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‘His medical records pointed out that he arrived at the clinic in a hysterical situation, due to the cruelty of the torture he went through. “I remember that at a time while I was being forced to drink the urine, I told the soldier to shoot me because I didn’t care anymore.”‘

by Paris Hilton.

`There is no sin worse in life than being boring � and nothing worse than letting other people tell you what to do. I was one of the few heiresses to walk the runway as a model. A lot of people thought that was shocking. Why did I do it? Was it a desperate cry for attention, like the papers said? Hardly.’

`A Malaysian man shot and killed his wife after he mistook her for a monkey picking fruit in a tree behind their house, the New Straits Times said on Wednesday.’

`The United States and Japan have detected signs that North Korea is preparing to launch a ballistic missile capable of reaching almost anywhere in Japan, Japanese government sources said on Thursday. [..]

North Korean military vehicles, soldiers and possibly missile engineers were converging on several Rodong missile bases in the northeastern part of the isolated communist state, they said.’

`I received this stupid pen on my birthday years ago from my ex-wife, and even before I divorced her flabby body, I hated the pen. [..]

My current wife, who is way more beautiful and way more cool that this pig could ever choose to be, hates the pen too. [..]’

`Miscarriages of justice are “almost certainly” taking place because of a mistaken belief [you can calculate] how many tablets somebody swallowed before they died, a group of eminent scientists and doctors says today.

[..] The Hutton inquiry heard from a forensic toxicologist that Dr Kelly could have swallowed between 29 and 30 tablets of a strong painkiller called Coproxamol which he had been prescribed for back pain.

But, say the authors of the BMJ editorial, the measurement of toxic substances in the blood after death is a very inexact science.’

`An armadillo kitted out with a toy pistol holster, cowboy hat and sheriff’s badge has been detained by Customs officials enroute from Texas to Adelaide.

The stuffed animal, which was mounted on its hind legs on a timber board, was detected while Customs officers screened international cargo in Sydney recently.

It is illegal to import armadillos without a permit.’

`”We had just put black stockings on our heads and were carrying plastic handguns needed for the scene, when about 30 policemen surrounded us with pistols pointed at us,” actor Aleksandar Gajin told the Vecernje Novosti newspaper. [..]

Police released the crew shortly thereafter, Gajin said, adding that the “police used no brutality … they just warned us that we should have informed them in advance.”‘

`Evangelist Jimmy Swaggart apologized Wednesday for saying in a televised worship service that he would kill any gay man who looked at him romantically. [..]

In the broadcast, Swaggart was discussing his opposition to gay marriage when he said “I’ve never seen a man in my life I wanted to marry.”

“And I’m going to be blunt and plain: If one ever looks at me like that, I’m going to kill him and tell God he died,” Swaggart said to laughter and applause from the congregation.’

more here:

`”I can see how the homosexual community would be offended by that, and I won’t say it any more,” he said in a telephone interview.’

`Pongmechanik is an electromechanical conversion of the classical game Pong. [..]

Pongmechanik is an absolutely physical game. The game is realized electromechanically, and essentially consists of four elements: A relay computer, the mechanical movement with collision detection, the display and the acoustic components.’

with video. (10 meg Quicktime)

`I’ll fuck you in the ass, motherfucker!’

A series of photos of some guys house.

Role playing nerd verse the police.

(8meg .wmv)

`goatse.cx used to be the best shock site in the world until it was abusively shut down. This page is a tribute to this amazing piece of Internet folklore. [..]

The following pictures and animations have been taken here and there on the Internet. I have not yet given proper credit to the various authors, but this will come when I have some time. Enjoy.’

`Here are some words that have been going through my head lately

Not safe for work. 🙂

In 1954 Scientists built a model of what a computer would look like 50 years later.

`With teletype interface and the Fortran language, the computer will be easy to use [..]’

My computer looks just like it, except the Australian model is right-hand drive.

Update: Apparently, the caption is innacurate and it’s a mock-up of a submarine control panel. Oh well. 🙂

`This is an online viewer, with which you can view PDF and PostScript files as browsable images and Word documents as web pages. Given a URL on the net or a file on your computer, the viewer will try to retrieve the document, convert it and show it to you. No plugin software is required.’

`The third annual ArtBots: The Robot Talent Show was held in New York City this past weekend, and it showcased some of the best and most creative applications of modern robotics that make or are themselves art.’

more artbots.

`Fear of a ghost who knocks on doors and wafts the scent of aftershave lotion along corridors has forced a prestigious college for statisticians in the Indian capital to close.’

`See examples of extreme coastal change in the photo pairs below. For each pair, the upper photo was taken by the USGS on July 17, 2001 and the lower photo was taken by the USGS on September 17 after Ivan’s landfall.’

`One player from each team became involved in a heated argument as they were heading for the locker room after coming off in the closing minutes. After the final whistle blew, Djerv players went berserk.

The Hetlevik goalkeeper was chased home, and three girls, the youngest aged 11, were subjected to crude sexual insults from some of the Djerv players. Some spectators were threatened with rape.’

`Midwest Airlines canceled a flight ready to take off for San Francisco after a passenger found Arabic-style handwriting in the company’s in-flight magazine and alerted the crew. [..]

The writing was in Farsi, the language used in Iran, said airline spokeswoman Carol Skornycka. She said she didn’t know exactly what the writing said but was similar to a prayer, “something of a contemplative nature.”‘

`Two brothers serving in the military and a third man exploded a small bomb inside a McDonald’s because they were angry over a bad milkshake, officials said. [..]

Investigators say the men mixed toilet bowl cleaner and aluminum foil in a plastic soda bottle as they sat at a table Friday evening near the restaurant’s restrooms. They then capped the bottle, put it on the table and left before it exploded at 10:45 p.m. Friday. A customer sitting 10 feet away wasn’t hit by the splashing chemicals.’

`It happened around 4pm Monday on West Gray at Shepherd. That’s where a man drove pulled into a parking lot, got out, walked over to some nearby trees and started to urinate.

Police say a female security guard walked up to him and informed him that he could get a ticket for public urination. It didn’t take long for an argument to start and escalate to violence.’

`In a September 17 article in the journal Science, Pennycook and colleagues wrote that they have achieved an image resolution at 0.6 angstrom, breaking the previous record of 0.7 angstrom which the lab set earlier this year.’

`A bug in a Microsoft system compounded by human error was ultimately responsible for a three-hour radio breakdown that left hundreds of aircraft aloft without guidance on Tuesday, [..]

[..] a Microsoft-based replacement for an older Unix system needed to be reset every thirty days ‘to prevent data overload’, as a result of problems found when the system was first rolled out. However, a technician failed to perform the reset at the right time and an internal clock within the system subsequently shut it down.’

Slashdot suggests this bug is the cause.

`Police fear a new horror date rape drug has been used in Swansea for the first time. A woman may have been knocked out after smoking a cigarette which had been dipped in body embalming fluid.’

`Students for an Orwellian Society (SOS) is a nationwide student group. Although SOS has always been a nationwide student group, there is evidence to suggest that it first appeared at Columbia University. The mission of SOS is to promote the vision of a society based upon the principles of Ingsoc, first articulated by George Orwell in his prophetic novel, 1984.’

`Enter your dreadfully boring first and last names, and the Generator will give you your exciting new Smurf Name!!’

Call me Hoochie Smurf.