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baby teethMarines’ weapon loaded with ’scream’
US troops are to be armed with a stun gun that uses a baby’s high-pitched scream to bring the enemy to its knees. The gun, which will be issued to marines in Iraq this month, fires “sonic bullets” that can be targeted like a torch beam. The actual sound used is a recording of a baby’s scream played backwards.

Anyone hit with a full blast would suffer excruciating pain, permanent deafness and some form of cellular damage. A prolonged blast could kill.

Pentagon sources said it would be used in Iraq as an alternative to bullets to break up riots or protests, to stop suspects approaching check points and force snipers from buildings or caves.

A secret division in the Pentagon has been financing research on futuristic weapons for more than 15 years. This is the first to go into operation.

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Chernobyl

Radioactive Ghost Town – photos taken on a ride through Chernobyl
dead zone.“from the first look ghosttown seems like a normal town, someone hung their washing on a balcony, some windows open, other clothed, here is taxi stop, there is grocery store… then, you read this slogan on building- “party of Lenin lead us to the triumph of a communism”- that helps to realise that clothes hung on balcony for 18 years and that town is empty..”

~ Found by Cait

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Bart SingsonThe Singsons

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Kenyan FlagAfter months of promising, I finally got round to revamping Nehanda Dreams today.

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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
by Philip Gourevitch

Rwandan skull amongs leaves“Decimation means the killing of every tenth person in a population, and in the spring and early summer of 1994 a program of massacres decimated the Republic of Rwanda. Although the killing was low-tech – performed largely by machete – it was carried out at a dazzling speed: of an original population of about seven and a half million, at least eight hundred thousand people were killed in just a hundred days.

Rwandans often speak of a million deaths, and they may be right. The dead of Rwanda accumulated at nearly three times the rate of Jewish dead during the Holocaust. It was the most efficient mass killing since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.”

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I made a brand new comments system for yummy that supports HTML!

I’ll test it out here for a while and then make it freely available to anyone who wants to use it on their site.

This app comes with a password protected admin system where you can add, edit and delete comments as well as change the colourscheme and fonts through a control panel. All you need is a hosting server that supports ASP, SQL and an Access 2000 DB.

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Try Vischeck on your website or pictures and find out how colourblind people see them. You can select from three types – Deuteranope, Protanope and Tritanope.

“I was just writing to let you guys know how wonderfull the vischeck engine is! Now my familly and friends know why I always confuse chocolate labs with black labs. They have pity for me after looking at a chrismas tree! It helps people around me understand how I see. I think your website is one of the most usefull site i’ve come across! I hope the site stays up for ever!” ~ Michel C.

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Something in the dihydrogen monoxide?

Thanks to the prank site DHMO Homepage and a few gullible city officials, a motion due to go before the Californian legislature proposed banning the ‘potentially deadly’ dihydrogen monoxide from within the city boundaries.

waterResearchers found that the presence of dihydrogen monoxide in Aliso Viejo had reached startling levels: it was present in its crude form, often spilling unmonitored on to the city streets; it was found to be a crucial ingredient in many common chemical compounds; its presence was even detected in that most ubiquitous of civilised artifacts, the styrofoam cup.

Yes, thats because its H2O!!!

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scene from Egypt Hollow by Jake MahaffyHandcranked Films
An independent collective of filmmakers and artists who collaborate and share common interests in cinema as an art form, creating their films with hand-cranked movie cameras. Collectively, these four filmmakers have screened their films in festivals worldwide winning many awards.

(credit goes to Roowlants Weploch)

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cute boyCat-astrophe! The funniest cat video in the world, EVER!
Found on CatBoxing.com via Chapel Perilous.

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PepsiWhat a cute Pepsi ad! (1mb mpg)

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Mzansi Afrika tells of The Hidden Health Trauma of Child Soldiers
This child soldier fights in Sierra Leone. UN/DPI PhotoA new Belgian study reveals that children abducted or recruited to fight in wars suffer horrific atrocities and many are beaten and sexually abused. Young soldiers are forced to kill other children or even members of their own family, and girls are given to senior staff to act as wives.

An estimated 300,000 children, some 12 or younger, are currently serving as soldiers or guerrilla fighters in conflicts around the globe.

“I think this is the first time someone has investigated their experiences,” Ilse Derluyn, of Ghent University in Belgium. Derluyn and her colleagues interviewed 301 former child soldiers who had been abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a rebel movement in northern Uganda. Their research is published in The Lancet medical journal.

child soldierUN Regional Information Africa (IRIN) has more on this story.

In the meantime, Oneworld.net reports that Nepal’s Maoist rebels have announced plans to raise a militia of 50,000 children by April.

STOP!The Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers (CSC) is an NGO that does valuable human rights work around this issue. They have been at the forefront of efforts to ban the recruitment and use of child soldiers, while encouraging sustainable networks to promote demobilization and reintegration of former child soldiers. The site provides news, information, resourses and related links.

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Toilet seats ‘cleaner’ than office desks
toiletAccording to a US study, KEYBOARDS, computer mice and telephone dials are more infested with microbes than toilet seats.

Office workstations should be regularly disinfected since they can on average contain 400 times as many germs as a toilet seat. Telephones harbour up to 25,127 germs a square inch, keyboards 3295 and computer mice 1676. The average office contains 20,961 germs a square inch.

Even more reason to work from home!

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still from clipAnother Kollaboration clip – bigger, better quality
(Windows Media)

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Kisses sexy urinalBathroom Mania
An illustrative new line of sanitary products by Dutch illustrator and designer Meike van Schijndel.

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Gareth CliffHere it is – Gareth Cliff’s infamous Interview with Jesus that got him suspended at 5fm.

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brainFART Intelligence…

“I just heard about a patient who is an intravenous drug user and was high on heroin. After being unable to obtain any more of the illicit substance, he drew blood from another user that was high on heroin and then proceeded to inject himself with it.

Now’s he septic and almost dead.

Great problem solving skills, I’ll give him that.”

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mobile phoneOne of the many great things about living in South Africa is how a lot of emerging technology is tested there first. Internet Banking was going for a few years there before it even started emerging in the UK, and even today Internet banking in the UK is limited. Microchipped Bank Cards were used instead of speedpoints at many South African shops and they are only now introducing them in the UK. Cellular networks and phones were tested in South Africa too which meant that it was offered to the public for such great prices on pay-as-you-go, every family had at least one while it seemed only businessmen were using them in the rest of the world.

While listening to 5fm on internet radio today I caught a FIAT ad:
“Now all Fiat Palio Special Series come equipped with bluetooth as standard”
Fiat Palio SportNice! A Motorola Bluetooth Car Kit integrated with a Radio/CD. With the aid of this wire-less device, the driver can keep both hands on the steering wheel while receiving or making calls through voice activation.

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confused catFCS (Feline Confusion System)
Have you confused your cat recently? Chances are you have not. Most people don’t realise that they must confuse their cats regularly.

(found on caiterwauling)

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George W. Bush rubs man’s head for “luck” in display of apparent racist ignorance (photo)

Bush likes to rub headBefore speaking to a March 3rd Los Angeles audience at the White House Conference on Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, Mr Bush was introduced by an African-American male, whose head Mr Bush proceeded to rub while grinning and smirking. Full story…

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Change of political direction for Spain:

Angry Spanish voters oust the conservative Popular Party and vote in the Socialist Party
spanish flagA larger than expected 77% of the electorate turned out to vote in the wake of last Thursday’s attacks. Spain’s ruling conservatives crashed to surprise defeat in elections overshadowed by anger over terrorist bombings, becoming the first government that backed the U.S.-led war in Iraq to be voted out of office.

What angered many voters was that the conservative government had insisted that its prime suspect in Thursday’s rail bombings was the armed Basque separatist group ETA, even as evidence mounted of an Islamic link in the bombings. The government was accused of withholding information on the investigation and trying to manipulate international press reports to save the election.

AznarOther voters were angry at Aznar, accusing him of making Spain a target for Islamic extremists because of his support for the Iraq war, despite the opposition of most Spaniards. Aznar sent 1,300 Spanish troops to Iraq after the conflict and 11 have died. “I wasn’t planning to vote, but I am here today because the Popular Party is responsible for murders here and in Iraq,” said Ernesto Sanchez-Gey, 48, who voted in Barcelona.

Zapatero to withdraw Iraq troops
ZapateroThe new Socialist Prime Minister told Spanish radio that no decision would be taken without wide political consultation, but the soldiers would be pulled out if there was no change in Iraq by the 30 June deadline for transfer of sovereignty. He said “Many times I have said that the war in Iraq was a disaster. The occupation continues to be a disaster”, adding “Wars such as those which have occurred in Iraq only allow hatred, violence and terror to proliferate.”

While Mr Zapatero said his first priority was to tackle terrorism “in all its forms”, he is thought likely to do it in a very different way than the outgoing government.

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ban spamThe Penny Black Project
A group of researchers at Microsoft think they may have come up with a solution that could, at least, slow down and deter the spammers.

The development has been called the Penny Black project, because it works on the idea that revolutionised the British postage system in the 1830s – that senders of mail should have to pay for it, not whoever is on the receiving end. The payment is not made in the currency of money, but in the memory and the computer power required to work out cryptographic puzzles.

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Your one-stop shop for light-up clothes and costumes
glow in the dark braClubwear and casual evening wear, jackets coats and vests, full body light-up suits, formal evening wear, and accessories. No light-up socks though.
(as seen on attu sees all)

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Individuals CAN make a difference:
A humble man who single-handedly reforested a desolated area

Abdul Karim bought a sun-scorched arid stretch of land in Kerala years ago, promising himself, “I will turn this ochre expanse green.”

Motivated solely by a life-long desire to live in a forested area, Karim first planted species of trees that captured water during the rainy season and release it to the earth in summer, while their fallen leaves retained the groundwater (unlike others in the area, Karim insisted that the leaves be left where they fell). Within four years, the saplings had retained enough water that he dug a pond that amazed neighbors because of the amount of water – no one had ever struck water in that area! His early success motivated Karim to buy more land, eventually reforesting a 32-acre region.

forestBirds nesting in the trees dropped seeds, increasing the variety of vegetation, and attracting other birds and plants. Today, the area is heavily wooded, home to many birds and animals, and has ample water reserves in an otherwise parched area. Karim, his wife and children live in a pleasant home that doesn’t need a fan because of the shade; enjoy ample, sweet, water (which they share with 75 other village families) and credit the forest for their perfect health. The full story…

(Thanks Tintu)

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EROTIC DANCE FOR FUN

Poledancing lessons have come to Brighton!
pole dancerTaking place in a discrete and polished basement flat just off Kemp Town seafront, the studio run by Kay and Steve is equipped with 3 poles. Instructor Rebecca has five years experience as an erotic dancer in London and across Europe and is now a successful erotic artist.
Price: A 3hr workshop costs £40 per person. Private tuition can work out cheaper for 1 – 3 people. Birthday and hen parties can work out to around £15 per person.
Contact: Rebecca on 01273 773549 for details.
Source: Article written by Claire Truscott – This Is Brighton Magazine.

Lapdancing lessons at Top Totty, Brighton
lap danceLed by qualified dance captain Franki, this rigorous toning excercise can help you gain “incredibly sexy skills and increase body awareness with confidence”. Students are under no pressure to take off their clothes, although as the lessons progress inhibitions are known to fly out the window. There is a prize for the best dancer which guarantees the winner a job at the club.
Price: Lessons given to groups at £14 per person.
Contact: Top Totty, Grand Parade Brighton, 01273 709100.
Source: Article written by Emma Waddingham, This Is Brighton Magazine.

Poledance at home
pole dancerPermanent chrome poles can be custom made by Metal Fast who provides fixtures and fittings for those whose ceilings can take it. You could also install removable poles and get ceiling fittings cleverly disguised as dummy smoke detectors.
Source: Article in This Is Brighton Magazine.

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