Super Cargo Aircraft

This might be common knowledge to others, especially if you’re an aircraft nut, but there are planes that are designed to take oversized cargo, like other plane bits. This might sound pretty ordinary, but the amazing part is they are built on the base fuselage of normal planes, then just stretched out in the middle. The first series were called the Guppy series made by Aero Spaclines, and the coolest of which is the Super Guppy. It’s still used by NASA, and for a long time was used by Airbus to fright its parts. The cool thing is it’s based on a Boeing 377, so the running joke was that every Airbus was built on the wings of a Boeing. ;) It first flew in 1965.

Of course Airbus couldn’t keep making their planes with a Boeing, so they made the Airbus Beluga, a pimped out A300-600 that first flew in 1995. Fatta than yo momma.

Once Airbus got in on the act, Boeing had to give it a crack, and popped out the Dreamlifter in 2006. This fatty is based on the familiar 747-400, but you gotta admit the Frenchie design above looks way weirder and cooler.

Spider Flamenco

Must have sound to appreciate this. This is a male jumping spider trying to impress a female. He really gets going about halfway through the vid, so you can skip to there if you like. I was totally amazed by this, he’s moving his legs so fast to make the noise that you can’t even see them moving!

If Women Ruled The World

How It's Made: Communion Wafers

The Cavanah Co. makes more than 80% of the communion wafers for the US, England, Canada and Australia. They point out that because they have such a huge market share, they can actually detect changes in church attendance. For example, a scandal with Catholic priests dropped church attendance by 20%. 911 increased church attendance for 6 months. Bad economic times increase church attendance, so I’m guessing they’re packed at the moment.

Bike Hero

One of my favourite songs, one of of my favourite computer games, and one of my new favourite past times combine into one mountain of awesome. I just wish I had thought of it first, but then I'm waaaaay too lazy to do all the work to make it happen.

Mapple – The Simpsons

 

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Jacko a Muslim?

BELEAGUERED pop star Michael Jackson has converted to Islam and changed his name to Mikaeel, according to UK reports.

The 50-year-old singer, who was once photographed wearing a traditional Arab women's veil, reportedly became a Muslim in a ceremony at a friend's house in Los Angeles.

Meanwhile, a London court was told that an Arab sheik showered Jackson with money, cars and trips worth millions of dollars in return for the singer recording and performing new songs.

Sheik Abdulla bin Hamad Al Khalifa, the second son of the King of Bahrain, is suing Jackson for about $10m.

The singer claims the cash was a gift.

The court heard that Jackson was a long-term guest in the sheik's palace. Al Khalifa says he lent Jackson millions of dollars to help shore up his finances and subsidise his lifestyle.

AdelaideNow... Jacko a Muslim?

Surgeons create and transplant new lung part from patient's own stem cells

They took an airway from a dead donor, stripped away the cells that cause rejection, then replaced those cells with stem cells from her hip, lung and nose to create the different types of cells like cartilage in the body part. No chance of rejection and the operation was successful. They want to create a larynx within 5 years.

Mt Isa Mayor picks up award for sexist comments

The Mayor of Mount Isa in north-west Queensland has picked up a Golden Ernie Award for suggesting that unattractive women should move to his mining town to find themselves a husband. 

Mt Isa Mayor picks up award for sexist comments - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

God’s Facebook page

God’s Facebook page via College Humour

Google finally adds video chat

I haven't tested it out yet, but Google has finally added video chat. About 5 years after everyone else, but hey, at least they've got it now.

Real life Egyptian Incredible Hulk

Among his claims:

• He has been medically tested to have the strength of 30,000 men (260 horsepower), by sampling his legs and spine (huh?)
• He has exemption from working because he might hurt people he’s working with
• He’s not allowed to go to a police station or jail
• He deserted the army for fear of hurting people, was put in jail, then was given a pardon by the president and released
• He can’t demonstrate his strength (eg lifting a car) because the burst of energy required might cause him to go on a rampage
• He won’t shake hands for fear of breaking all the bones in the other person’s hand
• He has never slept in his life since the day he was born
• He has four wives at any one time (he’s been married 28 times) because he must have sex 15 times a day, every day, so when one wife gets tired he moves onto the next
• He drinks melted butter and eats raw mutton, which would kill a normal man

Priest 'smashes chair' over Italian restaurant owner's head as nuns kick him in the stomach - Telegraph

The clergyman and nuns allegedly hit and kicked the 49-year-old man in an argument over the lease on the restaurant, which is owned by the Catholic Church. ……………

"I came down to try to calm things down but the priest hit me with a chair and I ended up on the floor. Then the two sisters started kicking me, insulting me with unrepeatable words," the unnamed owner said in a statement.

He was taken to hospital with injuries to his neck and bruising to his abdomen.

Priest 'smashes chair' over Italian restaurant owner's head as nuns kick him in the stomach - Telegraph

Police in Pakistan stop wedding between children

Police in Pakistan stopped a wedding between a 7 y.o. boy and a 5 y.o. girl that was to end a family feud. The legal age of consent in Pakistan is 18.

Maybe they should have done one with just Borat

There’s plenty of hilarious Borat spread out through the whole vid, so put up with it to the end.

This is how they roll in India

Amazing and hilarious! If you listen the Indian guys filming have kindly given us english commentary. :)

New MTVMusic Website

MTV has a music video website, which is very nicely organised, and a lot easier than trawling through youtube for music vid clips.

Fruit & Veg storage cheat sheet

I know this is a weird post, but I found it interesting, particularly the ethylene producers.


http://www.divinecaroline.com/article/22145/57459-keep-fruits-veggies-fresh

Bush Condoms: For schmucks that won't pull out

Bush Condoms

Interesting court case against God

Here's the background: Atheist Senator Ernie Chambers files a lawsuit against God, and the judge dismisses the court case "with prejudice" because God doesn't have a residential address and can't be served.

This is where it gets interesting: Sen. Chambers has the right to appeal, on the grounds that since the court acknowledges the existence of God, and recognises His omniscience, then they must accept that He has been duly served. Otherwise they must admit He is either not omniscient, or doesn't exist, or in my opinion they have to finally separate church and state and throw the case out. Sen Chambers hasn't decided if he's going to appeal or not, but I really hope he does, because it would be fascinating to see what happens.

Suit Against God Thrown Out Over Lack Of Address, Judge Tosses Neb. Legislator's Lawsuit Against God, Saying Defendant Never Received Notice - CBS News

Russian woman put on trial in Dubai for drinking juice in public

And people wonder why Dubai is dropping as a tourist destination....

Russian woman put on trial in Dubai for drinking juice in public - Pravda.Ru

Funny German ad

For those who got the previous one thinking it was for a car, it’s for glasses.

http://view.break.com/213766 - Watch more free videos

Africa: Albinos flee sorcerers and organ traders

These are albino people, not animals.

"People say that the body parts taken from albinos are sold in Tanzania. They put them on gold mines and that brings the gold to the surface, then you just need to collect it," said Ciza, fear evident in his pale blue eyes.

"Some fishermen also use the parts to bait large fish they think have gold in their bellies."

Africa: Albinos flee sorcerers and organ traders

Jamie Foxx punishes an unfunny comedian on stage

This is brutal, but the comedian is so bad and such a dickhead at the start that what Foxx does to him is pure gold.

Queensland teenager Samantha-Jane Stacey wins sumo medal | The Courier-Mail

"The only takeaway food she eats is sushi. We're not takeaway people," she said.

"She eats very healthily; Weetbix and fruit for breakfast, a salad roll for lunch and a normal dinner. She probably eats less than my eldest daughter, who's a size 8."

Bullshit.

  

Queensland teenager Samantha-Jane Stacey wins sumo medal | The Courier-Mail

German Double Arm Transplant

It will be interesting to follow this story and see if the guy gets decent use from his transplanted arms.

Where are they now: Kirk Cameron

Kirk Cameron stars as a firefighter in a christian movie Fireproof where he’s a guy in a troubled marriage that is saved (presumably otherwise it’d be a pretty crappy christian movie) in the name of Jesus. Skip to about 1:20 in the vid to hear about how people on the set were constantly praying and shoving prayer cards into his costume in his locker as they were making the movie.

Angry pig holds woman hostage

Angry pig holds woman hostage - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Haemish and Andy also did an interview with the lady, quite funny. You can hear it on their “Best of 23rd September” podcast.

http://www.safm.com.au/shows/hamishandandy/listen/podcasts

Here’s a photo. If that’s the lady’s “house”, I think a frisky pig is the least of her problems……

New state Police Minister Matt Brown sacked after gettin jiggy wid it

Witnesses to the incident, and revellers at a neighbouring party in the office of Ports Minister Joe Tripodi, said Mr Brown appeared to be drunk as he danced semi-naked on a couch in the office, The Australian newspaper reports today.

Witnesses on a balcony adjoining the two offices claimed they saw Mr Brown gyrating atop the green chesterfield sofa in what were described as "very brief" underpants to "Oxford street techno-style music."

Mr Brown was then reported to have climbed ontop of Ms Wollongong MP Noreen Hay, who is in her late 50s and is a married mother of four and grandmother of five,  before turning to her adult daughter and calling out "Look at this, I'm titty f..... your mother."

All class. How good is the picture in the article though? I also love how they’ve got the little text on the side “DIGITALLY ALTERED IMAGE” just in case you can’t tell.

New state Police Minister Matt Brown sacked | The Daily Telegraph

Greek “spiritual healers” abuse woman over 230 times and get paid for it

For those who don’t want to read the article, a couple of guys in the Greek community in Sydney convinced a young woman she was cursed and her family was in big trouble, and the only way of lifting the curse was to undergo rituals that mainly involved sexual acts with her. They charged between $500 and $1000 a session, of which there were at least 70 over a 3 year period. Quite a few people I’ve spoken to about this find it hard to understand how this woman could have been tricked into this to this level. Once, strange but OK. Twice, getting weirder. But 70 times over 3 years sounds a little unbelievable. Note that she was not part of a cult or anything, she lived a “normal” life otherwise.

Sex attack duo promised to end curse - National - smh.com.au

Large Hadron Collider "Actually Worked

They  haven't smashed anything yet, but they've got a proton beam going the whole way around. I find it annoying that these guys can get a proton beam to travel around a 27,000km circle on their first go and I had to google how to pass a command line parameter into a perl script. Particle physicists make me feel really really dumb.

Large Hadron Collider "Actually Worked

Death sentence for downloading an article (G)

BBC reporting on a journalism student in Afghanistan that was tortured and sentenced to death for downloading an article from the internet on the role of women in islam. I can't find anything that further corroborates this story though, and there are scant details on the actual offense he was convicted of other than it was "blasphemy".

Hamish and Andy at the Beijing Olympics (PG)

Hamis and Andy compete in some events of their own devise. The Mystery Penis Guessing game that starts about halfway is particularly funny.

Why I love America but am glad I don't live there

So I'm standing in line at Fry's Electronics assistance desk, and there's this old guy with white hair in a hawaiian shirt in front of me, and he's asking the assistant to chase up some RAM. While the assistant is looking through the computer, catalogs etc, the old guy starts chatting to the assistant and me.

"That's the problem with computers, you can't have just one. Computers are like guns, you can't have just one." says the old man in an easy midwest drawl.

The sales assistant and I smile. The old man continues.

"I used to have 67 guns." The sales assistant and I look at each other, then at the old man. "I see the look on your faces I used to collect them, you see, and people would always give me that look when I told them. I'd tell 'em I've been collecting guns since I was  twelve, so it's really not that many, how many am I supposed to have?"

Slightly relieved, the sales assistant and I give a little laugh, and the old man gets a sad look on his face. "I don't have them any more, too old and slow, someone's liable to shoot me with one of 'em. Course the other way guns are like computers is you can't just have the gun or the computer, you've got to have all the bits and pieces to go with 'em. I had 70,000 rounds of ammunition, coz of course every gun you buy has to have a thousand rounds of ammunition to go with it. Oh, except my Ak-47, I had like 5000 rounds of ammunition for that. Remember in the 1980's when you could buy armor piercing rounds, and incendiary rounds and all that?"

I was four in 1980, and I bet the sales assistant was younger than that, but we both smiled and nodded.

"Well I had all of those, as soon as a new round came out I would go buy a thousand of 'em. I have a buddy that used to be a Navy Seal. He helped me setup this rig in the ceiling so when I was in bed if I pulled a cable a bunch of fishing hooks on nylon string would drop down from the ceiling. So then if someone's coming at me they'd get all tangled up. Give me time to get 'em with my shotgun. My wife said to me 'What, you gonna get in a gun fight with somebody?' and I said 'I hope not, but I'm gonna defend myself if I have to!'"

And then in a rehearsed manner that you know has been told in a thousand bars since he was a very young man, "I have a distant relative called John Wesley Hardin, killed 44 people, killed one of them for snoring. There's got to be some of his blood pumping through these veins. They say he killed one man for wearing too loud a shirt. Can you imagine that? I would have been killed by him on many a night back in my disco days!"

Then with a quick salute he walks off, leaving me with an image of an old man in a disco shirt firing a shotgun at a guy that's tangled up in fish hooks and nylon string with an old lady screaming at him from the bed......

My First American To-go Dinner

From the chicken fajitas I got to go from Chilis, and I think I've finally got the US food industry worked out.

1. Remember to use as many natural resources as possible in preparation of the to-go meal.
2. A minimum of 7 plastic containers (including styrofoam) should be used
3. Try to give a minimum of 15 napkins, because the cutlery set only comes with one napkin. If the customer is nice to you, give them even more napkins. Napkins is love.
4. The handles on plastic carry bags is just for looks. You need to put the plastic carry bag in another, larger paper carry bag. Paper carry bags are environmentally friendly.

Weird Japanese commercial for "QP" doll

You can also checkout their full product line.

Bill Gates & Jerry Seinfeld - Shoe Circus

One of the much anticipated Gates/Seinfeld ads that Seinfeld is being paid $10M for. It's weird.

Wired.com Readers' Best Geek Tattoos

These are terrible. Just terrible. In one season of Beauty and the Geek, the Super Mario looking fat Italian geek has a tattoo of an original NES controller on his arm. I thought that was bad, until I saw these.

 

Wired.com Readers' Best Geek Tattoos

Critics bite at Hungry Jack's fat stack | NEWS.com.au

It looks like a Whopper’s abortion, left a little too late.

Play With Spider - Flash 3D - OneMotion.com

Incredible interactive virtual spider all implemented in 3D Flash. You have to try it out to understand what’s so good about it.

Play With Spider - Flash 3D - OneMotion.com

Plex Media Center for OS X

This one's for Ly. An Intel Mac OSX specific fork of XBMC which looks annoyingly gorgeous as most Mac apps do.

Plex Media Center for OS X

Star Trek: The Experience closing down - CNN.com

NNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

Star Trek: The Experience closing down - CNN.com

Pet Peek™ - The Window For Your Fence

Sometimes the simplest ideas are the best. This might save my poor little dog peering through the little gap next to the gate! Now I just have to find a couple of perspex, dog proof domes to accommodate two differently heighted doggies......

Pet Peek™ - The Window For Your Fence

GutenMark Prettifies Project Gutenberg Ebooks

Windows/Mac/Linux: Free ebook converter GutenMark takes plain ebooks from the Project Gutenberg site and converts them into chapter-separated HTML files, italicizes words in foreign languages, removes all-caps instances, and much, much more. One of the main uses of GutenMark is to make ebooks much easier to read on mobile screens, removing hard line breaks and other annoyances that come with some straight-up Gutenberg text downloads. As its own home page describes it, GutenMark is a "prettifier" for Gutenberg texts, and a pretty good one, at that. GutenMark is a free download for WIndows, Linux, and (with more complications) Mac OS X.

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Gremlins Fan Film

This is brilliant, especially for children of the 80’s. In Gremlins 2, the gremlins take over a movie theatre project booth and go into the movie. This is extending that concept to more films. It’s amazingly well done, I would love to see the making of this. It’s so well done I expect it was done by a film student as a final year project or something.

Catholic church plans to exhume Cardinal from next to his lifepartner um I mean really really really really good friend

Seems like those Victorian times were very confusing. Relationships between clergy that were as close as husband and wife, but completely *ahem* celibate.

Plan to exhume cardinal is 'homophobic' - Home News, UK - The Independent

There’s a reason that guy looks shitscared

Funny German Training Video

It doesn’t kick in until about halfway, but it’s very funny. Supposedly a “real” training video used in Germany.

Beautiful Photos of the Large Hadron Collider

The Boston Globe has an amazing photo essay on the installation of the LHC. But don’t worry, CERN says that no black holes will be created, but if they did, any black holes that are created would disintegrate instantly, and even if they didn’t, they wouldn’t be positively charged so they couldn’t suck up the Earth. So in summary even if the LHC did manage to create a stable black hole it’d be a weeny one with very small effect on the Earth. Besides, the LHC is has the same potential of making bad stuff like black holes, strangelets, vacuum bubbles and magnetic monopoles than is being made in the universe anyway, but if it does happen, instead of it being millions of light years away, it’ll be in Switzerland where we can watch it easily. See? Safe!

Polygamist Gansta Rap

Extremely funny, especially if you’re even a casual fan of Big Love.

Fighting Giraffes

Watch this with sound!

Latest Skyscraper Architecture in Dubai

This has to be seen to be believed, I’m not going to spoil it by describing it. This is not a fake or a dream, you can buy your apartment in this skyscraper off the plan right now.

http://www.dynamicarchitecture.net/

Scientologists try to re-route disabled woman

Scientologists got permits and setup barricades in certain streets (around what looks like their Clearwater headquarters), making it impossible for this poor disabled old woman to wait for her bus and then when told to move, impossible for her to go home without walking 3 extra blocks. She doesn’t necessarily go quietly! You go girl!

The 9 Most Badass Bible Verses

Cracked.com has an article on The 9 Most Badass Bible Verses. My favourite so far is Ezekiel 23:19-20

Highly Caffeinated Non Alcoholic Beer for Children

Can words even begin to describe the awesomeness?

Caffeine Examiner - Highly Caffeinated Non Alcoholic Beer for Children. - Examiner.com

New Dirk Breaka cartoon voiced by Shaun Micallef

Made for Nickolodeon Australia. It’s actually quite amusing, and the voicing is very much Micallef.

Dirk Breaka from Suren Perera on Vimeo.

3 Launches iPhone Petition

I think it’s pretty damn lame that 3 have to launch a petition to get the iPhone on 3 in Australia.

Carpe Testes

 

Songs of Praise with Subtitles

MacFarlane reveals next season 'Family Guy' details

In summary: Stewie’s probably gay, there might be a movie, Cleveland was chosen for the spin-off because Quagmire “is not a guy you want to invite into your hone on a weekly basis," a new character is replacing Cleveland, Cleveland’s show has a talking bear, they are amping up Brian, and there might be crossovers with Cleveland’s show and American Dad.

The Live Feed: MacFarlane reveals next season 'Family Guy' details

grain edit · The Making of the Pixar WALL-E Picture book - Lots of Bots

This is CUT PAPER. So jealous…. But I’m gonna have to try it!

grain edit · The Making of the Pixar WALL-E Picture book - Lots of Bots

Some interesting military pictures

Wonder if these are photoshopped? If they are, they’re pretty damn good, I can’t pick them. There is a fuzzy halo around the woman and man, but it could be pixelation from high compression.

 

Scientists Close to Reconstructing First Living Cell: Scientific American

There’s quite a few things that scare me on this planet, but one thing I find most scary is the ability to create life from scratch, and they’re bloody close. Right now they’ve shown that some random chemicals in the form of fatty acids, some random chemicals the form of basic DNA and some random chemicals in the form of nucleotides are enough to build a cell that can feed and duplicate DNA in a test tube. The next step is cell division and once you’ve got that, add a little mutation and you’ve got evolution. Couple this with new universes bubbling off from existing ones and it doesn’t matter if the continuously expanding universe results in the Big Freeze. You also solve the problem that current evidence shows that time began with the beginning of the universe, which “something” must have started. So there you go, we might be the retarded offspring of 5 monkeys having butt-sex with a fish-squirrel after all!

Texan couple delays marriage because of petrol prices

This Texan couple is delaying their marriage because petrol keeps increasing in price. Possibly the best/lamest excuse I have ever heard. Of course they still drive a massive truck though.

Security scanners that see through clothing but blur… um… your face?

Security scanners that "see" through clothing. My face is the last thing that I would want them to blur. I bet it won’t be long before “airport scanner porn” is on the net. Wonder if you can fashion something with a salami that would fool the scanner? Not that I need it, of course.

Don’t forget, we’re all dead tomorrow

Texas cult leader predicts the world will end in a nuclear holocaust on the 12th of June. If he’s right this time (3rd time’s the charm) then we’ve only got a few hours left to convert.

Ubuntu based Live Xbox Media Center for any PC/Mac!

Lifehacker instructions on how to create a bootable USB drive with LiveXBMC

Oh, and XBMC on Ubuntu as well.