Category: Bizarre

This is very funny, take yourself back to 1983, throw on a dress and open your favourite teen magazine, and what do you see?
http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=272750&st=0&#entry585309992

Bizarre….

Wired: Wild animals seem to have escaped the Indian Ocean tsunami, adding weight to notions they possess a sixth sense for disasters, experts said Thursday.

Sri Lankan wildlife officials have said the giant waves that killed over 24,000 people along the Indian Ocean island’s coast seemingly missed wild beasts, with no dead animals found.

Being Australian and have a patchwork of scars on my back from the moles cut out due to cancer scares I know the stats in this Wired story but I don’t know until today if I upgrade from my regular radiant to the colour version (I think its about $1 extra for memory) I now get UV protect for my clothes. Bizarre yet useful.

The UV protection from Australia’s Radiant 3 in 1 Colour Care laundry detergent comes from a special UV-absorbing chemical compound called Tinosorb FD, which is made by Switzerland’s Ciba Specialty Chemicals. Tinosorb FD helps protect against both UVA and UVB radiation.

What will they think of next?
Phone booths resurrected for cell users: Fort Wayne Journal
“Phone companies have eliminated more than a million traditional pay phones in the past eight years, many of them in phone booths, according to the Federal Communications Commission. Now, some restaurants, libraries and other businesses are slowly bringing back phone booths, without the phone this time. Users bring their own mobile phone and can talk as loud as they want without bothering anybody else or being asked to step outside.”

I think the famous line went, First it was the jews, then the gays… or the like, but you get the context. This nutter from Alabama is trying to censor books that mention gay people, labelling them as gay propoganda. If the bill became law, public libraries couldn’t offer books with gay or bisexual characters. We are not talking porn here, but general books in a library. You will find few people who agree with the entire cotents of a library but its our freedom of speech that provides the diversity under which we maintain the right to choose what we like and read.

AL.com> An Alabama lawmaker who sought to ban gay marriages now wants to ban novels with gay characters from public libraries, including university libraries.

A bill by Rep. Gerald Allen, R-Cottondale, would prohibit the use of public funds for “the purchase of textbooks or library materials that recognize or promote homosexuality as an acceptable lifestyle.” Allen said he filed the bill to protect children from the “homosexual agenda.”

I think I like this story because of the title more than anything else….

The Register: Proceedings in the Italian Senate were disrupted this week after hackers used a computer worm to display hardcore gay porn on computer monitors.

Computers in the Senate chamber, and Senator’s office, were affected by the attack which used variants of the Rbot worm to disseminate smut across the upper house of the Italian parliament. The Rbot family of worms includes a backdoor component which allows crackers to seize control of infected computers, steal information or in this case redirect users towards “inappropriate” content.

The world is a sick place….

BBC: A Scottish firm has been criticised by the family of John F Kennedy for producing a game which recreates the president’s assassination in Dallas.
“JFK Reloaded” was released on Monday to coincide with the 41st anniversary of the president’s assassination.

Two words: Sick f*ck.

BBC: Pupils were left in tears after a teacher told them that an asteroid was about to hit Earth and kill them all.
The spoof announcement was designed to teach 14-year-olds the importance of seizing the day but backfired after they became visibly frightened.

Keith Hogan, head teacher at St Matthew’s RC High School in Moston, Manchester, said he regretted any distress caused to the 230 pupils…He had told the year nine students that the asteroid was on a “collision course”. It is also believed that the students were told that they should go home and say “final farewells” to their families.

The teacher then admitted the story was a stunt aimed at underlining the theme of the assembly – “living each day to the full”.

Extremely bizarre but true, and I believe it goes to the real issue of the American Paradox: a society which condones, indeed promotes and normalises violence yet flinches at the slightest hint of skin or sex. The Janet Jackson scandal comes to mind…..

Wired: Internet pornography is the new crack cocaine, leading to addiction, misogyny, pedophilia, boob jobs and erectile dysfunction, according to clinicians and researchers testifying before a Senate committee Thursday.

Witnesses before the Senate Commerce Committee’s Science, Technology and Space Subcommittee spared no superlative in their description of the negative effects of pornography.

I’d think this would take about 2 1/2 hours on the cross trainer at 70 and Level 8 to burn off, but doesn’t it sound delish!

MSNBC> As many fast-food chains introduce healthier fare amid fears of being sued, Hardee?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?¢‚Äû¬¢s is bucking the trend, serving up a megaburger with 1,420 calories and 107 grams of fat.

St. Louis-based Hardee?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?¢‚Äû¬¢s Food Systems Inc. Monday rolled out its Monster Thickburger ?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?¢‚Ǩ¬ù two one-third-pound slabs of Angus beef, four strips of bacon, three slices of cheese and mayonnaise on a buttered sesame seed bun. The sandwich alone sells for $5.49 or $7.09 with a medium fries (520 calories) and soda (about 400 calories)….

…In an interview on CNBC, Hardee’s chief executive Andrew Puzder was unapologetic, saying the company’s latest sandwich is “not a burger for tree-huggers.”

“This is a burger for young hungry guys who want a really big, delicious, juicy, decadent burger,” he said. “I hope our competitors keep promoting those healthy products, and we will keep promoting our big, juicy delicious burgers.”