SKIRMISHER

Connections: Mary Magdalene seems a favorite underlying theme, from Rizal’s Noli to Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code.

Jaded Fable: Grappling with the magnitude of a shitty situation.

Website that made us look: Hilarious Kitlers (or cats that look like Hitler).

Films: Terry Gilliam’s Good Omens, and the fish-smelling things in M. Night Shyamalan’s pockets.

Technology: Newspapers are dying, and your “fake” Microsoft Windows will be, too.

Pop artifacts: Nasty anti-rape contraption, cool smoke bomb for ninja-wannabes, bring your CD back to life, and the kind of cell phones you should get if having lots of money bothers you.

Gaming: Pressing Lara Croft’s flesh.

Other things in the footsoldier’s armory:

• A day in the life of Bill Gates.
• How the Internet has given every Tom, Dick, and Harry (and Jane, too) power, fame, and glory.
• Britney Spears: attack of the heavily pregnant woman.
• How the US made Al Qaeda the big strapping, deadly lad it is now.
• It’s very cheap in Manila.
• Choose: Hate iPods, or use them to whack the all-dancing crap of the world.
• How NOT to hide small, important things.
• Chocolate-flavored dick.

[Image by Giu Vicente]

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