Oh. My. God. Music Videos to make your Eyes Bleed.

[wolven7]

Blame derekcfpegritz, at Ectomo these weeks, for this monstrosity:

[Take 1 Part Skinny Puppy’s “Pro-Test.”

Mix with 1 Part Vanilla Ice’s “Ice Ice Bay.”

Stir until mixture begins to phatten.

Heat it up ’til it’s steamin’ awesome hott (with no less than two T’s!)–

THEN SHOVE IT UP YOUR BOOTY and get down with your bad self!]

Thank you Derek. Here is your resultant Mix to which Your Booty Must Shake:

The worst part about this wretched thing, this abomination before god, man, and Satan himself?

I actually kind of really like it.

Comments

[momentai.livejournal.com]

Wow. It's amazing how they actually fit.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Isn't it? I was disturbed, at the first chorus.

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[karishi.livejournal.com]

My brother was playing Closer mixed with It's Yo Birthday...another horrible fusion.

Speaking of:
http://www.applegeeks.com/lite/index.php?aglitecomic=2007-08-17

Re: Similar

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Viral forms are designed to interbreed for the best chance at survival...

Scary.

Re: Similar

[raidingparty.livejournal.com]

Oooh, hey,
They were just talking about that at the AIDS symposium. Someone gets infected with strain A and then strain B, they become superinfected. But the really bad part is the resulting strain AB that might or might not have characteristics of either or both, and it becomes nigh-impossible to fully immunize or vaccinate. Hence the difficulty with making a good flu vaccine, let alone AIDS.

That being said, you should definitely check out "Closer in da Club".

Re: Similar

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Well, the main problem, as I see it, is that so few are using this known behavioural tendency to Create A Strand of the Virus That Eats Other Strands of the Virus.

Seems like that would be a good plan.

You want to hurt me?

[raidingparty.livejournal.com]

... 'cause that's the response for this one. Headbrainaspolde. Well done.

While viral cannibalism is a really interesting idea, I am not aware of viruses interacting with one another. They interact with cells, and the cells sometimes mix DNA if more than one strand is present.

Hunter-killer nanobots, and/or faulty targetted RNA (unzips viral DNA and leaves it floating, hopefully to be assimilated by phagocytes to improve future immunization) would be the way to go.

Re: You want to hurt me?

[wolven.livejournal.com]

So there's no record of a strand of a virus that, in order to ensure its own survival, kills all other strands of itself, and maintains in its host an environment that allows maximum survivability, for both? No viruses that become symbiotic?

Re: You want to hurt me?

[raidingparty.livejournal.com]

Not of which I know. Bacteria, yes. (and more fun with wasps and zombie cockroaches, if you haven't heard of such) But as far as I know, viruses pattern only to self-replicate.

(insert D&D debate about undead morality and the existence of "negative energy" here) (insert followup joke about negative energy and dark matter in real life)

I'm not going to declare my tangential study of viral activity (through work) to be expertise, and would happily entertain any counterexamples. Despite my knowing stuff, I have to admit a lack of omniscience which doesn't imply a lack of existence.

... and I've come up with a possible counterexample myself. Lots of people have herpes (of the cold-sore variety, not the skanky ho variety). It stays dormant most of the time. Because it's not deadly, its host exists longer, and is able to transmit to more people. Same with one of the pregenitors of HIV, which is endemic in rhesus macaques (and barely ever bothers them). And it looks like herpes is going that direction in humans, such that people would be born with it. And then interesting interactions take place in which we metabolize it, or integrate it somehow...
... but for the first, I'm not sure whether such an adaptation would be seen as successful. If you asked the virus, it might say it would prefer to infect every cell it can find, even if this would mean the death of all the cells once it blossoms, and eventual death of the virus as well. And for the second, the virus still isn't interacting with itself so much as moderating how it interacts with our cells.

Re: You want to hurt me?

[wolven.livejournal.com]

I think that virii need to learn Delayed Gratification.

Re: You want to hurt me?

[unknownbinaries.livejournal.com]

Isn't that something like what happened somewhere in the distant past with mitochondria?

And weird, Firefox doesn't recognize the word 'mitochondria'.

Re: You want to hurt me?

[wolven.livejournal.com]

I think so, but I'm not sure.

And that is weird...