`Sweden’s anti-piracy organisation, Antipiratbyrå (APB), established to combat the illegal downloading of copyright-protected films and games, has been accused of illegally downloading copyright-protected films and games – in an attempt to plant evidence against internet service provider Bahnhof.
The APB was behind a raid against Bahnhof two weeks ago, which resulted in the confiscation of servers containing thousands of film, music and games files. APB lawyer Henrik Pontén declared that “this is just the start” and brazenly admitted that the organisation had used a paid infiltrator at Bahnhof.
But on Tuesday Bahnhof released the results of its own internal investigation. According to managing director Jon Karlung, the APB infiltrator had himself carried out over 68,000 uploads and downloads of copyright-protected material on Bahnhof’s servers.’
‘Russian doctors have conducted an 11-hour operation to replace a patient’s deformed penis with one grown on his forearm, the Moskovskiy Komsomolets daily reports.
The 30-year-old Russian man, whose name was changed in the article to protect his privacy, had a defect from birth — his penis was crooked, two-and-a-half-inches long and lacked a scrotum, the newspaper writes.
The doctors had the penis removed and attached to the man’s arm. Using his body tissue it grew to six-and-a-half inches and was sewn back on to his groin. Silicone tubes were inserted into the organ to ensure an erection was possible. Doctors also created a scrotum from the patient’s own skin and placed silicone testicles in it.’
`Scientists at MIT’s Media Lab in the United States have invented an alarm clock called Clocky to make even the doziest sleepers, who repeatedly hit the snooze button, leap out of bed.
After the snooze button is pressed, the clock, which is equipped with a set of wheels, rolls off the table to another part of the room.
“When the alarm sounds again, simply finding Clocky ought to be strenuous enough to prevent even the doziest owner from going back to sleep,” New Scientist said on Tuesday.’
`”I did it about two years ago. All my race grid queen and model friends have done it, too,” Miho, a 23-year-old hostess at a posh Ginza club tells Asahi Geino (3/31).
Miho, the men’s weekly notes, is talking about permanent hair removal…from her anus. She’s apparently just one of the growing numbers of young Japanese women who’re tackling their complex over having hairy butts.
“Pubes are a real pain,” Miho says. “On the night before a date with my boyfriend, I have to pluck all the hairs sticking out one by one. I have to screw myself around in all these weird positions to get at them and it hurts my neck and my eyes.”‘
`A Maori healer who used traditional indigenous practices to treat patients has been jailed for three and a half years for sexually violating two patients with potatoes.
Sending Christopher Tuaupiki, 64, to prison, a judge in the High Court in the North Island city of Hamilton told him it was “sad that a good reputation had been shattered” when he was found guilty on five sex charges after a week-long trial, the Waikato Times newspaper reported.’
`Scientists from the University of Birmingham’s Nanoscale Science Facility have made a breakthrough in manipulating the smallest single molecules and atoms by devising a new technique of molecular dissection which induces the “birth” of a daughter atom from the parent molecule. [..]
The new method, devised by Professor Richard Palmer and Dr Peter Sloan, uses the tip of a Scanning Tunnelling Microscope (STM) to inject two electrons into the parent chlorobenzine molecule to induce a dissociation event – the first electron sets the molecule into vibration and the second electron breaks the bond between the parent molecule and daughter chlorine atom.’
`A southern California man has a beef with Los Angeles – it’s just become home to a large extraterrestrial butcher shop.
E.T. expert Dr. Terry Johnson claims the site of the “butcher shop” is a giant starship he recently discovered in the hillside community of Mount Washington in northeast L.A.
Although the starship can’t be seen because it’s in a slightly different dimension, Johnson says the aliens who man the craft are able to abduct hundreds of humans into the ship at will.
He claims harvested humans are then transported to “Negra,” a star system one billion light years away where human flesh is considered a delicacy.’
`In an effort to increase pressure on North Korea, the Bush administration told its Asian allies in briefings earlier this year that Pyongyang had exported nuclear material to Libya. That was a significant new charge, the first allegation that North Korea was helping to create a new nuclear weapons state.
But that is not what U.S. intelligence reported, according to two officials with detailed knowledge of the transaction. North Korea, according to the intelligence, had supplied uranium hexafluoride — which can be enriched to weapons-grade uranium — to Pakistan. It was Pakistan, a key U.S. ally with its own nuclear arsenal, that sold the material to Libya. The U.S. government had no evidence, the officials said, that North Korea knew of the second transaction.’
`An Indian bride was married off to a pot by her relatives after her groom failed to turn up for the ceremony.
Savita took her vows with a clay pot when her fiance Chaman Singh, a police officer, got stranded on the border because of heavy snowfall, reports newspaper Deccan Herald.’
`A new version of a biological computer has been built that can run up to a billion different programs simultaneously.
The computer, developed at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, is made entirely of DNA molecules and enzymes.
It is an improvement over a previous version built three years ago by scientists at Technion and Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science.
That version was limited to 765 simultaneous programs.’
`A Providence high school student has been suspended from school after he photographed the principal smoking on school grounds, and posting the pictures on the Internet.
Eliazar Velasquez, a sophomore at Central High School, snapped pictures of Principal Elaine Almagno smoking a cigarette outside a school door earlier this month. Smoking within 25 feet of a school violates state law.
Velasquez then posted the pictures on a Web site, and distributed fliers at school telling students where to find the pictures.’
`A huge explosion at an oil refinery in Texas has killed at least 14 and injured more than 70.
The blast took place at a facility owned by British-owned company BP in Texas City. [..]
Texas City resident Mike Martin described “a real loud explosion, like a sonic boom”.
“It shook the pictures bad enough to where it knocked them off the wall. And it frightened me, so I jumped out of bed.”
Judith Mantell, 62, told the Houston Chronicle the blast lifted her vehicle off the ground at her home five miles (8km) away.’
`A naked man saw off a burglar who broke into his flat above The Lamb Inn at Hungerford, on Saturday – and even flung the would-be thief across the bonnet of his getaway car after chasing him into the street. [..]
The offender is 5ft 9ins, pudgy, with bad acne and dark hair.
He may well also be bruised after his scuffle with the naked man. [..]’
`There is no escaping the naked lens of High-Definition TV. The picture is so clear that aging signs and skin imperfections are clearly visible. Below is our “Top 10” list of which celebrities look better — and worse — in high-def.’
`Superstar Celine Dion has hit out at audiences at her Las Vegas shows – insisting they are not ‘real fans’ and often fall asleep while she sings.
The Canadian is contracted to perform 200 shows a year at Sin City’s Caesar’s Palace, but she admits she is disillusioned by the experience of performing to jet-lagged gamblers.
She snipes, “When I started here, I told myself, ‘I’m not gonna expect anything’. That only leaves you open to disappointment.’
`”Diana Schaub, a Loyola College professor and adviser to President [George W.] Bush, is convinced that cloning and embryonic stem cell research are evil. She says this belief was formed, in part, by watching STAR TREK,” reports Jason Song for the Baltimore Sun.
Schaub says that STAR TREK “left me receptive to the view that mortality is, if not precisely a good thing, then at least the necessary foundation of other very good things. There is something misguided about the attempt to overcome mortality.”‘
`The latest HS hazing incident had gotten a little more serious with seven members of the AHST High School wrestling team (including one former member) being charged with misdemeanor assault for “forcibly restraining” seven freshman wrestlers on eight different occasions, and each time “one individual would take down his pants and place his bare genitals against the face and head of the alleged victims.”‘
`Using some basic principles of Black Body Radiation, I estimate that the Solar Death Ray can heat things up to between 500-600 degrees Celsius (930-1100 degrees Fahrenheit) under good conditions. This assumes that heat is not lost due to conduction and convection of the air around the target, which is unlikely. As a check, paper will ignite at around 230 degrees Celsius (450 degrees Fahrenheit). Because I can routinely ignite paper with the Solar Death Ray, I know it can heat things to at least this temperature. The “output power” of the Solar Death Ray is roughly 1,500 Watts, meaning that 1,500 Watts of power can be deposited onto a target.’
`Martin Tlusty, 20, from Prague had been climbing with friends in the Low Tatras mountain range in neighbouring Slovakia when he lost his footing, slipped and fell 1,000 feet down the side of the mountain. [..]
He was taken to hospital by mountain rescue teams but doctors said he suffered only cuts and bruises from the fall and would soon bounce back, local daily Novy Cas reported.
The man said he would be back climbing the same mountains as soon as possible. He said: “I’ll definitely be back.”‘
`Sakai, an award-winning tattoo artist, was tired of seeing sacred Japanese words, symbols of his heritage, inked on random white people. So he used their blissful ignorance to make an everlasting statement. Any time acustomer came to Sakai’s home studio wanting Japanese tattooed on them, he modified it into a profane word or phrase.
[..] Kerri Baker, a Carlow College freshman, paid $50 to have the symbols for “beautiful goddess” etched above her belly button, but when she went into Szechuan Express Asian Noodle Shop sporting a bare midriff, the giggling employees explained to her that the tattoo really said, “Insert General Tso’s Chicken Here!”
“I don’t even like General Tso’s!” Baker sobbed. “I’m a vegetarian!”’
`This page will describe the construction of a miniature eight cylinder engine I built in my home machine shop over the past few years. I still have a few small details left to finish, but the engine is running and almost complete. This was my first attempt at building a running miniature engine, I should have started with something a little simpler. I had a great time designing and building this engine and the first time it started was an unbelievable experience.’
`Me: So… what happened to your case?
Him: I’d swear your dog did it on purpose, but he came into my room while I was using my computer, sat near the front and totally took a dump all over it. I didn’t even notice until he left the room, that’s when I smelled something funny… I was like wtf???
Here are some pictures, VIEW AT YOUR OWN RISK!!! [..]
Needless to say, we had to buy a new case…’
`Hefty chick #1: Well, I didn’t want to fight her, but she called me a fat bitch.
Hefty chick #2: Oh, lawd!
Hefty chick #1: So I backed up on her and dropped her with my elbow.
–41st St. & 7th Ave.’
`If a picture is better than a thousand words, then a person’s body language has got to “speak” volumes. A lot of the focus on body language at work has been on how to avoid looking all twitchy and nervous. Not much is mentioned about how to use body language to get people out of your office. And I’m not just talking about that bare-toothed hiss that you’ve perfected. Here are a select few tips for your unspoken pleasure. Some are classics, others are more subtle. All are effective…’
`Olavi Kajander didn’t mean to discover the mysterious particles that have been called the most primitive organisms on Earth and that could be responsible for a series of painful and sometimes fatal illnesses.
He was simply trying to find out why certain cultures of mammalian cells in his lab would die no matter how carefully he prepared them.
So the Finnish biochemist and his colleagues slipped some of their old cultures under an electron microscope one day in 1988 and took a closer look. That’s when they saw the particles. Like bacteria but an astonishing 100 times smaller, they seemed to be thriving inside the dying cells.’
