ISS Mailbag: Online Pimping
by The Villain High Council
Here at the ISS, we occasionally get e-mails. Some of them compliment us for our continual destruction of all that is good and noble in the world. Some are from superheroic douchebags who don't get us. And some of them are so dumb we have to post them publicly and answer them.
Here, a pimp(?) tries to talk us into doing something involving a cash machine. It's confusing.
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Time Warp 2005: Chuck Norris Facts Redux
by Doktor Maxwell von Puppykicker the Third
Though his presidential candidate went down in flames this year, Chuck Norris has been making a resurgent comeback.
In honor of this, we decide to go back and re-write some of the Internet-based jokes for which he was so popular a few years back. Enjoy.
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2007: The Year What Was
by The Villain High Council
What can we say about 2007? It had 12 months. And weather. There was definitely some weather. People died. Also, people were born (so was The ISS). Oh, and a whole bunch of things happened. Some good, some not so good. Truly, it was a year unlike any other.
Here's a rundown of some of the year's biggest events.
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The Website Debates, Part 8: Yahoo! Mail's Executive Correspondence
by The Villain High Council
Tonight, several months after Democrats squared off in a YouTube debate, Republicans will answer questions submitted by YouTube users in a debate of their own. In response, a number of other popular websites on the national internets have decided to get in on the act and hold debates. We continue our preview of these upcoming presidential shout-offs with a look at the latest debate, sponsored by Yahoo! Mail.
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The ISS Responds To Its Critics
by The Villain High Council
We get a lot of feedback here at the ISS. Some of it's good, but a decent-sized portion of it seems to come from a group that takes internet humor so seriously that they would like to see us killed over an Internet comedy piece that they didn't have to read in the first place. Then, some are legitimately angry about our world domination plot and our need to destroy all goodwill in the world.
Here, we answer those last two.
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6 Possible Dystopian Futures (And Why They Might Be Doubleplusgood)
by Doktor Maxwell von Puppykicker the Third
Yes, yes, we all know the story. Some group of dastardly villain-types take over the world and re-shape it into their image and a protagonist's life is horrible because of it.
But did you ever think it might not be so awful? We did. Here's some examples of why you'll love us someday, depending on how we decide to steer things.
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The Website Debates, Part 7: The Match.com Match of Wits
by The Villain High Council
With the popularity of the Democratic YouTube Debate a couple months ago and the soon-to-come Republican YouTube Debate, a number of other popular websites on the national internets have decided to get in on the act and hold debates of their own. We continue our preview of these upcoming presidential shout-offs with a look at the latest debate, sponsored by Match.com.
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The Website Debates, Part 6: The Mr. Skin Symposium
by The Villain High Council
With the popularity of the Democratic YouTube Debate a couple months ago and the soon-to-come Republican YouTube Debate, a number of other popular websites on the national internets have decided to get in on the act and hold debates of their own. We continue our preview of these upcoming presidential shout-offs with a look at the latest debate, sponsored by MrSkin.com.
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The Website Debates, Part 5: The Craigslist Stream of Consciousness
by The Villain High Council
With the popularity of the Democratic YouTube Debate a couple months ago and the soon-to-come Republican YouTube Debate, a number of other popular websites on the national internets have decided to get in on the act and hold debates of their own. We continue our preview of these upcoming presidential shout-offs with a look at the latest debate, sponsored by Craigslist.
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The Website Debates, Part 4: The eBay Issue Auction
by The Villain High Council
With the popularity of the Democratic YouTube Debate a few weeks ago and the soon-to-come Republican YouTube Debate, a number of other popular websites on the national internets have decided to get in on the act and hold debates of their own. We continue our preview of these upcoming presidential shout-offs with a look at the latest debate, sponsored by eBay.com.
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The Website Debates, Part 3: The Wikipedia War of Words
by The Villain High Council
With the popularity of the Democratic YouTube Debate a few weeks ago and the soon-to-come Republican YouTube Debate, a number of other popular websites on the national internets have decided to get in on the act and hold debates of their own. We continue our preview of these upcoming presidential shout-offs with a look at the latest debate, sponsored by Wikipedia.org.
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The Website Debates, Part 2: The Weather.com Presidential Forecast
by The Villain High Council
With the popularity of the Democratic YouTube Debate a few weeks ago and the soon-to-come Republican YouTube Debate, a number of other popular websites on the national internets have decided to get in on the act and hold debates of their own. We continue our preview of these upcoming presidential shout-offs with a look at the latest debate, sponsored by Weather.com.
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The Website Debates, Part 1: The MySpace Debate
by The Villain High Council
With the popularity of the Democratic YouTube Debate a few weeks ago and the soon-to-come Republican YouTube Debate, a number of other popular websites on the national internets have decided to get in on the act and hold debates of their own.
Here, we look at the first of these upcoming presidential shout-offs, which is being produced in conjunction with MySpace.com.
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The ISS FAQ
by The Villain High Council
So you’re trying to take over the world?
No. We already have, hence the “International” in our name. You get French toast at IHOP, right? You get the world with the ISS, and an array of up to seven syrups.
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This whole presidential election process has been nothing but people jabbering on and on about who'll have the best health care plan or who would end the war the fastest or who's better friends with Jesus, but frankly none of that stuff matters to us.
