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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
Julius Popp of Spherical Robots has created a display / monitor by using falling water. The density of the water creates the pixels. The results are fairly amazing:

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.
Phorm is a company that has been eavesdropping on the 3 largest UK ISPs (BT Internet, Virgin Media and Carphone Warehouse) without a legal reason to do so or anybody’s consent.
I first got wind of it in April but the Register has been covering it very comprehensively.
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.
I went Apple for a few months with a G4 Powerbook, but rapidly ran into the piles of proprietary junk Apple has all over the place.
Apple is Evil and no matter how cool their kit looks, Apple is an uber-Borg on the make. The FSF agrees and here’s why you should not get an iPhone 3G,
http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/5-reasons-to-avoid-iphone-3g/blogentry_view
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.

Anyway, they’re now in production again in the USA, so for around $60K you can have a new one!

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.