Ellsworth AFB foam test

4/12/2006: Ellsworth AFB foam test: "

That's what happens when you put too much soap in the washing machine.

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Soilmover

Ouch. This reminds me of the crash of the Swedish airfighter JAS a couple of years ago - very expensive soilmover...

I shot the coreographer

Finnish rock'n'roll. And truly - that coreographer should be shot! A must see (via crrly)

Shaved beaver?

This was not to un-obvious...

Tailor-made condoms

Ananova: "Businessman Oliver Gothe, 36, is behind the Cologne-based company Lebenslust (Lust for Life), which has invented a system to make personalised prophylactics."

And for £600 you can have the name engraved. Good for the woman with bad name-memory...

Bouncy

Bouncy Video - yowsa...

Pinata Accidents

Pinata Accidents - looking at this one wonder why such a tradition is still alive and ... banging.

Bad shit. And a suit filed.

Ananova: "Hans-Juergen Bendt, 52, from Darmstadt, lodged a complaint about his dealer with police after he sold him seven ounces of 'completely un-enjoyable' hash."

Darwin-award.

Wrecked

FAZED:

Ouch.
And the fun thing is that the woman who ride the bike have discussed it on SoCalSportbikes. (via Fazed)

Remember to tie your shoelaces

Chicago Sun Times: "''I snagged my shoelace, missed the step and crash, bang, wallop. There were a million pieces of high quality Qing ceramics lying around underneath me,'' said Nick Flynn, 42, of Fowlmere, a village near Cambridge."

The story continues with the Chinese who thinks Flynns wallop was an attack on their culture and history:
IOL: Nick Flynn, 42, said he hadn't meant to cause offence to people in Hong Kong or China when he destroyed the Qing Dynasty treasures after tripping over his shoelaces at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, eastern England.

Too much money to tax

NEWS.com.au: "MICROSOFT founder Bill Gates, the world's richest man, said today the tax office in the US has to store his financial data on a special computer because his fortune is so vast.
'My tax return in the United States has to be kept on a special computer because their normal computers can't deal with the numbers,"

RIAA sues computerless woman

The Inquirer: "Marie Lindor, a home health aide who has never bought, used, or even turned on a computer in her life, was a little surprised when she got a writ for thousands of dollars saying that she was a using an online distribution system to nick music."

She probably did whistle some song from the Top 40-list...

DJ:ing the reality

Cool state of the art animation. Should be called "God is a DJ"...

Dumbest dealer ever

CBS4 Boston: An accused drug dealer was arrested last night for trying to sell cocaine on the Internet. Tyrone Burgo, 20, of Brockton, posted an online advertisement for cocaine that included a phone number, according to Boston police. Police called the number 2:15 p.m. yesterday and arrangements were made to meet Burgo last night near City Hall. An undercover officer bought cocaine from Burgo and then arrested him.

Stupid...

Comp-virus turns twenty

BBC NEWS: "The virus was discovered in January 1986 but may have been written some time before that as it used a relatively slow method to travel.

Brain was known as a "boot-sector" virus because of the area on a floppy disk it hid on. By concealing itself in this region, the virus could ensure that it would be installed every time that floppy disk was used on another computer. The Brain virus is now extinct."


"The most significant change has been the evolution of virus writing hobbyists into criminally operated gangs bent on financial gain."
Mikko Hypponen, F-Secure

Nine years and a fingertip

MSNBC: A California court sentenced a couple to nine years in prison on Wednesday for planting a severed human finger in a bowl of chili to swindle a Wendy’s fast food restaurant.

Finally the story somehow ends. More on the stuff: FB&M - Wendy's working hard to find the owner of the finger
FB&M - Finger-in-chili accuser has litigious history
FB&M - More on the finger
FB&M - The mystery of the chili-fingertip.

Rich and married

MSNBC.com: A study by an Ohio State University researcher shows that a person who marries — and stays married — accumulates nearly twice as much personal wealth as a person who is single or divorced.

Yeah. Sure...

05 Vaporware

Wired: Time to suggest the 2005 Vaporware. "As in previous years, software that hasn't shipped is considered vaporware until it's shrink-wrapped. Any program that's in a never-ending, pre-release, beta-testing stage is considered vaporware, even if it's widely available.

Likewise hardware. Prototypes may exist in some lab, but it's vaporware until it hits store shelves.

And remember, if it shipped -- even if it stank -- it's not vaporware."

Worst dressed 2005

People.com: Calling her a victim of "Couture Chaos," fashion guru Mr. Blackwell on Tuesday named Britney Spears the worst dressed star of 2005.

"From the 'Princess of Pop' to the ultimate 'Fashion Flop,'" sneers Blackwell of Spears, claiming the new mom "looks like an over-the-hill Lolita."

More celebs get their share of Blackwell's poison:

Anna Nicole Smith: "Queen Kong."
Shakira: "Coiffure by Medusa ... clothes by the Marquis De Sade."
Renee Zellweger: "Runs the gamut from Kewpi Doll Dreck to Red Carpet Wreck … she looks like a painted pumpkin – on a pogo stick."

mp3 diminishes feelings from musical experience

MediaPost Publications: "'The pace of technological change has accelerated further over the last 20 years or so and these fundamental changes in the nature of musical experience and value have arguably become even more pronounced,' North told AFP. 'Because so much music of different styles and genres is now so widely available via portable MP3 players and the Internet, it is arguable that people now actively use music in everyday listening contexts to a much greater extent than ever before.'

North concluded: 'The degree of accessibility and choice has arguably led to a rather passive attitude towards music heard in everyday life.' "

And I conclude: Bullshit.