“People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are “The Advertisers” and they are laughing at you.

You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.

Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.

You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.”

-Banksy

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H/t Americablog.

He also said "gay" for the first-time ever in the State of the Union.

Any questions?

So surreal and hilarious, hard to know what South Carolinans will think of this. That's Samuel L. Jackson's voice.

On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, "Is it safe?" Expediency asks the question, "Is it politic?" And Vanity comes along and asks the question, "Is it popular?" But Conscience asks the question "Is it right?" And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it because Conscience tells him it is right.

-Martin Luther King, Jr.

Great (although overlong) video of my More Carrot crew, allied with Animal Patrol, taking on the Billion Bunnies at Burning Man this year. If you look closely you may even spot me at my finest.

It being Martin Luther King Jr. Day I wanted to re-watching this speak, which I think is one of the greatest and most moving speeches given in American history. It was delivered off the cuff, from the heart, Kennedy having just found out the shocking news before arriving at the rally in Indianapolis, and while rioting then broke out in 60 cities that night Indianapolis remained peaceful, a fact widely attributed to his speech.

Finally got my video from Temple IV at Tikal posted. We woke up at 4.30am in a nearby field, bribed our way in (they didn't open to non-tour groups until 6) and were up the top of Temple IV, the tallest at Tikal, just before 6am. At about 7am, the howler monkey's suddenly woke up and really let us know it. The slightly freaky thing is they used the calls of the howler monkey as the sound of the T-Rex in Jurassic Park, so it sounded like there was a pack of dinosaurs patrolling the base of the temple, waiting for us to come down...