The tune "Misirlou" has traveled quite a path, from klezmer music to 1950s exotica acts and finally to surf guitar and an appearance in the 1994 film Pulp Fiction.
Surf guitar legend Dick Dale & His Del-Tones turned the song into a surf guitar hit in 1962.
See the 1962 video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIU0RMV_II8
Learn More:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5134530
Thursday, September 28, 2006
Sunday, September 24, 2006
Penis-Melting Zionist Robot Combs
The phrase 'penis-melting Zionist robot combs,' while not widely known, does seem to be growing in popularity.
The phrase refers to a mass panic that swept through Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, in September 2003. The people of Khartoum feared that a Satanic foreigner was going around shaking hands with Sudanese men and thereby causing their penises to melt upwards inside their body.
In one case a man reported that he was approached by a stranger at the market. The stranger handed him a comb and asked him to comb his hair. "When he did so, within seconds... he felt a strange sensation and discovered that he had lost his penis."
For the full story go to:
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/weblog/comments/1126/
The phrase refers to a mass panic that swept through Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, in September 2003. The people of Khartoum feared that a Satanic foreigner was going around shaking hands with Sudanese men and thereby causing their penises to melt upwards inside their body.
In one case a man reported that he was approached by a stranger at the market. The stranger handed him a comb and asked him to comb his hair. "When he did so, within seconds... he felt a strange sensation and discovered that he had lost his penis."
For the full story go to:
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/weblog/comments/1126/
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Survey America - Driving
What surveys say about Americans
Driving
4 out of 5 sing in the car. (and probably 4 out of 5 can't sing for beans either)
12% of men never use their car blinkers.
45% of us consistantly follow the speed limit. (This is hard to believe - Get on a highway and go the exact speed limit. Are 45% of the people not passing you - I doubt it)
2/3 of us speed up at a yellow light.
1/3 of us don't wear seat belts.
71% can drive a stick-shift car.
44% of men tailgate to speed up the person in front of them.
Driving
4 out of 5 sing in the car. (and probably 4 out of 5 can't sing for beans either)
12% of men never use their car blinkers.
45% of us consistantly follow the speed limit. (This is hard to believe - Get on a highway and go the exact speed limit. Are 45% of the people not passing you - I doubt it)
2/3 of us speed up at a yellow light.
1/3 of us don't wear seat belts.
71% can drive a stick-shift car.
44% of men tailgate to speed up the person in front of them.
Monday, September 18, 2006
Diebold Voting Machines Opened With Hotel Minibar Key
Vote Smirnoff
Contributed by a Misc-Reports reader
The key that controls access to a standard Diebold voting machine is a common key that can be ordered from the Internet, also used to open hotel minibars.
The access panel door on a Diebold AccuVote-TS voting machine — the door that protects the memory card that stores the votes, and is the main barrier to the injection of a virus — can be opened with a standard key that is widely available on the Internet...
Using such a standard key doesn’t provide much security, but it does allow Diebold to assert that their design uses a lock and key. Experts will recognize the same problem in Diebold’s use of encryption — they can say they use encryption, but they use it in a way that neutralizes its security benefits.
The bad guys don’t care whether you use encryption; they care whether they can read and modify your data. They don’t care whether your door has a lock on it; they care whether they can get it open. The checkbox approach to security works in press releases, but it doesn’t work in the field.
Link http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1064
Contributed by a Misc-Reports reader
The key that controls access to a standard Diebold voting machine is a common key that can be ordered from the Internet, also used to open hotel minibars.
The access panel door on a Diebold AccuVote-TS voting machine — the door that protects the memory card that stores the votes, and is the main barrier to the injection of a virus — can be opened with a standard key that is widely available on the Internet...
Using such a standard key doesn’t provide much security, but it does allow Diebold to assert that their design uses a lock and key. Experts will recognize the same problem in Diebold’s use of encryption — they can say they use encryption, but they use it in a way that neutralizes its security benefits.
The bad guys don’t care whether you use encryption; they care whether they can read and modify your data. They don’t care whether your door has a lock on it; they care whether they can get it open. The checkbox approach to security works in press releases, but it doesn’t work in the field.
Link http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1064
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Meat Cake at SupersizedMeals.com
Overeating and then feeling remorseful about it is one thing. Overeating, taking photographs of the evidence, and then posting them online is something else.
Such ill-advised hubris is on display at SuperSizedMeals.com. The site encourages visitors to forgo baby steps and instead take a running leap toward obesity by gorging themselves on Bunyanesque burgers, burritos, pizza and “Meat Cake”.
While many of the submissions come from folks who found their glutton's paradise at restaurants, an alarming number are from people who cooked up their own gargantuan meals.
http://www.supersizedmeals.com/food/
Such ill-advised hubris is on display at SuperSizedMeals.com. The site encourages visitors to forgo baby steps and instead take a running leap toward obesity by gorging themselves on Bunyanesque burgers, burritos, pizza and “Meat Cake”.
While many of the submissions come from folks who found their glutton's paradise at restaurants, an alarming number are from people who cooked up their own gargantuan meals.
http://www.supersizedmeals.com/food/
Thursday, August 31, 2006
THE DUMBEST GUY ON EARTH!
This picture is real - not doctored in any way. It was taken by a Transportation Supervisor for a company that delivers building materials for 84 Lumber.
When he saw it in the parking lot of IHOP, he ran to buy a camera to take pictures.
The car is still running, as can be witnessed by the exhaust.
A woman is either asleep or otherwise out of it in the front seat passenger side. The driver was jogging up and down on Rt. 925.(in the background) The driver finally came back after the police were called, and they found him crouched behind the rear of the car, attempting to cut the twine around the load.
Luckily, the police stopped him and had the load removed.
The materials were loaded at Home Depot. Their store manager said they made the customer sign a waiver.
While the plywood and 2X4's are fairly obvious, what you can't see is the back seat, which contains 10 bags of concrete @ 80 lbs. each.
Both back tires had exploded, the wheels were bent and the back shocks had been driven through the floorboard.
The car, with FLA plates, was headed for Clanton, AL where the couple planned to build a new house.
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
British Prostitute Takes Client To Court After He Refuses To Pay
Wins Case And Still Loses
LONDON — A British prostitute took a client to court after he admitted he could not afford to pay her after sex, the Liverpool Echo newspaper reported.
Tracy Harper complained to police after unemployed Matthew Bushell, 33, told her he could not afford the $1,400 he owed her for their six-hour liaison, the northwest England regional daily said.
Bushell from Southport, near Liverpool, was bankrupt and owed $29,000 from using phone sex lines and escort girls, the evening newspaper added in its court report from the town.
He pleaded guilty to dishonestly obtaining sexual services and was made subject to a two-year supervision order. Magistrates also ordered him to pay $124 in court costs at a hearing on Monday.
No compensation order was made for Harper, from Bradford, in northern England.
LONDON — A British prostitute took a client to court after he admitted he could not afford to pay her after sex, the Liverpool Echo newspaper reported.
Tracy Harper complained to police after unemployed Matthew Bushell, 33, told her he could not afford the $1,400 he owed her for their six-hour liaison, the northwest England regional daily said.
Bushell from Southport, near Liverpool, was bankrupt and owed $29,000 from using phone sex lines and escort girls, the evening newspaper added in its court report from the town.
He pleaded guilty to dishonestly obtaining sexual services and was made subject to a two-year supervision order. Magistrates also ordered him to pay $124 in court costs at a hearing on Monday.
No compensation order was made for Harper, from Bradford, in northern England.
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
BMW Makes Self-Parking Car
BMW says that it will have developed a fully automated, self-parking car within the next three years.
The system draws on components already found in some of BMW's current models, and augments them accordingly.
If all goes according to plan, all you'll have to do is push a button and the luxury carmaker's parking-assist technology will park your car for you in your garage or regular in-and-out spot (parallel parking isn't included) as you stand outside and watch
For more information and to watch the video go to:
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/autotech/0,71344-0.html
The system draws on components already found in some of BMW's current models, and augments them accordingly.
If all goes according to plan, all you'll have to do is push a button and the luxury carmaker's parking-assist technology will park your car for you in your garage or regular in-and-out spot (parallel parking isn't included) as you stand outside and watch
For more information and to watch the video go to:
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/autotech/0,71344-0.html
Saturday, August 26, 2006
And Don't Forget To Get Your Decoder Ring
Real Time Satellite Tracking
In case you ever want to track your favorite satellite this is the place to find it.
http://www.n2yo.com/?s=99999
In case you ever want to track your favorite satellite this is the place to find it.
http://www.n2yo.com/?s=99999
Friday, August 25, 2006
Woman Faked Death To Dodge Parking Fines
An Iowa woman allegedly faked her own death to avoid paying parking tickets.
Police say Kimberly Du, 36, was caught out after she got another ticket a month after her 'death', reports KCCI News.
Investigators said Du, of Des Moines, faked her own obituary and forged a letter telling a judge she had died in a car crash.
She allegedly included a phony obituary, made to look like a page from The Des Moines Register's website.
"The state still has to convince a jury of 12, but faking your own death is not a good idea," said Bob Rigg, of the Drake Law Clinic.
The case began to unravel when investigators said Du was stopped for another traffic ticket - a month after the obituary was dated.
She now faces up to five years in prison for fraud - instead of the $500 fine she might have expected for failing to pay her parking tickets.
Police say Kimberly Du, 36, was caught out after she got another ticket a month after her 'death', reports KCCI News.
Investigators said Du, of Des Moines, faked her own obituary and forged a letter telling a judge she had died in a car crash.
She allegedly included a phony obituary, made to look like a page from The Des Moines Register's website.
"The state still has to convince a jury of 12, but faking your own death is not a good idea," said Bob Rigg, of the Drake Law Clinic.
The case began to unravel when investigators said Du was stopped for another traffic ticket - a month after the obituary was dated.
She now faces up to five years in prison for fraud - instead of the $500 fine she might have expected for failing to pay her parking tickets.
Tuesday, August 22, 2006
Holland launches Fun Burials
This Is Fun?
A Dutch entrepreneur is offering what he hopes will be the latest extreme sport - 'fun burials'.
For 75 euros, people can be buried 5ft down in a coffin for an hour - under a 3.5 tonne concrete block, reports Nu.nl.
The coffin has an oxygen supply, a panic button and is linked by webcam to a computer which friends and family can watch.
Dutch entertainer Eddy Daams, from Eexterveenschekanaal, is behind the idea which he calls Fun Burials.
He said: "After bunjee jumping, this wil become the new extreme kick. It is very safe, nothing can go wrong.
"If the person in the coffin is having a panic attack, he can push the panic button to heave off the block."
Mr Daams is running the project in his own garden and says it should be up and running commercially this summer.
A Dutch entrepreneur is offering what he hopes will be the latest extreme sport - 'fun burials'.
For 75 euros, people can be buried 5ft down in a coffin for an hour - under a 3.5 tonne concrete block, reports Nu.nl.
The coffin has an oxygen supply, a panic button and is linked by webcam to a computer which friends and family can watch.
Dutch entertainer Eddy Daams, from Eexterveenschekanaal, is behind the idea which he calls Fun Burials.
He said: "After bunjee jumping, this wil become the new extreme kick. It is very safe, nothing can go wrong.
"If the person in the coffin is having a panic attack, he can push the panic button to heave off the block."
Mr Daams is running the project in his own garden and says it should be up and running commercially this summer.
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Looking For A Husband?
Men out number the women in United Arab Emirates and Qatar by 2 to 1. In Kuwait the ratio is 50 percent more and in Bahrain and Oman it is 30 percent.
Of course there may be some language and tradition differences, but look at the odds of finding that someone special.
Of course there may be some language and tradition differences, but look at the odds of finding that someone special.
Wednesday, August 02, 2006
Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo
Its not about Yo-Yo Ma, it is the most comprehensive archive of yo-yo images, historical memorabilia, and information in the world.
Whether you're a long-time yo-yo collector, or just looking for that long lost treasure from your childhood, this is the place
http://www.theyoyomuseum.com/
Whether you're a long-time yo-yo collector, or just looking for that long lost treasure from your childhood, this is the place
http://www.theyoyomuseum.com/
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
God or No God?
KIEV (Reuters) - A man shouting that God would keep him safe was mauled
to
death by a lioness in Kiev zoo after he crept into the animal's enclosure, a
zoo official said on Monday.
The man shouted 'God will save me, if he exists', lowered himself by a rope
into the enclosure, took his shoes off and went up to the lions," the
official said.
"A lioness went straight for him, knocked him down and severed his carotid
artery."
Contributed by a MISC-Reader
to
death by a lioness in Kiev zoo after he crept into the animal's enclosure, a
zoo official said on Monday.
The man shouted 'God will save me, if he exists', lowered himself by a rope
into the enclosure, took his shoes off and went up to the lions," the
official said.
"A lioness went straight for him, knocked him down and severed his carotid
artery."
Contributed by a MISC-Reader
Friday, July 21, 2006
Stop the Madness
Confused by the swirl of current events?
Mad as hell with no way to express your anger?
“Stop the Madness” items helps you make your feelings known.
http://www.cafepress.com/stopmad
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