Sunday, December 24, 2006
Hot Dog Mailed Between Sisters for 54 Years
`Flora Zimbelman says it all started 54 years ago when she put an uncooked hot dog in her sister’s suitcase.
“I don’t know what made me do it. The devil I guess,” she said.
Flora’s sister, Rose, found the hot dog when she opened the suitcase back up in Idaho, where she lived at the time.
“She mailed it back to me telling me to keep my garbage at home,” said Flora.
The game was on.’
Hibernation helped man survive 24 days in wild
`A Japanese civil servant has described for the first time how he survived for more than three weeks in a mountain forest without food or water in what doctors believe is the first known case of a human in hibernation. [..]
When a climber found him 24 days later, Mr Uchikoshi’s body temperature had fallen to just 22 degrees, his pulse was barely discernible and he was suffering from multiple organ failure and blood loss. Doctors who treated him believe he lost consciousness after his fall and his body’s survival instincts kicked in, sending him into a state akin to hibernation as the temperature on the mountain dropped as low as 10 degrees.’
Child molester given prison term, then hat and coat
`Child molester Jessy Gene Moore must have been astonished when jail deputies told him he was free to go Wednesday, the day after a judge had sentenced him to 41/2 years in prison.
For at least an hour, Moore played it cool as he worked his way through the release process — riding an inmate bus from Inverness Jail to the Justice Center downtown, signing release papers, changing into his street clothes and eventually walking out the front doors of the center and into the night.
Moore, 21, was living every inmates’ dream.
And technically, Moore did nothing illegal by failing to utter a peep, officials say.’
Teen Shot 6 Times, Robbed Of Gold Teeth
`A 14-year-old boy who was shot six times as he walked home remained in an area hospital in critical but stable condition on Thursday. His mother said the motive for her son’s shooting was robbery. [..]
“My son was laying in that ditch about to die last night, and you have no heart,” Deal said, sending a message to whomever shot her son.
Deal said she broke her arm trying to get to her son after he was shot. She said she held him tightly, making sure he did not die.’
Electrolytic Etching of Brass
This guy uses a laser printer to transfer a negative onto a piece of brass, then etches the brass in coper sulfate to give a cool reproduction of the image in the metal.
Van Damme Hides A Boner
‘This is from a Brazilian TV Show called DOMINGO LEGAL where hot Women dance like this regularly. Can you really blame him?’
Security guard accidentally shoots himself
`A security guard shot himself in the hand Wednesday after a deputy inquired about why the guard’s gun was in its holster with the hammer cocked. [..]
The deputy asked why the gun was cocked and Melendez reportedly told him it was OK, because the safety was on.
Melendez, 36, then began to pull the gun from the holster, as Scozzafava repeatedly yelled “No!”, trying to get the man to leave the weapon where it was.
As he removed the gun, it went off, hitting Melendez in the hand just below the little finger on his left hand.’
Woman with two wombs makes history
`A 23-year-old British woman is thought to have made medical history by giving birth to three babies in two wombs. In September this year, Hannah Kersey, from Northam in Devon, had twins who were conceived in one womb, and a third daughter who grew in another.
Dr Ellis Downes, consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at Chase Farm hospital in London, said: “This is so rare you cannot put odds on it. I have never heard of this happening anywhere before. It is quite amazing. Women with two wombs have conceived a baby in each womb before, but never twins in one and a singleton in the other.”‘
P-plater caught drunk with bathtub
`Police say a drunken P-plate driver has been caught towing a friend in a bathtub through the streets of Griffith in the NSW Riverina.
The 18-year-old returned a blood alcohol reading of 0.145 when stopped just after 8pm yesterday with the bathtub attached to his utility by a rope, police say.
His friend, aged 30, was sitting in the porcelain bathtub dressed in overalls, a helmet and motorcycle boots.’
Report Broken Links
I’ve just added a new feature that allows people to report broken posts. The feature is currently enabled for logged in users only, so if you don’t have an account here you won’t see anything. But if you do have an account, a “broken!” button will appear on individual post pages. You can use this button to report any posts that have a dead link, a non-functioning video/audio embed, or any other error.
The button is only enabled on posts permalink pages, so it won’t be visible on the main page or any of the search/archives/etc.. pages. And again, only logged in members will see it. Hopefully that’s enough to stop cunts from fucking things up by reporting posts as as broken all willy nilly.
I’ve added some more stuff behind the scenes that makes it easier for me to enable extra function for signed in users. I plan to add more interesting features in the coming weeks/months. One idea I have is to make higher quality video available to those signed in, so I don’t waste bandwidth on people who don’t come back, and those that do stick around can have more of my bandwidth for themselves. Yay.. :) We’ll see how that pans out anyways.
Comments/suggestions, as always, are very welcome. :)
Saturday, December 23, 2006
Donald Trumps Rosie
Donald Trump gives his opinion on Rosie O’Donnel. Donald Trump, it turns out, can be really fucken funny. :)
She looks like a slob and talks like a truck driver, for a start. :)
Friday, December 22, 2006
My own video hosting..
I’ve just recently purchased some cheapish hosting that will give me a significant amount of extra bandwidth and storage space. I’m going to use this extra hosting to do something about the dead links that are slowly building up in the archives.
I’ve downloaded copies of pretty much every video I’ve linked to over the years, so I’m going to slowly start hosting these myself, as I discover broken links. If there’s a video or audio clip you really want to see but can’t get to because the page I’m linking to is no longer there, either leave a comment on that post or email me through the contact page and let me know what post it is, and I’ll see if I can put the video back up.
[The contact page was broken before, but I think it’s working at the moment. :)]
Thursday, December 21, 2006
moonbuggy’s new statistics
I just installed a plugin which gives statistics on the most popular pages, the highest rated pages and various other things like that. Hopefully more people will vote on posts they like or dislike, ’cause I’m curious to see which pages end up with the highest average ratings
Anyways, the statistics are accessible from a link on the sidebar for now. And this link too. :)
I might change the look of the stats a bit later on, maybe put some basic stats on all the pages. We’ll see how it goes. :)
Virtual magnate shares secrets of success
‘On Monday, Graef visited CNET’s Second Life bureau for a discussion about her business, how best to set up businesses in Second Life and the nature of competition there.
Unfortunately, as the interview was commencing, the event was attacked by a “griefer,” someone intent on disrupting the proceedings. The griefer managed to assault the CNET theater for 15 minutes with–well, there’s no way to say this delicately–animated flying penises.’
(5.4meg Flash video)
Living off rats to survive in Zimbabwe
`Twelve-year-old Beatrice returns from the fields with small animals she’s caught for dinner.
Her mother, Elizabeth, prepares the meat and cooks it on a grill made of three stones supporting a wood fire. It’s just enough food, she says, to feed her starving family of six.
Tonight, they dine on rats.
“Look what we’ve been reduced to eating?” she said. “How can my children eat rats in a country that used to export food? This is a tragedy.”‘
Most Americans Have Had Premarital Sex
`More than nine out of 10 Americans, men and women alike, have had premarital sex, according to a new study. The high rates extend even to women born in the 1940s, challenging perceptions that people were more chaste in the past.
“This is reality-check research,” said the study’s author, Lawrence Finer. “Premarital sex is normal behavior for the vast majority of Americans, and has been for decades.” [..]
The study found women virtually as likely as men to engage in premarital sex, even those born decades ago. Among women born between 1950 and 1978, at least 91 percent had had premarital sex by age 30, he said, while among those born in the 1940s, 88 percent had done so by age 44.’
Woman reports theft of presents
`Police are looking for two teenagers who broke into a woman’s home, stole Christmas presents meant for her family and then cut her with a knife when she caught them in the act. [..]
When she returned home, she found two teenagers ransacking her home. The two white male teens had filled a large, plastic garbage bag with Christmas gifts intended for her family, police said.
When she confronted them, they attacked her with a pocketknife, police said.’
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Man dies after police use Taser
`Officials with the Lafayette Police Department stand by their use of a Taser gun during a Sunday morning altercation with a nude, and allegedly combative, 29-year-old Carencro man, who would later die at a local hospital from unknown complications.
Officials are waiting on an autopsy report to determine the exact cause of Terrill Enard’s death.
According to Lafayette police Sgt. Mark Francis, police believe Enard was under the influence of some type of unknown substance. Francis said Enard was strong, aggressive, combative and unresponsive.’
Jesus Camp
‘Jesus camp is a rare document. It is one of the few honest portrayals of the right wing evangelist’s movement. The documentary follows Pastor Becky Fisher and her congregation, mostly children since she’s a children’s pastor. In the film both Becky, some of the children and their parents are interviewed. The result is a very disturbing film.’
The link is for a new story about the movie. The image will take you to the movie’s Amazon page.
Fire On The Line
`This is a weblog written by a real life prison guard.’
A portion of one of the stories:
`I didn’t watch them remove the carrot. It made my penis hurt to even think about it. He was yelling and screaming the whole time but I think it was more for attention than any pain.
When they were finished one of the nurses informed me that the cuts were all superficial ‘attention getters’ and had stopped bleeding on their own. Then she showed me the carrot. It was about half an inch across and as long as my pinky.
Me: “How the hell did he fit that in there?”
Nurse: “Practice, I guess.”‘
