`Our in-house designed (Joachim Stadel & Ben Moore 2003), massively parallel supercomputer for running our cosmological N-body simulations. This machine consists of 288 AMD Athlon-MP 2200+ (1.8 GHz) CPUs within a few cubic meters. Under load it produces about 45 kW of heat, about equivalent to 45 electric hair dryers operating continuously! This amount of heat, combined with the extremely high density necessitated a new design for efficient cooling. The 144 nodes (2 CPUs per node) are connected using an SCI fast interconnect supplied by Dolphin in a 12×12 2-dimensional torus.’
I have no personality disorders it seems, so hooray for me. I wonder how many people tick the “Do you experience magical thinking that influences your behavior?” box in that test. :)
The depression test tells me I should go to the hospital right now, or call 911 and ask for help. [laugh]
Psych tests are fun. :)
No idea what it says. But a picture is worth a thousand words.
I figure, if they’ll hang it in an art gallery it has to be safe for work. [shrug] :)
`It may be the oddest tale to emerge from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Armed dolphins, trained by the US military to shoot terrorists and pinpoint spies underwater, may be missing in the Gulf of Mexico.
Experts who have studied the US navy’s cetacean training exercises claim the 36 mammals could be carrying ‘toxic dart’ guns. Divers and surfers risk attack, they claim, from a species considered to be among the planet’s smartest. The US navy admits it has been training dolphins for military purposes, but has refused to confirm that any are missing.’
`Australia’s new High Court judge is a grandmother who throws wild St Patrick’s Day parties, complete with drums, and once accidentally turned off a power station.
Susan Crennan’s colleagues say the Federal Court justice is one of the nation’s most brilliant legal minds and a welcome addition to the High Court.’
`An 18-month-old child started the family car and ran over three family members in a southern Polish village on Saturday, police said.
“The child somehow started the car, whose keys had been left in the ignition, and it began reversing,” police spokesman Adam Jachimczak said.
The child’s mother, who tried to stop the car, and her four-year-old daughter, got run over by the vehicle which pinned the grandfather against the wall of a barn.’
`The US military lawyer appointed to defend Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks has welcomed the prospect of his client applying for British citizenship. [..]
Unlike the Australian Government, the British Government has refused to cooperate with the US military commission process.
All nine British citizens detained at Guantanamo Bay were released without charge, with the first releases taking place in March last year.
Maj Mori says the US and the UK have an agreement that no British citizen will be tried under the military commission process.’
`The crew of a fishing boat blocked emergency radio frequencies for hours as they watched an erotic film.
The crew of the Blyth-based Oceania accidentally left their radio switched to the emergency channel on Thursday as they were off the North East coast.
They then settled down to watch the film Crash on a TV which was next to the radio – not realising it was being broadcast over a 30-mile radius.’
`A Christchurch beneficiary has complained to the State Services Commission after her Work and Income case manager allegedly left an obscenity on her voicemail.
Sickness beneficiary Andrea Metcalfe claims her case manager ended a message on her answerphone about her next appointment by calling her a “cunt”.
Work and Income has investigated and exonerated the case manager, saying the words she used were: “Thanks, ta.”
Social Development Ministry chief executive Peter Hughes blamed the New Zealand accent and audio “drop out” on its phone network for the confusion.
“The ministry’s phone system, while cutting edge, does experience drop outs,” he said. “This, coupled with a Kiwi accent, can result in words being swallowed. We believe what has been recorded is the hitting of the K and T.”‘
`Of course, the true danger lies in the fact that once the Gay Genie is out of the bottle, it can never return – that there’s no turning back on the road to the queer armageddon. Ah, some of you might be thinking, but surely the forces of good, justice, and straightness will triumph, even at the end of the world! If only it were so, my friends. But our situation is far more dire: evidence indicates that by the time the apocalypse arrives, God Himself may be infected with Gay.
Between the United Church of Christ’s pernicious promotion of equal rights and the Episopal Church’s gay bishop, God has become increasingly pink of late. Indeed, reliable reports have it that God the Son has been acting suspiciously swishy, while the Holy Ghost has been a raging queen for years. [..]’
Having fun with stickers and signs.
Stickers that say fuck. And signs that didn’t say fuck originally, but now do.
`A 14-year-old student was expelled from a Christian school because her parents are lesbians, the school’s superintendent said in a letter.
Shay Clark was expelled from Ontario Christian School on Thursday.
“Your family does not meet the policies of admission,” Superintendent Leonard Stob wrote to Tina Clark, the girl’s biological mother.
Stob wrote that school policy requires that at least one parent may not engage in practices “immoral or inconsistent with a positive Christian life style, such as cohabitating without marriage or in a homosexual relationship,” The Los Angeles Times reported in Friday’s edition.’
`As Hurricane Katrina began pounding New Orleans, the sheriff’s department abandoned hundreds of inmates imprisoned in the city’s jail, Human Rights Watch said today.
Inmates in Templeman III, one of several buildings in the Orleans Parish Prison compound, reported that as of Monday, August 29, there were no correctional officers in the building, which held more than 600 inmates. These inmates, including some who were locked in ground-floor cells, were not evacuated until Thursday, September 1, four days after flood waters in the jail had reached chest-level.’
`Dr. Chopp is board certified by the American Board of Urology and joined The Urology Team in 1983. He attended medical school at The University of Minnesota. His internship and residency were both at the University of Southern California, where he served in various capacities, including adult service, general urology, and renal service. [..]
Dr. Richard (Dick) Chopp is well known in the Austin community for performing Vasectomies. [..]’
Dick Chopp. Get it? Ha ha.
[shrug] :)
`The US and Iraqi governments have vastly overstated the number of foreign fighters in Iraq, and most of them don’t come from Saudi Arabia, according to a new report from the Washington-based Center for Strategic International Studies (CSIS). According to a piece in The Guardian, this means the US and Iraq “feed the myth” that foreign fighters are the backbone of the insurgency. While the foreign fighters may stoke the insurgency flames, they make up only about 4 to 10 percent of the estimated 30,000 insurgents. [..]
The CSIS report says: “The vast majority of Saudi militants who have entered Iraq were not terrorist sympathizers before the war; and were radicalized almost exclusively by the coalition invasion.”
The average age of the Saudis was 17-25 and they were generally middle-class with jobs, though they usually had connections with the most prominent conservative tribes. “Most of the Saudi militants were motivated by revulsion at the idea of an Arab land being occupied by a non-Arab country. These feelings are intensified by the images of the occupation they see on television and the Internet … the catalyst most often cited [in interrogations] is Abu Ghraib, though images from Guantánamo Bay also feed into the pathology.”‘
`The lab’s scientists have dubbed this bloody goo “snarge,” and it is usually all that is left when bird meets plane. Scientists are analyzing snarge DNA to track airplane bird strikes, with the hope of decreasing hazardous collisions. [..]
And its not just birds. Sometimes jet-stream encounters can take a page from the X-Files. “We’ve had frogs, turtles, snakes. We had a cat once that was struck at some high altitude,” said the Smithsonian’s Dove. She says birds like hawks and herons will occasionally drop their quarries into oncoming planes. “The other day we had a bird strike. We sent the sample to the DNA lab and it came back as rabbit. How do you explain to the FAA that we had a rabbit strike at 1,800 feet?”‘
`If you want to see the true face of war, go to the amateur porn Web site NowThatsFuckedUp.com. For almost a year, American soldiers stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan have been taking photographs of dead bodies, many of them horribly mutilated or blown to pieces, and sending them to Web site administrator Chris Wilson. In return for letting him post these images, Wilson gives the soldiers free access to his site. American soldiers have been using the pictures of disfigured Iraqi corpses as currency to buy pornography.’
Funnily enough, this one might just pass as safe for work because there’s really nothing in it that is both obscene and large enough to be visible. :)
(3.7meg Windows media)
see it here »
`US forces have fired so many bullets in Iraq and Afghanistan – an estimated 250,000 for every insurgent killed – that American ammunition-makers cannot keep up with demand. As a result the US is having to import supplies from Israel.
A government report says that US forces are now using 1.8 billion rounds of small-arms ammunition a year. The total has more than doubled in five years, largely as a result of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as changes in military doctrine.’
`Prisoners, Families and Friends … Were you in the Visiting Room? … On Vacation? With Composite Magic Photos you Could NEVER Tell The Difference!
Are you tired of seeing you and your family in dozens of photos taken in the Visiting Room over the years … all with the same old boring Visiting Room backdrops?’
You can buy all sorts of things just about anywhere in Japan, apparently.
Yes, even used schoolgirl panties. This site has a photograph of the infamous vending machine of legend.
Photos of water splashing about.
It’s a goatse sorta thing.
Now, if only I could find the biphallic version.. [chuckle] :)
Update: Now with a working picture.
see it here »
Some crazy man smearing faeces and whatnot about the place.
Page links to a video (9.7meg .wmv)..
Here’s some more about G.G. Allin.
`In late February of 2005, during the John Paul Martines recording sessions in Bronx, NY, Danny Bronx and Bob Fantastic recorded guitar and drum tracks that would later become the structure of “Skeleton Freak Out.” During the recording sessions, John Paul’s 5 year old younger brother (Tyler Petrucci,) came into the studio and said these words to Dan and Bob. “I’ve been trying to tell people this forever. Too young to live, too young to die. You will die forever, and ever. The sun will blow up and you will turn into a zombie. Forever.” Taking what we could handle from Tyler’s freaky speech, we had the kid sit down and spill his heart out into a microphone. WE ARE NOT KIDDING, THIS IS NOT A JOKE, LOOK AT THE PICTURES. We were as astonished as you probably are right now. He then named our group “Spider the Tylercore,” and named the song “Skeleton Freak Out.” We’re not sure what’s going to become of this. If you want, you can translate the rest of the song yourself, but this is what we got out of it [..]’
`There is no need to go out in the drizzling rain to protest anymore. You can do it from the comfort of your own home.’
`The Corrupted Blood plague is quickly spreading across World of Warcraft servers. The disease originates from the recently added instance, Zul’Gurub. Players that go up against Hakkar (the god of blood) may find themselves infected with its debuff, Corrupted Blood, which does roughly 250-350 damage and can affect nearby players. Some of the players that have survived their battles with Hakkar have brought the disease into towns, spreading it amongst the general population, including npcs. Be warned.’
Here is a video of the plague. (10meg Windows Media)
‘It’s not clear whether or not this is William Hung, but it’s ALL final countdown. See those kids running off at the beginning of the video? Ya, they were on to something there.’
(8.7meg Flash video)
see it here »
`Some of you may have heard of the practice of “double bagging” – wearing two condoms during sex for extra protection (something not recommended by most condom manufacturers) . Taking this idea to its ultimate extreme, we set out to answer the question “How many condoms can you put on your dick?” However, since we were unable to find anyone with a penis willing to undertake this assignment, we had to settle for answering the question “How many condoms can you put on a dildo?” The answer: a lot. Hundreds. Tons. Or at least a couple of pounds worth. See what happened as we layered on the latex.’
`It sounded like something out of a teen competition movie such as “Drumline” or “Bring it On.”
But the brawl that broke out Saturday night at McAdams Park following a spontaneous “dance-off” wasn’t a movie scene, and police and city officials on Monday were sorting through the aftermath that left one person hurt and two others — a mother and a son — facing criminal charges.
“This is a whole new arena” of crime, said Lt. Jeff Easter of the Wichita Police Department’s gang and felony assault section.
The Dynamic Steppers, a local drill team, was practicing routines at McAdams Park near 13th and I-135 on Saturday night when members of another drill team, the White Tigers, showed up and challenged the others to what was described as a “dance-off,” police said.’
