Reuters has this story today:
"The man sought compensation of at least 20,000 euros on the grounds that the prosthesis caused him headaches, affected his balance and made him unduly sensitivity to the weather."But he didn't get that.
"Compensation of 3,000 euros was “appropriate and sufficient,” the court ruled. “The experts consulted by the court concluded the new skull roof was better than the original”."
As if growing up in England wasn't bad enough already, with ID cards, tracking devices and hovering surveillance robots, super-square clothing company Trutex is set to embed GPS tracking into school uniforms.
"Trutex sponsored an online survey of parents and children to gauge the r
esponse to this spy-tech clothing. Unsurprisingly, parents were in favor – 59% of them said they would be interested in using satellite tracking to stalk their offspring, and almost half of the still-naive under 12s said they would wear them. Teenagers weren't so sure, but then teenagers won't do anything they're told.
Schools, too, are interested, ostensibly to reduce truancy, but more likely to catch the kids bumming a quick fag behind the bike sheds. [Note: This is British English for "borrow a cigarette"]"
Ads now run in-between every third post on all my blog's (Videos, Programs and this one).
The ads that use to run at the top of the blog and in the bottom of the sidebar have been removed. The new ads will be more targeted to the content around it instead of the whole blog.
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I wont try this one but it's nice to know it can be done
Not their Shirt, but still lawsuit worthy.
"According to stats from the week ending August 5th, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 sold 10.32 million, Nintendo’s Wii followed with 10.10 million. They led war between the consoles and the PS3 was languishing with only 4.11 million units sold worldwide."
"New data shows that in a frame of one week, 310,000 Wii’s got new owners - Xbox 360 was sold in decent 110.000 units, while PS3 sold only 50,000 units. New numbers keep Xbox 360 in the lead with 10.43 million, Wii is now a close second with 10.41 million and PS3 remains the backmarker with 4.16 million consoles sold."
"Since the site will not be updated until next week, Wii has probably already outsold Xbox 360 and now has the lead in the console war."
Of course not everyone agrees that Nintendo will be able to sustain the success of the Wii. PS3 and 360 fanboys, er, I mean neutral industry pundits say:
“The Wii will fade,” they say, suggesting that the machine’s novel motion-controls and antiquated graphics technology will soon cause the system to wane in popularity."And with the release of the Xbox 360 Elite in Europe this month The Xbox is on it's way back.
Sorry dude, but guys in other countries are having more sex with more women than you, up to 70 times more a year in fact.
I know, it doesn’t make sense. Pop culture and the Internet would have us believe that American men are the most oversexed stallions on the planet, that every girl is 20, tanked, and topless. Yet there are stats according to Men’s Health survey of 40,000 readers worldwide, men in other parts of the world have more sex.
England: Partners can’t even wait to get back to the flat. Twice as many Brits as Americans report having had sex on public transportation and in alleyways and gardens.
Australia: Almost 75 percent of Aussies have had sex on the road.
Romania: When Romanian men want a woman, they tell her.
China: Forget the 3-day rule. In China, men follow up the day after a successful date–by e-mail.
Italy: It’s no secret that good food, wine, and conversation lead to great sex.
India: Indian men know that the journey is almost always more interesting than the destination.
Netherlands: Lovers in the Netherlands know what they want–and how to ask for it. Sixty-four percent of Dutch men and women are confident asserting their needs during sex.
Greece: Americans are bombarded with sexual imagery all day, yet we’re closemouthed about sex. Not in Greece.
From BBC News
"Exactly 25 years ago the world's first compact disc was produced at a Philips factory in Germany, sparking a global music revolution" More than 200 billion CD's have been sold since 17 August 1982.
Abba had the first CD to0 be produced (The Visitors).
Piet Kramer, who was a member of the optical group at Philips during the disc's development, told the BBC "When Philips teamed up with Sony to develop the CD, our first target was to win over the world for the CD. We did this by collaborating openly to agree on a new standard. For Philips, this open innovation was a new approach and it paid off."
Amber MacArthur received a link to this video and believed it so much she was going to call the police until she did a little digging and discovered it's viral advertising for Dexter the new show coming to FX this year.
Try Giving a friend the Dexter treatment, you input any victim's name, gender, occupation, etc.
Ars Technica has this story today.
"While the network neutrality debate can sometimes feel a bit theoretical in the US, it’s a live issue in Europe, and this week it hit the pages of newspapers across the UK. What made news was a set of demands by UK ISPs (Internet Service Providers), which banded together to tell the BBC that the ISPs would start to throttle the Corporation’s new iPlayer service because it could overwhelm their networks. Unless the BBC pays up, of course. Tiscali appears to be leading the charge, though ISPs like BT and Carphone Warehouse are also said to be involved. Tiscali UK CEO Mary Turner told the Financial Times, “The Internet was not set up with a view to distributing video. We have been improving our capacity, but the bandwidth we have is not infinite. If the iPlayer really takes off, consumers accessing the Internet will get very slow service and call their ISPs to complain.” The answer, from the ISP perspective, is to start throttling bandwidth used to download content to the iPlayer “catch-up” service."
This story begs the question what security measures will be put in place to stop it happening again.
[via Dvorak Uncensored]"(AXcess News) New York - A man was caught smuggling a small marmoset monkey into the U.S. on board a plane flight from Peru. The man made it into Ft. Lauderdale before boarding a flight to LaGuardia with the monkey tucked neatly underneath his hat, though the animal became restless on the plane when other passengers noticed it crawling out from underneath his hat and reported it to flight attendants.
Apparently the marmoset monkey was well behaved as he sat quietly in the man’s lap for the rest of the flight to New York.
When the flight landed in New York, police and animal control were waiting where the man was taken away for questioning and the marmoset monkey taken into custody. It is unknown whether the man will be charged with anything, though it is illegal to import animals without proper clearance.
The monkey is now in quarantine where he will remain for next month and could possibly end up a resident at local zoo. Authorities named the little monkey “Spirit”.
The monkeyshine took place on a Spirit Airlines flight, though the airline did not say whether the man would have to pay for the monkey’s ticket. Apparently the little marmoset monkey was not carrying any identification or credit cards at the time he was taken into custody in New York. The Department of Homeland Security did not say whether the monkey was being considered a possible terrorist suspect for entering the United States illegally, though Great Britain said they permit the monkey residency if he were to be sent to Guantanamo Bay as they were going to bring five British residents back who were being held there and had room on the flight."
How Stuff Works has an article on swearing.
"One "South Park" episode uses the same expletive 162 times" the word if you was wondering is "shit".
It's a really interesting read, and How Stuff Works is is great way to kill a day (just call it research, like I do)
They're slightly bigger than normal.
[via Dvorak Uncensored]
