July 2007
Spies watch rise of virtual terrorists →
THE bomb hit the ABC’s headquarters, destroying everything except one digital transmission tower. The force of the blast left Aunty’s site a cratered mess. Just weeks before, a group of terrorists flew a helicopter into the Nissan building, creating an inferno that left two dead. Then a group of armed militants forced their way into an American Apparel clothing store and shot several...
The Aphex Face - Sound Spectrum →
First I needed to extract the track from the Windowlicker CD, which was easy with CDex. The extraction of the whole track was not really necessary because the “face” is situated at the very end of the track, starting from the 5:27 mark and lasting for about 10 seconds. There are other “audio images” on this particular track as well (and one at the end of the first track),...
Charles Manson: Scientologist
[H]ere’s the kicker: Manson took over 150 hours of Scientology courses, rejected it as too crazy, and then went on to murder a whole bunch of people. (via News dugg by marszau)
Gabriel Iglesias - President Bush →
Gabriel doesn’t have to make fun of the President. He does it by himself.
Four killed as Iraq celebrates Asia soccer cup win →
AT LEAST four people were killed by celebratory gunfire across Baghdad after Iraq clinched its first Asian Cup soccer championship. Mosques broadcast calls for the shooting to stop, while security forces enforced a vehicle ban in the capital in an effort to prevent a repeat of car bombings that killed dozens celebrating Iraq’s progress to the finals in Asia’s top soccer tournament....
Homeless set to miss out on vote →
UP TO 60,000 homeless people across Australia could be excluded from voting at this year’s federal election — a number larger than some electorates. A survey by Hanover Welfare Services of 208 homeless people in Melbourne found that 60 per cent of eligible people did not vote at last year’s state election, the vast majority because they were not enrolled. Extrapolated across the...
Farewell from the land of the 'fair go' →
MOHAMED HANEEF will be reunited with his family in India tonight after the Federal Government approved his request to leave Australia yesterday. Dr Haneef flew from Brisbane on a Thai Airways flight last night. A condition of his being allowed to leave the country was that he was not allowed to speak to the media, though it is believed he has spoken to a commercial TV station. His departure ended...
The dirtiest commercial of all time →
WatchAnimator vs. Animation by *alanbecker on deviantART
“I want to share something with you: The three little sentences that will get you...”
– Homer on Covering your ass
Television news helicopters collide while... →
Two news helicopters covering a police chase on live television collided and crashed to the ground today, killing all four people on board in a plunge that viewers saw as a jumble of spinning, broken images. Both helicopters went down in a park in central Phoenix and caught fire. No one on the ground was hurt. TV viewers did not actually witness the accident because cameras aboard both aircraft...
uTorrent Relaunched as Official BitTorrent Client
BitTorrent Inc launched their rebranded version of uTorrent as BitTorrent 6.0. The good news is that uTorrent and its community will not be replaced. Not now, and not in the future. (via News dugg by marszau)
21 Things I Learned From The Simpsons About Being...
Funny (and in many cases oddly true) observations about being a man, courtesy of that man’s man, the man about town, the man women want to be with, and the man men want to be: Homer Simpson. (via News dugg by marszau)
Convict history register goes online →
JOHN Howard and Kevin Rudd share something in common - both have a convict ancestry. As a federal election looms and the nation’s political leaders attempt to differentiate themselves, an ancestry website revealed that the Prime Minister and the Opposition Leader both have ancestors who arrived on Australia’s shores in chains. Mr Howard and Mr Rudd are part of an estimated 22 per cent...
Sex lubricant could stop HIV and herpes →
AN experimental sex lubricant designed by Australian researchers could help block both HIV and genital herpes, a study suggests. Tests on lab animals have shown that the microbicide gel, called Viva Gel, inactivates the HIV virus and another responsible for genital herpes. Lead researcher Dr Jeremy Paull from Melbourne-based pharmaceutical company Starpharma told the International AIDS Society...
Awesome paper airplane flash game →
Things I wish I’d know when I was younger
Most people learn over time, but often learning comes too late to be fully useful. There are certainly many things that I know now that would have been extremely useful to me earlier in my life; things that could have saved me from many of the mistakes and hurts I suffered over the years—and most of those that I inflicted on others too. (via News dugg by marszau)
Class War: MySpace vs. Facebook
A flurry of recent articles have observed that young people are leaving MySpace for Facebook in droves, setting off speculation that MySpace is becoming the latest victim of fickle teens following the hot new thing. (via News dugg by marszau)
The Origins of 18 Familiar Phrases
‘Put on your thinking cap’ or just ‘wing it’ while we try to ‘stump you’ on the origins of these popular phrases. If you ‘get off Scott free’ you’ll be ‘painting the town red’. (via News dugg by marszau)
Entourage S04E06 →
Billy makes amends with Eric over the online leak of Medellin; Lloyd takes a leave of absence from the Miller Gold Agency; Turtle makes an investment.
Smokers blame colds on bans →
SMOKERS are now blaming tobacco bans in pubs and clubs for their sniffles and sore throats, angering health workers who say they are “living in a dream world”.
AU Dollar's climb may cap rates →
THE Australian dollar could reach parity against the US dollar and is expected to strike US90 cents in the short term, which could stop the central bank from raising interest rates. Craig James, chief economist with CommSec, said today the dollar was expected to reach US90 cents in the near term. After that, the currency could hit $US1, giving Australians who are travelling abroad a big financial...
Grinspoon frontman tells of ice addiction |... →
GRINSPOON frontman Phil Jamieson has spoken of the depths of his ice addiction, including stealing money from his bandmates and the realisation he had become a junkie. Jamieson, lead singer of the Australian rock band named after illicit drug expert and Harvard Medical School professor Lester Grinspoon, says he began using crystal methamphetamine in 2004, recreationally at first. After two years...
South Park’s Warcraft Episode Up For Emmy
Dwarven champions and South Park fans are united in general glee this week after South Park’s ‘Make Love, Not Warcraft’ was nominated for an Emmy TV award. (via News dugg by marszau)
Seagull becomes crisp shoplifter →
A seagull has turned shoplifter by wandering into a shop and helping itself to crisps. The bird walks into the RS McColl newsagents in Aberdeen when the door is open and makes off with cheese Doritos. The seagull, nicknamed Sam, has now become so popular that locals have started paying for his crisps.
To (de)Hair is Human - Waxing to ourselves to...
After a 20-year-old Melbourne woman almost died as a result of a Brazilian waxing, Kent Valentine takes a good hard look at the hairy muff and wonders if a folicle-free body is worth dying for. If so much of our body is prone to growing hair, why are we so determined to pull it out? (via News dugg by marszau)
Hated Spammer Reveals Secrets in New Book, How he...
He sent spam to recovering gambling addicts enticing them to gambling Web sites. Targeted people on anti-depressants to send pharmaceutical spam. (via News dugg by marszau)
Wish for rain to wash away Homer →
Pagans have pledged to perform “rain magic” to wash away a cartoon character painted next to their famous fertility symbol - the Cerne Abbas giant. A doughnut-brandishing Homer Simpson was painted next to the giant on the hill above Cerne Abbas, Dorset, to promote the new Simpsons film. Many believe the ancient chalk outline of the naked, sexually aroused giant to be a symbol of...
Let's Get Ready Sydney →
This website provides information to help the community prepare for a possible emergency in the City of Sydney Local Government Area (The City).
Key to happy marriage: let wife rule roost →
Men might still dominate most workplaces, but a study has proven what many happy couples know — the wife runs the roost at home and the husband is happy to let her. A team of researchers from Iowa State University studied 72 couples and found that the wife’s view on how to solve problems within the marriage or the home took precedence over the husband’s opinion and he was happy...
