Ok, I really, really want to know which group of idiots working at the cartoon network thought placing mysterious gizmos running on double A batteries hidden all about several major cities was a really cool marketing idea? Boston was practically shut down. The FBI and Homeland Secrurity are involved. The Feds are gonna open up a whole big can of Whupass on the Cartoon Network.

What total idiots.

Story here.

SCG

*** Update February 1, 2007 Article here reports two brainless dimfarts arrested and charged. I didn’t notice yesterday that the lighted signs were also giving everyone the finger. You know, when did our scoiety de-evolve to the point where crudeness and plain filth (F You symbol) is considered part of a marketing campaign? I find this entire story disturning, because it demonstrates the condition of society today. Which sucks.

Oh well, I hope these idiots, the nitwits who approved this campaign, do jail time. Idiots.

What is a DARPA coin you ask?

“The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Director’s coin recognizes those individuals who have helped DARPA fulfill its mission to conceive, explore, and demonstrate advanced and breakthrough concepts and technologies”

What is DARPA? Hey,where have you people been hiding?

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is the central research and development organization for the Department of Defense (DoD). It manages and directs selected basic and applied research and development projects for DoD, and pursues research and technology where risk and payoff are both very high and where success may provide dramatic advances for traditional military roles and missions.

In other words, these are the folks who grew up watching grade B science Fiction movies and thought all those really kooky space weapons were really groovy! So, they grew up and started DARPA so they could invent them, or hire people to invent them. They are part of the US Department of Defense, and boy, do they have some really, really cool things they are working on!!! Some of the project names include, River Eye, Sticky Flares, Surface Wave Energy Harvesting, and my very, very favorite – Urban Hopping Robots! Damn, this is really some cool crap!!!

Also, one of the most interesting things I found on their web page is that they have been granted authority to participate in Experimental Personnel Hiring Authority WOW! I wish I could do THAT on my job! Not that I can imagine what that actually means, but it sounds cool as hell, right?

ME: “Ms Jones, as part of my experimental personnel hiring authority, I need to see your hooters! All in the name of national security, you understand.”

And Urban Hopping Robots! Damn, I can’t wait until our enemies see that coming their way!

Enemy Leader: “Let’s strap bombs on the next group of volunteers and send them out to glory!”
Sub-Leader: “Sir, America has 100 URBAN HOPPING ROBOTS coming this way!!!
Enemy leader” “What the F???? Holy Shit, I’m going back to selling Amway!

You can see a list of some of the really, really cool projects they are working on at their website:

I haven’t had time to even scratch the surface of this list.

Now, back to the DARPA Coin. I want one. Part of the qualifications to receive one is that an ” individual who have helped DARPA fulfill its mission…”

Well, my wonderful encouraging post above serves that function! I am bringing attention to this wonderful program, and giving it my full support! I’m sure you are thinking that a simple old blogger can’t get one of these coins, that it only goes to senators, mad scientists, and Donald Rumsfield. Wrong! See the list of recipients here, and you will see even privates in the military received coins! And people who don’t have first names! So, I think I would like one.

I tried to find one on ebay, and while I did see some DARPA stuff there, nothing like this. (An aside to DARPA people, are those things suppose to be on ebay???)

So, I stand ready and proud to receive my DARPA Coin!

God Bless America, Land of the Free and the Urban Hopping Robots!

SCG