moonbuggy

`This page, like my arse, is still under construction. Despite hemorrhoid surgery, laser fissure closing and repeated anal tucks, Johnny’s arse is still not ready for public exposure. Once Johnny is happy with his arse we expect to be able to show it on this page. In the meantime here’s a picture of a bird trying to fine-tune her smile by twiddling her nips…..’

`My neighbours are stealing my wireless internet access. I could encrypt it or alternately I could have fun. [..]

Suddenly everything is kittens! It’s kitten net. [..]

For the uninitiated, this redirects all traffic to kittenwar.

For more fun, we set iptables to forward everything to a transparent squid proxy running on port 80 on the machine. [..]

That machine runs squid with a trivial redirector that downloads images, uses mogrify to turn them upside down and serves them out of it’s local webserver.’

`Frogs playing cards, seated at a café, in the schoolroom, at the barber’s or in a soldier’s garb. Discover our collection of 108 different frogs in satirical scenes of everyday life circa 1850. A truly unusual experience.’

`To play the record the handle needs to be turned in a clockwise direction at a steady 33.3 rpm. The paper cone then acts as a pick up and amplifies the sound enough to make it audible.’

A cool little illusion that makes a black and white picture appear to be coloured after you stare at a dot for a while.

I wouldn’t want to drive on it.

`US War Dept produced comic strip included in the first edition of the “POCKET GUIDE TO CHINA”, a 75-page booklet distributed to US soldiers (Army and Navy) during their stay in China during World War II.’

`Hundreds of people have flocked to a hospital in the Indian city of Calcutta to see a man holding a sizeable chunk of his head in his hands.

Doctors say a section of electrician Sambhu Roy’s skull fell off on Sunday, months after he suffered severe burns.

He has now become the centre of public attention as the man who literally “holds his head in his hands”.’

`This friend confirmed her suspicions by telling her that yes, she was being haunted–by the spirits of all those killed by the Winchester rifle over the years. The medium suggested that she move far away and build a house. The key, the medium added, would be to have the house in a perpetual state of construction. If Sarah were ever to complete the house, it would leave her vulnerable to the curses of the vengeful spirits.

Frightened and still grieving, Sarah Winchester believed every word. In 1884 she moved to what was then a rural area near San José, California. There, she purchased an eight-room farmhouse on more than 160 acres of land. Very shortly, a work crew began a perpetual construction project which would ultimately last for nearly forty years.’

There’s lots of images of the place at the Mystery House blog.

`What to watch out for when picking photos for your marketing materials’

This is pretty accurate. You see these sorts of photos all over the place.

`These are things I find abandoned in books or stuffed on the book cart at the jail where I volunteer.’

`The prohibition of psychoactive substances has evolved gradually in the United States and in Europe. The opium-containing preparation laudanum had been widely available since the 18th century. Morphine, cocaine, and even heroin were seen as miracle cures when they were first discovered. During the mid to late 19th century, many manufacturers proudly proclaimed that their products contained cocaine or opium. A few, like Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for infants which contained morphine, were more guarded in divulging their principal ingredients. By the beginning of the 20th century, problems with habitual use of cocaine and opiates was becoming increasingly apparent. This led to the removal of these substances from some products (e.g., Coca Cola) and to the introduction of the Pure Food and Drug Act (1906) in the United States which required the listing of ingredients on product labels. Nonetheless, standard narcotic remedies like paregoric remained readily available into the early 20th century, and Benzedrine inhalers were marketed without prescription until the early 1950s. Codeine wasn’t removed from most over-the-counter cough suppressants until the early 1980s.’

`A black bear got more than it bargained for after straying into a family garden in the US state of New Jersey.

The unwelcome intruder was forced up a tree – twice – by the family pet, a tabby cat called Jack.

The terrified bear was only able to make its escape when owner Donna Dickey called the hissing cat into the house.’

followup to Mechanic sucked into jet engine.

`As someone with a great interest in teratology – the study of perceived abnormalities in the natural world – the human marvels of the sideshow garner great attention and interest from me. Herein bear witness to peculiar and puzzling physical phenomena – to those prodigies of years past. Ladies and Gentlemen, may I present for your enlightenment, The Human Marvels.’

`Presenting the world’s first hard drive, first introduced in 1956 — IBM’s 5MB Random Access Memory Accounting: RAMAC®, magnetic-disk memory storage. It stored information on fifty disks, which spun at 1,200 rpm.’

`This site is dedicated to the amateur scientist studying high energy physics. It is an overview of the work done by our local group of physics enthusiasts.

We work in the following areas:

Nuclear Fusion
Tesla Coils
Water Arc Explosions
Electrostatics
Instrument Construction
Magnetics’

Images of some tiny machines.

`Chloe who plays one of the wifes in HBO’s new show ‘Big Love’ appeared in this nude photoshoot.’

`The Wartsila-Sulzer RTA96-C turbocharged two-stroke diesel engine is the most powerful and most efficient prime-mover in the world today. The Aioi Works of Japan’s Diesel United, Ltd built the first engines and is where some of these pictures were taken.

It is available in 6 through 14 cylinder versions, all are inline engines. These engines were designed primarily for very large container ships. Ship owners like a single engine/single propeller design and the new generation of larger container ships needed a bigger engine to propel them.

The cylinder bore is just under 38″ and the stroke is just over 98″. Each cylinder displaces 111,143 cubic inches (1820 liters) and produces 7780 horsepower. Total displacement comes out to 1,556,002 cubic inches (25,480 liters) for the fourteen cylinder version.’

`Dance Dance Revolution. With Flamethrowers. Pointed at you.’

Not in a language I can read, but the pictures speak for themselves, I suppose.

‘This is a my street-legal jet car on full afterburner. The car has two engines: the production gasoline engine in the front driving the front wheels and the jet engine in the back. The idea is that you drive around legally on the gasoline engine and when you want to have some fun, you spin up the jet and get on the burner (you can start the jet while driving along on the gasoline engine). The car was built because I wanted the wildest street-legal ride possible. With this project, I was able to use some stuff I learned while getting my fancy engineering degree (I have a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University) to design a street-legal jet car without the distraction of how other people have done it in the past – because no one has. I don’t know how fast the car will go and probably never will. The car was built to thrill me, not kill me. That doesn’t stop me from the occasional blast on the highway though.’

`We met at Union Square North at 3:30 PM. Around 80 agents showed up, most them looking like wonderful Best Buy employees. More than a few came dressed in navy or teal, but with the belt and the khakis they still looked employee-like. After everyone arrived I explained the mission. The first step was for everyone to throw their newspapers away. The instruction to bring a newspaper was a red herring meant to throw people off the scent of the mission’s true nature. I then revealed the plan, “We’re heading up to the Best Buy on 23rd Street. We’ll enter the store one by one. Once inside, spread out and stand near the end of an aisle, facing away from the merchandise. Don’t shop, but don’t work either. If a customer comes up to you and asks you a question, be polite and help them if you know the answer. If anyone asks you if you work there, say no. If an employee asks you what you’re doing, respond ‘I’m waiting for my girlfriend/boyfriend who is shopping elsewhere in the store.’ If they question you about your clothing, just explain that it’s what you put on when you woke up this morning and you don’t know any of the other people dressed like you.”‘