Yummy Wakame

This is a really handy little app and its free!

Karen’s Autorun.inf Editor
Easily create the Autorun.inf file that allows programs on CD run automatically when the CD is inserted! Now the CDs you create can automatically display a web page, text file, navigate the user’s web browser to a support web site, launch an exe program, pretty much anything. It lets you choose a CD icon too.

She has created some other useful powertools too like the Registry Pruner.

Tail building instructions
“This is a description of how to build a tail to wear in daily life. It is a light construction, easy to wear and to take off when you need it, and sufficiently robust…”

The Tail Man
“When riding your bicycle, you best put a basket on your carrier, and curl up your tail in it, so it doesn’t get caught in the spokes.

If you have to move your tail without wearing it, it can be curled into a small spiral – the plastic ribbon is elastic enough.

When going downstairs, the tail will slide on the stairs. This is usually not a problem, unless the stairs are very dirty, or someone unaware of the tail is walking directly behind you. In this case you will have to carry the tail in your hand, also on escalators where it might be caught in the mechanics.”

So You Want To Learn Japanese.

You’ve eaten at a few Japanese restaurants, seen some anime, hosted an exchange student, and had a Japanese girlfriend. And now, somewhere in the back of your tiny brain, you think that Japanese would be a good language to learn. Hey, you could translate video games! Or Manga! Or even Anime! Pick up Japanese girls, impress your friends! Maybe you’ll even go to Japan and become an anime artist! Yeah! Sounds like a great idea!

So you head down to the library, pick up some books with titles like “How To Teach Yourself Japanes In Just 5 Seconds A Day While Driving Your Car To And From The Post Office” and “Japanese For Complete And Total, Utter Fools Who Should Never Procreate”. Hey, you already know a few words from your manga collection/girlfriend/anime. Excited and impressed with your new knowledge, you begin to think: “Hey. Maybe, just maybe, i could do this for a living! Or even major in Japanese! Great Idea, Right?

WRONG.

(via singlenesia)

Fresh Milk
Impressive!
(found on Geisha Asobi)

Iraqi toll in the thousands
Washington – An estimated 13 000 Iraqis, including 4 300 non-combatants, were killed during the major combat phase of the war in Iraq. (March 19 to the end of April)

The Project on Defense Alternatives said its estimate was based on a review of US combat data, battlefield press reports, and Iraqi hospital surveys.

Of the total number of Iraqi fatalities during the relevant period, approximately 30% (or between 3 200 and 4 300) were non-combatant civilians — that is civilians who did not take up arms,” the report said.

The study, authored by Carl Coneta, found that deaths of Iraqi civilians who did not take up arms in the fighting was as high or higher than in the 1991 Gulf War despite advances in precision weaponry.
(thanks Eon)

Secret Windows Software You Already Own

IExpress
Make a customized self-extracting executable. IExpress’ wizard will step you through the process, and in a matter of minutes, you’ll have something ready for download. To use IExpress, open the Run box and type, “iexpress.exe”.

Winchat
Want to instant messaging friends at work? Launch Winchat, and then connect with another buddy on your network (your buddy also has to run Winchat). To use Winchat, open the Run box and type, “winchat.exe”.

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haha!

How to train your cat to not scratch the furniture

XBOX rattie rattie twitch twitch
wish I could have him as a screensaver!

New energy source found in tap water
Scientists who discovered a new way of generating electricity from water say they may have stumbled across an alternative source of clean energy to rival wind and solar power. The breakthrough could lead to batteries that use water instead of toxic substances.

The scientists made the discovery when they were investigating what happens when tap water is forced through extremely narrow glass tubes. “When we took a syringe of water and squeezed it through the filter, we got enough power to light a light bulb,” said Larry Kostiuk of the University of Alberta in Canada. “The harder you push the syringe, the more volts you get.”

Water batteries might one day be used to power mobile phones and calculators. More likely would be to install the electricity-generating devices where water is already being pumped, such as at city water filtration sites.

Thought I’d spread the love and share this heart-warming email I just received from a lovely example of a human-being – JO (mopout@earthlink.net).

Peace SUCKS when they want to kill you -ASSHOLE
“accidentally blundered into your site . Want to say you Peace Morons have NO fuckin idea what it takes to kill off Evil before it kills you off. All of you should face the Hell of being perched ontop of a tall building and knowing you have to jump and die Splatterred on the pavement below or be burned Alive- I wish you all the Worst Hell in your lives FUCK YOU ALL and DIE you Miserable bastards. GO BUSH and hope someday he Drpos a bomb on your stupid DUMB ASSES”

Give war a chance
It’s been a whole 8 hours since I heard the twin towers mentioned in the media, and Id almost forgotten the whole world still revolves around that event. Please forgive my ignorance JO as I also had no idea it was possible to kill off ‘Evil’. Can you believe its so simple? Now that I know, Ive changed my mind about everything! I see now that violence, hatred, and greed is the way to a better future for all Americans to continue living the good life. And Americans deserve the best. After all, it’s only at the expense of the 3rd world (you know, that place where sub-human beings live?). I realise now that even though terrible things happen to people all over the world, babies being left to prostitute themselves for food or die in gutters due to poverty, corruption and first-world exploitation; bombs being dropped on family homes; God forbid terrible things should happen to Americans! That can only be the work of ‘Evil’ – nothing else could explain it.

Why does all hell seem to break loose on or around the Full Moon?
The term Lunatic is derived from the word Lunar (Moon).

Simply put; Hormonal reactions to increased positive ions in the air (Full Moon Effect) cause hyperactivity, depression, violent behavior, road rage, higher occurrences of migraines and asthma. Even bees are known to sting without provocation on higher positive ion ratios. Rate of attempted suicides increases by about 20% and heart-attacks approx 50% higher during positive ion conditions.

In some middle east countries, Judges are more lenient on criminals if the crime was committed during increased positive ion wind conditions. These periodic winds blowing in from the desert are called the Sharav. University studies in Israel concluded that increased positive ions can cause an increase in violent tendencies.

- make your own negative ion generator
- buy an ionizer online (this ionizer is ozone-free, i.e. the needles will never degrade or need replacing, and its suitable for people with asthma and weakened lungs.)

Don’t you hate
“Don’t you hate when you blow your nose, fold the tissue over, and when you want to wipe the little remains left on the end of your nose away, you wipe wet boogers back onto your nose because you folded it the wrong way…”

I wish I could fly and explore the world like Flyguy.
Vampy is just brilliant at finding these amazing things.

Llamas leap to injured farmer’s defence
Llama farmer Graham Bailey fell in a rabbit hole in a field on his farm near Kettering, Northants, and was stranded for two hours before a passer-by heard his screams.

Ambulance crew attempts to rescue the pensioner were scuppered when the head llama led the animals in a circle and began dancing around to protect him and pull him out.

Llamas, Milo, Bertie, Horatio and Felix have been rewarded for their heroics. I love llamas!

KissyKat
Where people who love their pets find love

Marine Aquarium Screensaver
This is undoubtedly the most beautiful and realistic fishtank screensaver Ive ever seen. Mesmerisingly beautiful…

You need to have a good video card that supports 3D graphics accelleration. If you can afford the video card, you can afford to register it and wont need the serial number.

Vampy found Undergroundfilm.org.
Its all free and suitable for low-speed and broadband users. What a gem!

Anidragon 1.011
This fully 3D animated screensaver features virtual pet dragons with day and night cycles, varying weather patterns, exotic wildlife and panoramic fantasy landscapes. The dragons explore, hunt, eat, play, sleep and grow to adulthood.

Anidragons come in a variety of species. Collect one or all, and watch a different dragon everyday. The screensaver also features accelerated or normal time, camera tracking and window mode.
(source: iafrica.com downloads)

- Screenshots and more info

East London – South Africa
Dagga muffins sold at school’s request

A 23-year-old woman was arrested in East London on Friday when she was found selling dagga-laced muffins to school children and staff, police said. Captain Mtati Tana said the woman had set up a stall outside the school in Terminus Street in the city centre and was doing a brisk trade when a constable on routine patrol arrived and arrested her.

Tana said the woman told police she had been selling the muffins at the request of the school children and staff for some time.
She was being detained at the Fleet Street police station and would appear in court on Monday in connection with a charge.
(Thanks Graham)

Renowned graffiti artist Banksy sneaks his work into the Tate (pic)
Banksy, best known for creating the sleeve of the latest Blur album, glued his painting to the wall of Tate Britain and it was only discovered when it crashed to the floor hours later.

He visited Tate Britain in prosthetic make-up to make him look elderly. (Banksy keeps his real identity secret for fear of prosecution after spray-painting numerous sites with his witty works.)

The artist then took his framed painting out of a bag, a rural scene which had an image of police tape stencilled on to it, and stuck it on the wall unchallenged. A card next to it read: “Banksy 1975. Crimewatch UK Has Ruined The Countryside For All Of Us. 2003. Oil On Canvas.”

The caption said: “The artist has found an unsigned oil painting and then stencilled police incident tape over the top. He argues that ruining the work in this way reflects how our nation has been vandalised by an obsession with crime and paedophilia. Any visit to a secluded beauty spot now feels like it may result in being molested or finding discarded body parts. Presented by the artist personally in 2003.”

Many of Banksy’s artworks have been sprayed on the walls and pavements of the Shoreditch area of London. They have included a large work poking fun at police – right next to a police station.

www.banksy.co.uk

Nevergirl’s emptyPictures
This is just deelish!

National Express says “BLOW ME for a tenner”

What is transhumanism?
Transhumanism is a way of thinking about the future that is based on the premise that the human species in its current form does not represent the end of our development but rather a comparatively early phase.

EXTROPHY INSTITUTE

“Human beings achieved ‘civilization’ thousands of years ago. Yet we have not shaken off the ancient tyrannies that haunt the human condition. We suffer physical and emotional sicknesses ending in decrepitude and death. The primitive parts of our brain spur us to envy, to hate, to despair, and to kill. Our philosophies and our religions attempt to express our highest values, yet we use them to oppress and control. We use them to crush the world’s complexity into a simplicity that we can clutch like a security blanket for the human condition.

Human ingenuity has created astonishing institutions and technologies to remedy these problems. Yet our intellectual and emotional limitations often spawn new problems from our attempted solutions, while our primitive drives find ways to abuse them. The ever-accelerating pace of change breeds anxiety even as it glimmers with hope. Powerful technologies ever more rapidly shake up entire cultures and economies as well as each individual life. As we continue to experiment with technology using legacy brains and antiquated strategies, uncertainty and anxiety continue to plague us.

The Vision
Advances in technology (including “social technologies” of knowledge management, learning, and decision-making) are starting to enable us to change human nature itself in its physical, emotional, and intellectual aspects. The radical possibilities now emerging could cause huge problems or could enormously improve the human/transhuman condition. With better knowledge and decision making, humans could live far longer in better-than-”perfect” health; improve their self-knowledge and awareness of interpersonal dynamics; overcome cultural, psychological, and memetic biases in thinking; enhance intelligence in all its various forms; and learn to thrive on change and growth.”

Ghettopoly Board Game
Buying stolen properties, pimpin hoes, building crack houses and projects, paying protection fees and getting car jacked are some of the elements of the game. Not dope enough?…If you don’t have the money that you owe to the loan shark you might just land yourself in da Emergency Room.

Price: $29.95 (plus shipping & handling charges)

Contents: Game Board, Loan Shark Tray, 40 Crack Houses, 17 Projects, Pink Slip Cards, Ghetto Stash and Hustle Cards, 7 Game pieces (Pimp, Hoe, 40 oz, Machine Gun, Marijuana Leaf, Basket Ball and Crack), Counterfeit Money, and 2 Dice (non metallic ).

Coming soon: Hoodopoly, Hiphopopoly, Thugopoly, Redneckopoly

- ‘Ghettopoly’ angers Black leaders
- Monopoly maker threatens to sue Ghettopoly maker