`The Pentagon is spending $161 billion on a program to build heavily-armed robots for the battlefield in the hope that future wars will be fought without the loss of its soldiers’ lives.
The scheme, known as Future Combat Systems, is the largest military contract in American history and will help to drive the defence budget up by almost 20 per cent in five years’ time.’
`Here you will find information that can help you analyze and/or respond to a specific situation that may involve a destructive cult, group or leader.’
`Is this yearly ritual of pyrotechnic mayhem. . .this machine-art apocalyptic fantasy. . . this aggressively dysfunctional absurdist dystopia. . . really an attempt to reconceive the foundations of human civilization, or is it at its core, a thinly veiled ruse to indulge unresolved issues of male virility? [..]
The Impotence Compensation Project proposes to explore the deeper soundings of this question with a high-altitude pyrotechnic symphony, a phallic cataclysm of 300 foot columns of flame, destroying the environment at over 30 gallons of kerosene a second.’
‘Dracula 3000 is, supposedly, a sci-fi horror film. In practice, however, it appears to be the result of a collision of what little the director knew about those two genres, taken from what he could glean from his memory of 1970’s late night movies while his mother was out looking for a new daddy. Add in the extra challenge of trying to make a feature length film with a budget of fourteen dollars and a bag of black tar heroin, and the resulting mess is neither thought provoking, nor exciting, nor frightening, nor any other qualities that could distinguish it from ninety minutes spent looking at, say, a real-time map of local traffic conditions.’
The shockwave clips from the movie are fantastic. :) It’s not every day you hear the phrase “ejaculate all over your bazongas” in a movie.
`So you still don’t believe that people throw away tons of good stuff you can use to have some fun. To prove it to you, I’ve decided to make a Tesla Coil from only stuff I’ve found in the garbage. I will include a detailed list of all components used and where/what they came from.’
`The driver of a mobile speed camera van was allegedly clocked by police, breaking the limit on a Shropshire road, it emerged today.
Now the van operator, who had been on mobile patrol in Trefonen, near Oswestry, could face court action.
The driver was pulled over by an officer who allegedly saw the van, operated by West Mercia Safety Camera Partnership, breaking the limit on a national speed limit road.’
`A secret underwater attraction that lured several divers to their deaths could have returned, police say.
The “gnome garden” complete with picket fence was removed from the bottom of Wastwater in the Lake District after several divers died a few years ago.
It is thought they spent too much time at too great a depth while searching for the site of the ornaments.
Now police divers say there is a rumour that the garden has returned at a depth beyond which they are allowed.’
`In recent talks, U.S. diplomats have bluntly asked the leaders how a Shiite-dominated government would react if Iran came under attack by an outside power because of its suspected nuclear weapons program, according to a high-ranking member of one Shiite party.
The Iraqi Shiite leaders have reassured the Americans that they are mostly concerned about how any such attack would affect Iraq, and they have stressed their independence from Iran, said the Shiite party official, who is familiar with the U.S. talks but would speak only on condition of anonymity.’
`A Rhode Island high school student won an art award and an A from his teacher for building an abstract scene that juxtaposes Nazi swastikas and quotes by Adolf Hitler with American flags, desert-colored toy soldiers and an image of President Bush.
Jeffrey Eden, 17, insisted he was trying to make comparisons between the U.S.-led war in Iraq and the German blitzkrieg without actually equating Hitler to Bush, the Providence Journal reported.
But his piece, titled “Bush/Hitler and How History Repeats Itself,” immediately prompted a complaint after it was displayed at a store with other winners of the Rhode Island Scholastic Art Awards.’
There’s no doubt about it. This kid is a terrorist.
`High School/Jr.High
10 PRINT “HELLO WORLD”
20 END
First year in College
program Hello(input, output)
begin
writeln(‘Hello World’)
end.’
`The live-in customers at the Alcor Life Extension Foundation here reside in eight 10-foot-high steel tanks filled with liquid nitrogen. They are incapable of breathing, thinking, walking or scratching an itch.
But don’t refer to them as deceased.
They may be frozen at minus 320 degrees Fahrenheit and identified by prisonlike numbers. But to Alcor, the 67 bodies–in many cases, just severed heads–are patients who may live again if science can just figure out how to reanimate them.
“They’re no different than a flat-lining patient who gets a defibrillator to bring them back to life,” said Joseph Waynick, Alcor’s chief executive. “With our patients, the only difference is length of time.”‘
Update: the page seems to have expired. You can still read it if you hit “stop” quickly before it has a chance to refresh.
`Three kids come down to the kitchen and sit around the breakfast table. The mother asks the oldest boy what he’d like to eat. “I’ll have some fuckin’ French toast,” he says. The mother is outraged at his language, hits him, and sends him upstairs. She asks the middle child what he wants. “Well, I guess that leaves more fuckin’ French toast for me,” he says. She is livid, smacks him, and sends him away. Finally she asks the youngest son what he wants for breakfast. “I don’t know,” he says meekly, “but I definitely don’t want the fuckin’ French toast.”‘
`Prince Charles could be barred from marrying Camilla in a civil ceremony, legal experts have warned.
Plans have been drawn up for the couple to marry in a low-key ceremony at Windsor Castle, followed by a chapel blessing.
But in a BBC Panorama television special last night, family law experts said there were “serious doubts” over the couple’s wedding plans, arguing that the 1836 Marriage Act barred the royal family from civil marriages.’
`A test of the national missile defense system failed Monday when an interceptor missile did not launch from its island base in the Pacific Ocean, the military said. It was the second failure in months for the experimental program.’
`A large black ball, originally designed by Swedish scientists for use on Mars, could be the latest weapon in the war against burglars.
The device, developed at the University of Uppsala, acts as a high-tech security guard capable of detecting an intruder thanks to either radar or infra-red sensors. Once alerted, it can summon help, sound an alarm or pursue the intruders, taking pictures.
It is capable of travelling at 20mph, somewhat faster than a human being. Even worse for intruders, the robot ball can still give chase over mud, snow and water.’
I want some robotic balls. :)
`Here it is! The new flamethrower at nearly full capacity! Bear in mind that this is with the use of an expansion chamber but with only 3/8 inch pipe. I am going to go up to 3/4 inch or possibly 1 inch pipe to see if I can get a little better performance. Eventually the entire perimeter of the roof will be lined with piping that will emit a dense ring of flames around the entire edge of the roof.’
`The Federal Election Commission next month will begin looking at tightening restrictions on political activities on the Internet, ROLL CALL reports Monday.
The FEC is planning to examine the question of how Internet activities, when coordinated with candidates’ campaigns, fit into the definition of ‘public communications.’
Dangerous territory, methinks.
`A man whose friends initially said he was killed by gunfire outside a Gary liquor store actually died after he donned what he thought was a bulletproof vest and asked a cohort to shoot him.
A friend then shot Daniel Wright with a .20-gauge shotgun, but it turned out the vest Wright had put on Thursday was a flak jacket not designed to stop a bullet.
Wright, 20, was mortally wounded in the shooting and died later at a Gary hospital after two of his friends drove him there.’
`The unkind would call it the battle of the bitches – referring to the dogs, of course.
Britney Spears and Paris Hilton are now exchanging claw marks not over their fame, beauty or money – but about their pet chihuahuas.
Singer Britney says the hotel heiress’s pet Tinkerbell looks like a dog’s breakfast. Her own three pooches – Bit Bit, Lacy Loo and Lucky – are far better turned out, she claims.’
Obviously, they’re both retards.
`A Sydney Council has declared war on 4WDs by becoming the first in the state to “tax” owners – through a residential parking permit scheme. [..]
Subject to a public exhibition phase, 4WD owners in North Sydney will be forced to pay $88 for a residential parking permit – double the current amount of $44. If the same household applies for another permit for a second 4WD, it will cost $200, up from the current $100.’
Hooray. The fewer death-mobiles on the road the better.
`A cancer patient who hanged himself may not have received a letter from doctors saying he was clear of the illness, officials said Monday.
Colin Jackson, 43, underwent intense treatment after being diagnosed with testicular cancer last year. He was found hanging from a ledge in his apartment in Gillingham, southeast of London, on July 2.
Doctors sent Jackson a letter telling him the treatment was successful and he was free from the disease. But the local coroner’s office said he may not have received the letter because he had recently registered with a different family physician.’
Some guy as mapped out all the branches his life might have taken and the potential outcomes. Interesting. :)
`Olympic ski champion Bill Johnson was arrested for allegedly punching a sheriff’s deputy in the face during a traffic stop.
Johnson was stopped in his pickup truck by a Multnomah County sheriff’s deputy and a suburban Troutdale police officer on Friday afternoon. When the officers approached, Johnson pulled out his 1984 gold medal and taunted them by saying, “You don’t have one of these,” police said.
Johnson threw his keys at Deputy Jeff Cordes, reached out his window, grabbed the deputy’s shirt and punched him in the face, police said.’
`A Delaware County man who prosecutors say was killed by his father-in-law was called for jury duty in his alleged killer’s murder trial.’
‘Yes! The face of Lord Jesus naturally formed by clouds’
I don’t know if I believe the “never before seen” bit. I saw it just last week. Twice.
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