Saturday, May 02, 2009

one year after a cyclone in Myanmar




Last year's cyclone was catastrophic. It killed at least 140,000 people and left at least 2 million people without homes, according to the United Nations World Food Programme...

The winds were so powerful that they blew away the village buffalo. In Nway's village, 120 people out of a population of 430 people lost their lives...

Sunday, April 26, 2009

allo spider




'Spider silk is already tougher and lighter than steel, and now scientists have made it three times stronger by adding small amounts of metal.

The technique may be useful for manufacturing super-tough textiles and high-tech medical materials, including artificial bones and tendons...'

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Optimum Population Trust




Sir David Attenborough said yesterday that the growth in global population was frightening, as he became a patron of an organisation that campaigns to limit the number of people in the world.

The television presenter and naturalist said that the increase in population was having devastating effects on ecology, pollution and food production.

“There are three times as many people in the world as when I started making television programmes only a mere 56 years ago,”

Saturday, April 04, 2009

the sad slide into addiction



'The dux of a Sydney girls' school describes MySpace as MyEnemy, Jennifer Aniston reportedly dumps her boyfriend because of his Twitter addiction, and China successfully enforces time limits on teenage internet gamers.

This is a snapshot from the frontier of cyberspace, where mankind's new technological marvels are imposing burdens on brain cells they were never designed for, rewiring the architecture of our synapses and perhaps even changing what it means to be human...'

Sunday, March 29, 2009

nuke spooks




I'm proud of the way my homeland, New Zealand, has managed to keep nuclear energy out of its minimal space in the south pacific/world,
proud of the way former PM David Lange defended nuclear free NZ so charistmatically at the annual Oxford Union debate in 1985,
but I'll be b*ggered supporting any government that rescinds this law for the sake of a better alliance with the USA

Saturday, March 28, 2009

Friday, March 27, 2009

the business of rebuilding schools 'properly'




Hang Yanrong, deputy governess of Sichuan, said at least 4,553 schools would need to be rebuilt.

State coffers will fund construction of 3,340 schools. Another 1,213 schools will be built with the financing by the province ....

Wednesday, February 04, 2009

Who fears tears?



Over the years, psychologists have confirmed many common observations about crying. It is infectious. Women break down more easily and more often than men, for reasons that are very likely biochemical as well as cultural. And the physical experience mirrors the psychological one: heart rate and breathing peak during the storm and taper off as the sky clears.

Thursday, January 29, 2009

Moon on the man

oh KJI - you are the gratest fat pr$ck to ever grace the aquariums of Pyongyang

Monday, January 26, 2009

plenty of lead in his pencil




his name is Henry,
he has just fathered 11 children,
he's a tuatara from New Zealand
AND HE'S ONLY 111 YEARS OLD

Sunday, January 25, 2009

Thursday, January 22, 2009

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

the lastest video creation

following 6 months of travel in 008, I found myself with a lot of video stock to do something with, enjoy..

Barack Obama's Inauguration Speech- NOT!




My fellow Americans, today is a gelid day. You have shown the world that "hope" is not just another word for "holy soap", and that "change" is not only something we can believe in again, but something we can actually alter.

Today we celebrate, but let there be no mistake – America faces illimitable and lugubrious challenges like never before. Our capricious economy is extirpated. Americans can barely afford their mortgages, let alone have enough money left over for a dinosaur-like vehicle to go shopping with. Our healthcare system is nebulous. If your myocardium is sick and you don't have insurance, you might as well call an undertaker. And America's image overseas is tarnished like a pansy sock. But expectorating together we can right this ship, and set a course for Montesauri.

Finally, I must thank my pulchritudinal family, my corpulent campaign volunteers, but most of all, I want to thank impecunious voters for making this historic occasion possible. Of course, I must also thank you, President Bush, for years of enervating the American people. Without your soporific efforts, none of this would have been possible.

Monday, January 19, 2009

5 pairs of red underwear


sounds like what Mr Santa keeps in his smalls drawer,
but no,
it's the Chinese lucky tradition of wearing lucky red clothes
close to your body

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

seriously screwed up



Japanese society has social problems; 'One man, in his early 30s, was attempting to bond with an Oriental Longhair by means of a rubber mouse at a cat cafe.
Yutsuke, who speaks with a lisp, is normally rather shy with people. He longs for a cat of his own but frequent business trips make that difficult. Besides, he lives alone, so the Ja La La cafe is his solution to the problem...'

Sunday, January 11, 2009

new shit #2



Terrafugia Transition- it's a flying car!

and it's for those kind of folks who have ashtrays on their Paris/Dakar BMW motorcycles ..

Friday, January 09, 2009

vicious panda strikes again



it's a freakin BIG bear,
and BIG bears do that kind of sh$t ...

what do the stupid zoo-going public expect, I wonder?
- a creature that will wander up to them in its freaky, concreted, zoo compound, begin conversing with them in Mandarin and them offer the intruder a 'panda' brand cigarette with the disclaimer that it doesn't have a light cos cigarettes are dangerous for one's health.

Tuesday, January 06, 2009

ICC cricket 'hall of fame'

where are the likes of batsmen Martin Crowe, Brian Lara, Sachin Tendulkar?

when they have a plonker like David Gower in there

and bring on the greatest spin bowlers of the game, aka Shane Keith Warne & Muliah Mulilitarinaninalintinjinbin

Monday, January 05, 2009

les idiot savante

'He is not a memorable villain so much as a sometimes affable second banana whom Will Ferrell can nail without breaking a sweat. He is smaller than life.'

New York Times nailed him to the shed with this article ...

'Bush kept America safe (provided his presidency began September 12, 2001). He gave it record economic growth (provided his presidency ended December 2007). He vanquished the leading al-Qaeda terrorists (if you don't count bin Laden and al-Zawahri). He gave Afghanistan a thriving "market economy" (if you count its skyrocketing opium trade) and a "democratically elected president" (of one of the world's most corrupt governments). He supported elections in Pakistan (after propping up Pervez Musharraf past the point of no return). He "led the world in providing food aid and natural disaster relief" (if you leave out emergency chief Michael "Brownie" Brown and Katrina).'

Friday, January 02, 2009

100 interesting facts

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6. Carrots used to be purple.
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8. A bear helped carry ammunition for Polish troops during World War II.
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22. Toasters are banned in Cuba.
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24. Men eat more Brussel sprouts and broccoli than women.
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how to market buddhist culture in China

Thursday, January 01, 2009

new shit in 009 #1



















LG's wristwatch phone

the phone, not the silly bint holding it, has
- a touch-screen dialling system with a camera and a speaker built in to enable users to make video calls over a high speed internet connection
- recognises voices,
- transforms text to speech,
- has a Bluetooth function,
- plays MP3 music,
- has a 3.63-centimetre screen and is 13.9 millimetres thick