`An 11-year-old boy had a lingering headache two days after a pickup truck ran over his head. “All I remember about it was that when the truck ran over my head, I could hear my bones crack,” Cameron Schuette said Tuesday.
Cameron, a 5th-grader and his 13-year-old brother Tyler were helping their grandfather chop and load wood on Sunday. The boys were sitting on the tailgate of their grandfather’s truck when he began backing down his gravel driveway and Cameron either fell or jumped off. [..]
“He didn’t look too worse for wear,” Shurley said. “He was just saying he had a headache.”‘
`Alberta’s oilsands could become the single biggest contributor to the world’s supply within 10 years, says a report released Wednesday by CIBC World Markets. [..]
The study of 164 new oilfields and projects indicates oil markets “will become even tighter over the next three years” if global demand continues to grow at its current pace, said Jeff Rubin, Chief Economist at CIBC World Markets. [..]
Rubin suggested global conventional oil production peaked in 2004. New supply in 2007 is expected to grow by less than 1.5 million barrels per day and will fall to less than one million barrels per day in 2008, the report says.’
`I don’t know what to think of this. Every time my boyfriend is riding me, he likes to stick things up my butt – like pencils and beer bottles. I don’t enjoy it, but every time he does it, it gets him off. I tried the same thing to him once, and he didn’t stop me. Is he gay?’
`Mike @ TechDirt writes “Norton AntiVirus maker Symantec admits that it planted a rootkit in SystemWorks to… pay close attention now… keep customers from accidentally deleting files. Really.
After sysinternals chief Mark Russinovich blew the whistle, Symantec decided that maybe, just maybe, the travesty wasn’t its best idea ever.’
`Apple’s television ads for its new Macs boast that for years, Intel’s chips have been “trapped inside PCs–dull little boxes, dutifully performing dull little tasks.”
Now, the voiceover proclaims, the Intel processor will finally be set free.
Of course, that’s not exactly the way Intel would put it.
“Never would we characterize our customers that way,” Intel Vice President Deborah Conrad said in an interview.’
`The Prime Minister’s brother, Stan Howard, will be prosecuted for chopping down up to 70 endangered trees on his property at Bowral in the southern New South Wales highlands.
Wingecarribee Shire Council spokesman Larry Whipper says Mr Howard and the contractor who bulldozed the trees could face a jail term and a $100,000 fine.’
`I am sure that not once in the product testing, and focus groups and marketing meetings did Oral-B ever think that there was a possibility that there vibrating flossier would be the central component of such a potentially questionable project. A very well build and engineered unit, the Oral-B flossier is compact and powerful. Using a standard AAA battery at 1.5 volt battery and a micro vibrating motor. At about 6.00 not to shabby for what you get.’
‘Between July 1945 and November 1962 the United States is known to have conducted 216 atmospheric and underwater nuclear tests. After the Limited Test Ban Treaty between the U.S. and the Soviet Union in 1963, nuclear testing went underground. It became literally invisible – but more frequent: the United States conducted a further 723 underground tests until 1992. 100 SUNS documents the era of visible nuclear testing, the atmospheric era, with 100 photographs drawn by Michael Light from the archives at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the U.S. National Archives in Maryland. It includes previously classified material from the clandestine Lookout Mountain Air Force Station based in Hollywood, whose film directors, cameramen, and still photographers were sworn to secrecy.’
`The problem, it appears, was partly down to teething troubles with the limited edition DVD players issued last year to Bafta members. Developed by Cinea, a subsidiary of Dolby, the players permit their owners to view encrypted DVD “screeners”, but prevent the creation of pirate copies. Munich screeners were encoded for region one, which allows them to be played in the US and Canada, rather than region two, which incorporates most of Europe.
The faulty DVDs only reached Bafta members on Saturday, which meant the film had already missed out on the first round of voting on January 4. In a further twist to the tale, a previous batch mailed out before Christmas were reportedly held up by customs officials in the UK. “It’s been quite a cock-up,” said one Bafta member, who spoke on condition of anonymity.’
`The URL is from a company that could make the OLEDs used in the keyboard. The Russian designers recently alluded to the problem. The OLEDs (lots of them) need POWER!!. This means the keyboard may need an electrical connection, as well as a ‘wired’ connectivity to the PC. Apparently the prototypes did not actually address this. Nothing wireless..’
followup to Optimus keyboard.
`The US Secretary of State released a coarse anti-Russian statement. This is because she is a single woman who has no children [..]
“This is the only way to satisfy her needs of a female. She derives pleasure from it. If she has no man by her side at her age, he will never appear. Even if she had a whole selection of men to choose from she would stay single because her soul and heart have hardened. Like Napoleon, Genghis Khan, Tamerlane, or Alexander the Great of Macedon Ms. Rice needs to fight and release tough public statements in global scale. She needs to be on top of the world. [..]
“Condoleezza Rice needs a company of soldiers. She needs to be taken to barracks where she would be satisfied. On the other hand, she can hardly be satisfied because of her age. This is a complex. She needs to return to her university and teach students there. She could also deal with psychological analysis.
“The true reason of Ms. Rice’s attack against Russia is very simple. Condoleezza Rice is a very cruel, offended woman who lacks men’s attention. Releasing such stupid remarks gives her the feeling of being fulfilled. This is the only way for her to attract men’s attention,” Vladimir Zhirinovsky said.’
Pravda has to be about the best newspaper on the planet, I just decided. Russian journalism is a top-notch, quality operation. 🙂
`The United States has backed a plan by Australia to sell uranium to China for nuclear power as long as there are strict safeguards to stop it falling into the hands of terrorists.
US Energy Secretary Sam Bodman gave the backing as he attended a major international climate change conference in Sydney. [..]
While Australia remains cagey about whether it will adopt nuclear power, Mr Bodman said the US had no problem with the federal government selling uranium to China.’
Wow, how generous of the US to give us their blessing to do as we wish with our own natural resources. I feel obliged to reciprocate. So, I hereby offer my official backing for the US plan to be a pack of war-mongering, greedy, oil-hungry cunts.
Not to say that I think we should send all our uranium to China. We should keep some for ourselves and get a few gigawatts of nuclear power reactors cooking.
`”The Weyburn Mental Hospital opened in 1921 and quickly became one of Canada’s most notorious psychiatric institutions. It was the site of lobotomies, electric shock therapy, and some of Canada’s controversial LSD experiments. It was here that Dr. Humphrey Osmond coined the word “psychedelic.” Virtually anywhere across Canada, if you mentioned you were from Weyburn, there would always be somebody who would know about the hospital and say, ‘Oh,’ and make some comment about either your own mental health or the mental health of the community, or just a joke about mental illness,” remembers Schultz. In 1971, the Weyburn Mental Hospital closed its doors and patients were transferred to other institutions.”‘
`These comparison photos having been making their rounds around the net today and they have to be seen to be believed. It just goes to show how much time and care the PGR3 team took to make the city of Tokyo as life like as possible.’
It actually takes a little while of looking at the pictures before you can tell which one is real and which is from the game.
`With space scarce as the U.S. prison population grows, a top Idaho lawmaker is proposing that inmates share beds by sleeping in shifts, a practice sometimes used by the U.S. military.
“Why does every inmate need his or her own bed?” asked State Sen. Robert Geddes. “The military does it all the time.”
The issue arises as Idaho and other states stiffen penalties for drug-related crimes, putting a premium on prison space. Idaho has nearly 7,000 inmates, and that number is growing by nearly 7 percent a year.’
`An Australian woman will face court on Tuesday charged with repeatedly stabbing her partner because he played an Elvis Presley song over and over again, police said on Tuesday. [..]
The man, whose injuries were described as “non-life threatening,” had been repeatedly playing the song “Burning Love,” a police spokesman said.
The 1972 song was the U.S. rock great’s 40th and last top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.’
`A few years ago my wife’s Nanny died and the cousins got together to find good homes for her possessions. They spent the day figuring out who should have what, including some fairly valuable paintings, antique furniture, etc. But when I saw this book, I just knew that this was the only thing I had to have. And so, in honor of Nanny, I share with you what may just be the best cookbook of all time. Enjoy.’
Screenshots of mistakes in a bunch of fairly well known movies. Some are obvious, some are less so. Although, I didn’t pick up any of these [even the most obvious ones] in these movies when I saw them.
Did anyone else notice Frodo’s scar moving from one side of his face to the other between scenes?
It’s spicy and it’s safe for work.
`Following the success of our digital line-up over the last seven years, which has resulted in more than 95% of Nikon’s UK business being within the digital area, Nikon Corporation has made the decision to focus management resources on digital cameras in place of film cameras. This decision will allow Nikon to continue to develop products that match the demands of an increasingly competitive market place. [..]
As a result of the new strategy Nikon will discontinue production of all lenses for large format cameras and enlarging lenses with sales of these products ceasing as soon as they run out of stock. This also applies to most of our film camera bodies, interchangeable manual focus lenses and related accessories. Although Nikon anticipates that the products will still be in retail distribution up to Summer 2006.’
`A 19-year-old youth-camp leader has broken his leg in two places after kicking ”one of the largest” huntsman spiders he had ever seen.
The teen saw the spider on a wall this morning while at the Attunga Country Campsite in the NSW Southern Highlands and attacked it with a deadly kick that ended the spider’s life – and badly affected his own.
He was airlifted to Liverpool hospital by an NRMA CareFlight helicopter from the camp, which is 25 kilometres west of Mittagong.’
`The IAGSDC is an umbrella organization supporting gay and lesbian Modern Western Square Dance clubs in the United States, Canada, Japan and Denmark. Our organization was formed by and for lesbians and gay men and for their friends. All IAGSDC clubs dance the Callerlab specified levels of Modern Western Square Dancing. Gay square dancing is high energy dancing. Since many gay square dancers can dance both the man’s and woman’s parts, they tend to be strong dancers with an excellent sense of position and set orientation.
Membership in IAGSDC clubs is open to all square dancers, regardless of age, race, gender, religion, ethnic background, or sexual orientation.’
`Constantin, 67, lived in a formerly peaceful village near Galati. But lately Constantin just couldn’t get any sleep, all because of a single noisy chicken. Night after night he dreamed of wringing its neck, or even better, chopping its head off. One night, he finally had enough. He roused himself from bed and headed out to the yard in his underwear, determined to bring silence once more to his home.
The sleep-deprived villager grabbed that chicken by the neck and chopped its head right off. Only then did he realize that he had confused his own penis for the chicken’s neck. While Constantin stood stunned by his folly, his dog rushed over and gobbled up the treat.’
It’s a Darwin Award nomination from 2004, but quality stupidity never gets old. 🙂
`Sumeyya Mamuk considered the chickens in her backyard to be beloved pets. The 8-year-old girl fed them, petted them and took care of them. When they started to get sick and die, she hugged them and tenderly kissed them goodbye. The next morning, her face and eyes were swollen and she had a high fever. Her father took her to a hospital, and five days later she was confirmed to have the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu. [..]
When her mother saw Sumeyya holding one of the dying chickens, she yelled at her and hit the girl to get her away.
Sumeyya began to cry. She wiped her tears with the hand she’d been using to comfort the dying chicken.’
`Microsoft’s relatively quick response to the WMF fiasco may have been a bit too quick. In the midst of a debate at Ars Technica over Microsoft’s personal-best performance in handling the WMF exploit, a few quiet voices popped up. Zakharov:
Is it me or was that patch distributed with some kind of hidden higher priority? I normally leave windows auto-update set to notify me when patches are downloaded for manual installation but the WMF patch took matters into its own hands and installed itself with a reboot. [..]
After Zakharov’s comment, one of our techs concurred. He noticed that one of our XP laptops that was set to simply download updates had restarted… And had the patch.
Meanwhile, astrashe, another Ars Technica member agreed with Zakharov:
I noticed the same thing. I got a message saying the patch had been installed, and that my machine had rebooted.’
`With one of the world’s longest beaches, Chittagong is Bangladesh’s biggest port. Half of the world’s supertankers are disassembled here.’
‘This guy is trying to ride his bike off a jump into the water. He makes it to the water, but not they way he planned. That’s a full 360 length-wise flip.’
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‘God.. in my tits! My tits inside God! My tits are God-ly, my tits are God!’
I have no fucken idea what this is about, but I do know that it’s crazy. Seems to be something to do with Madonna.
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