Literal Barrage

Warning, Children of the 80's:
You have roughly 30 minutes of fond remembrances ahead of you in the form of the intros to just about every 80's cartoon series:

The news media's behavior in regards to Anna Nicole Smith's death and the ensuing court battles has been nothing short of disgusting in my opinion. CNN Headline News, for instance, covers the hearings from open to close each day, breaking only occasionally to run commercials and shots of Britney Spears' shaved noggin, while Fox [...]

First off, a love song, sung by geeks, gone horribly, horribly awry:

Next up, one of the absolute high points in Western action cinema, the car chase sequence from Bullitt:

From Web 0 to Web 2.0 in five minutes' time:

Lastly, rock out to the oxymoronic "Heck No! (I'll Never Listen To Techno)":

Ahhh, Land of the Rising Sun, how I long to visit you and be wowed by your Don't-Laugh-Or-A-Ninja-Will-Spank-You game shows:

Not to mention see your disturbingly cheery potty training videos:

Seriously, that's one happy poo. Makes Mr. Hanky look like a piker by comparison…

So Aron stumbled across the newly-proposed "don't come near else you're risking a severe dose of radiation, and not the cool 'turns-you-into-the-Hulk-slash-Fantastic-Four-kind" signs created by the IAEA (Official Motto: "No time to search for Iranian nukes, we're making signs!") and decided to post it to the "Stick Figures In Peril" Flickr group (a source of [...]

The original helpdesk employees, apparently, were not brought about by the advent of the computer as previously thought. Instead, a far earlier invention spawned an entire industry:

I bet those Gutenberg rollouts were a real bear at monasteries Europe-wide.

Via Slashdot, I saw a story about Richard Stallman convincing Cuba to adopt Linux. Linux companies and Linux advocates have been struggling against a reputation as mere software Communism - good thing Open Source Software's strongest "advocate" (RMS) has gone and proved the case to be, well, true.
Gah.