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Sacha Baron Cohen Arrested For Being Bruno
Last week he publicly paraded his codpiece in Italy, by causing trouble on the fashion runways of Milan.
It seems he leaped onto a catwalk during Milan’s Fashion week and started doing his thing, refusing to get off when security asked him to. Not surprisingly, he ended up being hauled off by the police however, the Italians seem to have a pretty good sense of humor about the whole thing and various reports confirm that never actually filed charges.
27.9.08
Naked Came the Stranger
The book Naked Came the Stranger was a literary hoax perpetrated by a number of prominent journalists in 1969. The project was conceived by Mike McGrady, a well-known Newsday columnist, who assembled twenty-four journalists to write a deliberately terrible book with a lot of sex, to illustrate the point that popular American literary culture had become mindlessly vulgar.
Mike McGrady was convinced that popular American literary culture had become so base that even a wretchedly written, literarily vacant work could succeed if enough sex was thrown in. In order to test his theory, McGrady recruited a team of Newsday journalists—5 women and 19 men—to collaborate on a sexually explicit novel with no literary or social value whatsoever. Writing under the pseudonym Penelope Ashe (portrayed by McGrady’s sister-in-law for photographs and meetings with publishers), the group wrote the book as a deliberately inconsistent and mediocre hodge-podge, with each chapter written by a different author. Some of the chapters had to be heavily edited, because they were originally too well written.
The book was wildly successful. As sales continued to increase, many of the co-authors felt guilty about the large amounts of money they were earning, and went public.
The book eventually spent one week on the New York Times Best Seller list, although by that time its authorship was common knowledge. It is unclear how much of the book’s success was due to its content and how much to publicity about its unusual origin.
McGrady and his collaborators were approached about writing a sequel; they refused. McGrady later co-wrote Linda Lovelace’s controversial autobiography Ordeal.
25.9.08
Obama on the debate delay
“This is exactly the time when the American people need to hear from the person who in approximately 40 days will be responsible for dealing with this mess,” Obama told reporters in Clearwater, Fla.
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“In my mind, it’s more important than ever that we present ourselves to the American people and describe where we want to take the country and where we want to take the economy,” he said.
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As for the debate, he said, “It’s going to be part of the president’s job to be able to deal with more than one thing at once.”
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Flex Drops the Truth about BET Interview
BET recently did an interview with child abuser R. Kelly and asked him if he liked teenage girls and this moron actually responded, “When you say teenage, how old are we talking?”
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Banksy pranks Paris Hilton
Hundreds of Paris Hilton albums have been tampered with in the latest stunt by "guerrilla artist" Banksy. Banksy has replaced Hilton's CD with his own remixes and given them titles such as Why am I Famous?, What Have I Done? and What Am I For? He has also changed pictures of her on the CD sleeve to show the US socialite topless and with a dog's head. A spokeswoman for Banksy said he had doctored 500 copies of her debut album Paris in 48 record shops across the UK. She told the BBC News website: "He switched the CDs in store, so he took the old ones out and put his version in."
Click on the link for the video
Got this in an email today
"I'm a little confused. Let me see if I have this
> straight.....
>
> * If you grow up in Hawaii , raised by your grandparents,
> you're "exotic, different."
> * Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, a quintessential
> American story.
>
> * If your name is Barack you're a radical, unpatriotic
> Muslim.
> * Name your kids Willow , Trig and Track, you're a
> maverick.
>
> *Graduate from Harvard law School and you are unstable.
> * Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating,
> you're well grounded.
>
>
> * If you spend 3 years as a brilliant community organizer,
> become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review,
> create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new
> voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor,
> spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district
> with over 750,000 people, become chairman of the state
> Senate's Health and Human Services committee, spend 4
> years in the United States Senate representing a state of
> 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on
> the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and
> Veteran's Affairs committees, you don't have any
> real leadership experience.
> * If your total resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on
> the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with
> less than 7,000 people, 20 months as the governor of a state
> with only 650,000 people, then you're qualified to
> become the country's second highest ranking executive and
> next in line behind a man in his eighth decade.
>
>
> * If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years
> while raising 2 beautiful daughters, all within Protestant
> churches, you're not a real Christian.
> * If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress,
> and then left your disfigured wife and married the heiress
> the next month, you're a true Christian.
>
>
> * If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education,
> including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding
> the fiber of society.
> * If, while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence
> only, with no other option in sex education in your
> state's school system while your unwed teen daughter
> ends up pregnant, you're very responsible.
>
>
> * If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a
> position in a prestigious law firm to work for the
> betterment of the inner city community, then gave that up to
> raise a family, your family's values don't represent
> America 's.
> * If you're husband is nicknamed "First
> Dude", with at least one DWI conviction and no
> college education, who didn't register to vote until age
> 25 and once was a member of a group that advocated the
> secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely
> admirable.
>
>
> OK, much clearer now."
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The humiliated catcher went on to get hit in the nuts with a baseball and have his pants pulled down to the sound of a slide whistle.
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Creeping Oobleck
A non-Newtonian fluid that changes from a liquid state to a solid state when stress is applied (ie shaking of the metal sheet with sound waves)
SONG: Slantize _ Club Sickness
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How to Chill a Hot Beer in 3 Minutes
Here is how he took beer from 80+ degrees to (seemingly) 40 degrees in about 3 minutes.
- He took 6 hot beers from my garage and he placed them into a steel pot from the kitchen
- He tossed in enough ice cubes to completely cover the beer
- He then filled the pot with water
- Next, and this is the trick, he tossed in (what must have been) 2 cups of table salt.
- He took a large wooden spoon and stirred this thing up to be sure the salt dissolved.
- He placed the concoction into the freezer and in 3 minutes we had ice cold beer.
Frankly, I wish I knew about this little trick years ago. Apparently this works for wine, soda, or anything. The addition of the salt does something that I am admittedly not qualified to explain.
11.6.08
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BMW GINA Light Visionary Model: Premiere
Awesome
Here's more images:
http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/1075-bmws-fascinating-gina-light-visionary-model-design-study
9.6.08
Kids Roll Parent's Volvo At 100kph Inside view of a kid cruising at 100kph when he loses control and flips his parent's Volvo.
Kids Roll Parents Volvo At 100kph - Watch more free videos
8.6.08
Nathan Myhrvold TED Talk
Nathan Myhrvold talks about a few of his latest fascinations -- animal photography, archeology, BBQ and generally being an eccentric genius multimillionaire.
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Performance Art Exhibition: Once You Go Barack . . .
Heres more images from the exhibition: http://www.theassassinationofbarackobama.com/
This office guy goes absolutely nuts
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here's a second angle...
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3.6.08
Vanuatu Land Divers - Naghol / N'Gol
It began on Pentecost Island in Vanuatu (New Hebrides) many centuries, perhaps millennia ago, when a beaten woman ran away from her husband, Tamale. He found her hiding in a tall tree and called to her that if she came down he might beat her - but only a little. However if he had to get her she would be sorry. She refused. He climbed the tree and as he made his final grab, she leaped. In anguish at her death (or anger that he had missed her) Tamale jumped after her, not realising his wife had tied liana vines around her ankles and survived the fall.
Tamale perished. The ritual evolved over the years, to stripping a tall tree of it's surrounding branches and building a tower of sticks to support the trunk. The platform is made of wood and covered with leaves purposely to protect the platform from the sun drying it out before the ceremony. The leaves are removed by the jumpers before the jump. The liana vines which are tied to the ankel and slightly elastic following the wet season, are shredded and the other end tied to the tower. Men and boys, some as young as seven years, climb the tower and leap from the platforms in a show of strength, and a statement to women that they can never be tricked again....
It is also a fertility rite. Every year in April, when the first yam crop is ready, the islanders on the south of the island start building a huge tower for the land diving. It will take about 5 weeks to build, all materials come from the forest: lianas, branches, trunks. Eventually a wooden tower between 30 to 40 meters high is erected. Each diver must select his own vine. Its size is of utmost importance and if it is only 10 cm too long, the diver will hit the ground and break his neck. As the vines stretch at the end of the dive, the land diver's heads curl under and their shoulders touch the earth, making it fertile for the following year's yam crop.
The ritual is followed with a celebration of Kava, Tuluk, and Laplap.
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Googley
Shortly after Microsoft announced its hostile bid for Yahoo, Google objected and raised the prospect that it would lobby government regulators to block any merger.
As it turned out, Google was very much the spoiler in the deal. But its most effective weapon was not threats or coercion, but its very effective, and unconventional, use of its own checkbook.
Google has agreed to sell some search advertising for Yahoo. And since Google earns far more on every search than its rivals do, this will mean an immediate increase in Yahoo’s profits.
Microsoft’s chief executive, Steven A. Ballmer, said the prospect of such a deal that could deprive Microsoft of being able to sell all Yahoo’s search ads made proceeding with a hostile takeover less attractive. And Yahoo hopes the promise of a big check each quarter from Google will placate enough shareholders to head off a revolt over its decision to turn down Microsoft’s offer of $33 a share...
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Politics
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/25/some-inhaled-some-didnt-one-ate-it-with-beans/
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The Big Shave - 1967
The Big Shave is a 1967 six-minute short film directed by Martin Scorsese. It is also known as Viet '67.
Peter Bernuth stars as the recipient of the title shave, repeatedly shaving away hair, then skin, in an increasingly bloody and graphic bathroom scene. Many film critics have interpreted the young man's process of self-mutilation as a metaphor for the self-destructive involvement of the United States in the Vietnam War, prompted by the film's alternative title.
Dancing to celebrate Jefferson's BDay
The second video, posted below, shows the dancers arguing with Park Police officers about why they’re being asked to leave. They say they were quietly dancing with headphones on to celebrate Jefferson’s birthday, and that they weren’t breaking any laws (which, as far as we can tell, they indeed were not). Toward the end of the video, you can see Oberwetter, 28, being handcuffed and taken into custody.
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Fan Death Claims Another Innocent Life
Perhaps the single most misguided pseudo-scientific belief held by the majority population of any otherwise reasonable nation, the myth of Fan Death suggests that, if you sleep in a room in which a standard electric fan is running and the doors and windows are closed, you will die. In Korea, this belief is not a fringe thing; mainstream Korean media outlets cite fan death as the primary cause of summertime deaths, and medical professionals have attempted to back up the urban legend with research. Even the government endorses the idea; in 2006, they issued a report claiming fan death was among the top five causes of death during the summer months. The explanations for death by fan range from semi-plausible theories regarding hyperthermia (aka overheating) to utterly bizarre explanations involving the shredding of oxygen molecules and the creation of air-sucking vortices that create vacuums and cause asphyxiation by siphoning air to nowhere. When an exasperated Australian friend of mine told a teacher at my hagwon that he’d slept with fans on for his entire life, she looked grave and told him, “You’re very lucky.” The whole thing is totally implausible, unless you’re talking about a fan that’s been possessed by Gozer, or a North Korean spy fan.
14.4.08
Iraq War Refugee Video - This should have more than 202 views
The corrupt leader of this program:
Ellen Sauerbrey was picked to head the State Department's Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration, an agency with a $700 million annual budget that has responsibility for coordinating the U.S. government's response to refugee crises during natural disasters and wars.
Sauerbrey, a former member of the Republican National Committee who was Bush's Maryland state campaign chairwoman in 2000, is the U.S. representative to the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women. She has been a conservative activist for decades, and was a TV commentator after two unsuccessful runs for Maryland governor, but has no direct experience mobilizing responses to humanitarian emergencies.
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Most rediculous invention i have ever seen --> Hooters Shooters?
"A fully functional set of breasts that dispense one shot of alcohol out each nipple. The unit comes in two different colors and is fully equipped for your server. All you need to do is add alcohol to the twin holster packs for two separate flavors, pump the unique one ounce dispensers and shoot in your customers mouth. The units are even designed for interchangeable outfits, customized for the theme of your choice. Imagine the fun and new creative promotions for your club and clientele. Increase your profits and be one of the first to have this fabulous new creation by Ed Marshall."
There is also a Johnson Juicer....
Dock Ellis Says He Pitched 1970 No-Hitter Under The Influence of LSD
"Los Angeles, April 8, 1984- Former Pittsburgh Pirates' pitcher Dock Ellis says he was under the influence of LSD when he pitched a 1970 no-hitter against the San Diego Padres.
Ellis, now co-ordinator of an anti drug program in Los Angeles, said he didn't know until six hours before his June 12, 1970 no hitter that he was going to pitch.
"I was in Los Angeles, and the team was playing in San Diego , but I didn't know it. I had taken LSD..... I thought it was an off-day, that's how come I had it in me. I took the LSD at noon. At 1pm, his girlfriend and trip partner looked at the paper and said, "Dock, you're pitching today!"
"That's when it was $9.50 to fly to San Diego. She got me to the airport at 3:30. I got there at 4:30, and the game started at 6:05pm. It was a twi-night doubleheader.
I can only remember bits and pieces of the game. I was psyched. I had a feeling of euphoria.
I was zeroed in on the (catcher's) glove, but I didn't hit the glove too much. I remember hitting a couple of batters and the bases were loaded two or three times.
The ball was small sometimes, the ball was large sometimes, sometimes I saw the catcher, sometimes I didn't. Sometimes I tried to stare the hitter down and throw while I was looking at him. I chewed my gum until it turned to powder. They say I had about three to four fielding chances. I remember diving out of the way of a ball I thought was a line drive. I jumped, but the ball wasn't hit hard and never reached me."
The Pirates won the game, 2-0, although Ellis walked eight batters. It was the highpoint in the baseball career of one of the finer pitchers of his time, and arguably,one of the greatest achievements in the history of sports."
Information printed in Lysergic World San Francisco, April 16-19, 1993
8.4.08
"Oh, what sad times are these when passing ruffians can say 'Penis' at will to old ladies." -Monty Python & the Holy Grail
This was my idea!
"When I was in Tokyo last month, my mom and I took our dogs to Odaiba, where we stumbled upon this strange store called Puppy the World.
Puppy the World is a dog rental store. You can choose small, medium, or large breeds and rent them for $19/hr, or $100 a night. They have everything from chihuahuas to labs to border collies to papillons—and you get a 5% discount at the cafe if you rent one! You can't lose.
By the time my mom and I got there, registration for rentals for the day were over. Besides, they said, you can't rent one if you already own a dog. I couldn't help but wonder how they treated the dogs in a place like this. So I asked. Here's what I found out:
Every day, they have about 10-15 dogs in circulation. The dogs rotate in and out of service every few days. The ones in service stay on-site in a kennel, and the rest are all kept in nearby facility on their days off. The average dog works for about 5-6 years before they retire. Once they retire, they go to a facility in Chiba where they "rest." I wasn't exactly sure what they meant by rest, but I am going to give them the benefit of the doubt and assume it means they get to romp in huge meadows with other retirees.
You don't need anything to rent a dog, they just make a copy of your drivers license and give you a leash and you're good to go."
7.4.08
Google Street View
Google has come out with a Street View feature for Google Maps, probably the coolest thing I've seen them come out with since Google Earth... Check it out for boston here
巴士阿叔 - Bus Uncle (雙語字幕 - Bilingual Substitle)
"The Bus Uncle" is a Cantonese video clip of a quarrel between two men aboard a bus in Hong Kong on April 27, 2006. While the older man (Chan), who came to be nicknamed the Bus Uncle, scolded the man seated behind him (Ho), a nearby passenger used his camera phone to record the entire incident to provide evidence for the police in the event of a fight. The resulting six-minute video[1] was uploaded to the Hong Kong Golden Forum, YouTube, and Google Video. The clip became YouTube's most viewed video in May 2006,[2] attracting viewers with its rhetorical outbursts and copious use of profanity by the older man, receiving 1.7 million hits in the first 3 weeks of that month.[3]
6.4.08
Gogol Bordello - start wearing purple
Gogol Bordello is a multi-ethnic Gypsy punk band from the Lower East Side of New York City that formed in 1999 and is known for its theatrical stage shows. Much of the band's sound is inspired by Gypsy music, as its core members are immigrants from Eastern Europe. The band incorporates minor-key accordion and fiddle (and on some albums, saxophone) mixed with cabaret, punk, and dub as well as multiple languages. Phill Jupitus has described the band as "a bit like The Clash and The Pogues having a fight... in Eastern Europe," while Kenneth Partridge of The Hartford Courant described lead singer Eugene Hütz's voice as "somewhere between that of Borat and Triumph the Insult Comic Dog."
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