moonbuggy

`SPERMCUBE, it’s… collecting 1 cubic meter of sperm preserved frozen in a transparent cube. A collective artwork, international, open to all, universal. PARTICIPATE !’

‘In January 1968, the US Navy electronic surveillance ship USS Pueblo was quietly lurking off the east coast of North Korea, its assorted antennae pricked to absorb any kind of interesting electronic transmissions. There was little doubt that the North Koreans would cease any intelligence-worthy communications if they learned that the “environmental research” ship was eavesdropping, so the Pueblo’s crew operated under radio silence to avoid detection. Nevertheless, there was surprisingly little for the sophisticated electronics to observe; in terms of signals, Soviet-friendly Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) was uncharacteristically quiet. With so little information to pore over, the only interruption in the monotony was the occasional task of chipping the thick frosting of ice from the deck.

But on 22 January, something out of the ordinary happened. [..]’

There’s another website with a link to the captain’s Final Confession which is hilarious. :)

`One of the teenagers responsible for beating a Holly Hill homeless man to death asked a judge to reduce his 22-year prison sentence Monday. Warren Messner and three other teens pled guilty to killing the man because they were bored, but Messner said prison is too hard.

Messner is a big boy. He was 15 at the time he was brought into the woods to see the homeless man his friends had been beating. Even at that young age, he outweighed the victim, Michael Roberts, by 200 pounds when he jumped on his chest, crushing his ribcage. Roberts died. [..]

Messner and his attorney said he has already learned his lesson and is ready to go home to help others.

“I want to be an inspirational speaker for troubled teens,” he said Monday.’

`These drugs aren’t mine! I’m merely helping someone close to me overcome a drug problem, so I had to take them away, and then I had to drive down the highway as fast as I could to get away from him, but it’s impossible to get away from him, because that someone is me.’

`A St. Louis man was shot to death Sunday night over a warm beer, police said.

St. Louis police say a woman shot her husband, who was about 70 years old, four to five times in the chest after he tried giving her a warm can of Stag beer.

Police said the wife admitted shooting him about 5:40 p.m. in the kitchen of their home in the 5100 block of Terry Avenue. Police said the home had no electricity at the time.’

`For 40 years it has been torched, vandalized, had its legs cut off and even been run over by a car. But officials in the Swedish city of Gavle are guaranteeing that this year’s giant straw Christmas goat – the victim of Sweden’s most violent yule tradition – will survive unscathed.

The 43-foot-high goat – a centuries-old yule symbol that preceded Santa Claus as the bringer of gifts to Swedish homes – has been burned down 22 times since it was first set up in Gavle’s square on Dec. 3, 1966.

But for its 40th anniversary Sunday, officials think they have finally outsmarted the resourceful vandals by dousing the battered ram with flame-resistant chemicals normally used on airplanes.’

`NASA has announced it plans to build a permanently occupied base on the moon, most likely at the lunar north pole.

The habitat will serve as a science outpost as well as a testbed for technologies needed for future travel to Mars and construction will follow a series of flights to the moon scheduled to begin by 2020.

NASA’s associate administrator for exploration, Scott “Doc” Horowitz, told reporters of the plans in a teleconference from the Johnson Space Centre in Houston on Monday.

“We’re going for a base on the moon,” he said.’

Crickey.

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‘A soccer player gets hurt during a game and the medical team is forced to carry the player off the field. They decide to speed things up by trying to jog him off but one of the dudes can’t keep up and ends up dropping the player.’

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`The FBI appears to have begun using a novel form of electronic surveillance in criminal investigations: remotely activating a mobile phone’s microphone and using it to eavesdrop on nearby conversations.

The technique is called a “roving bug,” and was approved by top U.S. Department of Justice officials for use against members of a New York organized crime family who were wary of conventional surveillance techniques such as tailing a suspect or wiretapping him.

Nextel cell phones owned by two alleged mobsters, John Ardito and his attorney Peter Peluso, were used by the FBI to listen in on nearby conversations. The FBI views Ardito as one of the most powerful men in the Genovese family, a major part of the national Mafia.’

Walking of a sort, I suppose. :)

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`Without their knowledge, millions of Americans and foreigners crossing U.S. borders in the past four years have been assigned scores generated by government computers rating the risk that the travelers are terrorists or criminals.

The travelers are not allowed to see or directly challenge these risk assessments, which the government intends to keep on file for 40 years.

The government calls the system critical to national security following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Some privacy advocates call it one of the most intrusive and risky schemes yet mounted in the name of anti-terrorism efforts.’

You’ll hear the phrase “car battery to the head” at some point in this clip. :)

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`We are entering a season of increasingly powerful evangelism and a time of the most widespread, massive global harvest in the history of Christianity. As a result, we as a ministry made a decision recently to purchase an airplane—a significant, needed ministry tool to fulfill the vision God has given us to go to the nations of the world, declaring the Gospel to lost humanity. [..]

As a result, we have recently taken delivery on our Gulfstream G4SP plane, which we call Dove One. I have enclosed a beautiful photo-filled brochure to explain more about this incredible ministry tool that will increase the scope of our abilities to preach the Gospel around the globe. Now we must pay the remainder of the down payment, and I am asking the Lord Jesus to speak to 6,000 of my precious partners to sow a seed of $1,000 in the next ninety days. And I am praying, even as I write this letter, that you will be one of them!’

This is allegedly a recording of a 911 call. I don’t know that it’s necessarily real though. :)

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`Australian technology users have rated Telstra as the worst tech company in the country, a survey has found. [..]

According to Ross, 1600 Telstra Bigpond customers were surveyed for the best internet service provider (ISP) category, but only 54 per cent said they were satisfied or very satisfied with the company’s customer support.

Further, half of the Bigpond customers surveyed said they wouldn’t recommend the ISP to a friend.

By contrast, the winner of the best ISP category, Internode, received a 97 per cent satisfaction rating and 97 per cent of its customers said they would recommend the ISP to a friend.’

`The week after his party lost both houses of Congress, President George W. Bush appointed a solid citizen in the anti-contraception movement to run the nation’s contraception program for the poor.

Dr. Eric Keroack, a gynecologist who started work Nov. 21, is a regular speaker at national anti-abortion events. This makes him a strange choice to lead a $283-million federal program, called Title X, whose main purpose is to “provide access to contraceptive supplies and information to all who want and need them.”

Consider that not one anti-abortion organization in the country supports the use of contraception. Even more troubling, Keroack has served on the medical advisory board of the Abstinence Clearinghouse, a board open only to doctors who refuse to promote or prescribe contraception to teens. One in four of all patients served by Title X clinics are teenagers.

Keroack’s colleagues at the Clearinghouse refer to birth control advocates as “condom pushers” and the “safe sex cartel.” ‘

‘This is a pretty cute bunny who also doubles as a letter opener. You’ll never have to suffer from paper cuts again!’

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`Australia and New Zealand should consider becoming one country, a bi-partisan Government committee has recommended.

The House of Representatives Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs considered the possibility of harmonising Australia and New Zealand’s legal systems.

It found the two countries had a uniquely close relationship stemming from New Zealand being one of seven colonies of Australasia prior to federation in 1901.’

#702332
<APC> I steal from the automated checkout all the fucking time now
<APC> Well, I still pay
<APC> I just lie about what I bought
<APC> for instance
<APC> 2 pounds of bananas costs less than say, 2 pounds of hustler and playboy

#700613
[Synista]: You know what would have been cool
[Synista]: if in the superman movie, they had him break a horse’s back

#697515
|Polly|: I’ll rape you in the face
Phantom: My mom saw that
|Polly|: Good
|Polly|: I was talking to her

Also: #708460, #703138, #700091, #695338, #685293, #685827, #694821, #694984, #695059, #676189 and #676535

So, I did this test to kill some time. Apparently I’m introverted, intuitive, thinking and perceiving. INTP, for short. Detailed description [with the bits that make me chuckle in bold :)]:

`loner, more interested in intellectual pursuits than relationships or family, wrestles with the meaninglessness of existence, likes esoteric things, disorganized, messy, likes science fiction, can be lonely, observer, private, can’t describe feelings easily, detached, likes solitude, not revealing, unemotional, rule breaker, avoidant, familiar with the darkside, skeptical, acts without consulting others, does not think they are weird but others do, socially uncomfortable, abrupt, fantasy prone, does not like happy people, appreciates strangeness, frequently loses things, acts without planning, guarded, not punctual, more likely to support marijuana legalization, not prone to compromise, hard to persuade, relies on mind more than on others, calm‘

So, you cunts better not be happy around me. I’ll calmly kick you in the nuts or something if you are. :)

I just installed some plugin to let people rate posts. I might play around with it for a while and see what happens. No one ever leaves a comment, so I doubt anyone will rate anything. But oh well. :)

Vaguely planning to sort out some way to let people notify of dead links. I’ve been re-linking to some videos and things as I find them dead, but I’m sure there’s many more dead links that need fixing..

Fun fun. :)

`The waiting must stop. At last we have created the final solution. Our programmers and surfers have been working overtime to bring you a one time download of the entire internet in one highly compressed file. At last you can have the entire internet on your hard drive, at your fingertips, any time, day or night!’

`Police are searching for the driver of an SUV who chased and fatally shot a 14-year-old boy he thought had thrown an egg at his vehicle early yesterday.

Danny Crawford, of 3217 Valley View Dr., died of a single gunshot wound in the upper body, according to Franklin County Coroner Brad Lewis.

Danny’s body was found in an alley behind 28 N. Terrace Ave., on the city’s West Side. The shooting took place about 12:30 a.m.

He died at the scene, Lewis said.’

‘Back in the late 60’s this book, written for Children, was pulled from all public libraries and store shelves by the government. It was said that the experiments and information contained herein were too dangerous for the general public. [..]

This book is thoroughly interesting and is full of ideas and inspiration, it is the bible for any young chemist-in-training. Used copies on Amazon are rare and are currently priced between $237 and $690 for very used copies. However, because it was published in 1960, before the US copyright laws were rewritten, and because its original copyright was never renewed (yes, I checked myself), it’s legal for me to share with you online.’

This links to a 28.5meg, 114page PDF of the book. You can also see Golden Book of Chemistry Experiments at Amazon .. US$250.. Not cheap. :)

`A giant escaped parrot has been caught by police after a violent struggle in which it tore up the uniform of one of the arresting officers, police said.

Walkers in a forest near the town of Walldürn in southwestern Germany had alerted police that a huge bird with a colorful plumage was sitting in a tree.

Two policemen dispatched to the scene caught sight of the parrot, which was about 90 centimeters (about three feet) long. “He didn’t say anything, and definitely didn’t provide his name and address. He just screeched deafeningly,” said a spokesman for the Walldürn police.’

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