Comments on: Mysterious DVD appears in BB reader's front lawn

By: dirklosander

dirklosander — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 05:21:00 +0000

This reminds me of the troll from kuro5hin.org, Michael Crawford.

By: Jambe

Jambe — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 03:03:00 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctTsnTHk6Uw

[Prof. Robert Sapolsky, Spring 2002, Human Behavioral Biology & The Biology of Religion]

In short: no, it’s not surprising, and there are actually solid biological reasons to suppose that religious behavior (and especially codified or organized religious behavior) is related to both normal/healthy humans’ desire for the numinous/transcendent and the ability of schizophrenia-spectrum types to provide such experiences.

By: Joseph Misterovich

Joseph Misterovich — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 23:50:00 +0000

Could you put in on a PC and see what the file format is? Might be easier to determine how to play once you do that.

By: Arthur Null

Arthur Null — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 01:23:00 +0000

LMAO get in the back door of my computer for all i care all you will find is the single most disturbing collection of porn you have ever seen

By: Arthur Null

Arthur Null — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 01:21:00 +0000

BRING IT ON ANTHRAX DVD!!!! wait….no powder…just white goo..*o fortuna playing* DB NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

By: Antonio Carrasco

Antonio Carrasco — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:43:00 +0000

Sounds like the beggining of a David Lynch movie. Your whole world is fixing to get real weird, bro

By: bill_mcgonigle

bill_mcgonigle — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 15:55:00 +0000

It’s an old person with a tenuous grip on technology sending himself a note to the future him, who will have forgotten the previous discovery by time it’s seen again. My grandfather used to over-label everything like this. He didn’t want to learn how it worked, just wanted to completely codify every step required to make it work.

By: Gilbert Wham

Gilbert Wham — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 14:10:00 +0000

Preferably not to itunes…

By: Aeron

Aeron — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 06:13:00 +0000

Very small rocks!

By: feetleet

feetleet — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 04:34:00 +0000

I keep trying to open it with Winamp, but something called Realplayer just pops up instead and freezes my computer. My son says he might have saved Grim Fandango on there too. That probably explains that file GFGA144_-facia.rm. I tried reading it from B: drive, but the disc doesn’t fit. When I finally figure this out, I’m just going to buy a pallet of CD-RWs, so I never have to deal with this again.

Maybe it’s sandy. I’ll try blowing on it.

By: carillon246

carillon246 — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 02:06:00 +0000

A USB key might have been better

By: Aaron Gilliland

Aaron Gilliland — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 02:06:00 +0000

Naw, it’s okay. We haven’t advanced computer technology to the point where a monitor will break down fundamentally and display snow…

Ya… like TVs on a dead channel… because monitors are just TVs, right?

That’s one part of Snowcrash that still drives me up the wall(hack).

By: Aaron Gilliland

Aaron Gilliland — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 01:59:00 +0000

Did you just watch The Net?

By: Aaron Gilliland

Aaron Gilliland — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 01:55:00 +0000

Or the greatest troll in history. I imagine he, or she, has traveled the world, searching for a plastic surgeon that will give him/her a real-life COOLFACE.JPG.

When the victim is at the exact moment of total decompensation, our happy little fellow will round the corner and offer “u mad bro?” in American Sign Language.

By: Aaron Gilliland

Aaron Gilliland — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 01:47:00 +0000

He’s the kind of preacher who gives you a tip. Just the tip.

By: doniphon

doniphon — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 22:59:00 +0000

”The part of Natalie Wood is played by Joelle Van Dyne” – didn’t “Infinite Jest” teach you anything?

By: madopal

madopal — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 22:43:00 +0000

Lead!

By: dayhat

dayhat — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 22:41:00 +0000

Christ on a bike don’t listen to it – didn’t snowcrash/the cell teach you anything?

By: Jim Wile

Jim Wile — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 22:22:00 +0000

I KNEW I had seen this before! Thank you – now I no longer need to Google.

By: Mother Joker

Mother Joker — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 22:10:00 +0000

I would try uploading it to YouTube, it should convert it for him.

By: Woody Smith

Woody Smith — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 21:43:00 +0000

Careful! We don’t want to be slipping on Tipper Gore….

By: Uthor

Uthor — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 21:34:00 +0000

If it’s an mp3 file, there is no need to “rip” anything. Just copy and paste it.

By: mat

mat — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 21:00:00 +0000

It might contain the ultimate breakthrough about Natalie Wood’s mysterious death. Maybe you have been chosen for a long-kept secret to be unveiled by the mysterious typewriter man before he gets quiet forever.

By: Missy Pants

Missy Pants — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 20:55:00 +0000

He’s going to make you watch it next Jose.

By: mat

mat — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 20:48:00 +0000

Obviously, this will happen earlier than for typewriters

By: Rider

Rider — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 20:22:00 +0000

My bet is it’s blank DVD placed in the yard by a crazy person.

By: Jose

Jose — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 20:16:00 +0000

Do NOT play that DVD! Haven’t you people ever seen The Ring??

By: Jorpho

Jorpho — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 19:33:00 +0000

It reads like the sort of beat poetry for which people make amateur Youtube animations.

By: sweekly

sweekly — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 19:19:00 +0000

That disk has “social engineering” written all over it, I would NOT put that i a computer. This is exactly the kind of thing that a social engineer would do, distribute a bunch of disk about, and hope that the curious would stick it in a PC, only to open a backdoor hack and steal your stuff. This is a favorite tactic of pentesters, drop several USB drives around in a parking lot outside a target company, and then allow the curious to backdoor a machine inside when they insert the disk to see what was on it.

You have been warned.

By: Mark Dow

Mark Dow — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 19:07:00 +0000

Or, more generally, flavors of mesmerism:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_magnetism