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From the Just dang Cool Dept. : Suspicious Looking Device

2006-10-01T15:27:00.000-04:00

Suspicious Looking Device 2006

The only function of the Suspicious Looking device is to appear as suspicious as possible, whether carried in hand or placed indiscrimately in public places.

The SLD contains LEDs, a LED array, a character display, an optical distance sensor, capacitive touch sensor, buzzer, and motors.

You know if I wasn' so frickin lazy I would make of those. I mean how cool would that be just annoy the HSA! But now with the new laws you might be made an enemy combatant.

Whats Wrong With This Country

2006-09-06T20:03:00.000-04:00

I've been trying to pin down what exactly is wrong with this country. Is it our obsession with Oil? Is it our mis-understanding and therefor hatred of other cultures? Or is it our lack of responsibility when it comes to decision making when it come to our politicians or our local government? Ladies and gentlemen it is all of the above and more. I give you the following:

The mini-fucking ketchup bottle.

Personalized little pieces of glass that are filled with ketchup just for you! GREAT! How absolutely quaint. It really is cute, I was admiring them from afar looking to use one of them on my fries. Funny little aside, I used to be in the military and they used to, and maybe they still do, include little bottles of Tabasco with every MRE. Fan-fucking-tastic! Believe you me, when your out in the field, and it's cold and wet and you are hating life, remembering that you have a little bottle of heat and maybe some crackers to get you through, awesome! Anyway, where was I, oh yeah little bottles of evil. After I got my mini-me-sized bottle of Heinz I asked the waitress what they do with the empty bottles? Do they take them back and ship them back to Heinz central, like Budweiser does, wash them out and re-use those cute little fuckers? "Oh no, we just throw them away" as she points over to a barrel filled with these things.

You have got to be fucking kidding me! Not only is it a waste to throw away perfectly good bottles just waiting to be recycled, but the cost of packaging and the waste of fuel to transport these fuckers across the nation! The lack of efficiency and the absolute waste of resources that this must be to produce this crap just does not make sense in the long-view/world-view.

And I think, nay, I believe that this is why the world hates us. Because we are such fucking pretentious, narrow-minded, selfish prick bastards that we could give a fuck that if what we are doing now in regards to local and world energy and resources is going to have any impact on what happens to us or the rest of the world. We are just oblivious retards that we just move along single-person-to-a-car commute and have these little fucking cute bottles of evil and the world be damned. And that is exactley what we are doing. Damning ourselves and the world. Because we think we are entitled to do what ever the fuck we want to do.

We are like the person that wants to believe that we are doing something good by donating our old clothes, or giving money to our local shelter all the while consuming more than we can produce and importing what we can't.

We are headed for a very bad time my friends... And I am part of the cause.

We are such pretensious fucking assholes.

People That Drive Me Nuts

2006-08-20T14:31:00.000-04:00

People that suck their teeth!
Like what the hell is the deal!?!? If you've got something stuck in your teeth then go and get a fucking toothpick and take care of that shit. Don't sit there and suck your teeth and act like it's not driving everyone fucking crazy!!! For crying out loud!

FedEx Thunderstorm deviations

2006-08-08T13:32:00.000-04:00


A FAA Radar track sequence of a bank of FedEx aircraft getting into Memphis as thunderstorms pass over the airport.

Cyclopian Child Born in Chennai

2006-08-06T15:30:00.000-04:00

From Trailing Technology

A one-eyed child suffering from a rare chromosomal disorder known as cyclopia was born in a hospital in Chennai earlier this week. The disorder occurs during pregnancy when the cells that constitute the forebrain fail to develop properly and fuse into a single eye. Instances of cyclopia are generally attributed to outside factors like ambient pollution, radiation, drugs and the introduction of other agents that can alter fetal development.

The pictures bare an eerie resemblance to images of Love Canal, a suburban community built on top of the most notorious toxic waste dump in New York State. While the small town was still populated, several children were born without eyes and cancer was hundreds of times the normal rate.

With waste burned openly in the streets, old MRI machines leaking radiation into local dumps, red alert toxic ratings for the city's air and water, and now one-eyed infants, Chennai is looking more like Love Canal every day.

Via Boing Boing

MMmmm Yummy love canal similarities...
When the fuck are governments going to fucking the people!?!?!
Scumbags... all of them

Local Blogger Josh Wolf Jailed for Mission Protest Video

2006-08-03T07:42:00.000-04:00

First Amendment Trampled. Man put in jail for taping protests!
From violet blue

...The protest got out of hand, as protests sometimes do, and fireworks were set off, and a police officer was hit in the head. But after Josh posted part of the video he shot on his blog, the feds showed up *at his house*, demanding the entire tape and not saying why -- but that because Josh's video contained federal property in it, they had a right to it.

Josh refused, and in his incredible presentation I saw at Vloggercon 2006, explained that he was concerned about the feds' intentions -- worried that they might be indiscriminately compiling antiwar, "terrorist" group lists. Josh is 24, and a friend. So now... shoot a video locally and go to jail? Our lame-duck SFGate has its head stuck up its ass because they're defending the mainstream media with an article the totally sidesteps the story (ha!), but CNet is on it.

Via Boing Boing

Talk to his mom on his blog.
Donate to his legal fund

The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream

2006-08-02T22:41:00.001-04:00

From Google Video

Apparently we are running out of oil. And there is nothing we can do about it. We are down a path that is unreversable. One would think that we could come up with someother solution. But we can't. We're too entrenched with out lifestyles. We can't turn back!

It really drives home the point and consecuences of running out of oil. It's not just as easy of a fix just switching over to hydrogen. That hydrogen has to get created somehow.

Quote From the Movie:
"We are headed for a shit storm"

"It's a wonderful prospect... All you need is electricity and water... Where are you gong to get that electricity? That electricity has got to get created somehow?!? Usually by natural gas or oil. What are you going to do when it runs out?!" "How are you going to transport your food? Ethanol?? You would have to grow so much corn that there wouldn't be room to grow our food!"

Via Hugg.com

The smart man would go and buy some open land out in Montana and set up a wind farm or something. Just build the house underground, grow the food on top in between your windmills and pump sunlight into you cave with fiber-optics... That is if you can figure out how to make fiber without fuel...

Fuck is that depressing... Actually, it's only depressing at first thought. The aftermath might just be a utopia...

Eventually.

The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream

2006-08-02T22:41:00.000-04:00

From Google Video

Apparently we are running out of oil. Very scary movie. It really drives home the point and consecuences of running out of oil. It's not just as easy of a fix just switching over to hydrogen. That hydrogen has to get created somehow.

Quote From the Movie:
"We are headed for a shit storm"

"It's a wonderful prospect... All you need is electricity and water... Where are you gong to get that electricity? That electricity has got to get created somehow?!? Usually by natural gas or oil. What are you going to do when it runs out?!" "How are you going to transport your food? Ethanol?? You would have to grow so much corn that there wouldn't be room to grow our food!"

Via Hugg.com

Flinstones Smoking

2006-07-30T21:32:00.000-04:00

Well, I always knew that the Flintstones and I love Lucy had done smoking commercials in the past. Here are Fred and Barney, puffing away on a pack of Winstons

Check it out over at Yout Tube:
Flintones Smoking

Ben Afflect to play Kirk?!?!?

2006-05-03T10:44:00.000-04:00

From cinescape.com:

.. some others had heard that Ben has also been talking to Paramount about possibly playing a lead role in a new Star Trek film from J.J Abrams. Apparently Abrams is coming down to visit the set in a few weeks, to visit Michelle Monaghan, whom he directed in Mission : Impossible 3, so that might add some more fuel to the fire. If it comes off, he's apparently playing the hero. Don't know if that's Captain Kirk or some other nameless male protagonist...but that's the gist of it. So possible that Affleck's going to go onto doing a new Jack Ryan, and possibly a "Trek", after he finishes with this film.

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Hahah lol, how fucking funny would that be! Both Afflect and Shatner suck as actors so it would be no loss really. Well, except the total cancelation of the Star Trek universe.

BEN AFFLECT GO TO HELL!!

Military Resposible for Homosexuals

2006-05-03T07:37:00.000-04:00

From Ask.Yahoo.com (via boingboing):

Dear Yahoo!:

How did San Francisco become so popular with gay people?

Jeff
Miami, Florida

Dear Jeff:

In addition to its earthquakes and the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco is widely known for its high population of gays and lesbians. How did so many gay people come to call the city by the bay their home? The answer may surprise you...
As it turns out, the military is the main reason so many gay men settled in San Francisco. During World War II, the United States armed forces "sought out and dishonorably discharged" homosexuals. Many men who were expelled for being gay were processed at San Francisco bases.

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So there you go.

Tear Down the Wall!!!

2006-05-02T23:19:00.000-04:00

For matt:

A very lovely casemod of a particular favorite band of mine:
Go see it

It's very nice
"mother will you fight my wars for me, how could you be, and leave me left all alone"

For Idiots Like Me That Think They've Ruined Their iPod Nano Trying To Install iPodLinux Onto It!

2006-04-26T23:33:00.000-04:00

So, if you've tried to install iPodLinux onto your iPod Nano you know it isn't the easiest thing the world to do. Which is wierd cause it sure looked like it was going to be easy. Hell! Someone posted up on iPodlinux.org's Windows Installations Section, " Installation from windows... Nano ...that works!"... Yeah, not on all iPod Nano s. At least not on mine.

Half way through the installation it says to unplug your nano from your pc and then reboot and everything will be hunky-dory. No. I unplug, my Nano reboots, and then NOTHING will see it! My Nano will not mount. iTunes will not see my Nano. The iPodLinux installer won't recognize my Nano. And the iPodUpdater won't see my Nano. FUCK! I think I am screwed. I will be damned if I am going to go down to fucking Apples store and go up to one of those... people there... and admit defeat! I REFUSE! So I uninstall iTunes. Uninstall iPod. Reinstall all that crap still nothing. I am so fucked. I'm going to have to send this thing in and fiegn ignorance (not too far off.)

And then poking through the forums at iPodLinux.org I keep hearing about the HPUSBFW.exe or HB's USB thingy. So, I DL it, Launch that little bad boy and select FAT32. Select 'Quick Format.' And all is good. Thank you baby-jesus! Hey I don't even have to let my gf know I'm not as l33t as I think I am.

So the moral of this story is; Don't give up hope, HB's USB Thingy is there to save your ass... or at least keep it from having to send it in to have someone else fix it for you.

NOTE: I put in all the iPod Nano will not mount and Reformat iPod Nano so knucks like me can find some help.

Thanks
Botunda

Man using Web to barter paper clip for house

2006-04-18T14:09:00.000-04:00

From CNN:

BOSTON, Massachusetts (AP) -- Kyle MacDonald had a red paper clip and a dream: Could he use the community power of the Internet to barter that paper clip for something better, and trade that thing for something else -- and so on and so on until he had a house?

After a cross-continental trading trek involving a fish-shaped pen, a town named Yahk and the Web's astonishing ability to bestow celebrity, MacDonald is getting close. He's up to one year's free rent on a house in Phoenix.

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And I am jealous.

The "Key West Uniform": President Truman's Tropical Sport Shirts

2006-04-12T21:39:00.000-04:00

From The Harry S. Truman National Historic Site:

Harry Truman was always known for his neat appearance. When he became president, his everyday garments became more fashionable and care was taken to adopt "appropriate" dress for the leader of a nation. His recognizable double-breasted suit, Stetson hat and spectator shoes were his trademark. Faced with more scrutiny over his clothing than he had experienced as senator or vice president, he took few risks with the exception of a splashy tie now and then. That is, until he started vacationing in Key West .

Check It out!

Who knew! I mean the president has the opportunity to wear anything and he goes with this!
AWESOME!

Babies First Prank Call

2006-04-12T11:39:00.000-04:00

From Wired:

"Among his other activities, Woz collects phone numbers, and his longtime goal has been to acquire a number with seven matching digits.... After more months of scheming and waiting, he had it: 888-8888. This was his new cell-phone number, and his greatest philonumerical triumph.

The number proved unusable. It received more than a hundred wrong numbers a day. Given that the number is virtually impossible to misdial, this traffic was baffling. More strange still, there was never anybody talking on the other end of the line. Just silence. Or, not silence really, but dead air, sometimes with the sound of a television in the background, or somebody talking softly in English or Spanish, or bizarre gurgling noises. Woz listened intently.

Then, one day, with the phone pressed to his ear, Woz heard a woman say, at a distance, "Hey, what are you doing with that?" The receiver was snatched up and slammed down.

Suddenly, it all made sense: the hundreds of calls, the dead air, the gurgling sounds. Babies. They were picking up the receiver and pressing a button at the bottom of the handset. Again and again. It made a noise: "Beep beep beep beep beep beep beep."

The children of America were making their first prank call.

And the person who answered the phone was Woz."

I was wondering where that was going. Would've been kinda cool trying to Sherlock those calls to figure out where they were coming from.

Recipe for making butter

2006-04-11T19:06:00.000-04:00

From: I Guess the Butter Institute or something.

Making butter is easy with a food processor, and it produces a light fresh taste. You will need:

1-2 cups heavy whipping cream, or double cream (1/3 liter)
(preferably without carrageenan or other stabilizers)

Fit food processor with plastic blade, whisk, or normal chopping blade. Fill food processor about 1/4 - 1/2 full. Blend. The cream will go through the following stages: Sloshy, frothy, soft whipped cream, firm whipped cream, coarse whipped cream. Then, suddenly, the cream will seize, its smooth shape will collapse, and the whirring will change to sloshing. The butter is now fine grained bits of butter in buttermilk, and a few seconds later, a glob of yellowish butter will separate from milky buttermilk. Drain the buttermilk.

You can eat the butter now -- it has a light taste -- though it will store better if you wash and work it. Add 1/2 cup (100 mL) of ice-cold water, and blend further. Discard wash water and repeat until the wash water is clear. Now, work butter to remove suspended water. Either place damp butter into a cool bowl and knead with a potato masher or two forks; or put in large covered jar, and shake or tumble. Continue working, pouring out the water occasionally, until most of the water is removed. The butter is now ready. Put butter in a butter crock, ramekins, or roll in waxy freezer paper.

Yield: About half as much butter as the amount of cream you started with.

I know you have be saying to yourself, "Botunda, you got to be fucking kidding me!??!"

Go take a look if you don't believe me. Fucking homemade butta!

Kentucky Derby to offer race-goers $1,000 mint julep

2006-04-11T13:29:00.000-04:00

From CNN:SI

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- As if custom-made hats, premium box seats and limo rides weren't enough, the Kentucky Derby will now feature the $1,000 mint julep.

Sip this drink slowly.
The sweet cocktail will be made with one of the state's finest bourbons and served in a gold-plated cup with a silver straw to the first 50 people willing to put down the cash at the May 6 race.

Mint from Morocco, ice from the Arctic Circle and sugar from the South Pacific will put this mint julep in a class of its own, the distillery selling the drink said.

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Shit... If I had enough money to go to the Kentucky Derby you know I would be buying the $1000.00 Mint Julep. Besides, you get ice from the Antartic... That shit isn't going to be around for ever ya know!

Cool Artsy Thing of The Day (CATOTD)

2006-04-10T12:08:00.000-04:00

From: Joins.com

Some really wonderful stuff.Check it out! It's all this paper-crafty stuff. The site is in Korean, but you don't need to speaky to understand the message.

Very cool indeed!

Greenpeace: McDonald's Harming the Amazon

2006-04-07T19:13:00.000-04:00

From: Red Orbit

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil -- Greenpeace on Thursday said McDonald's was fueling Amazon rainforest destruction by using soybeans grown in the region as feed for chickens that end up served in the fast-food chain's European restaurants.

In a reported entitled, "Eating up the Amazon," the environmental group said it has traced soy beans grown in illegally desforested areas of the rainforest to McDonald's Corp. (MCD) restaurants, as well as other restaurant chains and supermarkets across Europe.

"Fast Food giants like McDonald's are trashing the Amazon for cheap meat. Every time you buy a Chicken McNugget you could be taking a bite out of the Amazon," Greenpeace forests campaign coordinator Gavin Edwards said by telephone from London.

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Well there goes that fucking nugget diet I was thinking about!

Shouldv'e bought last year...

2006-04-07T13:13:00.000-04:00

From:International Herald Tribune

NEW YORK Gold has traded above $600 an ounce for the first time in 25 years and silver reached a 22-year high as investors continued to pour money into precious metals.

On Thursday, gold futures for delivery in June settled $7.20 higher, or 1.2 percent, at $599.70 on the New York Mercantile Exchange after going as high as $601.90. Silver rose 34.2 cents, or 2.9 percent, to $12.15 an ounce. On the Tokyo Commodity Exchange on Friday, gold finished 1 percent higher at ¥2,286 a gram, or $603.10 an ounce, after hitting Y2,294, the highest level since October 1987. Silver finished at $12.15 an ounce.

Gold, which a year ago was trading at $436.50, was last above $600 in 1981. Silver, at $7.41 a year ago, was last above $12 in 1983.

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Damnit. I mean really.

From the "It not funny goddamnit" Files:

2006-04-06T20:35:00.000-04:00

You have to watch it until the end. The guy loses his shit:

I think they're talking about how that chick in the wheelchair is sick and medicine or something.

UPDATE: Seems it's not working. Oh well. Go to You Tube and look for "laughter". Work is blocking access to the site at the moment!

From the "You knew it was coming, but you probably don't want to know about it" section

2006-04-06T19:36:00.000-04:00

Came across something called Simpsons Trailer on You Tube. That got deleted because of copyright issues (ithuess.) So a quick poke around the Goog and lo-and-behold (that is how you write that and I didn't even have to look it up) there is a Simpsons Trailer. And it's available at Apple. Go take a look and see that which is going to be all sorts of not funny.

The Simpsons Teaser Trailer

Peac

Bizarre Behavior Linked To Ambien

2006-03-15T08:13:00.000-05:00

From MSNBC:

CHICAGO - Strange behavior by insomniacs taking prescription drugs, ranging from binge eating to having sex while asleep, have raised safety questions about anti-insomnia medications like Sanofi-Aventis’ Ambien.
Researchers in Minnesota are studying cases where insomniacs taking Ambien got up in the middle of the night, binged uncontrollably, then remembered nothing of their actions. The researchers expect to publish data shortly.

I knew it! I should add that I have personally experienced periods of extreme paranoia after taking Ambien. That shit is no good. I would rather stay up all night and maybe get an hours sleep than take Ambien.

Sonata does nothing so there is no help there

Ready or Not Bitches, Bird Flu Is Coming to America

2006-03-14T10:08:00.000-05:00

From ABC News:

In a remarkable speech over the weekend, Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael Leavitt recommended that Americans start storing canned tuna and powdered milk under their beds as the prospect of a deadly bird flu outbreak approaches the United States.
Ready or not, here it comes.
It is being spread much faster than first predicted from one wild flock of birds to another, an airborne delivery system that no government can stop.
"There's no way you can protect the United States by building a big cage around it and preventing wild birds from flying in and out," U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Michael Johanns said.
U.S. spy satellites are tracking the infected flocks, which started in Asia and are now heading north to Siberia and Alaska, where they will soon mingle with flocks from the North American flyways.
"What we're watching in real time is evolution," said Laurie Garrett, a senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations. "And it's a biological process, and it is, by definition, unpredictable."

Industry Precautions
America's poultry farms could become ground zero as infected flocks fly over. The industry says it is prepared for quick action.
"All the birds involved in it would be destroyed, and the area would be isolated and quarantined," said Richard Lobb of the National Chicken Council. "It would very much [look] like a sort of military operation if it came to that."
Extraordinary precautions are already being taken at the huge chicken farms in Lancaster County, Pa., the site of the last great outbreak of a similar bird flu 20 years ago.
Other than the farmers, everyone there has to dress as if it were a visit to a hospital operating room.
"Back in 1983-1984, we had to kill 17 million birds at a cost of $60 million," said Dr. Sherrill Davison, a veterinary medicine expert at the University of Pennsylvania.

Can It Be Stopped?
Even on a model farm, ABC News saw a pond just outside the protected barns attracting wild geese.
It is the droppings of infected waterfowl that carry the virus.
The bird flu virus, to date, is still not easily transmitted to humans. There have been lots of dead birds on three continents, but so far fewer than 100 reported human deaths.
But should that change, the spread could be rapid.
ABC News has obtained a mathematical projection prepared by federal scientists based on an initial outbreak on an East Coast chicken farm in which humans are infected. Within three months, with no vaccine, almost half of the country would have the flu.
That, of course, is a worst-case scenario -- one that Lobb says the poultry industry is determined to prevent with an aggressive strategy to contain and destroy infected flocks and deny the virus the opportunity to mutate to a more dangerous form but one that experts say cannot be completely discounted.
The current bird flu strain has been around for at least 10 years and has taken surprising twists and turns -- not the least of which is that it's now showing up in cats in Europe, where officials are advising owners to bring their cats inside. It's advice that might soon have to be considered here.

If you haven't read Stephen King's The Stand now may be to the time to do it. It speaks in great length about how a "Super Flu" spreads throughout the U.S. and it is not a pretty picture. It's pretty fucking bleak actually.

What scares me the most is how this is going to affect our food sources. I mean it seems to transmit more easily to non-human sources e.g. cats (in Europe), other foul. How long before it jumps to livestock. We've already seen how easily Mad Cow is transmitted once induced into the population. Will we be as easily accessible to the AvFluVirus? Me thinks so.

We are so fucked

Quote of the day

2006-03-13T15:54:00.000-05:00

"We mustn't confuse dissent with disloyalty"
- Edward R. Morrow

Woman Gets Beer From Her Kitchen Faucet

2006-03-13T15:43:00.000-05:00

via Newsvine:

OSLO, NORWAY — It almost seemed like a miracle to Haldis Gundersen when she turned on her kitchen faucet this weekend and found the water had turned into beer.
Two flights down, employees and customers at the Big Tower Bar were horrified when water poured out of the beer taps.
By an improbable feat of clumsy plumbing, someone at the bar in Kristiandsund, western Norway, had accidentally hooked the beer hoses to the water pipes for Gundersen's apartment.
"We had settled down for a cozy Saturday evening, had a nice dinner, and I was just going to clean up a little," Gundersen, 50, told The Associated Press by telephone Monday. "I turned on the kitchen faucet and beer came out."
However, Gundersen said the beer was flat and not tempting, even in a country where a half-liter (pint) can cost about 25 kroner ($3.75) in grocery stores.
Per Egil Myrvang, of the local beer distributor, said he helped bartenders reconnect the pipes by telephone.
"The water and beer pipes do touch each other, but you have to be really creative to connect them together," he told local newspapers.
Gundersen joked about having the pub send up free beer for her next party.
"But maybe it would be easier if they just invited me down for a beer," she said.

Now why can't that happen tome!

What the hell is going on around here!?!?!

2006-03-13T10:38:00.000-05:00

From the Washington Post:

Reporters who write about government surveillance could be prosecuted under proposed legislation that would solidify the administration's eavesdropping authority, according to some legal analysts who are concerned about dramatic changes in U.S. law.

You know, on Sept. 10th, 2001 people would have been up in f*cking arms about this. Now, we just take it as just another day. And the neoRepubs screaming that if you talk against this you are a terrorist.

Let's see, government breaks the law and then government makes laws that will punish you if you say anything about government breaking laws. Shit has been getting scary around here for some time. I think they just turned it up a notch. *bam*

Just a juggling fool

2006-03-12T11:19:00.000-05:00

Check this dude out! He like the Forrest Gump of juggling. "That boy is a juggling fool!" This goes to page full of video clips with such names as Crotch Madness, 5 Ball Pirouettes, Bouncing Backcrosses, 5 Club 2 Stage, 7 Ball Pirouette. Crotch madness?!?!? He's doing all of this in a place with bare walls and showing insulation, so this must be a house that is getting built. I wonder if that is his job or his house.

Link via neatorama

Beautiful Agony - OMG!

2006-03-11T18:13:00.000-05:00

From Beautiful Agony

Beautiful Agony is dedicated to the beauty of human orgasm. This may be the most erotic thing you have ever seen, yet the only nudity it contains is from the neck up. That's where people are truly naked.

The videos were made in private by the contributor (and sometimes their partner). We don't know what they're doing, or how they are doing it, we just know it's real and it's sexy as hell. Make your ears blush by putting on your headphones and turning the sound to eleven.

You really have to watch it. It is so hot! People send in videos of themselves at the moment of bliss when you have an orgasm. There is no porn here. You can't see any "insertion". The videos are shot from the chest up. Yup , you just watch their facial expressions. It is so much better than porn.

UPDATE:
Or you can watch it here! TA-DA! F'n sweet bitches

How to catch a mouse without a mousetrap...humanely

2006-03-01T07:29:00.000-05:00

I had a little friend visit my apartment the other week, and for a while there I was ready to make peace with him and co-exist. But after I cleaned up the place and ordered pizza one night, and it crawled up the side of my chair onto the sleeve of my shirt, I knew it was time to bid farewell.
Here's how I caught the critter:
Get a toilet paper tube and crease two lines to form a flat sided tunnel.

Put a treat on one end of the tube: A cracker and dab of peanut butter works great.

Get a tall (at least 20 inches) bucket. A trash can works well.

Balance the tube precariously on the edge of a table or counter with the treat hanging directly over the tall sided receptacle.

The mouse will scurry to the treat (they like tunnels) and fall into the trap.
Set the fella loose at least a mile away from your abode.
Postnote: It worked within the hour.
From Chris Glass

How fucking cool is that!?!?

Crap from Hollywood expected to last at least two years

2006-02-28T11:52:00.000-05:00

Holy shit I can't believe that I forgot about all this. Below is a list of "Major" movies for the next two years. It was compiled from IMDB believe. Can you believe a fucking Rambo 4!!!! Who the hell is going to see that shit?!?! I guess the same people who saw the last two. The first one doesn't count cause the first one was banging sweet. Can you guess who Mr. John Rambo is going to go after in this one? Hmmm.... let me guess...

Maybe he'll suprise us all and go after the current administration

Die Hard 4.0 (2006)
Rambo 4 (2006)
Rocky Balboa (2007)
Jurassic Park IV (2008)
Indiana Jones 4 (2007)
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006)
Pirates of the Caribbean 3 (2007)
Mission: Impossible III (2006)
Sin City 2 (2006)
Sin City 3 (2008)

I had to go so something so I stopped linking these up. But you can get more of the iggies over at IMDB

Scary Movie 4 (2006)
The DaVinci Code (2006)
James Bond - Casino Royale (2006)
World Trade Center (2006)
Ice Age 2 (2006)
Ocean’s Thirteen (2007)
The Pacific War (2006).
Halo (2007)
Superman Returns (2006)
Spider-Man 3 (2007)
Saw III (2006)
National Treasure 2 (2007)
The Grudge 2 (2006)
Big Momma’s House 2 (2006)
Cockblockers (2006)
Field Trip (2006))

US to use MOAB, "Massive Ordnance Air Blast" on Hurricanes

2006-02-28T10:55:00.000-05:00

What could go wrong?:
US to use MOAB, "Massive Ordnance Air Blast" on Hurricanes

-In an effort to combat the devastating effects of category 5 hurricanes, New Tech Spy has learned from well connected DoD sources, that the US Department of Homeland Security has teamed with the US Air Force, in a secret mission called “Operation Dark Sky”. Dark Sky’s purpose is to test the effectiveness of the newly developed MOAB fuel air explosive on the destructive eye wall of selected hurricanes, in an effort to disrupt the central core’s development and diminish its intensity. The program will begin this summer, primarily in the Gulf of Mexico, and extend through the 2006 hurricane season.
---The GBU-43/B (MOAB), “Mother of all bombs” was developed in the run-up to the Iraq war, but was never used in battle. The 21,000 pound fuel air bomb works by first dispersing an aerosol cloud of tritonal, which is then set off by a secondary explosion. The force of the explosion creates a massive pressure wave unlike that of any other conventional bomb, and makes it an ideal platform for US scientists to test on the different types of atmospheric conditions created in a hurricane.
---The initial program calls for five GBU-43’s to be dropped in 30 minute intervals on the leading eye wall of the hurricane. Specially modified C-130 aircraft will deliver the satellite-guided bombs in altitudes ranging from 8,000 to 30,000 feet, the effect will be measured by hurricane hunter planes and weather satellites. The secret operation will not be disclosed to the American people unless it is a complete success, but that might not be known for months or perhaps even years of study, which will certainly add to the intrigue and speculation surrounding “Dark Sky”, America’s big little secret.

FAKE MODEL PHOTOGRAPHY

2006-02-27T23:21:00.000-05:00

Via the boing and the boing :

With a very little effort, you can take existing photographs of everyday scenes and make it look like they're actually of miniature models.
It doesn't take much to fool the mind of the viewer, but there are a few basic rules you can follow to help convince your audience that they're looking
Read more...

Very cool effect, but you really need to grab the right photo. Photos that are shot from above, like from the top of a building, tend to work the best.

And now for spooky f'ing picture of the day

2006-02-27T08:04:00.000-05:00

Police Station Intimidation

2006-02-26T12:34:00.000-05:00

Undercover Video You'll Find hard To Believe
I-Team Uncovers Imtimidation In Complaint Process
See The Reaction From Police Officials

::rubs hands together::
Oooh, this is going to be good!!!

Elbow

2006-02-24T22:22:00.000-05:00

You know what it is about this band... I can enjoy them in unendinggracelessness. They are neo-poppy-whatevers and do it well. Like listening to great bands of the past(90s*) doing their thing. It's almost too easy on the ears. I could listen to them for ever. And I have nothing other more to say other than that, that, that..

Listening to them is like listening to Gabriel singing in Genesis. It is amazing at how well they bring barbershop-quartet-type choruses together with such a fucking poppy sound.

No one here in the US is going to get/hear them for about 6 months from now. I can live in that.

What I can't live with is that the fact that I can enjoy myself without the feeling that I should not like them for being "poppy." God-damn they are really the best fucking band out there

Mexican Standoff is one of the many that stand out on this album. I know that they have two others under their belt, but this is my first for this band.

I will say that they have revived my spirit for music, ... in an of itself

Just don't let it go to your fucking head.

*Not that there were many bands that were good. Just that the bands that were good, were really really good. (See Pearl Jam(Cause they were really good))

Women feeding cat... Cat feeding women... Cats that are fed from... fuck it

2006-02-24T20:31:00.002-05:00

Strange... very strange:

http://www.videobomb.com/posts/show/654

Very very strange.

But suprisingly not what... meh, it is

Student protests police using flashers to run red light

2006-02-24T13:02:00.000-05:00

CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee (AP) -- A Tennessee judge gave a college student a driving lesson in court this week: don't correct the police.
Clay Palmer, a student at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, honked his car horn when he saw a policeman turn on blue flashers to pass through a red traffic light. The officer then turned the flashers off after moving through the intersection.
Palmer said officer Matthew Puglise then stopped his patrol car and issued him a ticket for honking his horn for no reason -- a violation of the city noise ordinance.
The charge was reduced to a warning Wednesday when he went before a judge who told him he acted wrongly.
"The horn blowing is not the real problem here, it's that you were trying to correct the police and they didn't need correcting," Judge Russell Bean said.
Palmer left traffic court saying he still believed officers were abusing their authority.
"I see this cop with his blue lights come screeching up beside me and I didn't know what was going on," Palmer said. "Before they got to the next light, I could see they turned their blue lights off."
Officer Puglise said he was helping fellow police track down a speeder when Palmer saw him pass through the red light.
Judge Bean said Puglise was right and Palmer was wrong.
"I expect officers to follow the rules like everyone else," Bean said.

This is bullshit! That kid is right, cops should follow the same rules as everyone else. You know how many cops I see pull that shit all the time.

"The horn blowing is not the real problem here, it's that you were trying to correct the police and they didn't need correcting," Judge Russell Bean said."
That is bullshit too! So what, we're supposed to let cops do whatever the fuck they want!?!? Hello?!?! Rodney King people!!! Open for abuse!!!

whatever

KFC Unveils "Tivo-Proof" Ad

2006-02-24T08:04:00.000-05:00

From First Coast News:

JACKSONVILLE, FL -- Advertisers are running into a jam. With more and more people using digital video recorders, people are just zipping through the ads.

One company says you won't want to do that with their latest commercial.

KFC says its latest ad has a hidden message. Apparantly, if you watch the ad in slow motion, you can decode the message, and get a coupon for a free sandwich.

The ad premiers at eight a.m. Tuesday.

So, this could be really cool. As Engadget has pointed out, it could get to the point that companies give free schwag if you repeat whatever phrase that comes out. I can imagine this scenario:

A contest where certain channels would have commercials that if strung together would have a "Grand prize" of sorts. I dunno. It's early, what the hell do you want!

U.S. Grants Patent For AJAX

2006-02-23T07:39:00.000-05:00

From the "They-Still-Don't-Get-It" dept:
Via aviransplace.com

The patent–issued on Valentine’s Day–covers all rich-media technology implementations, including Flash, Flex, Java, Ajax, and XAML, when the rich-media application is accessed on any device over the Internet, according to the patent holders.
A patent has been granted to a relatively unknown California Web-design firm for an invention its creator says covers the design and creation of most rich-media applications used over the Internet. The patent holder, Balthaser Online Inc., says it ...

Are you fucking kidding me!?!? I wonder how long this will last. For some reason me thinks it will probably go the way of the ComperServe GIF debacle. They'll try to enforce, the net-munity (is that gay or is it me) will tell Balthaser Online Inc., to fuck off... Just another day...

Global Warming: Passing the 'Tipping Point'

2006-02-14T10:37:00.000-05:00

Just a little cheer for you on Valentine's Day from Truthout:

Research commissioned by The Independent reveals that the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere has now crossed a threshold, set down by scientists from around the world at a conference in Britain last year, beyond which really dangerous climate change is likely to be unstoppable.

Is there really anyplace one could go to get away from this? You think maybe one could move to an island up north and be ok?

We are so screwed

Gay old time at the Olympics

2006-02-14T10:11:00.000-05:00

From Gawker

Times slide show, right now:

Flaming rollerbladers? A burning cock? These next 16 days are going to be fabulous.

WTF!?!? Is going on over there!?!

I just had some wicked deja-vue

1-800-flowers.com can kiss my ass

2006-02-08T10:13:00.000-05:00

I do have to say that 1-800-flowers.com did try and make it up to me for delivering 11 roses by refunding me my purchase. But can you ever really make up for getting only 11 roses?

And they were supposed to send the other rose that they forgot...

they never did.

And they only gave me half my purchase back...

... fuckers

go go proflowers.com!

Why I love Everyday Italian AKA Food Porn

2005-11-19T12:35:00.000-05:00

So, the GF like to watch those damn fixit shows. Me personally, I can't fucking stand the damn things. It's like watching them steals your soul and kills the will to actually do anything. I hate them! I hate them all! All except for "Everyday Italian." After watching that show for about two minutes you begin to realize that the producer/director/camaeraman/editor must have been into soft core porn. I mean every shot has a close-up and a soft filter or someshit.

Watch as Giada De Laurentiis begins to pull together a simple vinegrette, 'close-up of her grabbing a lemon and then grating the zest'. You can't tell me that she doesn't play in to that camera like she knows all the guys are watching her lick that honey off of her finger. I guess it doesn't hurt that she is smokin hot

Watch it some time. Then go and rub on out

Boy George Arrested, What else is new shrugs

2005-10-08T03:42:00.000-04:00

Boy George Busted for Blow

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Singer Boy George was arrested in New York on Friday for suspicion of possessing cocaine after he called police to report a burglary at his apartment in Little Italy, police said.

The singer, whose real name is George O'Dowd and who made his name with the 1980s pop band Culture Club, called police early Friday morning to report a burglary.

But when police arrived a little after 3 a.m. the officers found the door open and were greeted by the singer who asked them, "What's up?"

Police spokesman Det. Eric Crisafi said the singer then staggered about his apartment apparently in "a drugged stupor" and police found a small amount of cocaine next to his computer.

The singer was held at a New York police station before being transferred on Friday to Manhattan Criminal Court for arraignment on drug possession charges as well as for falsely reporting a burglary.

It was unclear what prison term, if any, he faces since police said they have yet to determine with precision what quantity of drugs may have been in his apartment.

George's musical "Taboo" closed in New York last year after losing money. The musical was an autobiographical look at a time when flamboyant cross-dressers reigned in London clubs and Culture Club topped pop charts around the world.

The son of an Irish builder, George rose from supermarket shelf-stocker to glitzy pop millionaire.

He became an international star in 1982 with "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?" The song topped hit parades in 18 countries and Culture Club went on to sell almost 20 million albums.

Known for his flowing locks and the lash of his sharp tongue, the boy doll with the asexual image was devoured by British tabloid newspaper who wrote often about his heroin-induced excesses to his pitiful withdrawal.

In 1995, Boy George recounted his drug-induced fall from grace in his autobiography "Take It Like A Man," writing about his convictions and relapses and about how he had finally kicked his habit.

In recent years, George made a new career as a disc jockey and record producer.

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Test

2005-10-07T11:50:00.000-04:00

This is a test of the suburban outcast system. This is only a test.

Test test test

Suburban Outcast

I've added you as a friend on StumbleUpon

From the Just dang Cool Dept. : Suspicious Looking Device

Whats Wrong With This Country

People That Drive Me Nuts

FedEx Thunderstorm deviations

Cyclopian Child Born in Chennai

Local Blogger Josh Wolf Jailed for Mission Protest Video

The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream

The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream

Flinstones Smoking

Ben Afflect to play Kirk?!?!?

Military Resposible for Homosexuals

Tear Down the Wall!!!

For Idiots Like Me That Think They've Ruined Their iPod Nano Trying To Install iPodLinux Onto It!

Man using Web to barter paper clip for house

The "Key West Uniform": President Truman's Tropical Sport Shirts

Babies First Prank Call

Recipe for making butter

Kentucky Derby to offer race-goers $1,000 mint julep

Cool Artsy Thing of The Day (CATOTD)

Greenpeace: McDonald's Harming the Amazon

Shouldv'e bought last year...

From the "It not funny goddamnit" Files:

From the "You knew it was coming, but you probably don't want to know about it" section

Bizarre Behavior Linked To Ambien

Ready or Not Bitches, Bird Flu Is Coming to America

Industry Precautions

Can It Be Stopped?

Quote of the day

Woman Gets Beer From Her Kitchen Faucet

What the hell is going on around here!?!?!

Just a juggling fool

Beautiful Agony - OMG!

How to catch a mouse without a mousetrap...humanely

Crap from Hollywood expected to last at least two years

US to use MOAB, "Massive Ordnance Air Blast" on Hurricanes

FAKE MODEL PHOTOGRAPHY

And now for spooky f'ing picture of the day

Police Station Intimidation

Elbow

Women feeding cat... Cat feeding women... Cats that are fed from... fuck it

Student protests police using flashers to run red light

KFC Unveils "Tivo-Proof" Ad

U.S. Grants Patent For AJAX

Global Warming: Passing the 'Tipping Point'

Gay old time at the Olympics

1-800-flowers.com can kiss my ass

Why I love Everyday Italian AKA Food Porn

Boy George Arrested, What else is new *shrugs*

Test

Boy George Arrested, What else is new shrugs