Funky Speaks v2.0

Hey, Geert, your movie is a peace of shit. And I’m not even talking about the content. No I’m talking about the actual execution of it.

Crappy stock SFX? Check. Crappy masking on video? Check. Papyrus as a “script” font? Check. It’s like you put some freshman behind a Mac Pro with a pirated copy of Final Cut Pro and you just spewed ideas at him while he frantically tried to figure out how to right-click with the Mighty Mouse.

Now, about the content itself. I’m going to focus on the latter half of the movie (“The Netherlands under the spell of Islam”), because the first half consists of video, audio and pictures anyone with a passing concern with radical Islam has seen on the internet.

First we scary charts! An increasing number of muslims in Holland since 1909. Oh! And there are shots of lots of satellite dishes, as a nod to the most base racist joke any yokel can make. Then there’s some footage from the murder on Theo van Gogh and a nice ironical postcard with pictures of mosques. Because, haha, THE MUSLIMS ARE TAKING OVER!!!!

Oh, but then we get a glimpse of this scary future with shots of radical muslims with captions such as “The future of Holland?”, “Women” without of course forgetting the “CHILDREN”!

The thing that actually offended me the most was near the end. You see a hand gripping a page of the Koran and then picture fades to black. You hear the sound of a page tearing. Then it says “This was just a page of a phonebook”. Come on, if you’re going to be anti-Islam at least have the balls to actually tear out a page of the Koran.

I don’t really see how this movie is anything other than a propaganda piece preaching to the choir. Does not get FSFunky’s stamp of approval. But you probably just see it so you know what you’re talking about when it will become the inevitable topic of discussion.

It began innocently, my iMac seemed to be slowing down some. Lots of beachballs. As an old Windows user my instinct was to reboot. Uh-oh. Now it wouldn’t boot at all.

Having learned the trick of terminal mode and fsck -fy from episode 81 of Macbreak Weekly. fsck just informed that I had invalid nodes. Penicillin-joke.

But! I have a Time Machine backup.

So I inserted my Leopard disc. Chose restore from Time Machine. Now, this takes a long damn time. First it takes about 20 minutes to calculate the required space, then the copying took 5 minutes. I was suspicious.

Now my machine wouldn’t even show me the Apple logo. Panic began to set in. However, I had a plethora of backups to choose from so I redid the entire process and chose one earlier.

The restoring now took about 2 hours, but now my entire system was restored as it was a couple of hours before. Every application still works (although they think I’m launching them for the first time), except for Linkinus which now just display a blank window. But redownloading will probably fix that.

So in my humble opinion, the entire Time Machine time at Apple deserves a raise and a big pat on the back.

The logo on the left I found on a car for a gardening service. The logo on the right you should recognise, the emblem of noted black man, Barack Obama.

Notice the similarities? I sure do. Mr. Obama’s “hope”-circle is nothing more than a slight warping and “Web 2.0″-ing of the original Dutch work.

Someone call Bill O’Reilly.

When I was little I liked Garfield. Now I realize that it’s really crappy.

Lasagna Cat has some hilarious parodies of Garfield.

Learn to handle your life.

There’s a new poll here on Funky Speaks. There on the right side you can find it.

What is the most annoying internet shorthand for laughter?