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WeirdPixie blogged this really strange site over at Chapel Perilous…

Pinocchia.com
“Nasophallophilia” - What on earth? This has to be the weirdest sexual fetish I have ever heard of. Okay, big noses I can understand, I ADORE big noses (although not in a fetish way, I think), but 2 metre long Pinocchio noses? On Women? Come on!

The forum is just as entertaining and seems to be overrun by desperate men looking for the perfect Pinocchio woman, like this guy:

“I’d like to see a girl that is self conscious about her big nose have her nose grow from anywhere to six inches long to the length of a stripper pole and then have it used for various humiliating tasks.” ~ Mike”

Luckily for Mike the world is full of women who’s noses grow really long while they are forced to tell lies in front of other people, so hopefully his hobbies and personality will help him find that perfect girl.

Lego club have the most addictive online games! There’s a lot of new stuff, so its worth checking out again, even if you’ve visited before.

Aids Myth.com

For years I - along with the rest of the world - thought Thabo Mbeki had lost the plot on HIV and AIDS. I wondered whether he had gone mad… I couldn’t understand how he could stick his head in the sand while over 250,000 South Africans were dying of AIDS every year. How could he hold back life-saving AZT from infected citizens? How could such a respected leader tell people that HIV does not cause AIDS?
After reading this article from a few years back, I can understand his concerns… I just needed to know what was going on in his head.

On a similar thread, I’m interested to know if Christine Maggiore is still alive today. There are loads of articles about her and her contraversial beliefs online, but I cant find any that indicate whether she is still alive.

The perfect gift for animal lovers - give a gift of life

• Help dogs heal people in need
• Save an abandoned bear cub
• Spare a baby harp seal from the slaughter of commerical hunting
• Rescue an oil-soaked penguin and release it into the wild
• Protect an elephant from poachers in Malawi

SHARE A SCARE … WITH MISTY!
Some of our older girls (40+) will remember this one. I remember how excited I used to be, waiting for the weekly issue to arrive in the bookshop. Now you can read Misty in full, online!

In Park Lane, Mayfair, the Princess Royal unveiled the first permanent tribute to the horses, dogs, pigeons, elephants and others on whose skills the British have depended in times of conflict. Carrying the inscription “They had no choice”, the huge memorial, designed by David Backhouse, comprises a carved Portland stone wall alongside sculptures of two mules carrying battle equipment, a stallion and a dog.”

“We never said thank you to them. They died in their millions. They carried our food and our weapons and they were phenomenal,” ~ Jilly Cooper

Eight million horses are believed to have died in the First World War, most from exposure, disease or starvation while carrying men, ammunition and equipment. “In the First World War horses would neigh when they heard enemy fire but would do nothing when they heard their own fighters going overhead. It’s their sixth sense.”

Hundreds of thousands of “mile-a-minute” carrier pigeons delivered crucial dispatches from the front, many suffering bad injuries. Among them was the famed Mary of Exeter, who returned from one mission with a damaged wing and three shotgun pellets in her breast.

“In the Blitz, dogs used to wake up their owners and take them to the shelters when they heard the sirens,” added Miss Cooper. A seven-year-old Army springer spaniel, he broke a resistance cell in Safwan, southern Iraq, when he found a hidden cache of weapons. His presence honoured the sacrifice of the many dogs who ripped their paws raw sweeping minefields, helping to lay vital telegraph lines or sniffing out survivors. Some, like Rob the “Para-Dog” even made parachute jumps.

“Miss Digital World is the search for a contemporary ideal of beauty, seen through virtual reality.”
~ Franz Cerami, Creator, MDW competition.

URBAN CHILLERS bring you real CCTV files.

Robotime Transformer Robot Watch!
Ken’s was blue, mine was red. I’d stand it up on my desk at school and wear it with all its arms and legs out so people would know it had super powers beyond the high-tech digital display. No-one else I knew had one. It’s still my favourite watch of all time. I would dearly LOVE to have one again. I’d never take it off (except to shower in which case I’d put it in a specially made superpower-restoring charger pod).

Check out this original Kronoform TV Ad! (0.7MB)

Jailed for 7 years
Sentencing the pair, Judge Alan Goldsack said: “The reality is that behind the closed doors of your home your children were being slowly starved to death.”

Here is a photo of the parents David Askew and Sarah Whittaker, both 24. The children’s plight was discovered when Whittaker phoned for an ambulance in June because one of the twins was “lifeless”. When police officers entered the house, they had difficulty not being sick.

The 12-month-old twin boys were both seriously ill and were taken to hospital. One was put in ICU. Authorities said the boy was like a skeleton and “within hours of death.” He and his twin weighed less than 9 pounds. The most seriously ill twin was passing live maggots into his nappy; these were later identified as the larva of the common housefly. Experts said they had come from the baby ingesting fly-ridden food or from an infestation in the heavily soiled nappies he was found in. Andrew Hatton, prosecuting, said “One doctor said it was the worse case of malnutrition he had ever come across in the UK or outside of the developing world.”

Three other children - now aged eight, four and three - also were found malnourished and filthy in the home. I saw footage on TV last night, and there was human and dog excrament (photo) smeared on the walls and urine on the floors. A court heard how both twins might have died had it not been for the eight-year-old eldest daughter, who acted as ‘mother’ to the youngsters.

Sarah Whittaker and David Askew spent their time in a comfortable lounge with a satellite TV, DVD players, a computer, video recorder and games, while their children lived in squalor.

All five children were taken into foster care and are apparently making a good recovery.

EXPLAIN TO ME WHY it is not COMPULSORY that these people are sterilized for their crime? They will only continue to breed unwanted children that once discovered are taken away by the state to go into foster care. Sterilization in extreme cases like this should be the obvious action to take. It need not affect their sexual functioning, just their ability to breed.

Gaiagal is a National spokeswomen for women with heart disease in the US, and with good reason! She has an incredible and inspiring story to tell…

Google has released another beta search engine, this time aimed at scientists and academics around the world. Called Google Scholar, the search engine’s goal is to offer the most comprehensive list of research papers available on the Web.

“Before you’ve finished your breakfast this morning, you’ll have relied on half the world” ~ Martin Luther King

An interesting thought. And a depressing one, when you realise that those people you’ve relied on for your coffee and muesli are almost certainly being exploited and oppressed by the unfair power balance in world trade. But what can you do? Surely it’s beyond your control? Wrong. You can buy Fair Trade products. And you can add your voice to the Big Noise.

THE BIG NOISE!
“You have just joined 5,454,801 people worldwide, and 211,630 from United Kingdom - England who have signed up to the Big Noise petition”

Join the Big Noise to make trade fair!

Although I’m a Green voter myself, I thought I’d draw your attention to the Hove Labour 2005 blog - started by Bedsit Bomber and Jonathan.

“It’s local to Brighton & Hove, and rather than being handcuffed to a political party, it’s designed to reach out to like-minded people, even giving them the right to post.” ~ BB

Wow! Yummy contributer Miko has posted her photo up on Caiterwauling (scroll down), and looks totally different to what I expected. Isn’t she stunningly beautiful? You will never guess her age. She looks younger than me!

The Eden Project
It’s hard to believe I still haven’t been there. It must be an incredible experience! If you haven’t heard of it before, the Eden Project is a large botanical garden and education centre in Cornwall constructed of enormous greenhouses (biomes). Each has a sheltered micro-climate which allows large numbers of the world’s tropical and mediterranean species to be represented within the plantings.

If you live on the other end of the earth, you can still explore the biomes with their Panoramic VR 3D Tours. Amazing!

Jan Garbarek tonight at Brighton Dome!!
“Jan Garbarek is a giant of contempory jazz, and the unmistakable, haughting sound of the Norwegian-born multi-instrumentalist’s tenor saxophone is one of the most distinctive voices in today’s music. For thirty years the inspirational and influential Garbarek has taken African/ American jazz and fused it with the music of South America, India and European classism.”

Sample clip: click here to listen to Jan Garbarek

Brown writes off developing countries’ debts
“Golden opportunity to pressure G7 leaders
In September, the Chancellor took the bold step of writing off the UK’s share of debts owed by 32 of the world’s poorest countries. Now it’s time for the rest of the G7 nations. Help us persuade them to follow the UK’s lead before they meet in February. Cancelling the debt could put 100 million children into school – so click below and tell them they must try harder!”

Take action!

Africa’s Debt Crisis
“Africa’s external debt burden currently stands at more than $300 billion, in a continent where most people subsist on less than $1 per day. Africa’s debt crisis is the single biggest obstacle to the continent’s development and to the fight against HIV/AIDS. It represents a crippling load that undermines economic and social progress. It is estimated that African countries pay $1.51 in debt service for every $1 they receive in aid.” more…

Illegitimate Debt
“Most of Africa’s foreign debt is illegitimate in nature because of the circumstances under which it was incurred, as well as the harmful effects it now has on the continent’s development.” More…

U.S. Policy on Africa’s Debt
“Over the past eight years, the HIPC initiative has fundamentally failed to resolve Africa’s debt crisis. It has not reduced the debts of African countries to sustainable levels. In fact, it serves the interests of creditors by continuing to extract the maximum possible in debt repayments from the world’s poorest countries.” More…

Faith47.com
Faith is an incredibly talented Cape Town based fine artist, illustrator and graffiti artist. Her graffiti is heavily influenced by SA culture while still retaining that distinctive urban edge shared by all contemporary graffiti artists. You’ve got to check out her work. It’s a shame some of the image links are broken, I want to see them all! Hopefully they will be fixed soon.

(Thanks for the link Fly!)

Movie Review

We went to see six films this weekend: Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (eugh. had its moments.), After the Sunset (entertainment that’s easy to forget, though Salma Hayek has never looked hotter.), Ladies in Lavender (surprisingly good!), The Incredibles (fantastic and clever - check out the trailer) and Enduring Love (heavy going and thought provoking thriller - check out the trailer).

Standing head and shoulders over the rest for us was undoubtedly:

The Educators - official selection Cannes 2004
(Die Fetten Jahre sind vorbei)

The story begins with a wealthy family returning from holiday to their luxurious lifestyle. When they enter their villa they are shocked to find a pile of their expensive furniture stacked up to the ceiling. Their precious ornaments in the toilet, carrots on the diningroom table, family photos in the fridge, everything has been creatively rearranged and placed where you’d least expect it. Someone has left a note for them: “Your days of plenty are numbered.”

The story follows three unseparably close friends, through kidnapping, love and betrayal and tests their fundamental ideals.

“The Edukators is a deft and amusing look at the youngsters’ attempts to live by their own version of 60s radical politics, even when this is hard to square with their more individualist impulses.” ~ LFF Films

I loved this movie and give it 4½ stars! If it was worth any less, I wouldn’t have bothered to blog it. You will recognise Daniel Brühl from Goodbye Lenin who steals the show.

Watch the trailer on the German site titled “Trailer”.

At last, this is news Ive been desperate to hear! Thanks Tintu.

Google announced on Wednesday that its still-in-beta-testing e-mail service, Gmail, will now support POP access. Post Office Protocol (POP) is the mail service type commonly utilized by Microsoft Outlook and other similar e-mail applications. It is also utilized by handheld devices. This means Gmail account holders will be able to access the e-mail in their Gmail accounts using other programs/devices instead of being limited to online-only access through a browser on a PC. More info…

I wish someone would invent a WiFi Clock Radio so I can tune into Sleepbot Environmental Broadcast while tucked up in bed. I found this great new station on Chapel Perilous.

Why don’t all new audio and video devices come out as standard with signal receivers for other channels (11 in particular), so your wifi devices can send audio-visual data to them? It should be a standard. I don’t want an MP3 player, portable DVD player, or a DAB clock radio. I want a portable device that receives all known signals and plays all new formats, with a clock, alarm and programmable buttons to save your favourite channels, and of course a hefty HDD that can store a whole library of high quality DVDs. The HDD should be upgradable as better ones come out. Then I can hook up speakers to it or headphones and put it anywhere. It has to come out eventually, and I can’t wait!