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Surely that’s punishment enough

Five years for shooting self in the testicles.

A man who shot himself in the testicles with a sawn-off shotgun was jailed for five years yesterday.

David Walker, 28, had drunk 15 pints of lager when he accidentally discharged the gun, which had been stuffed down his trousers, Sheffield crown court heard.

Walker underwent emergency surgery after the accident in Dinnington in South Yorkshire. Tests are continuing to find out how it will affect his fertility and sexual performance.

A candidate for a Darwin Award I think if he really has destroyed his reproductive organs.

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Hell on Earth

The view from my house looking across the fields never ceases to amaze me and now I’ve a way of documenting it. The redness of the clouds in the sky here is unbelievable it’s as if a demon were descending to earth.
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Fahrenheit 9/11: An analysis.

Stupid White Movie

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Sunset and Pylons

The result of my recent purchase of a digital camera.

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Brown Equals Terrorist

A weblog by Seattle-based photographer Ian Spiers.

About a month ago I had a little run-in with 3 Homeland Security agents, 3 Seattle Police officers, 2 security guards and a German Shepherd while I was at a local park with my camera. The DHS agent told me that it’s illegal for me to take pictures of federal property. The ACLU of Washington disagrees. My blog is my attempt to chronicle this outragous situation and bring some common sense and public awareness to it.

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International Crown of Peace

Just when I thought it was safe to be less paranoid I discover more weird shit via the website Where in Washington, D.C. is Sun Myung Moon?.

Apparently the self-pronounced Messiah Sun Myung Moon was crowned in a ceremony at the Dirksen Senate Office Building by a US senator. The first link below show stills of the ceremony and the second has a transcript of it both have links to movie footage of the ceremony.

I’m _____________ and I approve this Messiah

This really happened at the Senate office building

I used to be quite scared of the “Moonies” when I was a youngster as they owned a large house near where I lived that my parents warned me to keep well away from. Maybe now is the time to start fearing them again.

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Takeru "The Tsunami" Kobayashi

Japanese still dominate in Hot Dog eating.

For the fourth straight year, rail-thin Takeru Kobayashi chewed up the competition at the NathanՉ۪s Famous hot dog eating competition Sunday, breaking his own previous world record.

Kobayashi, of Nagano, Japan, gulped down 53½ wieners in 12 minutes and shattered his own world record by three dogs. In 2002, he had wolfed down 50½.

Not only that but the second place competitor was Japanese also. It seems that Americans cannot cut the mustard in eating competitions anymore, though one competitor did vow to unseat the reigning champion and bring the trophy back home to the US. I think the reason that Kobayashi is so dominant is that he seems to take the competition very seriously and probably trains like an athlete for it whereas his American rivals seem to be just big and fat. As long as Kobayashi continues competing I can’t see the trophy ever returning to the US.

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The Beginner’s Computer Handbook – Understanding & Programming The Micro

Yet more computer nostalgia, it is becoming a bit of an obsession of mine at the moment.

Found on currybetdotnet

Anyway yesterday for the princely sum of 30 pence I purchased a 1983 hardback edition of “The Beginner’s Computer Handbook – Understanding & Programming The Micro” by Judy Tatchell and Bill Bennett, edited by Lisa Watts, published by Usborne Publishing.

It has been a very entertaining read, and one that has really brought home to me how much the arrival of computers in the home has changed things for society over the 21 years since it was published. It still seems to have that wonderful utopian feel I normally associate with the 60’s that computers are going to make everything easier in the future.

I’m pretty sure I had this book or something very much like it as having just seen pictures of it on currybetdotnet has brought back a lot of memories. Hours spent typing in code from books or magazines to get a crappy little game, god what was I thinking.

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Black sugar water Science

From WIRED news: Paranoia Goes Better With Coke

Military bases and Coke cans fitted with tracking devices! Sounds like something out of The Invisibles.


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I have writer’s block…

so I am quoting some of my favourite stuff from Barbelith. I love this bit of fictional David Niven biography written by Mr. Bizunth Mutters ‘INRI’ in the thread appropriately known as Fictional Biography.

I always remember an incident that grew up from an argument between David and his friend Pol Pot (Not the dictator). The two fellows had been drinking cauliflower schnapps at a knees-up in the Bigotry Club on Pall Mall to celebrate the release of David’s latest film The Most Basic of Instincts and had got into an argument regarding the comportment of Lord Nelson. Pol insisted that the statue of Nelson in Trafalgar Square showed him exposing his ‘lad’, as he was too high up for anyone but pigeons to see. All official photographs were of a non-obscene scale model kept deep within Whitehall. David poohpoohed the idea, insisting there was no way a hero like Nelson would have permitted his todger to be rendered in stone. As the argument grew more heated the two men set off for the column with an entorage of drunken hangers-on( myself included), having first raided the lost property for mountaineering equipment. As the party charged towards the column the potent effects of the schnapps kicked in and one by one we passed out in the gutters.
On awaking the next day, somehow all back in our beds, we were mildly shocked to find that Pol had died in the night. David never revealed what had happened once they reached the column, but ten years later, drunk on another bottle of that schnapps, he showed me the suppressed autopsy that revealed Pol had died after being pecked by a duck whose beak was laced with Curare, the preferred assassination technique of The Freemasons. When I asked him if he had seen Nelson’s most private of parts he fixed me with a glassy, terrified stare and said only ‘There are more things in heaven and earth… Horatio.”