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Archive for 2004

Friday, September 10, 2004

Quantum Sleeper

The Safest Rest You’ve Ever Had


Hungry Space

It’s like that Fishy game.


FLY GUY


Girls Forced To Spread Fat Rolls In Strip Search

`The girls, 13 and 14, described searches in which they were forced to lift their breasts and spread out rolls of fat. The 13-year-old girl cried throughout one of the searches. Another was conducted with other inmates present.

[A court will] hear further argument about whether officials inappropriately searched one of the girls while looking for a missing pencil.’


Man Sentenced For Swinging Alligator At Girlfriend

`A man who swung an alligator at his girlfriend during an argument was sentenced to six months in jail.

David Havenner, 41, of Port Orange, pleaded no contest to misdemeanor charges of battery and possession of an alligator, [..]’


Oxygen problems plague space station

`[The] Elektron generator uses electrical power to split water molecules into breathable oxygen and waste hydrogen. [..]

The three Elektron units on board the space station are the last of their kind. The company that manufactured them has gone out of business, and the engineer who almost single-handedly made the final adjustments of flight units died several years ago. Reportedly he retained some “trade secret” about the final adjustments of the devices — and it died with him.’


Bacteria Turn Toxins Into Plastic

`[some scientists] announced that they have discovered a bacterial strain that uses styrene, a toxic byproduct of the polystyrene industry [..], as fuel to make a type of biodegradable plastic, polyhydroxyalkanoate, known as PHA.’


Thursday, September 9, 2004

Proximity

(129kB Shockwave)

see it here »


Chris’s Free I Ching Page

`Compose your thoughts.

Relax.

When you have a question, type it in the box, and click on the “Ask I Ching” button below:’


Time Cube

`Educated cubeless stupid, you think stupid. Why worship a dumb 1 day god when I demonstrate 4 simultaneous 24 hour days within a single 24 hour rotation of Earth? Linear, singularity and trinity equate to evil math within Nature’s Cubic Creation

My wisdom so antiquates known knowledge, that a psychiatrist examining my behavior, eccentric by his academic single corner knowledge, knows no course other than to judge me schizoprenic.’

more at Time Cube Central, including video.

`Now, the human head has four corners. Nose, two ears and a back corner.’


Guatemala Peasants Seize Hydroelectric Dam

`Hundreds of angry farmers seized Guatemala’s largest hydroelectric dam Tuesday, threatening to shut off power to large parts of the country unless the government agrees to return nearby lands to them. [..]

The takeover of the plant, which supplies about 60 percent of the country’s electricity, comes on the eve of a deadline set six months ago by various peasant groups for the solution of the problem.’


SlapYoFaceOff

Changing Faces One Slap at a Time


The Virgin Game

` Playing is easy:

1. We show you pairs of real people, chosen at random from our lists of virgins and non-virgins.
2. You guess who the virgin is.
3. We tell you how you did.’


Army set to injure goats for training

`A planned training exercise at Fort Carson has drawn fire from animal welfare groups because it involves soldiers injuring an undisclosed number of goats.

Later this month, medics from the 10th Special Forces Group will learn battlefield medical techniques at the post by treating the goats, which will be sedated and then injured to simulate combat wounds, the Army confirmed Tuesday.’


Hospital wants penis op man to return

‘Doctors at a Romanian hospital want police to help them find a man who fled after being told he’d have to have his penis cut off.

Staff at the hospital in Pitesti in the south of the country say gangrene had set in.’


Rusty Pitchfork Used In Bank Robbery

`A robber who used a rusty pitchfork to stick up a bank got away — and so far, finding him has been like looking for a needle in a haystack.’

with picture.


Dutchman Gets Covered In Shit

`A Dutch driver was covered in hundreds of liters of manure when a tank burst on a lorry carrying fertilizer, [..]

“It was a nice night … so he probably opened his window when he stopped at a traffic light, and then — (it) happened,” said [some police person].’


It may enhance more than sex

`Researchers may have found a new use for Viagra, after conducting tests on mountain climbers scaling Mount Everest, the world’s highest summit.

The drug, which promotes erections by opening the tiny veins and arteries leading to the penis, performs similarly in the lungs of men and women at high altitudes, a new study has found.’


Geek Pick-up Lines

`5. My ‘up-time’ is better than BSD.

6. You must be Windows 95 because you gots me so unstable.’


Mother, children critical after mobile home explosion

`Officials say the trailer park manager had a stove installed in the home, but it wasn’t hooked up properly and was leaking gas. The manager told 24 Hour News 8 that he wanted the woman to stay out until it was fixed. The manager went to go shut the propane tank off, and that’s when the woman lit a cigarette and the trailer exploded.’


Five injured by pellets …

`Stray pellets injured five bank customers when a security guard’s pump gun fell accidentally, triggering a shot at the Maybank branch at Taman Malim Jaya.

The five who were hit in their legs, were rushed to a private hospital where they underwent minor operations to remove the pellets.’


Harold Bishop to rap?

`Neighbours veteran Ian Smith, who plays Harold Bishop, is to release a hip-hop record. [..]

He told The Sun: “I’m working on a track called I Am Not A Pop Star. It has a hip-hop feel.’

:)


Genesis space capsule crashes to Earth

`The Genesis space capsule, which had orbited the sun for more than three years in an attempt to gather clues to the origin of the solar system, crashed to Earth today after its parachute failed to deploy.’

with video, also here.


Vegan dad says he’ll kill son if cops come

`A fanatic vegan who kidnapped his 14-month-old son in Brooklyn is hiding in the woods – and vowing to kill the boy if cops come after him, [..]

Screaming that the toddler was not eating healthy food, Raphael Spindell, 34, snatched little Andre from his maternal grandmother in Coney Island Saturday and has been missing with the boy and the child’s mother since.’


Never use a blowtorch to chase a wasp away…

`In a freak chain of events, a burning wasp triggered a fire in the attic of a house in an eastern German town [..]

[..] a roofing worker was attacked by a swarm of wasps. To protect himself, he used his blowtorch against the insects, setting one of the wasps on on fire.

The insect then flew back to its nest, which was located in the rafters, setting it on fire.’


Groom used socks as eyebrows

`A groom had to stick bits of sock over his eyes after friends shaved his eyebrows off during his stag night. [..]

“I could have killed him – he looked like Groucho Marx. But I see the funny side now,” [the bride] said.’


British Official Quits in Odd Fashion

`[..] former Trade Secretary and Labor Party lawmaker Peter Mandelson successfully applied Wednesday to become steward and bailiff of the Manor of Northstead.

Northstead is under water, and the appointment entails no duties. [..]’


Wednesday, September 8, 2004

Acid Trip

`These 9 drawings were done by an artist under the influence of LSD — part of a test conducted by the US government during it’s dalliance with psychotomimetic drugs in the late 1950’s.’


Stephen’s Guide to the Logical Fallacies

`Logical fallacies are errors of reasoning, errors which may be recognized and corrected by prudent thinkers. This site indexes and describes all known logical fallacies.’


Junkheap

Zuid and Marcin don’t update much anymore.