To my surprise, Dutch higher courts dispute the right of music companies (in NL BREIN is the equivalent of RIAA) to obtain IP addresses from your ISP, hack your computer, scan your harddrive and then link it to an individual. BREIN comes out stinky in the court’s verdict as breaching privacy laws. Hurray for freedom!
Finally someone has decided to fly those fuckers who banned us from smoking in the face: Smintair (Smoking International Airways) is planning to open a route between Dusseldorf and Tokyo, for smokers only! Apparently they will have an above average air cleansing system and extra comforts. They hope to make the first flight on March Read more about Airlines for smokers – Smintair[…]
Apparently in the 1950s mr. Heineken tried to do something for the world by creating beer bottles that could be used to create housing in poor areas from. Unfortunately the plan was voted down somehow.
Apparently it’s a very old symbol, used to signify the Earth Mother, female anatomy and reproductive potenency.
The BBC has a map showing the population of urban centres globally over time. What it very specifically shows is that the Middle East and Asia are growing at an astonishing pace.
Nice little optical illusion, showing the effect of imprinting on the cones in our eyes.
An interesting way of viewing the globe using maps where countries get larger as they have more of a property and smaller as they have less. This site has quite a few properties they’ve mapped the world to.
This guy hooked a few hundred random number generators up all over the world and they feed to a single output. When major world events occur statistical anomalies occur with the random number generation. Caused by world consciousness or something.
Flower vendors cause 50 police injured, 11 seriously and take another 11 police hostage, set up road blocks and refuse to budge. Who’d have thunk it?
A nice wikihowto on how to go about opening your mind
Instead of just moving blood around, PT-141 – a nasal inhalor – works on the brain causing arousal, for both men and women. So you don’t just walk around with a huge erection, you also actually feel like having sex too!
In a sample size of 232 users, people had their eye movements tracked and mapped over three different websites. This showed that people viewed websites in an F-shaped pattern. Interesting pictures.
Over the ages, going back a long way – very inventive some of them
If you’re an anti-tourist and just want to see… more… of the place.
The Wall Street Journal letters editor has a lovely rant on how a six year old kid could possibly be ‘sexually harassing’ another six year old girl by placing two fingers inside a girl’s waistband. It ruminates on how ridiculous the situation is becoming in America – take heed Europe, we don’t want to go Read more about The 20th century sissy[…]
The tunbridge heist which netted the robbers GBP 50m – making it the biggest heist in the past 100 years – now has a reward offered by the security company on it for GBP 2m.
First it’s peak oil, then the Shell tells us they don’t have as many reserves as they’ve been telling us, then the scientists claim that oil will NEVER run out, and now Kuwait – believed to hold 10% of the world’s oil reserves – claims that they actually… uhm… have only HALF what they thought Read more about Peak Oil just keeps happening![…]
Soothe a burn, cure a toothache, clear a stuffed nose… 18 tricks…
Let ’em know you care.. http://gbehh.com/cards/index_cards.html So, they’re not your usual trite. inane, sappy e-cards. Next time someone sends you one of those, reply with one of these. That is, if you really don’t want to hear from them again.
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.
Pure pwnage liek 0wnz n00bz liek totally! An excellent ‘reality TV documentary’ style series about the life of the pro gamer, 0wning n00bz on internet for free download. First rate, very funny, original and well worth watching… BOOM! HEADSHOT! I’m gonna so own you with my micro!
Global warming? Global dimming? Arms control? Corporate power? Manipulative media? This site covers it all.. http://www.globalissues.org/
THE world’s largest frozen peat bog is melting. An area stretching for a million square kilometres across the permafrost of western Siberia is turning into a mass of shallow lakes as the ground melts, according to Russian researchers just back from the region. The sudden melting of a bog the size of France and Germany Read more about Climate warning as Siberia melts[…]
Numbers and statistics mapped to the Blue Marble. http://www.worldprocessor.com/
Yup – you can now download Ed Wood’s infamous classic, the worst movie ever made, in its entirety for free!