moonbuggy

Calling up radio Australian radio presenters and reading out political party press statements.

`Yo, I know how to treat my girl right. I always show her the same respect I want to get back from her. I never ask her to swallow my spunk until I go down on her first. It’s just common courtesy.’

`[..] Adrian Barlow, spokesman for English Apples and Pears, told the Daily Mail newspaper: “It’s extraordinary and magnificent.”‘

with picture. He’s going to hurt his jaw. 🙂

It’s loops back to the start eventually.

`A state worker mowed down 28,000 young trees that had been planted as part of a $33,000 highway beautification project.

The only thing left behind were signs that read “Do not mow or spray.”‘

`Step 1. Start with data that shows a positive trend, like this DOT highway fatality data that shows that the traffic fatality rate is at the lowest level ever recorded. [..]

But don’t worry, we can find ways to make this data sound scary, as if it means just the opposite.’

`Jack Osbourne has Rod Stewart’s daughter Kimberly’s breast implants framed on his wall.

Kimberley presented Jack with her old silicone implants when she had them replaced with new ones.’

`GMail Drive creates a virtual filesystem on top of your Google GMail account and enables you to save and retrieve files stored on your GMail account directly from inside Windows Explorer. GMail Drive literally adds a new drive to your computer under the My Computer folder, where you can create new folders, copy and drag’n’drop files to.’

`”Madonna, best fucking live act? Fuck off,” said the singer renowned as much for his outrageous outbursts as he is for his outlandish outfits.

“Since when has lip-synching been live?” he asked.

He ended his outburst by saying: “That’s me off her fucking Christmas card list but do I give a toss? No.”‘

`Cold compression of carbon nanotubes at 75 GPa results in the formation of a superhard hexagonal carbon polymorph that has a different structure than hexagonal diamond [..] formation of the superhard material cracks the diamond anvils used in the synthesis, and leaves a 3 micron indentation in the surface of the anvil [..]’

`A hunter who managed to fight off an attack by a 700-pound bear then almost killed himself when he tripped over his gun.’

`Alasdair Milne, who ran the BBC as director general from 1982 to 1987, told the daily: “It just seems to me that the television service has largely been run by women for the last four to five years and they don’t seem to have done a great job of work.”

“There was no innovation; constant make overs and far too many cookery and gardening programs. Dumb, dumb, dumb,” he said.’

`The Death Ray is an oxygen cannon using a nine thousand volt power supply to ignite the reaction chamber with an ultra hot plasma arc. It can be constucted for around two hundred dollars.

The Death Ray is not a meant for use as a weapon. Never fire objects at people or property. Don’t build a Reath Ray. If science becomes violent for violence sake, all is lost.’

with pictures and build instructions. 🙂

‘The French manufacturer Renault is to go to the courts to protect its reputation after a motorist claimed to have been forced to drive at nearly 200 kilometres per hour (125 mph) because of a fault with his car’s speed regulator, the company said Thursday.’

followup to Runaway Car Races Along French Highways.

`US authorities issued a federal order to Rackspace’s office in the US ordering them to provide Indymedia’s hardware located in London to the requesting agency. Rackspace is one of Indymedia’s web hosting providers with offices in the US and London. Rackspace complied, without first notifying Indymedia, and turned over Indymedia’s server in the UK. [..]

It is unclear to Indymedia how and why a server that is outside the US jurisdiction can be seized by US authorities.’

more here.

`Charles E. Smith, 63, told administrators he didn’t think loading the SETI software on the server was much of a problem because he ran the program only on weekends and on weekdays between 7 p.m. and 7 a.m., when the server wasn’t being used, according to a disciplinary report.

Department director Tom Hayes disagreed.

“I understand his desire to search for intelligent life in outer space, because obviously he doesn’t find it in the mirror in the morning,” Hayes said. [..]’

`The Detroit City Council, in defiance of Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, likely will move forward with plans to create an “African Town” in the tradition of Chinatowns and Little Italys nationwide, even though the issue has turned into a racially divisive economic-development proposal.’

`A psychiatrist who police say smeared excrement on dollar bills used to pay a parking ticket has been charged with harassment of a public official. [..]

Officers received an envelope in July labeled “Foreign brown substance on bills.” The envelope contained several dollar bills and a parking ticket [..]’

Feedster is an RSS feed search engine.

`Wasting your time…and ours.’

Links to games.

Watch the infection spread..

`The Lab’s new Personality Quiz! As valid as any tabloid horoscope and based on extensive research by the likes of Mendeleyev and Dolly Magazine, we present our Periodic Table Personality Quiz!’

I am helium, the most noble of gases. 🙂

Or, maybe just keep your mouth shut. 🙂

`A henpecked German has chosen to do time in jail rather than pay a parking fine to get away from his nagging wife. [..]

“He said he couldn’t stand the constant bickering at home with his wife and was looking forward to a bit of peace and quiet in jail,” said a police spokesman.’

`You …Could Be Gay!’

`A Croatian teenager has been arrested after taking his dad’s police uniform and stop sign and using it to collect fines from motorists.

The 18-year-old from Bisko near Split stopped drivers and told them they had broken traffic laws and then fined them five pounds each.’

`Black people intimidated at the polling booth. Voting machines that register ballots wrongly. Welcome to the disaster-waiting-to-happen that is the US presidential election of November 2004. [..]

In Detroit, John Pappageorge, a Republican member of the House of Representatives, said: “If we do not suppress the Detroit vote, we’re going to have a tough time in this election.” Black people make up 83% of Detroit’s population. [..]

In Louisiana flyers were distributed in black neighbourhoods telling voters that if it was rainy they could vote the day after the election. In Maryland, flyers went up listing the wrong date for the election.’

`A 16-year-old Muskego student accused of giving a “wedgie” to his former girlfriend at school is facing juvenile charges of fourth-degree sexual assault. [..]

After the assault, according to the report, the boy said, “Now I got some action.”‘

`School pupils in Romania are sabotaging lessons by greasing blackboards with processed cheese.

Students at several schools in Iasi discovered that chalk doesn’t work on blackboards after the treatment.’

`Environmentalists have called for the withdrawal of a chemical which is a key ingredient in the manufacture of Teflon because of growing health fears.

Perfluorooctanoic Acid, PFOA for short, is a synthetic chemical used in the manufacture of advanced plastics including Teflon. [..]

Dr Tim Kropp, a toxicologist working for environmental activists in the US says tests carried out by the US firm 3M suggested high doses of PFOA led to various forms of cancer in rats.’