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4000 gallons of styrene in a burning truck. Goes boom. :)

(8.7meg Google video)

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`After a lot of red tape, Briana Lane has her skull back in one piece.

The 22-year-old woman was injured in an auto crash in January, and doctors temporarily removed nearly half her skull to save her life. But for nearly four months afterward, the piece of bone lay in a hospital freezer across town –and Lane had to wear a plastic street hockey helmet –because of a standoff with Medicaid and the hospital over who would cover the surgery to make her whole again.

The surgery finally came through after an excruciating wait, during which she suffered extreme pain just bending down and would wake up in the morning to find that her brain had shifted to one side during the night.’

`What our customers say about the SelfWipe:

“Greatly exceeded my expectations and I would recommend the SelfWipe to others.”
“The ease of use and reach ability is better than other products I’ve used.”‘

[shrug]

`Stare at the cross in the middle.’

This is pretty cool. Just stare for a little while. You’ll know it when you see it. :)

I was trying to offend people by making statements about Jesus and transvestites. However, people have taken to it and are not scrolling things like “Jesus likes teh man sex” across the screen. :)

Amusing for a while.

An online museum with lots of info about various nerdy science stuff.

Radium and dosimeters. What more do you need? :)

`A man who reportedly was spray-painting a pickup truck near the Polk County courthouse was shot by a law enforcement officer today.

Police say the man was spraying something on a white pickup when he was confronted by a Polk County sheriff’s deputy. Other officers rushed to the scene and as the man reached behind him, he was shot at least once, apparently by the deputy. [..]

The words “Police Academy Seven” were spray-painted on one side of the truck.’

`A rape victim once wished for teeth “where it mattered”. Now a device has been designed to “bite” a rapist’s penis. The patented device looks and is worn like a tampon, but it is hollow and attaches itself with tiny hooks to a man’s penis during penetration. [..]

As it is impossible to remove the device from a penis without medical help, hospitals and clinics will be able to alert police when assistance is sought.

“This will rule out any possibility of the rapist’s escaping arrest and speed up conviction.”

If the rapist tries to remove the device, it will only embed itself further.’

`A Sicilian court condemned road authorities Monday for suspending the driving license of a man after finding out he was gay.

The court on the Mediterranean island said being gay was merely “a personality disturbance” which had no bearing on a person’s ability to drive, Ansa news agency reported.

The 23-year-old man, who was identified as Danilo G., got into trouble with the road license authorities in the city of Catania after they discovered he had been exempted from military service because he was gay.

The authorities suspended his driving license ahead of further checks on his “suitability” to take the wheel.’

`A 14-year-old Culpeper Middle School student has been charged with assault and battery and indecent exposure after a student complained that he fondled himself during class and rubbed something on her face afterward.

The incident allegedly occurred on June 2 while the teacher was showing a movie, according to Culpeper Sheriff’s Sgt. Vern Fox.

Three girl students later complained to school authorities that the boy had grabbed their hands and tried to force them to touch his genitals during the act, Fox said.

School deputy Jesse McClannahan interviewed the three girls, and one said the boy had ‘wiped a white, wet substance across her face,’ Fox said.’

`Last June 11 Tim Samaras and two colleagues did the near impossible—they chased down a tornado and placed a probe with video cameras directly in its path. Beginning at precisely 2:23 p.m. the team caught images that have—in a breakthrough—made it possible to calculate wind speeds close to the ground, where tornadoes rip through human lives. Even after his team found the tornado and drove along a dirt road in Iowa to a place they were fairly certain lay in its path, Samaras remained unsure of where exactly he should leave the probe. He stood watching the tornado boil toward him, then, at the last second, he jogged over, hefted the 80-pound (40-kilogram) probe, and shifted it 40 feet (10 meters) to the north. Samaras guessed right: The eye passed just 10 feet (three meters) from the probe, giving the cameras the closest ever view of the fierce winds turning just off the ground around a tornado’s center.’

with some cool videos and pictures.

`The Sunday Times of London recently reported on new evidence showing that ‘The RAF and US aircraft doubled the rate at which they were dropping bombs on Iraq in 2002 in an attempt to provoke Saddam Hussein into giving the allies an excuse for war.’ The paper cites newly released statistics from the British Defense Ministry showing that ‘the Allies dropped twice as many bombs on Iraq in the second half of 2002 as they did during the whole of 2001’ and that ‘a full air offensive’ was under way months before the invasion had officially begun.

The implications of this information for US lawmakers are profound. It was already well known in Washington and international diplomatic circles that the real aim of the US attacks in the no-fly zones was not to protect Shiites and Kurds. But the new disclosures prove that while Congress debated whether to grant Bush the authority to go to war, while Hans Blix had his UN weapons-inspection teams scrutinizing Iraq and while international diplomats scurried to broker an eleventh-hour peace deal, the Bush Administration was already in full combat mode–not just building the dossier of manipulated intelligence, as the Downing Street memo demonstrated, but acting on it by beginning the war itself. And according to the Sunday Times article, the Administration even hoped the attacks would push Saddam into a response that could be used to justify a war the Administration was struggling to sell.’

`A new type of battery based on the radioactive decay of nuclear material is 10 times more powerful than similar prototypes and should last a decade or more without a charge, scientists announced this week. [..]

The technology is called betavoltaics. It uses a silicon wafer to capture electrons emitted by a radioactive gas, such as tritium. It is similar to the mechanics of converting sunlight into electricity in a solar panel.’

‘Some guy straps a bunch of jets filled with what appears to be compressed air to the back of his backpack. He then releases the air sending him hundreds of feet into the air.’

(3meg .wmv)

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Tom Cruise is an idiot. Oprah is an idiot. Basically, they both need to be shot. Luckily, living in America, they probably will be shot sooner or later. :)

Katie Holmes is kinda cute tho. Tho, hanging out with Tom and Oprah makes her an idiot as well.

(9meg .wmv)

‘Anti-pornography film produced by financier Charles Keating, linking pornography to the Communist conspiracy and the decline of Western civilization.’

Also, Perversion for Profit (Part II).

Various sized downloads.

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`For some serious entertainment use the X-rated ring toss. The small 2 inch long .75 inch diameter silicone butt plug goes in their rear while others throw the the yellow rings at the anal stick. The one with the most ringers wins! Comes with 3 rings and anal plug with stick. Sounds like fun for the whole party.’

Labelling it “not safe for work” is probably redundant, given the title and description. :)

`A Sydney man stabbed his flatmate to death because she would not turn down the television or stereo while he was trying to sleep, a court has been told.

Jeffrey Dunn today pleaded not guilty in the NSW Supreme Court to murdering his flatmate Jacqueline Dowd at Cartwright, in western Sydney, on March 12, 2004.

However, the 60-year-old pleaded guilty to manslaughter due to provocation. [..]

“I tried to sleep and she turned the television on, then she turned the stereo on,” Mr Conlon said Dunn told police.

“I said, ‘look Jacqui if you don’t shut up I’m going to kill you’.”‘

`Computer Associates has warned of a co-ordinated malware attack (CMA) described as among the most sophisticated yet unleashed on the net. The attack involves three different Trojans – Glieder, Fantibag and Mitglieder – in a co-ordinated assault designed to establish a huge botnet under the control of hackers. CA reckons that access to the compromised PCs is for sale on a black market, at prices as low as five cents per PC.

CA security researchers reckon the three items of malware have been combined to maximise the potency of the overall assault. [..]’

`Police ‘free’ S&M sex slave from car trunk – Yahoo! News: “German police, alerted to a potential kidnapping, ‘freed’ a man from a car trunk only to discover the would-be victim was actually a willing sex slave, authorities said Thursday.

Police stopped the car after a concerned caller told them he had seen a woman locking someone in the boot. However, on opening it, they were greeted by the sight of the 39-year-old man wearing nothing but a leather thong and a collar.’

`A couple of weekends ago, we were nonchalantly (as opposed to chalantly) strolling down the hallowed aisles of the G.W.S.M. when a moldy stack of photos piled on a couple of photo albums caught our collective eye.

To make a medium story almost non-existent, we purchased two hefty photo albums filled-to-the-brim with family photos of a hitherto unknown family. We haven’t yet taken the time to look at the back of every photo to try to figure out the family’s name. We have noticed that a lot of the photos feature family members standing in or in front of a nice-looking, fully-stocked liquor store.

It’s quite obvious that the family pictured in the photo albums owned the liquor store

HOWEVER…

It’s entirely possible that the “unknown family” simply liked having their photos taken in and around the liquor store.’

Things various American conservatives have said. These people are _scary_.

“We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren’t punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That’s war. And this is war.” [..]

“When science and the Bible differ, science has obviously misinterpreted its data.” [..]

“I would like to outlaw contraception…contraception is disgusting – people using each other for pleasure.” [..]

“I’m an old-fashioned woman. Men should take care of women, and if men were taking care of women today, we wouldn’t have to vote.” [..]

“Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America is now doing to the evangelical Christians. It’s no different…More terrible than anything suffered by any minority in history.” [..]

“I think that actually AIDS is a guardian. That is I think it was sent, if you would, about forty years ago, to destroy Western civilization unless we change our sexual ways. So it’s really a Godsend.” [..]

“When I, or people like me, are running the country, you’d better flee, because we will find you, we will try you, and we’ll execute you. I mean every word of it. I will make it part of my mission to see to it that they are tried and executed.”

I’m glad I live far, far away.

`A bait car is a vehicle of any type that is owned by the police and is intended to be stolen. It is parked in high auto crime areas and left there, sometimes for an hour, other times for days. Once the vehicle is stolen, police are immediately dispatched to the moving bait car. Once police are following the bait car, the engine is disabled remotely and the suspects are arrested. Everything that is said and done by the suspects inside the bait car is recorded on audio and video which is used for court purposes. The bait car program began in Greater Vancouver on May 1, 2004 and was expanded to Vancouver Island in April 2005. A further expansion to the interior of BC is under active discussion.’

with videos.

`Police in Malaysia are hunting a man who flashes women while wearing a Darth Vader costume. [..]

Priscilla, 33, a factory supervisor, said the man got out of his car, strutted about menacingly in his Darth Vader suit before flashing to 15 women workers standing at a bus stop at 7am.

“At first, I thought he was a die-hard Star Wars fan trying to impress us with his costume. But we were shocked when he showed us his private parts,” she told Malaysia’s Star newspaper. [..]

“Next time it will not be Revenge of the Sith but revenge on a sick man if we catch him doing his act again,” Priscilla added.’

`You know those obnoxious recorded calls you get advertising credit cards or free vacations or auto-glass replacement? Those are illegal. So are junk faxes. In Washington State, so is commercial email with misleading headers. Every time you get one of these, the offending party owes you $500. Rather than just hang up, recycle or delete, I’ve been filing small claims against these obnoxious marketers. This page will track my progress and give some tips on how to collect $500 every time a company forces their illegal marketing tactics upon you.’

`At a previous job, the head of QA had several stacks of several hundred CDs on the floor in front of floor to ceiling windows. The sunlight shining through the window would glow through these CDs in a very appealing manner that made the green light seam warm. From that point forward I always thought that a stack of CDs with a tubular light inside would make a very cool lamp.’

`The Internet’s primary oversight body approved a plan Wednesday to create a virtual red-light district, setting the stage for pornographic Web sites to use new addresses ending in ‘xxx’ [..]

Adult-oriented sites, a $12 billion industry, probably could begin buying “xxx” addresses as early as fall or winter depending on ICM’s plans, ICANN spokesman Kieran Baker said.’

`I must say folks last night was the most intense night of my life. I was released from the hospital this morning, the doctor said i was lucky to be alive. With furthur tests i might have suffered slight brain damage, the doctors are at this moment unsure.

Yesterday me and a few buddies decided to drop acid, and during our trip we decide to smoke bowls. We were having a great time up until my friend said ‘hey i heard on a phish board that if you put gasoline in the bong it will get you way faded.”

Stupid bitch. :)

(2meg mpeg)

`Say “Goodbye” to your Lover. Use this handy letter generator and you will never have to talk to them again!’