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Sunday, June 26, 2005

 

Island fort for sale at £150,000

‘Stack Rock Fort, about 800 yards off the west Wales coast near Milford Haven, is for sale for £150,000.

The 19th Century fort – complete with a couple of cannons – dates back from the time of Napoleon, when it was initially built as a defence for the river Haven.

But it has nowhere to sleep at present, and the new owner will have to sort out sewage, water and power. ‘

The photo looks kinda cool. I’d like to live in a place like this one day. 🙂 All you need is a generator and a directional wifi antenna to jump then 800 yards to shore, and you’d have you very own cyberporn island of doom.


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Tuesday, June 7, 2005

 

Perversion for Profit (Part I)

‘Anti-pornography film produced by financier Charles Keating, linking pornography to the Communist conspiracy and the decline of Western civilization.’

Also, Perversion for Profit (Part II).

Various sized downloads.

see it here »


Sunday, June 5, 2005

 

A brief history of: www.stupidlylongurlthatyoucannotrememberasweregistereditwhilepissed.com


Monday, February 28, 2005

 

Even the Vikings were troubled by the thought that size matters

`Research into medieval Icelandic gender and sexuality has found that even the heroes of Viking Age sagas were troubled by the thought that size really does matter.

Dr Carl Phelpstead of Cardiff University’s School of English, Communication and Philosophy presented a paper: ‘Size Matters: Penile Problems in Sagas of Icelanders’ to the International Medieval Congress, held in Leeds last week.’


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Heirloom Cheese from Italy – 67 Years Old!!!!!!

`The story begins in 1938. My grandmother’s uncle, Peter Traini was living in Italy. In the Ascola Piscena region (Boy I hope I spelled that right or my grandmother will kill me). Several years prior, his brother, Ferdinand Traini, left for America. One day Peter recieved a letter from Ferdinand telling him how wonderful and full of prosperity America was. So Peter decided to make the trip. He boarded a ship in Italy and came to the new and wonderful country Ferdinand had wrote to him about. With him Peter brought only the clothes on his back and this cheese, as a gift for Ferdinand. The cheese even passed through Ellis Island with Peter.’


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Saturday, February 26, 2005

 

Famous Trials


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Saturday, August 21, 2004

 

Doomsday Wreck in Thames Could Blow

`Unstable fuses could cause unsalvaged World War II bombs aboard an abandoned shipwreck in the river Thames, UK, to blow [..]

[..] official estimates of the devastation that the explosion would cause [include] predictions of a three kilometre high column of water, mud, metal and munitions sent into the air by the blast. ‘

also here.