Thank you, Youtube, for opening up the Internet to its true potential, and thank you Meesha for pointing out this video. Along with Christopher Walken reading the Three Little Pigs and old Devo videos, this is what governments and corporations spent billions of dollars and millions of manhours interconnecting the computers of the world. Oh, and porn. Mustn’t forget the porn.

Yesterday was L. Ron Hubbard’s birthday, so Anonymous threw a party in his honor at Scientology centers around the world. T52 posted some great photos of the gathering in London along with some insightful commentary. Looks like they had a great time. The birthday revelry near Atlanta, Georgia turned out a bit differently, with some police officers deciding to arrest demonstrators and ticket passers-by out of what I can only assume was sheer boredom; nobody puts on the badge so they can stand across the street from an unimpressive handful of unenthusiastic protesters.

Supposedly more people showed up for events at the larger cities (per Partyvan), but a bunch of Internet pranksters are hardly to be trusted when it comes to proper numbers. Some say that Anonymous is looking to take the Scientologists down. Some say it’s just for the lulz. I’d say they lack the capacity to have a motivation at all.

While studiously researching the proper capitalization of Taekwondo (a matter fraught with peril, as it’s a romanization of a Korean term as transmogrified by the Japanese and can rightly be regarded as three separate words), I ran across something that made me smile: the World Taekwondo Federation, aka WTF.

Another amusing pair of acronyms I ran into recently include Better Approach to Mobile Ad-hoc Networking (BATMAN) and its closely-related protocol Routing BATMAN Inside (RO.B.IN). This pair goes from doubly funny for the individual super-hero references to triple funny for the dynamic-duo pairing to quadruple-funny for having Batman inside Robin. Hoo, boy. Gary and Ace would be proud.