Quirky Krap

My star sign - Libra

2009-10-14T01:29:00.002+08:00

LIBRA - The Asshole (9/23-10/22)
Caring and kind. Smart.
Center of attention. High appeal.
Has the last word. Good to find, hard to keep.
Fun to be around. Extremely weird but in a good way.

Well at least they got the first part right!

Filipina maid suspect in Hong Kong boss's murder

2009-06-14T07:41:00.004+08:00

Oh dear ... and just as the number of Indonesians employed as domestic helpers in HK overtakes that of Filipinas ....

Frankly, the way some local employers treat (correction: MIS-treat) their helpers I'm surprised it doesn't happen on a regular basis!

Filipina maid suspect in Hong Kong boss's murder

A Filipina maid was Thursday arrested on suspicion of murdering her Hong Kong employer, police said.

The 47-year-old female victim was found by police lying dead in the lounge of her flat with multiple cut wounds, a police statement said. A knife was found next to her.
Local broadcaster RTHK said the victim was a civil servant who worked as an engineering project manager.

Police were alerted at 4:50 am (2050 GMT) by neighbours in the Happy Valley district who had heard a woman yelling for help, assistant police commander Gareth Williams said.

Neighbours "heard some shouting coming from the flat on the 12th floor," he told RTHK.

"(Police) saw some bloodstains on the door, so they broke open the door. When they entered they found the body of the deceased lying on the floor in the lounge, with multiple serious injuries all over the body," he said.

The maid, aged 35, was found in the bedroom and was arrested by police, the statement said. She had also suffered injuries, although she was conscious, and was treated in hospital.

A post-mortem examination was expected to be conducted later Thursday to ascertain the cause of the woman's death, the statement said.

More than 100,000 Filipinos work in the southern Chinese city of Hong Kong, mostly as low-paid domestic workers. It is not uncommon for Hong Kong families to have a live-in maid, who will do most of the cooking and look after the family's children.

Relationships between maids and employers can sometimes be strained, with campaigners saying many are underpaid and have to live in poor accommodation, although violence is rare.

Someone told me that the maid appeared to believe the employer was possessed by an evil demon or something along those lines ... HK employers take note: hallucinations are a common side effect of sleep deprivation!

Worst Logo Ever?

2009-04-24T10:39:00.002+08:00

This logo was designed in 1973 for the Catholic Church's Archdiocesan Youth Commission (the country isn't mentioned by I assume it's either the US or possibly Canada.)

Is that a small child? No he's a goblin!

Mr Douglas! You didn't?

2009-04-11T08:33:00.002+08:00

Bizzarre: I did find out who Mr Douglas is. He was also kind enough to explain wtf he wants from me ...

Dearest,

I am Douglas McDougall, one of the Board of Directors of The Scottish Investment Trust Plc. One of the UK..s largest oldest independent self managed funds management company with over £45billion Capital Investment Funds.

Nevertheless, as Scottish Investment Funds Manager, I handle all our Investor's Direct Capital Funds and secretly extract 1.3% Excess Maximum Return Capital Profit (EMRCP) per annum on each of the Investor’s Magellan Capital Funds. As an expert, I have made over (GBP 60million) Sixty Million Great Britain Pounds from the Investor's EMRCP and hereby looking for someone to trust who will stand as an Investor to receive the funds as Annual Investment Proceeds from Scottish Magellan Capital Funds.

All confirmable documents to back up the claims will be made available to you prior to your acceptance. Meanwhile, I have worked out the strategies and technicalities whereby the funds can be claimed in any of our Clearing Houses without any hitches. Our sharing ratio should be 70-30. Incase you are interested,You can state down your direct telephone number, for discussions or you reach me at my cell +44-703-596-9839. ,Relate your interest via my email (douglasmc1971@gmail.com)

Sincerely

Mr. Douglas McDougall OBE
The Scottish Investment Trust
6 Albyn Place Edinburgh EH2 4NL
www.sit.co.uk
http://www.sit.co.uk/pdf/AR-2008-06-boardofdirectors.pdf

Oh poor poor Mr Douglas! He'll never shake this off ... Funny, he doesn't look very Nigerian ...

My new friend: Mr Douglas

2009-04-11T08:12:00.005+08:00

Got a notification from MySpace that some guy called Mr Douglas wants to be my friend ... Apparently he's on the board of directors of some Scottish bank (I thought they all went belly-up?) How he got my name or WTF he wants to be my friend for I haven't the foggiest ...

But also in my inbox was this gem from the bird on the right:

Hello, my friend! You can lend me 80,000 U.S. dollars it? How ridiculous it sounds, I never thought this would be a strange way to borrow money from foreign friends, my business had a loss of money, in the platform for the friends I really just try to borrow money, you will do when a joke. I was doing the business of railway equipment, and loss of money I do not own the business, but investment in other business friends, if you help me, I will also part of the money each year to you, I have a small shop, there are 60,000 annual income can be also a part of, can only explain so, I will seek God as their own a! then that I in money, not cheat, I need the money is also part of the debt, but also with the money to re-do a good job in the business! believe that God can prove what I have said is the truth! I am Chinese, but my English well, I have the ID card. my phone 13806782468

A perfect match!

The bit I liked was "in the platform for the friends I really just try to borrow money, you will do when a joke. I was doing the business of railway equipment" Don't need any steam engines right now, thanks ... But maybe in Scotland?

The latest fake product from China: Eggs

2009-03-11T22:18:00.003+08:00

According to a report in the Hong Kong Standard, Health alert after mainland fake eggs found, fake eggs have been surfaced in Fujian province. And they can cause mental retardation. Nice.

The realistic-looking fakes contain no protein. Instead, chemicals such as alum, sodium alginate, gelatin, calcium chloride and sodium benzoate are found in them. The "yolk" is dyed with tartrazine while the eggshell is made of calcium carbonate.

What amazes me is that anyone could construct a realistic-looking egg at a lower price than by keeping a chicken! But according to the report: "The fake eggs are easy to make and cost 1 to 5 HK cents, compared with 25 to 30 cents for real eggs." Budding counterfeiters might like to study (the undated posting) on Weird Asia News, China’s 10 Steps to Make a Fake Egg.

According to an earlier posting on hoax-slayer.com, the fake aggs story is a hoax. Just goes to show you can't believe everything you read on (myth busting) websites!

Found on Youtube: Girl Fight in Wan Chai

2009-02-15T06:13:00.002+08:00

Can't quite place the location ... is it near Maya Bar? I'm sure that's Andy Bright in the middle of it though! He he!

Quotes about god/organized religion

2008-11-05T06:43:00.000+08:00

Came across some great quotes about God and organised superstitions ... errr ... I mean religions ... at this site: nyctophilia.net. Here's one of my favourites:

"Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of 10 things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these 10 things he has a special place full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry for ever and ever until the end of time...but he loves you. And he needs money." -George Carlin

Great use of high-tech by SNL

2008-10-24T18:37:00.001+08:00

Saturday Night Live have a great skit where the analyst uses a high-tech board to mess around with a map of the US in a parody of CNN.

Free SMS via web

2008-06-25T18:22:00.000+08:00

Here's a great new service for those who run out of load when using a stored value SIM card in their mobile or others whose account is suspended for not paying the bill for some reason or other ("What bill?" He He). I suppose it could also be a value if your mobile battery runs out or you lose your phone! Assuming you have a memory like Rainman to store all those phone numbers in the address book you just lost!

Breathe Mobile Free WebSMS

Sounds too good to be true? Well there is a catch ... but it's not so unpleasant: the service is ad-supported so the recipient will receive an ad inserted into your message. This means your message has to be shortened to 80 characters. But since you can send up to 15 free messages a day, you should be able to get a message sent to the wife to inform her you're in Delhi and an elephant trod on the mobile you just dropped on the street ... Help!

Romantic Ideas for Relationships

2008-05-26T05:34:00.002+08:00

Romantic Ideas for Relationships | Valentine's Day | Reader's Digest: "50 Ways to Woo Your Lover"

So you want to do something special for your beloved, but you're stumped for ideas. Whether you want a gesture that's creative, outrageous, affordable, quick or classic, we've got the answer.

Creative
Looking for some fun ways to add romance to your relationship? Try these creative romance tips:

Give your lover a dozen roses -- and do it with a creative twist. Give eleven red roses and one white rose. Attach a note that reads: "In every bunch there's one who stands out -- and you are that one."
Fake a power outage at home. (Loosen the fuses or throw the breaker switches.) With no TV to tempt you . . . with no computer to occupy you . . . with no furnace to heat you . . . you pretty much have no choice but to get out the candles, huddle around the fireplace and be romantic!
Get your partner a wristwatch. Inscribe it with: "I always have time for you."
Attach a $100 bill to a Victoria's Secret catalog, along with a note to him saying, "You choose."
Identify that one pivotal event that brought the two of you together. Celebrate that event every year.
Practice even-day/odd-day romance: On even days it's your turn to be romantic, and on odd days it's your partner's turn.
Following a bubble bath you've prepared for her, wrap her in a towel that you've warmed up in the dryer.
Write your partner a love letter or poem on one sheet of paper. Glue it to thin cardboard, cut it up into puzzle-shaped pieces, then mail all the pieces. Or, mail one puzzle piece per day!
Remove all the paper strips (that say "Kisses" on them) from a couple hundred Hershey's Kisses. Fill a jewelry box with them. Wrap 'em up and present them to your partner. Write a certificate explaining that the slips are coupons redeemable for one kiss each.
Doesn't your partner deserve a trophy for being the "World's Best Lover"? Trophy shops have a wealth of ideas waiting for you. Just think of the romantic possibilities of plaques, medals, ribbons, nameplates, certificates and banners. And they all can be personalized, engraved, lettered or monogrammed.

Outrageous
To make a big impression, consider these outrageous romance tips:

Visit a karaoke bar and surprise your lover by getting up and singing "your song" to him/her.
Kidnap her! Blindfold her. Drive her around town until she's thoroughly lost. Then reveal your destination: Her favorite restaurant, or maybe a romantic inn.
Make a GIANT greeting card out of a big cardboard box, (such as the type used to pack a refrigerator).
Does your partner love M&M's? Fill a one-gallon glass jar with them as a gift.
Want to jazz up the presentation of a special meal? Buy a little hunk of dry ice from a local ice house. Put it in a bowl of water and place it on your serving tray. You'll create wondrous, billowing white clouds!
Call your partner from work, every-hour-on-the-hour, just to say "I love you."
Slow-dance at a restaurant -- when there's no music playing.
It's romantic -- but commonplace -- to eat dinner by candlelight. So here's a change of pace: Eat breakfast by candlelight.
Take your lover on a surprise two-week vacation to Paris.
Many couples have "His" and "Hers" matching towels, but here are some other ideas: "His" and "Hers" matching silk pajamas, motorcycles, T-shirts, overnight bags (have them packed at all times), jack-o'-lanterns at Halloween, rocking chairs, Porsches (millionaires need love, too), heart-shaped tattoos, Christmas tree ornaments, tennis rackets, beach towels.

Affordable
Short on cash but big on love? Try these affordable romance tips:

Spend the entire day watching romantic movies.
If you'd like to spend a romantic summer night making wishes on falling stars, mark the second week in August on your calendar. The earth passes through the Perseid meteor belt around August 12 every year, which usually results in spectacular meteor showers for two to three nights.
Buy a lottery ticket. Give it to your partner with a little note attached: "I hit the jackpot when I married you!"
Pick flowers for your partner from the side of the road.
Write a short note to your lover that's spread out over several postcards, then mail the cards one at a time. You'll build anticipation for the romantic conclusion on the final postcard. (Maybe deliver that last one in person.)
If you're not much of a writer, create an audio love letter. Sit down with a tape recorder and just talk to her for ten minutes. Then giftwrap it and mail it to her.
Don't just go out to a movie on Saturday, like always. Call your partner from work on Wednesday and formally ask for a date.
Call a local radio station and request a special love song to be dedicated to your partner. Make sure he or she is listening!
Make a custom certificate for your lover. (You can get blank certificate forms at a stationery or paper store.) Here are some suggestions: A certificate "For Putting Up With Me Over the Years," an award for "The World's Best Wife," a ribbon "For Hugs & Kisses Above and Beyond the Call of Duty."
Mail your partner a Rolodex card with your name and number on it. Write on it: "Your instant resource for love. Call when lonely."

Quick
If you don't have as much time as you'd like for love, try these swift but sweet romance tips:

Write "I love you" on the bathroom mirror with a piece of soap.
Place a little love note or poem under the driver's-side windshield wiper of his or her car.
Every once in a while, kiss her hand with a flourish. Note: The proper way to kiss a woman's hand is to lower your lips to her hand. You don't raise her hand to your lips.
Have "your song" playing on the stereo when your partner returns home from work.
When out together in public, wink at your partner from across the room.
On your partner's birthday, send a thank-you card to his/her mother.
Unplug the TV. Put a note on the screen saying, "Turn me on instead."
Make a toast to one another every time you hold a wineglass. Make eye contact. Take turns making the toast. Whisper it.
Get the whole "family of products" in the fragrance of her favorite perfume (bath powder, soaps, cremes, candles, etc.)
Call your partner from work for no other reason than to say, "I love you."

Classic
Looking for a tried-and-true method for declaring your love? Consider these classic romance tips:

Spread rose petals all over the bedroom.
What could be more classic than a fine gold locket with your photo inside? (Maybe a photo of the two of you.)
Bring home one small, unexpected gift each week.
Write a classic, romantic, passionate, handwritten, heartfelt love letter. Most adults haven't written a love letter since high school. (Why not? Have we lost our youthful idealism, or have we just gotten lazy?)
When traveling, give your partner a bouquet of roses; one rose for each day that you'll be away. Attach a note that says something like this: "These three roses represent the three days I'll be away from you. They also symbolize the love, joy, and laughter we share together."
Say "I love you" at least three times a day.
Guys: Surprise her by performing one of her chores for her. (And not something easy like carrying the groceries in from the car, but something that requires some time and effort -- like cooking all the meals over a weekend, or cleaning the entire house.)
Ladies: Send him a letter sealed with a kiss. (Use your reddest lipstick.)
Hold hands.
On your yearly romantic checklist, make plans for Valentine's Day -- well in advance!

Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site

2008-03-13T10:04:00.000+08:00

Excellent guide to speeding up web pages.

Video Toolbox: 150+ Online Video Tools and Resources

2008-03-11T11:01:00.000+08:00

"Online video is a huge trend - so huge that’s it’s proving hard to keep track. From video sharing sites to video mixers, mashups and converters, we’ve brought together more than 150 of our favorite sites in this category. Enjoy."

How To Make YouTube Videos Look Great on Squidoo

2008-03-11T10:58:00.000+08:00

"My High Resolution Videos Look Terrible in YouTube, Why?

The key for YouTube to display your video the best possible way, is to upload the best possible quality video that meets or exceeds their requirements.

I'll show you a few ways on how this can be achieved!

But first, let me tell you why your YouTube videos look awful."

Here is explained a number of ways to get the best results from YouTube.

A customized Google map for the Wanchai Warrior

2008-03-03T02:58:00.002+08:00

I searched on Google maps for "Wanchai bar disco pub" and a load of crap came back. So I thought I better put up a map showing at least the favourite hang-outs of the Wanchai Weekend Warrior types ...

And yes! I know I missed some off but included all the places where I DJ. So sue me!

Link to map

Clever little IP widget

2008-02-21T01:41:00.008+08:00

"robtex is a software developer which was founded in 1989 developing all kinds of software. in recent years main focus has been on Internet related software. currently the most popular has been free tools like rbls.org and network explorer. those tools are now merged closer and is called "robtex swiss army knife". we are redesigning the homepage and are presenting the old tools and products as well as some new ones. only a few are linked today. stay tuned for update!"

They have this clever little IP widget which they offer free to webmasters ...

There a bunch of other useful stuff there too like finding out who else is sharing the same IP address used by your site. If you see site names such as "asiananalangels.com" or "88spammingserives.com" maybe you should think about using a different hoster! Unless they are also your sites, of course!

Beardyman - Kitchen diaries

2008-02-20T06:08:00.000+08:00

This is hilarious. This guy is soooo talented!

Music Trends: Rap Industry Takes A Hard Look At Itself

2007-12-24T05:02:00.000+08:00

21% Sales Decline Spurs Self-Examination

After 30 years of growing popularity, Rap music has finally hit its tipping point. Though music sales are down overall, Rap sales have declined 21 percent from 2005 to 2006, and for the first time in 12 years, no Hip-Hop album was among the top 10 sellers of the year. Many have forecasted the death of Hip-Hop over the years, but it appears that the umpteenth drug-dealing anthem, chest-pounding boast, gun-play recount or soft-core, booty-bouncing music video, has, finally, gotten stale.

http://www.futuremusic.com/news/april2007/musictrends-hiphop.html

I love vinyl and album art ...

2007-11-08T05:28:00.000+08:00

"WARM MARBLE"

2007-11-08T01:58:00.000+08:00

I'm not into body-building personally, but this article about Bruce Lee is very interesting ...

"WARM MARBLE" The Lethal Physique of Bruce Lee

Is Bush An Idiot?

2007-09-20T04:32:00.000+08:00

Decide for yourself!

Ever wanted a big list of all the airlines?

2007-09-08T16:50:00.000+08:00

We search almost all airlines in Europe. But have a very comprehensive list of airlines and links from all around the world!

Hmmm ... sexy!

2007-06-25T16:47:00.000+08:00

Sonos is the first wireless, multi-room digital music system that lets you play digital music all over your house—and control it all from the palm of your hand. With a wireless Sonos® Controller in hand, you'll have plug-and-play access to millions of songs—from music services, Internet radio, your personal digital music collection, or all of the above.

And, with Sonos® ZonePlayers in the rooms of your choice, you can play the same song in different rooms, or different songs in different rooms. To start listening, just grab the full-color Controller and simply pick a room, pick a song and hit play.

I want one for Xmas. Mum?

Trick Your Body Into Submission

2007-06-13T03:52:00.000+08:00

1. If your throat tickles, scratch your ear!

“When the nerves in the ear are stimulated, it creates a reflex in the throat that can cause a muscle spasm,” says Scott Schaffer, M.D., president of an ear, nose, and throat specialty center in Gibbsboro, New Jersey. “This spasm relieves the tickle.”

2. Experience supersonic hearing!

If you're stuck chatting up a mumbler at a cocktail party, lean in with your right ear. It's better than your left at following the rapid rhythms of speech, according to researchers at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. If, on the other hand, you're trying to identify that song playing softly in the elevator, turn your left ear toward the sound. The left ear is better at picking up music tones.

3. Overcome your most primal urge!

Need to pee? No bathroom nearby? You are male? Then fantasize...

Thinking about sex preoccupies your brain, so you won't feel as much discomfort, says Larry Lipshultz, M.D., chief of male reproductive medicine at the Baylor College of Medicine.

4. Feel no pain!

German researchers have discovered that coughing during an injection can lessen the pain of the needle stick. According to Taras Usichenko, author of a study on the phenomenon, the trick causes a sudden, temporary rise in pressure in the chest and spinal canal, inhibiting the painconducting structures of the spinal cord.

5. Clear your stuffed nose!

The easiest, quickest, and cheapest way to relieve sinus pressure is to alternately thrust your tongue against the roof of your mouth, then press between your eyebrows with one finger. This causes the vomer bone, which runs through the nasal passages to the mouth, to rock back and forth, says Lisa DeStefano, D.O., an assistant professor at the Michigan State University college of osteopathic medicine. The motion loosens congestion; after 20 seconds, you'll feel your sinuses start to drain.

6. Fight fire without water!

Studies have shown that patients who sleep on their left sides are less likely to suffer from acid reflux. The esophagus and stomach connect at an angle.

When you sleep on your right, the stomach is higher than the esophagus, allowing food and stomach acid to slide up your throat. When you're on your left, the stomach is lower than the esophagus, so gravity's in your favor.

7. Cure your toothache without opening your mouth!

Just rub ice on the back of your hand, on the V-shaped webbed area between your thumb and index finger. A Canadian study found that this technique reduces toothache pain by as much as 50 percent compared with using no ice. The nerve pathways at the base of that V stimulate an area of the brain that blocks pain signals from the face and hands.

8. Make burns disappear!

When you accidentally singe your finger on the stove, clean the skin and apply light pressure with the finger pads of your unmarred hand. Ice will relieve your pain more quickly, Dr. DeStefano says, but since the natual method brings the burned skin back to a normal temperature, the skin is less likely to blister.

9. Stop the world from spinning!

One too many drinks left you dizzy? Put your hand on something stable. The part of your ear responsible for balance, the

cupula, floats in a fluid of the same density as blood.

“As alcohol dilutes blood in the cupula, the cupula becomes less dense and rises,” says Dr. Schaffer. This confuses your brain. The tactile input from a stable object gives the brain a second opinion, and you feel more in balance. Because the nerves in the hand are so sensitive, this works better than the conventional footonthefloor wisdom.

10. Unstitch your side!

If you're like most people, when you run, you exhale as your right foot hits the ground.

This puts downward pressure on your liver (which lives on your right side), which then tugs at the diaphragm and creates a side stitch, according to The Doctors Book of Home Remedies for Men. The fix: Exhale as your left foot strikes the ground.

11. Stanch blood with a single finger!

Pinching your nose and leaning back is a great way to stop a nosebleed if you don't mind choking on your own O positive. A more civil approach: Put some cotton on your upper gums just behind that small dent below your nose and press against it, hard.

“Most bleeds come from the front of the septum, the cartilage wall that divides the nose,” says Peter Desmarais, M.D., an ear, nose, and throat specialist at Entabeni Hospital, in Durban, South Africa. “Pressing here helps stop them.”

12. Make your heart stand still!

Trying to quell firstdate jitters? Blow on your thumb. The vagus nerve, which governs heart rate, can be controlled through breathing, says Ben Abo, an emergency medical services specialist at the University of Pittsburgh. It'll get your heart rate back to normal.

13. Thaw your brain!

Too much ice-cream too fast will freeze the brains of lesser men. As for you, press your tongue flat against the roof of your mouth, covering as much as you can. “Since the nerves in the roof of your mouth get extremely cold, your body thinks your brain is freezing, too,” says Abo. “In compensating, it overheats, causing an icecream headache.” The more pressure you apply to the roof of your mouth, the faster your headache will subside.

14. Prevent nearsightedness!

Poor distance vision is rarely caused by genetics, says Anne Barber, O.D., an optometrist in Tacoma, Washington. “It's usually caused by nearpoint stress.” In other words, staring at your computer screen for too long. So flex your way to 20/20 vision. Every few hours during the day, close your eyes, tense your body, take a deep breath, and, after a few seconds, release your breath and muscles at the same time. Tightening and releasing muscles such as the biceps and glutes can trick involuntary muscles like

the eyes into relaxing as well.

15. Wake the dead!

If your hand falls asleep while you're driving or sitting in an odd position, rock your head from side to side. It'll painlessly banish your pins and needles in less than a minute, says Dr. DeStefano. A tingly hand or arm is often the result of compression in the bundle of nerves in your neck; loosening your neck muscles releases the pressure. Compressed nerves lower in the body govern the feet, so don't let your sleeping dogs lie. Stand up and walk around.

16. Impress your friends!

Next time you're at a party, try this trick: Have a person hold one arm straight out to the side, palm down, and instruct him to maintain this position. Then place two fingers on his wrist and push down. He'll resist. Now have him put one foot on a surface that's a half inch higher (a few magazines) and repeat. This time his arm will cave like the French. By misaligning his hips, you've offset his spine, says Rachel Cosgrove, C.S.C.S., coowner of Results Fitness, in Santa Clarita, California. Your brain senses that the spine is vulnerable, so it shuts down the body's ability to resist.

17. Breathe underwater!

If you're dying to retrieve that quarter from the bottom of the pool, take several short breaths first essentially, hyperventilate. When you're underwater, it's not a lack of oxygen that makes you desperate for a breath; it's the buildup of carbon dioxide, which makes your blood acidic, which signals your brain that somethin' ain't right. “When you hyperventilate, the influx of oxygen lowers blood acidity,” says Jonathan Armbruster, Ph.D., an associate professor of biology at Auburn University. “This tricks your brain into thinking it has more oxygen.” It'll buy you up to 10 seconds.

18. Read minds!

Your own! “If you're giving a speech the next day, review it before falling asleep,” says Candi Heimgartner, an instructor of biological sciences at the University of Idaho. Since most memory consolidation happens during sleep, anything you read right before bed is more likely to be encoded as longterm memory.

Author: Kate Dailey

Bar 109 pix

2007-05-26T06:44:00.000+08:00

Here's me at work at Bar 109, May 2007.

Check out Bar 109.

Google announces free in-home wireless broadband service

2007-04-04T05:16:00.000+08:00

"Dark porcelain" project offers self-installed plumbing-based Internet access

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 1, 2007 - Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced the launch of Google TiSP (BETA)™, a free in-home wireless broadband service that delivers online connectivity via users' plumbing systems. The Toilet Internet Service Provider (TiSP) project is a self-installed, ad-supported online service that will be offered entirely free to any consumer with a WiFi-capable PC and a toilet connected to a local municipal sewage system.

"We've got that whole organizing-the-world's-information thing more or less under control," said Google Co-founder and President Larry Page, a longtime supporter of so-called "dark porcelain" research and development. "What's interesting, though, is how many different modalities there are for actually getting that information to you - not to mention from you."

For years, data carriers have confronted the "last hundred yards" problem for delivering data from local networks into individual homes. Now Google has successfully devised a "last hundred smelly yards" solution that takes advantage of preexisting plumbing and sewage systems and their related hydraulic data-transmission capabilities. "There's actually a thriving little underground community that's been studying this exact solution for a long time," says Page. "And today our Toilet ISP team is pleased to be leading the way through the sewers, up out of your toilet and - splat - right onto your PC."

Users who sign up online for the TiSP system will receive a full home self-installation kit, which includes a spindle of fiber-optic cable, a TiSP wireless router, installation CD and setup guide. Home installation is a simple matter of GFlushing™ the fiber-optic cable down to the nearest TiSP Access Node, then plugging the other end into the network port of your Google-provided TiSP wireless router. Within sixty minutes, the Access Node's crack team of Plumbing Hardware Dispatchers (PHDs) should have your internet connection up and running.

"I couldn't be more excited about, and am only slightly grossed out by, this remarkable new product," said Marissa Mayer, Google's Vice President of Search Products and User Experience. "I firmly believe TiSP will be a breakthrough product, particularly for those users who, like Larry himself, do much of their best thinking in the bathroom."

Interested consumers, contractually obligated partners and deeply skeptical and quietly competitive backbiters can learn more about TiSP at http://www.google.com/tisp/install.html.

Resilient Iraqis - the light at the end of the tunnel?

2007-03-22T00:56:00.000+08:00

Marie Colvin

March 18, 2007 -- DESPITE sectarian slaughter, ethnic cleansing and suicide bombs, an opinion poll conducted on the eve of the fourth anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq has found a striking resilience and optimism among the inhabitants.

The poll, the biggest since coalition troops entered Iraq on March 20, 2003, shows that by a majority of two to one, Iraqis prefer the current leadership to Saddam Hussein's regime, regardless of the security crisis and a lack of public services.

The survey, published today, also reveals that contrary to the views of many western analysts, most Iraqis do not believe they are embroiled in a civil war.

Officials in Washington and London are likely to be buoyed by the poll conducted by Opinion Research Business (ORB), a respected British market research company that funded its own survey of 5,019 Iraqis over the age of 18.

The 400 interviewers who fanned out across Iraq last month found that the sense of security felt by Baghdad residents had significantly improved since polling carried out before the US announced in January that it was sending in a "surge" of more than 20,000 extra troops.

The poll highlights the impact the sectarian violence has had. Some 26% of Iraqis - 15% of Sunnis and 34% of Shi'ites - have suffered the murder of a family member. Kidnapping has also played a terrifying role: 14% have had a relative, friend or colleague abducted, rising to 33% in Baghdad.

Yet 49% of those questioned preferred life under Nouri al-Maliki, the prime minister, to living under Saddam. Only 26% said things had been better in Saddam's era, while 16% said the two leaders were as bad as each other and the rest did not know or refused to answer.

Not surprisingly, the divisions in Iraqi society were reflected in statistics - Sunnis were more likely to back the previous Ba'athist regime (51%) while the Shi'ites (66%) preferred the Maliki government.

Maliki, who derives a significant element of his support from Moqtada al-Sadr, the hardline Shi'ite militant, and his Mahdi army, has begun trying to overcome criticism that his government favours the Shi'ites, going out of his way to be seen with Sunni tribal leaders. He is also under pressure from the US to include more Sunnis in an expected government reshuffle.

The poll suggests a significant increase in support for Maliki. A survey conducted by ORB in September last year found that only 29% of Iraqis had a favourable opinion of the prime minister.

Another surprise was that only 27% believed they were caught up in a civil war. Again, that number divided along religious lines, with 41% of Sunnis believing Iraq was in a civil war, compared with only 15% of Shi'ites.

The survey is a rare snapshot of Iraqi opinion because of the difficulty of working in the country, with the exception of Kurdish areas which are run as an essentially autonomous province.

Most international organisations have pulled out of Iraq and diplomats are mostly holed-up in the Green Zone. The unexpected degree of optimism may signal a groundswell of hope at signs the American "surge" is starting to take effect.

This weekend comments from Baghdad residents reflected the poll's findings. Many said they were starting to feel more secure on the streets, although horrific bombings have continued. "The Americans have checkpoints and the most important thing is they don't ask for ID, whether you are Sunni or Shi'ite," said one resident. "There are no more fake checkpoints so you don't need to be scared."

The inhabitants of a northern Baghdad district were heartened to see on the concrete blocks protecting an Iraqi army checkpoint the lettering: "Down, down with the militias, we are fighting for the sake of Iraq."

It would have been unthinkable just a few weeks ago. Residents said they noted that armed militias were off the streets.

One question showed the sharp divide in attitudes towards the continued presence of foreign troops in Iraq. Some 53% of Iraqis nationwide agree that the security situation will improve in the weeks after a withdrawal by international forces, while only 26% think it will get worse.

"We've been polling in Iraq since 2005 and the finding that most surprised us was how many Iraqis expressed support for the present government," said Johnny Heald, managing director of ORB. "Given the level of violence in Iraq, it shows an unexpected level of optimism."

Despite the sectarian divide, 64% of Iraqis still want to see a united Iraq under a central national government.

One statistic that bodes ill for Iraq's future is the number who have fled the country, many of them middle-class professionals. Baghdad has been hard hit by the brain drain - 35% said a family member had left the country.

Additional reporting: Ali Rifat
ORB interviewed a nationally representative sample of 5,019 Iraqi adults between February 10-22. The margin of error was +/- 1.4%.

What the devil???

2007-03-21T16:32:00.000+08:00

Joe Bananas DJ, Alan Grimes, earns a few extra bucks moonlighting as a male stripper ... [more photos]

Full moon?

2007-03-12T18:39:00.000+08:00

And what's that yellow thing lying on the ground? Looks very much like one of those battery powered sex toys that I didn't order off the internet ...

Joke for today

2007-03-11T22:28:00.000+08:00

Q: Why are there no blind sky-divers?
A: Because it scares the shit out of the dogs!

Lee Burridge Interview - Hong Kong Entertainment Nightlife Clubbing Music Guide - HKClubbing.com

2007-02-16T01:21:00.000+08:00

Lee Burridge Interview - HKClubbing.com

"Having started out his DJ career and triggered off the dance music scene in Hong Kong in the early nineties, Lee Burridge has gone all out! With two Global Underground compilations under his belt, countless residencies across the world and his own label, he’s back for one night to give Hong Kong a taster of where he stands now, musically. He takes time out to talk to hkclubbing about Hong Kong and where he is now!"

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2007-02-15T11:56:00.000+08:00

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Expert doubts widespread HIV risk

2007-02-03T14:30:00.000+08:00

BBC NEWS | Health | Expert doubts widespread HIV risk

Don't make me laugh about Steve Irwin

2007-01-20T06:31:00.000+08:00

Norm McDonald and his hilarious view about Steve Irwin. A non stop laugh.

YouTube - Internet is for PORN!!

2006-11-21T02:48:00.000+08:00

YouTube - Internet is for PORN!!

VADER SESSIONS ... Freaking funny

2006-11-21T02:34:00.000+08:00

akjak.com » VADER SESSIONS

Drink Ease - Homeopathic Remedy to Counter Hang Overs

2006-11-15T12:51:00.000+08:00

Drink Ease - Homeopathic Remedy to Counter Hang Overs

Rabbi's advise: 'Cure lesbian with sorcery' - Culture from Israel, Ynetnews

2006-09-03T09:41:00.000+08:00

Meir Turgeman, Ronen Tal Published: 08.31.06, 14:49

It sounds like the beginning of a really bad joke: "My wife has become a lesbian", a terrified husband told his rabbi. The rabbi gave him a sack and assured him: it contains special sand, simply pour it on your her lover's doorstep and when she steps on it she'll come running back.

If your partner shows lesbian tendencies and you want her to get rid of them, it's not a problem. All you have to do, according to a rabbi in Bnei Brak, is to pour "special sand" on her lover's doorstep and your wife will come running back.

This strange tale, which sounds as though it were taken from the Tales of the Wise Men of Chelem, began when a Bnei Brak resident was surprised to find out that his wife had lesbian tendencies and that she was cheating on him with another woman.

She even informed him that she would like a divorce. The man panicked and turned to the city rabbi to seek his advice.

Magical solution

The Rabbi provided a quick magical solution: He gave him a heavy sack of sand and told him to pour it on the doorstep of his wife's lesbian lover, telling him that the moment his wife will step on it the curse will be lifted. "Your wife will come running back," he said.

Happy at the advice given by the rabbi the man returned home. He immediately rented a car and assigned the mission of pouring the sand on the lover's doorstep to his 18 year-old son. The son obeyed his father and set out on his way.

A few days ago, at around 3 am, the boy arrived at the lover's home in Kiriyat Malachi. He carried the sack of sand on his shoulders, climbed the stairs to the apartment, poured the sand on the doorstep and returned to his car.

On his way out, he noticed several of the lover's dresses hanging on the washing line and couldn't hold himself back. He took out a match set the dresses alight.

The raging fire made him panic, and he tried putting out the flames. When he was unable to, he fled the scene. The frightened woman, who noticed the fire, managed to write down the license plate of the escaping vehicle and immediately called the police.

The Kiryat Malachi police discovered who rented the car and summoned the father and son to an investigation.

"I was desperate, my wife cheated on me with a lesbian. I didn't know what to do and I decided to ask the rabbi for his advice on how to lift the curse," he told the police tearfully.

Both father and son expressed their remorse; the police were considerate of their broken hearts and released them. However, they also gave him some advice: If you want your wife back, please do it lawfully.

Giant girl puppet

2006-09-03T09:27:00.000+08:00

Giant Girl Doll

Tripmaster Monkey

2006-09-03T08:43:00.000+08:00

Tripmaster Monkey

A DORITOS marketing campaign in Japan—a tie-in with cartoon characters from “Taitsu-kun” (Tights Guys)—continues to fascinate. While the U.S. market gets Jay Leno as a pitchman, Japanese snackers get men in tights stomping on each other’s genitals, giving each other “Electric Massage Rejuvenation” (Denki amma fukkatsu). The bag says S & P flavor, but we’re thinking S & M?

Cuothe IT Criticism & Curmudgeonery » Blog Archive » God’s Accounting System

2006-06-29T14:29:00.000+08:00

Cuothe IT Criticism & Curmudgeonery » Blog Archive » God’s Accounting System:

"God’s Accounting System

November 17th, 2005 by adam

God loves things like business, commerce, etc., he must, why else would accounting enterprise software provider, SouthWare, make it its mission to serve God? The company’s web site clearly and proudly states its mission

Our mission is to honor God and serve people by helping businesses achieve excellence.

I believe that is the first time I’ve seen God in a company’s mission statement. I struggle to understand how helping businesses achieve excellence, honour’s God. Of course I’m assuming SouthWare is referring to the Christian God. Seems likely based on the company’s Alabama headquarters–where I’m under the impression the various forms of Christianity are the most predominant religions.

My commentary here has no bearing on whether SouthWare provides a good system or not, nor whether its business practices are good (their site certainly tells everyone how dedicated they are over and over). It’s just the God part I’m picking at. Perhaps they’re able to offer a better service level agreement in the event of Acts of God?

SouthWare flaunts its portability to many platforms, kudos on that, a God-fearing but platform-agnostic application. Or is i"

Most common types of male orgasm

2006-06-25T06:00:00.000+08:00

Most common types of male orgasm: "Most common types of male orgasm
Kinsey delineated six types of male orgasm. In part the types vary according to the intensity of the reaction exhibited. The most common type of male orgasm supposedly characterising about 45 per cent of adult males - features some body tension. There may also be twitching or tension in one or both legs, of the mouth, of the arms, or of other particular parts of the body. There is gradual build-up to a climax which involves rigidity of the whole body and a degree of throbbing in the penis. There is orgasm with a few spasms but little after-effect. This is seen as the most common type of male orgasm ."

THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2004

2006-06-23T19:18:00.000+08:00

THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2004:

Gilbert's Law

"Happy people are those who do not pass up an opportunity to laugh at themselves or to make love with someone else. Unhappy people are those who get this backwards."

Bloody right! Ha ha!

Sex Positions - Sex Advice from Tracey Cox - iVillage

2006-06-21T10:54:00.000+08:00

Sex Positions - Sex Advice from Tracey Cox - iVillage

When it comes to sex positions, after a while it's only natural to fall back on your old favorites. And there's nothing really wrong with that ‑- except that, well, it's kind of dull. So mix things up! Experiment! Surprise your guy with something unexpected! After all, making even subtle changes to your current go-to list can mean the difference between a sex life that's fine ‑- and one that's on fire.

Digging Deep

We're most familiar with man-on-top positions. They're great for gazing lustily into each other's eyes. And as an added bonus, they're terrific for deep penetration. For fans of deep, intense penetration and enthusiastic thrusting, you can't beat this position.

With this variation, the top half of your body can't move much, but you can make up for it by moving your pelvis both up and down and side to side. First, lie back on the bed with your torso and bottom on the bed and your legs resting on the floor. When he penetrates, you bend your knees back toward your stomach while he supports himself on his hands and thrusts forward. It's best for him to keep one of his legs on the floor for support and the other on the bed for balance. If it still doesn't feel like he's penetrated deeply enough ‑- you greedy girl! ‑- pull your knees even further back and rest your calves on his shoulders, or, heck, show off by demonstrating just how handy that Pilates class really was by crossing your ankles behind his neck. Add extra frisson by holding your own hands above your head to give the illusion you're tied up. (Better still, get him to actually do it!)

Worst album covers

2006-06-04T12:28:00.000+08:00

Another wonderful link from the cheeky bleeder ...

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Pet Psychic... - Google Book Search

2006-05-26T20:06:00.000+08:00

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Pet Psychic... - Google Book Search

Make Men Happy - What Guys Want - iVillage

2006-05-20T14:33:00.000+08:00

Make Men Happy - What Guys Want - iVillage: "If men and women are truly equal, then men must stop bending over backwards in the pursuit of making women happy, right men? Relationships are increasingly full-fledged partnerships after all, so why should we be the only ones trying to make women happy?

We want to be happy and boys just want to have fun as well, so here are 10 things that men look for in the pursuit of happiness and Ms. Perfect. Read the list and answer the question that all men deliberate: do we prefer a pretty face or a beautiful body?"

Card Sorting Experiment

2006-05-18T13:01:00.000+08:00

Card Sorting Experiment

Clever! But I know how it's done!

On Relationships: The lost art of pleasing a man

2006-05-03T07:57:00.000+08:00

On Relationships: The lost art of pleasing a man: "The lost art of pleasing a man

Most women want to please a man at some level. Few women want to please a man completely and they try hard. An small number succeed. This post is especially for women that never thought about making pleasing their man an important part of their relationship or that want to but simply don't know how to do so. If you are such a woman, pay attention to this post and keep what I say in mind. If you aren't, read anyway and let me know what you think. If you are a man, read and take note of what you should be experiencing if you deserve it. Consider suggesting your woman to read this post. Not many guys had the luck of meeting a woman that knows how to treat a man. I did a few times, and I'll never forget."

United Press International - NewsTrack - Some telecommuters work in the nude

2006-04-13T03:57:00.000+08:00

United Press International - NewsTrack - Some telecommuters work in the nude: "Some telecommuters work in the nude

SUNNYVALE, Calif., March 5 (UPI) -- Some 10 percent of worldwide telecommuters wear nothing at all while working at home, finds a survey by the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based SonicWALL.

About 39 percent of respondents of both sexes said they wear sweats while working from home, but 12 percent of males and 7 percent of females wear nothing at all, according to a survey of 941 remote and mobile workers worldwide conducted by Insight Express and SonicWALL, a provider of integrated network security and productivity solutions.

Forty-four percent of women surveyed said they showered on work-at-home days, as opposed to 30 percent of men.

Seventy-six percent of the employees surveyed believe that working remotely from home is an aid to productivity and 61 percent are convinced that their managers agree with them.

More than half of the survey's respondents accessed the corporate network from home on a daily basis, with 86 percent logging in remotely several times a week."

Brain ... er ...food? Nuts for whales ...

2006-04-10T07:06:00.000+08:00

The species of whale known as the Black Right Whale has 4kgs of brains and 1 tonne of testicles. If it thinks at all, we know what it is thinking about.

-- Jon Lien (Professor, St. John's University, Newfoundland)

Killers The - Somebody Told Me LYRICS

2006-04-03T06:10:00.000+08:00

Killers The - Somebody Told Me LYRICS:
"Breaking my back just to know your name
Seventeen tracks and I've had it with this game
I'm breaking my back just to know your name
But heaven ain't close in a place like this
Anything goes but don't blink, you might miss
'Cause heaven ain't close in a place like this
I said heaven ain't close in a place like this
Bring it back down, bring it back down tonight
Never thought I'd let a rumour ruin my moonlight

Somebody told me you had a boyfriend
Who looked like a girlfriend
That I had in February of last year
It's not confidential, I've got potential

Ready let's roll onto something new
Takin' it's toll and I'm leaving without you
Ready let's roll onto something new
Anything goes but don't blink, you might miss
'Cause heaven ain't close in a place like this
I said heaven ain't close in a place like this
Bring it back down, bring it back down tonight
Never thought I'd let a rumour ruin my moonlight

Well, somebody told me you had a boyfriend
Who looked like a girlfriend
That I had in February of last year
It's not confidential, I've got potential a rushin' a rushin' around

Pace yourself for me
I said maybe, baby, please
But I just don't know now
When all I wanna do is try

Somebody told me you had a boyfriend
Who looked like a girlfriend
That I had in February of last year
It's not confidential, I've got potential a rushin' a rushin' around

Somebody told me you had a boyfriend
Who looked like a girlfriend
That I had in February of last year
It's not confidential, I've got potential a rushin' a rushin' around"

Steven Weinberg Quote

2006-04-03T04:06:00.000+08:00

"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion."

Steven Weinberg, quoted in The New York Times, April 20, 1999

Spot on!

Steven Weinberg Quotes - The Quotations Page:

Simon World :: New Hong Kong movie

2006-03-22T00:55:00.000+08:00

Backstab Mountain

Brought to you by the KCRC.

Windows noises mashup ... very clever

2006-03-20T14:10:00.000+08:00

windows_mix.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object)

Armed and Dangerous » Blog Archive » Where’s Tom Wolfe when you need him?

2006-03-20T12:33:00.000+08:00

Armed and Dangerous » Blog Archive » Where’s Tom Wolfe when you need him?: "Baseball star’s wife makes ultimate threat

The wife of a top US baseball player has vowed to have sex with all of his team mates if he ever cheats on her.

Anna Benson, a former model and stripper who was named Baseball’s Hottest Wife by FHM, is married to Mets pitcher Kris Benson.

She told Howard Stern’s radio show: “I told him, cheat on me all you want. If you get caught, I’m going to s***w everybody on your entire team. Coaches, trainers, players. I would do everybody on his whole team.”

Stern, egging her on, asked: “Even the coaches? What about, like, the bat boys?”

“Everybody would get a turn,” Anna pledged. “If my husband cheated on me and embarrassed me like that, I will embarrass him more than he could ever imagine.”

Uh huh. I see that, somehow, this woman managed to have a career as a “model and stripper” without developing the faintest shred of a clue how men think or respond to a challenge like this.

Bet on it. Somehere, a coalition of the most unattractive no-hopers in the Mets organization — probably organized by some dude with a beer gut, bad breath, and a bread-dough complexion who harbors a lo"

Amsterdam's "No Toking" Signs On Sale Next Week

2006-03-10T16:16:00.000+08:00

Amsterdam's "No Toking" Signs On Sale Next Week

I read earlier this week about the "no pot smoking" street signs in Amsterdam that are being stolen by those who apparently into the evil weed who thought they make pretty good souvenirs. So the city -- or the Baarsjes district of Amsterdam -- has decided to sell them. I've got a friend or two who I thought would find it amusing to get one of these as a gift. I tracked down the council site, found the right page with contact details, and sent an email to find more. That page has now been updated, plus I was also emailed some additional information. The signes go on sale through the web next week, and more "no toking" items will follow. Here's the info I just got emailed:

Information about purchasing the “blowverbodsbord” (no toking sign)

Dear Sir or Madam,

Thank you for your interest in our sign. It has taken a while to inform you about how to purchase the sign. We did not expect the enormous response.

Monday the 13th of february at 16.00 hours local time the sites www.noblowbord.nl and www.notokingsign.com will start. You will find information about purchasing the sign on these sites and you will be able to pay by creditcard.

The sign is 60 cm in diameter and made from highquality material. The sign can be delivered to you if you pay the shipping costs. Delivery time is approximately three weeks.

In due time we will offer you also other ”no toking” products like caps, t-shirts and different stickers.

If you have a creative idea for a new “no toking” product we would be most interested. In that case please contact no.blow.bord@vespro.nl . If your idea gets produced, you will receive a free sign and of course a free sample of your product.

We hope to have informed you.

Many greetings from Amsterdam

Geert Jan Stolk
Blowverbodsbord-campaign

CNN.com - New animal resembles furry lobster - Mar 8, 2006

2006-03-10T04:09:00.000+08:00

CNN.com - New animal resembles furry lobster

PARIS, France (AP) -- Divers have discovered a new crustacean in the South Pacific that resembles a lobster and is covered with what looks like silky, blond fur, French researchers said Tuesday.

Scientists said the animal, which they named Kiwa hirsuta, was so distinct from other species that they created a new family and genus for it.

A team of American-led divers found the animal in waters 2,300 meters (7,540 feet) deep at a site 1,500 kilometers (900 miles) south of Easter Island last year, according to Michel Segonzac of the French Institute for Sea Exploration.

The new crustacean is described in the journal of the National Museum of Natural History in Paris.

The animal is white and 15 centimeters (5.9 inches) long -- about the size of a salad plate.

In what Segonzac described as a "surprising characteristic," the animal's pincers are covered with sinuous, hair-like strands.

It's also blind. The researchers found it had only "the vestige of a membrane" in place of eyes, Segonzac said.

The researchers said that while legions of new ocean species are discovered each year, it is quite rare to find one that merits a new family.

The family was named Kiwaida, from Kiwa, the goddess of crustaceans in Polynesian mythology.

Low rider ...

2006-02-13T08:57:00.000+08:00

Tasty ....

Winners of the I Look Like My Dog Contest

2006-02-09T06:17:00.000+08:00

Top Topless Beaches of 2006

2006-02-04T17:47:00.000+08:00

Top Topless Beaches of 2006

Gmail - Fwd:

2006-02-03T07:52:00.000+08:00

From one of those chain letter things but it's not all trite ...

ONE. Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.

TWO. Marry a man/woman you love to talk to. As you get older, their conversational skills will be as important as any other.

THREE. Don't believe all you hear, spend all you have or sleep all you want.

FOUR. When you say, "I love you," mean it.

FIVE. When you say, "I'm sorry," look the person in the eye.

SIX. Be engaged at least six months before you get married.

SEVEN. Believe in love at first sight.

EIGHT. Never laugh at anyone's dreams. People who don't have dreams don't have much.

NINE. Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt but it's the only wayto live life completely.

TEN. In disagreements, fight fairly. No name calling.

ELEVEN. Don't judge people by their relatives.

TWELVE. Talk slowly but think quickly.

THIRTEEN. When someone asks you a question you don't want to answer, smile and ask, "Why do you want to know?"

FOURTEEN. Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

FIFTEEN. Say "bless you" when you hear someone sneeze.

SIXTEEN. When you lose, don't lose the lesson

SEVENTEEN. Remember the three R's: Respect for self; Respect for others; and responsibility for all your actions.

EIGHTEEN. Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.

NINETEEN. When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.

TWENTY. Smile when picking up the phone. The caller will hear it in your voice.

TWENTY-ONE. Spend some time alone.

EXCESS ALL AREAS

2006-01-28T16:38:00.000+08:00

Show me some e-learning now!

From E-learning Perspectives

What always strikes me when attending international e-learning conferences is how much speakers can say about e-learning and how little they can actually show ... as if e-learning was some kind of religion requiring faith more than facts, loyalty more than lucidity, belief more than insight.

When it comes to learning - and many other subjects for that matter - I personally like to judge for myself. For all those who feel the same way, I listed a series of links to e-learning modules that I happened to come across during my journeys on the web. Enjoy!

Very cool illusion

2006-01-28T16:27:00.000+08:00

Very cool illusion

Thirty-Eight Ways to Win an Argument

2006-01-25T05:22:00.000+08:00

Thirty - Eight Ways to Win an Argument, by Schopenhauer

Carry your opponent's proposition beyond its natural limits; exaggerate it. The more general your opponent's statement becomes, the more objections you can find against it. The more restricted and narrow your own propositions remain, the easier they are to defend.

Use different meanings of your opponent's words to refute his argument. Example: Person A says, "You do not understand the mysteries of Kant's philosophy." Person B replies, "Of, if it's mysteries you're talking about, I'll have nothing to do with them."

Ignore your opponent's proposition, which was intended to refer to some particular thing. Rather, understand it in some quite different sense, and then refute it. Attack something different than what was asserted.

Hide your conclusion from your opponent until the end. Mingle your premises here and there in your talk. Get your opponent to agree to them in no definite order. By this circuitous route you conceal your goal until you have reached all the admissions necessary to reach your goal.

Use your opponent's beliefs against him. If your opponent refuses to accept your premises, use his own premises to your advantage. Example, if the opponent is a member of an organization or a religious sect to which you do not belong, you may employ the declared opinions of this group against the opponent.

Confuse the issue by changing your opponent's words or what he or she seeks to prove. Example: Call something by a different name: "good repute" instead of "honor," "virtue" instead of "virginity," "red-blooded" instead of "vertebrates".

State your proposition and show the truth of it by asking the opponent many questions. By asking many wide-reaching questions at once, you may hide what you want to get admitted. Then you quickly propound the argument resulting from the proponent's admissions.

Make your opponent angry. An angry person is less capable of using judgment or perceiving where his or her advantage lies.

Use your opponent's answers to your question to reach different or even opposite conclusions.

If you opponent answers all your questions negatively and refuses to grant you any points, ask him or her to concede the opposite of your premises. This may confuse the opponent as to which point you actually seek him to concede.

If the opponent grants you the truth of some of your premises, refrain from asking him or her to agree to your conclusion. Later, introduce your conclusions as a settled and admitted fact. Your opponent and others in attendance may come to believe that your conclusion was admitted.

If the argument turns upon general ideas with no particular names, you must use language or a metaphor that is favorable to your proposition. Example: What an impartial person would call "public worship" or a "system of religion" is described by an adherent as "piety" or "godliness" and by an opponent as "bigotry" or "superstition." In other words, inset what you intend to prove into the definition of the idea.

To make your opponent accept a proposition , you must give him an opposite, counter-proposition as well. If the contrast is glaring, the opponent will accept your proposition to avoid being paradoxical. Example: If you want him to admit that a boy must to everything that his father tells him to do, ask him, "whether in all things we must obey or disobey our parents." Or , if a thing is said to occur "often" you are to understand few or many times, the opponent will say "many." It is as though you were to put gray next to black and call it white; or gray next to white and call it black.

Try to bluff your opponent. If he or she has answered several of your question without the answers turning out in favor of your conclusion, advance your conclusion triumphantly, even if it does not follow. If your opponent is shy or stupid, and you yourself possess a great deal of impudence and a good voice, the technique may succeed.

If you wish to advance a proposition that is difficult to prove, put it aside for the moment. Instead, submit for your opponent's acceptance or rejection some true proposition, as though you wished to draw your proof from it. Should the opponent reject it because he suspects a trick, you can obtain your triumph by showing how absurd the opponent is to reject an obviously true proposition. Should the opponent accept it, you now have reason on your side for the moment. You can either try to prove your original proposition, as in #14, maintain that your original proposition is proved by what your opponent accepted. For this an extreme degree of impudence is required, but experience shows cases of it succeeding.

When your opponent puts forth a proposition, find it inconsistent with his or her other statements, beliefs, actions or lack of action. Example: Should your opponent defend suicide, you may at once exclaim, "Why don't you hang yourself?" Should the opponent maintain that his city is an unpleasant place to live, you may say, "Why don't you leave on the first plane?"

If your opponent presses you with a counter-proof, you will often be able to save yourself by advancing some subtle distinction. Try to find a second meaning or an ambiguous sense for your opponent's idea.

If your opponent has taken up a line of argument that will end in your defeat, you must not allow him to carry it to its conclusion. Interrupt the dispute, break it off altogether, or lead the opponent to a different subject.

Should your opponent expressly challenge you to produce any objection to some definite point in his argument, and you have nothing to say, try to make the argument less specific. Example: If you are asked why a particular hypothesis cannot be accepted, you may speak of the fallibility of human knowledge, and give various illustrations of it.

If your opponent has admitted to all or most of your premises, do not ask him or her directly to accept your conclusion. Rather, draw the conclusion yourself as if it too had been admitted.

When your opponent uses an argument that is superficial and you see the falsehood, you can refute it by setting forth its superficial character.

But it is better to meet the opponent with acounter-argument that is just as superficial, and so dispose of him. For it is with victory that you are concerned, not with truth. Example: If the opponent appeals to prejudice, emotion or attacks you personally, return the attack in the same manner.

If your opponent asks you to admit something from which the point in dispute will immediately follow, you must refuse to do so, declaring that it begs the question.

Contradiction and contention irritate a person into exaggerating their statements. By contradicting your opponent you may drive him into extending the statement beyond its natural limit. When you then contradict the exaggerated form of it, you look as though you had refuted the original statement. Contrarily, if your opponent tries to extend your own statement further than your intended, redefine your statement's limits and say, "That is what I said, no more."

State a false syllogism. Your opponent makes a proposition, and by false inference and distortion of his ideas you force from the proposition other propositions that are not intended and that appear absurd. It then appears that opponent's proposition gave rise to these inconsistencies, and so appears to be indirectly refuted.

If your opponent is making a generalization, find an instance to the contrary. Only one valid contradiction is needed to overthrow the opponent's proposition. Example: "All ruminants are horned," is a generalization that may be upset by the single instance of the camel.

A brilliant move is to turn the tables and use your opponent's arguments against himself. Example: Your opponent declares: "so and so is a child, you must make an allowance for him." You retort, "Just because he is a child, I must correct him; otherwise he will persist in his bad habits."

Should your opponent suprise you by becoming particularly angry at an argument, you must urge it with all the more zeal. No only will this make your opponent angry, but it will appear that you have put your finger on the weak side of his case, and your opponent is more open to attack on this point than you expected.

When the audience consists of individuals (or a person) who is not an expert on a subject, you make an invalid objection to your opponent who seems to be defeated in the eyes of the audience. This strategy is particularly effective if your objection makes your opponent look ridiculous or if the audience laughs. If your opponent must make a long, winded and complicated explanation to correct you, the audience will not be disposed to listen to him.

If you find that you are being beaten, you can create a diversion--that is, you can suddenly begin to talk of something else, as though it had a bearing on the matter in dispute. This may be done without presumption if the diversion has some general bearing on the matter.

Make an appeal to authority rather than reason. If your opponent respects an authority or an expert, quote that authority to further your case. If needed, quote what the authority said in some other sense or circumstance. Authorities that your opponent fails to understand are those which he generally admires the most. You may also, should it be necessary, not only twist your authorities, but actually falsify them, or quote something that you have entirely invented yourself.

If you know that you have no reply to the arguments that your opponent advances, you by a find stroke of irony declare yourself to be an incompetent judge. Example: "What you say passes my poor powers of comprehension; it may well be all very true, but I can't understand it, and I refrain from any expression of opinion on it." In this way you insinuate to the audience, with whom you are in good repute, that what your opponent says is nonsense. This technique may be used only when you are quite sure that the audience thinks much better of you than your opponent.

A quick way of getting rid of an opponent's assertion, or of throwing suspicion on it, is by putting it into some odious category. Example: You can say, "That is fascism" or "Atheism" or "Superstition." In making an objection of this kind you take for granted 1)That the assertion or question is identical with, or at least contained in, the category cited; and 2)The system referred to has been entirely refuted by the current audience.

You admit your opponent's premises but deny the conclusion. Example: "That's all very well in theory, but it won't work in practice."

When you state a question or an argument, and your opponent gives you no direct answer, or evades it with a counter question, or tries to change the subject, it is sure sign you have touched a weak spot, sometimes without intending to do so. You have, as it were, reduced your opponent to silence. You must, therefore, urge the point all the more, and not let your opponent evade it, even when you do not know where the weakness that you have hit upon really lies.

Instead of working on an opponent's intellect or the rigor of his arguments, work on his motive. If you success in making your opponent's opinion, should it prove true, seem distinctly prejudicial to his own interest, he will drop it immediately. Example: A clergyman is defending some philosophical dogma. You show him that his proposition contradicts a fundamental doctrine of his church. He will abandon the argument.

You may also puzzle and bewilder your opponent by mere bombast. If your opponent is weak or does not wish to appear as if he has no idea what your are talking about, you can easily impose upon him some argument that sounds very deep or learned, or that sounds indisputable.

Should your opponent be in the right but, luckily for you, choose a faulty proof, you can easily refute it and then claim that you have refuted the whole position. This is the way in which bad advocates lose good cases. If no accurate proof occurs to your opponent, you have won the day.

Become personal, insulting and rude as soon as you perceive that your opponent has the upper hand. In becoming personal you leave the subject altogether, and turn your attack on the person by remarks of an offensive and spiteful character. This is a very popular technique, because it takes so little skill to put it into effect.

JackinWorld Science Corner

2006-01-25T05:07:00.000+08:00

JackinWorld Science Corner

Orgasm intensity and its associated feelings can both vary greatly. Sometimes a person experiences an orgasm that makes them feel like their entire body is going to explode, while at other times they might just experience a pleasant feeling of muscle relaxation. Influencing factors include a persons mood, psychological state, level of desire, relation to partner, drug or alcohol use, expectations, physical condition, and time since the last orgasm.

Psychology Today: The Orgasm Wars

2006-01-25T04:53:00.000+08:00

Psychology Today: The Orgasm Wars

For years, scientists have been debating the function of female
orgasm. Nowthey've finally figured it out. For women, the psychology of sexual
satisfaction turns out to be much more sophisticated than most (male) scientists
have been willing to concede. Of course.

Ever since Alfred Kinsey and Masters and Johnson made the subject of human
sexual response safe for respectable scientists, laboratory studies of the
physiologic "hows" of sexual arousal have flourished. Volunteers have been
prodded, filmed, tape-recorded, interviewed, measured, wired, and monitored,
quantifying for the annals of science the shortened breath, arched backs and
feet, grimacing faces, marginally intentional vocalizations, and jumping blood
pressure of human orgasm.

While physiological details abound, fewer scientists have attempted to answer
the "why" questions about human orgasm. To those who view human behavior in an
evolutionary framework, which we believe adds an invaluable perspective, male
orgasm is no great mystery. It's little more than a physiologically simple
ejaculation that is accompanied by a nearly addictive incentive to seek out
further sexual encounters. The greater the number of inseminations a male
achieves, the better his chances of being genetically represented in future
generations.

Compared with the more frequent and easily achieved orgasm men experience,
women's sexual climax has remained a mystery. After all, women do not need to
experience orgasm in order to conceive. So what is the function of orgasm in
females?

Darwinian theorists who made early attempts to address female orgasm proposed
that orgasm keeps a woman lying down after sex, passively retaining sperm and
increasing her probability of conception. Others suggested that it evolved to
create a stronger pair bond between lovers, inspiring in women feelings of
intimacy and trust toward mates. Some reasoned that orgasm communicates a
woman's sexual satisfaction and devotion to a lover.

Most recently, evolutionary psychologists have been exploring the proposition
that female orgasm is a sophisticated adaptation that allows women to
manipulate--even without their own awareness--which of their lovers will be
allowed to fertilize their eggs.

Male Nipples?

The diversity of evolutionary hypotheses reflects one general attitude: that
the quickened breath, moaning, racing heart, muscular contraction and spasms,
and nearly hallucinatory states of pleasure that orgasm inspires constitute a
complex physiologic event with apparently functional design. But critics of
adaptationist hypotheses have long argued that evolution is more slipshod than
purposeful. A few, including Harvard evolutionist Stephen lay Gould, have
insisted that female orgasm probably doesn't have a function.

Instead, Gould argues, female orgasm is incidental, caused by an anatomical
peculiarity of embryonic development. In embryos, the undifferentiated organ
that later becomes the penis in males becomes the ditoris in females.
Antiadaptationists like Gould--whose thinking uncannily parallels Freud's belief
that women spend their life in penis envy--hold that the clitoris is,
biologically speaking, an underdeveloped penis; it can let women mimic male
orgasm, but it has no functional relevance or evolutionary history of its
own.

Well known for his emphasis on chance events and structural constraints as
major players in the evolutionary process, Gould sees the supposed
functionlessness of female orgasm as a classic illustration why scientists ought
not automatically assume that a trait has adaptive significance. He criticizes
other evolutionists for overemphasizing natural selection and functionality, and
concludes that female orgasm is like the male nipple--nothing more than
developmental baggage.

Many evolutionists have rejected Gould's notion that women's orgasms are
developmentally contingent on men's. Unlike a male nipple, adaptationists have
pointed out, the female orgasm does something. It inspires strong emotions that
can affect bonding and sexual preferences, making women more likely to prefer
the company of one mate over another.

Only during the past few years have studies begun to yield evidence that may
resolve the baggage-versus-adaptation debate over women's orgasms.

Sperm Competition, with Women Judging

Clues for a reasonable adaptation hypothesis were readily available by the
late 1960s, when The British Medical Journal published an exchange of letters
about the muscular contractions and uterine suction associated with women's
orgasm. In one letter, a doctor reported that a patient's uterine and vaginal
contractions during sex with a sailor had pulled off his condom. Upon
inspection, the condom was found in her cervical canal! The doctor concluded
that female orgasms pull sperm closer to the egg as well.

Yet, it was only three years ago that two British biologists, Robin Baker and
Mark Bellis, tested the so-called upsuck hypothesis. They were building upon
ideas articulated by evolutionary biologist Robert Smith, who suggested that
since women don't have orgasms every time out, female orgasm favors some sperm
over others. Baker and Bellis sought to learn just how female orgasms might
affect which of a lover's sperm is used to fertilize a woman's eggs.

They asked volunteers to keep track of the timing of their orgasms during
sex, and, after copulation, to collect male ejaculates from vaginal flowback--a
technical term denoting a distinct form of material that emerges from the vagina
several hours after sex (scientists have devised a way to collect it). The team
counted sperm from over 300 instances of human copulation.

They discovered that when a woman climaxes any time between a minute before
to 45 minutes after her lover ejaculates, she retains significantly more sperm
than she does after nonorgasmic sex. When her orgasm precedes her male's by more
than a minute, or when she does not have an orgasm, little sperm is retained.
Just as the doctors' letters suggested decades earlier, the team's results
indicated that muscular contractions associated with orgasm pull sperm from the
vagina to the cervix, where it's in better position to reach an egg.

Baker and Bellis proposed that by manipulating the occurrence and timing of
orgasm--via subconscious processes--women influence the probability of
conception. So while a man worries about a woman's satisfaction with him as a
lover out of fear she will stray, orgasmic females may be up to something far
more clever--deciding which partner will sire her children.

Good Men Are Hard To Find

Meanwhile, other researchers were making discoveries about the nature of male
attractiveness. Behavioral ecologists had noted that female animals, from
scorpion flies to barn swallows, prefer males with high degrees of bilateral
body symmetry, called developmental stability in the parlance of science.

Development, or the translation of genes into parts of the body, can be
perturbed by stresses such as disease, malnutrition, or genetic defects. One
measure of developmental instability is deviation from bilateral symmetry in
traits like hands, eyes, and even birds' tail feathers. Males whose immune
systems are strong, and who forage well, develop with high symmetry, so females
who choose symmetrical suitors are securing good genes for their offspring.

Evolutionary biologist Randy Thornhill and psychologist Steve Gangestad at
the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque have tested whether humans also
share this preference. And indeed they do. In their studies, women consistently
identify as most attractive males whose faces (and other body parts) are most
symmetrical.

But this, it turns out, is more than a matter of mere aesthetics. A large and
growing body of medical literature documents that symmetrical people are
physically and psychologically healthier than their less symmetrical
counterparts.

Thornhill and Gangestad reasoned that if women's orgasms are an adaptation
for securing good genes for their offspring, women should report more orgasms
with relatively symmetrical mates. Collaborating for a second time, the two,
along with graduate student Randall Comer, devised some very interesting studies
to test this idea.

First they enrolled 86 sexually active heterosexual couples from among the
undergraduates. The average age of the partners was 22 and the couples had been
together an average of two years. Then the researchers had each person
privately--and anonymously--answer questions about his or her sexual
experiences.

The researchers took facial photographs of each person and analyzed the
features by computer; they also had them graded for attractiveness by
independent raters blind to the study. They measured various body parts to
assess bilateral symmetry--the width of elbow, wrist, hand, ankle, and foot
bones, and the length of the second and fifth fingers. Earlier studies had
suggested all of these were associated with health.

Indeed, the hypothesized relationship between male symmetry and female orgasm
proved to be true, the researchers recently reported in the journal Animal
Behavior (Vol. 50, December). From data on sexual behavior provided by the
women, those whose partners were most symmetrical enjoyed a significantly higher
frequency of orgasms during sexual intercourse than did those with less
symmetrical mates. Even the data on sexual experience provided by the men showed
the women had more orgasms with the most symmetrical men.

Of course, symmetry is a relative thing, and a relative rarity at that. No
one is perfectly symmetrical, and very high symmetry scores were few and far
between in this sample, as in others. In consolation, Thornhill and Gangestad
point out that the differences they are measuring are subtle, and most require
the use of calipers to detect.

What's Love Got To Do With It?

It's important to note what did not correlate with female orgasm during sex.
Degree of women s romantic attachment did not increase the frequency of orgasm!
Nor did the sexual experience of either partner. Conventional wisdom holds that
birth control and protection from disease up orgasm rates, since they allow
women to feel more relaxed during intercourse. But no relationship emerged
between female orgasm and the use of contraception.

Nor can the study results be explained by the possibility that the
symmetrical males were dating especially uninhibited and orgasmic women. Their
partners did not have more orgasms during foreplay or in other sexual
activities. Male symmetry correlated with a high frequency of female orgasm only
during copulation.

The findings support evolutionary psychologists' "good genes" hypothesis:
Women have orgasm more often with their most symmetrical lovers, increasing the
likelihood of conceiving these men's children. Well, that's how it would have
worked for millennia, before condoms and the Pill.

And it is for the precontraceptive stone age that our brains seem to be
built; the agricultural and industrial revolutions are flashes in the geological
pan, far too recent in evolutionary terms to have fundamentally changed the way
we experience emotions or sex. To argue, as may champions of chance like Gould,
that sexual attraction has remained completely arbitrary throughout evolution
seems increasingly unwarranted.

Cheating Hearts

Here's the cruelest part of Thornhill and Gangestad's findings: The males who
most inspire high-sperm-retention orgasmic responses from their sexual partners
don't invest more in their relationships than do other men. Studies show that
symmetrical men have the shortest courtships before having sexual intercourse
with the women they date. They invest the least money and time in them. And they
cheat on their mates more often than guys with less well-balanced bodies. So
much for the beleaguered bonding hypothesis, which wants us to believe that
women with investing, caring mates will have the most orgasms.

The women who took part in the study were no saints, either. They sometimes
faked orgasm. Their fakery was not related to male symmetry. Faking, however,
was more common among women who reported flirting with other men. Clearly
earlier theories were not too far off the mark when they proposed that a man
looks for cues of sexual satisfaction from his mate for reassurance about her
fidelity. Faking orgasms might be the easiest way for the woman with many lovers
to avoid the suspicions of her main partner.

Baker and Bellis found that when women do engage in infidelity, they retain
less sperm from their main partners (their husbands, in many cases), and more
often experience copulatory orgasms during their trysts, retaining semen from
their secret lovers. Taken together, these findings suggest that female orgasm
is less about bonding with nice guys than about careful, subconscious evaluation
of their lovers' genetic endowment.

Exhibit B

Patterns of female orgasm point to one important conclusion about our
evolutionary past--that sexual restraint did not prevail among women. But that's
only part of the evidence. Exhibit B is male ejaculation.

Baker and Bellis found that the number of sperm in men's ejaculate changes,
and it varies according to the amount of time that romantic partners have spent
apart. The longer a woman's absence, the more sperm in her husband's ejaculate
upon the couple's reunion. Males increase ejaculate size, it seems, to match the
increased risk that a mate was inseminated by a competitor.

In an ancestral environment of truly monogamous mating, there would have been
no need for females to have orgasm or for men to adjust ejaculate size. Both are
adaptations to a spicy sex life.

Male Bias

Darwin proposed that female animals' preferences have shaped male ornaments
such as peacocks' tails. But his audience--largely male scientists--laughed off
his theory of sexual selection on the grounds that females (human or otherwise)
are too fickle to exert the necessary selection pressure.

Today, evolutionary biology is no longer so completely a male discipline. But
many male evolutionists nevertheless carry old biases. The notion that female
orgasm is anything other than a developmental legacy leaving females able to
imitate "the real thing" will be difficult for some to accept. But as
uncomfortable as it may make many of us men--including male scientists--a
woman's orgasm appears to be a more complex and discriminating comment about her
lovers' merits than are our own.

Explosive Findings!

If we use his study's findings to understand how we humans are designed to
behave in the sexual domain, says Randy Thomhill, Ph.D., then we are better
equipped to deal with problems that arise in relationships. He points to the
following results as among those we should take to heart:

o A woman's capacity for orgasm depends not on her partner's sexual skill but
on her subconscious evaluation of his genetic merits.

o Women's orgasm has little to do with love. Or experience.

o Good men are indeed hard to find.

o The men with the best genes make the worst mates.

o Women are no more built for monogamy than men are. They are designed to
keep their options open.

o Women fake orgasm to divert a partner's attention from their
infidelities.

United Irelander: Irish warlord boasts 3 million descendants

2006-01-21T05:10:00.000+08:00

United Irelander: Irish warlord boasts 3 million descendants

Up to three million men around the world could be descended from a prolific medieval Irish king, according to a new genetic study.

It suggests that the 5th-century warlord known as "Niall of the Nine Hostages" may be the ancestor of about one in 12 Irishmen, say researchers at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Niall established a dynasty of powerful chieftains that dominated the island for six centuries.

In a study of the Y chromosome - which is only passed down through the male line - scientists found a hotspot in northwest Ireland where 21.5% carry Niall’s genetic fingerprint, says Brian McEvoy, one of the team at Trinity. This was the main powerbase of the Ui Neills, which literally translated means "descendants of Niall".

The Dictionary of Unfortunate Ideas: Niall of the Nine Hostages - The Musical!!!

2006-01-21T05:02:00.000+08:00

The Dictionary of Unfortunate Ideas: Niall of the Nine Hostages - The Musical!!!

The
Ballad of Niall of the Nine Hostages

Translated from the Celtic by Earl Fando
(public disclaimer - Mr. Fando knows approximately two
words of
Celtic...possibly)

Oh sit ye down, let me speak of him, a lad who you never could rile

A young man with real stamina, a bloke who's name was Niall

Oh Niall was a mighty rabbit man, a harer brave and pure,

But at the end of the day, put the rabbits away, it's shaggin' time for sure,

three hours sure.

The lasses liked him getting rough, their bonnets Niall would lob,

If not for the forming of the morning dew he'd still be on the job,

still be on the job.

Niall left his mark with the women folk, throughout the Emerald Isle

With Muireann, and Siobhán too, Dearbhaile (who was his wife)

Caitríona, and the rest have all been known by Niall!

**********

Strangely enough, this ancient Celtic ballad can be easily sung to the theme from href="http://www.cfhf.net/lyrics/gilligan.htm">Gilligan's Isand.

Global Protection Corp

2006-01-19T04:52:00.000+08:00

Global Protection Corp

Condom cartoon!

CNN.com - Mouthy�parrot 'reveals�sex secret' - Jan 17, 2006

2006-01-18T09:53:00.000+08:00

CNN.com - Mouthy�parrot 'reveals�sex secret' - Jan 17, 2006:

"LONDON, England -- A computer programmer found out his girlfriend was having an affair when his pet parrot kept repeating her lover's name, British media reported Tuesday.

The African grey parrot kept squawking 'I love you, Gary' as his owner, Chris Taylor, sat with girlfriend Suzy Collins on the sofa of their shared flat in Leeds, northern England.

But when Taylor saw Collins's embarrassed reaction, he realized she had been having an affair -- meeting her lover in the flat whilst Ziggy looked on, the UK's Press Association reported.

Ziggy even mimicked Collins's voice each time she answered her telephone, calling out 'Hiya Gary,' according to newspaper reports.

Call-center worker Collins, 25, admitted the four-month affair with a colleague called Gary to her boyfriend and left the flat she had shared with Taylor, 30, for a y

Fire Fart - Google Video

2006-01-18T08:27:00.000+08:00

Video: lighting a candle with a fart.

Mind Hacks: Does cannabis cause psychosis?

2006-01-16T16:53:00.000+08:00

Mind Hacks: Does cannabis cause psychosis? Stupid question, eh? Everyone knows it causes the munchies ...

His Noodly Appendage ...

2006-01-16T10:19:00.000+08:00

No, it's not what you might be thinking. Read about the Flying Spaghetti Monster: Open Letter - Intelligent Design.

Buy the Ambient Executive Dashboard

2006-01-13T23:09:00.000+08:00

Buy the Ambient Executive Dashboard

my oh my ...

La machine armee en etat de grace on Flickr

2006-01-13T21:27:00.000+08:00

La machine armee en etat de grace on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Hmmmm ... disturbing ....

Business FUNdamentals: Pig Catapult

2006-01-13T19:13:00.000+08:00

looks like fun!

ammmore � Blog Archive � KHRONOS PROJECTOR - Alvaro Cassinelli

2006-01-13T09:02:00.000+08:00

KHRONOS PROJECTOR - Alvaro Cassinelli
a video time-warping machine with a tangible deformable screen

Fox asks adoptees 'Who's Your Daddy?'. 15/12/2004. ABC News Online

2006-01-12T20:47:00.000+08:00

Fox asks adoptees 'Who's Your Daddy?'. 15/12/2004. ABC News Online.Unbelievable!

Railroad Absurdities

2006-01-05T07:57:00.000+08:00

Railroad Absurdities explains why the major design feature of the world's most advanced transportation system [the Space Shuttle] was originally determined by the width of a horse's ass.

Hong Kong Film Subtitles

2005-12-31T05:49:00.000+08:00

Hong Kong Film Subtitles: "Hong Kong Film Subtitles
A list of actual English subtitles used in films made in Hong Kong...
1. I am damn unsatisfied to be killed in this way.
2. Fatty, you with your thick face have hurt my instep.
3. Gun wounds again?
4. Same old rules: no eyes, no groin.
5. A normal person wouldn't steal pituitaries.
6. Damn, I'll burn you into a BBQ chicken!
7. Take my advice, or I'll spank you without pants.
8. Who gave you the nerve to get killed here?
9. Quiet or I'll blow your throat up.
10. You always use violence. I should've ordered glutinous rice chicken.
11. I'll fire aimlessly if you don't come out!
12. You daring lousy guy.
13. Beat him out of recognisable shape!
14. I have been scared shitless too much lately.
15. I got knife scars more than the number of your leg's hair!
16. Beware! Your bones are going to be disconnected.
17. The bullets inside are very hot. Why do I feel so cold?
18. How can you use my intestines as a gift?
19. This will be of fine service for you, you bag of the scum. I am sure you will not mind that I remove your manhoods and leave them out on the dessert floor for your aunts to eat.
20.Yah-hah, evil spider woman! I have captured you by the short rabbits and can now deliver you violently to your gynaecologist for (?)
21. Greetings, large black person. Let us not forget to form a team up together and go into the country to inflict the pain of our karate feets on some ass of the giant lizard person"

Piroutte

2005-12-30T13:05:00.000+08:00

Piroutte
Originally uploaded by modelux.

MMMMM

ToucheSexy

2005-12-30T12:57:00.000+08:00

ToucheSexy: "Kate's Playground : une hotte de 7 videos sexy"

Waiting

2005-12-30T12:55:00.000+08:00

Waiting
Originally uploaded by modelux.

Yummy huh?

Stylus Magazine's Top 50 Singles of 2005

2005-12-30T12:43:00.000+08:00

Stylus Magazine�s Top 50 Singles of 2005 - Article - Stylus Magazine

SOunds Like Techno

2005-12-30T11:40:00.000+08:00

I think it's a kind of history of techno!

Do you have a brilliant idea?

2005-12-06T02:33:00.000+08:00

Infinite ideas: Do you have a brilliant idea?

Perhaps you've a brilliant idea of your own that our author has missed?

Email us on yourauthormissedatrick@infideas.com and if it makes it into print in a future edition or on our web site, we'll send you 50 pounds and you'll be fully credited (if you want) so that everyone knows you've had a brilliant idea.

BBC NEWS | Europe | Russian squirrel pack 'kills dog'

2005-12-06T01:16:00.000+08:00

Squirrels have bitten to death a stray dog which was barking at them in a Russian park, local media report.

Passers-by were too late to stop the attack by the black squirrels in a village in the far east, which reportedly lasted about a minute.

It's over when the fat lady sucks ...

2005-11-22T01:45:00.000+08:00

Elizabeth's apology to Brad:

Brad,

It would be difficult for me to be any more miserable right now, I feel like the worst person ever. First, let me start by saying that I am truly truly sorry, and I hate myself for hurting you. Of all the people in the whole entire world, you were honestly the last person that I would ever want to wrong in any way. There is no excuse at all or anything that happened, so I won't even try other than to say all of us had WAY too much to drink, and I did a stupid thing.

I can handle you being pissed at me, I absolutely deserve it, I can even handle the ugly words that were exchanged between us, what I can't handle is thinking that you see me as a different person. It is weird, I feel like I just went through a horrible break up or something. The world looked funny yesterday, I couldn't crack a smile if you paid me, there are songs I can't listen to, and I just feel beyond crushed.

I don't know if you meant everything you said to me, and I am hoping that you didn't. I know that I was wrong on many levels, but I am also hoping that this is something that we can deal with. I know it sounds totally crazy and stupid, but you have come to play such a significant role in my life, I can't imagine my days without you. It is totally strange and weird to say that, and you could say that my behaviour didn't reflect that, and you would be correct.

I hate feeling like you hate me, and I hate feeling like all of your friends think I am a terrible person, because I am not. I know there is nothing I can say or do to take back what happened, but I just want you to know that fighting with you was just about the worst thing I could have ever imagined. It was right up there with one of the ugliest nights of my life, and I would give anything in the world to rewind and fix it.

I am not sure if you will respond to this, part of me thinks that you won't. If not today, then maybe some other time. Also, thanks for getting my stuff together, although I think my sunglasses are still at your house, if you could keep your eyes peeled for them that would be great. I can't even focus or work today, I can't eat, I seriously feel like it was an ugly break up, and I am hoping against hopes that it was not that and you are not done with me. Please don't cut me off, I really don't think I can handle that.

I am so sorry.

Elizabeth

Brad's response:

Dear Elizabeth,

Thank you for your concern. I'll be sure to file it away under "L" for "Long-winded diatribes from drunken whores I couldn't care less about".

You did a "stupid thing", huh? Not at all ... doing long division and forgetting to carry the one is a "stupid thing"; mixing in a red sock with a load of whites is a "stupid thing"; blowing some guy in a bathroom for 45 minutes while I sit at the bar wondering if you're taking so long because you ate too much bran that morning isn't as much a "stupid thing" as it is grounds for permanent removal from my social calendar.

To be honest, I'm not sure if it was more amusing that you went and degraded yourself in a public toilet not once but twice in a 2-hour span, or that you seemed to think that by saying: "Well, I didn't f**k him!" somehow gave you a clean slate. So forgive me if I couldn't care less if the world "looked funny" to you yesterday. Since your world revolves around blow dryers, golden retrievers, Prada Bags and Jelly Beans, I'm sure it must have been most unsettling to actually have considered someone else's feelings for a whole day.

The good news for you is that my friends don't think you're a "terrible person", they just think you're the average, run-of-the-mill, cum-guzzling blond who commands about as much respect as your average child porn collector. I could be wrong but, it's pretty hard to respect some chick who comes out to spend the night at my place even though she's seeing someone else in New jersey and winds up tongue-bathing the taint of anyone who decides 30 minutes of droning commentary on Colin Farrell's new haircut is worth putting up with for a hand job in the men's room. The good thing about being a guy is that when I eventually bump into the young lad who finger-blasted you on top of a towel dispenser last saturday, we'll have a shot and laugh our heads off about the time it happened.

By the way, for the amount of time you claim to spend in spin class you really must be doing something wrong to sport the thunder thighs you do. Watching you parade around my bedroom in a thong was a little like watching sea lions mate. Thought you might like to know.

Talk to you never,

Brad

PS. I BCC'd about 100 people on this email.

Cool Tool: Behind Bars: Surviving Prison

2005-11-04T06:58:00.000+08:00

Cool Tool: Behind Bars: Surviving Prison: "Defense attorneys are like stockbrokers: They collect their fees and commissions on the amount of business they do, no matter whether their customers win or lose. As officers of the court, their first allegiance is to the legal system, even at the expense of their clients. Most lawyers who practice in criminal courts make a good living losing most of their cases, a fact that they rarely share with their clients."

International Harm Reduction Association

2005-10-07T03:55:00.000+08:00

International Harm Reduction Association: "Estimated expenditure on cannabis in Australia is twice that of wine
Three facts about marihuana prices.Clements KW. The Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics. 2004. 48:2; 271-300.
The price of cannabis has declined more than 40% (4.9% p.a.) in real terms during the 1990s, far greater than for most other agricultural products. Cannabis price may be declining because of increasing use of more efficient hydroponic cultivation techniques and also because decreasing law enforcement lowered the 'full cost' of cannabis. The number of national arrests and prosecutions per 100,000 population fell by almost one third between 1996 and 2001. Penalties also became less severe. If cannabis price had been constant, consumption of beer would have been 2.4% higher, wine 4.9% higher, spirits 9.8% higher and cannabis 10.4% lower.
Comment: As the health, social and economic costs of alcohol are greater than for cannabis, decreasing cannabis prices may have reduced harm from legal drugs."

How A Nice Guy Becomes A Dickhead

2005-09-16T02:52:00.000+08:00

Why Your Wife Won't Have Sex With You

2005-09-06T20:54:00.000+08:00

Of Orgasm and Effort

LONDON, England (Reuters) -- Women who have difficulty reaching orgasm can blame it on their genes.

Like heart disease, anxiety and depression, scientists discovered in a study of 1,397 pairs of female twins that there is a genetic basis to female orgasm.

"We found that between 34 percent and 45 percent of the variation in ability to orgasm can be explained by underlying genetic variation," said Tim Spector, of the Twin Research Unit at St Thomas' Hospital in London.

"There is a biological underlying influence that can't be attributed purely to upbringing, religion or race."

Other studies have attributed differences in the ability to achieve orgasm to cultural, religious and psychological factors.

Between 12 to 15 percent of women don't have orgasms compared to about 2 percent of men. Males are also quicker at 2.5 minutes, while the average time it takes for a woman to reach orgasm is 12 minutes, according to Spector.

"Why is there this biological difference between the sexes? The fact that some of this is heritable suggests that evolution has a role," he told a news conference.

Spector suggested reaching an orgasm could be a way for women to assess whether a man would make a good long-term partner. It may also increase fertility, according to some theories.

In a study of identical and non-identical twins published on Wednesday in the journal Biology Letters, Spector and his team found huge variations when they surveyed them about sexual problems.

One in three women, or 32 percent, said they never or infrequently had an orgasm. But 14 percent said they always had an orgasm during intercourse.

"More women were able to orgasm during masturbation, with 34 percent always reaching orgasm," the researchers said in the journal. ...

"There is something biological that explains some of this large variation between women," he said, adding that many genes could be involved. ...

But Spector said orgasm is a very complex process which is poorly understood. Little research has been done because it is still a taboo subject. Anatomical and biological features and psychological factors may all play a part.

As someone remarked in the discussion where I lifted this article, only 34% "always" reaching orgasm during masturbation seems extremely low. You wonder why a person would bother masturbating if they couldn't get the payoff. But perhaps there was an alternate, "almost always" answer that could be chosen on the survey. Even I have been known to give up on Getting There a time or two.

A person really can be "too pooped to pop" sometimes. Trying to work up the necessary muscular, neurological and vascular tension to get over the top is genuinely tiring. It seems almost effortless if you only have to work for 2-3 minutes to Make It, but when you have to strive for a quarter of an hour or more, sometimes -- in prospect at least, and at the end of a long day -- the work-to-benefit ratio doesn't recommend itself.

This is part of what men don't understand. For them (and yes, I'm generalizing, get used to it), sex = fabulous pleasure from a minimum amount of physical work. Although they may have to work pretty hard to get their partners off, the actual sex part is always great. Guaranteed. But intercourse can begin to seem like a boring, messy chore if you're not going to get off from it. And it looks like almost a third of women can't make it that way. There are many others who only have orgasms from intercourse intermittently, and that means they have had many experiences of working long and fruitlessly toward... nothing.

And consider how appealing this effort would be with a partner who bores, sickens or infuriates you. Do you resent your wife? Do you carry around a load of anger against her? Is she physically unappealing to you now? Okay, whatever. Here's the question: Given your feelings (justified or not) if it was going to take you 15 minutes of tense effort to get off AND you only got there 25% of the time anyway, even after all that work, wouldn't you be a little reluctant to put out for her?

Don't you wish your wife was one of the lucky 14 percent who "always" have orgasms during intercourse?

She wishes she was, too.

Observer | The brothel creeper

2005-08-03T04:25:00.000+08:00

The brothel creeper

As the debate rages about the pros and cons of legalising prostitution, Sebastian Horsley - a man who's slept with more than 1,000 prostitutes - gives a controversial and candid account of his experience of paying for sex

Sebastian Horsley
Sunday September 19, 2004

Observer

I remember the first time I had sex - I still have the receipt. The girl was alive, as far as I could tell, she was warm and she was better than nothing. She cost me £20.

I was 16 then and I'm 41 now. I have spent 25 years throwing my money and heart at tarts. I have slept with every nationality in every position in every country. From high-class call girls at £1,000 a pop to the meat-rack girls of Soho at £15, I have probably slept with more than 1,000 prostitutes, at a cost of £100,000.

I am a connoisseur of prostitution: I can take its bouquet, taste it, roll it around my mouth, give you the vintage. I have used brothels, saunas, private homes from the internet and ordered girls to my flat prompt as pizza. While we are on the subject, I have also run a brothel. And I have been a male escort. I wish I was more ashamed. But I'm not. I love prostitutes and everything about them. And I care about them so much I don't want them to be made legal.

In English brothels you shuffle into a seedy room so dim you can only meet the girl by Braille. But in New York last year I sat on a four-poster bed while 10 girls paraded in front of me one by one, like bowls of sushi on a carousel. 'Hi,' they would say, 'I'm Tiffany', 'I'm Harmony', 'I'm Michelle', and I would rise and kiss them. It was so touching, so sweet, so kind. There should always, no matter what, be politeness. It is the way the outside world should work, selfishly but honestly.

The great thing about sex with whores is the excitement and variety. If you say you're enjoying sex with the same person after a couple of years you're either a liar or on something. Of all the sexual perversions, monogamy is the most unnatural. Most of our affairs run the usual course. Fever. Boredom. Trapped. This explains much of the friction in our lives - love being the delusion that one woman differs from another. But with brothels there is always the exhilaration of not knowing what you're going to get.

The problem with normal sex is that it leads to kissing and pretty soon you've got to talk to them. Once you know someone well the last thing you want to do is screw them. I like to give, never to receive; to have the power of the host, not the obligation of the guest. I can stop writing this and within two minutes I can be chained, in the arms of a whore. I know I am going to score and I know they don't really want me. And within 10 minutes I am back writing. What I hate are meaningless and heartless one-night stands where you tell all sorts of lies to get into bed with a woman you don't care for.

The worst things in life are free. Value seems to need a price tag. How can we respect a woman who doesn't value herself? When I was young I used to think it wasn't who you wanted to have sex with that was important, but who you were comfortable with socially and spiritually. Now I know that's rubbish. It's who you want to have sex with that's important. In the past I have deceived the women I have been with. You lie to two people in your life; your partner and the police. Everyone else gets the truth.

Part of me used to enjoy the deception. There was something about the poverty of desire with one's girlfriend. Sex without betrayal I found meaningless. Without cruelty there was no banquet. Having a secret life is exhilarating. I also have problems with unpaid-for sex. I am repulsed by the animality of the body, by its dirt and decay. The horror for me is the fact that the sublime, the beautiful and the divine are inextricable from basic animal functions. For some reason money mitigates this. Because it is anonymous.

What I hate with women generally is the intimacy, the invasion of my innermost space, the slow strangulation of my art. The writer chained for life to the routine of a wage slave and the ritual of copulation. When I love somebody, I feel sort of trapped. Three years ago I was saved. I found a girl whom I could fall in love with ... and sleep with prostitutes with. She sends me to brothels to sleep with women for her. I buy her girls for her birthday and we go to whorehouses together. I am free forever from the damp, dark prison of eternal love.

A prostitute exists outside the establishment. She is either rejected by it or in opposition to it, or both. It takes courage to cross this line. She deserves our respect, not our punishment. And certainly not our pity or prayers.

Of course, the general feeling in this country is that the man is somehow exploiting the woman, but I don't believe this. In fact, the prostitute and the client, like the addict and the dealer, is the most successfully exploitative relationship of all. And the most pure. It is free of ulterior motives. There is no squalid power game. The man is not taking and the woman is not giving. The whore fuck is the purest fuck of all.

Why does a sleazy bastard like me like whores so much? Why pay for it? The problem is that the modern woman is a prostitute who doesn't deliver the goods. Teasers are never pleasers; they greedily accept presents to seal a contract and then break it. At least the whore pays the flesh that's haggled for. The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.

But it is more than this. What I want is the sensation of sex without the boredom of its conveyance. Brothels make possible contacts of astounding physical intimacy without the intervention of personality. I love the artificial paradise; the anonymity; using money, the most impersonal instrument of intimacy to buy the most personal act of intimacy. Lust over love, sensation over security, and to fall into a woman's arms without falling into her hands.

Having an instinctive sympathy for those condemned by conventional society, I wanted to cross the line myself. To pay for sex is to strip away the veneer of artifice and civilisation and connect with the true animal nature of man. Some men proudly proclaim that they have never paid for it. Are they saying that money is more sacred than sex?

But one of the main reasons I enjoy prostitutes is because I enjoy breaking the law - another reason I don't want brothels made legal. There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it desirable. When I have dinner every evening in Soho I always think: isn't scampi delicious - what a pity it isn't illegal. I'm sure I am not alone in this. Even Adam himself did not want the apple for the apple's sake; he wanted it only because it was forbidden.

As for the girls, the argument is that making it legal will somehow make it safer, but Soho has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. Anyway, crime and risk are part of the texture of life. Indeed, Freud tells us: 'Life loses interest when the highest stake in the game of living, life itself, may not be risked.' Risk is what separates the good part of life from the tedium.

I decided to ask my Claudia, my favourite prostitute. I first spotted her in the street in Knightsbridge 10 years ago and was so taken by her haunted beauty that I decided to follow her. There was an air of great quality about Claudia. The faces of English girls look as if there is not enough materials to go round. They have thin lips and papery eyelids, box jawbones, prominent Adam's apples and withered hearts. Claudia looks Mediterranean - her lips are full and curly, her nostrils flared, her eyes black and as big as saucers.

She walked and I stalked all the way to Soho and down Brewer Street. No. No way. She couldn't be! She turned, and walked into a brothel. I couldn't believe it. I could fuck Raquel Welch for £25.

When I ask if she wants prostitution legalised, she reacts violently: 'No way! I tried to take a regular job a few months ago. After tax and national insurance I was left with practically nothing. So I came back here. On a good day here I can take £500. I don't have a pimp, so after paying the overheads and the maid I've got more than enough.' There you are. Income tax has made more liars out of the British people than prostitution.

I know a little bit about the business side. Some years ago I became a madam and a male escort. I turned one of the rooms in my flat in Shepherd Market into a knocking shop and joined an escort agency. I went into prostitution looking for love, not money. That said, I always took cash. The women wanted company, someone willing to please at the midnight hour, and straight sex. It was nerve-wracking wondering if I was going to be able to get it up or get on, but at least I had a valid reason for liking my lovers - they paid me. I didn't care if someone called me a whore and a pimp.

So you see, I have always been a prostitute by sympathy. As for the rest of society, prostitution is the mirror of man, and man has never been in danger of becoming bogged down in beauty. So why don't we leave it alone? Or learn to love it, like me? Sex is one of the most wholesome, spiritual and natural things money can buy. And like all games, it becomes more interesting when played for money. And even more so when it is illegal.

Hookers and drunks instinctively understand that common sense is the enemy of romance. Will the bureaucrats and politicians please leave us some unreality. I know what you are thinking. That it's all very well for people like me to idealise whores and thieves; to think that the street is somehow noble and picturesque; I have never had to live there. But so what? One day I will. Until such time, I have to pay for it. How else would someone young, rich and handsome get sex in this city? Yes, yes, I know. Prostitution is obscene, debasing and disgraceful. The point is, so am I.

Story

BBC - Tees Have Your Say - Pearls of wisdom

2005-08-03T04:21:00.000+08:00

BBC - Tees Have Your Say - Pearls of wisdom: "'It's nice to be important but it's more important to be nice.'"

winston churchill Quotes � Quotations by winston churchill

2005-07-17T09:38:00.000+08:00

Quotations by winston churchill:

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."

"Personally I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught."

"Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me."

And my favourite: "If you are going through hell, keep going."
Right on ...
I only learned recently that his mother was American ... do the Americans know this? I think not ...

RTHK ON INTERNET

2005-06-22T17:39:00.000+08:00

Former top footballer jailed for rape

2005-06-22 HKT 16:03

A former goalkeeper for Hong Kong's National Football team has been jailed for five years, after he was convicted of raping his Filipino domestic helper three years ago. Lau Tung-Ping was originally sentenced to six years jail at his trial in 2003. He was awarded a re-trial but was again convicted. In sentencing, Mr Justice Pang Kin-Kee said he'd reduced the minimum 6-year prison term for rape by a year, after taking into account defence pleas for leniency.

DJ Niall says:
Tip of the ice-berg ... castration is too good for those who think that domestic helpers are servants to be abused with impunity.
But I am against cpaital punishment: it wouldn't be right to cut off anyone's nuts or anyone's head. FOr one thing, the justice system is not perfect and innocent men do get convicted. Just ask any random group of prisononers and as many as 100% might be innocent!
Anyway, I am a little consoled by the knowledge that rapists are automatically confined to the lowest levels of the hong kong prison inmate ranking system. Just above or around the same as that of paedophiles, I would think.
So what does that mean in practical terms? It means they will find it much harder to get a well-paying job (e.g. $300 per month as a 'skilled' worker in one of the workshops) and will likely suffer from regular verbal abuse and occasional -- but generally non-life-threatening -- physical threats. Come to think of it, they will be treated more or less as a 'fag' in one of England's 'public' schools would have been in the 19th century ...

Contentious � Feeds, Podcasts, and Wikis: My Handout

2005-06-11T12:05:00.000+08:00

Contentious � Feeds, Podcasts, and Wikis: My Handout

2005-06-02T13:08:00.000+08:00

Hung like a ... squirrel?

PFY proves self abuse cures male-pattern baldness | The Register

2005-06-02T12:53:00.000+08:00

PFY proves self abuse cures male-pattern baldness | The Register
We may have lost the Empire but our sense of humour still thrives ... note: humoUr not humor, OK?