Category: Bizarre

OK, maybe not that bizarre but I was listening to Club977 on my Windows MCE power PVR last weekend and they were playing the Top 10 cover songs of the 80’s based on hits from the 60’s, and on came Hazy Shade of Winter by the Bangles…..and I don’t think I’ve stopped singing it in my head since. Bizarre how a song I haven’t heard for probably near on 20 years can be so catchy….gotta love the 80’s, a bloody good time if I do say so myself 🙂

PS: Lyrics are here, although I’m not aware of anywhere you could download it. Might have to sort that out and add it to the collection on the PVR. Will sit very nicely along side my Crowd House tunes 🙂

Firstly, they should stop complaining: a 3 foot Roo is a baby, try putting a 8 ft roo across your car bonnet and you’ll know what I mean, and the Mrs has had one through the winscreen, now thats talking to the animals

W. Virginia kangaroo tales real (AP)
hat really was 3-foot kangaroo wandering around outside of Charleston, W.Va., the last several months. The small male kangaroo comes out mostly at night or in the early morning, officials said. He makes appearances in back yards and on the county’s rural roads. read more>

This is hilarious, but before anyone gets upset, think about my name and its origins, and yes, Riley is the common Sc____ spelling.

New BBC weather map causes storm
The BBC’s new weather map has caused a political storm with the Scottish National Party claiming it gives a “distorted” view of Scotland.

New 3-D television weather forecast graphics began on Monday but the SNP MP for the Western Isles, Angus MacNeil, called for the BBC to think again.

He said the map makes it more difficult for people in the north and the islands to get an accurate forecast.

The graphic shows the UK from a southerly perspective

This is hilarious, but on a more serious note its about time Google started expanding its services 0utside of the US and UK. Yahoo can role out most things to many countries (including Australia) but Google always seems to lag behind. It will cost them in the long term

The Register: Google redraws world according to George Bush

A bit you this guy didn’t wake up one morning expecting this to happen

(AP)The Chicago Tribune apologized Thursday for publishing a photo caption that misidentified a man as a high-ranking mobster, a day after a second man sued the newspaper over a picture wrongly identifying him as a mobster.

In an article in Thursday’s editions, Editor Ann Marie Lipinski said the newspaper regretted publishing the photograph on Wednesday’s front pages.

The caption said the photo showed 76-year-old Joseph “The Clown” Lombardo, a reputed mob boss who is on the lam after being indicted along with others on charges of plotting at least 18 murders.

A man identified as 69-year-old Stanley Swieton told reporters Wednesday that he was the person in the picture, which the newspaper said was taken by a college student.

Violent phone craze hits UK

A disturbing and violent craze is spreading across the U.K., aided by cell phones and 3G.

British authorities are seeing a rise in “happy slapping,” in which youths assault a stranger and film the incident with their mobile phones.

People have been attacked in such innocent circumstances like jogging, waiting for the bus and withdrawing money from an ATM. London police have investigated more than 200 incidents over the past 6 months.

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.”

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.com

That’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!

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.”

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.