moonbuggy

Pictures of industrial plants, and more. Kinda crazy looking places.

Zero Wing Rhapsody. All your base are belong to Queen.

If you know what Zero Wing is, and if you know who set us up the bomb, then you’ll probably get a laugh out of this. 🙂

(2.2meg Shockwave)

`Are you concerned about where you go to arrive if you dig a very deep straight infinitous hole on Earth?
Your problems are solved!

Surf on the map below, find where you will dig your hole and click there.

After this, click on “Dig here!” and you will see the place where, one day, you will (believe me) put your feet.’

`The hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church has published a teaching document instructing the faithful that some parts of the Bible are not actually true.

The Catholic bishops of England, Wales and Scotland are warning their five million worshippers, as well as any others drawn to the study of scripture, that they should not expect “total accuracy” from the Bible. [..]

In the document, the bishops acknowledge their debt to biblical scholars. They say the Bible must be approached in the knowledge that it is “God’s word expressed in human language” and that proper acknowledgement should be given both to the word of God and its human dimensions.

They say the Church must offer the gospel in ways “appropriate to changing times, intelligible and attractive to our contemporaries”.’

`Interesting Motherfuckers are the artists, musicians, authors, filmmakers, actors and assorted creative types whose eccentricity forced them to stray from the path of normal humans and follow their own twisted visions. They are the freaks, the geeks and the cult icons of pop entertainment. If you work hard enough, the next Interesting Motherfucker could be you! Until then, peruse the following…’

This has been pissing me off no end. Microsoft has put a cap on the maximum number of TCP connections your computer can make. Anything more than 10 connections in a second and it shuts down the network.

I eventually got sick of it enough to do something about it. This article describes the situation a bit.

Most recent patch files can be gotten from LvlLord.

`The parents of 14-year-old James Watkins agree he deserves school discipline for wearing a penis costume outside a dance at Steilacoom High School.

But they want a “sexual harassment” note about the incident dropped from his school record.

The Pioneer Middle School eighth grader and his parents agree the prank Saturday was wrong, but they say he did not sexually harass anyone.’

`A man crashed a stolen pickup truck into three vehicles, a light pole and a bridge pillar before a crowd caught him and tied him up with a garden hose, authorities said.

”It was a three-ring circus, it really was,” witness Mike Cates said.’

`We’ve got Jasper Carrott & HP Sauce, Kojak, curry & concrete, the iron man & heavy metal, all you lot and everything that makes life worth living. Let the council look no further for the reason we didn’t get the city of culture – they didn’t ask us to help!’

`An elderly blind woman who lived alone was burned and died after trying to microwave clothing at her home in Newcastle, north of Sydney.

A family member found the body of the 86-year-old woman in the dining room of her Birmingham Gardens home about 5pm (AEST) yesterday.

Authorities believe the woman removed the clothes from the microwave, not realising they were on fire, and set her nightgown alight in the process, a police spokeswoman said. [..]

It is unclear why she put the clothes in the microwave, but police do not believe she was trying to dry them.’

`Google Inc.’s market value briefly surpassed $100-billion (U.S.) for the first time Friday, its stock scaling new heights after an earnings and revenue spike that astonished investors. [..]

After the slight retreat, Google’s market value stood at $98-billion after just seven years in business. That was nearly $20-billion above the market value of Hewlett Packard Co. — a Silicon Valley pioneer founded 66 years ago.

Google’s shares have nearly quadrupled since their initial public offering at $85 just over 14 months ago — a stretch that has been marked by stunning financial growth and a steady stream of new products designed to lure even more traffic to a search engine that seems to spit out profits as efficiently as it does answers.’

`Thirteen-year-old twins Lamb and Lynx Gaede have one album out, another on the way, a music video, and lots of fans.

They may remind you another famous pair of singers, the Olsen Twins, and the girls say they like that. But unlike the Olsens, who built a media empire on their fun-loving, squeaky-clean image, Lamb and Lynx are cultivating a much darker personna. They are white nationalists and use their talents to preach a message of hate.

Known as “Prussian Blue” — a nod to their German heritage and bright blue eyes — the girls from Bakersfield, Calif., have been performing songs about white nationalism before all-white crowds since they were nine.

“We’re proud of being white, we want to keep being white,” said Lynx. “We want our people to stay white … we don’t want to just be, you know, a big muddle. We just want to preserve our race.”‘

`High-tech computers, such as those used by NASA, the CIA, or some such governmental institution, will have easy to understand graphical interfaces. Those that don’t, have incredibly powerful text-based command shells that can correctly understand and execute commands typed in plain English.

Corollary: you can gain access to any information you want by simply typing “ACCESS ALL OF THE SECRET FILES” on any keyboard.

Likewise, you can infect a computer with a destructive virus by simply typing “UPLOAD VIRUS”. [..]

Any PERMISSION DENIED error has an OVERRIDE function.’

`State Supreme Court justices questioned Wednesday whether high school cheerleaders trying to flag down motorists for a car wash might run afoul of a broadly written ordinance targeting pushy Las Vegas-area prostitutes. [..]

Under the ordinance, police can arrest someone who “repeatedly beckons to, stops, attempts to stop or engage persons passing by in conversation, or repeatedly stops or attempts to stop motor vehicle operators by hailing, waiving of arms or other bodily gestures.’

`Cumberland County deputies said a man wanted on kidnapping and robbery charges burst into flames Wednesday after gasoline splattered on him and a deputy used a Taser to try to apprehend him.

Deputies said Corporal Bradley Dean pulled over Richard McKinnon for a broken taillight in the Lake Upchurch area of Cumberland County.

McKinnon sped off, drove over a mailbox and hit a tree, deputies said.

He had gasoline in the front seat of his vehicle, and the gasoline splattered on him, they said.’

`Greenland’s ice cap has thickened slightly in recent years despite wide predictions of a thaw triggered by global warming, a team of scientists said on Thursday.

The 9,842-feet thick ice cap is a key concern in debates about climate change because a total melt would raise world sea levels by about 7 meters. And a runaway thaw might slow the Gulf Stream that keeps the North Atlantic region warm.’

`Google KAI: Our Lovely Boy was born on september, 12th 2005 in Kalmar, Sweden.’

The website of the baby named after Google.

Remixes of Imagine and Walk on the Wild Side by George Bush.

(6.7meg Flash video and 2.8meg mp3)

Update – now with video:

see it here »

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`As patient as fishermen, the young men toil day and night, trawling for replies to the e-mails they shoot to strangers half a world away.

Most recipients hit delete, delete, delete, delete without ever opening the messages that urge them to claim the untold riches of a long-lost deceased second cousin, and the messages that offer millions of dollars to help smuggle loot stolen by a corrupt Nigerian official into a U.S. account.

But the few who actually reply make this a tempting and lucrative business for the boys of Festac, a neighborhood of Lagos at the center of the cyber-scam universe. The targets are called maghas — scammer slang from a Yoruba word meaning fool, and refers to gullible white people.’

It’s not your problem, it’s hers.

(2.2meg Quicktime)

`According to the affidavit of probable cause filed in the case, police were notified about 12:45 a.m., when a Snappy’s employee called to report a partially clothed man — later identified as Schreck — inside the store. Employees said he was only wearing a pair of red-and-yellow boxer shorts and a black T-shirt. They asked him to leave because he was not wearing socks or shoes.

According to court documents, a witness said Schreck was then observed walking across the street to Frosty Stop, where he tried to break into a van parked there. He removed his shirt and underwear and then pulled down some aluminum spouting, the witness told police. He then tried to break into a nearby home before walking back over to Snappy’s, the witness said.

State police said Schreck was found with the kerosene nozzle into his mouth, and officers asked him to remove it. [..]’

`These pages demonstrate visual phenomena, called »optical illusions« or »visual illusions«. The latter is more appropriate, because most effects have their basis in the visual pathway, not in the optics of the eye. I selected these based on relative novelty and interactivity, and will expand the explanations when I find the time, to the degree that these phenomena are really understood.’

`I just want to say that I’m slightly turned on by Halle’s foot. I want to dig my tongue in between those toes, all six of them. Yuck! Just typing that made me sick. I’m pretty sure its a growth of some sort yet it still pretty nasty. My dog used to have something very similar. All you got to do is tie a string around it tightly and eventually it will fall off. I’d think Halle Berry could afford a good podiatrist but I guess she’s too busy showing us her nipples.’

`Michael Bowers, a graduate student at Vanderbilt University, was just trying to make really small quantum dots, which are crystals generally only a few nanometers big. That’s less than 1/1000th the width of a human hair.

Quantum dots contain anywhere from 100 to 1,000 electrons. They’re easily excited bundles of energy, and the smaller they are, the more excited they get. Each dot in Bower’s particular batch was exceptionally small, containing only 33 or 34 pairs of atoms.

When you shine a light on quantum dots or apply electricity to them, they react by producing their own light, normally a bright, vibrant color. But when Bowers shined a laser on his batch of dots, something unexpected happened.’

`Sex and romantic entanglements among astronauts could derail missions to Mars and should therefore be studied by NASA, warns a top-level panel of US researchers.

NASA plans to return astronauts to the Moon by 2018 and later on to Mars. But a round-trip mission to the Red Planet would probably last at least 30 months and carry six to eight people. That would be a hotbed for intense crew relationships, says a report by the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS).

“With the prospect of a very long-term mission, it’s hard to ignore the question of sexuality,” says Lawrence Palinkas, a medical anthropologist at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, an author of the report.’

`The author of a new state law that allows felony charges against owners of dangerous dogs was hospitalized over the weekend after his own dog attacked him.

Bob Schwartz, who also is Gov. Bill Richardson’s crime adviser, was hospitalized at University of New Mexico Hospital on Sunday night with bites on both his arms, said Pahl Shipley, a spokesman for the governor.’

`It’s taken our photo interpretation bureau the best part of two weeks to sift through the hundred of entries we had for our “Spot the Black Helicopter” competition – giving readers a chance to win one of our lovely Black Helicopter t-shirts.

Well, the results are in, but before announcing the winners, we thought it would be a lovely idea to have a look at some of the other entries which prove just why Google Earth will eventually provoke the complete collapse of Western civilisation.’

Lots of cool satellite images.

`A rat released on a deserted island off New Zealand outsmarted scientists and evaded traps, baits and sniffer dogs before being captured four months later on a neighboring island, researchers have said.

Scientists from the University of Auckland in New Zealand released the Norway rat on the 23.5-acre island of Motuhoropapa to find out why rats are so difficult to eradicate.

They got more than they bargained for.’

`U.S. oil and gas projects are being delayed because workers abusing and producing methamphetamines have made it difficult for companies to fill jobs, the Financial Times said, citing people including Ron Walsmith, direct of oil and gas training at the Mid-Continent Oil & Gas Training Center. [..]

Laboratories to make methamphetamines have been found on rigs, where workers have easy access to sodium hydroxide, used to reduce the acidity of drilling mud and to make the drug, the Financial Times said. The problem is increasing the risk of explosions and accidents on rigs, it said. Times’ Web site.’