Hackers make my head spin

As a Playstation 3 owner, I’ve been one of the people who had to deal with the PSN being shut down due to hackers for over a month (almost a month? less than a month? whatever). It was a move that seemed slightly questionable — do we really need to have a free gaming network shut down and identity data potentially stolen simply because Linux was taken away from PS3’s? It just seems to be more extreme than you would expect.

Luckily, though, it would appear that all hackers are obviously crazy. MI6, the British intelligence agency, recently hacked the computers of al-Qaeda (which is not to be confused with All-Qaeder). Actions that they took, but were not limited too, included changing a downloadable 67-page color magazine for new prospects, updating the instructions about how to “Make a bomb in the Kitchen of your Mom” to randomized computer code. Which is where it gets weird.

The code, which had been inserted into the original magazine by the British intelligence hackers, was actually a web page of recipes for “The Best Cupcakes in America” published by the Ellen DeGeneres chat show.

I’m not saying it’s a bad idea, but like the earlier mentioned hacking idea, it just seems questionable. And horribly, horribly un-badass.

Take it from Snee: Shepard Fairey is a hack

This may surprise you, but when it comes to art, I am a snob. By snob, of course, I mean that I have an appreciation of it that far surpasses your fascination with painted light and the sad Bible-screwing that this “light” portrays.

(Seriously, folks: just read your Bible. Don’t take it home, fornicate with it and tell me all about it later. It’s disrespectful to the Bible and the lewd details upset my sensitive Crom-worshipping morals.)

So, as a hyperaware art snob, or psnob, a certain work of art has not escaped my attention. Yes, I mean the Obama “Hope” image by Shepard Fairey. I ignored it for most of the election, but now it’s being hailed as a masterpiece. Some people are actually converting their own pictures into the red-white-and-blue style.

When Facebook and Twitter accounts are being wantonly defaced, I cannot stand by as this piece of “art” becomes a phenomenon. Shepard Fairey is a hack … but it’s not his fault because his competition, the real street artist, is a mother#%king ninja. Continue reading Take it from Snee: Shepard Fairey is a hack