`German police have confiscated five warez servers with 6 terabytes of illegal copies of movies and games in the German town of Coburg on the fringes of northern Bavaria. The servers, with names as Temptation and Paradise Island, were accessible to over 1,200 people for € 30 to 120 per month. Police arrested at least one 26 year old.
[..] The servers ran for over a year, during which at least 130 terabytes of illegal movies and games were uploaded.
GVU says that the servers are part of a European network of 50 “release groups”, who issue the latest movies and games through closely knitted warez networks. GVU believes that in Germany alone 300 people are involved with these crimes.’
`The Government banned catching prawns in Sydney Harbour yesterday after tests found high levels of dioxin in prawns caught last week. [..]
It is the first time harbour prawns have been tested for dioxins and Mr Macdonald said the industrial toxic waste byproduct could have been present in Sydney’s prawns for decades. [..]
Tests on prawns caught last week found dioxin levels were three to four times the European Standard, which is becoming the accepted global measure for dioxin in food.’
`Here at NBAK you will find hundreds of images and artwork of women and men in a variety of neck and back braces. We also have a very active message board, where you can share your experiences and thoughts with other brace fans from around the world. If it’s stories you desire, our “Stories” section has well over 100 brace related stories, some fact, some fiction from NBAK fans around the globe. For personal ads, don’t forget to check out our ad page where anyone can post or respond to over 100 personal ads. In our “CD’s and Video” section, you will find all new, all original, all high quality image, art and video CD’s and VHS Tapes for sale. See high quality digital images and video of beautiful models, artistically poised in a plethora of movement restricting medical braces.’
`Team-building exercises, leadership weekends, mission statement planning meetings and three-monthly performance reviews are embedded in workplace culture – but do not always attract goodwill from workers. [..]
Many such techniques, including leadership weekends at golf clubs, and office running groups and sports teams, encourage the sentiment of being a “team player”, says Jim Bright, senior lecturer in the University of NSW’s School of Psychology. However, he says that team activities serve only to instil conformity. [..]
Management tools can, at best, be a waste of company resources and, at worst, can create a poisonous atmosphere in the office, says Bright. Performance reviews, where you evaluate your peers and your boss, can be nothing more than “circular lying”.’
The friend who sent me this link apparently had a team building exercise a few years back where he and his coworkers had to build scarecrows. I once went to a team building seminar thing where some obnoxious woman went around shoving a microphone in peoples faces demanding they talk in a stupid voice infront of 300-odd coworkers. It’s ridiculous.
Dalek porn movie!
With trailer. (18meg Quicktime)
`You don’t have to live fast or die young to leave an attractive corpse
If you are seriously, sincerely suicidal and want to make a good impression on your way to a better place, Attractive Corpse can help make your final wish a reality.
We offer our clients a full range of services — from method, location, and fashion consultation to suicide note editing and final-state photography — and guarantee that your suicide will be an event that nobody will easily forget. ‘
A while ago I put some Amazon ads on a few of my pages. I decided it would be hilarious to sell dildos over the internet. Then I could legitimately make up business cards that said “Dildo Salesman” and it would be the funniest thing ever.
That’s right – the funniest thing, ever!
Anyway, I was playing around with it again tonight, and I noticed some of the vibrators were on sale for only 99c. So, if you’ve ever wanted a vibrator but couldn’t afford one, now is your chance to get one cheap AND help me fulfill my dream of becomming a peddler of sexual devices. Go on, you know you want to. 🙂
Heavy duty what, you ask?
You’ll never guess. 🙂
She definately looks “perky”.
[The “perky” isn’t a reference to boobies or nipples or anything, btw.. So this is safe for work. :)]
`Murielle Degauque was, by all accounts, a normal child. A typical girl next door, you might say. True, as a teenager growing up in southern Belgium, she dabbled in drugs and preferred boys to books. But there was nothing to indicate that she would become the first Western woman to launch a suicide bomb attack in the name of jihad when she blew herself up in Iraq last month.’
`A Massachusetts man was shot while using the outhouse at his family’s camp by a boy who was target shooting.
Chris Flanagan, 41, of Holliston, Mass., was standing in the outhouse on Saturday morning when he was hit in the chest by a bullet that came through the door. [..]
Police were investigating whether the boy, who was not identified because he is a minor, had missed his target or intentionally shot at the outhouse.’
`Dragging clouds through the sky. That’s the most exciting activity you can do in Cloud, a new computer game where you play a young boy who flies through the air above a small group of islands.
Add in slow melodic piano music and beautiful water-colour graphics, and Cloud becomes the only relaxing game I can ever recall playing.
The game goes beyond the usual, hopelessly basic, range of emotions elicited by computer games: anger, frustration and aggressiveness.
“People have written to us and said they cried when they played the game,” [some woman associated with the game] says.’
I’m gonna download it and see if it drives me to tears. 🙂
`Twin brothers sneaked out of their 18th birthday party to rob and kill their grandmother, a court heard yesterday. [..]
The pair thought she had thousands of pounds, it is claimed. They are said to have ransacked the 74-year-old widow’s house while their 19-year-old pal Dwane Johnston, who had just been released from jail, punched then strangled her.’
I’d probably be filled with a murderous rage myself if fate had dealt me the double dose of ugly that these twins have. They probably blamed their grandmother for giving them the dodgy genes.
`Tyrone Jones is serving a life sentence, in part because of a microscopic particle that Baltimore police found on his left hand. At his trial for murder in 1998 the crime-lab examiner gave evidence that the particle was residue from a gunshot. He claimed Jones must have held or fired a gun shortly before his arrest.
Jones denies this and still protests his innocence. His defence team is appealing the conviction, claiming that the science of gunshot residue (GSR) analysis is not as robust as the prosecution claims.
Now, a New Scientist investigation has found that someone who has never fired a gun could be contaminated by someone who has, and that different criminal investigators use contradictory standards. What’s more, particles that are supposedly unique to GSR can be produced in other ways.’
Yet another reason why the death penalty is horribly flawed.
Includes:
How To Survive and Airplane Crash
How To Find Your Way When Lost In The Woods
How To Survive a Volcanic Eruption
and, most importantly:
How To Control a Runaway Camel
`Copies of a high school’s student newspaper were seized by administrators because the edition contained stories about birth control and tattoos, stirring a First Amendment debate. [..]
The Oak Leaf’s birth control article listed success rates for different methods and said contraceptives were available from doctors and the local health department. Superintendent Tom Bailey said the article needed to be edited so it would be acceptable for the entire school.
The edition also contained a photo of an unidentified student’s tattoo, and the student had not told her parents about the tattoo, said Superintendent Tom Bailey.’
`Albert Swank Jr., a 55-year-old civil engineer in Anchorage, Alaska, is a man with a mission. He wants to install a nuclear particle accelerator in his home.
But when neighbors learned of plans to place the 20-ton device inside the house where Swank operates his engineering firm, their response was swift: Not in my backyard.
Local lawmakers rushed to introduce emergency legislation banning the use of cyclotrons in home businesses. State health officials took similar steps, and have suspended Swank’s permit to operate cyclotrons on his property.’
`In a local manifestation of a dangerous fad, students at Alamo Heights Junior School were caught playing the “choking game,” according to a note sent home to parents this week.
The game’s goal is a fleeting “high” that follows a lack of oxygen to the brain and has teens across the nation throttling themselves with belts and ropes, choking each other with bare hands or pulling plastic bags over their heads until they nearly pass out.
Also called “space monkey” and “flatline,” the risky diversion is thought to have killed at least five children in four states since September and has garnered widespread media attention.’
This is what happens when you declare war on drugs. Instead of wholesome marijuana-related activities, kids are strangling themselves half to death with belts for shits and giggles.
`A senior al-Jazeera executive is in the UK to demand publication of a memo in which George Bush allegedly discusses bombing the TV station’s HQ.
Wadah Khanfar, al-Jazeera’s director general, is hoping to meet UK government officials to press its case. [..]
Mr Khanfar told La Stampa: “We want to know whether Bush really did want to attack al-Jazeera last year and was dissuaded from doing so by the British prime minister, as the British press has claimed.
“We will be silent only when we get the truth.”‘
`A senior telecommunications executive said yesterday that Internet service providers should be allowed to strike deals to give certain Web sites or services priority in reaching computer users, a controversial system that would significantly change how the Internet operates.
William L. Smith, chief technology officer for Atlanta-based BellSouth Corp., told reporters and analysts that an Internet service provider such as his firm should be able, for example, to charge Yahoo Inc. for the opportunity to have its search site load faster than that of Google Inc.’
`A man who approached a plainclothes police officer was arrested after asking the officer “what’s up?” Officer Patrick Hickey was checking license plates in an alley as part of a recent drug investigation when a man asked him “what’s up?”
Hickey responded by asking the man “what’s up?” The man asked Hickey the same question again, to which Hickey again replied “what’s up?”
To that, the man said “I’ll show you what’s up” and went inside a nearby house and came out with a .38-caliber handgun, police said.’
`Rendon is one of the most influential of the private contractors in Washington who are increasingly taking over jobs long reserved for highly trained CIA employees. In recent years, spies-for-hire have begun to replace regional desk officers, who control clandestine operations around the world; watch officers at the agency’s twenty-four-hour crisis center; analysts, who sift through reams of intelligence data; and even counterintelligence officers in the field, who oversee meetings between agents and their recruited spies. According to one senior administration official involved in intelligence-budget decisions, half of the CIA’s work is now performed by private contractors — people completely unaccountable to Congress. Another senior budget official acknowledges privately that lawmakers have no idea how many rent-a-spies the CIA currently employs — or how much unchecked power they enjoy.’
‘A blogger named Gerard Jones has posted the email addresses of thousands of agents, producers and executives on a site called EveryoneWhosAnyone.com, breaking down the iron curtain between practicing Hollywoodites and the rabble that aspire to knock them off their respective blocks. Screenwriters and other budding creatives have apparently been flooding the agents and execs on the list with email inquiries. Now Universal (predictably, if baselessly) is crying “spam attack”, and is trying to get Jones’ domain host to force him to remove the information. [..]
His full exchange with Universal’s counsel is posted here, and it’s great. “”If your Gestapo tactics succeed in getting my website shut down,” Jones warns, “GE and its subsidiaries will be the laughing stock of generations of freedom loving Americans. “Imagination at work.” Ha! Good luck.” He then slags Universal’s counsel off as “some corporate chick lawyer” and accuses her of living in “a solipsistic tree fort”.’
`A drug which makes users feel superhuman is being taken by rebel fanatics before they launch attacks against UK troops in Iraq.
The pill – filled with addictive stimulant methamphetamine – is given to insurgents so they have no fear of taking on heavily-armed Coalition forces.
Now senior British officers fear the courage drug, which is known as a “pinky”, is flooding Basra where it could help fuel a second armed uprising.’
`Believe it or not, getting yelled at and berated by Mr. T actually becomes boring pretty quickly.
Everything he tells you to do — everything — starts with “Hey, Fool!” That’s true even when he’s telling you to do something dumb, like drive onto the lower level of the Queensboro Bridge when the upper level is the one you need.
California company NavTones has contracted with Mr. T and the actors Burt Reynolds and Dennis Hopper to record voices that can be loaded into navigation systems, giving your driving directions a little extra personality. More voices are coming, the company said.’
`The surprise best-seller in the U.S. is a calendar recording “The Very Curious Language of President George W. Bush.” The 2005 calendar boasts all new quotes, with a comical Bushism for every day of the year. [..]
While George Bush Senior was in office, his Vice-President, Dan Quayle, was endlessly mocked for his illiteracy. Critics laughed when Quayle mistakenly corrected a child’s spelling of potato to potatoe. Speaking in Latin America, he bemused Spanish-speaking Mexicans by telling them he wished he’d kept up Latin at school.
But George “Dubya” Bush makes Quayle seem like a linguistic genius.’
With lots of hilarious Bush quotes.
`What had to come, has come. The question is no longer if American forces will be withdrawn, but how soon — and at what cost. In this respect, as in so many others, the obvious parallel to Iraq is Vietnam. [..]
[..] A withdrawal probably will require several months and incur a sizable number of casualties. As the pullout proceeds, Iraq almost certainly will sink into an all-out civil war from which it will take the country a long time to emerge — if, indeed, it can do so at all. All this is inevitable and will take place whether George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Condoleezza Rice like it or not.’
A 9 year old kid arguing with his mother about chocolate milk whilst playing some Xbox game on the internet and forgetting to turn his microphone off.
`You said you’d get me a drink and you lied!’
`I want some motherfucken chocolate milk!’
Quite a mouth on him for a 9 year old. 🙂
see it here »
`As part of an information offensive in Iraq, the U.S. military is secretly paying Iraqi newspapers to publish stories written by American troops in an effort to burnish the image of the U.S. mission in Iraq.
The articles, written by U.S. military “information operations” troops, are translated into Arabic and placed in Baghdad newspapers with the help of a defense contractor, according to U.S. military officials and documents obtained by the Los Angeles Times. [..]
Iraqi newspaper editors reacted with a mixture of shock and shrugs when told they were targets of a U.S. military psychological operation. [..]
[One editor] said that if his cash-strapped paper had known that these stories were from the U.S. government, he would have “charged much, much more” to publish them.’
`The powerful ocean current that bathes Britain and northern Europe in warm waters from the tropics has weakened dramatically in recent years, a consequence of global warming that could trigger more severe winters and cooler summers across the region, scientists warn today. [..]
Disruption of the conveyor-belt current was the basis of the film The Day After Tomorrow, which depicted a world thrown into chaos by a sudden and dramatic drop in temperatures. That scenario was dismissed by researchers as fantasy, because climate models suggest that the current is unlikely to slow so suddenly.
Marec Srokosz of the National Oceanographic Centre said: “The most realistic part of the film is where the climatologists are talking to the politicians and the politicians are saying ‘we can’t do anything about it’.”‘
