Free spy in every pack - smh.com.auAnyone picking up Gillette Mach3 razor blades at Tesco's Cambridge (UK) store is photographed. A US based consumer advocate group notified the UK newspaper The Guardian to the use of the smart electronic tags. The paper found that tags in the razor blades trigger a CCTV camera when a packet is removed from the shelf.

A car stereo that can kill you? 72 amplifiers -- you got it, 72 -- and 36 big 16-volt batteries to put out the 130,000 watts of power needed to rumble nine 15-inch subwoofers

Lite-Brite Oh, you have to love this. LiteBrite without stepping on the pieces.

Giant sea specimen sliced for science The remains of a creature washed up on the shore of the coast of Chile- 40 feet wide. It may be an unknown species of marine animal. Some believe it could be a part of a whale, but tests are ongoing.

Just click on these in order in succession. Hehehe.
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0086450 http://us.imdb.com/Title?0286124 http://us.imdb.com/Title?0093690 -W

Weapons of mass destruction- found? Try this: Go to http://www.google.com. Type: weapons of mass destruction (no quotation marks). Do NOT click Google Search. Instead, click: I'm Feeling Lucky. Then read the whole error message carefully.

Best Buy'er BewareBest Buy and Microsoft are named in a lawsuit initiated by a California man who claims to have been duped into MSN service at the checkout counter. He was handed the computer and a "trial" CD for MSN, which isn't unexpected in the least, but what was unique is that the CD was scanned by the clerk. There's no valid reason to scan a trial CD because the point of a true trial edition is to shove as many out the door as possible. Keeping track of them for inventory purposes, as claimed by Best Buy is ludicrous. As you've probably guessed by now, zapping the CD with the little laser blaster initiated a monthly charge to the debit card used to purchase the computer. When confronted, neither company offered a satisfactory refund, hence the lawsuit.

An anti-war protester chained and padlocked himself to a building in Olympia, Wash. When puzzled employees arrived for work, they asked protester Jody Mason what he was doing. "Isn't this the U.S. Department of Energy?" Mason asked. No, the workers told him. He was chained to the state Grange office.

Madonna.com hacked
After Madonna rudely planted fake tracks from her new record last week on the P2Pnets, a prankster responded on Saturday by hacking madonna.com and posting MP3s of the entire album four days before it hit stores. Warning- strong language on the page.

Um, what's that on the counter? You know, no matter how bad things seem, things could always be worse- your final 'resting place' could be as messed up as this guy's.

Cookie Monster made computing history 30 years ago..The modern personal computer came to life three decades ago this month when a group of Xerox Corp. engineers projected an image of Cookie Monster, the "Sesame Street" character, onto the screen of an unfinished machine known as the Alto.
It is refreshing to see that the 'personal computer' project was a renegade 'secret' project that was kept alive by researchers when the manager was out on leave.

Peter Jackson to remake King Kong Los Angeles: Lord of the Rings film director Peter Jackson is switching his focus from hobbits to giant apes after signing up to remake the classic monkey movie King Kong, sources said today.

"No film has captivated my imagination more than King Kong," Jackson was quoted as saying in a Daily Variety report.

Optimus Prime active in the Middle East! A member of Ohio's 5694th National Guard Unit in Mansfield legally changed his name to a Transformers toy. "Optimus Prime" is heading out to the Middle East with his guard unit on Wednesday to provide fire protection for airfields under combat.

'Wash Your Hands' Signs Only Work for Women: StudyResearchers at Pennsylvania State University found that public-bathroom signs that say "please wash hands" caused women to more often use soap and water, but did not change men's hand-washing behavior

Stick the dismount?Strange and bizarre game- but addictive! Push the crash test dummy down the stairs and score points based on the amount of damage you inflict. Oh.. how low have we as a society sunk. (grin). You can download the windows installer on the page.

President exempts Area 51 again
Interesting story.. you know, they just can't help looking bad. Quote: "On Dec. 24, the White House issued a September determination by Mr. Bush in which he followed his predecessors' lead by issuing a determination exempting the Air Force facility near Groom Lake, Nevada, from environmental laws allowing the release of classified information about the area.

Groom Lake is the place that UFO buffs call Area 51.

"I find that it is in the paramount interest of the United States to exempt the United States Air Force's operating location near Groom Lake … from any applicable requirement for the disclosure to unauthorized persons of classified information concerning that operating location," the president wrote"

Morto the Magician!
I'm mirroring a copy of Steve Martin's short Shockwave movie here. Hysterical. As a magician, I found it even more funny. ;-) Click on the link to view it. Its a bit big, so give it a chance to download.. may take a minute or so. Also broadband connections only I'm afraid, else you'll be waiting for a while.

Dell saying bye to floppy"In what may be the wave of the future, Dell Computer said goodbye to the past on Thursday when it announced it would stop making floppy disk drives standard equipment on its higher end desktop personal computers." Floppies going the way of the dino.. I remember the day I first saw the 'High Density' floppy- I was on the phone with a friend of mine and said excitedly "Wow! It holds over a MEG! Woah!!"

To the moon, Alice!"Long imagined by science-fiction writers but seen by others as hopelessly far-fetched, the space-elevator concept has advanced dramatically in recent years along with leaps forward in the design of carbon nanotubes. Using the lightweight, strong carbon material, it's feasible to talk of building a meter-wide "ribbon" that would start on a mobile ocean platform at the equator, west of Ecuador, and extend 62,000 miles up into space."

Springer - running for Senate?u gotta be kidding me... Jerry "My Boyfriend Is a Girl" and "You're dating my mother?" Springer is considering running for Senate. remember folks, this is the guy that had to leave office in cincinnati after being caught with hookers.

IQOTD: Impossible Question of the Day- Official Site What's the IQOTD?
Hello! The IQOTD ( Impossible Question of the Day ) is a (mostly) daily contest that I run. A collection of strange and funny trivia questions are sent out, you have till noon the next day to answer them. Answers are collated and someone "wins". Sometimes (most times) more points are awarded for creativity than correctness. (grin) Give it a shot!

i converted. yep, I've gone and redesigned once again- and it seems to be working great! i didn't bother in converting any of the blogged stuff on the old site. if anyone misses it terribly, drop me an email and I'll send you the url to the old stuff.

I'm liking this blogger integration- very nice. Well, *yawn* its ugh, 1:00 am. gonna get some shut eye. welcome to the new redesigned version of my site. -W