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Attaching yourself to the coil from a TV cathode tube probably isn’t the safest thing in the world. Looks cool though. :)

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`Charles Littleton, 22, was defiant, even after being Tasered by police, when he resisted efforts to remove him from a Saginaw, Mich., City Council meeting. He said he had to stand up for his right to wear his Los Angeles Dodgers baseball cap, despite a rule banning hats for men inside. “It means more than just a hat,” he said. “It’s like my crown. It’s like asking a king to remove his crown.”’

`A dentist who pulled out an elderly woman’s teeth without anaesthetic “to teach her a lesson” has been thrown out of the profession.

David Quelch left the 87-year-old with blood pouring from her mouth after she made a complaint about previous treatment at his hands, a discipline hearing was told yesterday. [..]

“I told him I had pain and he told me he was going to extract my teeth. I objected, I didn’t think it was necessary. He ignored my remarks and pulled out the tooth. I was bleeding profusely.”

She added: “I said I didn’t want my tooth removed, he pushed me back, pushing me hard across my chest and extracted the second tooth. All I wanted was a filling.”‘

This waterfall works kinda like a bubblejet printer. It drops water in a precisely controlled fashion that allows them to spell words and draw pictures in space.

It’s pretty cool. :)

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`A woman who disappeared in the jungles of northeastern Cambodia as a child has apparently been found after living in the wild for 19 years, police said Thursday.

The woman — believed to be Rochom P’ngieng, now 27 years old — cannot speak any intelligible language, so details of her saga have been difficult to confirm.

“She is like half-human and half-animal,” said Mao San, police chief of Oyadao district in Rattanakiri province. “She’s weird. She sleeps during the day and stays up at night.”‘

`Sex offenders could be forced to have hormone injections under radical plans to tackle crime being considered by Downing Street.

Strategists think the injections – effectively the “chemical castration” of sexual predators to suppress their urges – would help prevent attacks.

The controversial proposal is one of a number being looked at by Tony Blair’s strategy unit as part of the Prime Minister’s policy review.

Other ideas include installing microchips in the mentally ill to monitor their behaviour and sending text messages to parents to warn them a paedophile is at large in their area.’

‘Put a thing of firecrackers in a tin and toss them at your mother lounging on the couch….See what happens.’

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`The owner of a dog that attacked two men, biting one on the penis, has been jailed for seven months.

Brisbane District Court was told today that Anthony Scott Huttley, then 21, suffered four deep cuts to his penis after Shaun Anthony Bell, 40, deliberately ordered Leeroy, his bulldog mastiff-cross, to “get him”.

Mr Huttley, who was also mauled on other parts of his body, eventually recovered from the incident but only after the “extreme discomfort” of wearing a catheter and having surgery and antibiotics.’

`Gordon Brown has spoken out over the ‘offensive’ bullying of Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty on Big Brother during his trip to India following an official complaint from the country’s junior foreign minister and protesters took to the streets.

Security has stepped up around TV’s Celebrity Big Brother house after threats were made against the housemates at the centre of a bitter race storm. [..]

The controversy has now sparked comment from Tony Blair who has not seen the programme but highlighted the Government’s condemnation of racism.’

First step in making squirrel melts is shooting a squirrel, obviously.

Looks delicious. :)

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‘The US Defence Department has drafted a manual for trying detainees at the Guantanamo Bay jail that would allow terror suspects to be imprisoned, convicted and executed on the basis of hearsay evidence or coerced testimony. [..]

According to a copy of the manual obtained by The Associated Press, a terror suspect’s defence lawyer cannot reveal classified evidence in their defence until the government has had a chance to review it.’

Also – Hicks faces flawed system:

`Australian terrorist suspect David Hicks faces trial by a fundamentally flawed and unfair system, the Law Council of Australia says.’

`This is a diary of my tonsils – charting their infection, growth and removal. I don’t see any point in writing a lot about it, as I’m sure the pictures say enough. It goes without saying that I was on a lot of varying medication during this period.

WARNING – This picture diary is not for the faint hearted, and probably NSFW’

‘This is a first person perspective of a couple guys riding down one a very cool off road track they built. This must of taken months to build.’

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`Teenager Jack Taylor was left looking like an "elephant boy" after trying to dye his hair black.

His head swelled up after he had a suspected allergic reaction to dye made by L’Oréal – whose slogan is "because you’re worth it".

The 15-year-old still has a rash on his face and body two weeks later – and is being treated with steroids and antihistamine tablets.

Jack, who has dyed his hair in the past without problems, said yesterday: "I did it for fashion but it wasn’t worth it."’

‘The pilot of a TV news helicopter used the wind from the aircraft’s rotor to push a stranded deer to safety after it lost its footing on a frozen lake and could not get up.

A small crowd had gathered to watch the deer struggling, its hooves repeatedly slipping, near the shore of Lake Thunderbird around 4 p.m. Wednesday.

With the helicopter’s camera rolling, KWTV pilot Mason Dunn used the wind from the rotor to push the deer, initially sending it into a break in the ice where the animal managed to hold onto the ice with its front legs.’

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‘Audio from Radio Station KDND of Jennifer Strange complaining of severe headache, and the joke the DJs make of it. Criminal charges have been opened by the Sacremento County Sherriff’s Department, and 10 station employees have been fired. Jennifer died after drinking 2 gallons of water.’

Followup to: Autopsy Finds Signs of Water Intoxication in Radio Contestant’s Death.

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There are some ads for pornographic sites on some of my pages now. I decided to do this because some of my most popular pages have NSFW content on them so I can’t display AdSense ads.

As with the AdSense ads, these pr0n ads are less visible for registered members. My goal remains to try and cover my costs with advertising whilst not bothering those of you who visit frequently too much.

Less than 50 pages will be affected, so you probably won’t see them unless you’re looking through the archives for NSFW stuff. :)

There’s been a few other changes around the place to do with links to external websites and how they are presented to returning/registered visitors. Nothing too dramatic.

Oh, if you want an example of what these pr0n ads look like, check out Biphallic Pictures. Ads might move around slightly in the next couple of days, but that’s the basic idea anyways.

`A man boarded an aircraft at Heathrow and took his seat. As he settled in, he noticed a very beautiful woman boarding the plane. He realized she was heading straight towards his seat and bingo! She took the seat right beside him.

Eager to strike up a conversation, he blurted out, “Business trip or Holiday?” She turned, smiled enchantingly and said “Business. I’m going to the annual nymphomaniac convention in the United States”.

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`A driver is pulled over by a policeman. The police man approaches the driver’s door.

“Is there a problem Officer?”

The policeman says, “Sir, you were speeding. Can I see your licence please?”

The driver responds, “I’d give it to you but I don’t have one.”

“You don’t have one?”

The man responds, “I lost it four times for drink driving.”

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`Winning bidder will take ownership of my:

– Name
– Phone number
– All my possessions which includes the following
– Clothes,
– Roughly 300 CDs
– Surfboard
– Laptop (minus certain information with my discretion),
– Pushbike (Has wonky handlebars, may need some work)
– Books,
– Bed
– CD player
– Backpack
– Tennis racquets
– Golf Clubs(which you will have no idea how to use)
– Childhood photos
– Skateboard
– Nice lamp which your ex-girlfriend bought you.’

This seems to be a conversion from the free base to the hydrochloride. Using some dirty looking hydrochloric acid.

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`Forklifts move a lot of old crates … but can you count a $110,000 Maserati as an old crate?

A building worker in Elizabeth Bay’s exclusive Bilyard Avenue did this morning when he found the dark blue luxury car parked in a construction zone.

But things didn’t quite go according to plan.

As the unidentified worker from SMS Construction hoisted the car two metres into the air, it flipped off the forks and crashed on its roof.’

`Normally, new weaponry tends to make defense more expensive. But the Navy likes to say its new railgun delivers the punch of a missile at bullet prices.

A demonstration of the futuristic and comparatively inexpensive weapon yesterday at the Naval Surface Warfare Center at Dahlgren had Navy brass smiling.

The weapon, which was successfully tested in October at the King George County base, fires nonexplosive projectiles at incredible speeds, using electricity rather than gun powder.

The technology could increase the striking range of U.S. Navy ships more than tenfold by the year 2020.’

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`An 18-month-old girl died after her head was crushed by an automatic car wash machine, police said.

Jaharra Brown slipped out of her aunt’s car while her mother and aunt vacuumed their cars Thursday. She wandered into the car wash, which was about 35 feet from the car, police said.

It was unclear whether the toddler fell down inside the car wash or was knocked down by machine parts, Police Chief Glenn Kimbrel said.

A boy inside a vehicle going through the car wash noticed Jaharra lying on the ground next to a car-carrying rail. The boy told his mother, who began screaming for help, The News Herald reported.’

`Only my closest friends know what I do for a living. Most people don’t even know my job exists. It’s not that I’m ashamed of it or anything, but when I tell people I test-drive sex toys for the Spankie.com Website, they usually assume I’m a nymphomaniac — which I’m not.

About twice a month, my company sends me an unmarked package filled with sex gadgets. Like any job, I schedule time for my projects in a date book: “4 to 5pm, play with jelly dildo; 9 to 10pm, try out new glow-in-the-dark condom.” Luckily, I have a very understanding boyfriend who usually “assists” me with my research.’

For some reason this police officer is sure that this man has marijuana on him. :)

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`The scientists who mind the Doomsday Clock moved it two minutes closer to midnight on Wednesday — symbolizing the annihilation of civilization and adding the perils of global warming for the first time.

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which created the Doomsday Clock in 1947 to warn the world of the dangers of nuclear weapons, advanced the clock to five minutes until midnight. It was the first adjustment of the clock since 2002.

“We stand at the brink of a second nuclear age,” the bulletin’s board of directors said in a statement.

They pointed to North Korea’s first nuclear test, Iran’s nuclear ambitions, U.S. flirtation with “bunker buster” nuclear bombs, the continued presence of 26,000 American and Russian nuclear weapons and inadequate security for nuclear materials.’

`Although advances in oncology have brought therapies to deal with many different cancers, pancreatic cancer remains very difficult to treat. Worse yet, unlike lung cancer and smoking, or cervical cancer and HPV, little has been known about the etiology of the disease. Now a new study has revealed a link between pancreatic cancer and a relatively common infection, one that many people might find surprising: gum disease.

The link arose from data gathered from the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study. This long-running study began two decades ago and involves men working in health-care professions returning a survey every two years. As it turns out, after controlling for age, BMI, smoking and other factors, periodontal disease carried a 63 percent higher risk of developing pancreatic cancer.’