Web 2.0 is a bit of a stupid label that all the internet trendy types seem to be fond of these days. None the less, there’s some interesting software in this list. I’m gonna have a look at some of it when I’ve done updating the page you’re reading now. :)
‘HYDESim maps overpressure radii generated by a ground-level detonation; these radii are an indicator of structural damage to buildings. No other effects, such as thermal damage or fallout levels, are included in this tool. Note that the displayed rings are “idealized”; that is, no account is taken of terrain, urban density, ground type, weather conditions, and so on.’
Kinda cool little application, if you like that sorta thing. I couldn’t sleep particularly well the other night and since I didn’t have much else to do at 5am I used this simulator to roughly calculate how the recent fuel depot explosion in England compared to the atomic weapons dropped on Japan in World War II.
And how did it compare, you ask? Pretty fucken well. :)
`A lion bit off, and then ate, the tip of a woman’s finger after the woman climbed a barrier next to the animal’s enclosure at Melbourne zoo to pick flowers.
Zoo director John Gibbons said today the woman, in her 20s, was picking agapanthus inside a barricade next to the enclosure when she was bitten by a young male lion. She lost the top of her middle finger in the attack, which occurred last Thursday. [..]
“We do ask all our patrons to stay behind the safety barriers here at the zoo and she explained at the time that she was picking some flowers,” Mr Gibbons told ABC radio today.
“It’s not a wise thing to do to climb over a safety barrier and collect a flower here at the zoo.”‘
`A new type of text message which self-destructs in 40 seconds has been launched.
The Mission Impossible-style messaging is aimed at business users who need to exchange delicate information.
However, couples carrying out affairs have also signed up to the service. [..]
The recipient doesn’t receive the message itself, but a link to the message which they have to open.
They then have 40 seconds to read it before it disappears.’
`Young Australians are becoming too drugged and too fat to answer the call to serve their country in the military.
Increasingly unhealthy lifestyles – coupled with the ageing population and competition from private sector jobs – are hindering efforts by the Australian Defence Force to attract enough physically and mentally fit recruits to defend the nation. [..]
“The high incidence of non-medical drug use among young people (recent studies suggesting up to 50 per cent of 15-year-olds smoke marijuana at least once a month) … severely limits the pool of recruitable candidates,” says the ADF recruiting report, completed last month.’
`GOP leaders told Bush that his hardcore push to renew the more onerous provisions of the act could further alienate conservatives still mad at the President from his botched attempt to nominate White House Counsel Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court.
“I don’t give a goddamn,” Bush retorted. “I’m the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way.”
“Mr. President,” one aide in the meeting said. “There is a valid case that the provisions in this law undermine the Constitution.”
“Stop throwing the Constitution in my face,” Bush screamed back. “It’s just a goddamned piece of paper!”’
`Jelqing (also known as milking) is an exercise designed to force large amounts of blood through the penis, increasing the internal pressure and creating controlled damage or micro-tears in the structure of the penis. This damage will be mostly repaired overnight but overworking or not taking rest days will reduce efficacy. The effects can be to increase length or girth or a combination of the two.
The exercise consists of applying an OK style thumb and forefinger grip encircling the base of the lubricated partially erect penis, restricting blood flow, and pulling this grip forward toward the glans. Once one hand has reached the glans the same grip and motion is applied with the second hand. This process is repeated for a number of strokes in a continuous milking motion. Each stroke should take no less than three seconds.’
`Large explosions have rocked a fuel depot near Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire shooting flames hundreds of feet into the sky.
Police say there are 36 casualties, with two people seriously hurt. [..]
The fire, which police believe was caused by an accident, could last days with more explosions expected. [..]
In total, 20 petrol tanks are involved in the fire, each said to hold three million gallons of fuel.’
`Banana Boy’s superpowers weren’t enough to help him and the rest of his bunch give police the slip.
The local television character, who goes by the name Chris Phelps when he’s not donning his superhero’s large yellow banana crime-fighting costume, was arrested Thursday at gunpoint along with two others when police mistook their skit for a real-life knife fight. [..]
Unaware the melee was staged, Lovelace drew his handgun and ordered Banana Boy and his colleagues to the ground. They complied – quickly. [..]
“I said, ‘Oh my God, don’t shoot the banana,'” said Steven Wilson, who was watching the skit being filmed when Lovelace came upon the scene with his gun drawn. “It was the funniest thing I’ve ever seen.”‘
`A man who robbed a New Zealand bank was so disappointed with his haul he tried again – this time by phone, police said Saturday.
“He’s rung (the bank) and said ‘I’m the guy who robbed you the other day and I want the manager to put some money in a bag and go and stand in the street,” said Detective Sergeant Chris Winder of the Auckland Police.
“(He said) ‘I’ll drive by slowly and take the bag from you and drive off.'”‘
‘The idea came to me while I was helping my daughter with her homework. There was no direct reason why I should have come up with the idea during that event. It was just a random thought on which I followed through. What if I were to stand on a street corner with a sign in MY hand? One in which did not ask for money, food, a job or sympathy, but offered to give people something for free? What if I offered people waiting at the stoplight of a busy intersection free Linux disks?
[..] It was shortly after the morning work rush hour that it began to happen.
People gave me money�
And cigarettes�
4 gave me gift certificates to local eateries.
Some gave me phone numbers.
Go figure.’
`These are online games that, in my opinion, offer a “good experience” – good game design with an overall attention to quality. Unless otherwise noted, they’re all free, online, and available right now.’
A frequently updated list of stupid things George Bush has said and links to videos, including:
“The best place for the facts to be done is by somebody who’s spending time investigating it.”—Expressing hope that the probe into how CIA agent Valerie Plame’s identity was leaked will yield answers, Washington D.C., July 18, 2005
“I’m looking forward to a good night’s sleep on the soil of a friend.”—On the prospect of visiting Denmark, Washington D.C., June 29, 2005
“We expect the states to show us whether or not we’re achieving simple objectives—like literacy, literacy in math, the ability to read and write.”—on federal education requirements, Washington, D.C., April 28, 2005
“We look forward to analyzing and working with legislation that will make—it would hope—put a free press’s mind at ease that you’re not being denied information you shouldn’t see.”
—Washington, D.C., April 14, 2005
`iDefense, the cyber security intelligence provider and a VeriSign company, reports that the next planned attack of 2005’s most prolific email worm family, Sober, is scheduled to start on January 5, 2006 based on commands hard-coded within the worm.
The attack date coincides with the 87th anniversary of the founding of the Nazi party. Additionally, the attack could have a significant detrimental effect on internet traffic, as email servers are flooded with politically motivated spam emails from potentially tens of millions of e-mail addresses.’
`Out of the sun a black, cigar-shaped object falls toward the earth. At the edge of town a filling station attendant sees it cross the slice of sky between the car above him and the edge of his grease pit. The center fielder of the visiting baseball team sees the moving spot, then looks back toward the batter, impatient for the third out. A woman in the park hears a strange, thin whistle and looks up, shading her eyes.
At a point 2,000 feet above the ground, the first atomic rocket of World War III explodes over your city. In one vast flash of light, equal to 100 suns, the buildings are etched against a sky of fire. A blinding ball of flame leaps from the point where the rocket exploded.’
I love this retro nuclear war stuff. It’s great. :) What other official documents would have lines like the following?
`If and when an atom bomb ever does fall near you, you will be scared. There is no doubt about that. If you are normal, you will be plenty scared.’
`Three people have been arrested and three others assaulted in renewed violence at Sydney’s Cronulla beach, NSW Police say.
Scuffles have been breaking out since about midday (AEDT) when about 5000 people, some yelling racist chants, converged on the beach where racial tension and disputes between beach users flared last week. [..]
It was not clear if any of the arrests related to earlier witness reports of at least three men being pursued and attacked as they tried to get away from angry members of the crowd chasing them on foot. [..]
As the crowd moved along the beach and foreshore area today, one man on the back of a ute began to shout “No more Lebs” – a chant picked up by the group around him.
Others in the crowd, carrying Australian flags and dressed in Australian shirts, yelled “Aussie, Aussie, Aussie … Oi, Oi, Oi”.’
Remember that guy died after sneaking onto a farm and being fucked by a horse?
This is apparently the video. Absolutely not safe for work.
(1.5meg Flash video)
`North American scientists have discovered the longest bird penis ever – a 42.5cm organ belonging to a duck.
Dr Kevin McCracken of the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, and colleagues, report in this week’s Nature that they have found a specimen of the Argentine lake duck (Oxyura vittata) that has a penis as long as its body – nearly half a metre long.
This has extended an earlier estimate of the length of the duck’s corkscrew-shaped penis, which was 20cm.’
`At least one passenger aboard American Airlines Flight 924 maintains the federal air marshals were a little too quick on the draw when they shot and killed Rigoberto Alpizar as he frantically attempted to run off the airplane shortly before take-off. [..]
“I never heard the word ‘bomb’ on the plane,” McAlhany told TIME in a telephone interview. “I never heard the word bomb until the FBI asked me did you hear the word bomb. That is ridiculous.” Even the authorities didn’t come out and say bomb, McAlhany says. “They asked, ‘Did you hear anything about the b-word?’” he says. “That’s what they called it.” [..]
“I was on the phone with my brother. Somebody came down the aisle and put a shotgun to the back of my head and said put your hands on the seat in front of you. I got my cell phone karate chopped out of my hand. Then I realized it was an official.”
In the ensuing events, many of the passengers began crying in fear, he recalls. “They were pointing the guns directly at us instead of pointing them to the ground,” he says “One little girl was crying. There was a lady crying all the way to the hotel.”’
That’s the best way to fight terror. Putting shotguns to innocent peoples heads and making children cry. Take that, Osama!
This is kinda cool in a way. Store your data and make children cry simultaneously. What could be better? :)
Cool little image showing the countries of the world resized according to population.
India is big. :)
`Although John Gilmore lives just five blocks from San Francisco’s Department of Motor Vehicles, his driver’s license is expired. On purpose.
The outspoken, techno-hippie, wealthy civil libertarian doesn’t want to give his Social Security number to the DMV.
Neither will he show his driver’s license at airports, or submit to routine security searches. This refusal to obey the rules led him to file suit against the Bush administration (Gilmore v. Gonzales) after being rebuffed at two different airports on July 4, 2002, when he tried to fly without showing identification. One airline offered to let Gilmore fly without showing ID, but only if he underwent more intensive security screening, which he declined. [..]
“I’m a millionaire,” Gilmore said. “I can do whatever the fuck I want, right? Why should I run around without an ID? Because no one else was paying attention to that and letting our liberties slip down the drain. I figured it was worth some amount of money and some amount of personal sacrifice to keep a free society.”‘
`An experienced rock climber died early Tuesday after he climbed to the tip of a 10-story crane on the University of Colorado campus and then used rock climbing gear to create what amounted to a giant swing.
Ryan Young, 22, may have been blown off course by a gust of wind, sending him crashing into a building across the street, CU police Lt. Tim McGraw said.
“As we all know, the winds were blowing last night, and as we also know, crane arms aren’t tied down,” McGraw said. “They’re somewhat akin to a large weather vane. A little movement on the end of the crane could have a huge impact.”‘
`A Miami Beach man is being called a “Scrooge” by his neighbors. The reason is his unusual holiday display that is upsetting both parents and children.
[..] The scene, a life sized Santa Clause blind folded, with his wrists bound, a noose tied around his neck and hung from a tree on west 50th street. [..]
The homeowner, who does not live in the home only said that it is his right to display the Santa however he chooses.’
`Seven weeks after his car was stolen, Terry Dresdow got a call from police saying it had been found.
Oh-oh, this usually isn’t good. What tree is it wrapped around? How many pieces is it in? Where did you say that chop shop was again?
Not this time. Terry’s ride had been pimped, as they say on TV. [..]
The new “owner” had coated the blue 1989 Chevrolet Caprice Classic in white paint, installed one of those killer stereos that fill the trunk with woofers and power boosters, and added shiny, spoked wheels and wide, low-profile tires.
“I also have keyless entry that I didn’t have before, for the door and also the trunk,” Terry said.
There’s no indication that the new accessories were stolen, so they are his to keep.’
`OpenVPN is a full-featured SSL VPN solution which can accomodate a wide range of configurations, including remote access, site-to-site VPNs, WiFi security, and enterprise-scale remote access solutions with load balancing, failover, and fine-grained access-controls.
OpenVPN implements OSI layer 2 or 3 secure network extension using the industry standard SSL/TLS protocol, supports flexible client authentication methods based on certificates, smart cards, and/or 2-factor authentication, and allows user or group-specific access control policies using firewall rules applied to the VPN virtual interface. OpenVPN is not a web application proxy and does not operate through a web browser.’
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