Which is much better than being plain, har har. Maybe that's why I played the lain game for almost half an hour the other day before stopping to think, hold on, wait a minute — I don't really speak Japanese! But what can you do, that's just how it goes, there are always pools of blood in the shadows¹. Speaking of which, others have me down as the Sig Sauer P226 ("Greatest gun ever! Feel special. Beautiful and reliable but can still scare the living bejesus outta anyone.")
No, they didn't have the M1911A, and I really don't know why I'm not Arisu. Or evil lain, for that matter. Or bloody penny bloody lain, sweety dahlin'. Bolly?

Sometimes, some dimwit will stream music to you without asking. This is a real joy if you restart a browser with 3o or 4o tabs open, and one of them contains that crap. Only you don't know which, because the <embed>-statement for the media disables the media-player's GUI.

So if you were annoyed and truly evil, where would you turn with this potential copyright violation? I figured I'd first try the Recording Industry Association of America, your one stop site for all things evil. And indeed, if you wanted to turn informer, the info's linked right from the top page. You can report any "piracy" ("whatever that is supposed to mean," you may think, but lo and behold, your favourite online dictionary will enlighten you -- and yes, I know, #3 still is nonsense, but now it's dictionary nonsense) online, but if you tell on CD manufacturers "illegally producing RIAA member company sound recordings", you may also collect up to $1o,ooo for your pains. "Bounty", to remain within the pirate theme. (G-d knows there should be such a bounty for reporting manufacturers producing non-red book CDs.) But what do you expect, these people also call theft when nothing is actually stolen. Not that their German counterparts were any smarter.

To do this, you may send mail to cdreward@riaa.com or use the site cdreward.com. Ironically, at the time of this writing the site is under construction, and the NetworkSolutions defaults to an offer for blank CD and DVD media.