Today's xkcd

[robkelk]

Today's strip is a little something for the folks who actually play Diana: Warrior Princess...
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[Dartz]

Oh yes oh yes... for similar effect, watch what happens whenever Star Trek has a 'back to the present day' special.

Of course you have to wonder how much of modern culture will actually survive, when the vast majority of it is digitised... literally nothing more than bits on a Harddisk. Just think how many popular fanfic websites and web-projects go poof every year, among other things. The British Government spent a lot of money in the 80's digitising the Domesday book in order to preserve it for the ages.... a few years later there was no computer left which could read the disks it was on.

I wonder if in 400 years time, we might be known only through a few magazine snippets and mountains of plastic landfill... if even that... the internet and everything on it having long since evolved to the point where the world as we know it today becomes a sort of Digital Dark Age. Nothing outside of a memorial is set in stone anymore.
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--m(^0^)m-- Wot, no sig?

[Logan Darklighter]

That reminds me of that one bit from Symphony of the Sword - Hogtown Rhapsody, where Utena and Saionji and channel surfing late at night after the Leafs game in Toronto - 

One channel they arrived at was quite colorful, though, and so Saionji
stopped on it just to see what it -was- that was so brightly colored.

On the screen was what appeared to be a theatre stage,
occupied mainly by a chorus-like group of women wearing too much
makeup and too little clothing, all of it garish. One similar woman
was sprawled on the stage in a position of supplicating fright, at the
feet of a tall, green, broad-shouldered Orion in an incredibly loud
suit and ridiculously wide hat. This man glared angrily down at the
woman for a moment, drew a breath, and boomed out in an impressive
tenor voice,

o/~ "Bitch, where is my money? / I need it right away! / I
have to go to HMV and buy some Doctor Dre. / Bitch, where is my money?
/ There can be no delay! / I have to buy a new pimp suit at Zellers or
The BaaaaAAAAAAAY!"

As he sang, the lyrics appeared on the screen like white
subtitles, turning yellow as each syllable was pronounced.

Utena and Saionji blinked at each other.

"Must be a comedy show," Saionji said.

"I hope," said Utena. "Surf on, Macduff."

[Kurisu]

Then there's the personal favorite that requires a couple of translations:

>"Hay-LEE DIT-SHIZZY yo! Granny-anny nevva go unda wit'a SUCKA-FOO
>SHOOBY-DOO dilly-o! Homeys oughta haul yo SACKY-DUMP slackit-back'a
>NAR SHADDAA! Prezzy SLUG-TELLY BIZZY-*BAM*!" -- Fuu Hououji in "The
>Kindness of Strangers" I'm not sure I ever provided a Standard translation of this little speech, so here it is:
"Haley,
you worthless sack of shit! My grandmother wouldn't have fallen for a
sucker play like that! They ought to trade your useless ass back to Nar
Shaddaa. The King shot his TV!"
("The
King shot his TV" is an expression of dismay or disgust used by
Presleyterians in much the same capacity that Christians use "Jesus
wept.")
--G.
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DEATH is Certain. The hour, Uncertain...

[Logan Darklighter]

The term "Presleyterian" always make me laugh.