I posted this 2 years ago on another site and just dug it up for repost here. Simply amazing. I can watch this for hours on end.
http://www.ssiworld.com/watch/watch-en.htm
This will be the only item on my wedding registry.
Monday, October 30, 2006
Fun with shredding
Artist of the Month
My friend recently introduced me to this Canadian duo that sings songs in an old-time style, but with very naughty lyrics. Very creative and driven, this band has been slowly taking over NYC in October. They've been around for a little longer, getting their break on The L-Word.
This is their website, where they have 2 videos samples, a view into their most recent CD, and the opportunity to own their DVD.
http://www.wetspotsmusic.com/buystuff.html
Take a look though their past. Lead singer Cass King has been pervy her whole life:
http://www.cassking.com/bio_frameset.htm
I just wonder how they can follow up their Hello Kinky album. It is really so perfect in so many ways.
Friday, October 27, 2006
Lion mutilates 42 midgets
It’s a fun little story made by someone with too much free time on their hands.
http://www.fmft.net/archives/BBC_NEWS.htm
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Watch Paris Slowly Relapse
Some cities never learn. But really, didn't Paris make some effort to improve the situation after $160m in damage and more than that in negative PR and opportunities. I don't know Celestine, but she seems to paint a clear picture.
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France Braces for Violence in Paris Ghettos a Year After Riots
By Celestine Bohlen, Bloomberg, Oct 27, 2006
Epinay-sur-Seine, a suburb of Paris with immigrants from North and sub-Saharan Africa squeezed into high-rise buildings, is bracing for the worst.
A year ago, this town of 49,000 people remained unscathed when youths went on a rampage across France's suburban ghettos, leaving 10,000 burned-out cars and 160 million euros ($200 million) in damage. Then, on Oct. 13, between 30 and 50 Epinay teenagers lay in wait at night for a police car, which they pelted with some 300 stones carried to the scene in sports bags.
The premeditated targeting of the police shows a deepening divide in French suburbs. It also raises the specter of a repeat of last year's riots and violence. Six months before France's presidential elections, the debate is reopening on the nation's failure to integrate its growing immigrant population, and more particularly their French-born offspring.
``The riots last year were an illustration of a dramatic rupture between the young in the suburbs and the institutions of the authority of the French republic, and we have seen a radicalization on both sides,'' said Christophe Bertossi, a researcher at the Institute of International Affairs in Paris. ``It's a guerrilla war.''
The October 2005 riots, which began in the Paris suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois after two young boys fleeing a police check were accidentally electrocuted, spread to other parts of France and lasted about three weeks. The riots revealed tensions in districts marked by youth unemployment of more than 30 percent -- three times the national average of 9 percent.
Mistrusting the Police
They also showed mistrust of the police among suburban youth, which Manik, a 17-year-old high-school student in Epinay, says has gotten worse.
``They come looking for us, and we go looking for them,'' he said during a half-hour suburban train journey into Paris, warning that the violence is ``going to start again.''
It already may have. The Epinay incident, which put four men between the ages of 17 and 21 behind bars, was followed by other violent episodes. In the Paris suburb of Grigny, a bus and three cars were burned in reaction to a police check at a local tea- house. On Oct. 17, about 30 young people set fire to garbage cans and cars in La Source, in the city of Orleans, before stoning vehicles outside the local police station.
``Now there are rumors that are going in all directions,'' said Jean-Michel Genestier, an aide to Epinay's mayor, adding that police in sensitive areas have been asked by the Interior Ministry to keep a low profile. ``Any element could set things off,'' he said.
Police Report
The intensifying attacks were noted in a police report published in the French newspaper Le Figaro on Oct. 23.
``The danger now is of outbursts that are not spontaneous but structured, taking on one of the last institutional presences in some neighborhoods: the police,'' the report said. Ile-de- France, the region around Paris, is cited in the report as the most volatile.
The government of Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin has held several meetings of officials and community representatives from the suburbs, with another planned for Nov. 7.
In December, de Villepin said he would free 100 million euros for local agencies in the low-income suburbs. About 46,000 jobs were created for young people in these areas and a plan to cut discrimination with anonymous resumes is being studied.
Haunting a Nation
Last year's riots, which produced television images of hooded youths silhouetted against blazing cars, have haunted France. A TNS-Sofres poll shows that the number of people concerned about violence rose to 23 percent in October from 19 percent in September. The same poll shows 60 percent expect to see ``social conflicts'' in the next three to four months. The poll on Sept. 27-28 surveyed 1,000 people 18 years and older.
Segolene Royal, who leads the polls in the contest for the Socialist Party nomination for presidential elections, has proposed military-style ``boot camps'' for recidivist delinquents. Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, who heads the ruling party and is its leading candidate in the race, has built a campaign on law-and-order themes.
``Those who ambush police or firemen must know that it's not acceptable,'' he said in a speech last week.
The anniversary of the riots coincides with the conclusion of Ramadan, the month-long Muslim fasting period, and French school vacations timed to the All Saints holiday.
``We are very worried,'' said Jean-Marc Bailleul, a national secretary of the National Union of Police Officers, which represents 56 percent of the nation's 13,500 officers. ``We didn't need the intelligence service to tell us there is reason to be worried about this anniversary.''
The police report said violence could start again in Clichy- sous-Bois. Unlike Epinay, Clichy has no rail links to Paris, no police station or movie theater and nearly half its population is under the age of 25. Back in Epinay, Manik said the police should back off from youth in these areas.
``I am searched all the time, my book bag is searched,'' he said. ``It is not working.''
To contact the reporter on this story: Celestine Bohlen in Paris at cbohlen1@bloomberg.net .
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France Braces for Violence in Paris Ghettos a Year After Riots
By Celestine Bohlen, Bloomberg, Oct 27, 2006
Epinay-sur-Seine, a suburb of Paris with immigrants from North and sub-Saharan Africa squeezed into high-rise buildings, is bracing for the worst.
A year ago, this town of 49,000 people remained unscathed when youths went on a rampage across France's suburban ghettos, leaving 10,000 burned-out cars and 160 million euros ($200 million) in damage. Then, on Oct. 13, between 30 and 50 Epinay teenagers lay in wait at night for a police car, which they pelted with some 300 stones carried to the scene in sports bags.
The premeditated targeting of the police shows a deepening divide in French suburbs. It also raises the specter of a repeat of last year's riots and violence. Six months before France's presidential elections, the debate is reopening on the nation's failure to integrate its growing immigrant population, and more particularly their French-born offspring.
``The riots last year were an illustration of a dramatic rupture between the young in the suburbs and the institutions of the authority of the French republic, and we have seen a radicalization on both sides,'' said Christophe Bertossi, a researcher at the Institute of International Affairs in Paris. ``It's a guerrilla war.''
The October 2005 riots, which began in the Paris suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois after two young boys fleeing a police check were accidentally electrocuted, spread to other parts of France and lasted about three weeks. The riots revealed tensions in districts marked by youth unemployment of more than 30 percent -- three times the national average of 9 percent.
Mistrusting the Police
They also showed mistrust of the police among suburban youth, which Manik, a 17-year-old high-school student in Epinay, says has gotten worse.
``They come looking for us, and we go looking for them,'' he said during a half-hour suburban train journey into Paris, warning that the violence is ``going to start again.''
It already may have. The Epinay incident, which put four men between the ages of 17 and 21 behind bars, was followed by other violent episodes. In the Paris suburb of Grigny, a bus and three cars were burned in reaction to a police check at a local tea- house. On Oct. 17, about 30 young people set fire to garbage cans and cars in La Source, in the city of Orleans, before stoning vehicles outside the local police station.
``Now there are rumors that are going in all directions,'' said Jean-Michel Genestier, an aide to Epinay's mayor, adding that police in sensitive areas have been asked by the Interior Ministry to keep a low profile. ``Any element could set things off,'' he said.
Police Report
The intensifying attacks were noted in a police report published in the French newspaper Le Figaro on Oct. 23.
``The danger now is of outbursts that are not spontaneous but structured, taking on one of the last institutional presences in some neighborhoods: the police,'' the report said. Ile-de- France, the region around Paris, is cited in the report as the most volatile.
The government of Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin has held several meetings of officials and community representatives from the suburbs, with another planned for Nov. 7.
In December, de Villepin said he would free 100 million euros for local agencies in the low-income suburbs. About 46,000 jobs were created for young people in these areas and a plan to cut discrimination with anonymous resumes is being studied.
Haunting a Nation
Last year's riots, which produced television images of hooded youths silhouetted against blazing cars, have haunted France. A TNS-Sofres poll shows that the number of people concerned about violence rose to 23 percent in October from 19 percent in September. The same poll shows 60 percent expect to see ``social conflicts'' in the next three to four months. The poll on Sept. 27-28 surveyed 1,000 people 18 years and older.
Segolene Royal, who leads the polls in the contest for the Socialist Party nomination for presidential elections, has proposed military-style ``boot camps'' for recidivist delinquents. Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, who heads the ruling party and is its leading candidate in the race, has built a campaign on law-and-order themes.
``Those who ambush police or firemen must know that it's not acceptable,'' he said in a speech last week.
The anniversary of the riots coincides with the conclusion of Ramadan, the month-long Muslim fasting period, and French school vacations timed to the All Saints holiday.
``We are very worried,'' said Jean-Marc Bailleul, a national secretary of the National Union of Police Officers, which represents 56 percent of the nation's 13,500 officers. ``We didn't need the intelligence service to tell us there is reason to be worried about this anniversary.''
The police report said violence could start again in Clichy- sous-Bois. Unlike Epinay, Clichy has no rail links to Paris, no police station or movie theater and nearly half its population is under the age of 25. Back in Epinay, Manik said the police should back off from youth in these areas.
``I am searched all the time, my book bag is searched,'' he said. ``It is not working.''
To contact the reporter on this story: Celestine Bohlen in Paris at cbohlen1@bloomberg.net .
Weblink To Story
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
site for cancer research
This site is one of my favorites, not just for their pediatric oncology content but for people of all ages and for patients at all stages of their life. Incredible breadth and depth of information.
Also, in terms of website design and organizing data, these guys did a phenomenal job.
If you are in the market for med info, checkout www.pubmed.org and allow your inner geek to dig through medical journals.
Tuesday, October 3, 2006
audio in the bedroom, part 2
Musical condom hits the high notes
(ananova.com: 2 Oct 2006) A musical condom designed to play louder and faster as lovers reach a climax is to go on sale in
Grigoriy Chausovsky, from Zaporozhye, said his condoms came fitted with a special sensor that registers when the condom is put on.
It transmits a signal to a miniature speaker in the base of the condom which play a melody.
He told local media: "As the sex becomes more passionate, it registers the increased speed of the movements and plays the melody faster and louder."
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