`Perhaps investing in better lab equipment becomes pointless when (a) it might blow up at any moment, and (b) the police can seize all of it at any time. Individuals busted for developing in-house meth labs now face the same scrutiny as captured sex offenders: in December of 2005, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation launched an Internet Registry of convicted methamphetamine manufacturers.
In North Carolina, crystal meth is considered a weapon of mass destruction, invoked in accordance with the Patriot Act under the state’s Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Weapons Act. Under the law, a meth conviction results in a sentence ranging from 12 years to life in prison on each count.’
`Some time ago I built a self-balancing two-wheeled scooter. Since then I realized that two wheels are redundant, and only a single wheel is needed to make a ridable vehicle. A vehicle with a single wheel is much smaller and lighter. It weighs under 30 lbs and is easily carried with one hand when going up stairs or on public transportation.
The Electric Unicycle’s only control is the on-off switch. The rider controls everything else by shifting his weight. You lean forward to accelerate, lean backwards to brake, and gyrate your arms wildly to turn. With a little practice you can get more graceful and keep your arms mostly by your side.’
with pictures and video as well as software and construction plans.
`American troops in Baghdad yesterday blasted their way into the home of an Iraqi journalist working for the Guardian and Channel 4, firing bullets into the bedroom where he was sleeping with his wife and children.
Ali Fadhil, who two months ago won the Foreign Press Association young journalist of the year award, was hooded and taken for questioning. He was released hours later.
Dr Fadhil is working with Guardian Films on an investigation for Channel 4’s Dispatches programme into claims that tens of millions of dollars worth of Iraqi funds held by the Americans and British have been misused or misappropriated.
The troops told Dr Fadhil that they were looking for an Iraqi insurgent and seized video tapes he had shot for the programme. These have not yet been returned.
The director of the film, Callum Macrae, said yesterday: “The timing and nature of this raid is extremely disturbing. It is only a few days since we first approached the US authorities and told them Ali was doing this investigation, and asked them then to grant him an interview about our findings.’
`Common sense dictates that submerging your high-end PC in cooking oil is not a good idea. But, of course, engineering feats and science breakthroughs were made possible by those who dared to explore the realms of the non-conventional. Members of the Munich-based THG lab are only too happy to confirm this fact. And not only did we find that our AMD Athlon FX-55 and GeForce 6800 Ultra equipped system didn’t short out when we filled the sealed shut PC case with cooking oil – but the non-conductive properties of the liquid coupled created a totally cool and quiet high-end PC, devoid of the noise pollution of fans. The PC case – or should we say tank – also offered a new and novel way to display and show off your PC components.’
`A former Czech army doctor convicted of shooting dead Nigeria’s consul to Prague after falling prey to fraudsters has been spared his full jail term.
Prague’s public prosecutor decided not to oppose a court motion to free Jiri Pasovsky, 74, on grounds of ill health.
He was sentenced in June to eight years in jail, cut to five on appeal.
Pasovsky killed consul Michael Lekara Wayid, 50, and injured another embassy employee in 2003 after losing more than $600,000 (£340,000) to Nigerian conmen.’
`How to change user agents so that you can view “Members Only” areas and get access to extra content this is only meant for other browsers (such as Internet Explorer)’
Basically you can set your user agent to “Googlebot 2.1” and web servers let you in.
`ABC News has learned that Iran intends to begin enriching uranium — the critical step in making material for nuclear weapons — a move European diplomats and officials at the International Atomic Energy Agency, or IAEA, have tried to prevent over the past three years.
Sources with knowledge of Iran’s nuclear program tell ABC News that a senior Iranian official notified the IAEA verbally over the weekend of its intention to introduce uranium hexafluoride gas, or UF6, into centrifuges at a facility in Natanz, 150 miles south of Tehran.’
I blame the parents. Gotta catch them all? Catch some sorta anti-retardation disease first, I reckon.
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`Same-sex kissing appears to have been added to the growing list of things banned at the cricket.
Two women in the crowd who locked lips at a one-day international in New Zealand on the weekend were surprised to receive a visit from a security guard warning them not to do it again.
The women’s smooch while dancing to music between overs at the New Zealand-Sri Lanka match in Napier on Sunday had been flashed on the ground’s big-screen monitor amid much cheering. [..]
“The security guy came up and said that we were distracting the crowd and we would get kicked out if we did it again,” Fitzgibbon, 29, told the Hawkes Bay Today newspaper.’
What the fuck? First of all, girls kissing each other should be encouraged. :) Second of all, if you don’t wanna distract the crowd, don’t put something distracting on the giant television! Idiots.
‘2. Don’t ask, “What’s cheap?” [..]
9. DO NOT SMELL THE CORK! – When I see someone do this I know I’m dealing with a complete amateur. Guess what you’re gonna smell? Cork! [..]
10. DON�T SMELL THE PLASTIC CORK EITHER!- I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen people do this. Lots of wine makers are moving away from natural cork to synthetics. Sniffing a plastic cork tells the world you’re a moron. [..]
15. The Big Glasses — At my bistro we have very serviceable red and white wine glasses. However, some yuppies have a wine glass fetish and insist on sipping $6 Chianti out of a $50 Riedel balloon glass. Stop whining. [..]’
`Space tourists must be screened to ensure they are not terrorists, according to proposed regulations from the US Federal Aviation Administration.
The draft report’s suggestions aim to prevent a terrorist from destroying a spacecraft or using it as a weapon.
However, the report has no strict proposals on the health of any would-be space tourists.’
`Wedged in his sister’s 8kg capacity washing machine with his knees pressed tight to his chest, Robin Toom, 30, was stuck and hot.
“I just hopped in there, playing hide and go seek with the kids,” the baker’s assistant said yesterday from Townsville.
“I got in there and couldn’t even get the lid down and the kids came in and said ‘ha ha we found you’.”
With his wife, sister, brother-in-law and the kids crammed in the bathroom around the machine, embarrassment turned to perspiration.’
`Winston Churchill wanted to send Adolf Hitler to the electric chair and let Gandhi starve to death, according to secret documents revealed today. Britain’s wartime Prime Minister believed senior Nazis should be summarily executed without trial.
In the 1940s, traitors and war criminals were hanged but he suggested borrowing an electric chair from the US.
Notes of Cabinet documents, which have just been released, show colleagues urged him to moderate his views on Gandhi, fearing repercussions if he died as a result of his hunger strike.’
`Within hours, it went from flame war to an Internet Jihad minus guys with Ak-47’s and camels. Practically the entire Ytmnd community, combined with a sizeable chunk of Somethingawful.com, 4chan.org and Newgrounds.com descended upon the Ebaumsworld livechat, forums and techsupport. Chaos ensued, with beastly ping floods, DoS and chunks of code apparently uploaded onto sections of Ebaumsworld. Predictably, it also aroused the interest of numerous script kiddies, who are currently running a competition to see who can wipe out Ebaums world completely.’
‘American singer and activist Harry Belafonte called U.S. President George W. Bush “the greatest terrorist in the world” on Sunday and said millions of Americans support the socialist revolution of Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez.
Belafonte led a delegation of Americans, including actor Danny Glover and Princeton University scholar Cornel West, that met the Venezuelan president for more than six hours late Saturday. Some in the group attended Chavez’s television and radio broadcast Sunday.
“No matter what the greatest tyrant in the world, the greatest terrorist in the world, George W. Bush says, we’re here to tell you: Not hundreds, not thousands, but millions of the American people … support your revolution,” Belafonte told Chavez during the broadcast.’
`Annoying someone via the Internet is now a federal crime.
It’s no joke. Last Thursday, President Bush signed into law a prohibition on posting annoying Web messages or sending annoying e-mail messages without disclosing your true identity. [..]
Buried deep in the new law is Sec. 113, an innocuously titled bit called “Preventing Cyberstalking.” It rewrites existing telephone harassment law to prohibit anyone from using the Internet “without disclosing his identity and with intent to annoy.”‘
`In honor of my new glasses, here’s a photoshopped pic that makes my head hurt.’
It really does hurt to look at it. I can only glance at it for a few seconds before my eyes get sore and my brain starts to hurt.
`Australia will boost its military presence in Afghanistan to more than 500 troops to counter an increase in violence from a resurgent Taliban.
Two Chinook helicopters and 110 special forces soldiers will be deployed to the troubled country, seen as a front line in the war against terror.
The Chinooks and their support crews will also aid reconstruction efforts, including supporting Australia’s 200-strong provincial reconstruction team, scheduled to be sent to southern Afghanistan in April.’
`[..] “We were just being, well, college students, and they used it against us,” says Mr. Stoneman, a senior at George Washington University in Washington. He is convinced that the campus security force got wind of a party he and some buddies were planning last year by monitoring Facebook.com, the phenomenally popular college networking site. The officers waited till the shindig was in full swing, Mr. Stoneman grouses, then shut it down on discovering under-age drinking.
Mr. Stoneman and his friends decided to fight back. Their weapon of choice? Facebook, of course.’
‘I’m aware of the made up declarations about me that have recently begun to appear on the Internet and in emails as “Chuck Norris facts.” I’ve seen some of them. Some are funny. Some are pretty far out. Being more a student of the Wild West than the wild world of the Internet, I’m not quite sure what to make of it. It’s quite surprising. I do know that boys will be boys, and I neither take offense nor take these things too seriously. Who knows, maybe these made up one-liners will prompt young people to seek out the real facts as found in my recent autobiographical book, “Against All Odds?” They may even be interested enough to check out my novels set in the Old West, “The Justice Riders,” released this month. I’m very proud of these literary efforts.
~ Chuck Norris’
Followup to Chuck Norris: Top Thirty Facts.
`A mother in New York is suing an Applebee’s restaurant after her 5-year-old son was allegedly served a Long Island Iced Tea instead of apple juice. [..]
Pereles said she did not realize her son was drinking a concoction of white rum, gin, vodka, triple sec, Coke and sweet-and-sour mix until it was too late. The boy’s eyes became glazed and he began to laugh uncontrollably, according to a report.
“When you’re looking at your 5-year-old and you’re asking him, quiet down Seth, sit still and you see that mentally and physically he cannot comply with what you’re asking him to do because he is under the influence,” Pereles said.’
`Each month a new molecule will be added to the list on this page. The links will take you to a page at one of the Web sites at a University Chemistry Department or commercial site in the UK, the US, or anywhere in the world, where useful (and hopefully entertaining!), information can be found about a particularly interesting molecule.’
`Michael wrote up a special how to and guide for MAKE about a robot you can program and control over the web right now! – “Before you roll your eyes and tell me about all the other robots you’ve seen on-line and at robot shows, let me tell you why this one is different. You have to program it, or it won’t do anything. And by that I mean you ssh into the robot, write a program, compile it on the robot, and run it on the robot.” Here’s how it works and how to try it out…
Log into the robot via ssh. Do this now: it’s live, online. The robot is at robot.linuxrobots.org, user robot, password robot.’
`The United States government has hired a bunch of poor souls who lost their arms and legs in accidents and has rigged them up with bags of fake blood so they can play wounded civilians in war games down at Fort Polk, La.
Not only that but Cubic, the defence contractor that produces these games, has also hired 250 Arabic-speaking immigrants at $220 a day (all figures U.S.) as “Cultural Role Players” in the war games. [..]
“The best way to describe what we’re doing here,” says one of the U.S. Army intelligence officers who plan the games, “is that we’re producing a very complex movie with a huge number of plotlines and a very high budget.”‘
`Al-Qaeda is recruiting suicide bombers who are infected with the AIDS virus, according to documents revealed to the Sunday Mirror.
Terror chiefs are also targeting fanatics who suffer other lethal blood diseases such as hepatitis and dengue fever in order to increase their “kill rate” from an explosion. The chilling new threat is revealed in papers distributed to British military camps in Iraq and across Europe.
Under the heading “HIV/Hepatitis” the document states: “There is evidence that terrorists might be deliberately recruiting volunteers with diseases that are spread by blood transference.”‘
`I did a measurement of everything in my bedroom, and put them into Illustrator to get an idea of how much space I had to work with. I wanted to accomplish a few goals:
+ Hold 3 monitors on a shelf, as big as 21 inches each.
+ Support the weight of three 21 in monitors.
+ Hold a Home Theater Receiver, DVD player, and at least 2 other components (Laserdisc, VCR, PS2, N64 etc) under the shelf.
+ Hold a Mini-Fridge.
+ Hold my printer.
+ Hold at least 3 systems, possibly in rackmount cases.
+ Have enough desk space to rest a book or 3-ring binder.
+ Have enough space to rest my arms when using the keyboard (I HATE keyboard trays).
+ Space to mount 2 UPS units.
+ Fit within the 70 inches available in the corner of my room.
+ Efficiently utilize as much wood as possible while cutting down on waste.
+ Perhaps most important, it has to be easily disassembled since I am moving in a few months’
`Welcome to my compressed air engine page! Below you’ll find information about the V-twin and radial air engines that I designed and constructed. If you have questions about any of my projects feel free to e-mail me at the link below.’
`Brown University’s library boasts an unusual anatomy book. Tanned and polished to a smooth golden brown, its cover looks and feels no different from any other fine leather.
But here’s its secret: the book is bound in human skin.
A number of prestigious libraries — including Harvard University’s — have such books in their collections. While the idea of making leather from human skin seems bizarre and cruel today, it was not uncommon in centuries past, said Laura Hartman, a rare book cataloger at the National Library of Medicine in Maryland and author of a paper on the subject.’
`Coffee is vanishing from Venezuelan stores as producers protest price controls that they say are strangling profits — no laughing matter in a country where drinking the bitter brew is not simply a habit but a culture.
Troops and inspectors have begun raiding inventories held by private companies in an effort to ease the scarcity, authorities said Wednesday. [..]
National Guard troops have seized about 330 tons of coffee stored by wholesalers in Yaguara and Guacara, near the capital Caracas, and more raids were planned, said Gen. Marcos Rojas Figueroa.
“That coffee is going to be sold … at the established price,” he said.’
`When a girl gets off the bed after intercourse and the guy puts his index and middle finger into her vagina and thumb into the anus and pulls her back to the bed.
When i got done with tito’s mom i through her back onto the bed with a new jersey meat hook.‘
