Saturday, October 31, 2009
Rate My Turban
What do you think of Karorasinghia's turban?
Here's your chance to let him know.
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With over 1160 total turbans and 2,181,192 ratings you'll be spoilt for choice.
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Here's your chance to let him know.
Click to visit ratemyturban and cast your vote.
With over 1160 total turbans and 2,181,192 ratings you'll be spoilt for choice.
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Spooky Hampton Court Palace
The ghost of Henry VIII himself is said to haunt the palace, along with Jane Seymour, who has been seen gliding around, dressed in white and carrying a lighted candle.
The shrieks of Catherine Howard being dragged away from the king after being charged with adultery can sometimes be heard in the gallery and a nurse, the Grey Lady, can still be seen working at her spinning wheel in one of the old courtier's houses.
In 2003, however, a ghoul that became known as the "Skeletor" was caught on CCTV cameras opening a fire door near Clock Court with great force on three consecutive days. The ghost was in period dress and appeared each time before security staff could get there.
Friday, October 30, 2009
Facebook awarded $711 million in Damages
Sanford Wallace is better known as "Spamford" on the web. The Las Vegas-based "Spam King" accessed Facebook members' accounts without their permission, and sent out fake Wall posts and spam messages from the compromised accounts.
Spamford has a reputation for sending unsolicited mail. The internet marketer was famously head of a company, Cyber Promotions, that sent as many as 30 million junk email messages per day during the 1990s. In 1998, Wallace announced he was quitting the spam business, and Cyber Promotions became an opt-in email marketing company.
But it proved to be a hollow promise. In 2006, he was fined $4 million by the Federal Trade Commission in the United States for posting an excessive number of intrusive pop-up ads across the web that contained a spyware virus.
He has also abused the messaging facilities of other social networking sites. In May 2008, Wallace and his business partner, Walter Rines, were found guilty of carrying out phishing attacks against MySpace users, and spamming MySpace members with unsolicited messages. The social networking site won a $230 million payout from the "Spam King".
Wallace could face jail time following his latest attacks against Facebook. The judge who presided over the case referred Wallace for prosecution for criminal contempt of court. Either way, he will struggle to pay back the huge fine; Wallace filed for bankruptcy in June.
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World's Largest Rubber Band Ball
This is Joel Waul, springing into action as he climbs on top of the colossal rubber band ball he made.
The 27-year-old spent six years carefully wrapping, linking and stretching rubber bands of various sizes into the ball shape.
And his endeavours paid off, because the Guinness Book of World Records declared his masterpiece the world's largest rubber band ball.
On Thursday, Waul said goodbye to his creation. A team from Ripley's Believe it or Not came to his house with a crane and hauled the 6-foot, 7-inch tall, 9,032-pound behemoth away on a large, flatbed truck.
Waul and the ball have several followers on their MySpace page, but no one's been mesmerized by the creation more than Edward Meyer, vice president of exhibits and archives at the Orlando-based Ripley's.
"We already have the largest string and barbed wire balls," Meyer said. "This is now my holy trinity, I guess."
Meyer won't say how much Ripley's paid for the ball, which, at 25 feet in circumference, he estimates to be twice as large as the previous record holder.
The ball will eventually be displayed in a far-off museum yet to be determined, so folks can marvel at Waul's obsession.
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Fired for Facebook Halloween Picture
A warning to you all
A intern at Anglo Irish Bank, was fired due to a photo posted on his Facebook.
Kevin Colvin emailed his bosses late in the day of Halloween, letting them know he would not be able to attended work due to a family emergency in New York. When his boss, Paul Davis, received the email the following day he checked his interns Facebook, and what did he find:
Davis responed to his intern with the following message:
“Thanks for letting me know–hope everything is OK in New York. (cool wand)” -ValleyWag.com
Colvin did not really have any family emergency which he needed to be in attendance of, but wanted to party it up on Halloween.
The email thread between Kevin Colvin and his boss Paul Davis are now being emailed around the internet, really hurting Colvin’s online reputation. This is another case of careless postings on Facebook leading to being fired.
A intern at Anglo Irish Bank, was fired due to a photo posted on his Facebook.
Kevin Colvin emailed his bosses late in the day of Halloween, letting them know he would not be able to attended work due to a family emergency in New York. When his boss, Paul Davis, received the email the following day he checked his interns Facebook, and what did he find:
Davis responed to his intern with the following message:
“Thanks for letting me know–hope everything is OK in New York. (cool wand)” -ValleyWag.com
Colvin did not really have any family emergency which he needed to be in attendance of, but wanted to party it up on Halloween.
The email thread between Kevin Colvin and his boss Paul Davis are now being emailed around the internet, really hurting Colvin’s online reputation. This is another case of careless postings on Facebook leading to being fired.
Happy Birthday Internet
It was yesterday, actually. The Internet turned 40.
Late at night on October 29, 1969, a computer in UCLA and one in Stanford were connected through ARPANET. The first message was fairly unceremonious — it was meant to be "login", but the system crashed on the third keystroke. So the first message was, officially, "lo".
Nothing changes ......
Late at night on October 29, 1969, a computer in UCLA and one in Stanford were connected through ARPANET. The first message was fairly unceremonious — it was meant to be "login", but the system crashed on the third keystroke. So the first message was, officially, "lo".
Nothing changes ......
Mafia Hitman Executes / Murders Man In Broad Daylight
Warning: Some may find this video upsetting
This is the shocking moment a Mafia hitman executes a man outside an Italian bar in broad daylight.
The assassin calmly walks up to his target and blasts him in the back of the head twice before walking away.
Prosecutors in the Mafia heartland of Naples have put CCTV of the Mafia murder online in order to get help in catching the killers.
Prosecutors in Naples, in southern Italy, said they had run out of leads in the investigation over the murder of Mariano Bacioterracino - also believed to be a Mafia clan member
Prosecutor Giandomenico Lepore told Central European News: "This was a brutal killing in broad daylight. We have not managed to identify either man yet - and now we have released the video in the hope a member of the public will be able to identify them."
This is the shocking moment a Mafia hitman executes a man outside an Italian bar in broad daylight.
The assassin calmly walks up to his target and blasts him in the back of the head twice before walking away.
Prosecutors in the Mafia heartland of Naples have put CCTV of the Mafia murder online in order to get help in catching the killers.
Prosecutors in Naples, in southern Italy, said they had run out of leads in the investigation over the murder of Mariano Bacioterracino - also believed to be a Mafia clan member
Prosecutor Giandomenico Lepore told Central European News: "This was a brutal killing in broad daylight. We have not managed to identify either man yet - and now we have released the video in the hope a member of the public will be able to identify them."
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Job Interview London Police Firearms Unit
A man wanting to join the London Met’s Firearms Section was being interviewed.
The Chief Constable doing the interview said, “Your qualifications look good, but there is an attitude suitability test that you must take before you can be accepted.”
Then, sliding a loaded service pistol across the desk, he said: “Take this pistol and go out and shoot twenty illegal immigrants, six drug dealers, sixty Muslim extremists, and a rabbit.”
“A rabbit, why a rabbit?”
“Great attitude”, said the Chief Constable. “When can you start?”
The Chief Constable doing the interview said, “Your qualifications look good, but there is an attitude suitability test that you must take before you can be accepted.”
Then, sliding a loaded service pistol across the desk, he said: “Take this pistol and go out and shoot twenty illegal immigrants, six drug dealers, sixty Muslim extremists, and a rabbit.”
“A rabbit, why a rabbit?”
“Great attitude”, said the Chief Constable. “When can you start?”
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Look son, it's a massive inflatable penis
This large inflatable has been, um, erected in Hangzhou, in China's Zhejiang Province, to promote the upcoming 'Masculine Health Day'.
I'll be honest, I don't really have any other comment about this picture beyond that.
Helping The Poor
One afternoon a lawyer was driving his large Cadillac down a country lane in Kentucky when he saw two men along the roadside eating the scrubby grass. Puzzled, he stopped to investigate.
He asked one man, "Why are you eating that grass?"
"We don't have any money for food," the poor man replied. "We have to eat grass."
"Well, then, you can come with me to my house and I'll feed you," the lawyer said.
"But sir, I have a wife and two children with me. They are over there, under that tree."
"Bring them along," the lawyer replied.
Turning to the other poor man the lawyer said, "You come with us, as well."
The second man, in a pitiful voice, replied, "Thank you, sir, but I also have a wife and four children with me."
"Bring them all." the lawyer answered.
Though it a tight squeeze, they all managed to get in the car and so the lawyer set off home. Once underway, one of the poor fellows turned to the lawyer and said, "Sir, you are too kind. Thank you for taking all of us with you."
”I’m just glad to do it, and you will really like my place.” the lawyer replied, "The grass is almost a foot high.”
He asked one man, "Why are you eating that grass?"
"We don't have any money for food," the poor man replied. "We have to eat grass."
"Well, then, you can come with me to my house and I'll feed you," the lawyer said.
"But sir, I have a wife and two children with me. They are over there, under that tree."
"Bring them along," the lawyer replied.
Turning to the other poor man the lawyer said, "You come with us, as well."
The second man, in a pitiful voice, replied, "Thank you, sir, but I also have a wife and four children with me."
"Bring them all." the lawyer answered.
Though it a tight squeeze, they all managed to get in the car and so the lawyer set off home. Once underway, one of the poor fellows turned to the lawyer and said, "Sir, you are too kind. Thank you for taking all of us with you."
”I’m just glad to do it, and you will really like my place.” the lawyer replied, "The grass is almost a foot high.”
Worst disguise ever?
If you're going to commit a burglary, it's a good idea to have a disguise. However, you should probably do better than this pair of would-be burglars, whose disguise attempts extended to just drawing on their faces with a black marker pen.
Matthew Allan McNelly, 23, and Joey Lee Miller, 20 were arrested last Friday night after they tried to break into an apartment in Carroll, Iowa.
A witness called police to alert them to the attempted break in, and said that the suspects then drove off in a white car. Police tracked the car down a few blocks away, and - having been told that the suspects appeared to be wearing holsters - arrested them at gun point, the Daily Times Herald newspaper reported.
As it turned out, the duo didn't have either guns or holsters on them. They did, however, have permanent marker scribbled all over their faces, which made them rather easy to identify.
Matthew Allan McNelly, 23, and Joey Lee Miller, 20 were arrested last Friday night after they tried to break into an apartment in Carroll, Iowa.
A witness called police to alert them to the attempted break in, and said that the suspects then drove off in a white car. Police tracked the car down a few blocks away, and - having been told that the suspects appeared to be wearing holsters - arrested them at gun point, the Daily Times Herald newspaper reported.
As it turned out, the duo didn't have either guns or holsters on them. They did, however, have permanent marker scribbled all over their faces, which made them rather easy to identify.
To have one's cake and eat it too
To have one's cake and eat it too is a popular English idiomatic proverb or figure of speech, sometimes stated as eat one's cake and have it too or simply have one's cake and eat it. It is most often used negatively, meaning an individual consuming, exhausting, taking advantage of or using up a particular thing and, then, after that thing is gone or no longer reasonably available, still attempting to benefit from or use it. It may also indicate having or wanting more than one can handle or deserve, or trying to have two incompatible things. The proverb's meaning is similar to the phrases, "you can't have it both ways" and "you can't have the best of both worlds."
The above fact was copied from Wikipedia
However I bet she doesn't agree !!!
The above fact was copied from Wikipedia
However I bet she doesn't agree !!!
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Kylie, Robbie and Elton Go For A Walk
Kylie Minogue, Robbie Williams and Elton John were walking over a bridge.
Kylie trips and gets her head jammed between the railings.
With a sideways glance, Robbie pulls aside her G-String, and bonks her senseless! He stands back and tells Elton, “your turn”.
Elton bursts into tears.
“What’s up?” asks Robbie.
Elton sobs, “My head won’t fit through the railings”
Kylie trips and gets her head jammed between the railings.
With a sideways glance, Robbie pulls aside her G-String, and bonks her senseless! He stands back and tells Elton, “your turn”.
Elton bursts into tears.
“What’s up?” asks Robbie.
Elton sobs, “My head won’t fit through the railings”
An Old Sailor
A retired sailor puts on his old uniform and heads for the docks once more. For good times sake, he engages a prostitute and takes her up to a room.
He's soon going at it as well as he can for a guy his age, but needing some reassurance, he asks, 'How am I doing??'
The prostitute replies, 'Well, old sailor, you're doing about three knots.'
'Three knots?' he asks. 'What's that supposed to mean??'
She says, 'You're knot hard, you're knot in, and you're knot getting your money back.'
He's soon going at it as well as he can for a guy his age, but needing some reassurance, he asks, 'How am I doing??'
The prostitute replies, 'Well, old sailor, you're doing about three knots.'
'Three knots?' he asks. 'What's that supposed to mean??'
She says, 'You're knot hard, you're knot in, and you're knot getting your money back.'
Monday, October 26, 2009
Lastminute offer John and Edward Grimes one way tickets to Ireland
Lastminute.com have offered X Factor twins, John and Edward Grimes, one way tickets back to Ireland, in a bid to make them leave the show.
A spokesman said: “The twins are good fun but perhaps it’s time for X Factor to go back to being more about talent.”
“I’m sure a lot of fans will have their fingers crossed that they get in touch with us.”
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Smuggled Cannabis Sausage Roll
A student bit off more than he could chew when he tried to smuggle some cannabis over a European border stashed in a sausage roll.
Luis Fellini, 22, hid the drugs by cutting out a hole and then replacing the crust before wrapping the snack in cling film. But he was stopped by police sniffer dogs in Brogeda, in Italy as he tried to cross the border from Switzerland on a coach.
He had hidden the sausage roll in a chill box along with other foods to try and disguise the smell of the cannabis.
One officer said: "He had put it next to some very ripe cheese and salami to confuse the scent. He went to a lot of trouble but either our dog was hungry and went straight to the food, or he didn't hide the smell of the cannabis as well as he thought he had."
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