fnord wrote:

The Whore Church

Perfect.

The garter is a classy touch.

Dude looks like the pedophile principal from Ferris Bueller.

Then there's this, which they lifted directly from M. Python..

Dmtdust wrote:

Time to Deep Six: Rotten.com  It's dead, and has been for over a year.

Yeah, Fat Jerry's history, too. Dunno about you but I'm ready for a paradigm shift.

For baffling reasons beyond my reach, this thread is consistently clocks among the highest read counts.

Elsewhere...

Dmtdust wrote:

Emmeran wrote:

Probably not related but SpaceGhetto is now DNS gone.

It only means I will spend less time fucking around.  Seriously, its been in a death spiral for 8 or so months.

To be clear, nigamajiga's site is still up.  Skeezoyd's is currently showing a parking page.

I have not visited either in quite some time - any insight on what happened (mod infighting, outside pressure)?

From a technical perspective, the spaceghetto.st domain still exists, and the IP address appears to be the same as it was before.  There's just no web site there to deliver content.

$ bw-whois spaceghetto.st@whois.nic.st
BW whois 3.4 by Bill Weinman (http://whois.bw.org/)
Copyright 1999-2003 William E. Weinman
Request: spaceghetto.st
connected to whois.nic.st [5.150.255.234:43] ...
Whois Server Version 1.273

   Domain Name:   spaceghetto.st
   Registrar:     ST Registry
   Whois at:      whois.nic.st
   Name Server:   ns.bahnhof.net
   Name Server:   ns2.bahnhof.net
   Creation Date: 22-Jul-2009
   Updated Date:  22-Jul-2009

The data in the ST Registry WHOIS database is provided by The Domain Council of
Sao Tome and Principe for information purposes.

The ST Registry does not guarantee its accuracy.

The data in the WHOIS database is protected by copyright.

By submitting a WHOIS query, you agree that you will use this data according with
the terms and policy that is publicly available on http://www.nic.st/terms_of_service
and that you under no circumstances will use this data to allow, enable, or
otherwise support the transmission of mass unsolicited commercial advertising or
solicitations via e-mail (spam).

The Domain Council of Sao Tome reserves the right to modify these terms at any time.

Registration Service Provided By: ST Registry
Contact: registry@nic.st

Domain name: spaceghetto.st

Administrative Contact:
   Owner:         Bahnhof AB
   Contact:       Alexander Rigbo
   Address:       St:Eriksgatan 117
   City:          Stockholm
   Country:       SE

Name Servers:
   ns.bahnhof.net
   ns2.bahnhof.net

$ dig spaceghetto.st @ns.bahnhof.net

; <<>> DiG 9.3.2 <<>> spaceghetto.st @ns.bahnhof.net
; (1 server found)
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4604
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;spaceghetto.st.                        IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
spaceghetto.st.         3600    IN      A       50.28.22.157

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
spaceghetto.st.         86400   IN      NS      ns2.bahnhof.net.
spaceghetto.st.         86400   IN      NS      ns.bahnhof.net.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns.bahnhof.net.         86400   IN      A       195.178.160.1
ns2.bahnhof.net.        86400   IN      A       212.85.64.4

;; Query time: 259 msec
;; SERVER: 195.178.160.1#53(195.178.160.1)
;; WHEN: Sun Aug  4 21:42:29 2013
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 126

Edit 2013-08-20: Apparently it was just a move to the spaceghetto.us domain.  Shortly after it went live, eagle-eyed choad updated the link.

Auto-edited on 2020-08-02 to update URLs

Last edited by square (2013-08-20 00:59:23)

Seeking opinions on The Baffler.  I can't decide whether it's interesting analysis, self-important philosophical masturbation, or both.

We’re owned by the tax-deductible (hint, hint) Baffler Foundation Inc., which is as charitable as a church, and a whole lot more fun. This foundation means we rely on your donations and subscriptions rather than chasing advertising. It also means we can’t endorse candidates for electoral office or try to make millions in profit. But hey, why would we do those strange things anyway?

Does this suggest a snowflake revenue stream and metro west tax deductions?

square wrote:

The Space Ghetto fork run by skeezoyd disappeared a few days week ago.  He has apparently set it up now as a subreddit.

If reddit ain't the world's butt ugliest interface I don't know what is. See what the new owners of slashdot have done?

Well, if you're jonsing for a gen-u-ine image dump, you could do lots worse than start here and work back. Found these loonies lurking in our logs.

Last edited by choad (2014-04-06 04:51:30)

http://crappytaxidermy.com/

square wrote:

The Space Ghetto fork run by skeezoyd disappeared a few days ago.  He has apparently set it up now as a subreddit.  Sidebar link has been changed accordingly.

SpaceGhetto is back.  At least for a while.

http://spaceghetto.biz/

I modified the sidebar link accordingly.

Can we kill Rotten at this point?  No postings for 3 years or so.

They're sometimes ornery hereabouts, Brian. Pay it no mind.

wehuntedthemammoth.com:  Taking the piss out of MRA's.

George Orr wrote:

wehuntedthemammoth.com:  Taking the piss out of MRA's.

On the subject that "women and children first" has never been the rule of...

All societies are based on rules to protect pregnant women and young children. All else is surplus age, excrescence, adornment, luxury or folly which can--and must--be dumped in emergency to preserve this prime function. As racial survival is the only universal morality, no other basic is possible. Attempts to formulate a “perfect society” on any foundation other than “women and children first!” is not only witless, it is automatically genocidal. Nevertheless, starry-eyed idealists (all of them male) have tried endlessly--and no doubt will keep on trying.

--Lazarus Long

square wrote:

The following are also inactive, but I believe were kept on deliberately:
Dial A Nihilist (was it O+ or opsec who ran this?)

OrangePlus. Yuh, thank you, square. I'm sure that was a demoralizing chore. I'll wait for responses and cull the list if you don't get there first.

Interesting!

George Orr wrote:

I can't believe I've never seen LiarTown USA before:

I've seen some of the images here and there.  There is genius here.  And madness.

Agreed - great find.

Thanks. Helluvuh resource. I've already put it to good use:

New Maine News
https://newmainenews.com/

Please tell me this is a local satirical website.

Actually, we should all be so lucky as to have that as the most significant story to greet us in the evening. My news is more horrifying by several orders of magnitude.

choad wrote:

https://readspike.com/

Readspike - Simple news aggregator

Yeah, I have it bookmarked but I wish it were more customizable.

Removed Chip Zdarsky as it now seems to be pimping office space in Vietnam.

Of the remaining entries, the only one that has clearly stopped updating is New Maine News, which hasn't posted since November 2017 (ironically, right about the time we added it).  Unless someone makes a compelling reason to keep it, I'm likely to remove it the next time I go in and mess with the list.

New nominations are definitely welcome!

Removed New Maine News.  Not sure about the Mainer; somehow it seems a bit too earnest for us?  But that's just my initial impression.

Re-added orangeplus's Dial a Nihilist - somehow it escaped our notice that he had started updating it again.

All that made the interwebbies has turned into a ghetto of capitalist endeavours.