Tax the iPod!

iPod tax. Similar to the CD-r/w tax...

[ But what about if its for a creditable business purpose... ]

el'cheapo Hard Drive Cooler

[ Its just a peice of metal with two holes and bent at 90 degrees... oh and a fan... and the conectors to power the fan and possibly the controler and tempreture sensor and any other lighting effects you want.. ]

...

FM Radio Jammer

Its cheap if u can actually find the 100Mhz Oscillator and pry it free from its home of long

[ Extreamly Illegal ]

Weeeman

The WEEE Man is made from the amount of waste electrical and electronic products that an average UK citizen – YOU – will throw away in YOUR lifetime, if YOU carry on disposing of products at the current rate. Currently most of these products go straight into landfill. From January 2006 manufactures & retailers will be responsible for recycling this waste under new EU legislation called the WEEE (Waste Electrical & Electronic Equipment) Directive.

[ Nothing to do with wee ]

Recorder Race

Totaly Awsome. This has to be one of the more cooler makey thingys on the interney. They have taken tape player (walkmans as we know them...) and added some wheels...



[ Sir Cliff Richard gets interneted ]

Now that making stuff is so cool, and people are starting to call it "hack" as it is sort of hacking/reverse engerneering, but its diffrent to the normal internet meaning of hacking which is gaining access to another persons computer and planting viruses or what ever those looser do... Its more of a physical hack. So I think there needs to be a better name for it. PHack....

WINKsite

All you need is your RSS/ATOM/XML feed and your set.

[ Interneting on the Move ]

Scary: Dawn of the Dead/Real Zombies

There has been a small outbreak of “zombism” in a small town near the border of Laos in North-Eastern Cambodia.

The culprit was discovered to be mosquitoes native to that region carrying a new strain of Malaria which thus far has a 100 percent mortality rating killing victims in fewer than 2 days.

After death, this virus is able to restart the heart of it’s victim for up to two hours after the initial demise of the person where the individual behaves in extremely violent ways from what is believe to be a combination of brain damage and a chemical released into blood during “resurrection.”

Cambodian officials say that the outbreak has been contained and the public has no need to worry.

General Ary Serey had this to say, "We have obtained samples of this new virus and plan to learn how it starts the heart and other major organs of the deceased. We intend to use this to increase the quality of life for all."

US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice opposed the plan saying that the Cambodian government holds a great biological weapon and should destroy it immediately. Cambodian officials have yet to comment.

A United Nations team will be dispatched to Cambodia to confirm the safety of biological research in Cambodia.

[ Shaun Goes to Cambodia ]

Rent-a-German

Leila R., 36 (Rio de Janeiro):
"I will never forget, when I went to the beach with the German.
My friends had a good time, eating chicken with him under the sun of Ipanema beach.
Next time, I will buy him a new swimming trouser."

[ rentals... for... errr... stuff.... ]

Book Art

Books that have been turned into book art.

[ Maybe they should be called book sculptures ]

Moby's Unborn Son Gay

Pop star Moby, known for his political statements as well as his music, says he'd do everything he could to make his future child homosexual should the singer ever have a family.

He's also blasting conservatives Tom DeLay, Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity and Newt Gingrich as "amoral/immoral" right wingers.

In an interview with Planet Out, a publication geared toward homosexuals, the musician, who is not "gay," was lamenting so-called homophobia in society when he suggested his future child should be raised to be a homosexual.

[ Not that thres anything wrong with that' ]

Awsome Insect Pictures

[ Now in naturalistic macro. Or so I'm Told ]

Ambulance Blog

An awsome blog by an ambulance person. Real stuff happens in this blog. Its just amazing.

[ Random Acts Of Reality ]

Steve's Home Theater

One Man. One Dream. This is probably the most awsome home theater setup. This guy deserves some kinda recognition. Maybe a skippy badge would be appropriate.

[ Its called effort ]

Singe Person Cars

Mico Cars that seat one person. They look kinda cool, but they are missing doors and the back of the car...

[ Wonder how these will fair verses a Toyota Landcruiser ]

CockCoffee

This was a B3ta Challange. To make a picture of a cock in a coffee...

[ Everything to do with froth ]

Watermellon Art

For some reason this seems pointless

[ Wow ]

Slow Scan TV

Its like the internet but with out the wires.

Bukkake Cookies

[ From the makers of porn bread ]

DIY Sex Change

[ Theres a Step by step guide for everything ]

Pope Blesses Break Dancing

[ Its ok to Break Dance ]

Also after looking around the blog its actually not bad. With other breakdancing vids such as the robot one and an array of awsome links on the web

Son of Pork Pie

looks soooo tasty

[ Massive Pork Pie ]

Cat Buckeroo

Play buckeroo with your cat by placing stuff on it untill it wakes up and moves to a different location.

[ The infection spreads ]

Its probably not going to be long before someone sets up a flicker group so that everyone can post their "cat rack" pictures... I give it 5 hours

Rasterbator Goes Offline

There is now an offline version of the awsome rasterbator. Its less than a meg so wont take long to download. Cant wait to try it out... (note: dial up is still slow...)

[ Better than using the online version ]

eBay item 7509399867

Unlce Rico's Time Machine is up for sale on eBay. Its not the real one. just a fake. Its probably Rico trying to make a quick buck...

[ Time Machine or cock zapper? ] You get to decide

[Note: This device looks like its made of plastic and probably wont zap you as hard as you will like]

[Dang!: I forgot to mention it includes the crystal so you should be able to travel back a few years interms of mental health]

Achewood - April 22, 2005

Free Cut ups from Achewood

Brisbane Water Crisis

SOUTHEAST Queensland is only 18 months away from "total failure" of the drinking water supply, a top-secret Brisbane Water memo leaked to The Courier-Mail has starkly warned.
Experts at Brisbane Water, Brisbane City Council's water management arm, have calculated the region will effectively run dry by November next year unless there is a normal wet season this summer – or more than 600mm of rain.

Almost 60mm, the height of a gumboot, has to fall in any two-week period just to get measurable run-off into Wivenhoe and Somerset dams, the two largest dams in the area.

Electricity supplies also could be hit because Tarong and Swanbank power stations rely heavily on water from Somerset and Wivenhoe dams, as well as the Brisbane and Bremer rivers.

The average capacity at Wivenhoe, Somerset and North Pine, the major dams in the region, is down to 41.5 per cent, a record low.

The experts mentioned in the memo outlined a worst case scenario where there were no dam "inflows" over the next 18 months.

Even with all proposed restrictions in place, that reduce the region's storage to 10 per cent by November 2006. The remaining water might be undrinkable.

"Our best advice to date indicates extracting water down to and below 10 per cent will have considerable water quality and engineering consequences," the memo warned.

"We are now entering our dry season and low probability of rain before our next wet season in October 2005.

"This means we have 12 months and one wet season left before total failure."

[ Save water by not flushing ]

Why not just use sea water?

Here's a crazy idea. No really it is crazy... Why not start filtering the ocean of all its salt. That way no one will have to worry about water. And there will be free salt for everyone (not that there isnt already...)

Hot Chick + Fire = HOT CHICK

Its mainly a picture site, so theres no point in me writing stuff.

Just click the link. Hopefully this makes up for the lemon party....

[ CAPSLOCK IS FUN ]

Gays can now get married in Spain

It would be advisable to not click this link.

[ Its a lemon Party ]

Ponting's bat gets approval

[ Why is the sticker made of carbon graphite? ]

Most Famour Man on the Internet

[ At the moment ]

CNN.com - Qatar�to replace camel riders with robots - Apr 20, 2005

DOHA, Qatar (AP) -- With the reins in one hand and a whip in the other, the purple-jerseyed rider prodded a camel around the track.

But this jockey wasn't the usual underfed boy. The jockey was a robot.

Under the watchful eyes of his Swiss developer and Qatari owners, the robot -- dubbed Kamel -- rode a racing camel for 1.5 miles, reaching speeds of 25 miles per hour in a non-competitive trial run.

By 2007, rulers of this energy-rich emirate say all camel racers will be mechanical.

The developer, Alexandre Colot of the Swiss robotics firm K-Team, wasn't as impressed as the rest of the crowd.

"I wasn't surprised," Colot said, as he walked toward the camel to unstrap Kamel and put him in a box for the night. "I've seen him do that before, so to me, it's not something strange."

Thats becuase you probably spent the last eight years of your life creating a robot to ride a camel. Why not do somthing usefull and make it kill. At least that way you will have something to defend your self against when America comes after the rest of the oil.

[ Next Thing you'll know is they are racing cars ]

[Note: I know about the F1 in Bahrain, It was a dude joke...]

Nazi's take up residence in Mannering Park

The flag had been flying in the backyard of the home of Mannering Park residents Darren Mackay and Jenni Duncombe.

It sparked criticism from the RSL, Jewish groups and local residents after the family refused requests to remove it. Ms Duncombe had told the Daily Telegraph she did not know what the flag signified until the controversy erupted, but would not remove it because her four-month-old daughter liked its bright colours.

Today, the couple's neighbour Amanda Smith said the flag disappeared this morning. "I can't see it and I can see the flag pole from my house," she said.

Ms Smith said she was one of a number of residents who complained to the police about the matter.

"I'm not usually the type of person to complain about these sorts of things. "But when you see it you think what is going on, what sort of people are they and what are they doing." Ms Smith said she found it hard to believe that Ms Duncombe did not know what the flag stood for or that it would be offensive.

[HIGHLIGHT=SUPERBRIGHT]"You have to be very ignorant to not know what that was," she said. [/HIGHLIGHT]

[ The small edge of the wedge ]

Office Wisdom

1. Eagles may soar high, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.

2. Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.

3. There may be no 'I' in team, but there's a 'ME' if you look hard enough.

4. Process and Procedure are the last hiding place of people without the wit and wisdom to do their job properly.

5. Remember that age and treachery will always triumph over youth and ability.

6. Never do today that which will become someone else’s responsibility tomorrow.

7. Every time you open your mouth you have this wonderful ability to continually confirm what I think.

8. Show me a good loser and I'll show you a LOSER!

9. Put the key of despair into the lock of apathy. Turn the knob of mediocrity slowly and open the gates of despondency - welcome to a day in the average office.

10. If your boss is getting you down, look at him through the prongs of a fork and imagine him in jail.

11. If you can keep your head when all around you have lost theirs, then you probably haven't understood the seriousness of the situation.

12. If you treat the people around you with love and respect, they will never guess that you're trying to get them sacked.

13. If at first you don't succeed, remove all evidence you ever tried.

14. You have to be 100% behind someone, before you can stab them in the back.

15. If work was so good, the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.

16. Those of you who think you know everything are annoying to those of us who do.

17. There's no 'I' in 'team'. But then there's no 'I' in 'useless smug cock', either. And there's four in 'platitude-quoting idiot'. Go figure.

18. Know your limitations and be content with them. Too much ambition results in promotion to a job you can't do.

19. If you're gonna be late, then be late and not just 2 minutes - make it an hour and enjoy your breakfast.

20. A problem shared is a problem halved, so is your problem really yours or just half of someone else’s?

21. Is your work done? Are all pigs fed, watered and ready to fly?

22. I thought I could see the light at the end of the tunnel, but it was just some b*stard with a torch, bringing me more work.

23. Avoid employing unlucky people - throw half of the pile of CVs in the bin without reading them.

Welcome to ZOMBO

You can do anything at Zombo.com! The only limit is yourself.

[ ZOMBOCOM ]

eMessenger

Probably posted this a few times already, but its still good. Its the online version of messenger.

[ eMessenger ]

Explicitly Explicit

N.W.A 's Straight Out Of Compton edited so that ONLY the swear words remain.

[ ni9e ]

Robotech Petition

Just in case there's more than a few of you who still like/remember Robotech, there is a petition (sanctioned by Robotech.com) to have a Robotech convention in 2006. With a new show (an OVA this fall, potential series later) it could be the next big sci-fi resurrection. At the very least there might be tons of Robotech merchandise you might otherwise find hard to get in Australia. (and there's always give aways). So if you like Robotech, go ahead and ask for it.

[ Help RoboTech Help you ]

only on the internet

[ mmm subway... ]

Neuromarketing

For an ad campaign that started a revolution in marketing, the Pepsi Challenge TV spots of the 1970s and '80s were almost absurdly simple. Little more than a series of blind taste tests, these ads showed people being asked to choose between Pepsi and Coke without knowing which one they were consuming. Not surprisingly, given the sponsor, Pepsi was usually the winner.

But 30 years after the commercials debuted, neuroscientist Read Montague was still thinking about them. Something didn't make sense. If people preferred the taste of Pepsi, the drink should have dominated the market. It didn't. So in the summer of 2003, Montague gave himself a 'Pepsi Challenge' of a different sort: to figure out why people would buy a product they didn't particularly like.

[ Maybe becuase pepsi bribed people to like it... ]

linear

Awsome site with heaps of info and a handy LED calculator to get you started down the spiral of modding. Espircaly LED's which are just the coolest. IMO Can never have enough LED's...

[ linear ]

2000 Lumens Limited Release (Surefire)

Specs
* Lamp assembly/Runtime – xenon-fill High Intensity Discharge (HID) arc lamp with 2000-lumen output for 90 minutes
* Construction – CNC-machined aerospace-grade aluminum; MilSpec Type III hard anodizing for corrosion and wear-resistance; Pyrex® window for improved scratch resistance; and built-in circuit breaker
* Length and weight (with batteries) – 14.75 inches/ 3.25 pounds
* Flawless white beam, always in focus
* Up to 120 times brighter than a typical two D-cell alkaline flashlight
* 3.85-inch reflector maximizes beam range
* Single hand operation with thumb-activated switch and lock-out tailcap
* Self-defense tool, bright enough to temporarily blind an opponent
* Waterproof, airtight Hardigg Storm Case®
* Rubberized bezel protector

[ Power is supplied to the Beast by twenty 123 lithium batteries held securely inside four cylindrical chambers machined into the flashlight body. ]

RIDICULOUSLY SENSITIVE CHARGE DETECTOR

[ Shoe mod anyone... ]

Create Comic Book Style on The Computer

Why learning to draw when you can just turn the real world into a comic book...

[ teh l337 photoshop skilz ]

Stick Figure Animation Program

Theres this nifty program that will allow you to make stick figure animation. Easily

[ Say no to tween ]

Is the Internet Under-Hyped?

Hell Yes!

Wikimedia announces Yahoo "support"

Wikipedia is now going to be hosted by Yahoo (physicly on their Asian servers). Supposedly this is a "donation" but since they are going to be putting the content directly into their own portal it seems a little fishey...

[ Assimilation to begin imediatly ]

Cookie Monster goes on Diet

Geez, talk about sucking all the fun out of life. Cookie Monster will be cutting back on sweets as part of a new healthy eating program on Sesame Street. The googly-eyed, blue fuzzball will learn that "A Cookie Is a Sometimes Food." What next, a song called "C is for Celery?"

Biggest Spoiler ever put on a car

[ Its J-Spec ]

Paper Porn

No. I am not stating the obvious. Or am I...

Here is something from Japan. Its origami. But pronographic origami.

[ Pornigami ]

A very small drone

There are now dozens of different types of drones in the Pentagon's arsenal. But you'd be hard-pressed to find one smaller than this Wasp Micro Air Vehicle (MAV), now being tested aboard the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group off Southern California.

wasp_uav.jpg"The Wasp has two cameras — one forward and one aft — that collect and feed live video or other information. It’s designed to follow a programmed or relayed route using Global Positioning System waypoints or other navigational systems," C4ISR Journal says.

[ scary ]

Fabulous Forests

Some nice pickies from around the world of forests. Its really quite amazing stuff. Its almost sureal.

[ Another Kodak Moment ]

Mosaic Pictures

Somone has been kind enought to write a program to do this and not rely on that fagot who sold out... Anyway, just make sure you have a lot of pictures, or it wont turn out good.

[ Download ]

Kite Cam

A guide on how to hack a digital camera to take pictures form a kite. Previously needed to have a camera with a timer....

[ Land Hoy ]

Make a Magnetic Spice Rack

A spice rack that is a little different. Possibly even too different. Hopefully mums around the world will appreciate.

[ You know you want to click ]

Infra Red Webcam

A Guide to turning you normal webcam into a infared webcam.

[ Got Goldfish envy? ]

Missleading Headline

HAHAHAHAH

[ 1.111111107
]

Copyright?

Want a designer wall clock. Make your own. And I dont mean design one becuase you couldnt. Best to leave these things to real designers. And just copy them.

[ href="http://www.thwartdesign.com/progresspg/withoutpg/dwor_ball.html">Its for educational purposes ]

[Does that mean you can copy 10% of the internet without it being classified as plagerism?]

Duct Tape Messenger Bag

[ Why fix your old bag when you can make a new one ]

Or you could just use a plastic bag which came free when you purchased the duct tape...

Duct Tape Wallet

Here are the instructions on how to make your own wallet out of duct tape straight from 3m.

[ Make it ]

Or just buy one from thinkgeek

Story Maps

Get a satalite picture (from the internt ofcourse...) and then use the annotation in flicker to make a story map.

[ wow ]

Freakish Fruit

Grape + Apple = Grapple

"Looks like and Apple. Tastes like a Grape."

What an ingenious idea... Should of just done what the Russians did and just grow bigger grapes...

[ Concrapulations ]

Nambers

A namber is part name and part number. Each number between 0 and 255 has a namber. For example, 1 is fun and 213 is star.

A namber address is an internet address that uses nambers. For example, mysteryrobot.com's namber is drum.start.orange.hope.mysteryrobot.com.

Each computer on the internet has an address of four numbers. These numbers are translated to nambers to form the namber address. For example, mysteryrobot.com's internet address is 65.214.160.117. The namber for 65 is drum, 214 is start, 160 is orange, and 117 is hope. mysteryrobot.com is added because mysteryrobot.com's DNS server is need to make the translation back to an internet address.

[ Doesnt actually do anything ]

DIY Electric Drum Kit

Basicly all you need is a practice kit, Radio Shack Piezo Transducer (273-073A), Radio Shack Shielded Phono Jack (274-346), soldering iron, liquid flux, epoxy, xacto knife, 1/4" drill bit, 26awg 12" x 24" plate metal, cutting sheers, 20 minutes of your time.

[ DIY Rocks ]

Retro Flash Drive

Brendan Dawes took an old Atari 2600 game catridge and put a 128mb flash drive in it. This really has to be one of the coolest and simplest mods todate. In a way its also stupid becuase the cartridge is massive compared to the flash drive. But thats not the point, is it.

[ Cowabunga ]

The Elevator Slingshot

Would be good as a prank. Maybe use a dye...

[ Some people just have too much time on their hands ]

Pezmp3 Player

"a man, a plan a candy company and you"

Pez dispenser+flash type mp3 player = $$$

[ Sweet ]

Boring Boring: A Directory of Dull Things

This is the link to the parody/april fools site for BoingBoing.

[ BoringBoring ]

GameGirlDiaries.com

Game Girl Advance, it’s a great site, but why does Jane need to blog her blog? She already has two, and Monday she wrote up a post saying she’s created a third that “reflects a more personal approach to gaming in work and life.” What? Isn’t that what her other two do? I mean, how much more personal than writing about can you get?

Game Girl Diaries [GGD]

Pia, Pia, Piano....

This guy scans in vintage piano rolls, converts the bitmaps to MIDI instructions, and then outputs MIDI files, suitable for use as ringtones, background music, what have hou. Piano rolls were the first digital music source -- great to see the data-files being ported over for modern hardware. He's got more than 2,000 rolls digitized!

[ Get your piano fix here ]

Speed read your own text

After the frenzy that was EST Speed reader. People were left wondering. What about other words.

Well now you can. With the new app "speed read you own words."

Though the words fly past so fast that they practically flicker, they are still readable -- there's some heretofore unsuspected talent buried in our brains for parsing sentences when rendered as rapid-fire flashcards.

[ Read at Speed ]

Lifehacker

Another cool blog by the Gawker Network

[ Hopefully this wont come back to haunt us in the future... ]

[ ... I mean people used to have faith in the mainstream media way back in the day. What about when this is way back in the day and we are all connected to Gawker Mind Controling Initiative. And its compulsory, becasue we voted for Gawker to become the new world governmnet. And now we dont have a choice. At least with news corp you know where you stand... ]

Top 10 Japanese Design Type Thingies

ten more reasons to move to japan.

[ Why isnt fibre optical internet in this list ]

...

Benjamen Walker's Theory Of Everything

Some of the programs have been about the CIA funding the absract expressionist movement, hopeless infatuation, people who obsess over becoming a celebrity, and a skinhead funeral.

[ video's in prision now. Long live radio ]

Schiavo's List

If you expressed your support to Terri Schiavo and her parents fight to keep her alive, you may begin to receive a steady stream of solicitations, according to a Local 6 News report.

Terri Schiavo's parents have agreed to sell their list of supporters to a direct-mailing firm, Local 6 News reported.

The company, "Response Unlimited" pays about $150 a month for 6,000 names and $500 a month for 6,000 e-mail addresses.

A spokesperson for the Schindlers confirmed that they had agreed to sell the information, but won't say for how much.

[ Its all goto go ]

Other sale items include a used life support system. Very reliable.

Walking Robot

Japanese invent robot that does walking for you.

Options include high powered machine gun

Moon Dust = Bad

NASA has known all along moon dust was bad. But didnt keep it a secret. So there hasnt been much written on (conspiracy theory thingie...) it. People have been known to get high off moon dust. Especialy astronaughts, thats how NASA gets them to go up into space and get it. Because they are addicted. No one in their right mind would do such a thing. Unless of course they are on Moon Dust.

Thats why D-news is bringing you this special report on Moon Dust. Hopefully by getting the word out less people will get addicted to the substance known as Moon Dust. Which will also mean clearer skies at night. Becuase those "stars" in the sky are infact mines and/or refinaries. Help clear up the night sky by saying no to drugs.

[ Drugs are bad ]

[Note: This has been a paid advertisement by ILS* a division of D-Corp. (*Interplanetary Logistical Services)]

'Killing Fields' Privatized

Cambodia has privatized a mass grave where thousands of Pol Pot's political enemies were clubbed to death, sparking anger among relatives who say the Khmer Rouge's 1.7 million victims are being traded for profit.

Phnom Penh mayor Kep Chuktema said Monday a Japanese company called JC Royal had signed a 30-year deal to manage the Cheoung Ek "Killing Fields" genocide memorial on the outskirts of the capital for an initial annual payment of $15,000.

The firm will have to plant trees and flowers at the site, which is home to a memorial tower of 8,000 human skulls, as well as build other visitor facilities, he said.

In return, it will be able to charge foreign tourists an admission charge of $3 -- up from $0.5 -- while Khmers, who have always been allowed in for free, will have to pay a small amount.

"We need to beautify the site to attract tourists," Kep Chuktema told Reuters.

"This project will benefit our country's tourism as some tourists do not just want to visit our historic temples. They also want to see with their own eyes the past violence of the 'Killing Fields,'" he said.

Other survivors of the ultra-Maoist regime's four-year reign of terror see it differently.

"Morally speaking this upsets me so much," said Neang Say, manager of the Cheoung Ek site since the 1980s, who lost nearly 40 relatives under Pol Pot.

The Khmer Rouge swept to power in the jungle-clad southeast nation in April 1975, and immediately enacted a "Year Zero" agrarian revolution, emptying the cities, blowing up the central bank and destroying all money.

An estimated 1.7 million people were executed or died of torture, disease, overwork or starvation before invading Vietnamese troops toppled Pol Pot in 1979.

The regime's reclusive leader died in 1998, and the top surviving henchmen have ever faced justice.

However, the United Nations and Cambodia said last week they had managed to raise $38 million for a planned trial, which officials hope will get under way this year.

Cheoung Ek was the main execution site for Phnom Penh's notorious S-21 torture and interrogation center, which is likely to feature prominently in any trial.

Maybe this will give Howard the idea to privatise... oh wait I think its all pretty much privatised alread. However they haven privatised the military yet. But there was a call by "the private sector" ie ppl that got sacked from the military for being stupid. To contract out more killing.

Bob's Cube

This is bobs interactive cube. Notice how there is no red stapler...

Enter the Cube

ULTRAMAN THE MOVIE

Its old school and is in Japanese...

Where does Gmail get its space?

Ever wonder where Gmail gets all of its space? How can it afford to keep giving so much. Especialy with the "special" allogorithm they have (see: gmail char - infinity plus one). So, as always the internet has the answer. Someone has worked out where its all coming from.

[ The real proof ]

I wonder what the payout package is like

About the year A.D. 1139, Saint Malachy O'Morgair, Archbishop of Armagh, Ireland, wrote down a list of Popes. He listed 112 future Popes, each described by a phrase in Latin. [1] There has been increasing interest in this list among Roman Catholics, for two reasons. First, the descriptions of Popes #109 and #110 match the pontificates of Popes John Paul I and John Paul II to a tee. Second, there are only two more Popes on the list, and the last Pope on the list is given a long apocalyptic description, instead of a quaint and cryptic phrase.

Were all doomed I tell you. Doomed.

Jailed 'Killer' Freed After Wife Turns Up Alive

BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese man jailed and badly beaten for his wife's murder has been freed after she turned up not only alive but with another husband, domestic media said on Monday, revealing a brutal arbitrariness to China's legal system.

She Xianglin's wife, Zhang Zaiyu, disappeared after a domestic dispute in 1994 and when a woman's body was found in a local reservoir, She was detained on suspicion of killing his wife, the China Daily said.

The body was so decomposed it could not be identified, but a local court found She, a former part-time police officer from central Hubei province, guilty of murder and sentenced him to death.

A provincial court later commuted the sentence to 15 years in prison.

She, 39, was coerced into confessing to her murder and badly beaten in prison, the China Daily said.

International human rights groups say police torture is widespread in China and that suspects are held for long periods without trial. But it is rare for a victim, or the domestic media, to go public about police brutality.

She told the Beijing News that when he was first apprehended, police took him to a remote house and interrogated him for 11 days. He was given just two bowls of rice a day, nearly no water, prevented from sleeping and threatened with death.

"A policeman put his gun to my head and said, 'Believe me, I could shoot you right now'," She was quoted as saying from a prison hospital bed, where he was receiving a physical check before being released on Friday.

He said he did not remember making a confession, though the local court that ruled on his case was told he had.

The China Daily said photographs published since She's release showed he had been severely beaten while in jail and his legs and fingers broken.

Zhang resurfaced in late March in eastern Shandong province, where she had gone in 1994 and later married a local man, the China Daily said.

She said he wanted compensation for his years in jail and justice to be done.

"I want those officials involved in my conviction punished," he was quoted as saying.

Link

Are you a JW?

You are 17% Jehovah's Witness!

You have what Jehovah's Witnesses call a "rebellious spirit" and a "bad attitude". Even if you became a Witness, you would be a bad one. You'd probably talk to disfellowshipped people instead of shunning them like you're supposed to. You wouldn't blindly agree to every new teaching of the Watchtower. The only friends you would have at the Kingdom Hall would be the teenagers that think you're cool, and the other "rebels". The Kingdom Hall is not in the cards for you.

[ Take the test ]

Dueling Multicores

"it's all about multicore architectures. ... By utilizing Moore's Law, [with] this transition to multicore, moving from hyperthreading to dual-core to multicore, we will deliver the fastest rate of performance improvement of our time." The possibility exists, cited Gelsinger, for processor performance to improve across the board, over the next four years, by a factor of 10 - "stunning performance through parallelism."

Its a duel. To the death... Scary stuff indeed.

"entrepenures" tax Discount

Businesses operating under the Simplified Tax System will now have a 25 per cent discount on the income tax in respect of their business income.

The 25 per cent Entrepreneurs’ Tax Discount has been passed by Parliament and is expected to deliver a benefit to 540,000 Australian small businesses.

Businesses with turnover up to $75,000 will benefit, while those with turnover of $50,000 or less able to claim the maximum 25 per cent. The maximum possible benefit depends on the amount of tax that would otherwise be paid.

The Entrepreneurs’ Tax Discount is expected to cost $1,160 million over the next four years.

[ Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy ]

Achewood has now been wikipedified

nuff said.

EXCLUSIVE! iPod Phone

MobileMusicBlog has exclusive pictures of Motorola's iTunes phone, and it's a stunner with clear design references from both the iPod and Motorola handsets. MMB can also exclusively reveal that Moto is coming through on its promise to deliver a line of "iPod phones" -- the first batch comes with a hard drive-based version as well as a smaller-capacity flash-based Shuffle model.

Fucking reds.

Mother and her board

Without a doubt, motherboards are the most complex and essential part of the modern PC. Not only do they hold the chipsets that pass data from peripherals, drives and memory to the processor, they also provide slots and ports for all your other system components and the circuits through which all data must pass. Perhaps surprisingly then, motherboards get very little respect in the computing press as compared to other components. They are perpetually the team player and not the star of the show, and are generally priced as such.

With this in mind, it's surprising to learn the amount of work and machinery involved in manufacturing a single motherboard. We'd vaguely imagined some sort of stamping process where all components are slapped onto the bare board in one step and soldered, before being boxed in a big room full of bored workers. Sure there'd have to be some testing, but how intense could it be?

Click here to find out how intense...

Tub Girl

I actually thought about not posting this. But then I thought wheres the journalistic integrity in not posting things I find on the internet. There are few disgusting pictures on the internet. The first was goatse, then there was the hamburger thing, which wasnt that disgusting but just wrong. There recently there was another but I cant remember what it was about (proberly for a good reason...) But I think we have a new winner. Tub girl. It may sound like a porn site. And for all I know it might actually be a porn site. I any case this the worst thing on the internet at the moment.

Enjoy

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Negro Space Program Takes off

But you see, they don't realise that in the early days of the space program NASA was whites only. This was 1957-58, it was a different time you understand. See in 1957 if you were black, and you were an astronaut, you were out of work.

Download and watch The Old Negro Space Program

Map of Australia | Multimap.com

Map of Australia | Multimap.com

http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?lat=-27.5315&lon=153.2195&scale=5000&icon=x

Map on a Map

This is an areial photo with actaull street directory type map supperimposed over the top (supperimposed is an over the top word, but more on that later... much later...). The coolness needs to be expeiranced... with the mouse pointer ofcourse.

[ Multi means more than one. ]

Trendmapper

The Mapper of Trends...

[Doesnt really map trends, just maps (read: chart) the number of hits for specific searches from search engines. But still a good little app.]