Benjamin Apple

“Call Me In The Day” by La Luz. This is great! The...

Tue, 21 May 2013 20:07:27 -0400

“Call Me In The Day” by La Luz. This is great! The rest of the EP is good too and only five bucks.

I saw this comment on Reddit. It was literally about sword...

Tue, 21 May 2013 19:53:00 -0400

I saw this comment on Reddit. It was literally about sword fighting, but it applies to everything else as well. I love it.

You know they say that the number 1 swordsmen should never fear the number 2 swordsmen. Not ever, he was brought up in the same way, taught the same way, learned the same way, but he is, and more then likely will remain the second best. What the number one swordsmen should fear the most, is the one who has learned and practiced nothing. The untrained, unrefined everyman is unpredictable, he does not know what he can and cannot do, the inns and outs. He has no concept of what it takes to be the number one swordsmen and probably hasn’t even given it much thought. He is an undefined variable, you cannot know what he will do when he will strike, how the strike will come, and that should terrify the number one swordsmen.

Year

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:59:10 -0400

A year ago today I decided to signal to the universe that I was ready for a job in comedy. I had...

Kararty

Sat, 11 May 2013 17:16:31 -0400

badkidsjokes: what do you call a pig that does kararty kararty pig man

I love these signs so much. The misspellings only add to it.

Fri, 10 May 2013 09:50:28 -0400

I love these signs so much. The misspellings only add to it.

Dead Parrot sketch

Tue, 07 May 2013 20:42:04 -0400

The best thing about the Dead Parrot sketch is that the shopkeeper stays calm.

jamesadomian: “The United States of America is home to 4% of...

Sat, 04 May 2013 11:51:20 -0400

jamesadomian:

“The United States of America is home to 4% of the world’s population and 25% of the world’s PRISON population.”

Highest prison population in the world, by number and by percentage, far more than China or Russia. How are we free again? How are we supposed to be the good guys again?

Oh yeah, cuz TV is on and things look free on there.

Icona Pop doing “I Love It” last night. Love this...

Fri, 03 May 2013 11:30:00 -0400

Icona Pop doing “I Love It” last night. Love this song and this performance.

lloydbishop: The very happy Joey Sahakian This is Late...

Wed, 01 May 2013 15:02:43 -0400

lloydbishop:

The very happy Joey Sahakian

This is Late Night’s Mac support guy, Joey. He’s always in a great mood and always ready to help out with stuff. He’s good.

kottke.org: Is life on Earth older than the Earth itself?

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:05:41 -0400

kottke.org: Is life on Earth older than the Earth itself?: jkottke: A pair of scientists looked at...

natgeofound: A tourist stops to get directions from a cop in...

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 11:07:53 -0400

natgeofound:

A tourist stops to get directions from a cop in Questa, New Mexico, 1926.Photograph by Luis Marden, National Geographic

Whoa, this is beautiful.

This is a wallpaper from TBS.com. I also saw a version of it as...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 21:04:30 -0400

This is a wallpaper from TBS.com. I also saw a version of it as a subway ad.

But the quote is wrong.

So.

This is important. shycustis: Do you remember SOPA? The bill...

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 21:17:47 -0400

This is important.

shycustis:

Do you remember SOPA? The bill that would give government the right to spy on internet activity without warrant, and let them censor “unwanted” sites by blocking people’s access to them?

Meet its twin. But this time it’s all the more frightening; the House has passed it despite Obama’s threats to veto. And by an alarmingly large margin, at that. CISPA threatens the US constitution’s guarantees of due privacy and free speech, permitting any government agency to access and transfer of vast amounts of data- from internet records to even the content of personal e-mails, and all without obtaining a warrant.

What’s even more disgusting than this bill actually making through the House is some of the arguments used to help it’s passage, and comments made by one of the bill’s biggest supporters admitting the bill helps big business while insulting opposers (whose is also speculated to have personal reasons for wanting CISPA made into law).

This threatens every element of your online presence. From personal emails to general activity, any government agency will have the ability to go fishing without consequence.

Please, PLEASE, sign the following petitions. You don’t even have to be a US citizen to sign most of them or act against CISPA, and please keep in mind that if this shit flies in America, who knows what country might use its example to do it, too.

Petition: Avaaz: Save the Internet from the US
(you don’t have to be a US citizen to sign this)

Petition: Sites Not Spies
(you don’t have to be a US citizen to sign this)

Petition: CISPA is Back: Write Congress

Petition: Tell Mike Rogers more that 14-year-olds oppose CISPA
(you don’t have to be a US citizen to sign this)

Twitter: Tweet @RepMikeRogers with your age
Twitter: Tweet @BarackObama and tell him to veto CISPA
Twitter: Tweet reps like @RepDelBene, @GovHankJohnson, @KeithEllison and @GovGaryJohnson and thanks them for acting against CISPA. Look for other reps that have spoken against it, and thank them.

Call your reps: and tell them you strongly oppose the bill. You can look up your reps using the form on the lower portion of this page.

Resource: Fight for the Future

Reblog: This and other posts like it to raise awareness of this threat to internet freedom and privacy.

I will be posting more petitions and resources as I become aware of them.

Attention universe: THIS MAY BE MY FAVORITE SKETCH EVER MADE. It...

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 20:08:43 -0400

Attention universe: THIS MAY BE MY FAVORITE SKETCH EVER MADE. It makes me laugh so much. Please watch and share!

“What Happened To The Bone?” Written by Zack Poitras. Directed and edited by Tom Levin. Starring Ben Warheit and George Anagostakos.

This was made in a day for last weekend’s special “Space Cram” Sketch Cram show at UCB East.

Non-Flyers

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 08:00:16 -0400

badkidsjokes: Why are penguins non-flyers? Cause there uncle is a chicken This is a good joke. All...

Bottle episodes

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 22:38:34 -0400

While watching an episode of Star Trek: TNG with Vero, I thought of tweeting “Oh great,...

Thought-terminating clichés

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 20:28:00 -0400

Today on Reddit someone made a post defending someone else. Then another person accused that person...

chamberlain: TONIGHT: SPACE CRAM @ UCBEAST. 11:30PM. A BRAND...

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 21:25:54 -0400

chamberlain:

TONIGHT: SPACE CRAM @ UCBEAST. 11:30PM.

A BRAND NEW SKETCH SHOW ABOUT SPACE WRITTEN, REHEARSED, & PERFORMED IN ONE DAY.

WRITTEN BY: Zhubin Parang / Will Hines / Matt Klinman / Kathy Salerno / Matt Moskovciak / Jesse Lee / Lauren Walters

STARRING: Will Hines / Matt Klinman / Jocelyn DeBoer / George Kareman / Lauren Adams / Beth Appel / Phil Del Costello

VIDEO CRAM BY: Adam Sacks / Tom Levin

MUSIC CRAM BY: Dan Chamberlain

ART CRAM BY: Matt Mayer

DIRECTED BY: Benjamin Apple / Brandon Gulya / Zack Poitras

CLICK HERE FOR RESERVATIONS

Dress yourself and come to this.

Ten Onion headlines I submitted last year that I liked but that didn't get used

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 14:08:29 -0400

Report: Aflac Duck A Real Duck Which Aflac Treats Very Badly And Won’t Let See Its...

Photo

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 18:38:13 -0400