The National Library of Australia has digitized Captain Cooks Dairy of the Endevour Mission which lead to the discovey of the East Coast of Australia available here. You know, I was raised in the Sutherland Shire in Sydney where Cook landed and attended the commemerations of the landing regularly. I hear do-gooders are trying to get the memorial site taken down due to some politcal correct rubbish about invasions and the like. Sad what the world is coming to…after all, would they have preferred the French?
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What next, electronic drugs?
The world is a weird place, and although I can see the military uses for this, can you imagine this in your living room. I mean, seriously, next it will be sim-drugs, maybe a helmet that makes you nuseau’s and similutes the sound of an ambulance coming to save you? who knows, but who’s seriously want to buy a computer game that delivered an electronic shock? even worse, I can see the mods now, with home brew variations that pump up the juice on the shock so as to risk even full cardiac arrest, or then again it would be just like having your own heart start machine, maybe the game can ship with a “rescue” disk which instructs users how to restart a heart? Bizarre…..
Sydney Morning Herald: “Coming soon: a PC combat game that shoots back“
A combat simulator developed for the US military that “shoots” back, delivering an electric shock strong enough to knock down players, could be the next big thing for home-computer games.
A Texas-based company, VirTra Systems, is selling the combat simulator to military and police forces around the world. Its spokesman, Steve Haag, said Australian armed forces had expressed an interest in getting one.
Players enter a platform with a 360-degree screen that shows scenarios such as freeing hostages, street gun fights, taking out suicide bombers and team attacks on enemy positions. And VirTra takes the simulations a step further by enabling the computer game to “shoot back”.
If a player fails to kill an enemy in time and the enemy is able to shoot back, the simulator delivers a powerful electric shock through the player’s hips. You definitely know you have been hit,” Mr Haag said. “It has the same power as a stun gun. It knocks you down.
“You have to continue to work through the pain and keep on fighting, as that is what you need to do – to keep on fighting even when wounded.
“You have to regain your composure, shake your head, and get back in the fight as your life and your unit’s life depends on it.”
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Doughnuts for Mormon Missionaries
There’s an old saying about avoiding politics and religion when you want to make friends, and I broke the second rule on the Blog Herald when I couldn’t help but take the piss out of a femenist mormon website. Naturally, Google’s Adsense provided a list of mormon sites in which to visit, and one struck my eye:
Free Delivery to the MTC
Send Hot, Fresh Krispy Kremes or other treats to your LDS Missionary
www.supportyourmissionary.comThat’s right, there’s a whole site set up to send doughnuts to mormon missionaries around the planet at $1 a pop! Hillarious! But if thats not enough, you can send M&M’s as well, perfect for keeping the extra wives sustained whilst in deepest darkest Africa!
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Thoughts on Terri Schiavo
The Terri Schiavo case seems to be the only thing many want to talk about State side at the moment, and although living a long distance away the case has also made news here, although about 20 pages into The West and the second part of the 6pm news. I’m not aware of all the sides for or against, but I have one observation, proabably made by others, isn’t letting her starve to death cruel and unusual punishment? I mean, if the State has ruled that she should die then wouldn’t pumping her full of morphine be a nicer way of doing it? Personally I do have some concerns about the state allowing the death to happen full stop but essentially torturing someone, leaving them to an excrutiating death is a terrible thing to do. Am I advocating euthanasia, well no, but essentially in turning off the her life line US courts have essentially advocated for voluntary euthanasia, but if you must have it, shouldn?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?¢‚Äû¬¢t it be done in the most humane way possible? I mean, seriously, I wouldn?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?¢‚Äû¬¢t let a dog starve to death, brain damaged or not, and neither should the State of Florida or Schiavo?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?¢‚Äû¬¢s husband. Pump her full of drugs and be done with it, or put the foodline back in.
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Nailing MSN
Time for a little blego on my little posted to personal blog: The Blog Herald just achieved its first No.1 placement on a major search engine for our key search term: “Blog News”, on MSN.
It’s currently sitting at No. 2 on Google for the term behind the pesky, useless, computer generated Topix, but this is up from positions as low as 4 in the last 6 months, and more importantly, like MSN, puts the Blog Herald ahead of its main competitors, of which I admit there aren’t a lot, and I’d like to stay that way for ever!
Yahoo! still maintains its position as the dumbest of the Top 3 search engines, continuing to return Blogger at 1 and Dave Winers Scripting News at 2, neither of which deal specifically with blog news. Topix sneaks in at 3 yet Google News is listed at 4! The poor old Blog Herald sits at 8. I might need to sharpen up my Yahoo! SEO reading over easter, but then again, who needs Yahoo! when you’ve got Google and MSN.
The search engine in the spotlight at the moment Ask Jeeves isn’t even worth asking, returning the Blog Herald at 7 after 6 non-blog news related sites.
Enjoy Easter everyone!
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Home
Yes, not enough blogging, still recovering from the election, but the boy seems happy.
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The world has finally gone mad
Strange but true: it might be time to ban lawyers in the States:
“Denver Post: Two Durango teens thought they’d surprise neighbors with nighttime deliveries of home-baked treats. But one woman was so terrified, she sued and has won….Two teenage girls decided one summer’s evening to skip a dance where there might be cursing and drinking to stay home and bake cookies for their neighbors…Big mistake…They were sued, successfully, for an unauthorized cookie drop on one porch.”
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Murray school’s ‘cutest couple’ title awarded to lesbian pair
From the state that gave the world Mormonism, comes an interesting tale
Murray school’s ‘cutest couple’ title awarded to lesbian pair: Salt Lake Tribune
Face it: politics aren’t pretty. They aren’t even cute. The “best of the seniors” election at Murray High is no exception. Hanging chads and confusing butterfly ballots were not the issue. But when two separate couples – including a lesbian pair – were told last week that they had clinched “the cutest couple” title, things turned ugly. “Check out the pairs names though: bizarre in themselves.
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Gates in “Teen Magazine” pose
This is very funny, take yourself back to 1983, throw on a dress and open your favourite teen magazine, and what do you see?
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Windows DRM Installs RIAA Spyware on Your PC
If your for the war on software piracy I ask you to think twice: when the police lower themselves to lower levels than the pirates, or in historical speak: more criminal than the criminals, you start to question who to support:
Windows DRM Installs RIAA Spyware on Your PC: he RIAA or their agents ?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?¢‚Ǩ¬ù is seeding file-sharing services with files that, when downloaded, exploit a Windows security vulnerability to install spyware on your PC. And that?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?¢‚Äû¬¢s not all. According to the PC World report:
When we played the modified files, the License Acquisition dialog box showed a page containing ads and quickly spawned more IE windows, each containing a different ad.
Not only did we get bombarded with unwanted ads, but one of the ad windows in a video file tried to install adware onto our test PC surreptitiously, while another added items to our browser’s Favorites list and attempted to change our home page. And a window from the original music file asked to download a file called lyrics.zip, which contained the installer for 180search Assistant, commonly categorized as an adware program.