Buttons
Nokia uses a technology that’s even more advanced than the iPhone’s tap screen, allowing you to actually feel the keys you press as you’re pressing them! The technology is called “tactile response,” and it...
Author: mike
War in the Air
The U.S. military said it killed 11 people in a helicopter attack on a group of men seen planting a roadside bomb north of Baghdad on Tuesday, but police and residents said the dead...
Hitched Into Hell
Lester Tenney was a soldier in the US Army during World War 2. He was captured by the Japanese Army and forced to walk (and survive) the Bataan Death March. In his autobiography, My...
Social Killers
Apparently Web 2.0 means that nasty-arse killers can find each other online. Pekka-Eric Auvinen or “sturmgeist89” (ex-NaturalSelector89)was the YouTube name of the school shooter in Finland that killed 10 people after posting a YouTube...
The Most Beautiful Bottom in the World
The Hilton sisters, Sister Lotus, the Most Beautiful Bottom in the World and little Lakshmi Tatma, the 8-limbed goddess. One of these things is not like the other.
Myspace Orgy Murder
Here’s the Myspace profile of Amanda Knox (AKA “Foxy Knoxy“), the woman who has apparently confessed to helping to rape and kill her flatmate, Facebook aficionada Meredith Kercher. Kercher apparently refused to join in...
Cultural Depictions of Joan of Arc
I was inspired by yesterday’s entry to add this little pearl of wisdom to Wikipedia’s entry for Cultural Depictions of Joan of Arc: In the Herald Childe or Image of the Beast novel sequence...
Firefox And Me
This morning I noticed my laptop was feeling a little sluggish. Checked the task manager and it seems that Firefox was now eating up 650 MB of RAM. A new personal best. I do...
Blame Jack Sparrow
Pirate attacks worldwide jumped 14 percent in the first nine months of 2007, with the biggest increases off the poorly policed waters of Somalia and Nigeria … Oil-rich Nigeria suffered 26 pirate attacks so...
Condoma Dentata
I never imagined I’d be doing a followup to a much earlier story about a vagina dentata device but apparently the prevalence of rape in South Africa is so high that a second intra-uterine...