Thursday, September 16, 2004
Links o' the day:
Lord Mutter let me in on the news that Jack 'Suicide Joe' Kevorkian dabbled for some time creating art. Upon viewing said art , I found it somewhat disturbing. And heck, if I'm more disturbed than usual shouldn't you be as well ? Links below are to his creations as well as his descriptions thereof.
Brotherhood
War
Very Still Life
Fever
Nearer My God To Thee
For He Is Raised
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Hostage = Unexcused Absence
A 32 year old Austrian engineer was taken hostage in Iraq on August 19th. He was held by his captors for 13 days, subjected to electric shocks, burning of the flesh with cigarettes, beatings etc. Forced to swallow sleeping tablets to keep him dull, apparently dude forgot to call in and let his boss know he'd be missing work.After his release was negotiated by the Austrian Foreign Office and after his wife paid out a 30,000 ransom to the captors, dude went back to the office to work.
His mensa-candidate boss, however, has fired him for taking "an extended holiday without leave". The ex-hostage has shown his boss his scars and wounds, and the government has confirmed that he was in fact kidnapped, but his boss doesn't believe it and says tough noogies, find another job.
Yeesh.
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Tired of your Mouse? Try a Nouse!
Dmitry Gorodnichy of the Institute of Information Technology in Ottawa, Canada, has invented a computer that can be controlled via the user's nose and eyelids. Tracking software in a webcam on the computer reads the motion of the nose and the blinks of the user's eyes to determine where to generate mouse clicks. Right wink = right nouse button. Left wink = left nouse button.
This could be very useful for people with disabilities.
Unless of course the disabilities include hayfever or inability to wink.
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From Harold "we don't need no stinkin' badges" Friedline:
A Lesson in Gun Control
So 46 unarmed police officers from Paraiba, Brazil, were riding along in their bus en route to a sports competition when suddenly - from out of nowhere - two cars filled with armed robbers appeared and forced the bus to stop.
The evil doers got on the bus and helped themselves to the cops' goods: cameras, cell phones, wallets, sports uniforms, sneakers, you name it. And the cops had to let them do it because they did not have their weapons.
Word has it that the bad guys didn't know it was a bus full of good guys. That was just a pleasant surprise - the icing on the cake, as it were.
And no, they haven't been caught.
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Someone Paid Money For This Study
Alert! Alert! It has been officially determined that the bigger the nostrils, the greater the sniffing power. Julia Vent from the University of Cologne in Germany spent the past 3 years peeking up the nostrils of 95 men between 25 and 58 years old. And determined that the bigger the shnozz, the better the sniff.
There ya go.
Lord Mutter let me in on the news that Jack 'Suicide Joe' Kevorkian dabbled for some time creating art. Upon viewing said art , I found it somewhat disturbing. And heck, if I'm more disturbed than usual shouldn't you be as well ? Links below are to his creations as well as his descriptions thereof.
Brotherhood
War
Very Still Life
Fever
Nearer My God To Thee
For He Is Raised
&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
Hostage = Unexcused Absence
A 32 year old Austrian engineer was taken hostage in Iraq on August 19th. He was held by his captors for 13 days, subjected to electric shocks, burning of the flesh with cigarettes, beatings etc. Forced to swallow sleeping tablets to keep him dull, apparently dude forgot to call in and let his boss know he'd be missing work.After his release was negotiated by the Austrian Foreign Office and after his wife paid out a 30,000 ransom to the captors, dude went back to the office to work.
His mensa-candidate boss, however, has fired him for taking "an extended holiday without leave". The ex-hostage has shown his boss his scars and wounds, and the government has confirmed that he was in fact kidnapped, but his boss doesn't believe it and says tough noogies, find another job.
Yeesh.
&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
Tired of your Mouse? Try a Nouse!
Dmitry Gorodnichy of the Institute of Information Technology in Ottawa, Canada, has invented a computer that can be controlled via the user's nose and eyelids. Tracking software in a webcam on the computer reads the motion of the nose and the blinks of the user's eyes to determine where to generate mouse clicks. Right wink = right nouse button. Left wink = left nouse button.
This could be very useful for people with disabilities.
Unless of course the disabilities include hayfever or inability to wink.
&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
From Harold "we don't need no stinkin' badges" Friedline:
A Lesson in Gun Control
So 46 unarmed police officers from Paraiba, Brazil, were riding along in their bus en route to a sports competition when suddenly - from out of nowhere - two cars filled with armed robbers appeared and forced the bus to stop.
The evil doers got on the bus and helped themselves to the cops' goods: cameras, cell phones, wallets, sports uniforms, sneakers, you name it. And the cops had to let them do it because they did not have their weapons.
Word has it that the bad guys didn't know it was a bus full of good guys. That was just a pleasant surprise - the icing on the cake, as it were.
And no, they haven't been caught.
&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
Someone Paid Money For This Study
Alert! Alert! It has been officially determined that the bigger the nostrils, the greater the sniffing power. Julia Vent from the University of Cologne in Germany spent the past 3 years peeking up the nostrils of 95 men between 25 and 58 years old. And determined that the bigger the shnozz, the better the sniff.
There ya go.
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