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Man does quickest world trip
Nov 21, 2009 - 7:53 AM
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 He spent £350,000 to visit every country on earth in the shortest time possible and thereby earnt himself a mention in the Guinness Book of Records - just don't expect to be thrilled by his pictures.
While businessman Kashi Samaddar, 55, dodged bullets and bombs in some of the world's more unstable countries, and lived to tell the tale, his photographic skills are somewhat wanting as these two examples (below) demonstrate.
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People of Queensland, we need your help.
Nov 21, 2009 - 7:20 AM
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 TO: The Honourable the Speaker and Members of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland.
Queensland residents draws to the attention of the House that the Classification of Computer Games and Images Act 1995 is currently out of step with the wishes of the electorate.
Your petitioners, therefore, request the House that it be amended to permit computer games to receive the R18+ classification when they have been refused classification under the Commonwealth Act.
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Parlimentary E-Petition E-Source.
Put simply, we need your help people of Queensland. The e-petition simply puts forward that the classification system does not accurately reflect modern day standards, and an R18+ system needs to be introduced. This will allow a reclassification of games to R18+ when they have been refused. The QLD government has actually allowed this to be posted on their website, so it looks like they are actually listening to their people.
So bloody well help you beautiful Queensland sons of bitches.
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Father executes son for molesting sister
Nov 20, 2009 - 9:52 PM
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 A 15-year-old boy who was killed by his father in an execution style killing spent the last moments of his life pleading, "No, Daddy! No!"
Jamar Pinkney Sr. is facing a first degree murder charge after allegedly shooting his 15-year-old son after discovering he had been having inappropriate contact with a 3-year-old girl.
Jamar Pinkney, Sr. appears before Chief Judge Brigette R. Officer in 30th District Court in Highland Park, Mich. on Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009. Jamar Pinkney, Sr.,a 37-year-old father irate over hearing his 15-year-old son had sexual contact with a 3-year-old girl made the teen strip at gunpoint, marched him to a vacant lot and shot him to death despite pleas from the boy and his mother, a relative said.
Jamar Pinkney Jr. was shot in the head Monday by his 37-year-old father, Jamar Pinkney Sr., who allegedly made the teen strip his clothes off and kneel in a vacant lot before he was killed by a single bullet.
The boy's mother, Lazette Cherry, told the Detroit Free Press that Pinkney Sr., showed up at her Highland Park, Mich., home after she told him that their son had made a startling confession.
According to Cherry, the 15-year-old had admitted to having "inappropriate contact" with his 3-year-old half sister.
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Well, this will certainly present a conundrum for his fellow inmates. On one hand, he killed his own son. On the other, he took vigilante justice over his daughter being molested.
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One thing you must do this weekend
Nov 20, 2009 - 7:31 PM
 And that is to get your geek on and take a photo and send it in. You could win a ZGeek t-shirt and an uncensored version of Left 4 Dead 2.
If you don't. Then you could regret it for the rest of your days. Serious, would you want that? It could be a long time. 
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You have been conned
Nov 20, 2009 - 4:18 PM
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 Anthropogenic or man-made Global Warming (AGW) alarmism is the biggest deception and mass hysteria in the history of modern civilization, because climate changes naturally.
The Climate Sceptics believe leaders of Australia should base their decisions on facts rather than moods. For those who like to keep as informed as possible on the facts about what the global climate is doing the website http://www.climate4you.com/ collects the latest relevent data for your convenience.
The Climate Sceptics support all practical measures to prevent environmental degradation. We support the development of cleaner and more efficient sources of energy. Unfortunately governmental taxes to stop climate change are a colossal diversion of funds from core obligations, and Emission Trading Schemes (ETS) will do absolutely nothing for the Murray-Darling basin, the Great Barrier Reef, or land degradation – just as it will do absolutely nothing to stop climate change.
We are here to demand rational debate and responsible leadership. We reject the extremist views that now threaten what Australians have sacrificed to achieve in living standards, rights and freedoms.
If you want your own children and grandchildren to enjoy these values as you do, click here to join, and get in touch with your kindred spirits in your local area. There are a lot more of you than some might want you to discover.
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I became aware of this...person..from his TV ads on OneHD cunting up my NBA replays. Climate change is a con because surprise surprise "Leon and thousands of other Australian landholders have lost property rights due to the Kyoto protocol and other environmental laws". Handy hint Leon, don't recommend Andrew Bolt for further reading, that tells us something more than you think.
Beware: zoom has frightening lady. 
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Russians protest against sexual harasment
Nov 20, 2009 - 12:12 PM
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 As an old Russian saying goes, there are two problems in Russia, fools and roads. But lately one more has popped up and it is surely not a futile one. Since the fall of the Soviet Union there is a serious issue still gnawing all the countries of FSU. Corruption. And recently in the center of the capital of Ukraine, right at the entrance of Ministry of Cultural Affairs in Kiev, there was held a protest against sexual harassment in colleges of the country. And the girls’ approach was not as commonplace as it usually happens but a saucy and even kinda bizarre one.
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Quebec woman says insurance benefits fucked by Facebook
Nov 20, 2009 - 11:19 AM
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 A Quebec woman on long-term sick leave is taking her insurer to court over a decision to cut her benefits based, according to her, on photos she posted on Facebook.
Nathalie Blanchard, 29, is on leave from her job at IBM in Bromont, Que., since she was diagnosed with severe depression in February 2008.
But her benefits were suddenly cut off at the end of October. When she called to inquire with Manulife, her insurance company, she was told they established she was ready to go back to work based on photos they saw on Facebook.
Blanchard had posted photos her herself enjoying the beach at a sunny destination and partying in bars with her friends.
"They didn't ask her to explain those photos before making their decision," said Blanchard's lawyer Thomas Lavin.
Lavin said the Eastern Townships woman was encouraged by her doctor to take small vacations and go out more to try and forget about her worries and integrate herself back into her social network.
Blanchard is going to file a claim in Quebec Superior Court for wrongful dismissal and to seek damages against Manulife.
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While it's tempting to side with the insurance company here, I've known two individuals who went through depression and it's one of those illnesses that few take seriously and many chalk up to laziness and trying to beat the system.
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And you think you have it rough with the 18+
Nov 20, 2009 - 10:55 AM
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 These games are a cherished part of my life, they helped to shape my young mind, they gave me challenges and vastly improved my English, opening the door to a whole new world of literature, music and people from all around the world. What I have achieved, all my research, how I have been able to travel even though I'm always broke, the hard work I've done to convince people to fund a start up for cheap biotech for developing countries and regular folks, none of that would have been possible hadn't I learned English through video games.
Now, thanks to the tiny horizons of the cast of morons who govern me, thanks to the stupidity and ham-fisted authoritarianism of the local authorities, so beloved of so many liberals, my 7 year old brother's chances to do the same could be greatly impacted.
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Guido Núñez-Mujica, a 26-year-old Boing Boing reader in Venezuela who is an avid gamer, writes in with this extensive personal observation piece about a new law that widely criminalizes video games in the South American country. As you read the piece, please also bear in mind that publishing this sort of thing under one's full name is not done without personal risk.
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Peruvians Arrested for killing people to sell their fat
Nov 20, 2009 - 10:09 AM
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 Four people have been arrested in Peru on suspicion of killing some 60 people to sell their fat and other human tissue to Italian co-conspirators for cosmetic use in Europe, authorities say... The prosecutor's indictment said the gang allegedly targeted farmers and indigenous people on remote Andean roads, tricking them by offering jobs before killing them... Peruvian press cited him as saying the fat can be sold for $US15,000 ($16,000) per gallon (3.8 litres) in European countries.
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Trapped Thief Drops Pants in Bungled Burglary
Nov 19, 2009 - 9:27 PM
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 He wiggled, jiggled and even dropped his trousers, but a thief trying to break into a supermarket in Portugal stayed stuck fast in a tiny window until he was rescued by police and the fire brigade."Apparently he dropped his trousers as he was trying to free himself by wiggling," Capt. Santos, local police chief in Loule in southern Portugal, told Reuters Monday.
He said the slim 22-year-old Romanian man had spent about 11 hours stuck in the window, including the two hours it took police and the fire brigade to get him out Sunday morning.
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An underwater river
Nov 19, 2009 - 8:18 PM
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 These amazing pictures were taken by the professional diver Anatoly Beloshchin in the cave Cenote Angelita, Mexico. Here’s his description: “We are 30 meters deep, fresh water, then 60 meters deep – salty water and under me I see a river, island and fallen leaves… Actually, the river, which you can see, is a layer of hydrogen sulphide.”
It must be an unforgettable feeling once you’re there and see it with your own eyes.
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Internet Users Guilty Until Proven Innocent
Nov 19, 2009 - 5:46 PM
Remember this about the ACTA "treaty"? Here's a follow up:
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What's particularly disturbing about this is the degree to which the administration has tried to keep negotiations secret. They did invite 42 people to review and comment on the document, subject to very strict nondisclosure agreements so they couldn't talk about what they had seen. Of those 42 people, 40 of them represent large corporate entities and 2 represent public interest groups.
ACCOUNTABILITY:
In addition to having no transparency, we'll also have no accountability because ACTA is designed as an executive agreement instead of a treaty, which means that it doesn't require congressional approval.
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Based on what we've been able to piece together, the internet provisions have nothing to do with addressing counterfeit products, but are instead a reflection of entertainment and content industry demands for stricter copyright laws that would apply to the internet on a global scale. This is blatant Corporatism that could cost us our internet and our | ... [Read More]
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Pirate when his XBox breaks
Nov 19, 2009 - 2:55 PM
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 I’d had a long day Googling synonyms for penis, when I sat down for some much deserved rest. I poured myself a beer, settled back into my armchair and grabbed my trusty Xbox 360 controller. I hit the power button, mentally preparing myself to spend the next hour being called synonyms for penis by 14-year-old boys.
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“Hello, Xbox Support, how can I help you?” a chirpy female voice greeted me.
“You RRODed me! You shafted me with your horrible RROD! You stuck your huge, throbbing RROD into my life and ejaculated ruination all over it!”
“Jesus Christ!”
“Don’t take the Lord’s name in vain! That’s profane!”
“Wha… how, how can I help you?”
“You can fucking travel back in time and build a product that works! And while you’re back there you can accidentally court and woo your own mother like Marty McFly…. “
“I don’t-”
“Because you’re a motherfucker!”
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Well worth a read -obviously made up but there are some golden parts.
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The power of ROCK
Nov 19, 2009 - 1:55 PM
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 These extraordinary pictures reveal a bizarre event that is puzzling the science world - rocks that glide across the desert.
Amid the eerie silence and the 50C heat of California's Death Valley these giant boulders appear to move smoothly - and unaided - across the desert.
The rocks, some as heavy as 17 stone, edge along in bizarre, straight-line patterns across the ultra-flat surface of the valley. They can travel more than 350 yards a year.
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Pirate Bay tracker dead for good
Nov 19, 2009 - 1:47 PM
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 Today marks the end of an era, as The Pirate Bay team announces that the world’s largest BitTorrent tracker is shutting down for good. Although the site will remain operational for now, millions of BitTorrent users will lose the use of its tracker and will instead have to rely on DHT and alternative trackers to continue downloading.
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How to tell if your dad doesn't really like you
Nov 19, 2009 - 1:46 PM
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 Is this taking the whole Star Trek thing a teensie weensie bit too far? d'Armond Speers spoke only Klingon to his child for the first three years of its life.
Klingon? Not Spanish, French, Mandarin? Not some gutteral genuflecting concoction from the deepest recesses of Borneo? Klingon? You heard it right. (And if you don't know about the Klingon Empire, look it up.)
"I was interested in the question of whether my son, going through his first language acquisition process, would acquire it like any human language," Speers told the Minnesota Daily. "He was definitely starting to learn it."
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This reminds me of my own childhood. My dad pretended to be French for about four years of my life so he didn't have to speak to me. He pretended he didn't know a word of English. Every morning he'd greet me with a cheery "Si vous étiez vraiment mon fils, je me tuerais."
I was ten.
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A mate of mine has put this together with Lego, stop-motion photography and far more patience than I could ever show.
