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Donkey Punch I and II

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Incredibly, they’ve gone and made a high budget version of…

DONKEY PUNCH!!!! 😀

My favorite review of all time is on that movie, I’m sure you ALL
remember it 😀

(Here it is again, should you wish to reperuse it at your leisure:
http://www.somethingawful.com/d/horrors-of-porn/donkey-punch.php)

YES!

And the point of this message?

THEY’VE REMADE AND RE-RELEASED IT!!!

Now I’m sure only a tiny minority of you has actually SEEN the
original, but let me tell you. It was… unforgettable.

Anyway, apparently the second version is higher budget than the first
one but just as depraved.

Here is the pile of distress heaped onto it by the completely
disgusted Dialy Mail reporter

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1035810/Donkey-Punch-vilest-film-Ive-seen-says-AMANDA-PLATELL.html?fark

Using TV style voting in physics class

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Professors in the US are using TV voting machines (called ‘clickers’) to test students’ knowledge of the subject being taught during lectures. As they vote, bar graphs go up in real time allowing people to see how the voting is going.

Students using the clicker system score 10% higher than without and it seems to level the field between the genders.

Even though the students are not forced to participate in the clicking, 90% generally do. If you add an incentive, 98% do.

EU to protect singers for 95 years

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Because the record companies insist on following a dramatically failing business model, the EU now wants to encourage their incompetence. They want to raise the period that a rightsholder has rights to their performance (of any song, not necessarily one their own) from 50 years to 95 years, like in the US.

One of the claimed arguments is that if you performed something at the age of 20, when you’re 70 you won’t have any income from it any more. Of course, maybe you should just work in the intervening 50 years and build up a pension just like the rest of us.

More than that though, it props up the incompetent recording companies who we don’t really need as we can see by the increasing amount of independant production companies and the falling sales. They generally own the rights of a performance as they generally strip these rights off the happless 20 year old performer who is only too happy to be given the chance to perform at all.

Cocaine technology

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Where cocaine smugglers used to use cigarette boats, very fast boats and small aircraft to move drugs into the US, now they’re using partial submersibles, which travel just below the surface of the water and are easily scuttled. If the crew is caught by the navy, they sink the ship and the navy is left with a rescue mission, no proof and none of the crewmembers willing to talk, as they’re very aware that there is no evidence left.

Encrypt all your traffic!

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The guys from the Pirate Bay have an ambitious plan to encrypt everything stored on your computer and everything transmitted to and from your PC using IPETEE or Transparent end-to-end encryption for the Internets

With Europe implementing a 3 strikes – out and turning into the same spying-on-your-citizens-in-the-name-of-freedom/security/whatever type of place as the commie US is, these kinds of technologies become more and more important.

USAF Tanker acquisition

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This has now gone into a total and utter farce. First there’s a competition, from which there’s a clear winner. This is what the USAF wants to have. The winner isn’t an American company, but will create and sustain more American jobs than choosing the American country. So Boeing sues on spurious grounds. Then the Government Accountability Office claws in and states they think the Air Force didn’t select properly. Now when the Air Force is expected to deliver its verdict (taking into account the GAO report), the DoD strips the Air Force of the ability to choose and the politicians will be in charge of deciding which hardware the military is going to have to go to war with. This sounds like a really very bad idea indeed. Of course with the contract valued at $35 billion, there’s understandably a whole host of politicians who want their grubby little hands on some of that action.

Google Earth Weather – Global Clouds Animation

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Well, it took a little while to find, but Barnabu has a live cloud layer, offered as a KML, which they then half the resolution from, and put into a time lapse system which shows the last 10 days, which you can then play through.

Very nice implementation of something I’ve so far only managed to find in Earth Browser which used to be programmed in Quicktime and is now made using Adobe Air.

Is the UK coming to its senses?

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James Hall, head of the British Identity and Passport Service has come out and condemned centralised databases and expressed doubt at the ability of the government to adequately secure your personal data. The conservatives are allready suggesting keeping the data in seperate databases. This is a much, much better solution, as each acces to each database can be controlled, meaning there is less potential for misuse as well as less chance of all your data being compromised in one time.