We Need Your Input

According to the ever-elusive and as-of-yet entirely unknown administrator of this blog, we are experiencing a burgeoning amount of exposure and we are being viewed all across countries like the U.S. and many parts of Europe.

With this being the case, we encourage that you not just sit idly by and consume the content we put forth. We ask that you offer constructive criticisms (or scathing diatribes) on anything we are doing wrong, offer suggestions for how we could improve our posts and even tell us what you, the viewers, want to see.

Our words are only as important as those who hear them and we cannot continue without the input from our oh-so-precious viewers.

Of course, we would also like to take a moment to thank ourselves because, without us, none of this would be possible. We'd also like to accept this congratulations to you as well, for making us feel important and esteemed, because you remind us we're not (we hope) running a mediocre blog that no one really cares about.

Do you wish to see more content besides Youtube videos? Do you feel our editorials are ill-informed or completely out of left field? Do you feel you have something to contribute?

We are open to any and all input and contributions. Unfortunately, our pockets our not swollen (or even bulging in the slightest) and we cannot pay you for your brilliant contributions, but you will be showered in praise.

We sincerely ask (don't make us beg, please) that you please leave a comment on our posts, be it a, "You guys are doing great!" or a "Wow. This shit sucks."

Please.

Leave a comment on this telling me how great I am or how terrible my writing is.
As stated before, any and all input is appreciated. You are our bread and butter (or our tofu and...uh...teriyaki?)

A thousand thanks in advance.

Our e-mail is editor [at] thedailytofu.com if you have contributions.

Please Excuse The Friday Post

There seemed to have been a little mixup with the posting this week, Friday ending up with the wrong end of the stick. Posting will return to normal starting this weekend.
Please tickle todays time away by watching this older, but still funny video about the Hipster Olympics

Via: POYKPAC!

Iranian Cyber Army Hacks Twitter

Literally just minutes ago, Twitter was (and, at the time of this writing, is still under their control) hacked by the Iranian Cyber Army and the home page was switched with the web page for the Cyber Army.The web page reads, "U.S.A Think They Controlling And Managing Internet By Their Access, But They Don't, We Control And Manage Internet By Our Power, So Do Not Try To Stimulation Iranian People To ..................... NOW WHICH COUNTRY IN EMBARGO LIST? IRAN? USA? WE PUSH THEM IN EMBARGO LIST ;)TAKE CARE."

Eloquent diction aside, this could be a cause for concern. With the advent of rapidly evolving technology comes a greater threat of cyber warfare.

We, the U.S., are working on a cyber-defense project that would require $500 million investment per year on the outset and could reach the billion dollar level over some time. *1

It should be stated that, "There is no doubt that such a serious national vulnerability is a real and present danger.

This has been affirmed by a number of distinguished bodies, including the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection, the National Academy of Sciences, and the U.S. Defense Science Board on Information Warfare Defense." *2

If our vulnerabilities were to be exploited, the economic consequences could be dire and lead to a degradation of public trust with concomitant long-term suppression of economic growth, placing quality of life in a retrograde and lead to a severe erosion of the public's confidence that their government can adequately protect their security.

We have seen the damage done in past attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. Composite damages resulting from amateur cyber attacks have been estimated to have caused at least $12 billion in 2001 alone.A cyber attack on our national infrastructure could easily equate to a 100-fold amplification, which could amount to several hundred billion dollars in damages to the U.S. economy.

President Obama states that the U.S. has reached a "transformational moment" since computer networks are probed and attacked millions of times a day. He continues to say that, "It's now clear this cyber threat is one of the most serious economic and national security challenges we face as a nation," and going so far as to say "We're not prepared as we should be, as a government or as a country."

While Twitter may only be down for a short while and teenage hipsters worldwide will lament over not being able to share constant and oh-so-important developments in their significant lives, to others it could be a sort of foreshadowing, detailing that countries like Iran and China are more than capable of subverting our national infrastructure and delivering crippling financial blows.

Edit: Twitter is now back online.

1 'iranian cyber army' hacks twitter. (2009, December 17). Retrieved from http://lucire.com/insider/20091218/iranian-cyber-army-hacks-twitter/
2.A Letter from concerned scientists. (2002, February 27). Retrieved from http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cyberwar/etc/letter.html

The Morning Routine

Via: BriTANicK
Must not be a morning person, wonder if this happens every morning.

Malaise de L'Orange

Via: YouTube [Thanks Margot!]

Vraiment??? J'ai gagné????

That's why american guys are amazing....

Chess, as fun as any Video Game.

Via: Youtube

Monday Movie You May Have Never Heard Of: The Magic Christian

"The Magic Christian," a movie from 1969 is basically a comical tale of a very wealthy man named Sir Guy Grand (Peter Sellers) who adopts a hobo to be his son (Ringo Starr) to help him with his social experiment of sorts: To see exactly what the common man will do for money.

While the plot isn't the finest and the title comes from a ship talked about in the movie and not much else, there is some gold to be found here. There are so many talented comity actors who really bring this film to life.  Think of a flick such as The Beatles' film Help! where the comical side of the fab for give the film life and a cult backing.

If the name of the film has rung a bell, but you cannot remember why, it's because a portion of the soundtrack is by Badfinger. Their album entitled "The Magic Christian" is the named because of their featured songs in the film and is considered one of their best albums they've ever put out. Not only do you have something to laugh at here, but you've some good tunes playing in the movie as well.

It's one of my favorite cult films of all time. Unfortunately, I've never seen this at any local video parlor, but it is online. If you can get this on netflix or online anywhere. I'd take a good look!

Weekend Tofu Batch: 12/13/09

Oh, hello there! Good afternoon my friends, and welcome to this Weekend Tofu Batch.

Over the last week we've been without our daily posts due to college finals. Now most of our staff is done and over with the things!

This is good new for you (our readers), for now you will start to see your favorite daily posts once more!

In other news, don't think that we haven't been doing our fair share of work over there either. While there where no posts over the last week, we've been working out some new extensions of the site such as our new page of facebook (which you can find here) and our twitter page! For a quick glance on our latest status, you can always use the new embedded facebook badge located on the navigation bar to the right.

If you haven't notice already, there is a huge block o' tofu in this post shedding a tear for his future fate. This is our new temporary logo by our writer and contributer Celeste. We're still looking for a new logo that shall last us for some time. With this, there might be a new site layout, but we'll be sure to keep you posted before any major changes take effect.

All the writers have been working hard and talking amongst one another, and we've a lot more in-store for all of our readers.

Please keep on reading and spread the word! Thanks for eating!