Southpinellas: You'd better take an extra check next time you go on the loo. Shannon Scavotto found a rock python about six feet long in his toilet-bowl. And catched it himself since noone else seem to bother. "He called the maintenance department for his building on 4th Avenue S, and they said someone would be right over. He called animal control, but its snake expert was on vacation. He called a snake rescue, but they wanted $150.".
20050228
Women tore the testicle when refused to get banged
Reuters.com: "She grabbed him by the genitals, tearing off his left testicle, then hid it in her mouth before a friend of Jones handed it back to him saying 'that's yours.'"
Art Night to Kill Dumb Sex Law
Reuters.com: To get around the sexlaws of Idaho the strip-club Erotic City in Boise have come up with a creative idea. For fifteen greens the public get a sketchpaper, a pen and then they are invited to paint the nude dancers.
"We have a lot of people drawing some very good pictures," said Erotic City owner Chris Teague, who has posted many of the drawings around the club..
Chris Teague's stunt is totally demolish the law since the art nights is worse on nudity than before: the girls is without their g-strings.
Beaverish...
Nudity in Bangkok... what's new with that?
Reuters.com: "Executives of St Herb Co., which makes the 'breast beautifying' cream, said they laid on the stunt merely to counter suggestions their advertising claims were exaggerated." The Nation said Ying, one of the models, was embarrassed at having to bare herself in front of the cameras, but did believe her breasts had become firmer and the gap between them smaller as a result of the treatment.
Everything for the dough. Ying got her yang in Mr Greenbuck.
And it goes on: the company will massage 60 year old chics in public to: Senior Journal. But the Thai authorities is making statement - MCOT:TNA English News: the ministry would campaign for women to engage in exercise aimed at enhancing their breasts in order to counter the popularity of breast enhancement cream.
Halle Barry is cool
Boing Boing: "Berry was named worst actress of 2004 by the Golden Raspberry Award Foundation for her performance in "Catwoman" and she showed up to accept her "Razzie" carrying the Oscar she won in 2002 for "Monster's Ball."
"They can't take this away from me, it's got my name on it!" she quipped. A raucous crowd cheered her on as she gave a stirring recreation of her Academy Award acceptance speech, including tears.
She thanked everyone involved in "Catwoman," a film she said took her from the top of her profession to the bottom.
"I want to thank Warner Brothers for casting me in this piece of shit," she said as she dragged her agent on stage and warned him "next time read the script first."
Macintosh Creator Raskin Dies at 61
Macintosh Creator Raskin Dies at 61: "Jef Raskin, a computer interface expert who conceived Apple Computer Inc.'s groundbreaking Macintosh computer but left the company before it came to market, has died. He was 61.
In 1979, Raskin had a different idea: A computer that's priced affordably, targeted at consumers and extremely easy to use. A small team, under his command, was put together at Apple to pursue his concept that would eventually become the Macintosh.
"His role on the Macintosh was the initiator of the project, so it wouldn't be here if it weren't for him," said Andy Hertzfeld, an early Mac team member.
Raskin, who worked as a computer science professor before joining Apple, was well aware of the research being done in computer interfaces at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center. He worked to bring it to the attention of Apple executives.
Raskin also named the Macintosh after his favorite apple, though the name was slightly changed because of a trademark issue with another company.
Raskin led the project until the summer of 1981, when he had a falling out with Steve Jobs, Apple's co-founder. He left the company entirely the following year.
After leaving Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple, Raskin founded another computer company, Information Appliance, and designed another computer that incorporated his ideas. He also wrote a book, "The Humane Interface," which was published in 2000.
He was an accomplished archer, target shooter and occasional race car driver, friends said."
20050227
Email spoofing
Exploding Cigar: The fictive William Wyndell a k a David Earthman have used e-mail to spoof people and then collected the emails in a book. (E-mails from Hell). "Not professional enough? What are you talking about? You haven’t even seen me put my sales skills to use. You could ask my old boss. The only reason I am not there now is because he and I didn’t see eye-to-eye on certain issues and we got into a fistfight. Then he was saying something like “you are the best salesman I have ever had, but you are a jerk”, or something like that…I don’t know. I wasn’t really paying attention. I was busy kicking his ass. Point is, I’ll sell loads of those stupid vitamins. What do you say, boss?"
20050219
First image on the Web?
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Back in 1992, after their show at the CERN Hadronic Festival, my colleague Tim Berners-Lee asked me for a few scanned photos of "the CERN girls" to publish them on some sort of information system he had just invented, called the "World Wide Web". I had only a vague idea of what that was, but I scanned some photos on my Mac and FTPed them to Tim's now famous "info.cern.ch". How was I to know that I was passing an historical milestone, as the one above was the first picture ever to be clicked on in a web browser!"
Victims of Google
The Guardian: "'The support to the academic and student communities from the qualified subject librarians, whatever its contribution to the teaching and research roles of the institution, is hard to justify in value-for-money terms at a time when the process of literature searches is substantially deskilled by online bibliographical resources.'"
The librarians at Bangor, the University of Wales are getting sacked since the students aren't in need of them. Says the leaders of Bangor. The librarians thinks otherwise... Rationalization the Googleway? (via mymarkup)
20050218
Hitchhikers guide
This is The Movie: the trailer of Hitchhikers guide to the Universe. (trailer). Hey, what's Lord of the Rings compared to this?
Update: Although the trailer leaves alot more to wish for the movie seem to be very... fun... But I am worried: I have read the novel seven times (yes, all five parts) and what if they have fucked around too much with it?
20050215
20050213
An eX in the box
"What is Xbox?"
"A box where you put your former wife."
Henrik Schyffert in the Swedish TV-programme "Parlamentet"
Ouch
The photographers should wear a helmet... or full-body armor. The Daytona was almost starting to be something like a crash-course...
20050212
Collctors items
Mainichi: "The 56-year-old man had been living in the second floor apartment since 1981, and had apparently been keeping newspapers and magazines there since he moved in. Officers cleared the magazines into 50-centimeter high piles that stretched some 30-meters wide."
Heliflip and grind
Danny Way: Totally insane clip where Danny Way takes skating another step to the extreme...
20050209
Low-riders gets billed in Virginia
CNN.com: "Virginians who wear their pants so low their underwear shows may want to think about investing in a stronger belt. The state's House of Delegates passed a bill Tuesday authorizing a $50 fine for anyone who displays his or her underpants in a "lewd or indecent manner."
20050207
DVD menus are the work of the devil
The Shape of Days: DVDs are like bad waiters. Disc goes in: "Soup or salad?" "Salad." "Ranch or vinegrette?" "Vinegrette." "Raspberry or balsalmic?" Put some green stuff in a bowl, drizzle on some tangy stuff, and bring me the results!
Bosses Too Stupid to Live
The Dali Grind: This guy probably suffers from a rare psychological disturbance called "womanphobia". And gets really discriminated because of this by the woman on the labor-agency.
This phobia is rare but very often watched in the priesthood...
Guitarbabe
23 seconds: The link in this post is incredible cool. So bloody good guitargrinding babe. And a great video too. Go and have a look! (The blog's in Swedish but you don't need to read the stuff.).
20050206
The bigger the better?
Ananova: Sabrina Sabrok is looking for the title "Biggest Boobs in the World" but doctors are worried about her health if she have her pair of titties enlarged to 42XXX.
Forbidden: pix of Tour de Eiffel at nighttime
Fast Company Now: "no longer legal to publish current photographs of the Eiffel Tower at night without permission. Technically, this applies even to amateurs. When I spoke to the Director of Documentation for SNTE, Stéphane Dieu, via phone last week, he assured me that SNTE wasn't interested in prohibiting the publication of amateur photography on personal Web sites. 'It is really just a way to manage commercial use of the image, so that it isn't used in ways we don't approve,' said Mr. Dieu." (via verybigblog)
Qoack Qoack!
A forbidden image. Architechural porn.
Tax humour
Excite News: The forms - with such lines as, 'If we can tax it, we will,' - were sent last week to all Middletown businesses and residents who pay city income tax.
That woman should live in Sweden - there this isn't funny, it's the reality. (via verybigblog)
Class in social science
Anne Galloway uses the blog to teach a class of social science. That's pretty inventional. And via the RSS-feed it's easy for the students to follow.
(Sociology of Science & Technology)
The comeback
20050205
Teens fined for handing out cookies
Exploding Cigar: "Two teen girls in Colorado been fined almost $900 for baking and delivering cookies to their neighbors last summer. One woman they took cookies to was so terrified by the knocks on her door around 10:30 pm that she went to the hospital after suffering an anxiety attack. The families of the girls offered to pay the woman's medical bills but she sued instead. Court records contained a half-dozen letters from neighbors who said they enjoyed the unexpected treats." Read more on nbc4i.com
Cheesus...
20050204
USB café pad
You know the miserable thing when the coffee become cold when surfing some interesting sites. Here's the solution: a warmer which you can put into the USB-port and always get warm coffee... (USB Cafe pad)
20050202
Auction a tattoo - already on place
Reuters.com: "The British founder of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), the world's biggest animal rights group, is auctioning off a lizard tattoo on her right arm -- with proceeds going to the charity."
Yowsa! And on american telly they are cutting up dead people as entertainment...
No more stolen computer
phildowd.com:
Yay... Here's what you need:
- Large Container
- Shovel
- Large Screw Driver
- Water Supply
- Concrete Mix
- Minimal Amount of Wood
MSN Search launches with cruel joke about Boing Boing
Boing Boing: At the top of the results stack, MSN Search asked me -- "Were you looking for Bling Bling?" Why yes, as a matter of fact I am, and if you knew how small our checks were......Matthew Cox adds, "I thought I'd give the new MSN search a try and wanted to see what it would give me if I searched for the 'best web browser.' Discounting the sponsored sites, the first two returned links were to Mozilla/Firefox. IE didn't appear until #8."
And BB reader Jeff says,
I wanted to inform you that when you search for "worst browser" [with MSN Search], the first result is Internet Explorer.
20050201
Naked Lara Flynn Boyle Terrorizes (?) Airline Passengers
Defamer: "The always-reliable British tabloids are reporting that a nude, pill-popping Lara Flynn Boyle recently terrorized fellow passengers on a flight from L.A. to London, roaming the first-class cabin halfway through the trip, waking a man, and trying to get into bed with him as she told him to prepare for landing."
This things never happens to me when commuting on the bus everyday ;)
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