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`Police said the principal called them when the girl refused to go to class. When officers arrived, they had trouble bringing the girl, who is 5 feet 5 inches tall and 120 pounds, under control. Officers said they warned the girl several times that they would use the Taser on her if she did not calm down.

She was charged for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.’

`Former US secretary of state Colin Powell says his United Nations speech making the case for the US-led war on Iraq was “a blot” on his record.

Mr Powell has also said that he had “never seen evidence to suggest” a connection between the September 11, 2001 terror attacks in the United States and the Saddam regime. ‘

`Bucking dire predictions by anti-drug warriors, the 10 states that approved medical marijuana laws over the last decade have experienced sharp declines in cannabis use among teenagers, according to a new study by a marijuana advocacy group.

California has seen usage among ninth-graders drop 47% since 1996, the year the state became the nation’s first to legalize medical marijuana. Over the same period, the nation as a whole experienced a 43% decline among eighth-graders.’

`Atom Chip Corporation is a research & development company for new computer designs. The company has developed a series of new Quantum and Quantum-Optical devices for storing and processing information in a way that permits high-speed data accessibility, with a high degree of reliability, non-volatility, and extremely high-density in an extremely compact size. The devices do not employ any mechanical or moving parts, and are completely based on solid state optoelectronics.’

`Aniline dyes, developed by William Perkin in the 1850s, were the beginning of the end for a host of mineral pigments widely used in interior décor. Chromium, cadmium, mercury, lead, cyanide, antimony and arsenic salts were once commonplace as paint, wallpaper, food and fabric pigments. The arsenic pigments Scheele’s green and Emerald green, the mercurial vermilion, green lead chromate, cadmium yellow, arsenical Naples ’s yellow, the cyanide salt Prussian blue, were the staple colours used to brighten up the Georgian and Victorian home. Whites were often lead white or arsenic trioxide. In the early days aniline dyes were far from safe with arsenious acid, used as a reductant in the dye manufature, often present in high concentrations.’

`A group of female hurricane survivors were told to show their breasts if they wanted to be rescued, a British holidaymaker has revealed.Ged Scott watched as American rescuers turned their boat around and sped off when the the women refused.

The account was just another example of the horror stories emerging from the hurricane disaster zone. [..]

“At one point, there were a load of girls on the roof of the hotel saying ‘Can you help us?’ and the policemen said ‘Show us what you’ve got’ and made signs for them to lift their T-shirts,” he told the Liverpool Evening Echo.

“When the girls refused, they said `Fine’ and motored off down the road in their boat.” [..]

Mr Scott also slated the rescue operation, saying police were more interested in taking snapshots of the devastation rather than rescuing the victims.

“I could not have a lower opinion of the authorities, from the police officers on the street right up to George Bush,” he said.’

`1926 Military Manual on Conducting Chemical Warfare’

The top ten funniest and the top ten most offensive religious jokes of all time.

`And, as the New York Times noted in Marvin’s obituary, Marvin chose a rather unusual way of expressing a Garp-like solidarity with his brother after the latter’s death in 1993:

“The brothers were so close that Marvin never used the pronoun “I,” much less claimed credit for a particular photo. After Morgan died of testicular cancer, Marvin had his own testicles removed.” [..]

A week later, the Times ran a correction:

“An obituary last Wednesday about Marvin Smith, a leading photographer of Harlem who worked with his identical twin, Morgan, described the closeness of the two men — it was said that they never used the pronoun “I” — and recounted an anecdote about Marvin Smith’s response to the illness that caused his brother’s death, in 1993. [..]

After the obituary appeared, Monica Smith, the daughter of Morgan Smith, told The Times that her father had had prostate cancer and that her uncle did not have his testicles removed.”‘

So, I bought a domain name for fun. :)

At the moment it just redirects to the blog hosted at blogspot, but I’m probably going to start migrating some stuff over to the new domain when I sort out some cheap hosting..

`A British man was sent a letter threatening him with hospitalisation and horrors worse than the London bombings if he failed to pay his phone bill, a newspaper said.

The Royal Mail customer was warned in an unsigned letter on official notepaper that the terrorist attacks which killed 56 people would be nothing compared to the suffering heading his way, the Daily Mirror reported. [..]

“Failure to pay will result in you being hospitalised,” the chilling letter warned.

“If you thought the events of July 7 and July 21 were bad, that is nothing compared to what will happen to you.

“If you fail to pay your outstanding bill, we have told you verbally what we will do to you. This is just to remind you we will carry out our promise.”‘

`LMOS is a minimalist operating system targetting multimedia presentations, written with simplicity in mind. Due to its tiny x86 assembly core, it easily fits on a standard floppy: just write LMOS and your pictures to a CD or floppy, and it will boot and play on any IBM-PC compatible computer. [..]

The default LMOS theme contains the following images, which are amongst the most famous shock images available on the Internet:

* hello.jpg (as seen on goatse.cx)
* tub.jpg (as seen on tubgirl.com)
* loopback.jpg (as seen on goatse.cx)
* harlequin.jpg
* pooped.jpg (as seen on bangedup.com)
* pillowfight.jpg
* lemonparty.jpg (as seen on lemonparty.org)

The default LMOS background music is the famous “HEY EVERYBODY, I’M LOOKING AT GAY PORNO” sample.’

A faith in God,
A friendly smile!
He’ll warm your heart,
then rape your child!

`A sailor has been rescued after drifting around the English Channel for two days in his half-built boat with only beer to drink.

The 52-year-old Dutch man living in Southampton took to sea after he had an argument with his wife, Portland Coastguard said. [..]

A coastguard spokesman said: “He said he had been drifting for two days when we found him and he had no supplies except plenty of beer.

“He told us that he had been working on his boat for three years as a project and had set to sea after arguing with his wife.

“The powerboat was only half-built. It had all the equipment – radar, engines – but the man’s electrics did not work so he could not start the engine.’

`This 1883 book is without question the worst phrasebook ever written. The writer, Pedro Carolino, who was Portuguese, did not particularly speak English, nor did he have a Portuguese-English dictionary available. Instead, he worked with a French-English phrasebook and a Portuguese-French dictionary. The results, I’m sure you’ll agree, are staggering.’

`In 2001, FEMA warned that a hurricane striking New Orleans was one of the three most likely disasters in the U.S. But the Bush administration cut New Orleans flood control funding by 44 percent to pay for the Iraq war.’

Hurricane pictures.

`A Duluth man with a sexual fetish for large rubber exercise balls was sentenced to probation Thursday.

Christopher Neil Bjerkness, 27, pleaded guilty to criminal damage to property and third-degree burglary. [..]

Bjerkness admitted to using a knife to damage about 72 exercise balls on three occasions last year at the University of Minnesota Duluth Sports and Health Center. The different sized balls were valued at $30 to $60 each.

Bjerkness also admitted to using a knife to slash at least 20 fitness balls at the St. Mary’s Duluth Clinic Center for Personal Fitness. He said he entered the center by jimmying a locked door with his knife. [..]

According to court documents, Bjerkness told Duluth police he slashed the rubber balls to satisfy a sexual urge. He said he popped some of them with his hands.’

`A man who claimed he was sleepwalking when he molested three girls in his home has been convicted of rape and other charges.

Jeffrey S. Buske, 38, faces up to 25 years in prison at his sentencing Thursday. [..]

Sgt. Eric Weisburn said Buske claimed he had a problem with sleepwalking and may have mistaken the girls for his wife.’

`Police have arrested the woman and charged her with child abuse and exposure of sexual organs.

The children range in age from 5 to 15 years old. Police say they will be turned over to relatives.

The woman says that God told her that she and her children should walk down the street naked.’

`President Bush answered growing antiwar protests yesterday with a fresh reason for US troops to continue fighting in Iraq: protection of the country’s vast oil fields, which he said would otherwise fall under the control of terrorist extremists. [..]

”If Zarqawi and [Osama] bin Laden gain control of Iraq, they would create a new training ground for future terrorist attacks,” Bush said. ”They’d seize oil fields to fund their ambitions. They could recruit more terrorists by claiming a historic victory over the United States and our coalition.”‘

`Two separate pictures on Yahoo have two separate captions which pose a very striking question over the difference between “looting” and “finding”.

The pictures were taken after the hurricane which devastated three southern states earlier this week continued to afflict flooded New Orleans.

The first picture and caption, here shows a black resident wading through chest deep water “after looting” a grocery store.

But a second picture and caption shows two white residents again wading through chest deep water “after finding” bread and soda in a local grocery store.

What’s the difference? We guess all three people are desperate to drink and to eat.’

`When Archie the black labrador lost his owner on a lonely Scottish station, he jumped aboard the first train home.

Not only did the dog catch the right train, he got off at the right station, the Mail on Sunday newspaper reports. [..]

“He is a very intelligent dog,” Mr Taitt said.

“When he could not find me, he simply took the right train home. He’s been on that train before. I am convinced he knew it was the right one. But who knows?”

Closed-circuit television footage shows the dog waiting for his master at the station before watching the Aberdeen to Inverness train pull in.’

`A 30-year-old man was off to play pool when three women asked him to direct them to a hotel and he claims they raped him in turn after they had had drinks. [..]

“On the way to the hotel, the driver suddenly changed direction and drove to an open piece of veld near the Durban Roodepoort Deep mine.

“One of the women pulled out a gun and held up the man while the other two undressed.

“Then all three of them raped him in turn, with one of them keeping the gun pointed at him,” said [some policewoman].’

Looks like some good driving.