`A man who used an internet chatroom to try to set up a mass suicide on Valentine’s Day had been trying for at least five years to persuade women to engage in sex acts with him and then kill themselves, it has been revealed.
Gerald Krein, 26, is charged with solicitation to commit murder and prosecutors are expected to add an attempted manslaughter charge.
Combing through chatroom records, investigators discovered that Krein had been trying to entice women across the US to commit suicide as far back as 2000, Klamath County Sheriff Tim Evinger said yesterday.’
`Researchers from Intel Corp. have created the first continuous laser beam using silicon components, a development the chip maker called a major scientific breakthrough that could herald significant advances in communications and medicine.
In a paper to be published Thursday in the journal Nature, Intel’s Photonics Technology Laboratory reported a way to overcome the primary hurdle to using silicon as a medium for laser light, an effect in which electrons freed by the energy of passing photons absorb the light as it passes through.’
`There are new allegations that heavily armed private security contractors in Iraq are brutalizing Iraqi civilians. In an exclusive interview, four former security contractors told NBC News that they watched as innocent Iraqi civilians were fired upon, and one crushed by a truck. The contractors worked for an American company paid by U.S. taxpayers. The Army is looking into the allegations.’
`Here’s a collection of computer humor directly from Microsoft. Well, ONE of them is a parody. The links were accumulated from colleagues, Usenet and web searches, but mostly from “googlewhacking” the Knowledge Base. Enjoy!’
Includes:
Q887410: Dancer does not start when music plays
Q152697: The Story of Koi and the Kola Nuts
Q303969: How to Work with More Than 64,000 Children Per Parent
`I stumbled across a web page that had tons of prank phone calls to the IP Relay service. The IP Relay Service is a service designed to help people that are deaf or hard of hearing. It allows them to send text messages to the service and have operators, place a call to the desired party and then read the message to them.
While a very handy service, some people take advantage of it and use it for pranks phone calls. Normally, I would say this is a bad thing. However, if it weren’t for these prank calls, we would never know about “Operator 7624”. Unfortunately, all we know is that she is female, has a good sense of humor, and has a very hot voice!’
`Islamic militants waging a deadly insurgency against U.S.-led forces in Iraq pose an emerging international terrorism threat, CIA Director Porter Goss said on Wednesday. [..]
“The Iraq conflict, while not a cause of extremism, has become a cause for extremists,” Goss told the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
“Those jihadists who survive will leave Iraq experienced in and focused on acts of urban terrorism. They represent a potential pool of contacts to build transnational terrorist cells, groups and networks in Saudi Arabia, Jordan and other countries,” he said.’
`When my ex-girlfriend told me she was pregnant, I would easily have preferred death.’
`While it’s important to respect your children’s privacy, understanding what your teenager’s online slang means and how to decipher it is important as you help guide their online experience. While it has many nicknames, information-age slang is commonly referred to as leetspeek, or leet for short. Leet (a vernacular form of “elite”) is a specific type of computer slang where a user replaces regular letters with other keyboard characters to form words phonetically—creating the digital equivalent of pig Latin with a twist of hieroglyphics.
Leet words can be expressed in hundreds of ways using different substitutions and combinations, but once one understands that nearly all characters are formed as phonemes and symbols, leetspeek isn’t difficult to translate.’
Learn how to greet people in a whole bunch of languages.
`The Sex is for Fags! Abstinence-Only Education Program is produced by the US Dept. of Health & Human Services and the White House Office of Youth Purity.
Having Trouble Deciding Which Abstinence-Only Activities Are Right For You? Check Out:
» 10 THINGS ALL THE COOL DUDES ARE DOING INSTEAD OF BEING LAME AND QUEER AND HAVING SEX!’
`Every year we grow more and more dependent on the Internet. But would you know what to do if your connection suddenly went down?
No one knows when the Internet will fail. It could happen at any time, leaving you bereft of your e-mail, your sports scores, and your Blogs. Therefore, it’s important that you and your family have a contingency plan for just such an emergency. If your connection to Cyberspace were to ever get severed, you should at least be prepared. We have included a few key points that should assist you if that were to happen.’
‘The following table lists potential future Earth impact events that the JPL Sentry System has detected based on currently available observations. Click on the object designation to go to a page with full details on that object.
Sentry is a highly automated collision monitoring system that continually scans the most current asteroid catalog for possibilities of future impact with Earth over the next 100 years. Whenever a potential impact is detected it will be analyzed and the results immediately published here, except in unusual cases where an IAU Technical Review is underway. For more information on impact monitoring and risk assessment see our Impact Risk Introduction and Frequently Asked Impact Risk Questions.’
`The Pentagon is spending $161 billion on a program to build heavily-armed robots for the battlefield in the hope that future wars will be fought without the loss of its soldiers’ lives.
The scheme, known as Future Combat Systems, is the largest military contract in American history and will help to drive the defence budget up by almost 20 per cent in five years’ time.’
`Here you will find information that can help you analyze and/or respond to a specific situation that may involve a destructive cult, group or leader.’
`Is this yearly ritual of pyrotechnic mayhem. . .this machine-art apocalyptic fantasy. . . this aggressively dysfunctional absurdist dystopia. . . really an attempt to reconceive the foundations of human civilization, or is it at its core, a thinly veiled ruse to indulge unresolved issues of male virility? [..]
The Impotence Compensation Project proposes to explore the deeper soundings of this question with a high-altitude pyrotechnic symphony, a phallic cataclysm of 300 foot columns of flame, destroying the environment at over 30 gallons of kerosene a second.’
‘Dracula 3000 is, supposedly, a sci-fi horror film. In practice, however, it appears to be the result of a collision of what little the director knew about those two genres, taken from what he could glean from his memory of 1970’s late night movies while his mother was out looking for a new daddy. Add in the extra challenge of trying to make a feature length film with a budget of fourteen dollars and a bag of black tar heroin, and the resulting mess is neither thought provoking, nor exciting, nor frightening, nor any other qualities that could distinguish it from ninety minutes spent looking at, say, a real-time map of local traffic conditions.’
The shockwave clips from the movie are fantastic. 🙂 It’s not every day you hear the phrase “ejaculate all over your bazongas” in a movie.
`So you still don’t believe that people throw away tons of good stuff you can use to have some fun. To prove it to you, I’ve decided to make a Tesla Coil from only stuff I’ve found in the garbage. I will include a detailed list of all components used and where/what they came from.’
`The driver of a mobile speed camera van was allegedly clocked by police, breaking the limit on a Shropshire road, it emerged today.
Now the van operator, who had been on mobile patrol in Trefonen, near Oswestry, could face court action.
The driver was pulled over by an officer who allegedly saw the van, operated by West Mercia Safety Camera Partnership, breaking the limit on a national speed limit road.’
`A secret underwater attraction that lured several divers to their deaths could have returned, police say.
The “gnome garden” complete with picket fence was removed from the bottom of Wastwater in the Lake District after several divers died a few years ago.
It is thought they spent too much time at too great a depth while searching for the site of the ornaments.
Now police divers say there is a rumour that the garden has returned at a depth beyond which they are allowed.’
`In recent talks, U.S. diplomats have bluntly asked the leaders how a Shiite-dominated government would react if Iran came under attack by an outside power because of its suspected nuclear weapons program, according to a high-ranking member of one Shiite party.
The Iraqi Shiite leaders have reassured the Americans that they are mostly concerned about how any such attack would affect Iraq, and they have stressed their independence from Iran, said the Shiite party official, who is familiar with the U.S. talks but would speak only on condition of anonymity.’
`A Rhode Island high school student won an art award and an A from his teacher for building an abstract scene that juxtaposes Nazi swastikas and quotes by Adolf Hitler with American flags, desert-colored toy soldiers and an image of President Bush.
Jeffrey Eden, 17, insisted he was trying to make comparisons between the U.S.-led war in Iraq and the German blitzkrieg without actually equating Hitler to Bush, the Providence Journal reported.
But his piece, titled “Bush/Hitler and How History Repeats Itself,” immediately prompted a complaint after it was displayed at a store with other winners of the Rhode Island Scholastic Art Awards.’
There’s no doubt about it. This kid is a terrorist.
`High School/Jr.High
10 PRINT “HELLO WORLD”
20 END
First year in College
program Hello(input, output)
begin
writeln(‘Hello World’)
end.’
`The live-in customers at the Alcor Life Extension Foundation here reside in eight 10-foot-high steel tanks filled with liquid nitrogen. They are incapable of breathing, thinking, walking or scratching an itch.
But don’t refer to them as deceased.
They may be frozen at minus 320 degrees Fahrenheit and identified by prisonlike numbers. But to Alcor, the 67 bodies–in many cases, just severed heads–are patients who may live again if science can just figure out how to reanimate them.
“They’re no different than a flat-lining patient who gets a defibrillator to bring them back to life,” said Joseph Waynick, Alcor’s chief executive. “With our patients, the only difference is length of time.”‘
Update: the page seems to have expired. You can still read it if you hit “stop” quickly before it has a chance to refresh.
`Three kids come down to the kitchen and sit around the breakfast table. The mother asks the oldest boy what he’d like to eat. “I’ll have some fuckin’ French toast,” he says. The mother is outraged at his language, hits him, and sends him upstairs. She asks the middle child what he wants. “Well, I guess that leaves more fuckin’ French toast for me,” he says. She is livid, smacks him, and sends him away. Finally she asks the youngest son what he wants for breakfast. “I don’t know,” he says meekly, “but I definitely don’t want the fuckin’ French toast.”‘
`Prince Charles could be barred from marrying Camilla in a civil ceremony, legal experts have warned.
Plans have been drawn up for the couple to marry in a low-key ceremony at Windsor Castle, followed by a chapel blessing.
But in a BBC Panorama television special last night, family law experts said there were “serious doubts” over the couple’s wedding plans, arguing that the 1836 Marriage Act barred the royal family from civil marriages.’
