“Ching ching.” – Reverend Lovejoy I think I successfully crammed most of my opening into the title this week, so there isn’t much need for an introduction. There’s some other stuff too, of course, including an unusually specific Family Guy vs. Simpsons article, some usage, and a couple of interviews. Enjoy. Ned Flanders disapproves – On console first person shooter games I always have to reverse the look controls vertically, but I’ve never even looked to see if you can swap move/look from the left stick to the right. But I’m not left handed, so what do I know? Razer…
Category: Sacrilicious
The Petty Greed of a Large and Wealthy Organization
“Oh I feel for you my child and, I’d like you help you . . . ahem.” – Rev. Lovejoy There was some hubbub over the long holiday weekend because L’Osservatore Romano, an official Vatican newspaper, said some nice things about The Simpsons. This doesn’t particularly surprise me, Zombie Simpsons has become so institutionalized that even the world’s oldest surviving organization no longer finds it threatening. That kind of approval is a pretty damning indictment for a program that found its original popularity in an explicitly anti-authority message. But I was curious as to what exactly the Catholic Church found…
Michael Shermer & Marge Simpson FTW
“Ned, there’s an oil stain the parking lot that looks just like St. Barnabas.” – Rev. Lovejoy “Oh my stars!” – Ned Flanders It is, and always has been, easy to make a buck by taking advantage of people’s beliefs. This is something the Simpsons was long fond of mocking, from low grade hucksterism like Princess Opal to high grade hucksterism like organized Christianity. The video below is a real world application of that same principal. This is a talk given by a guy named Michael Shermer at the TED conference in 2006. He gives a little explanation of skeptical…
In the Beginning . . .
. . . television was without form and void. Then this happened: And it was followed a month later by this: And the audiences beheld what was made and saw that it was good. (Hat tip to Village of Joy)