Yummy Wakame

Losing Perspective
The media has sunk its teeth into some fresh meat. You keep hearing the word… SARS. So far 330 people worldwide have died from it. Drug companies around the world are working round the clock on a cure.

Did you know that according to the WHO in Africa alone more than 3,000 children die from Malaria every single day. That doesnt include adults. It doesnt include Brazil or other countries. Can you even comprehend it? And dont get me started on AIDS. Do you really think SARS should be at the top of the world’s health agenda right now?

Now you can read “Hamlet” in Klingon (not the toilet-bowl kind) thanks to the Klingon Language Institute. Shakespeare would be so proud.

Have you ever wondered what your habbo friends look like?
- REAL VS. HABBO
(Thanks for the link d-Dee!)

The 404 Research Lab links to the worlds finest 404 Error pages. They can also give you tips to make your own 404 pages and how to avoid them in the first place.

How I wish I could stretch like this…

Have you ever wanted to learn to lap dance? (for your own personal benefit of course)

With the Brighton Festival and of course the Fringe Festival drawing closer, more and more people are heading to Brighton. Amazing thearte, dance, music… and of course lazing on the beach. Definitely something for everyone here. Unmissable!!

I have also recently come across Itchy Brighton listing various eating, drinking, clubbing, cinema, etc. events in Brighton. Just in case you were wondering what to do with that free half an hour.

BOULDERS BEACH, Cape Town (South Africa)
This is my favourite beach in the whole world and it’s where I taught myself to swim. Warm and clear water, white sand, boulders, Jackass penguins. What more could you wish for?
(Photos by FARRAGO)

SPL: The Shakespeare Programming Language
“The design goal was to make a language with beautiful source code that resembled Shakespeare plays. There are no fancy data or control structures, just basic arithmetic and gotos. You could say we have combined the expressiveness of BASIC with the user-friendliness of assembly language.”

Example: Hello World!

nehanda dreams – so good I can read it without pictures!
(added to the recommended list)

“Hello, and welcome to my homepage. My name is Ulrich Haarbürste and I like to write stories about Roy Orbison being wrapped up in cling-film. If you have written any stories about Roy being completely wrapped in clingfilm please send them to me and I may put them up on the site.”
(Kinky Dan found it.)

Just thought you’d like to know about this
(nicked off the Chapel):

While Demanding That Other Countries Give Them Up! I’ll say one thing, Bush has Brass Ones.
Administration moves ahead on nuclear ‘bunker busters’

“Demonstrating a significant shift in America’s nuclear (see also “nookular”) strategy, the Bush administration intends to produce ~ not just research ~ a thermonuclear bunker-busting bomb to destroy hardened, deeply buried targets, the Pentagon has acknowledged for the first time. The weapon ~ known as the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator ~ would be a full-power hydrogen bomb that would throw up enormous clouds of radioactive dust while wreaking large-scale damage and death if used in an urban area. It would be thousands of times more powerful than the conventional ‘bunker busters’ dropped on Baghdad in an attempt to kill former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.”

Tell me again why the US has the right to tell others to disarm while doing the exact opposite? Tell me again why other countries’ opinion that the US is the biggest threat to the planet is unwarranted? Or how it’s okay because we are the Good Guys, and every other government is susceptible to corruption except the US? You know you are in Deep Shnit when your only friends on the planet are a few scattered islands and a couple of countries the size of islands.

Perl Poetry
“Life” – by Brian Van Horne

#!/usr/bin/perl
# life.pl

open life; use Wisdom;
seek food, water, shelter;

for ( ) { # means to
eat() if /hungry/;
drink() if /thirsty/;
sleep (“just for a while”) if /tired/;
read books, $think, write $code, etc;
}

close life;
exit # quietly . . .

Kevin Meltzer is the creator of the Perl Poetry Contest. See the 2001 Perl Poetry Contest results.

the May Day project
Saturday May 10 is coming up soon – why not make it an all-nighter? On this day people all over the world will be taking a photograph an hour to illustrate a day in their life. Come on – participate in this one!

Brightoncore aims to explore, expose and report on the more diverse aspects of our fair city.
Focusing on some of the more peculiar, unique and downright bizarre people, places and events, we hope you’ll enjoy our discoveries of what is a fascinating city.

YAY! We’ve been added to BoogieChurch’s NO WAR GALLERY. Quick send in your photos too. Leave a comment here if you do so we can have a squizz at you too.

B A R A K A !
Now showing @ HeavyTV.CA – a mesmerising movie, FREE TO VIEW this week.

“Baraka, an ancient Sufi word with forms in many languages, translates as a ”Blessing,” or as the ”Breath or Essence of Life from which the evolutionary process unfolds. Baraka is a poetic tour of the globe that depicts the harmony and rhythm between man and nature. Breathtaking, Relaxing and Spiritual, Absorbing… Baraka features outstanding music artists such as ”Dead can Dance” and a compelling visual record of dramatic and spiritual moments which do give us pause to wonder. We were moved by the variety of scenes portraying the devotional lives of individuals all over the world.”

After watching this I HAVE to buy the DVD!
Filmcritic.com review | buy to share it
(Found @ Chapel Perilous)

TheSmokingGun: While all news organizations prepare obituaries in advance of the deaths of famous individuals, the folks at CNN inadvertently gave the Internet-surfing public a chance to preview how the network’s web site would note the demise of Vice President Dick Cheney, Ronald Reagan, Fidel Castro, Bob Hope, Pope John Paul II, Nelson Mandela, and Gerald Ford.

Baby teeth could provide stem cells. This could spell amazing possibilities for developing treatments for other various conditions, including Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, diabetes, arthritis, and more.

How embryonic stem cell lines are made

And this is what may happen if you’re brave enough to put a condom around the collimator.

For the more cultured amongst us, check out Brightonite “soundcard” on mp3.com. Two of his classical tracks, Requimber and Breathing, have made it into the mp3.com charts recently, while Manyara Chill Out was created as a commission for a film.
Well done!!

A white witch was elected to the Brighton Council!
Strange Sussex is a weekly feature (on this is Brighton and Hove) reporting on quirky stories from the community. Aaah – what can I say? Brighton’s never boring ;)

The WHO is to publish new guidelines today stressing that sugar should form no more than 10% of a person’s diet. And obviously, sugar manufacturers and co disagree, saying that this report is misguided. The Institute of Medicine, part of the US National Academy of Sciences, recommended in September that sugar could make up to 25 percent of calories. The Sugar Association is also not impressed.

25% – Are they mad??

Chapel-Perilous.net
A new domain called for a new design. I still need to test it on obscure browsers and there are a few more tweaks to be done, but it’s ready enough. So take a peek. Great legs to be seen as well as the usual stuff.

“Good jazz is when the leader jumps on the piano, waves his arms, and yells. Fine jazz is when a tenorman lifts his foot in the air. Great jazz is when he heaves a piercing note for 32 bars and collapses on his hands and knees. A pure genius of jazz is manifested when he and the rest of the orchestra run around the room while the rhythm section grimaces and dances around their instruments.”

~ Charles Mingus