moonbuggy

I think I’ve posted links to specific articles on this site before, but the whole site is very cool, so it’s worth posting again.

Lots of different hardware hacks. Good stuff. :)

`The Greasecar Vegetable Oil Conversion System is an auxiliary fuel modification system that allows diesel vehicles to run on vegetable oil in any climate.

Your Greasecar kit comes with everything you need to convert your diesel vehicle to run on straight vegetable oil.’

`Forty-nine percent of 1,007 adult Americans said in phone interviews they believe Bush is a “uniter,” according to the CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll released Wednesday. Another 49 percent called him a “divider,” and 2 percent had no opinion.’

`Brand new invisible car. Ready for collection from London E11.

I do not know much about this vehicle, it being invisible. I have never driven this car sober, although I can assure you it is good because it always gets me home after a night out. It has never let me down, and I have never had any problems from the police. No-one will ever steal this car.’

`Taylor denied that the latest incidents indicate a pattern of prisoner abuse by Coalition troops. “This is merely the thirty-seventh exception that proves the rule,” he said.’

I like the caption under the photo..

`A British soldier liberates an Iraqi’s teeth from his mouth’

Amusing animation describing how we’re all going to die.

(3.7meg shockwave)

`Three 11-year-old boys and a 10-year-old girl tried to hijack their school bus near Punxsutawney this morning.

State police said the four hatched the plot yesterday. Just after 8 a.m. today, one of the boys pulled a knife from a book bag and held it near another student. He demanded driver Janet McQuown, 52, stop and get off the bus.’

`State government officials who sent a benefits check payable to “Mrs. Passed Away” to the family of a deceased woman said they want to apologize for their mistake in person.

The father of a 15-year-old boy who opened the letter said the family initially believed the check was a “sick joke,” until they realized it was accompanied by official government letterhead [..]’

(5.8meg shockwave)

`What does it say about the Central Intelligence Agency that its agents can crack the secret codes of enemy nations but can’t unravel a coded sculpture sitting outside their cafeteria window? [..]

It’s been nearly 15 years since Sanborn installed the 12-foot-high, verdigrised copper, granite and wood sculpture inscribed with four encrypted messages at the CIA’s Langley, Virginia, headquarters in 1990. And it’s been seven years since anyone made progress at cracking its code.’

`Welcome to Pen Island, the best place to get custom made pens on the internet!’

Its funny because of the domain name. :)

‘A Serbian Bruce Willis lookalike who passed himself off as the star was caught out – because he thought anyone called Bruce must be Australian.

Goran Markovic successfully conned people into thinking he was the Hollywood actor until he was caught using a fake Australian passport and accent instead of an American one. [..]

“I thought he was Australian, all the rest in Hollywood seem to be from there,” he told police.’

`this morning, while joking around with my girlfriend, i referred to my “male implement” as a “wand of fucking +2,” and proceeded to request that she make a saving throw against orgasm. she immediately lashed out at me, stating that if i ever attempted to mix our sex life and dungeons and dragons ever again, there’d be hell to pay – and not the kind of hell that you get to ever have sex with ever again.’

In the year 2005 I resolve to:
Have at least one orgasm per hour.

`Troops from the US-led force in Iraq have caused widespread damage and severe contamination to the remains of the ancient city of Babylon, according to a damning report released today by the British Museum. [..]

“This is tantamount to establishing a military camp around the Great Pyramid in Egypt or around Stonehenge in Britain,” says the report [..]’

`Umm.. awkward and hypothetical question here, what if… how do I phrase this.. Lets say a “friend” of mine was “pleasuring himself” in the middle of working on upgrading his PC, with the card on the table, he made a “mess” of the card. After the reinstall, the card no longer works, while it was working perfectly before, my “friend” is curious what kind of damage would seminary fluid do to the GPU in question?’

`Coke vending machines are everywhere. They’re getting more and more like regular computers with LEDs that show little “ICE COLD” messages and whatnot. Well, there’s a lot more to those little built-in computers than you may think. Included in the low-level operating system that these babies run on is an actual debug menu that gives you access to all sorts of machine information and possibly gives you free cokes in older machines.’

`The person who reported the vehicle told police the driver was slouched in the seat “staring at the young girls playing soccer in the front of the school,” according to court documents. [..]

“He was very nervous, wearing loose fitting shorts with no other clothing, and he had a tremendous amount of Vaseline covering his entire body and the interior of his vehicle,” Lansdale police officer George Johnson wrote in the criminal complaint.’

`Students at a secondary school in Sprockhoevel can choose to use the old toilets for free or pay 10 cents to use a new luxury toilet with marble wash basins. [..]

[Some politician] described the toilet toll as “heartless” and said: “Second-class peeing should not be allowed.”‘

DNS explained, entirely with MS Paint.

`Troy Hurtubise has done the seemingly impossible with his newest invention and defied all known rules of physics, he says.

The Angel Light—Hurtubise claims the concept came to him in a recurring dream—can reportedly see through walls, as if there was no barrier at all.

That’s not all, though.’

`A 50-year-old Reno man told authorities he castrated himself to lower his libido and learned of the procedure on the Internet, police said. [..]

About 1:30 a.m. Monday, police said the man called 911 and asked for help because he could not stop the bleeding from a self-castration operation.’

The internet is a wonderful store of knowledge. :)

`The reported loss of a communications satellite owned by a Bermuda-based company has left 10 South Pacific nations and territories and part of Antarctica without telephone contact with the outside world. [..]

In what global satellite operator Intelsat calls “an extremely rare event”, its $100 million ($131 million) IS-804 orbiting spacecraft moved out of its programmed alignment and was lost on Saturday.’

`[..] When the restaurant’s staff left, he broke into a cooling box containing a keg, disconnected the pipes leading to the tap, put them in his mouth and drank as much as he could.

The man, drunk and fast asleep, was found by cleaners in the early hours of Thursday.’

A bunch of games to play.

How do your manners hold up around the world?

I got 7 out of 11. I’m ready to travel. :)

`The court order clearly stated that Barclays was being asked to stump up a colossal £748 trillion in compensation to the former owner of a Spanish bank it acquired 25 years ago.

Last night Spanish court officials said an investigation was under way to discover whether a monumental clerical error was to blame, as suspected, for the number of noughts in the compensation figure. [..]

The amount – €1.1 quadrillion (a quadrillion is 1 followed by 15 zeros) – is the equivalent of 1,400 times Spain’s gross domestic product, or the wealth Spaniards could generate in 1,000 years.’

`According to an article published in the September issue of Handguns magazine, a recent decline in fatalities resulting from inner city handgun shootings can be credited to the thriving popularity of a flashy new gangsta-style shooting technique wherein the weapon is canted 180 degrees from its normal upright position.’

`Condoleezza Rice, President George W Bush’s nominee for secretary of state, has hinted at the direction of future US foreign policy by identifying six “outposts of tyranny” around the world.’

Excellent. Six more wars. I can’t wait.

`Albuquerque Public Schools police say a naked man who was found wandering the halls of a northeast Albuquerque elementary school was carrying a backpack full of drugs and weapons. [..]

A relative of Banashefsky characterized Banashefsky as a “solid person” who could probably use some psychiatric help.’