‘Defense contractors say that within the next 10 years they’ll have a solid state laser mounted on a Hummer that can put a hole in sheet of metal from several miles away. Well Dutch graffiti writers can pretty much do that now with this Hymermobil rocking a GRL L.A.S.E.R. Tagging System.
Find out from Agent Watson how this big fucking laser works and download the open source code.’
This is basically a big laser that lets you draw pictures on the sides of buildings.
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‘The naughty prints are only “kind of” sponsored by Greenpeace because Exit3a copywriter Tom Mullen admits to AdCritic they haven’t told the organization about the print series yet. “It’s probably not legal, but there’s too much paperwork, meetings and phone calls involved to get the campaign approved in time for Earth Day,” he explains. “I figure Greenpeace is too busy getting sued by conglomerates to bother suing a few people who are trying to promote the cause. They can always officially deny the vulgarity.”
If fortune favours the brave, perhaps that grace extends to those disinclined to ask permission for slapping mom-fucking ads out into the open and signing it Greenpeace.’
‘An Australian company has announced ambitious plans to prove that potentially planet-saving hot rocks are not just a load of hot air.
Geodynamics Limited says it has secured a $32 million drilling rig from Texas and is on track to spud Australia’s first commercial-scale hot rock well by the middle of this year.
The well, to be sunk four kilometres underground in South Australia’s Cooper Basin, could be in commercial production by 2010 if all goes according to plan, the company says.’
‘Two circus clowns have been shot dead during a performance in the eastern Colombian city of Cucuta, police say.
The attacker jumped into the arena and fired before fleeing, police chief Jose Humberto Henao told Efe news agency.
Local reports say the audience of about 20 people, mostly children, thought the shooting was part of the show before realising both men had been killed.’
Recently a former sportsman said he didn’t like gay people. George Takei [of Star Trek fame] responds.
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I wouldn’t want to fight her.
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‘A Malaysian state plans to recruit “spies” from the public to snoop on unmarried lovers and report them to Islamic religious authorities, a newspaper said on Tuesday.
The Terengganu state government plans to enlist the part-time spies to look out for un-Islamic behaviour, such as unmarried couples kissing or holding hands, the Star daily said.
“Some of these ‘spies’ could be waitresses or even janitors at hotels acting as auxiliary undercover agents for our religious department,” the head of the state government’s Islamic and welfare committee, Rosol Wahid, was quoted as saying.’
‘A southeast Queensland man has been charged with attempted murder after allegedly putting a woman in a car with a hose from the exhaust pipe feeding into the vehicle, and then raping her.
Police said the 60-year-old woman fell asleep in her home in Bundaberg between 6pm (AEST) on Sunday and 3am yesterday after feeling odd following a meal.
She was woken by a man who allegedly put her in a car where a hose had been fed into the vehicle from the exhaust pipe.
It’s alleged the woman was raped before being able to leave the vehicle.
A 62-year-old man has been charged with attempted murder [..]’
‘Masayuki Suo had an international hit a decade ago with the original “Shall We Dance?” Now the director is offering much more serious fare: a film that challenges Japan’s secretive, lethargic justice system.
“I Just Didn’t Do It” is about the legal battle of a man mistakenly accused of groping a woman on a jam-packed commuter train in Tokyo, taking aim at a court system with a suspiciously high 99 percent conviction rate.’
A real time world map showing information about emergencies and disasters currently occurring.
‘Pensacola evangelist Kent Hovind was sentenced Friday afternoon to 10 years in prison on charges of tax fraud. [..]
Hovind, founder of Creation Science Evangelism and Dinosaur Adventure Land in Pensacola, was found guilty in November of 58 federal counts, including failure to pay $845,000 in employee-related taxes. He faced a maximum of 288 years in prison.
Jo Hovind was charged and convicted in 44 of the counts involving evading bank-reporting requirements and faces a maximum of 225 years in prison.’
‘A leader of the Texas House of Representatives apologized Friday for circulating an appeal to ban the teaching of evolution as derived from “Rabbinic writings” and other Jewish texts.
“I had no intention to offend anyone,” said the lawmaker, Warren Chisum, a Republican from the Panhandle who is chairman of the House Appropriations Committee. [..]
It continued, “Indisputable evidence — long hidden but now available to everyone — demonstrates conclusively that so-called secular evolution science is the Big Bang 15-billion-year alternate ‘creation scenario’ of the Pharisee Religion.”
“This scenario,” the memorandum stated, “is derived concept-for-concept from Rabbinic writings on the mystic ‘holy book’ kabbala dating back at least two millennia.”’
Followup to: Texas Republicans are anti-Copernicus
‘Smoking a joint is no longer cool among the young, according to a new poll, which found one in three regard it as unacceptable.
A study by the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre found marijuana had become socially unfashionable in the same way as cigarettes.
“Clearly, it’s not as acceptable as it once was to be stoned,” said Paul Dillon, a spokesman for the centre at the University of NSW.’
I don’t know what’s wrong with kids today. 🙂
This is a film version of that allegedly true story that’s been going around for a while. Kinda funny. 🙂
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‘Anti-porn group CP80 and film company Living Biography have joined forces to release “Traffic Control,” a new documentary that details what it calls the rampant rise in Internet pornography and the fight to stop it. [..]
“I can’t tell you how many stories I’ve heard, how many lives I’ve seen destroyed by pornography,” Rep. Bradley Daw, the resolution’s sponsor, said. “This is an absolute scourge on our society.”
Ralph Yarro, founder of CP80, called the Utah resolution the “shot heard around the world.”
“Utah is standing up and saying, ‘Porn is a problem,'” he said.’
Because everyone listens to Utah.
‘In a stunning declaration at a London charity gig last night, teary punk celeb Kelly Osbourne revealed that a member of her family has the AIDS virus. [..]
Introducing a performance by the pop band Scissor Sisters, Kelly fought back tears as she said the cause was special to her because a member of her family had been diagnosed with the disease. Photographers said Osbourne sobbed before leaving the stage.
Calls and e-mailed requests for comment were not immediately returned.’
‘North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has ordered the seizure of all Japanese-made cars in the communist country after he spotted a broken-down model blocking a road, a press report said today.
The order came on January 1 when Kim visited the embalmed body of the North’s founding leader Kim Il-sung, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency said, in a sign of his growing discontent with Japan’s hardline stance on North Korea. [..]
It remains to be seen whether North Korean authorities will be able to implement the order fully, because most of the cars operating in the country are Japanese, Yonhap said.’
‘Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and today it is also in the click of your mouse. Consider the key key aspects of nipple appearance, nipple projection and areola size, and then cast your vote for the perfect nipple. It’s simple to do, click on the square with your favorite nipple then click “cast your vote”. If you enter your email address you can also receive our popular cosmetic surgery newsletter.’
‘Researchers are trying to find ways to regrow fingers – and someday, even limbs – with tricks that sound like magic spells from a Harry Potter novel.
There’s the guy who sliced off a fingertip but grew it back, after he treated the wound with an extract of pig bladder. And the scientists who grow extra arms on salamanders. And the laboratory mice with the eerie ability to heal themselves.
This summer, scientists are planning to see whether the powdered pig extract can help injured soldiers regrow parts of their fingers. And a large federally funded project is trying to unlock the secrets of how some animals regrow body parts so well, with hopes of applying the the lessons to humans.’
‘In cold bureaucratic language, the official reports describe lurid acts: High-ranking officials at an isolated state juvenile prison were molesting young male inmates.
Many prison staffers at the West Texas State School complained about the abuse to their immediate bosses and to officials in Austin, the reports say. But, for more than a year, no one in charge did anything to stop it. Evidence was ignored or covered up. Two years after a Texas Rangers investigation concluded, no one has been prosecuted.
Some former employees say similar problems afflict many prisons run by the Texas Youth Commission, whose official mission is to “fix broken children.”‘
‘Campaigners against genetically modified crops in Britain last are calling for trials of GM potatoes this spring to be halted after releasing more evidence of links with cancers in laboratory rats.
UK Greenpeace activists said the findings, obtained from Russian trials after an eight-year court battle with the biotech industry, vindicated research by Dr Arpad Pusztai, whose work was criticised by the Royal Society and the Netherlands State Institute for Quality Control.
The disclosure last night of the Russian study on the GM Watch website led to calls for David Miliband, the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, to withdraw permission for new trials on GM potatoes to go ahead at secret sites in the UK this spring. [..]’
‘The humble incadescent light bulb is about to become history as Australia dumps it in favour of more energy efficient technology.
Federal Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull says the standard incandescent light bulb, which has been around for 125 years, will be phased out by 2009.
It will be replaced by the compact fluorescent bulb, which costs $5 more but is around 80 per cent more energy efficient.
Mr Turnbull said new standards will be in place by 2009.’
‘To the locals, it’s the “McMissile” case.
And like the name, the details of it spill forth like a bad joke: A woman is driving north on Interstate 95. Three kids squirm in the back seat, and her sister, six months pregnant and having early contractions, sits in the front. The stress starts to simmer. Traffic slows, then crawls, then creeps. More stress. A car cuts in front of her, then scoots away. A short time later, it darts in again. She can no longer take it. She veers onto the shoulder and speeds up. Wham! She tosses a large McDonald’s cup filled with ice into the other car. [..]
The jury sentenced her to two years in prison, the minimum, and a judge will formally impose a sentence Wednesday. Under state law, the judge can only decrease the jury’s sentence.
“We didn’t think it would go this far,” Hall said in an interview at the Rappahannock Regional Jail. “Two years! What did I do?”‘
