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And oldie but a goodie. Amusing announcements at airports.

`The police officer told Aaron, who is five months pregnant, to lower her voice. She told the officer he had no right to tell her how to speak into her cell phone.

Their verbal dispute quickly escalated, and Saoutis grabbed Aaron by the arm and pushed her to the ground. He handcuffed the 23-year-old woman, called for backup and took her to a cell where she was held for three hours before being released to her aunt.’

‘An US F4 Phantom Jet tests the strength of a concrete wall built to withstand a nuclear blast by crashing into it at 500 MPH. A high rate FPS camera is used to watch the plane literally turn into dust.’

(1.5meg Windows media)

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`Greek Orthodox and Franciscan priests got into a fist fight yesterday at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, Christianity’s holiest shrine, in an argument over whether a door in the basilica should be closed during a procession.

Dozens of people, including several Israeli police officers, were lightly hurt in the brawl at the shrine [..]’

Video reconstruction of MRI and CT slices of the human body.

Pigeon makes a nest in server rack. Stalked by cat.

with pictures.

`The work of M.C. Escher needs no introduction. We have all learned to appreciate the impossibilities that this master of illusion’s artwork presents to the layman’s eye. Nevertheless, it may come as a surprise for some, but many of the so-called ‘impossible’ drawings of M. C. Escher can be realized as actual physical objects.’

with pictures.

`Since about ten years Theo Jansen is occupied with the making of a new nature. Not pollen or seeds but plastic yellow tubes are used as the basic matierial of this new nature. He makes skeletons which are able to walk on the wind. Eventualy he wants to put these animals out in herds on the beaches, so they will live their own lives.’

Wind powered walking sculpture, with video.

`Professional secrets from those in the know.’

The Russian Knight Rider.

(8meg mpeg)

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`A self-taught inventor has signed a contract with Country Energy, one of the country’s biggest power grids, to test a new source of clean and renewable electricity that will harness ocean currents and has the potential to drastically reduce electricity costs on islands.’

`A man disguised with an Osama Bin Laden face mask robbed an Auckland petrol station attendant at knifepoint early yesterday before running off with a small amount of cash.’

`Microsoft this week reiterated that it would keep the new version of Microsoft’s IE Web browser available only as part of the recently released Windows XP operating system, Service Pack 2. The upgrade to XP from any previous Windows versions is US$99 when ordered from Microsoft. Starting from scratch, the operating system costs US$199.’

try mozilla instead. 🙂

`Researchers at Rice University have confirmed that buckyballs, the small soccer-ball-shaped particles that helped launch a revolution in materials science, are toxic.

However, the scientists say, they have found an easy way to modify the tiny particles so they are harmless.’

`The yellow hatchback was the group’s entry in the 1972 Urban Vehicle Design Competition [..] the UCLA team had painstakingly replaced the Gremlin’s engine with a Boss 351 engine from Ford that had been modified to burn hydrogen instead of gasoline. In the rear of the hatchback, they installed tanks to hold the hydrogen gas under high pressure. Then, for safety, they created some of the world’s first low-speed bumpers by packing popcorn into the front and back of the car.’

‘A naked man standing on a roof looking through a rolled-up magazine thought he was a pirate, New Zealand police said. [..]

“He believed he was a pirate at sea and was using a rolled-up magazine as a telescope,” [police] said.’

`It turns out that major illnesses like heart disease and lung cancer are influenced by gender and that perhaps treatments for women ought to be slightly different from the approach used for men.’

`Psychedelic drugs are inching their way slowly but surely toward prescription status in the United States, thanks to a group of persistent scientists who believe drugs like ecstasy and psilocybin can help people with terminal cancer, obsessive-compulsive disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder, to name a just a few.’

`Customers of British cable firm NTL were subjected to a barrage of profanity after a malicious hacker or disgruntled employee changed the company’s telephone service message [..]

The newspaper reported that customers who called to report a fault with their service were told:

“You are through to NTL customer services. We don’t give a (expletive) about you. We are never here. We just (expletive) you about, basically, and we are not going to handle any of your complaints. Just (expletive) off and leave us alone.”‘

`This is Jennifer Swanton — the sex-mad wife who cheated on her hubby with 300 fire heroes of 9/11. [..]

Swanton’s pal Tara Parks, 34, said: “She lured them with emails which started, ‘Oh, I’m so sorry about 9/11. You seem really nice’.

She’d meet with a few different ones three or four times a week. It became her daily routine. She would tell me, ‘I f***ed a fireman again’.’

`Stepped-up screening procedures at Los Angeles International Airport that were designed to make flying safer have created another potential vulnerability: long lines that are a “tempting target for terrorists,” security experts said Friday.’

`For the first time, representatives from the OSCE – the European body which has traditionally monitored elections in fledgling democracies – will observe as Americans elect their president.

[..] the Florida fiasco of 2000 with its hanging chads and voter purges has shaken confidence in the sanctity of the system, producing in the words of one observer, a climate of “unease, distrust and scepticism”.’

`A Buffalo Church is the first church in America to open it’s own Subway Restaurant. [..]

The Subway Restaurant employs 15 people.’

Recording of a man calling to ask for information on a Gay and Lesbian TV channel.

(1meg mp3)

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A bunch of links stopped working over the weekend. I’ve fixed them now, I hope. Feel free to leave a comment if anything isn’t working properly. 🙂

`Keep the jobs in the US so I can understand who I’m talking to .. you fucking bastards.’

`Ticked off.

That’s how Lynette Davis still feels a day after [the police] accidentally tear-gassed her neighborhood [..]

Davis’ 4-year-old son, Miguel, was playing in the front yard Thursday when he ran inside, screaming and throwing up. [..]

A police commander said that the gassing was unintended and that he apologized to residents.’

`Bus conductors in Swaziland have vowed to assault and rape women passengers who wore miniskirts, sparking outrage among women’s groups in the African kingdom. [..]

Drivers banned miniskirts on their buses earlier in the year, saying they were distracting and encouraging lustful thoughts.’

`Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich, who was sent to hospital after being knocked down during an election campaign scuffle on Friday, was in fact hit by nothing more dangerous than an egg, according to TV pictures screened on Saturday.’

Liquid nitrogen cooled P4 3.6GHz chip overclocked to 6GHz.

I want one. 🙂

with pictures.