`When Barney Broom began renovating his cottage he did not expect to be confronted by a pair of black eyes staring from a cloudy jar.
But the mysterious discovery of an alien in his attic has spooked the 54-year-old screenwriter and bewildered extraterrestrial experts, who yesterday suggested the US military could be involved.
The delicate 30cm (12 inch) figure of a baby alien is stored in a pungent liquid and has a US serial number painted on its four-toed foot. Possibly sculpted from a clay-like substance and painted grey, the model closely resembles the aliens depicted in a hoax film of an autopsy of the infamous “Roswell incident”.’
`Video Bomb filters up the hottest videos on the internet: people submit links to the ‘Incoming!’ page and you bomb the best ones. If a video gets a lot of bombs quickly, it makes it to the front page.’
`Novel new data transfer system was launched recently in a unique experiment being held in KinnerNet 2005 camp (an Israeli internet camp , modeled after Tim Oreilly’s Foo camp). The experiment conceived and run by a group of Israeli Internet addicts, including Yossi Vardi (former ICQ chairman), Shimon Schocken (computer scientist) and Ami Ben Bassat (science writer).
The system called SNAP (SNAil-based data transfer Protocol(, uses biological carriers, and, for the first time, taking advantages of the unique merits of the wheel for data transfer. [..]
System architecture: the system is constructed of a back end – a carriage, Ben-Hur movie style, which is made of a yoke made of light Balsa, and outfitted with two huge wheels – 2 DVD wheels, 4.7 Giga each. The front end, to which the carriage is harnessed consist of a Giant snail (Achatina fulica), known also as Giant African Snail (Africans are known as the world fastest runners ). These giant snail are of the GastroPod family (G-pod. We will reserve this name for transfer of music, and the name: G-mail for transfer of emails by snails SMTP –snail mobile transfer protocol )
Packets transport: Data is transported in 2 packets in parallel, 4.7 Giga each packet.’
‘This guy shoots his buddy with an airsoft gun while hes on the toilet. We cant see what he his but judging by his friends reaction it was a sensitive area.’
(870kB Windows Media)
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`A male teacher who performed naked cartwheels in front of young female students during a school camp has been jailed for five months.
Warren David Schneider, 37 of Brisbane, pleaded guilty in the Queensland District Court to seven counts of indecent treatment of a child under 16 years under care.
He was sentenced today to 15 months’ jail suspended after five months.
The court was told Schneider was an art teacher at a private school in Brisbane’s south when he committed a series of sexual offences during 2002 against three girls, all of whom were then in Year 7 and aged 12.’
`A children’s book author wearing a tiger suit climbed on top of the St. Augustine Lighthouse in the middle of the night to protest child pornography on the Internet, according to police.
About three hours later, the man — now identified as Frank Feldmann, 35 — was convinced to climb down from the top of tower just after 7 p.m. and charged with burglary. [..]
Police tried to communicate with Feldmann with a bullhorn, but winds of 25-35 mph and the tiger mask covering his head made efforts to communicate difficult. [..]’
`Wi-Spy™ is the world’s smallest 2.4 GHz spectrum analyzer*. Wi-Spy is perfect for troubleshooting interference from the following devices:
* Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g/n)
* Microwave Ovens
* Cordless Phones
* Baby Monitors
* Bluetooth’
Kinda cool little toy. Another thing I want for no real reason. :)
`Drinking your own urine? Orland Park police have no problem with that.
But drink it in a front-page newspaper article while wearing your crossing guard uniform complete with official police insignia, and there will be problems.
Ed Danis, the 84-year-old Orland Park “urine therapy” devotee featured in a Jan. 29 Southtown story, has been suspended from his job as a crossing guard, effective Wednesday.
Orland Park Police Chief Tim McCarthy, whose department oversees the part-time guards, said Danis had been warned in writing twice before that he was not allowed to espouse his beliefs while on duty or in his uniform.’
`A first grader was suspended for three days after school officials said he sexually harassed a girl in his class by allegedly putting two fingers inside the girl’s waistband while she sat on the floor in front of him.
The boy’s mother, Berthena Dorinvil, said she “screamed” about last week’s suspension from Downey Elementary School, and added her son doesn’t know what sexual harassment is.
“He doesn’t know those things,” she told The Enterprise of Brockton. “He’s only 6 years old.”
School officials declined comment to The Enterprise, citing the child’s age.’
`Could what we see as neutron stars really be so-called strange stars? Prashanth Jaikumar and his fellow researchers think so. They recently published a letter in Physical Review Letters that redefines the characteristics of a star composed mainly of strange quark matter.
Right now, physicists postulate that if strange stars exist they possess enormous density gradient at surface and exhibit a luminosity beyond that of other stars. The conventional wisdom is that the electric field of a strange star at its surface would be so large that it would be impossible to determine that the strange star is anything but. This paradigm has existed in astrophysics since the possibility of stars made from strange quark matter was acknowledged.’
`A New York City teenager fell out the window of a moving bus while using the restroom Tuesday and landed on the New York State Thruway.
State police said Jose Gonzales, 17, lost his balance when the chartered bus swerved to change lanes. It was unclear how fast the bus was going.’
Pictures of things that are “broken” for various reasons.
`A senior military commander of the Taliban says the Taliban will give 100 kilograms of gold as a reward to anyone who killed the person responsible for “blasphemous” cartoons in Denmark, Afghan Islamic Press has reported.
“Any one who will kill the person responsible for blasphemous cartoons of Prophet Mohammed in Denmark would be rewarded 100 kilogram of gold by the Taliban,” Mullah Dadullah, chief military commander of the Taliban, said.
Dadullah also said the Taliban would give 5kg of gold as a reward to anyone who killed any military personnel from Denmark, Norway and Germany in Afghanistan.’
`Welcome to Gang Stories. The site was originally launched in Summer 2003 as a fiction blog. After it got attention (see here), and a couple hundred emails I killed the site to rethink the project.
After some consideration, Gang Stories was relaunched in April 2004. This time without the fictional disclaimer.
For better or worse, these are my stories, along with a generation of urban kids who grew up like me. Through a series of lucky breaks I made it to college and started a new life in a new city. With these stories, I try to reconcile a past of west-coast ghetto culture with a new life as an east-coast professional.
Poor kids can get out of the ghetto. But something’s lost also. You abandon an old life for something better, but never really fit in the new one. We’re stuck somewhere between. The goal of Gang Stories is to show that.’
`This are a few pictures that I have taken while working as a Helicopter Pilot over Mexico City , although brightness and contrast has been tweaked on some, they are all REAL.’
`wtf randomness for the win!’
`Think about the title: Please Kill Me, I’m a Faggot Nigger Jew. That really says it all for this film, it’s a truly amazing work. A man, driven to desperation because of being a despised minority within a despised minority within a despised minority. It must be very hard to deal with such feelings of such hatred, this film shows the raw emotion very clearly. If only every movie were like this.’
`In this clip the Navy is test firing a missile. The way it stalls is really funny for some reason. This scene could be out of a cartoon.’
(540kB Windows Media)
see it here »
`”Fukitol” has come together with the objective of developing an all-purpose drug to assist with psychologically influenced mental conditions. It is anticipated that the success of “Fukitol” will be similar to Viagra and other wonder-drugs that have flooded the marketplace, with one key difference: “Fukitol” will work. It will relieve all the symptoms that the other drugs do, with no side effects.
Until the release and approval of “Fukitol” by the FDA and other global drug-control agencies, we’re here to spread the methodology of “Fukitol”; because it is more than a drug, it’s a lifestyle.’
`Your company starts off with only a few members of staff; more staff will be hired as it grows. Your goal is to create the most streamlined and profitable company possible through technology leadership. You must manage the IT department, juggling equipment, human resources and your budget to create the most efficient work environment.’
`The Art of DeTouch explores the manipulation of images related to the human form. Drawing photographs from existing online portfolio sites of professional re-touch artists, this application allows a user to explore precisely how the images were altered. Using Processing, an open source programming language and environment, before and after images are compared algorithmically pixel by pixel to generate visualizations of the alterations.’
`The monthlong search for a Washington state woman accused of systematically abusing her teenage foster child — including blinding the girl in one eye with a syringe — finally ended Saturday with her arrest at an apartment in northwest Harris County.
Police in Federal Way, Wash., said the level of abuse Chornice Kabbelliyaa inflicted in the past several years on the girl, 14, could only be described as “horrific.”
“She used several methods of punishment,” Federal Way police spokeswoman Stacy Flores said. “She would drop 10 pound dumbbells on her feet (and) burn her hands on top of the stove.” [..]
Investigators said Kabbelliyaa once jammed an insulin needle into the teenager’s eye after she forgot to pack some items when the family was moving to the city near Tacoma.’
`Before the day of computers and pocket calculators all mathematics was done by hand. Great effort was expended to compose trigonometric and logarithmic tables for navigation, scientific investigation, and engineering purposes.
In the mid-19th century, people began to design machines to automate this error prone process. Many machines of various designs were eventually built. The most famous of these machines is the Babbage Difference Engine. [..]
Babbage’s design could evaluate 7th order polynomials to 31 digits of accuracy. I set out to build a working Difference Engine using LEGO parts which could compute 2nd or 3rd order polynomials to 3 or 4 digits.’
`Britain’s fattest man has died of a heart attack aged 60.
Fifty-five stone Jack Taylor had a huge fish supper before his death in his sleep. [..]
He would eat six fried eggs, bacon and a whole loaf of bread for breakfast and scoffed seven cream cakes in a sitting.
But in the week before his death he got a cold and went off his food.
A neighbour said: “We thought alarm bells should start ringing then. It was sad.”’
`An 18-year-old male ASU student was arrested Sunday night at Hayden Library and charged with indecent exposure and public sexual indecency. The suspect allegedly pulled his pants and underwear to his mid-thighs to masturbate while watching pornography on his laptop. When asked why he had gone to the library to view pornography and masturbate, the suspect allegedly told police, “To be honest, the Internet connection at my dorm isn’t good enough.”‘
`Several months ago at the Tokyo Motor Show, Honda introduced a wind cheating, earth friendly, fuel cell-powered concept called the FCX. Several weeks ago in Detroit at the NAIAS, Honda quietly announced that they would build a production vehicle based on the FCX concept. With the advancements they’ve made for this latest generation of hydrogen-powered fuel cell vehicles, a production model will be ready within three to four years.’
`Through my own investigations I have just discovered that George Deutsch, the Bush political appointee at the heart of administration efforts to censor NASA scientists (most notably to prevent James Hansen from speaking out about global warming), did not actually graduate from Texas A&M University. This should come as a surprise, since the media has implied otherwise, with even The New York Times describing the 24-year-old NASA public affairs officer, as “a 2003 journalism graduate of Texas A&M.” Although Deutsch did attend Texas A&M University, where he majored in journalism and was scheduled to graduate in 2003, he left in 2004 without a degree, a revelation that I was tipped off to by one of his former coworkers at A&M’s student newspaper The Battalion.’
`Football star Lomana Tresor LuaLua was last night mourning the death of his 18-month-old son — after the news was kept from him by officials for two weeks.
The tot died in Britain on January 20 from a mystery illness.
But Congolese chiefs did not tell their captain to avoid distracting him as he played in the African Cup of Nations.
They only broke the news after the Democratic Republic of Congo lost their quarter final to hosts Egypt.’
`A man from Sheridan is facing explosives charges after he accidentally blew up his own car with a gas-filled balloon he was taking to a Super Bowl party.
The Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office found a suspicious-looking car Sunday afternoon behind the old Duggan’s gas station in the 4500 block of South Santa Fe Drive frontage road. Passersby had called in to report some type of explosion or car accident.
When a deputy arrived to check it out, he found a white car that showed obvious signs of an explosion. All the windows were blown out, the vehicle doors were bent towards the outside and the roof was pushed about a foot higher than normal.’
with picture.
`In the latest twist in the debate over presidential powers, a Justice Department official suggested that in certain circumstances, the president might have the power to order the killing of terrorist suspects inside the United States. Steven Bradbury, acting head of the department’s Office of Legal Counsel, went to a closed-door Senate intelligence committee meeting last week to defend President George W. Bush’s surveillance program. [..]
A Justice Department official, who asked not to be ID’d because of the sensitive subject, said Bradbury’s remarks were made during an “academic discussion” of theoretical contingencies. In real life, the official said, the highest priority of those hunting a terrorist on U.S. soil would be to capture that person alive and interrogate him.’
