moonbuggy

Guy with a girly voice freaks out when they tow his car away.

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`DNA! You mean I can see it? How?

Just follow these 3 easy steps:
Detergent
eNzymes (meat tenderizer)
Alcohol

It’s that simple? Tell me more!’

`President George W Bush tried to make a quick exit from a news conference in Beijing on Sunday – only to find himself thwarted by locked doors.

After answering just six questions from a group of US reporters, the president strode away heading towards the door.

President Bush tugged at both handles on the double doors before admitting: “I was trying to escape. Obviously, it didn’t work.”‘

With link to slightly amusing video.

`The Amtrak trains will be filled to capacity with passengers to see the “moon show” between the stations of “Irvine” to the North and “San Juan Capistrano” to the South. The mooning is on the EAST side of the tracks, and most trains will slow down at this point. For a photo of the view from the train passenger’s perspective, see LINX, below. If you wish to see the show from the train during time of peak demand at mid-day, board at a more distant station to better secure an available seat for you. [..]

After 8pm, Night Mooning starts. Bring a flash light with plenty of batteries, or better yet, bring a Coleman propane or gasoline fuel camping lantern. Bring a wire coat hanger to make a hook to hang your lantern from the chain link fence. An electric engine-generator with lights would be outrageous, if anyone has this to bring. The area is dark at night as there aren’t any street lights along the road here. Night Mooning is better because: it is less crowded, cooler temperature, and more authentic.’

Synchronized christmas lights and music. Very impressive.

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`A new sport is sweeping the nation. Skydivers are jumping out of planes without parachutes. They are attaching themselves to a string of live turkeys. Apparently the turkeys go nuts and flap their wings and act as a parachute. And with live turkeys going for less than a dollar a pound it costs a lot less than a parachute which can cost over a thousand bucks.

“Turkey parachuting is really opening the plane door for a lot of skydivers who normally would be put off by the high price of parachutes,” says skydiving instructor Nebold Einacracker. “Since turkeys are cheaper than parachutes we offer lower prices now for skydiving lessons and jumps. People also like jumping from a plane using natural live turkeys, not an artificial petroleum based parachute.”’

`For the second time, a Miami Beach lifeguard driving a truck has run over a sunbather lying on the beach.

Miami Beach Fire Chief Javier Otero said the 3,400-pound lifeguard truck ran over 19-year-old Jillian Gonzalez’s head and shoulder on Sunday. An official said the soft sand likely saved her life because she was able to stand upright after being run over, according to the report. [..]

A reporter asked, “Were you crying?”

“I was crying hysterically,” Gonzalez said.

“What were you saying?” the reporter asked.

“Get me help, get me to a hospital, my face is broken, my face is broken,” Gonzalez said.’

`Two Iraqi men who were arrested in Iraq in 2003 but never charged with crimes say that U.S. troops put them in a cage with lions, pretended to execute them in a firing line and humiliated them during interrogations at multiple detention facilities.

Sherzad Khalid, 35, and Thahe Sabber, 37, say they were brutally beaten over several months at U.S. facilities such as Camp Bucca, Abu Ghraib prison and another detention facility at the Baghdad airport. They said the abuse occurred when they were unable to tell U.S. troops where Saddam Hussein was hiding and did not know about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.’

`Deactivating a specific gene transforms meek mice into daredevils, researchers have found. The team believe the research might one day enable people suffering from fear – in the form of phobias or anxiety disorders, for example – to be clinically treated.

The research found that mice lacking an active gene for the protein stathmin are not only more courageous, but are also slower to learn fear responses to pain-associated stimuli, says geneticist Gleb Shumyatsky, at Rutgers University in New Jersey, US.’

`A spokesman for the U.S. military has admitted that soldiers used white phosphorus as an “incendiary weapon” while trying to flush out insurgents in the northern Iraqi city of Fallujah last year. [..]

High-ranking U.S. officials had earlier insisted that the substance, which can burn skin to the bone, was used only to help illuminate battle scenes.

“U.S. forces do not use napalm or white phosphorus as weapons,” the American ambassador to London, Robert Tuttle, wrote in a letter to the Independent newspaper. [..]

[The] comments could expose the United States to allegations that it has been using chemical weapons in Iraq.’

`Turner Entertainment Networks has its lenses focused on holographic storage for the future of storing and retrieving its movies, cartoons and commercial spots. The network giant has completed a test of the cutting-edge storage technology, which it said will soon move the company away from tape- and disk-based storage.

“The holographic disk promises to retail for $100, and by 2010, it will have capacity of 1.6TB each. That’s pretty inexpensive,” said Ron Tarasoff, vice president of broadcast technology and engineering at Turner Entertainment. “Even this first version can store 300GB per disk, and it has 160MB/sec. data throughput rates. That’s burning. Then combine it with random access, and it’s the best of all worlds.”’

I want some. 🙂

`The world’s most hapless driver faces the loss of his licence and a huge fine after being flashed by the same speed camera four times in the space of one minute and 37 seconds.

Throughout his record-breaking run, the 40-year-old motorist had no idea that he was passing a speed trap. His bafflement at being repeatedly flashed led him to pass the spot again and again.

The driver, a Turk whose identity cannot be revealed under Swiss privacy laws, told police that he thought someone was trying to annoy him with a flashgun and wanted to check “what was going on”.

It was a feat requiring both precision driving and “a little bit of stupidity”, police said.’

`The Vatican’s chief astronomer said Friday that “intelligent design” isn’t science and doesn’t belong in science classrooms, the latest high-ranking Roman Catholic official to enter the evolution debate in the United States.

The Rev. George Coyne, the Jesuit director of the Vatican Observatory, said placing intelligent design theory alongside that of evolution in school programs was “wrong” and was akin to mixing apples with oranges.

“Intelligent design isn’t science even though it pretends to be,” the ANSA news agency quoted Coyne as saying on the sidelines of a conference in Florence. “If you want to teach it in schools, intelligent design should be taught when religion or cultural history is taught, not science.”‘

`Hardened homicide detectives were disgusted and thought they might be tracking a serial killer or a psychopath. But the killer viewed his work as art. He placed a smiling ceramic angel on the shoulder blade above the message he wrote on his victim’s flesh with a black marker: “FAGS DIE.” In a final affront, he’d shoved a large, plastic Ray-O-Vac flashlight deep into the dying man’s rectum. [..]

Gregory Michael Pisarcik loved alcohol, but not as much as he loved heroin, cocaine, PCP, marijuana and especially methamphetamine. Growing up in New Jersey, he was a popular high school student with many girlfriends, but he got addicted to drugs. He moved to California to “clean up” his life, according to his sister Kimberly. The drugs would prove too enticing, however. [..]

Three days later in Ventura County, deputies spotted Pisarcik even though he’d changed the license plates on Leggs’ car. After a three-hour chase up to speeds of 100 mph — during which Pisarcik fired a gun and drove on the wrong side of a highway — officers trapped him. Armed with Leggs’ .357 revolver, he refused to leave the car. Instead, he smoked meth from a pipe while deputies fired shotguns at the Town Car’s tires.

[..] During a jail interview, he told a fourth officer who had asked him to calm down, “I am not going to calm down because I killed someone and kicked his balls in, stuffed a flashlight up his ass and beat him with a bottle. . . . I hate gays.”‘

`[..] Some of these images are downright vulgar. Some of them show a complete lack of artistic skill and execution. A greater portion fail because they neglect to serve their purpose: to represent and sell the music inside. Most album covers are “bad.” But this is expected, as most albums are bad. In my mind, true, inexcusable failure occurs when the means and resources are at hand, but nothing comes together. Or when an established artist takes a wrong turn. Expectation is everything.’

`In the nineteenth century there was no such thing as the female orgasm. It was simply called ”the relief of tension in the female.” When a woman was feeling especially sexually aroused, her husband, not knowing what to do, would take her to a doctor. Masturbation was the cure to this ”hysterical tension.” After the diagnosis, a midwife or the doctor himself would arouse the woman until orgasm by means of a steam-powered vibrator.

It wasn’t until the 1940s that the female orgasm and the g-spot were introduced into the mainstream. Until Dr. Ernest Grafenberg’s discovery of the ”small mass of erectile tissue around the female urethra,” the clitoris was thought to be the only source of female orgasm. After Grafenberg’s discovery, research into the g-spot was practically dropped for about 30 years.’

`Rotenberg became a porn-hound back in Brooklyn Heights in the late seventies when his neighbor—an heirless man who had been hoarding prints, magazines, first editions, and pornography for decades—died. City workers hauled armloads of obviously valuable first editions out of the apartment, but they left everything else to be tossed into the trash. Already something of a pack rat, the then-26-year-old Rotenberg scavenged Cruikshank drawings, Civil War newspapers, signed Picasso lithos, and lots of erotic material. He wasn’t even into the porn at first. It was only after a friend suggested he show his finds to an editor at Screw that he realized there might be money in it.

Today, Rotenberg earns his living from pornographic books and sales on his Website, vintagenudephotos.com. Recently, a single buyer bought $1,400 worth of erotic playing cards, and Rotenberg was once offered $30,000 for a rare film by the early-twentieth-century California photographer Albert Arthur Allen.’

`The XCP program, developed by British software firm First4Internet and used by Sony BMG to restrict copying and sharing of music CDs, is already highly controversial because it acts like virus software and hides deep inside a computer where it leaves the backdoor open for malicious hackers. [..]

It turns out that this music player contains components from an open-source project, an MP3 player called LAME.

“Multiple software components on the CD have references to the LAME open-source MP3 code,” Finnish software developer Matti Nikki said in an e-mail.

After unraveling the code, others found similar evidence.

“We can confirm that at least five functions in the XCP software are identical to functions in LAME,” said Thomas Dullien at security software firm Saber Security [..]

“That’s the flipside of open source: If you don’t respect the open-source rules, the old regime of copy protection comes back in full force,” said Christiaan Alberdingk Thijm, an attorney and internet specialist at law firm SOLV in the Netherlands.’

`In what is a shocking and disturbing case, more than a dozen students have been arrested for allegedly torturing and sexually assaulting a girl repeatedly for more than a year at a North York Roman Catholic high school.

Police told thestar.com earlier this afternoon that 16 young offenders have been arrested in the case, which has just come to light. [..]

Last Thursday, a 15-year-old boy was arrested and charged with sexual assault, forcible confinement and criminal harassment.

Today, police descended on the school while students were in class and school staff rounded up the 14 suspects. The teens, two of them girls, were then handcuffed and taken to the local police detachment.

Twelve male students were charged with criminal harassment and the two female students have been charged with threatening bodily harm.’

`Authorities in California are now searching for one “cop” who’s on the wrong side of the law. Victor Edward Willis, who played the part of the policeman in the 1970s band the Village People is wanted on charges of possession of narcotics. Police say Willis skipped out on a court hearing on October 21, 2005, and now a California judge has issued a warrant for his arrest.’

`The history behind the Wizard of Oz programming is interesting. It suggests that the Wizard of Oz has had an important part in the occult world all along. One of the secrets of the Mystery Religions, especially the Egyptian Isis mystery religion was the ability to use drugs and torture to create multiple personalities. The word Oz is known to have been used by its author as an abbreviation for Osirus. Monarch victims have the “golden penis of Osirus” placed into them. The Grimm brothers, who were cabalistic jews, gathered the folk occult stories together. Their stories are full of spells, trances, and drugs. Sleeping Beauty is put to sleep, and the trigger to wake her is a kiss on the lips. These are serious hints that the occult world didn’t stop programming people with dissociative states and triggers when the ancient Egyptian empires fell. Instead of using modern lingo such as “hypnotize”, they would say “cast a spell.” Later in Freemasonry, the Right Worshipful Master would “charge” (meaning hypnotize) an initiate. The occultist Baum, a member of the Theosophical Society, was inspired by some spirit who gave him the “magic key” to write the Wizard of Oz book, which came out in 1900. The book’s story is full of satanic activity and satanic thinking.’

`Michael Jackson has stirred a small controversy in the United Arab Emirates by entering the ladies room in a shopping mall.

The pop star’s publicist said Jackson, who arrived in Dubai this week as the guest of a champion rally driver, did not understand the Arabic sign on the door and left the bathroom as soon as he realized his mistake.

In the statement released late Tuesday, Jackson’s publicist, Raymond K. Bain said: “Upon his exit (from the ladies bathroom), he was recognized and a crowd ensued. He had to wait in a nearby bookstore until police arrived to escort him through the crowd.”

But local newspapers reported that the 47-year-old performer did not quickly leave the bathroom and was spotted applying makeup before leaving.’

`Ghetto hardware fun’

All sorts of interesting hardware mods and the like here. Worth a look. 🙂

`Grand Theftendo is a new homebrew game for the original Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). It is a tribute to Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto III running on the 8 bit, 256×240 resolution, 2 bit colour x 2 bit palette, 1.79 Mhz system, written entirely in 6502 Assembly Language! [..]

Here you will find information on the game, it’s history, and how it is being developed. From the paper to the PC, to the NES, it’s come a long way since it began. Read further for all of the details!’

It’s things like this that make me want to get a car. 🙂

• `Instead of Being Born Again, Why Not Just Grow Up?
• Militant Agnostic: I Don’t Know And You Don’t Either
• Religion Ruled The Dark Ages Too
• GOD TOLD ME TO HATE YOU
• Yes, I am an agent of Satan, but my duties are largely ceremonial’

Lots of rarely used quotes. Including:

`I feel a lot more like I do now than I did when I came in. [..]

You have the distinction of being the only one who is not exceptional. [..]

You’ve outdone yourself, as usual. [..]

If you think about it long enough, you’ll see that it’s obvious.’

`A 33-year-old Grafton woman was fighting for her life Thursday night after she drank concentrated drain cleaner given to her by a man who then videotaped her violent vomiting for his sexual gratification, Milwaukee police said.

Detectives are studying a videotape that shows the woman drinking the solution and then throwing up. Police said the tape shows at least three other women drinking solutions and becoming ill.

On Tuesday, police arrested Sean A. Kobin, 20, of Mequon, near the former Northridge Mall on suspicion of first-degree recklessly endangering safety, according to arrest records.

A registered sex offender in Wisconsin, Kobin was convicted last year of exposing a 13-year-old girl to harmful materials by urging her, in a series of phone calls and computer messages, to drink bleach, lighter fluid and urine to arose him sexually, according to a Waukesha County criminal complaint.’

People are crazy. Think of the most vile, digusting thing you possibly can, and I guarantee you there is someone in the world somewhere who finds it sexy. Yes, even Zac’s mum.

`Standard water treatment plants use oxygen-hungry bacteria to break down human waste. To feed the microbes, plants must aerate sewage sludge with costly, power-hogging equipment.

But Brocadia anammoxidans, or anammox bacteria, survive without oxygen, producing energy from nitrite and ammonia, which is found naturally in human waste. [..]

Scientists first discovered anammox bacteria in yeast and later in the open ocean in the late 1990s.

The unusual microbes consume ammonia, producing hydrazine—better known as rocket fuel—in the process. The ability still puzzles scientists.

“They are the only organism on Earth that produces hydrazine, so until their discovery, [hydrazine] was thought to be a man-made substance,” Strous said.’

`Picard: Sigma Indri, that’s the star,
So, Data, please, how far? How far?

Data: Our ship can get there very fast
But still the trip will last and last
We’ll have two days til we arrive
But can the Indrans there survive?

Picard: LaForge, please give us factor nine.

LaForge: But, sir, the engines are offline!

Picard: Offline! But why? I want to go!
Please make it so, please make it so!’

`Traffic is so bad along the eastern rim of Los Angeles’ suburban ring that regional planners are considering the once unthinkable an 11-mile tunnel through a mountain range in earthquake country.

Critics question the logic of building a multibillion-dollar project in a region so prone to earthquakes that an alternate proposal for a double-decker highway was deemed too dangerous. The tunnel would begin barely a mile from a fault that produced a 6.0-magnitude earthquake about a century ago.

“It’s absolutely absurd to have a tunnel 700 feet below ground in earthquake country,” said Cathryn DeYoung, mayor of Laguna Niguel and a vocal opponent. “I mean, would you want to be in that tunnel?”‘