Scientology Makes You Dress Funny, Case In Point: Katie Holmes

I don’t know what kind of magic kool-aid they’ve been giving Katie Holmes since being hooked up to the e-meter cans, but homegirl is looking BEAT-DOWN.

Katie’s metamorphosis from “hot girl next door” to “creepy Stepford-wife” is doing little to assuage the public’s concern that the Church of Scientology isn’t a mind-controlling, money-swindling alien-inspired cult. In fact, this transformation has pretty much cemented (in my mind anyway) that those inside the “church” are completely clueless to changes around them and are stuck in some kind of time-warp space machine designed by founder and bad sci-fi writer himself, L. Ron Hubbard.

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War Breaks Out Between Hackers and Scientology

Wired’s take on the brewing war against Scientology. Take a guess as to which side they’re on…

A loose confederation of online troublemakers who call themselves Anonymous have declared war on the Church of Scientology by flooding its servers with fake data requests, describing the attacks as punishment for the Church’s alleged abuse of copyright laws and alleged brainwashing of its members.

Anonymous congregates on the net at various hangouts such as 711chan.org (NSFW) and partyvan.info and sundry IRC channels. The group usually amuses itself by stealing passwords to downloading sites and finding ways to harass online communities that its members disdain. They were last seen on THREAT LEVEL when a Los Angeles Fox News affiliate ran a story that hilariously implied the group’s arsenal included exploding vans.
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