Turns out that it's illegal to eat your ballot card in Canada:

from bash.org

Now here's a truly incredible idea, hire some models to wear short skirts with adverising space on their panties, then have them walk around a convention floor, dropping stuff and picking it up again. And this actually happened, in Kiev.
Ok Kodak, you have my full attention. Sell me something.



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Man! I love being alive! I just read an article in the Times about 'Natura', a Christian themed nudist camp and Garden of Eden theme park opening in Florida. Christian nude volleyball. SweeEEEeeet!

link: Christians strip to build a new Eden
via BoingBoing

UPDATE: This is an old article that is attracting some attention recently. Edited May 2007 in answer to the comments, quotes courtesy of the Wikipedia article on Christian nudism. It should be noted that the modern naturism movement is in part an ideological descendant of Christian nudist communities going back to the Adamites of the 1st through 4th centuries. Nudism is not contrary to Christian belief, but some of the foamier-mouthed, cultish evangelical sects like to say it is.

Pope John Paul II

"Sexual modesty cannot then in any simple way be identified with the use of clothing, nor shamelessness with the absence of clothing and total or partial nakedness... Immodesty is present only when nakedness plays a negative role with regard to the value of the person."

"Nakedness itself is not immodest... Immodesty is present only when nakedness plays a negative role with regard to the value of the person, when its aim is to arouse concupiscence, as a result of which the person is put in the position of an object for enjoyment."

A gratuitous picture

Dr. R. C. Sproul

"Jesus provides the covering for our nakedness... so that once we are covered by the righteousness of Christ, we can be naked in the presence of God and not be shamed. We can stop running. We can stop hiding. Because we have been adorned with a gown of perfect righteousness, if we trust in Him."

A. W. Tozer

"The monkish hatred of the body which figures so prominently in the works of certain early devotional writers is wholly without support in the word of God. Common modesty is found in the sacred Scriptures, it is true, but never prudery or a false sense of shame. The New Testament accepts as a matter of course that in His incarnation our Lord took upon Him a real human body, and no effort is made to steer around the downright implications of such a fact. He lived in that body here among men and never once performed a non-sacred act. His presence in human flesh sweeps away forever the evil notion that there is about the human body something innately offensive to the Deity. God created our bodies and we do not offend Him by placing the responsibility where it belongs. He is not ashamed of the work of His own hands."

Seasons greetings y'all. I've just been on a web safari of ww.com and I must say it was a little disppointing. I'd read an article on [not giving them a link] about teenage girls who (scold) who set up websites with (shock!) photo galeries of (scold) themselves, and how they sometimes show a little flesh (what about the children?) to solicit (for shame!) stuff from their wishlists. We're not talking nudity here, just cute 16/17 year olds with tank tops and fan clubs.

So after reading some stuffy and sex negative things about how these 'vulnerable teenagers' are 'exploited' when they set up non-nude, non-porn websites to wheedle gifts out of needy men, I decided it might be worth checking out.

One of the cam portals had apperently achieved infamy when girls would sometimes even flash their breasts (*gasp*) to get stuff they want. But I suspect this is all hype dreamed up by the right wing media for parents to fret over, because when I went to this site it was hella lame.

In short order I surfed through all 904 cams and the most interesting thing on there was a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment of this woman picking her nose:



Fantastic. Among the things to be seen, a litter of puppies, a snowman, some test patterns, several overweight fiftysomething men naked and spanking it, and a kitty. I liked the kitty. If I wanted to see naked old folk decongesting the weasel I would go to Southern-Gents.com.

So there were no pretty teenage girls in tank tops to talk to. *sigh*. It occurs to me that the old guys may have known where the girls were at (judging by their enthusiastic munchkin-punching), didn't feel like asking them for some reason.

''Hey, um... what you watching there? Really? Ok, well I see you're enjoying your Oprah reruns so I'll leave you to it..''

Oh well. Though I'm biased, I'm going to recommend my own webcam setup over ww.com, there are often more than 904 of them online, and there's usually something cool to watch. Though I was initially disappointed that my cam hacking never turned up any naked folks, ww.com has shown me that its probably a blessing.

Hey all, after some tinkering I've put the webcams back online. For those who haven't used them before, these are random Panasonic webcams from around the world that can often be controlled (pan/tilt/zoom) from an interface on this site.

I've had a lot of fun with them and you can see some amazing things if you're patient. Figure out where they are in the world, work out the time difference and wait to see sunrises, gridlock, wildlife, etc.

There is now also an option to set this site's banner to a still from any cam, have fun :-)

April 1st is still a few months away, so here's an idea for a bit of fun mischief you can plan in advance, this could throretically be used for a DoS attack, so dont be a jerk and go damaging innocent people's syetems.

Background: A lot of email services are set up with autoresponders, ie, when you send an email to customer service you get an automated response back like 'Thank you for contacting Shady Crooks Sp4m service, we'll get back to you soon. In the meantime...' blah blah blah. Now because it's an autoresponder you can send it *any* email and it'll make that response for you, and send it to your 'reply' address. Note that the reply address on emails does not have to be the same address you send from.

Method: Suppose you were to sign up for a free Yahoo China email address (read why you might have beef) and set up the return address on your email to one of these autoresponsers. Then you send a taunting email to Sp4m Associates, and the replay address is customer service at KKK.org or some other vile outfit.

What would happen? The Sp4m autoresponder fires an email at KKK, who fires one back at Sp4m, who sends another to KKK and so on, with your original taunting message at the bottom of each. Inboxes get full.

Bonus: OK, so that was a fun way to get at those sleazy cons who fill your inbox with junk every day. Can we make it better? You Bet! Suppose we find a whole list of these autoresponders :-) We'll open a text file and start saving them up for April 1st, every time you come across unsavoury 'businesses' online (like these guys).

Then we'll set up a POP3/SMTP to webmail relay (I'm not going to explain this, if you dont know how then you probably wont be covering your tracks well enough and shouldn't be hacking) and a little script to connect them all together. If we consider each autoresponder as a vertex then every time we send en email we're creating an edge on the graph, till they're all connected. Send the emails with a random delay of 5 to 10 minutes, and be sure to get a few back to throw off the anti-spam of the webmail you're sending from (which might automatically close your account).

Voila! Chaos.

And *please* dont use your own IP.

Happy April Fools!

I'm not even going to try to explain what I was doing here, I just came across this section in this UK girl's sex store:

The US Department of Homeland security was put on alert earlier this week as reports surfaced that Al Quaeda, Islamic Jihad and other terrist organisations were planning a major attack on, er, Golfland, in San Jose.

The three acre miniature golf course, described as San Jose's equivalent of the White House or Sears Tower is an obvious target for those who wish to do America lasting, devastating harm.

From BoingBoing.net

Today is Dean Gray Tuesday, a day for angst and the dowloading of free music. So for the next couple hours, I'll be getting to the spirit and sharing with you some illegal MP3s here or you can go to www.americanedit.org
to find more mirrors of this years album.

Fuck Warner! Up the Revolution!

I am so getting one of these! Apparently it's a japanese fashion trend; get a big old handset and have it slung on a belt hook for your cell phone. Wonder if it can be modded into one of those styling 1960s handsets, like with a metal rim. hmmm...

Cooo000oool!

This and other fun peacocking stuff at: FredFlare.com

Was at the Bell Ringers dinner this evening, great company, excellent food, our own private vicar at the table (usually the whole town has to share a vicar). And on top of that this place has some *hot* staff. I dont think any of them are single, so I hadn't made too much time thus far, might hang out there more in the future. Nice high toned place, so I'm not going to have a punchup with a chav over some girl I'm sarging, or have to AMOG a tattooed gorilla called Knuckles. Probably be the only male customer under 40 :-) Need to bear places like this in mind in future. Hmmm...



I like the word 'tartlets' being next to my name on that card. Anyhoo, I just got home to an email from one Joseph Matthews that contains a really interesting idea:

This was on bash.org

Logogle.com is a site which allows users to customise the google logo, like so:





Its freaking genius. The ability to change the logo is so-so as far as cool things go, technically easy, not amazing. As a business idea its totally awesome, here we have a way to take advantage a neat little meme to harvest money from google, simply by putting ads in the same place google does, and charging them for their own adsense :-) or yahoo ads! And its hella good viral marketing, because it takes advantage of poeple's exhibitionism and hubris, they're going to work hard to drive people to your site to see 'their' logo. I absolutely love this site, for sheer chutzpah and business sense. Its technically boring but psychologically brilliant as a get-rich-quick scheme. I need to come up with some ideas like this.

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Notice: This post is superceded by this one.

If you've ever been to the iFriends 'adult entertainment' section you may have been disappointed that the pictures you most wanted to see were covered up by little cockblock 'censor' wrappers, like so:



And then, Hey!, iFriends comes to the rescue, they'll let you see the pictures if you sign up for a months free trial. Well not quite. I cancelled mine before the first month was up and got a nastyass �60.00 bill for my 'free' trial. I was ticked. *real ticked*

So I resolved to solve the problem of the little wrappers. By combining Firefox (1 or 1.5) and Greasemonkey they can be defeated with Javascript. If you dont have Firefox then I recommend it. Ditto Gresemonkey.

The result of my tinkering is iFriends Monkey v0.1 BETA (not affiliated with iFriends in any way), which takes the previous page and makes it look more like this:



Now what kind of sick internet pervert would want to see that, guess those censor things were there for a reason. What terrible sinner would watch pretty little teenage girls kissing on each other and getting their pink lipstick all smeary.. eww.. that's so degrading to... anyways,

To install the script, right click on this: iFriends Monkey v0.1 Beta (nothing to do with Web Power Inc)

And select 'Install User Script'. Next Check in your 'Manage User Scripts' console (it's under 'Tools') to see that it's there, like so:



The script is realeased un GNU licence, do whatever the heck you like with it, so long as that does not involve money.

NewNova.org has a huge listing of fresh documentaries. This is like finding bittorrent gold :-) Not that any of you good people would download an illegal BBC documentary of course... You'd buy a television, an then buy an ariel and a freeview box, and then pay a licence fee, which is used for god knows what. You wouldn't use the internet to get hold of something your tax money payed for...

*grin*

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UPDATE: May 2007, newnova is no more, however there is now a huge array of downloadable BBC and Channel4 documentaries available on Google Video.



If that doesn't suit you Torrentz.com list over 600 files for the phrase 'BBC Documentary'.

First came across this place on flickr, somewhere I must definitely visit before I'm 50. I am so going windsurfing here.




A google image search brings up a bunch more pictures.

found at

This company called Unica Home makes flip flops that you press out of a printed sheet of foam. Nothing new about the product, but the designs are beautiful, check out this print made from chinese newspaper ads...



UnicaHome.com Link

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9137 messages and not one of them spam. Looks like I have some reading to do...



9136...9135..bottles of beer on the wall...9134..bottles of beer...

Strix.org.uk will be participating in Dean Gray Tuesday, an event to protest the censoring of mash-up albums (an excellent and worthy form of art) by music labels, and to flip the bird at all those persons and organisations who would use the law to restrict creativity, art or science. So, to artists, musicians and my fellow man: you kick ass! great to share the world with you. To the RIAA, MPAA, Warner Bros, Sony, et al, suck on this:



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Tracks will be available for download for one day only. It truly blows my mind that that original and authentic art can be illegal due to quirks in copyright law. There are whole genres of music created by the skillful re-editing and mixing together of sounds from various sources, including maintream tracks. People make this stuf for the love of doing it and release the albums for free on the 'net, and it's illegal just because the big studios dont like it and start harrumphing about licences and uncleared samples and garbage. I call bullshit on that.

link to gray.alt.fm

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