BATMAN: Haven't you noticed how we always escape the vicious ensnarements of our enemies?

ROBIN: Yeah, because we're smarter than they are!

BATMAN: I like to think it's because our hearts are pure.

On January 12, 1966, the coolest TV-show of all times premiered with "Hi Diddle Riddle" and it's still not out on dvd. The feature-film has been out for a while and it's great (a really funny commentary by Adam West and Burt Ward.) No other TV-show took it itself less serious.

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Every teacher should watch the Manga/Nipplegate-episode of South Park called "Good times with weapons" (Season 8, Episode 1, also known as 801)

Excellent podcast with MP3-Links

Thug Life Army started a blog.

“Wonder Showzen is an absurdist comedy/variety show, spiked with a team of puppets, kids, cartoons, and old educational films.(...)Wonder Showzen takes your favorite things about watching TV as a kid and turns them into a twisted nightmare.”

And here is your chance for a short time to download episode 1 from MTV2 at goodiebag.tv for free.

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I read the news today, oh boy,...

"The recent South Park TV episode in which South Park educates the global community through humor on the dangers of the destructive, mind control cult Scientology has done a great service to societies and families everywhere their show airs around the world. This show is also a great educational tool on the dangers of destructive cults in general. (Clips of this episode are currently making it onto other TV and news shows all over the world.)

In light of the cult’s infamous reputation for retaliation and lawsuits, it took a great courage to accurately portray the brainwashed cult dependency of Tom Cruise and John Travolta as well as criminal-like nature of Scientology and its current leader David Miscavige. Because of this courage as well as this episode’s vital educational value to society on the dangers of Scientology and cults in general, FACTNet names the entire South Park TV Show Staff our FACTNet Person(s) of the Year for 2005. (FACTNet.org)

If you would like to see this South Park episode, go here! It's one of the best!

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Being a good writer is 3% talent, 97% not being distracted by the internet.

"Concerned by allegations that some American companies in the Internet sector are cooperating with authoritarian governments to censor speech and imprison dissidents, and by recent revelations of the role allegedly played by Yahoo! in the prison sentencing of a Chinese journalist, a group of 25 investment managers, research houses, foundations, and religious investors have called on Internet businesses to publicly state support for freedom of expression world wide and agreed to monitor operations of Internet businesses in repressive regime countries." Full text

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"The media implant fear and helplessness in the psyche of the people of Europe and the U.S. ... what enemies of the U.S. cannot do, its media are doing!(...) Bin Laden's rise to prominence mirrors the latest phase in the Information Age, the techniques of which he has adroitly mastered. In a 10-year period from 1994 to 2004 that coincides with the emergence of a virtual universe — moving from print to the Internet, from wired to wireless communication around the globe — bin Laden has crafted a series of carefully staged statements designed for new media. They include interviews with Western and Arab journalists, handwritten letters scanned onto discs, faxes, and audiotapes, and above all video recordings distributed via the first independent Arabic-language news outlet, the Qatari satellite television station Al-Jazeera. Those are the texts that were sent to me and proposed as the core of a volume dedicated to making informed critical discussion of Osama's outlook possible for a broader public, one not limited to secretive government agencies and counterterrorism experts." Story at chronicle.com by Bruce B. Lawrence, "professor of Islamic studies at Duke University. He has edited and written an introduction to Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama bin Laden, to be published by Verso this month."

"The Muppets could come back to primetime television with their own reality show. ABC has ordered a script and five episode outlines for 'America's Next Muppet,' in which viewers may join in choosing the newest member of the puppet family that includes Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy, a network spokeswoman said Tuesday.

The premise has the ring of such shows as 'American Idol' or 'America's Next Top Model,' in which the audience picks potential new stars. " AP/Orlando Sentinel

This is hysterical! How could I miss this?

"Riverside, Iowa. Population 928. The most idyllic of towns. And the self-proclaimed future birthplace of Captain James T. Kirk.

Riverside is about to be invaded by creatures from another planet...

The townspeople think William 'Kirk' Shatner is coming to shoot a science fiction movie called 'Invasion Iowa.' What they don't know is that the movie is fake, and they're about to take a front row seat to a ridiculous parody of Hollywood."

Watch the entire Invasion Iowa fake movie on SpikeTV.com!

More at criticdoctor.com!!

Couldn't find any torrents yet...!

Found at the Z-Bar in Berlin where all episodes will be shown on November the 4th!!

"The people of Belgium have been left reeling by the first adult-only episode of the Smurfs, in which the blue-skinned cartoon characters' village is annihilated by warplanes.

The short but chilling film is the work of Unicef, the United Nations Children's Fund, and is to be broadcast on national television next week as a campaign advertisement.

The animation was approved by the family of the Smurfs' late creator, "Peyo".

Belgian television viewers were given a preview of the 25-second film earlier this week, when it was shown on the main evening news. The reactions ranged from approval to shock and, in the case of small children who saw the episode by accident, wailing terror."

The Telegraph

Via boingboing.net

Spiked Humor has a very funny clip from Dave Chappelle's Show. If you haven't seen the blind black Ku Klux Klan member...

This is why they invented television!

"The diary of a Saudi man, currently living in the United Kingdom, where the Religious Police no longer trouble him for the moment."

Read this!

...hold a seance? or speak with an irish accent? Or you don't know yet what you want?

...you should at least have some friends over to help. A funny ad for "Dungeons & Dragons". There is a whole lot to read at boingboing today. Big update on Suicide Girls vs. the FBI. Fun: That Shining-Trailer Far out: Otherworld Excursions™ - Tourism for roleplaying-geeks!

"A presenter on a new chat show in the Netherlands is planning to take drugs such as heroin live on air, aiming to tackle issues facing young people. The show, due to go out next month, is called Spuiten & Slikken, translated as "shoot up and swallow".

The BBC has all the details

"From Custer to Costner, gunslingers to gold diggers, Indians to evangelists, murderers to marshals, prostitutes to presidents -- Deadwood and the Black Hills have ever held an attraction to  personalities known worldwide.  Deadwood Dick, Sitting Bull, Wild Bill Hickok, Buffalo Bill Cody, Crazy Horse, Sam Bass, Babe Ruth, Wyatt Earp, William Jennings Bryan, Gutzon Borglum, Calamity Jane, The Sundance Kid, Calvin Coolidge, Mark Twain, Preacher Smith, George Armstrong Custer, Bat Masterson, Poker Alice, Black Elk, Aunt Sally, Big Foot, Teddy Roosevelt -- the famous and infamous have sought faith, folly, fortune, and fun in them thar hills."

From HistoricDeadwood.com

That new HBO-show from the wild west is just great. Very, very promising premise to keep it going for a long time. I saw the pilot last night and I'm hooked. It's like a darker "Northern Exposure" with a lot of mud, hookers, gamblers and killers. Even if you don't like Western at all, give it a try.

Trailers for every single episode

"Abraham Zapruder's home movie of the Kennedy assassination is the supreme example of the serendipitous transformation of ordinary imagery into hypnotic history. But what about the other reels in Zapruder's oeuvre -- and the home movies of countless other shutterbugs who recorded the quotidian passages of their own lives without being interrupted by a news bulletin?" "No Longer Home Movies" By THOMAS DOHERTY at chronicle.com

Hier, liberale Amis machen ein Internetz:

"The European Tribune is founded by active contributors to the US progressive blogosphere, aiming to emulate its energy, wealth of information, and community spirit with a focus on European and international issues. The European Tribune is a forum for thoughtful political dialogue between European countries on their national and European affairs and also with Americans (and Canadians and others!) on world affairs.

In the context of the Bush administration's "War on Terror", official transatlantic dialogue has become bitter and rancorous and we must make sure that citizens on both sides of the ocean have a chance to better understand each other's problems, internal debates and ideas. Information on the domestic politics of both sides of the ocean - and how it is perceived from elsewhere - are a core staple of the European Tribune. Global issues like peak oil, the emergence of China, the future of the European Union, immigration, pollution will be discussed from various perspectives." European Tribune

Interesting blogroll! Foreign friends, read this: Nazi sabotage from beyond the grave

Yes, it does exist! Thanks to Sean for pointing this out (man, you did repair that chair!!!!)

"An attempt to explain why - Here's my Dave Letterman Top Ten (all in fun).

10. Humor?

11. Opinionated German bloggers risk being called Na.zis by the irate, deranged and mentally disturbed commenters who lurk in the Blogosphere.

12. People will find out how great Germany is and cause a mass migration of (gasp) foreigners!

13. On the internet, no one cares about someone's Dipl-X or Dr.

14. Blogging is not required.

15. No one famous has a blog yet. Olli Kahn, Boris Becker, Joschka... It all rides on you.

16. Hartv IV cut back on social benefits for DSL.

17. Der Blog, Die Blog, oder Das Blog?

18. Ein-Euro-Jobs don't have internet access.

19. No one can figure out the Neue Rechtschreibung."

Stolen from Raskal Trippin

Via "Gruppenblog mit Prominenten" at Heise

"We know full well that the paper for sale in London yesterday, baring the cover date of September 15, 2005, prominently featured snortin’ Moss. But when we rushed to our corner newsstand this morning, to grab yesterday’s paper (which we yanks get today) before it sold out, we were quite surprised to find Prince Harry on the cover instead. (The U.S. cover is at above; click on it to enlarge.) It’s the same paper, with the same cover date, and yet there’s no trace at all of Cokie in Boots."

->gawker.com