unexplained-events:

The Max Headroom broadcast incident was a television hijacking that occurred on November 22, 1987 in Chicago, Illinois.

The first intrusion happened during a local newscast. It depicted an unknown man wearing a Max Headroom (a British, computer generated TV host introduced in 1984) mask sitting before a sheet of metal that resembled the original show’s background, along with a steady buzzing noise and no discernible audio. The hijack lasted about 30 seconds before finally being cut off.

The second intrusion cut in during a showing of Doctor Who, although this video came with distorted audio. The unknown man proceeded into various random phrases and antics, including a cut of being spanked with a flyswatter. The broadcast cut off after about a minute and a half. The above video is a recording from that particular hijacking. Fortunately (or unfortunately, damn), many copies of the hijacking were available from people who had been taping Doctor Who.

The hijacker was never identified.

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Updated list of bands I have seen in concert

  • Robert Plant x6
  • Weezer x5
  • Flogging Molly x4
  • Fu Manchu x3
  • Fenians x2
  • Hot Hot Heat x2
  • Lifehouse x2
  • Ozomatli x2
  • Brian Wilson x2
  • 311
  • A Flock Of Seagulls
  • The Aggrolites
  • The Aquabats!
  • Arcade Fire
  • The B-52s
  • Travis Barker & DJ AM
  • Beck
  • Berlin
  • Best Coast
  • Biz Markie
  • Blasting Concept
  • Blind Pilot
  • Bouncing Souls
  • The Bravery
  • Jeff Bridges and the Abiders
  • Cake
  • Candlebox
  • The Creepy Creeps
  • Dishwalla
  • Fishbone
  • FM-84
  • Foo Fighters
  • Michael Franti and Spearhead
  • The Freeks
  • Garbage
  • John Garcia (acoustic w/Ehren Groban)
  • Kyle Gass Band
  • Current version of The Glenn Miller Orchestra
  • Goldfinger
  • Israel Vibration
  • Jet
  • Kings of Leon
  • The Lions
  • Little Axe
  • Live
  • Mad Cap
  • Madness
  • Madonna
  • Marcy Playground
  • Mammoth Thunderpower
  • Mates of State
  • Maureen and the Mercury 5
  • The Midnight
  • moe.
  • The New Dubliners
  • The New Pornographers
  • Nobody Cares
  • Oasis
  • One Man Army
  • Ozma
  • Jimmy Page & The Black Crowes
  • Page & Plant
  • Robert Plant and Allison Krauss
  • Ra Ra Riot
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers (caught Chad’s shredded drumstick after Under the Bridge)
  • The Rentals
  • The Romantics
  • Save Ferris
  • Smash Mouth
  • Smashing Pumpkins
  • Current version of The Sons of the Pioneers
  • Steel Pulse
  • Stinky Pinky
  • Three Dog Night
  • U2
  • M. Ward
  • Stevie Wonder
  • Yeah Yeah Yeahs
  • ZenToniC
  • Zwan

-Didn’t see live, but was in the vicinity or interacted-

I was at a record signing for the Pretenders at Licorice Pizza at La Cumbre Mall in Santa Barbara and met the band when I was 10 months old or so. I don’t remember it, but Chrissie said I was going to be a drummer. I guess I was banging on the table.

Should have been at the Where The Streets Have No Name video shoot, but U2 started early thanks to the LAPD and I missed it by an hour. People were still hanging out at the corner in downtown LA when I got there.

I had an email exchange with Brian Kehew of The Moog Cookbook sometime around 1999.

I camped at the next campsite over from Gyl Bonus, guitar player for The B Foundation. I haven’t seen them live, but I hear it’s a great show.

I had a ticket to see Jimmy Page and the Black Crowes with Fu Manchu in Irvine in 2000, but Jimmy cancelled the tour. Technically, I have seen both bands, so this should not be in this section.

Was invited to the recording of the live section of the “Enemies” EP by Frank Jordan, but I had to work my shift at Kmart. I should have gone.

A friend offered to give me his ticket and could have made it to the last half of a Pearl Jam concert in Irvine, but was too lazy. I should have gone.

I had a ticket for earthlings? live at Pappy & Harriet’s, but I had worked that day in LA and had to go back to LA the next day on the fucking weekend. I’m still pissed about that.

Back to Santa Barbara, Bob Marley & the Wailers played a concert and I was in the same city at the same time but I was 3 months old or some shit. I wish I could have gone.

I was in close proximity to Johnny Halliday and his wife when they arrived at LAX a few years ago. Johnny is known as the “French Elvis”. There was a good amount of paparazzi, so I may be in the background of a picture in a French tabloid.

Gross porn blogs:

hollowedskin:

undead-trans-lesbian:

elliesaurus-rex:

What is it about my page that entices you? I’m not interested! Get lost!

The bots are using tumblr to scam Google.

Let’s say someone is looking for porn and they put “wife caught her husband cheating,” into Google. There are a lot of porn sites (and some news sites) with that title. So Google has to decide which order to show them in, because most of the time, people pick something off the first few pages of Google.

Google wants to have the very best “wife caught her husband cheating” (or whatever else you search for) sites on the first page of the search. Google has several ways to try and decide which site are the best, but one of them is that it looks at how popular it is by seeing how many other websites link to it. If a lot of other sites are linking to it, it was probably useful to them, so Google will put it on the front page.

So if I’m a sleazy pornsite owner, I could create like a thousand websites and make them all link to my “wife caught her husband cheating” site, and act like a whole bunch of different websites thought it was pretty great. They’d be like “xdfgt .com”, “xdfgy .com”, “xdfgh .com,” just nonsense addresses nobody else was using, or whatever. I’d try to make Google think my site was awesome, because all these other websites are linking to it.

But Google has already caught on to that. Google would know “xdfgt .com” was a crappy fake website, because nobody else is linking to “xdfgt .com”. Any website that is only linked to by crap websites is also crap, as far as Google is concerned. Google won’t put it on the first pages of search results.

So instead let’s imagine the sleazy pornsite owner creates a thousand fake tumblrs instead, like “xdfgt.tumblr .com” and “xdfgy.tumblr .com” and “xdfgh.tumblr .com” and just puts one or two posts on them to add links to the “wife caught her husband cheating” porn site. Google can still tell those tumblrs are crap websites, because nobody else is linking to them. But the difference is … on tumblr, the sleazy pornsite owner can make your website link to him.

Let’s say your tumblr is “mostlyaestheticandfunny.tumblr .com”. If “xdfgt.tumblr .com” likes one of your posts, there’s link on your blog to “xdfgt.tumblr .com.” Somewhere on “mostlyaestheticandfunny.tumblr .com” it will say “xdfgt liked this” with a link from your blog to “xdfgt.tumblr .com.”

Google’s bot looks at “mostlyaestheticandfunny.tumblr .com” and it sees that your blog is a good website. People are linking to it (talking to you or reblogging from you), you write like an actual human being, you have nice pictures, you update sometimes, you aren’t a bot. So Google decides your blog isn’t a crappy scam website. Then it sees the link to “xdfgt.tumblr .com” and it thinks “oh hey, a nice website with good stuff written by a real human linked to this “xdfgt.tumblr .com” I guess maybe “xdfgt.tumblr .com” is a decent website too.”

Then it looks at “xdfgt.tumblr .com” and it sees the link to the porn site with “wife caught her husband cheating”, and it says, “well, I guess that “wife caught her husband cheating” site is a good site. I know that because there’s a good site linking to it here at “xdfgt.tumblr .com.” I know “xdfgt.tumblr .com” is a good site because “mostlyaestheticandfunny.tumblr .com” linked to it, and I know “mostlyaestheticandfunny.tumblr .com” is a good site because it is updated and writes like a real person and people talk to it and link to it.”

So basically the porn bots are using the fact that you have a good blog to make themselves look better and to try and trick Google’s bot into thinking they’re very popular and it should put them at the top of its list when people search Google for porn.

It’s really annoying! It would be really nice if the people running tumblr figured out a way to not be free advertising for every sleazy porn site on the internet

source.

hey wow thats actually really useful! and its written in a way that i (a bird with no knowledge of the wizardly internal workings of a website) can understand!

Wow finally an explanation.