Opinionated news exctraction for all by that geeky accountant type guy...

Wednesday, November 30

Delaware

This website has some really cool pictures, and you maybe surprised to know they have been making this stuff since 1996. Way ahead of their time.... etc

[ everything's cooler in Japan ]

Friday, November 25

Let them sing it for you

This website will sing anything you type in.

[ Lots of useless time wasting fun located here ]

So, dont vist this place if you actually have work to do...

Blower Vacs that Suck

To whom it may concern at stupid leaf blower manufacturing companies:

You guys should closely watch Back to the Future II. I was watching it the other night and I had an epiphany: hover boards don't make noise.

Try using that technology.

I talked to a young man named Dignan (last name withheld) that worked for a gardening outfit called The Lawn Rangers.

"Yeah, I'd like to see silent leaf blowers. What would I do if I didn't see one? Well, that poses an interesting question," said Dignan, firmly entrenching my vehemence:

If you don't start making silent leaf blowers, I'm going to find out where you live and put hundreds of REALLY HEAVY STEEL LEAVES on your front lawns. Then you'll have to bend over and pick them up.

You don't want that, do you?

your enemy,

Brandon N. Huigens

[ Noise Sucks ] <- Theres more gold located here

Jamming a Pair of Scissors Repeatedly Into Your Crotch

This is not related to masturbation. But the act of probing your crotchal area with a pair of siccors. This site will help you with tips etc, eg what type of siccors to use etc.

[ Sounds like fun ]

Brown Ribbon Day

Wear a brown ribbon to support you Diarrhea inflicted brothers and sisters.

Because just like AIDS and breast cancer, diarrhea can only be conquered by self-righteous fashion accessories.

Because I thought “outside the bun” for lunch yesterday and had to make two separate stops on my way back to the office.

Because diarrhea doesn’t care whether you’re black, white, young, old, male, female, gay or totally gay.

Because when I walk into the men’s room at work and hear what sounds like an M-16 going off, I know that one of my co-workers is making a trip to brown town, and because I will not let him walk alone.

Because from now until December 15, every $5 donation to Mud Blowers Anonymous will be matched dollar for dollar by both Hershey’s and the makers of Imodium A-D.

Because I once had the runs during a soccer game in high school and faked an injury so I could go make hot potty in the locker room.

Because they haven’t made a ribbon for blue balls yet.

Because some people think it’s funny, but it’s really brown and runny.

Because this kid at summer camp once got hit with the ’rhea during free swim, and although I laughed at him and called him “Doody Bombs” for the rest of the summer like everyone else, I felt kind of bad about it when I heard that he killed himself several years later.

Because raising diarrhea awareness isn’t “someone else’s job” – it’s everyone’s job.

Because when the rest of the audience howled with delight at that scene in “Dumb and Dumber,” I cried a single tear of shame.

Because Bam Margera and Steve-O from “Jackass” are wearing them.

Because if enough people start wearing them, it’s possible that there might actually be some kind of “Labor Day Diarrheathon” or a 5K “Run for the Runs” in Central Park – either of which would be even funnier than the Special Olympics.

Because it is incomprehensible to me that anyone anywhere could ever have a need for laxatives.

Because millions of diarrhea victims are hiding in the shadows, afraid to seek treatment for fear of being snickered at by the cashier during checkout.

And because none of us will be truly free until every last one of us can spend a night slamming down bran muffins and prunes without fear.

[ Brown Ribbon ]

www.tokyotimes.org � Upskirt upbringing

For the average upskirt aficionado, persuing one’s vocation is an enterprise beset with all sorts of hazards, from fear of legal repurcussions to hefty dry cleaning bills from all that lying around on sidewalks to get just the right angle. How exciting it is for us them, then, to catch this tantalizing glimpse of a Japanese virtual panty peeking game from the good folks at Tokyo Times: “Just a picture of this unique training device doesn’t even begin to do it justice, so I took a short video too. The clip, whilst admittedly not the best quality still amply demonstrates the range of distinctive skills and quick reactions needed to bag tha ‘perfect panty shot’™.

[ www.tokyotimes.org ]

Not a Cartoon

Peter from the Family Guy just got Porned. Obviously you could, if you wanted to find porn for the Family Guy with all the main characters going at it. But this bunch of pics, is less incestuous.

[ Peter having a good time ]

Dark side of the Moon

Sixty years ago the US hired Nazi scientists to lead pioneering projects, such as the race to conquer space. These men provided the US with cutting-edge technology which still leads the way today, but at a cost.

The end of World War II saw an intense scramble for Nazi Germany's many technological secrets. The Allies vied to plunder as much equipment and expertise as possible from the rubble of the Thousand Year Reich for themselves, while preventing others from doing the same.

The range of Germany's technical achievement astounded Allied scientific intelligence experts accompanying the invading forces in 1945.

[ Read more about how the Nazi's are helping America colonise the world ]

Free Speech Under Attack

"I draw your attention to section c) which clearly targets not just peaceful civil disobedience but anyone who calls for civil disobedience. By definition the civil disobidence is involves the attempt to change a law through non-lawful means. So shortly when you put up a post on Indymedia calling for blockading in Gippsland, being part of a non-legally sanctioned picket, a sit in against uranium mining etc you could face 7 years jail."

The government claims it will "act in good faith"

Further more the act prohibits the calling of an peaceful disobedience (protests and includes UNION PROTESTS).

[ Police State ]

Thursday, November 24

Old people increase efficiency with Internet payments.

A Canadian man who had a credit card from a Canadian bank, which had outsourced its processing to america, didn't want his personal records to be captured by the patriot act (supposedly for terrorism). He tried sending them letters, but they wouldnt listen...

What he did: He paid his credit card off in 985 installments. Resulting in a 35 page statement and the banks system becoming jammed, and therefore having to process his transactions manualy.

This act got the banks attention. And a place in the Guiness book of world records.

"Us retired guys are the most dangerous, because we have time on our hands. You have to look for the weaknesses in their system, and I think I found it."

[ "This may be my only chance for world fame." ]

DVD Decrypter to be removed

The dudes that purchased DVD Decrypter want it to be removed. And will be done so. But the file will be up untill sunday. So download the latest copy now. The new company also makes software... plus since DVD decrypter has stoped development, its not that great anymore. But its more stable than anything else so yeah.



[ DVD Decrypter to be removed ]

Tuesday, November 22

Lego Hard Drive


It may look like lego, but its actually an external hard drive. No not lots of little bricks surrounding a hard drive. One big hard drive insinde one big lego brick.

The bicks can be stacked and conected together for more storage. They not only look, but are also available in different colour.

[ Now all you got to do is figure out how to connect it to Lego MindStorms ]

Dolph the Computer Game

Go club some seals

[ dolph: the simulator ]

(10+2) x 5

Article Outline
Who's it for
What you need
How it works
Rules
Outcome
Conclusion

[ Procrastination hack ]

Basicly you get your action/to-do list of things you need to do. Then you work on the first item for 10 mins flat out. Then stop work. Don't worry about finishing the task, just work on it for 10 mins is the whole point. Have a 2 min break (drink coffee/masturbate). Then pick the next item on your list, and do another 10 mins. etc. Don't keep doing the same thing all the time, just pick the next thing on your list, and just keep cycling through.

This particular method you are supposed to do only 5 times. So it equals one hour. I think that may be the most you could do of these "break procrastination" hacks. As I have found it is very important to take the breaks no matter what!

Books
The Now Habbit
GTD

A list of 5

A daily list of 5 (five) things/thoughts

[ 5ives ]

Monday, November 21

50 things about Kazakhstan you may not have known

Sacha Baron Cohen's comic creation portrays them as a band of goat-punching, woman-caging, urine-drinking anti-semites; the Kazakhs, understandably, object, and are threatening legal action. So what is central Asia's most obscure nation really like? Ed Caesar reports (Thats right D-news has paid reporters...)

1. Almost as big as western Europe, and four times the size of Texas, Kazakhstan is the ninth-largest country in the world.

2. At the 2004 Olympics Kazakhstan finished 40th in the medals table - above South Africa - with one gold, four silvers and three bronze medals.

3. Despite Borat's suggestions that, in Kazakhstan, people hunt bears "for fun", hunting is no longer a popular pastime. The ancient custom of hunting with eagles, however, has been revived in the past few years, after being discouraged by the Soviet regime.

4. The word "Kazakh" means "independent" or "wanderer".

5. Since independence from the USSR in 1991, Kazakhstan has been ruled by President Nursultan A Nazarbayev, right. He has the power to initiate constitutional amendments, appoint and dismiss the government, dissolve parliament and call referendums. In 1995, President Nazarbayev called a referendum to expand his powers. In 1999, he swept to power again, although he did not face stiff competition - one of his opponents based his campaign on his
ability to crush glass in his bare hands.

6. Kazakhstan is home to the Baikonur cosmodrome, from which Yuri Gagarin's
first orbital flight was launched in 1961. The centre used to be top secret, but
has been re-invented as a tourist destination.

7. Kazakhs love rhythmic gymnastics and cycling - a local boy, Alexander Vinokourov, came third in the 2003 Tour de France.

8. The main export is oil. The aim is to be in the world's top five exporters.

9. The government discussed whether to legalise polygamy in 2000 but, despite a lot of support, the practice remains common but illegal.

10. Traditional beshbarmak consists of boiled horseflesh on big noodles.

11. The official language is Kazakh, but most people also speak Russian.

12. President Nazarbayev is lining up his daughter, Dariga, to succeed him. She is an opera singer. A mezzo soprano to be precise.

13. Borat's sister is a prostitute - "maybe second or third in whole of Kazakhstan". She is not alone. The country features in an official American report as one of 15 countries that has not done enough to combat people-trafficking.

14. There are 600,000 registered drug addicts in the country.

15. Kazakhstan is the only central Asian country that exports oil to China - andthe Chinese have built a 1000km pipeline to ensure this continues.

16. Kazakhs excel at boxing. They won two golds and two silvers in the sport at the 2000 Olympics, while in 2004, Bakhtiyar Artayev won gold and was named best boxer of the Games.

17. Local inns are likely to sell two types of traditional tipple: fermented camel's milk (kumyran), or fermented mare's milk (kumiss).

18. The capital moved from Almaty to the purpose-built city of Astana in 1998. Almaty comes from the old name "Alma-Ata", meaning "Father of Apples", after the wild apples that grow in the area.

19. The largest outdoor ice rink in the world is at Medeo, outside Almaty.

20. There are six Kazakhs for every square kilometre.

21. In the Almaty Zelenniy Bazaar, a kilo of caviar costs around £170, although local mafia interests can secure the luxury for well under this price.

22. Kazakhstan has had a glittering Hollywood career, starring with HarrisonFord in Air Force One, with Pierce Brosnan in The World is not Enough and Jean Reno in Rollerball.

23. The words of the Anthem of the Republic of Kazakhstan are as follows:

"We are a valiant people, sons of honour, And all we've sacrificed to gain our freedom.
Emerging from malicious grip of fate, from hell of fire, We scored a victory of glory and success
Soar high up in the sky, oh, eagle of freedom, Call up to harmony, agreement and accord!
For hero's might and strength is in the nation, Just as the unity is nation's razing sword.
While honouring our mothers and respecting The cream of cream of our rising nation
We welcomed all ill-starred and struck by ruin ... Our homeland, the steppe, a sacred cradle
Of friendship and accord Gave all a shelter and a hearty refuge We've overcome the hardships
Let the past serve bitter lesson But ahead we face a radiant future. We bequeath our sacred legacy implying our mother tongue And sovereignty and valour and traditions So dearly cherished by our forefathers As true mandate to future generations."

24. The national football team are 140th in the Fifa world rankings, out of 205. Their first World Cup was in 1998, when they were placed in the Asian group. Kazakhstan protested, and were moved to Uefa, the European governing body.

25. Around 1,500 Kazakhs live in Britain.

26. The population of Caspian Sea sturgeon, from whose roe Beluga caviar is made, is plummeting. A quarter of a century ago, around 1,100 tonnes of caviar were harvested each year. In 2003, this was eight tonnes.

27. The semi-arid, thinly populated steppe is used by the Kazakh and Russian governments as a nuclear testing site. Few efforts have been made to stem the resulting pollution. The rates of disease in nearby rural areas have soared.

28. Kazakhstan's currency is the tenge; 1,000 tenge are worth £4.30.

29. During President Nazarbayev's speech at the new capital's opening ceremony, he said there was no problem with the hurricane winds that whip through the city. His hat blew off.

30. Men over the age of 18 must serve two years of military service.

31. Foreign hunters pay for expensive licences to hunt Siberian ibex (large, long-horned goats). Maral (mountain deer) or Asiatic wapiti (elk) with antlers weighing up to 20kg are also a big draw.

32. Borat's wish to "Throw the Jew down the Well" is shared by some Kazakhs. Although President Nazarbayev denies that anti-Semitism exists, inflammatory articles have appeared in the populist Kazakhskaya Pravda newspaper decrying "the Zionists" and "International Jewry".

33. The population is 15,143,704.

34. In the western plains, the Karakurt spider, a relative of the black widow, kills scores of camels every year.

35. Genghis Khan ravaged Kazakhstan in the 13th century, leaving it without settled civilisation for 600 years.

36. Ethnic Kazakhs were, until the middle of the 20th century, pastoral nomads. They lived in yurts - portable, domed tents made of felt - and travelled from summer pastures to warmer winter lands, accompanied by their livestock.

37. Zhambyl Zhabaev, who died in 1945, is Kazakhstan's most famous folk singer
and poet. He played the domra, a plucked string instrument.

38. The population is 47 per cent Muslim and 44 per cent Orthodox.

39. Kazakhstan has borders with Russia, China, Russia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
and Kyrgyzstan.

40. Last month, the national football team finished at the bottom of their seven-team World Cup qualifying group. They had accrued a total of one point, from a goalless draw with Georgia in Tbilisi.

41. Kazakhstan became the first former Soviet republic to repay all of its debt to the IMF in 2000, seven years ahead of schedule.

42. Kazakhstan cuts off Turkmenistan, Kyr-gyzstan and Uzbekistan from Russia, and acts as a power-broker for the region as a whole. It uses this geographical advantage to justify charging exorbitant fees for rail-usage dues across the steppes. There is still no rail service connecting Almaty with Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, for precisely this reason.

43. To celebrate the closure of the Semipalatinsk nuclear test range four years ago, Tugelbek Kasymov, 56, a member of the International Anti-Nuclear Movement, cycled from Moscow to Rome. Calling himself "Kazakhstan's earth cosmonaut", he completed the 5,000km journey in 25 days.

44. Kazakhstan has the 10th highest number of horses in the world.

45. It is the world's largest land-locked country, although it borders the land-locked Caspian Sea.

46. Wife-stealing is a common way of securing marriage. A man kidnaps a woman whom he wants to marry, and her parents are left with no option but to negotiate a reasonable dowry.

47. The international dialling code for Kazakhstan is +7.

48. The national flag, adopted in 1992, comprises a golden sun and bird on a sky blue background. The background represents "the sky", according to the designers, while the golden sun represents Kazakhstan's "golden future".

49. In 2001, archaeologists found a 600-year-old mausoleum on the bed of the Aral Sea, which is rapidly drying out. They believed it to be evidence that the giant lake had dried out at least once before.

50. The age of consent is 18.

[ Always use rule of thumb or your wife will develop small boobies ]

GM Pea Causes Death

A decade-long project to develop genetically modified peas with built-in pest-resistance has been abandoned after tests showed they caused allergic lung damage in mice.

The work underlines the need to evaluate new GM crops on a case-by-case basis, says Paul Foster of the Australian National University in Canberra, who led the immunological work. He also calls for improvements in screening requirements for genetically engineered plants, to ensure comprehensive tests are carried out.

Jeremy Tager, Greenpeace Australia’s campaigner on genetic engineering, agrees. “These results indicate the potential for unpredicted and unintended changes in the structure of transferred proteins. And I’m not aware of any country that requires feeding studies as part of its approval process.”

He adds that slight differences in protein synthesis might also occur in other plants with other genes, meaning each new GM food should be very carefully evaluated for potential health effects. “If a GM plant is to go up for human consumption, there should be a detailed descriptive list of how one should go about analysing that plant,” he says.

Tager agrees. It is rare for an investigation of the potential health effects of a GM product to be published in a peer-reviewed journal, he adds. “If it had been a private company doing this, it might never have seen the light of day,” he says.

[ General Motors Piss kills mice ]

Sunday, November 20

An affront to cricket

[ Stupid Things do happen ]

Friday, November 18

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

In the nineteenth century there was no such thing as the female orgasm. It was simply called ''the relief of tension in the female.'' When a woman was feeling especially sexually aroused, her husband, not knowing what to do, would take her to a doctor. Masturbation was the cure to this ''hysterical tension.'' After the diagnosis, a midwife or the doctor himself would arouse the woman until orgasm by means of a steam-powered vibrator.

[ Steam Powered Fund ]

For some reason a steam powered vibrators does not seem real. Maybe thats what the doctors told the husbands...

Thursday, November 17

Crying, while eating

Some absolutly awesome vids of people crying while eating. You can even send your own in...

[ Cry Baby Potatoes ]

World Toilet Day: 19th November

19 November was declared 'World Toilet Day' in 2001 by 17 toilet associations around the world. Since then there has been established an annual World Toilet Summit and many other regional conferences. Each toilet association has also engaged in many activities promoting clean toilets in their own respective country.

Since 2001, World Toilet Day has become a global platform for academics, sanitation experts, toilet designers, environmentalists etc. to share the latest on rural and urban toilets. Thi

The World Toilet Organisation asks each individual, in their respective country, to request better equality (more facilities for women); more accessibility & special provisions (for the disabled & mothers with babies); clean toilets (for everyone); and more toilets (for the less fortunate).

[ World Toilet Day ]

[ WTO ] <- Yes. It's a real organisation...

Happy flushing

Wednesday, November 16

Windows Live is better than nothing

Live, will live on forever, becuase Microsoft is massive. And have lots of money and lots of smart ppl working for them.

[ Microsoft is good ]

Windows Live is Crap

Windows live is a bunch of poo, demonstrated by .Net which was similar in its puffery.

[ It was always crap ]

How To Defend yourself against the coming robot rebellion

A new book by a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute is poised to make waves behind the cloistered doors of the school's famed robotics labs, and its rights have already been optioned for a Hollywood film.

"Any robot could rebel, from a toaster to a Terminator, and so it is crucial to learn the strengths and weaknesses of every robot enemy," author Daniel H. Wilson warns in "How to Survive a Robot Uprising: Tips on Defending Yourself Against the Coming Rebellion."




[ I am Angry and Angular ]

Shoot me If you Can

Shoot me if you can is an urban game inspired by first person shooting online video game. Replace gun with fun, and shoot the opponent team with a cellular phone equipped with a digital camera. Participants; shooters are given team color and phone number printed on the sticker. Shooters are ought to take a picture of the opponent team. If successful, she/he sends the picture to the opponent team member, via multimedia SMS system. Different rules exist for variations in game. Tactics is important part as well as team work and understanding of the urban environment. This work is a commentary on abundance of digital image in our culture, desire to photograph and violence of surveillance camera. Active public participation in encouraged through website and the game.

[ Shoot to Print ]

Monday, November 14

West Side Homies Under Attack

KAZAKHSTAN'S Foreign Ministry threatened legal action overnight against a British comedian who wins laughs by portraying the central Asian state as a country populated by drunks who enjoy cow-punching as a sport.

Sacha Baron Cohen, who portrays a spoof Kazakh television presenter Borat in his Da Ali G Show, has won fame ridiculing Kazakhstan, the world's ninth largest country yet still little known to many in the West, on British, Australian and US channels.

Cohen appears to have drawn official Kazakh ire after he hosted the annual MTV Europe Music Awards show in Lisbon earlier this month as Borat, who arrived in an Air Kazakh propeller plane controlled by a one-eyed pilot clutching a vodka bottle.

[ Booze, Punching Cows and Sexy time. What more could you want ]

Fat Pizza probed

AN episode of the SBS comedy Fat Pizza in which a drug deal is filmed and a group of schoolchildren watch a character smoke what looks likes marijuana is under investigation by the broadcasting regulator. The investigation by the Australian Communications and Media Authority of the episode, staged at Nimbin, coincides with John Howard's call for a crackdown on cannabis..

In a letter to Mr Woodworth, SBS insisted Fenech "carefully distanced himself" from the activities in the episode. But Mr Woodworth said SBS had refused to sign a statutory declaration that no real drugs were smoked in the episode.

[ Let the Probing Begin ]

Saturday, November 12

GP2X Starts Shipping

This is a Linux-powered, game centric PMP with a 3.5-inch 320 x 240 display, the usual smattering of audio and video format capabilities, and support already developed for Quake, Doom, SNES, and MAME?

Well they started accepting pre-orders back in September, but they’ve finally started shipping for £124.99 in Europe and $189.99 everywhere else. They’re a little backlogged right now, but that just means more homebrew apps for you when it actually arrives.

[ Homebrew portable Gaming ]

Rick Moranis: Work Wanted

Rick Moranis hasnt been doing much work (acting) of late. So in order to keep himself busy he has recorded a country album. Maybe he got some inspiration from steven Segal. As even though his movies are crap, he made a record and still gets to kick ass and recive renumeration for it.

Please movie people. Give Rick Moranis work, so he doesnt have to make country albums to survive.

[ A little bit country, a little bit crap ]

Tinfoil hats attract mind-control signals, boffins learn | The Register

Wearing a tinfoil hat to deflect government mind-control radio waves is even more foolish than most people think. According to several (apparent) students from MIT who tested several hat designs, there was "a 30 db amplification at 2.6 Ghz and a 20 db amplification at 1.2 Ghz, regardless of the position of the antenna on the cranium."

The students note that "the helmets amplify frequency bands that coincide with those allocated to the US government between 1.2 Ghz and 1.4 Ghz. According to the FCC, These bands are supposedly reserved for 'radio location' (ie, GPS), and other communications with satellites."

The researchers speculate that the government is behind the rumour that tinfoil hats protect people from invasive radio signals in order to encourage their use and therefore to enhance the effectiveness of their radio control program.

[ The Actual study ]

el reg

Terminator: The TV Series

The terminator franchise is set to get a TV series.

“The Sarah Connor Chronicles” would centre on Sarah and her young son, John, and pick up at the end of “Terminator 2 : Judgement Day”. "She has the weight of the world on her shoulder and she also has to raise a 14-year-old son who may be the salvation of the world,"

T4 is also on its way, but will be a "new" trilogy, basicly it wont have Arnie in it.

[ Moviehole ]

Monday, November 7


I was looking for free stuff to goto, and I found this. But instead of it being free its actually $27.

David gets Hoff

The HoffMan Becomes lord of the internet. Basicly he reads/views all of the stuff on the internet about himself, He finds it funny, like the rest of us. The Hoff is an inspiration!

[ News ]

Saturday, November 5

Obituary

[ Rosa Parks ]

Tuesday, November 1

The RIOT Wheel - Single-Wheeled Vehicle

Mad Wicked

[ Reinvention of The ]

Gridlock as highway ramp collapses - National - smh.com.au

Whole in the ground sucks block of units and highway into the ground.

The fire brigade measured the hole as six metres wide and between eight to 10 metres deep, and growing.

[ Living the high life ]

*on the highway

President of Zimbabwe

"Dear Comrades

After the recent spate of biased and mischievous reporting by the colonialist foreign press, I have ultimately decided to reveal to you, the honest and hard-working citizens of Zimbabwe, a little more of Mugabe - The Man.

I know you love your leader as much as you love your country. I know you deserve to see what kind of man I am. To those of you that already know me, this will simply be a joyous refresher of your cherished memories of me. To those with the still unfulfilled desire to know me better, I welcome you to an intimate glimpse of Mugabe - The Man."

[ Mugabe Fan Site ]

Note: its a mock up

Nguyen executioner revealed

The hangman who will execute Australian drug trafficker Van Tuong Nguyen in Singapore has been revealed as a semi-retired 73-year-old grandfather.
In a matter of weeks, Darshan Singh will place a rope around the 25-year-old's neck and say the words he has spoken to more than 850 condemned prisoners during his 46 years as Singapore's chief executioner.

"I am going to send you to a better place than this. God bless you."

Nguyen's hopes of escaping the gallows receded further yesterday when the Singaporean Government confirmed that it would not make an exception for the Australian.

On the day before his execution, Mr Singh will lead him to a set of scales close to his death-row cell to weigh him.

Mr Singh will use the Official Table of Drops, published by the British Home Office in 1913, to calculate the correct length of rope for the hanging.

Mr Singh joined the British colonial prison service in the mid-1950s after arriving from Malaysia. When the long-established British hangman Mr Seymour retired, Singh, then 27, volunteered for the job. He was attracted by the bonus payment for executions.

Mr Singh is credited with being the only executioner in the world to single-handedly hang 18 men in one day -- three at a time.

They had been convicted of murdering four prison officers during a riot on the penal island of Pulau Senang in 1963.

He also hanged seven condemned men within 90 minutes a few years later. They had been convicted in what became known as the "gold bars murders", in which a merchant and two employees were killed during a robbery.

One of the most controversial executions in his career was the 1991 hanging of a young Filipina maid, Flor Contemplacion, who was convicted of the murder of a co-worker, Delia Maga, and her four-year-old son, on what many believed was shaky evidence.

He carries out the executions wearing simple casual clothes, often just a T-shirt, shorts, sports shoes and knee-length socks.

To mark his 500th hanging four years ago, four of his former colleagues turned up at his home to celebrate the event with a couple of bottles of Chivas Regal.

Mr Singh boasts that he has never botched an execution.

"Mr Seymour taught him just how long the drop should be according to weight and height and exactly where the knot should be placed at the back of the neck," his colleague said.

"Death has always come instantaneously and painlessly. In that split second, at precisely 6am, it's all over."

Mr Singh was an accomplished cricketer in his youth and was often opening bat.

"He is a keen soccer fan," his colleague said. "His favourite team is Manchester United. He watches all the English Premier League matches he can."

When his colleague asked him why he had stayed so long in such a gruesome job, he replied: "It's all I know. It has become my bread and butter."

"He also used to cane convicted criminals after training in this field," the colleague said.

"The pay then was 50cents per stroke. He could wield a cane as well as he could wield a cricket bat."

Mr Singh lives happily with his second wife and is close to their three adult adopted children.

His first wife left him years earlier because she could not accept what he did. He had kept it a secret from her for years.

Mr Singh reportedly spends time getting to know the condemned prisoners, especially those who do not receive visitors or religious support.

[ The Hangman ]

Note: all of this information is from a "friend"

Note: he is repulsivly fat and should wear more clothing

Mechanical Engineering Software

Engineering Power Tools

Science: Discovers psyeudo scientific stuff

Energy-momentum tensor for the electromagnetic flux in an extraterrestrial UFO explains the advanced propulsion, navigation and stealth communication systems

[ From a "real" news site ]

Science: Discovers psyeudo scientific stuff

Energy-momentum tensor for the electromagnetic flux in an extraterrestrial UFO explains the advanced propulsion, navigation and stealth communication systems

[ From a "real" news site ]

Student Flung to his Death by Catapult

An Oxford University student was killed in a bizarre stunt after he was hurled 30 metres through the air by a human catapult, an inquest has heard.

Kostydin Yankov, 19, suffered multiple injuries when he missed a safety net after being flung from a medieval-style trebuchet catapult.

The biochemistry student, known as Dino, was part of the university's extreme sports club - the Oxford Stunt Factory - which visited the trebuchet site in Somerset's Middlemoor Water Park in November 2002.

Mr Yankov, from Bulgaria, had been one of five members from the club to use the trebuchet on November 24.

The inquest in Taunton heard how the trebuchet was a medieval siege weapon favoured by the Romans that had also been used to fire plague-ridden corpses and other missiles over castle ramparts.

[ Darwin: Another Tragic loss... ]

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