Scientific Literature:

Steve Milloy on the Ozone layer

Greenpeace takes cash from large corporations-It's ironic that they claim to hate free enterprise, yet they take donations from all kinds of businesses.

Videos:

Super Darius 2

Darius Gaiden

The Great Global Warming Swindle-This is what kids should be watching in schools.

The Supplementary Material that goes with the aforementioned.

Misc.:

Beware the Cult of Obama

Congrats to Tom and April, now you are even with Wade!

Remember the early days of the portal when voice acting in Flash cartoons was a rarity, but was done rather well most of the time. Back then it was just Evil Dave (who needs to make some new cartoons), Sharem Ma'Ten (the original voice of Miss Dynamite), Jason Buck (who Ben Spurgin had as the Stick Slayer), Mike & Andy Parker, Mike Roach (co-creator of The Lloyds), and the guy who created Portal Detour (which is the precursor to How 2 succeed on NG). Of course, this was before people started taking animation too seriously. If you are going to voice act in a Flash cartoon, at least put some effort into the actual acting part like the aforementioned did. Look, I may not think highly of the VA Club or the VA Alliance now, but they emphasize on high-end equipment over actual acting skill. Having a microphone that (almost) matches that of a studio will not make you the next Mel Blanc, Bill Scott (from Rocky & Bullwinkle), Walker Edmiston, Ian James Corlett, Jon St. John (from Duke Nukem 3d), or what not. At least study a few old cartoons and observe how the voices are done a bit. Now to discuss a few voice actors on this site:

1. Egoraptor: Even though his Awesome Schtick is getting stale, but at least he knows how pull off character voices for all of the flash he did. However, I think it's time he focused on his own projects for once instead of doing stuff for other cartoonists. Besides, not every cartoon he does voices for is worthy of a high score. (Fun fact: He also used to draw custom sprites at some point.)

2. Kirbopher: Although I did not like the stuff he did after Mario RPG: Rawest Forest; He is still much better than most of people that the VA Club and VA Alliance when comes to character voices. What bugs me is why aren't people having him in their flash cartoons and games? Plus, I know plenty of stuff that he can be cast into.

3. Hans Van Harken: What's the big deal about this guy? I can credit him for being able to draw and animate; however, as a VA, he's nothing special. And seeing him get voice roles over Cailen Denton (from TTA and the Parody Rangers) or Chris Zito is rather lazy and uninventive.

4. Francine Louise: I don't see anything interesting about her. Her voices come off rather flat at best, or somewhat annoying at worst. Honestly, there are much better VAs than her, such as Rebecca McCarthy (from Griswold the Goblin 2) or Princess Aurora.

5. Chris Zito & Cailen Denton: How come nobody's having these guys in their cartoons and games? Seriously, they're seriously overlooked and I think it's time they did something other than the latest Kirbopher cartoon. The reason that I'm lumping them together because there isn't anying I can say about them without repeating myself to the point of sheer annoyance.

Libertarian Party: Did so called "universal health care" Kill Actress?

I'm sure that it has.

Patrick Moore on Toilet Paper.

I dare any of the liberal users on here to debate Patrick Moore.

Michael R. Fox reviews Red Hot Lies.

I would recommend everyone here to pick up this book.

As for a rant involving voice acting in Flash movies, I'm too tired to do it right now, so I have no other choice than to put it off.

MMT

It's an SMB 2 clone with excellent graphics.

Fren-Ze

Vectorized space shooting action!

Boot Fighter Windom

If anyone is familiar with the Sega Saturn game Bulk Slash; this is a game involving giant robots that can transform.

Es

Another indie game to look out for.

Dysnomia

Virtual ON with maids.

Blood Over

Devil May Cry meets CastleVania

That's all for now, but I might put up a rant dealing with voice acting the next time.

Penn Says: Israel and the Pope

How's this for thoughtful commentary.

Cato Institute: Jason Riley assails the myths of immigration.

Many of you will find this boring, but I don't think that anyone will be able to refute this.

Robert Bryce on energy independence.

I recommend Mr. Bryce's book to anyone.

Lemmings Longplay Part One.

Warning! Three hours long, but worthwhile.

I thought it was about time to put aside my random ramblings and show people something worthwhile. Besides, I'm not in the mood to share my thoughts and feelings.
Ragathol- Another one of my favorites.
Coonass- What? A Louisianian on ConceptArt.org? That cannot be, for that destroys any pre-conceived notions about Louisiana that I have!!
Why government should NOT tell businesses what to do.
Ultimate Shmup Universe-The place to go for Space shooters that weren't done in Flash.

Here's the original

1. Broken Saints: What's the big deal? This has been blown out of proportion to the point where it needs mentioning. Sure it has David Kaye and Scott McNeil, but there are better flash cartoons that they and the rest of the cast of this could be in. Seeing that it's nothing more than Clutch Cargo meets Alan Moore, but Moore's stuff was great reading.

2. Sonic Shorts: I avoid these cartoons for a good reason, maybe it's due to the fact they try too much to be like Skittles 'N Bitz.

3. Nin10Doh! (Both of them): The animation was excellent, but most of the sketches in them consist of jokes that were ripped out of various webcomics, 4chan, YTMND, and YouTube. Sure, Kirbopher/Neo-C is a great voice actor, but the voices in those two collabs were, quite frankly, annoying as hell. And this is coming from someone who enjoyed the Parody Rangers cartoons (except for the movie).

4. How to Succeed on NG: Even though I liked the jabs at Omahdon, Tomamoto, Rina-Chan, Egoraptor, and I think either Lucien Dodge or Tam Tu Bui. This deserves mentioning even though it is just two parts. It copies off of Portal Detour and NG Sticks, which preceeded it by eight years. And many of the jokes and the opinions expressed by Biff The Timid seem as if they were taken from I-Mockery.

5. Superhero Slayers: I'm sorry, but the only person who did enjoyable Marvel/DC-related cartoons is Wogoat. Episode Three was just generic, poorly paced, and boring to watch. Plus, the voice acting sucked...hard. If the other episodes are like the one I saw, I'll probably just end up hating on it.

6. Arfenhouse: I liked the first two cartoons, but the rest of them are too random to be funny. Plus, Misteroo and DL Neutrino are in no place to criticize any other flash cartoonist without looking like complete hypocrites because of how random and poorly-made the Arfenhouse cartoons are even though that was intended.

As I said in previous posts, most of the anime I've seen is either boring (Ghost in the Shell, NGE, any of Hayao Miyazaki's movies) or just plain sucks (F-Zero: GP Legend, Galaxy Angel, Chrono Crusade). However, here are some anime I do like.

1. Fist of the North Star.
Why is this first? Simply because it's my all time favorite anime. It's even bloodier than most of today's horror movies and then some. Sure, there are other bloody anime, but there's just something about seeing Kenshiro beating the shit out of his enemies. And unlike Dragon Ball Z, it wasn't bogged down with filler stories as a means for the manga to catch up. If there is one thing that I don't like about it, it's that the whole "oceans drying up" thing is rather lame.

2. Dragon Half.
Here's one short story that was never completed because the creator was caught using drugs. Many of you have probably never heard of this, but it can be found on YouTube. As for the anime itself, it is one of the funniest anime ever. Plus, ADV did a great job with the dubbing.

3. Appleseed.
Just how did this get overlooked in favor of GitS is beyond me, but I enjoyed it. Even though I didn't like Ghost in the Shell, I find this and Goku: Midnight Eye to be pretty damned badass.

4. Dirty Pair.
Before Cowboy Bebop and Galaxy Angel, there were Kei and Yuri. While this is based on a series of Sci-Fi novels, the anime was quite different as it was more comedic although it did have its fair share of serious moments. Fun fact: Dirty pair was also adapted into a Dark Horse comic, with art by Adam Warren.

5. Akira.
Even though I didn't like its slow pace, but it still entertained me.

6. Angel Sanctuary.
Even though this was a case of a massive story getting compressed, you have to like someone like Alexiel. Too bad the voice acting in the dubbed version isn't very good.

7. New Cutey Honey.
This is how a continuation of a '73-'74 Go Nagai should be done. If there is one problem, it's that they never animated the last four episodes.

8. Gunbuster.
This is the only Gainax anime I actually like.

9. Dragon Pink.

The original

1. DBZ-style flash: Even though I loved McFretn's Brutality and to a lesser extent, SMB Z; just how many DBZ-modeled flash movies do we have to see? Don't get me started on that "Over 9000" bullshit.

2. Mario and Sonic crossovers: This only worked for Randy Solem, Rob Foor, and Alvin Earthworm. All the others are completely unnecissary and uncreative to a fault. Use different games that aren't as well-known, people.

3. Super Smash Brothers spoofs: While there are only a few I like; most of them on the other hand are very dull and overrated. The jokes used in these are old, repetitive, and gut-wrenchingly unfunny. And this is coming from a SSB fan.

That's all for the tacky flash trends; now for something cool:
Alchemy art software
Colors art software

One of the best mockups around.: I found this earlier today and I like it.

Maddox on Loose Change: I highly doubt that anyone will refute what Maddox has said.

My latest art

Space Shooter models

Steven Murgatroyd on Biased Jounalism: The comment by ShameStein is fucking spot on!

These are all the links that I have for now, and I'm not in the mood to write a rant.

The title says it all!

Update: I don't have beads, but I do have these links to give:
Polls: Obama approval rate average; disapproval rate High
The Junk Science Web Log
Manny Can

PS: Anime conventions blow ass!