Decavolt's Topics:
ACTA - world police force for the sole purpose of "fighting" copyright infringement. Answers to no government, no coalition of governments, or the United Nations. Only answers to corporate masters, and doesn't even attempt to hide it.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/perspectives ... 45123.html
Scariest quote as applies to "How does this affect me?" : "They would be able to seize any device - laptop, iPod, DVD recorder, mobile phone, etc - and confiscate it or destroy anything on it, merely on suspicion. On the spot, no lawyers, no right of appeal, no nothing."
KISS - the new Metallica of the music industry.
KISS Blasts Radiohead For Giving Their Music Away For Free
Gene Simmons is such a fuckwit.
http://www.aol.com.au/celebrity/story/r ... index.html
Where We Do What We Do
http://wherewedowhatwedo.com/
Users submit photos of their work spaces. Very cool.
Classic Photos done in Lego
http://www.flickr.com/photos/balakov/se ... 1858/show/
(similar to The Brick Testament -
http://www.thebricktestament.com/ - which is the bible, 371 stories from it, done in lego)
Super cool site of the week:
How to Sneakily Read Books at Work
http://www.readatwork.com/
This is what the internet is really all about:
Famous People Punching Steve
http://www.steveharwood.com/punch.htm
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Lleanna's Topics:
Abrasion Holography - Making holographs by hand:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUy8lELWhJg&feature=user
Website with more info here:
http://www.amasci.com/amateur/holo1.html
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Supposedly "uncontacted" tribe found and photographed near Brazil/Peru border.
Here's a
Daily Mail story (one of hundreds reporting on this), and here's a
video.
Although the MSM hasn't picked it up at all yet, there's some growing buzz that these photos were
faked.
Lleanna's translation:
Rough translation of the newspaper article:
The indiginous officials located on the border with Brazil in the district of Yurua reached Pucalipa (the newspaper) to deny that in his district there exists a population uncontacted by civilization.
on the contrary Jorge Sandoval Orbe of the ethnicity Chitonahua, called Murunahua claim the support offered by the WWF and ensures that they made them pose nude behind that institution (building) in the town of Breuer, they got paid for only one day and had since forgotten.
We pose naked for NGO as we moved like wild animals and we were exposed throughout the world as a collection of people untouched by civilization.
They called it "voluntary isolation", a name given to argue its validity before the international community, who invest large sums of money that never come to us, despite living in extreme poverty, which Sandoval claims DNI (welfare??) for more than 4 years.
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Basically, it sounds like someone paid these guys a very little money to pose naked for pictures and act like wild men, in order to get money to study and/or protect them?
It's hard to get more than that out of this newspaper article, which is a pulp fluff piece at best. Sorry for the lame-o translation, but I'm tired. It just didn't seem like anyone else was interested in translating it, since I couldn't find a translation anywhere on the web for it.
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I laughed so hard I peed my pants a little.
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1766701
I could put this on endless loop and watch it over and over.
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Couple finds 60,000 bees in their rental home. How? Honey was OOZING OUT OF THE WALLS. No lie.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25258734/