Having actually grown up with a great deal of exposure to Dr Seuss, I can appreciate the odd green eggs and ham pun here and there, but material like this,
http://www.seuss.org/seuss/seuss.sttng.html
makes me want to gouge my eyes out.
Monthly Archives: November 2005
Church of bones
40,000 dead form morbidly fascinating sculptures and artwork; skeletons meticulously fashioned in 1870 by a wood carver. This is Sedlec’s Church of All Saints ossuary in the Czech Republic.
http://www.artgraphica.net/art-shop/prague-kutna-hora-bone-church.htm
This just made my list of places to go before I kick the bucket.
ELMS
.. that stands for the ‘Encyclopedia of Lesbian Movie Scenes’. If you think this is even remotely safe for work, you deserve all you get for clicking it at your place of employment.
http://www.clublez.com/movies/index.html
It’s fairly tame, but I am impressed and somewhat disturbed by the attention to detail shown here.
Patent office gone made
The journal Nature said patent 6,960,975 was granted Nov. 1 to Boris Volfson of Huntington, Ind., for a space vehicle propelled by a superconducting shield that alters the curvature of space-time outside the craft in a way that counteracts gravity.
Maybe you could use it to put in bra’s!
Zimbabwe, that crazy place!
Second Hand software
Blue Ball Machine
The blue ball machine is a blue ball factory you can happily keep watching.
The site has quite a few more of these weird little things on it as well, also worth checking out.
or for pure strangeness, we have Batman ualuealuealeuale
BTW this reminds me of Hamsterdance (which, sadly, is now down)
Iran going mad?
There must be a plan, but when it involves
a) sacking 40 of your ambassadors
b) sacking 8 heads of your biggest banks
c) having your stock exchange plummet 25% in 4 weeks time
d) choosing two candidates to head your oil exports, who know nothing of the oil business whatsover, and having the first voted against and the second calling it quits just hours before the vote
e) following a religious leader as a politician who is more hard-line than Khameni
and
f) getting the Atomic Energy Agency to submit your nuclear power programme to the UN security council
either something’s going wrong, or it’s not such a good plan…
Smelly orders
ID Fraud Lord Buckingham
BBC and el Reg are running great stories about some guy who read Day of the Jackal and decided to find a dead baby, take his birth certificate, open a bank account, get a passport – and live as this baby for 23 years! Of course, he had to go and take a fictional title (Earl of Buckingham) which hadn’t been in use since 1700 or so.
After getting married, fathering two sons, getting a divorce, this IT consultant was finally caught in 2003 and arrested for travelling under false documentation.
The stories are here:
BBC
The Register
Now, the question they fail to answer is: how did they twig on him at all? I’ve read the Day of the Jackal and the way the method works means that the passport he was travelling under was not a forgery…
The Moon on World Wind
IBM on the way to light based computing
Talking translator thing
Sony installs a rootkit on your system
Mark’s Sysinternals was playing around with RootkitRevealer and discovered that Sony installs its own media player on your PC, reroutes windows systems calls and hides itself to limit the amount of copies that can be made of the disc. Now you could call it DRM I guess, but if you try to remove the modifications it made, you end up breaking your windows installation, which nothing short of a format and re-install will fix. Begad, it’s a rootkit virus!