moonbuggy

‘They overclock a cpu over 4ghz, remove the heatsink, and boom! “Theres a hole in the motherboard!”‘

Looks like the hole goes right through the table too.

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`With all of the controversy about the news that the NSA has been monitoring, since 9/11, telephone calls and email messages of Americans, some folks might now be wondering if they are being snooped on. Here’s a quick and easy method to see if one’s email messages are being read by someone else.

The steps are:

1. Set up a Hotmail account.
2. Set up a second email account with a non-U.S. provider. (eg. Rediffmail.com)
3. Send messages between the two accounts which might be interesting to the NSA.
4. In each message, include a unique URL to a Web server that you have access to its server logs. This URL should only be known by you and not linked to from any other Web page. The text of the message should encourage an NSA monitor to visit the URL.
5. If the server log file ever shows this URL being accessed, then you know that you are being snooped on. The IP address of the access can also provide clues about who is doing the snooping.’

`People have long found miraculous faces and mysterious apparitions in food, clouds, stains, and sundry ordinary places. The list below consists of a few highly publicized (in the US) recent manifestations. Not surprisingly these appearances are usually linked to religious figures. [..]

Discontented with my apparition-free foodstuffs, I took advantage of access to a laser engraver and the ultimate Christmas gift was born. Be the first on your block to own a miracle! Why pay the big bucks on ebay for grilled cheese sandwiches or stained X-Boxes?’

`A senior Israeli member of the International Olympic Committee says London won the bid for the 2012 Games only because of a misplaced vote.

Alex Gilady told Army Radio on Friday that in the third round of voting, with Moscow and New York already out and only London, Paris and Madrid remaining in the race, one of his fellow IOC members asked to recast his ballot but was told it was too late.

“Apparently, he forgot who he voted for and wanted to change his vote,” Gilady said. He did not reveal the name of the IOC member in question, but Britain’s Press Associated identified him as Greek delegate Lambis Nikolaou.’

`A 64-year-old man has pleaded no contest to charges in Clark County Circuit Court after telling police he regularly had been using calves for sexual gratification. [..]

According to the criminal complaint, the family living on the farm Hart visited, installed a motion sensor because they had seen suspicious footprints and vehicle tracks. [..]

Hart told police he had gone to the farm at least 50 times in the last year, sometimes two to four times in a week.’

`Amidst mounting speculation of an all-out bidding war between Microsoft, Google and the Korean bakery down on 3rd, Opera Software announced today that it inadvertently purchased itself in a $0 million recursive merger set to complete on Monday.

“I’m as surprised as everyone else,” said Opera CEO Jon von Tetzchner. [..]’

`Three Spanish teenagers fascinated by the film Clockwork Orange burnt a homeless woman to death for kicks.

María Rosario Endrinal Petite, 50, who had been sleeping in a Barcelona doorway, was attacked and set on fire with solvent. She died in hospital. It is believed to be the culmination of months of attacks on homeless people by the gang, who had become obsessed with the Stanley Kubrick film and with violent video games.

The case has cast a shadow over Barcelona, seen by Britons as a highly fashionable and relatively crime-free city.’

`A man was jailed for more than a year without ever seeing a lawyer as he waited for a repeatedly postponed court hearing, gaining release only after a cellmate told an attorney about the case.

Walter Mann Sr., 69, was released Dec. 16 after a year and three months – more than twice the time he would have served if he had been convicted in his contempt-of-court case. [..]

His release came after cellmate Jim Brooks, 64, heard from Mann that he had never seen a lawyer.

“I said, ‘Man, why don’t you call your people?’ He said, ‘Nah, I don’t want to bother them with anything,'” Brooks said.

Brooks, jailed on minor theft charges, told his public defender, who told another public defender, Shoshana Paige. She made several calls and Mann was released the same day.’

`[..] And fuck Easter too, you fertility–rite–celebrating, whiny, self-righteous, don’t–know–the– history–of–your–own–religion assholes. Fuck off.’

`You can tell these guy don’t get out much. But hey, atleast they are having a good time !’

`An incredible and un-suspecting accident leaves a Utah Boy Scout just inches from death when he was stabbed right between his eyes.

Jeff Jaeger spoke to Kevin Coulter and tells 2News how this was a truly freak accident.

While raking leaves for a Boy Scout event, one of the leaders flung a knife from his hand while trying to catch another scout who had tripped.

“It was dark, it was like 8:30 and there was a light and I saw it flash before it hit me,” said Kevin.’

With pictures.

`On December 15, 2005, Dr. Curtis Cooper and Dr. Steven Boone, professors at Central Missouri State University, discovered the 43rd Mersenne Prime, 230,402,457-1. The CMSU team is the largest contributor to the GIMPS project.

The new prime is 9,152,052 digits long. This means the Electronic Frontier Foundation $100,000 award for the discovery of the first 10 million digit prime is still up for grabs! The new prime was independently verified in 5 days by Tony Reix of Bull S.A. in Grenoble, France using 16 Itanium2 1.5 GHz CPUs of a Bull NovaScale 6160 HPC at Bull Grenoble Research Center, running the Glucas program by Guillermo Ballester Valor of Granada, Spain.’

`The UMass Dartmouth student who claimed to have been visited by Homeland Security agents over his request for “The Little Red Book” by Mao Zedong has admitted to making up the entire story.

The 22-year-old student tearfully admitted he made the story up to his history professor, Dr. Brian Glyn Williams, and his parents, after being confronted with the inconsistencies in his account.

Had the student stuck to his original story, it might never have been proved false.’

Follow-up to Agents’ visit chills UMass Dartmouth senior.

`NASA scientists have observed an explosion on the moon. The blast, equal in energy to about 70 kg of TNT, occurred near the edge of Mare Imbrium (the Sea of Rains) on Nov. 7, 2005, when a 12-centimeter-wide meteoroid slammed into the ground traveling 27 km/s.

“What a surprise,” says Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) researcher Rob Suggs, who recorded the impact’s flash. He and colleague Wes Swift were testing a new telescope and video camera they assembled to monitor the moon for meteor strikes. On their first night out, “we caught one,” says Suggs.’

`The National Security Agency has traced and analyzed large volumes of telephone and Internet communications flowing into and out of the United States as part of the eavesdropping program that President Bush approved after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to hunt for evidence of terrorist activity, according to current and former government officials.

The volume of information harvested from telecommunication data and voice networks, without court-approved warrants, is much larger than the White House has acknowledged, the officials said. It was collected by tapping directly into some of the American telecommunication system’s main arteries, they said. [..]

One outside expert on communications privacy who previously worked at the N.S.A. said that to exploit its technological capabilities, the American government had in the last few years been quietly encouraging the telecommunications industry to increase the amount of international traffic that is routed through American-based switches.’

`An Egyptian man discovered on his wedding day that his fiancee of three years was a man who had been concealing his identity behind a veil.

The 26-year-old groom-to-be, Tamer Shehata, was notified by a female guest attending his wedding that his would-be wife was a man in women’s clothing. [..]

Mr Abo Zeid, whose face was obscured to Mr Shehata by a niqab or burka (face veil) said he had intended to tell after they were married, and had hoped to convince Mr Shehata to consummate the marriage.

Mr Abo Zeid was held for 45 days on charges of swindling and posing as a woman.’

`A confusing shooting case in Greensboro Friday night landed a man in the hospital.

The people involved told police a guy selling shoes knocked on the door of a vacant house on Hackett Street around 8:00pm.

The salesman says four men pulled him inside the house and locked him in a closet.

Then, the four went outside and tried to steal the shoe salesman’s car. The salesman kicked his way out of the closet and used a lamp to smash his own car window as the four tried driving away and that’s when they backed into a tree.

Seconds later, one of the men in the car shot at the salesman, but hit one of his buddies instead.’

‘How does your website look on Apple Safari ? Enter your URL in the box above and click View. SafariTest will return a screenshot of your page as viewed with Safari.’

My page is compatible with Safari, by the looks of it. What’s really cool is that it makes an actual image file for the screenshot. I dunno why, but I like the idea of moonbuggy.org as a 800 x 16849 pixel PNG. :)

It’s about 2 megs, btw, and since it looks identical to the HTML rendered by Firefox it’s probably not worth your bandwidth. But it’s cool none the less. :)

`A 20-year-old porn actress is wanted by police on child rape charges after allegedly having a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old boy, giving him drugs and convincing him to run away with her to Oklahoma, authorities said. [..]

Silva allegedly met the boy, a former DeAnza High School student, through her brother and began a sexual relationship with him in June, Peixoto said.

The boy ran away from his home in El Sobrante and moved in with Silva in Richmond. In an interview with police, he said Silva had supplied him with methamphetamines, ecstasy and marijuana.

At some point, Silva, her mother and the boy moved to Roosevelt, Okla., where Silva and the boy continued their relationship and their drug use, Peixoto said.’

`It was a conversation stopper. A lovers’ dispute over a cell phone took a serious turn early Friday morning when the woman ended the spat by swallowing the phone whole.

Police said they received a call at 4:52 a.m. from a man who said his girlfriend was having trouble breathing. When they arrived at the house they found the 24-year-old woman had a cell phone lodged in her throat.

“He wanted the phone and she wouldn’t give it to him, so she attempted to swallow it,” Detective Sgt. Steve Decker of the Blue Springs Police Department. “She just put the entire phone in her mouth so he couldn’t get it.”‘

‘When you woke up this morning you know that something was missin in your life. It wasn’t the new car, the new job, the boyfriend or the girlfriend.

But now you know: it’s the Baby Jesus Butt Plug.

Slap him on the dashboard. Use him as the ultimate pacifier or make Baby Jesus the centerpiece of your magnificent Dildo Creche.’

‘There goes my no claim bonus.’

(3.5meg Windows Media)

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`Jeremy Majorowicz thought something was wrong when he saw a dog sitting on railroad tracks for at least two hours. But he didn’t realize how wrong until he and several other men determined that the gray and white husky had been literally frozen to the ties in below zero weather. [..]

“I lifted his tail and hind quarters, and saw he was literally frozen to the tracks,” Strand said. “He was pretty hunkered down.”

Strand pulled hard on the dog’s tail, and was able to release him, but he said the move pulled a lot of hair from the dog.

“He gave a heck of a whelp,” the officer said.’

`“I don’t want you to leave Mr. Rumsfeld!!” Wolfowitz pounced on top of Rumsfeld.

Rumsfeld, without nothing more to do except just let Wolfowitz glomp all over him, he placed a firm grip around his back. Wolfowitz then unexpectedly kissed Rumsfeld, forcing them into a gleeful embrace. They began to kiss shamelessly and slowly part afterward. Rumsfeld felt confused but a bit chipper out of that. It made him hug Wolfowitz firmly toward him. He let his hands travel on Wolfowitz’s back pocket and feel something there. Rumsfeld was perplexed.

Wolfowitz giggled and held back. “Oh! That’s my trusty comb back there.”’

`Two major meteorological organizations agree: 2005 was a very warm year, and if it didn’t set a new record for high average temperatures, it came very close to doing so.

Last week the United Nations’ World Meteorological Organization (WMO) based in Geneva, Switzerland, reported that the global mean surface temperature in 2005 is estimated to be 58.06°F (14.48°C). That figure is 0.86°F (0.48°C) warmer than the average between 1961 and 1990.

Although official figures will not be released until next February, 2005 is likely to be one of the hottest four years since record-keeping began in 1861. October and June of this year were the warmest those months have ever been.’

`Scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will report in tomorrow’s (Dec. 22) issue of the journal Nature that Albert Einstein’s formula, E=mc2, is correct. [..]

By comparing NIST measurements of energy emitted by silicon and sulfur atoms and MIT measurements of the mass of the same atoms, the scientists found that E differs from mc2 by at most 0.0000004, or four-tenths of 1 part in 1 million. The researchers said the result was “consistent with equality” and is 55 times more accurate than the previous best direct test of Einstein’s formula.’

`This is a full-sized, authentic stuffed horse. Real animal hair, hooves, mane, tail. Stuffed in a very unusual position. Measures approximately 60″ x 36″ x 75″ Free standing, doesn’t need pedestal. Old style taxidermy, not done anymore. Highly unusual prop for stage or theatre, wonderful gift for horse-lover, conversation piece for living room, unique and rare. Chestnut color, black mane and tail. Front right leg is missing, approximately 3″. Some tears in skin – approximately 5-10, no longer than 1″. Two tears in back, approx. 8″. More pictures on request. Contact seller for shipping fees.’

“very unusual position” could be an understatement.

`Lawyers for David Letterman want a judge to quash a restraining order granted to a Santa Fe woman who contends the CBS late-night host used code words to show he wanted to marry her and train her as his co-host.

A state judge granted a temporary restraining order to Colleen Nestler, who alleged in a request filed last Thursday that Letterman has forced her to go bankrupt and caused her “mental cruelty” and “sleep deprivation” since May 1994.

Nestler requested that Letterman, who tapes his show in New York, stay at least 3 yards away and not “think of me, and release me from his mental harassment and hammering.” [..]

Nestler’s application for a restraining order was accompanied by a six-page typed letter in which she said Letterman used code words, gestures and “eye expressions” to convey his desires for her.

She wrote that she began sending Letterman “thoughts of love” after his “Late Show” began in 1993, and that he responded in code words and gestures, asking her to come East.’

`This fish didn’t have a chance. A rainbow trout pulled out of Holmes Lake last weekend had double the chance to get hooked: It had two mouths.

Clarence Olberding, 57, wasn’t just telling a fisherman’s fib when he called over another angler to look at the two-mouthed trout. It weighed in at about a pound.

“I reached down and grabbed it to take the hook out, and that’s when I noticed that the hook was in the upper mouth and there was another jaw protruding out below,” said Olberding.’