"I don’t have a crystal ball, I only have two balls."
- Quinton Jackson.
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
The Beast of Omaha: Contrition of a One Man Massacre.
For Hein Severloh the ‘Longest Day’ meant nine hours constantly machine-gunning American soldiers as they attempted to land on Omaha Beach.
One image still brings tears to his eyes. A young American had run from his landing craft and sought cover behind a concrete block. Severloh, then a young lance-corporal in the German army in Normandy, aimed his rifle at the GI. He fired and hit the enemy square in the forehead. The American’s helmet flew away and rolled into the sea, his chin sank to his chest and he collapsed dead on the beach.
Tormented by the memory, Severloh now weeps at the thought of the unknown soldier’s death.
Severloh was safe in an almost impregnable concrete bunker overlooking the beach. He had an unimpeded view of the oncoming Allied forces. He was the last German soldier firing, and may have accounted for about 3,000 American casualties, almost three-quarters of all the US losses at Omaha. The Americans came to know him as the Beast of Omaha.
The Weird Converter.
Convert unusual measurements of length and weight.
The Golden Gate Bridge is as long as 106.6800101346 T-Rexes.
A flaccid penis is long as 0.01157407407407 of a weinermobile.
Jennifer Aniston weighs as much as 78.22500355568 breast implants.
I weigh as much 0.15999835981 worth of whale testicles.
Sunday, June 10, 2007
Zen.
“When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people: those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened.”
- John M. Richardson, Jr.
US Planned to Make a "Gay Bomb" Chemical Weapon, French Respond by Building Natural Immunity.
CBS:
A Berkeley watchdog organization that tracks military spending said it uncovered a strange U.S. military proposal to create a hormone bomb that could purportedly turn enemy soldiers into homosexuals and make them more interested in sex than fighting.
Pentagon officials on Friday confirmed to CBS 5 that military leaders had considered, and then subsquently rejected, building the so-called "Gay Bomb."
Edward Hammond, of Berkeley's Sunshine Project, had used the Freedom of Information Act to obtain a copy of the proposal from the Air Force's Wright Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio.
As part of a military effort to develop non-lethal weapons, the proposal suggested, "One distasteful but completely non-lethal example would be strong aphrodisiacs, especially if the chemical also caused homosexual behavior."
The documents show the Air Force lab asked for $7.5 million to develop such a chemical weapon.
Hieronymus Bosch Figurines.
Cool little toy versions of demons from Bosch's art.
Click on the image for the full range.
Anti-Papparazi Spray.
Blur, developed by London based design firm Troika and designer Kok-Chian Leong, is made up of shiny nanoparticles that reflect flashbulbs in cameras, so the wearer appears to be a bright white spot in pictures.
Psycho Shower Curtain.
Only $24.89.
Imagine having a shower with that silhouette in the curtain the whole time.
Meat is Her Muse.
Victoria Reynolds creates beautiful still life paintings of uncooked meat. The pictures are quite literally visceral; they echo the drama of Baroque art, in spirit if not in subject matter.
The Summit of Every Creative Endeavour Mankind Has Ever Undertaken...
... is a picture of Christopher Walken building Optimus Prime.
Rock With Your Brock Out.
The following video has been posted for the immediate attention of pro wrestler turned MMA fighter, Mr. Brock Lesnar.
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Rofl Mao.
Woman seeks fame as face of Chairman Mao.
Suited up in a grey, button-up waistcoat, Chen looks similar to the man who ruled China with an iron grip for decades, and is happy to ham it up for the cameras.
But the effortless poses belie fastidious preparations behind the scenes.
Chen spends up to 800 yuan on make-up and styling to create Mao's famous receding hairline.
"I need to wear a pair of specially designed shoes to increase my height to 1.80 meters (5 ft 11 in) since I am only 1.55 meters. Then I dress up in Sun Yat-sen suits which Mao also likes, and hold a cigarette without the filter," Chen said.
The financial hardships had forced her to call the media for a public photo shoot to "gain support and understanding from the public."
"My family are against me doing this," Chen said. "They don't think it's a good thing for a woman to impersonate a man."
Organ Donor Show to Air Despite (Well Deserved) Controversy.
A Dutch broadcaster will air a show this week in which a terminally ill woman selects a recipient for her kidneys from three contestants, despite government calls for the programme to be scrapped.
Newspaper De Telegraaf said BNN would broadcast The Big Donorshow on Friday during which the 37-year-old woman will choose from three people with kidney problems.
She will make her choice based on the contestants' history, profile and conversations with their families and friends. Viewers will be able to send text messages advising her during the 80-minute show.
"The chance for a kidney for the contestants is 33 percent. This is much higher than that for people on a waiting list. You would expect it to be better but it is worse," the daily cited BNN Chairman Laurens Drillich as saying.
Ruling coalition parties Christian Democrat (CD) and the conservative Christian Union have called the show "wretched" and unethical.
The Spine Lamp: HR Giger Must be Drooling.
Yours for only $1500, shipping included. Click on the image for more information.
Fifteen Reasons Mister Rogers Was the Best Neighbor Ever.
1. Even Koko the Gorilla loved him
Most people have heard of Koko, the Stanford-educated gorilla who could speak about 1000 words in American Sign Language, and understand about 2000 in English. What most people don’t know, however, is that Koko was an avid Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood fan. As Esquire reported, when Fred Rogers took a trip out to meet Koko for his show, not only did she immediately wrap her arms around him and embrace him, she did what she’d always seen him do onscreen: she proceeded to take his shoes off!
2. He Made Thieves Think Twice
According to a TV Guide piece on him, Fred Rogers drove a plain old Impala for years. One day, however, the car was stolen from the street near the TV station. When Rogers filed a police report, the story was picked up by every newspaper, radio and media outlet around town. Amazingly, within 48 hours the car was left in the exact spot where it was taken from, with an apology on the dashboard. It read, “If we’d known it was yours, we never would have taken it.”
Monster Match.
A series of impossibly sweet adult manga strips about the trials and tribulations of dating fantastic creatures.
Note: I don't know the source of these strips. If anyone could help me give credit, just comment.
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