Delicious LiveJournal Links for 2-27-2009

[andrewducker]

• Radioactive paedophile on the run
  And the award for best headline, 2009 goes to...
  (tags: funny news crime)
• WinDirStat
  Produces nice stats/pictures of your folder usage. I keep losing it...
  (tags: software visualization windows utilities filesystem opensource)
• The Stress Diet
  I really ought to go on one of these...
  (tags: funny internet stress drama)
• Why you shouldn't keep primates as pets
  Some interesting factoids in there.
  (tags: pets primates)
• Teen sacked for 'boring' job Facebook comment
  Oh for goodness sake.
  (tags: business work facebook)

Comments

[khbrown.livejournal.com]

If ever we play a dystopian superhero game, I now have a character concept :-)

[meihua.livejournal.com]

I put together some ideas on this earlier. Note the part of the article which explains that he excudes radioactivity "through sweat and saliva".

Basically, he's an anti-hero. Of course, he has to redeem his sinful past by beating up the bad guys.

He kills the bad guys by either spitting at them or getting really sweaty and creating a radioactive aura around his body.

Naturally, he eventually saves a girl who looks just like one of his victims. Pulling a Reverse Lolita, he falls in love with the girl's mother, and the mother with him. But they can never be together.

Because of his radioactive saliva.

*sad cello music*
*the end*
*rock music*

[khbrown.livejournal.com]

Well, I was thinking of a darker Watchmen type thing where you would have the government supplying him with victims because it was expedient in terms of global power politics, as a sort of a paedo Comedian or Dr Manhattan figure.

[meihua.livejournal.com]

I continued riffing on this with a friend - we came up with an idea for a sequel which sounds kinda similar to yours...

Of course, now the government want to capture him and use him as a weapon / power source.

The girl, now grown up, comes to rescue HIM. Her mother has died and there's nothing to stop her going in search of her savior.

This time, he falls in love with her - as she is no longer a child.

BUT! HE FORGOT ABOUT HIS RADIOACTIVE SEMEN!

(you may be taking the whole idea more seriously than I am... :D)

[khbrown.livejournal.com]

The radioactive semen sounds analogous to Superman's ejaculate tearing through Louis Lane's womb because of its super-velocity! (which suggests another super hero, who fights wrongs by masturbating in the direction of his enemies, as a demonstration that I'm not taking this seriously...)

Or, indeed, the conspiracy around Dr Manhattan as a carcinogen.

[meihua.livejournal.com]

*giggles* The best thing about the movie that's in my head?

At the end, once the rock music's played out, and the credits have scrolled, one small line of text remains for a moment, then fades away.

The text reads:

"Based on a true story."