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`A Texas school district has apologized to a student identified only as ‘Black Girl’ in a high school yearbook photo.

All the White students are identified by name in a photograph of the Waxahachie High School National Honor Society. The teen identified as ‘Black Girl’ is the only Black student in the photo.

A schools spokeswoman says the caption apparently was intended as a placeholder until the yearbook staff could identify the student. She tells a newspaper, the Waxahachie Daily Light, the label was a poor choice, but wasn’t malicious.’

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`Car owners around town are covering their mirrors in an attempt to outsmart a woodpecker who apparently thinks his reflection is an enemy.

Tim Taylor, who owns Thruway Auto Glass, said he replaced 30 smashed mirrors last year and 18 this year because of the bird, which has claimed this area east of Syracuse as his territory. [..]

Anne Miller has had two mirrors on her Pontiac Grand Prix smashed and watched the bird attack her neighbor’s Malibu.

“I told him to shoo. He did. Then he came right back and finished the job,” she said. “Instead of flying off, he walked across the windshield and did the passenger mirror. I was flabbergasted.”‘

`A multi-million dollar initiative to curb chroming or paint sniffing amongst Queensland youths will be launched at Tuesday’s state budget.
Queensland premier Peter Beattie said $8.8 million would be used to help stop teenagers inhaling volatile substances such as paint.

‘Places of safety’ in Brisbane, Logan, Townsville, Cairns and Mt Isa will be expanded with the money in an effort to help substance abusers kick the habit.

Mr Beattie said more than 1,800 people had used the service up to March this year.’

`Fashionable wristbands worn by pop stars, actors, top athletes and celebrities to publicise the Make Poverty History campaign are produced in appalling ‘slave labour’ conditions, damning evidence has revealed.

Chinese factory workers producing the white rubber bracelets are forced to toil in conditions that violate Chinese law and the Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) set up to establish international standards for working conditions.

The revelations are laid bare in sensitive ‘ethical audits’ of factories that make the must-have fashion accessories for the national Make Poverty History campaign begun by a partnership of over 400 charities.’

Maddox reviews Star Wars III. Contains spoilers, but the film was pretty much spoilt from it’s inception because George Lucas is an idiot, so read it anyway. :)

`Cory Michael Williamson’s neighbor told sheriff’s deputies that she saw the teen having sexual contact with her 6-month-old dog over the weekend.

Williamson, 17, is now in the Spartanburg County Detention Center charged with buggery. Last year, Williamson was charged with criminal sexual conduct against a 4-year-old girl and a 13-year-old girl.’

He looks kinda confused in the photo.

`Ask your mommy…

…how many animals she killed to make her fur coat? The sooner she stops wearing fur, the sooner animals will be safe!’

Nothing like mentally scarring some children to make your point. :)

`G-string knickers can damage the skin and cause infections, experts in Germany have warned women.

Dr Thomas Gent of the Association of Gynaecologists advised women to wear bigger pants to avoid complications.

He blamed the friction caused by the string part of the underwear for a big rise in the number of patients he had seen reporting genital inflammation.

A UK gynaecologist said it was the ill-fit rather than the underwear type that was the likely root of problem.’

`Years ago, a fascination with antique optical toys led Rufus Butler Seder to wonder if he could create motion pictures on a grand scale using no electricity, moving parts, or special lighting. After some experiment he developed an 8″ square, lens-ribbed glass tile that was to form the building block for his dream come true. He called it a LIFETILE.

LIFETILES enable Rufus to create “Movies for the Wall”: optical glass-tiled murals that appear to come to life, move, and change when the viewer walks or rides by. The medium is durable, maintenance-free, and lends itself to almost any subject or location, outdoors or in. Since 1990 Rufus has created scores of sizeable works for museums, aquariums and other public places around the world.’

Pictures and links for various robot swarms. Looks kinda cool.

`Dorothy Densmore, 81, was arrested Sunday afternoon after police said she called 911 dispatchers 20 times in 38 minutes.

She told dispatchers that a local pizza shop refused to deliver a pie to her Charlotte apartment and that someone at the shop called her a “crazy old coot.”

Police spokeswoman Mandy Giannini says when an officer arrived at her apartment, the five-foot-tall, 98-pound woman attacked him.’

‘Actually, he isn’t. The whole thing was one big joke, and people are buying it left and right. You probably didn’t, because you found this page, but lots of people are stupid enough to buy into this shit.

Someone made a thing about midgets getting killed by lions, I ripped that off, hosted it over here, and tried to have some fun while I was gone taking a class.

It worked. Check and mate.’

Followup to the Bruce Pastuer Murder Thread post. I finally bothered to look a bit more into it. Shoulda done it in the first place, but I’m lazy and I don’t really care that much. :)

`A manmade ingredient of many plastics, cosmetics and other consumer products may be interfering with prenatal male sexual development, new research suggests.

A study of 85 infant boys found a correlation between increased exposure to some forms of the chemical phthalate and smaller penis size and incomplete testicular descent. [..]

Previous experiments in rats indicate that the chemical interferes with testosterone during gestation, producing a condition known as “phthalate syndrome.” Rats with the syndrome suffer from genital birth defects, infertility and testicular cancer. [..]

A growing body of research suggests that some chemicals used in consumer products may cause public health problems by interfering with sex hormones. A study in the current issue of the journal Endocrinology exposed newborn mice to bisphenol-A, a chemical found in plastics and dental sealants, at doses comparable to those found in the human environment. At puberty the mice were more likely to develop cancer-related mammary duct abnormalities.

“In humans this would cause breast cancer,” said Tufts University cell biologist Anna Soto, the study’s lead author.’

‘A Russian is complaining to the camera that his workplace was late on making salary payments to the workers. This video is from March 2005 and the workers had not received a paycheck since November. The guy giving the interview is trying to be very serious while his buddy is completely drunk in the background.’

see it here »

`President Bush gave a talk at the Athena Performing Arts Center at Greece Athena Middle and High School Tuesday, May 24, 2005 in Rochester, NY. Bush traveled to Rochester, trying to win support for his proposed overhaul of the Social Security system.

About half way through the event Bush came out with this pearler.

“See in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.”‘

This is what the little quiz tells me:

`You will die with your hand down your underwear, watching Star Trek.’

Not too bad. I always thought I’d die of a heart attack whilst humping your mother.

`A crackpot clergyman wants to ban all Superman comic books and movies – because he believes the Man of Steel is gay!

“We owe it to our children not to expose them to this kind of flamboyant character, flitting around in the air like Tinkerbell,” declares the Reverend Clay Blanblood. “Real men do NOT prance around in tights. Who knows how many homosexuals got their start from trying to imitate Superman?”

The Topeka-based minister says he reached his bizarre conclusion after pouring over hundreds of Superman comics, movies and TV shows dating back to the 1930s. [..]

* He is “overly chummy” with cute young cub reporter Jimmy Olsen.

* He often poses with his hands on his hips, “the traditional gay posture.”

* He has X-ray vision, yet never uses the power to look through women’s clothing, “the way any normal, red-blooded American man would,” according to the preacher.

* He’s often seen flying through the air carrying a man he’s just rescued – something Rev. Blanblood insists “no heterosexual male would be caught dead doing.” [..]

A leading comic book expert calls the preacher’s crusade against Superman “idiotic.”‘

‘The “suspicious package” that caused Interstate 75 and Daniels Parkway to be shut for more than an hour Monday was not an explosive pipe bomb — but rather wrapped-up plastic foot-long penis.

“Someone took construction-grade plastic, molded it into a penis and wrapped it with duct tape,” said Lee County Sheriff’s Chief Deputy Charles Ferrante.

“They wrote ‘Happy Father’s Day’ on the duct tape.”‘

`This beautiful dildo is made from solid hypoallergenic titanium. It has been designed with natural forms and contours. The end of the dildo is specifically designed to stimulate the g-spot. Being Titanium, it does not corrode (good for water lovers) and retains heat well – excellent for trying to add a little heat to any situation or for an amazingly sexy cool experience!

The handle of the dildo is embellished with precious stones of your choice, twenty in total. These superb Swarovski stones are set into 18ct gold and then inlaid permanently into the titanium. You can choose between a single, continuous band of stones and an alternating band of two different coloured stones, personalising your product.’

`The Hilbert (axiomatic) method

We place a locked cage onto a given point in the desert. After that we introduce the following logical system:

Axiom 1: The set of lions in the Sahara is not empty.
Axiom 2: If there exists a lion in the Sahara, then there exists a lion in the cage.
Procedure: If P is a theorem, and if the following is holds: “P implies Q”, then Q is a theorem.
Theorem 1: There exists a lion in the cage. [..]

The Schrödinger method

At every instant there is a non-zero probability of the lion being in the cage. Sit and wait. ‘

`Here’s what you need: a toy laser sword with a retractable blade, a brightly colored clear jelly dildo, a utility knife, and a mini LED flashlight. Match the color of the flashlight to the color of the dildo if you can.’

`The organisers of a memorial service for writer Hunter S Thompson are to build a 150 foot-high tower from which to fire his ashes.

Actor Johnny Depp will pay for the tower to be built for the service, set to take place on 20 August.

During the ceremony, Thompson’s ashes will be fired from a cannon at the top of the tower onto his Colorado ranch.’

Some guy called Bruce loses his mind over an argument in an internet forum. Shoots two people who insulted him then goes on the run. Keeps posting on the forum with wireless net access whilst on the run.

More on the internet murders here.

I think this might be photoshopped.

Not safe for work, but not as bad as some of the other stuff I’ve been posting lately. :)

`The object is to insert the numbers in the boxes to satisfy only one condition: each row, column and 3×3 box must contain the digits 1 through 9 exactly once. What could be simpler?’

Lots and lots of these addictive little puzzles here.

Also, there’s a 3D Puzzle here (in PDF format).