(cross-posted from IMAO)

The neo-cavemen of the "10²² tons of rock is TOTALLY fragile" movement want you to turn your lights out between 8:30 and 9:30pm tonight.

To which I respond with a heartfelt "bite me".

I'm going to celebrate Human Achievement Hour, instead.

In response to which I'm sure the 21st century hippie losers will snivel "Oh yeah? What's there to celebrate? What have human beings ever achieved?"

Got 3 minutes?:

Personally, I'm going to celebrate by taking a minute to appreciate the taken-for-granted miracles of human civilization that surround me:

* Sure, the elves had that freaky little "vision pool" going on, but my 40-inch plasma flatscreen does the same damn thing, except in hi-def.

* The computer I'm writing this on (with LIGHT!) contains exactly zero natural or organic materials. I'll bet that stupid hippie Steve Jobs cries himself to sleep every night just thinking about that.

* If I jump in my SUV right now, I can be 60 miles away from here an hour later. Basically it's just really slow teleportation.

* If wolves could do that, I'd stop hunting them from airplanes just out of respect.

* I'm gonna play a CD. Look! I'm making music... with LIGHT!

* My cell phone... actually, I'm gonna turn that off because you're busy reading, and having it pop off with "It's Raining Men" right now would probably annoy the crap out of you.

* SIT! my domesticated dog, son of wolves who weren't hunted from airplanes.

* Twitter... is just self-indulgent twaddle. The hippies can shut that down if they want. Of course, if they did, they might get bored and do stuff that leaves big, carbony footprints. You know, like work or bathing.

* Zo - totally not a slave anymore.

How are YOU gonna celebrate?

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PS - Regarding the last Earth Hour post... I wasn't able to rework the Earth Hour video with appropriately ominous background music, because I still don't have video skills or software. However, if you have some time to kill, you can do a manual mashup that I thought worked pretty well.

Load up the Earth Hour video, pause it at the 30 second mark, and mute the sound (click the speaker icon to the right of the time stamp).

Download this mp3 of "In the Hall of the Mountain King" from WFMU's Beware of the Blog. Fire it up and pause at zero seconds.

Start the music then the video as near simultaneously as you can, and watch the Earth Hour video.

How's that?

UPDATE 3-28-09:

Krig the Viking suggests another excellent mashup:

Pause the Earth Hour video at 26 seconds, and start Holst's "Mars: The Bringer of War" (at 0 seconds).

It's like these old, dead, music guys knew this was coming.

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