The 8.6 GPixel web page

Awesome.

In response

To Steve's 'ugliest fish' post below:

A primate further along in the process would like to discuss.

Here.

And that's one ugly damn cat. Zeek's chicklet teeth have nothing on it.

Fried Coca-Cola Debuts in Texas

don't it just make ya proud?.

13,000 people playing chess in Mexico City, a new world record

and here you thought they were all coming over the border

It's Jihad, Charlie Brown

Headphones on

I couldn't embed it 'cause it's flagged.

I'll learn how to use the internet some day:

gezundheit!

I have no idea why this has me in stitches:



Update:
I now know why. It's because it's freakin hilarious.

India

has a warship named 'INS Mysore'.

That is all.

Cesar Chavez: Minuteman

The Wikipedia page fawningly remembers Cesar Chavez as an "American farm worker, labor leader, and activist".

The writers of that page somehow neglected to mention that Cesar Chavez was also a fierce opponent of illegal aliens, even going as far as to testify to congress about the problem.

Interestingly enough, the US government aided and abetted the illegial aliens' about whom Chavez complained. Sound familiar?

Mens room rules

http://distractiondomain.com/media/animation/a_men%27s_room_monologue.swf

One ugly big cat.. .. just damn

Ugly Overload

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Mr. Blobby: Ugliest Fish Ever!

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Don't download this song!

White & Nerdy

"Weird Al" Yankovic's music video from his new album "Straight Outta Lynwood" (in stores Sept. 26)

To hell with Pong.. this game is way too addicting!

Zanorg Mini Games © kek

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Millions of Tiny Spiders Spin Mystery in a British Columbia Clover Field

A 60_Acre Web of Mystery

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so much for TSA security..

Chris's NWA Boarding Pass Generator:

you know.. there is gay..and then some times there is GAY

The Perry Bible Fellowship: i'm still feeling disturbed

go unicorns! :)

Rice Krispies Beer cozy and other Cool experiements!

How to Keep Beer Cold:

Lighting a Jell-O Shot on Fire

Light a Jell-O Shot on Fire: just in time for the weekend

How many condoms can you put on your dick?

How Many Condoms at Once?:1  -   2   -    -3   ----

We were shocked, and dare I say appalled

I appreciate P-Krunk's unique taste, but we have a responsibility to our young viewers and advertisers to show the real lifestyles that are true to the artist's genre of music. A rapper who doesn't capriciously spend all his money on cars and 100-inch plasmas is an anomaly that strains credibility.

Trippin dog

Listen to the audio - it's hilarious (and well produced)

Good article on freelancing

Some of the info was new to me, some is common sense. Worth a read.

While Paris burns, the European Economy...

...is plummeting like a turd flushed down a non-German toilet (that way, it doesn't have a haitus on the turd shelf).

What has four letters, begins with E and is slowly killing half of Europe?

Oh, and Here's Paris.

Maybe we should consider a trip to Florida instead of to Europe?

can You Place All 50 States On A Map With No Border Lines?

50 States - Presented by Addicting Games:

10 Useless or Even Dangerous First Aid Myths

10 Useless or Even Dangerous First Aid Myths at Ririan Project: I think i knew all of them.. jeeze.. i just did the peroxide thing the other night... oops

Hmmm.... not sure what to say about this...

funny.jpg (JPEG Image, 640x480 pixels):is there a slight likeness

Scott Adams remapped his brain

He lost his voice, then figured out how to get it back.

He had spasmodic dysphonia.

the Secret Welsh ART of SELF DEFENCE that requires NO INTELLIGENCE, STRENGTH or PHYSICAL courage

Llap-Goch

Irony mark

Irony mark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: I can't find this key on my keyboard for my life... DAMN IT

i

Proof FREE BSD is EVIL!.. EVIL

Daemons and Texans don't mix: I AM A GOD WARRIOR!!

FreeBSD Daemon

Children aghast as pelican swallows pigeon whole

Children aghast as pelican swallows pigeon whole | the Daily Mail:

Take one CD, Microwave at full power for 5 seconds, and place on top of tesla coil. Enjoy!

CD Zapping:

icon story

EETimes.com - Duke takes wraps off cloaking device:Sweet! Star Trek is slowly coming true.. 2 weeks ago.. they announced transportation, I already have a communicator.. .and now... cloaking devices!.. amazing

Fallen Art

Creepy, yet amazing animation:


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Dismantling a country

Socialism - what can't it do?

Second video....

Man's arm attached to...

.. his groin.

SFW. I think.

Ten Reasons Not to Hit Your Kids

Some Reasons: Ten Reasons Not to Hit Your Kids:

Ten Reasons Not to Hit Your Kids

great picture :)

Lightning Volcano:

Rollercoaster....

...bowling

"Paris Syndrome"

"A third of patients get better immediately, a third suffer relapses and the rest have psychoses"

Just from visiting Paris.

Tasty China

This restaurant in May-retta is getting all sorts of positive buzz from Atlanta chowhounds. The notoriously implacable Blissful Glutton is even calling together a "supper club" to eat over there.

Check out this review on chowhound.com:

Tasty V--- I mean, Tasty China.

Windows Remix

you know all those really annoying windows sounds?.. this guy remixed 'em.. i think i want it on my IPOD!

Holy Cow- A lego flame thrower!

TechEBlog » (Video) LEGO Flamethrower

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What do you call a soft drink?..

it really depends on where you're from... i'd like a soda please

Star Wars Mash

Star Wars Mash UP-- i love the Yoda/ Golum mash..sorta wise and scary

The PirateBay.org's response to EA's copyright and takedown email for the Sims 2

From anakata_anakata.hack.se Mon Sep 13 07:20:31 2004
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 07:19:36 -0100 (GMT)
From: anakata
To: Piracy - Online
Subject: Re: Copyright Infringement

On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Piracy - Online wrote:

> September 14, 2004
>
> SENT VIA E-MAIL
>
> Fredrik Neij
> PRQ
> Box 1206
> Stockholm, Sweden 11479
>
>
> Re: Electronic Arts Trademark and Copyright
> Infringement Notice
>
>
> Dear Mr. Neij:
>
> It has been brought to the attention of Electronic Arts Inc. ("EA") that
> the website http://www.piratebay.org with the IP addresses of
> 217.75.120.115, 217.75.120.116, 217.75.120.118 is conducting
> unauthorized activities with respect to EA's copyrighted software, The
> Sims 2. The aforementioned website is offering and distributing
> bittorrent seeds for an unauthorized downloadable version of this EA
> game.
>
> The infringing material may be found at:
>
> http://www.piratebay.org/download.php/3238103/Sims%202.torrent
>
> http://www.piratebay.org/download.php/3238222/The_Sims2_AlcoholClone-CLO
> NEGAME_Full.Release_%28exclusive_for_trackerwww.prq.to%29.torrent
>

Hello and thank you for contacting us. We have shut down the website in
question.

Oh wait, just kidding. We haven't, since the site in question is fully
legal. Unlike certain other countries, such as the one you're in, we have
sane copyright laws here. But we also have polar bears roaming the
streets and attacking people :-(.


> This unauthorized activity with respect to the distribution of EA's
> software products constitutes infringement of EA's intellectual property
> rights. EA enforces its intellectual property rights very aggressively
> by using every legal option available.

Please don't sue us right now, our lawyer is passed out in an alley from
too much moonshine, so please atleast wait until he's found and doesn't
have a huge hangover...

>
> As you are listed as the registrant for this website, EA demands that
> you immediately and permanently disable access to the aforementioned
> bittorrent seeds for The Sims 2 and any in the future.

You're free to demand anything you want. So are we. We demand that you
cease and desist sending letters like this, since they're frivolous and
meaningless. Where should I send the bill for the consumed diskspace and
bandwidth?

> Thank you for your cooperation. If you have any questions concerning
> this matter, please contact us via e-mail at:
> piracy-online@ea.com.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> EA Law - IP Enforcement
> Electronic Arts Inc.
> piracy-online@ea.com

Thank you for your entertainment. As with all other threats, we will
publish this one on http://static.thepiratebay.org/legal/

//anakata

By disguise and subterfuge

And we thought W was bad.

Here is a quote by Giuliano Amato, who was on the EU Convention which drafted the EU Constitution. This constitution was rejected by French voters, partly due to a blogger campaign which resisted the well-funded and well-orchestrated government campaign which propagandized "Vote yes!". Amato has this to say about how the EU should govern:

“In Europe one needs to act 'as if' - as if what was wanted was little, in order to obtain much, as if States were to remain sovereign to convince them to concede sovereignty ... The Commission in Brussels, for example, should act as if it were a technical instrument, in order to be able to be treated as a government. And so on by disguise and subterfuge.”

This was found by a wonderful writeup by the blogger Fjordman, who is commenting on something called Eurabia. This notion, in the eponymous book penned by Bat Ye'or, explains that the merger of Muslim culture, money, and power into that of the EU has been a well-orchestrated, subversive, and incremental process spanning the past few decades. It is long and very interesting.

The Eurabia Code

In our lifetime, I think we will see glorious Europe die a very ugly death.

Thousand-Hand Bodhisattva

This is gorgeous, one of the most beautiful perfomances of choreography and "body art" that I've ever seen. Fascinatingly, all of the performers are deaf.

How Powerful is your Representative / Senator?

This site ranks all of the congresspeople / senators in terms of power.

Can't you imagine Rick Santorum holding out his fingers, blasting out lightning, and screeching, "UNLIMITED POWER!!!!" like Palpatine?

http://www.congress.org/congressorg/power_rankings/overall.tt

This Man can Move Anything

How was stonehenge made? A Flint, MI American thinks he has figured it out.

Hat tip: Erik

18 Mistakes that kill startups

we've all seen these in real life.. how many have you worked for?

Nurse sues over ticket for anti-Bush bumper sticker

ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) --

Why gas prices dropped

Trust us. It wasn't OPEC or Republicans trying to influence midterm elections

Oh please oh please!.. Can i have these for halloween?

Ever dream of living in haunted hosue?.. it's IKEA for the Goth set

Rabbit -amazing animated short film

amazing animated short film

The real origional Nintendo

you thought Mario was retro

a few strange toons

a few strange toons

I was a Jesus Camp kid

jeezus loves me so he said,, let us pray

A distorted view of beauty

pretty cool. video..

The Amazing Axolotl

The axolotl is an amphibian that is similiar to a salamander. The salamander's life cycle looks like this:

egg <hatches> aquatic nymph <metamorphosis> terrestrial adult

Whereas the axolotl has a life cycle like this:

egg <hatches> aquatic nymph <slight change> aquatic, sexually active nymph

In other words, it never metamorphasizes. It just gains the ability to hanky panky.

However, that doesn't mean it *can't* metamorphasize into an adult. Under some circumstances, it can be inspired to do so!

The other amazing quality of this creature is it's fantastic ability to regenerate, including lost limbs, major organs, or even parts of its own brain.

It also has external gills and is a food source in Mexico. Mmmmm.... axolotl.

The Amazing Axolotl

Orthorexia

It's about time! The kind of eating where one obsessively eats only the "correct" things has been labeled an eating disorder: orthorexia.

From Al-Guardian: When healthy eating turns into a disease

Veganism is, by definition, orthorexic.

Hat tip: Slashfood

The Biology of B-movie Monsters

This is a fascinating artile. It's written by an invertebrate zoologist (how cool is that?) so it's heavy on the science, but if you can understand one mathematical principle then the rest of the reading will make sense.

If you take a cube with edges that are 1 inch long, then you have three properties to think of: length (of an edge), area (of a side), and volume (of the cube).

Length: 1 = 1
Area: 1 x 1 = 1
Volume: 1 x 1 x 1 = 1

Suppose you increase the length of the edge to three:

Length: 3 = 3
Area: 3 x 3 = 9
Volume: 3 x 3 x 3 = 27

In other words, as linear size gets bigger, the area increases faster than the length does, and the volumne increases faster than both the length and the area.

And this ends up answering all sorts of questions about why animals' bodies behave the way that they do and are built the way that they are. Did you know that a mouse will survive a fall from ANY height, for instance? It also explains how a caterpillar moves as well as how the respiratory system of an insect works. Fascinating!

The Biology of B-movie Monsters

Cursive writing rapidly becoming passé

I had thought it had.. but had no real proof before

Yy

Just a note to jimmy to say

Yy

Sent via BlackBerry from Cingular Wireless

Lightning shoots out of a woman's anus

This is the RADDEST thing I've ever read.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,20548077-13762,00.html?from=public_rss

Hat tip: Erik

just a test

Candle Flame in 0 gravity

Candle Flame in 0 gravity

The coolest staircase ever!

The coolest staircase ever!

In-sink Dishwasher

An in-sink dishwasher from KitchenAid. "Put your dirty dishes in the sink" suddenly implies the removal of a step of needless toil!

http://www.kitchenaid.com/catalog/product.jsp?src=briva++in-sink+dishwasher&cat=967&prod=625

Hat tip: Slashfood.com

Infinity and beyond! Infinity and beyond!

Infinity and beyond!

10 Things I learned from my 4 year old

10 Things I learned from my 4 year old

Lighting! wow!

Amazing