What are you gonna do, play with your prick for another 30 years? ... George Carlin
How a magnet turned off my speech
Topic: Science
11:32 am EDT, May 21, 2008
Words failed me. I stuttered as Prof Vincent Walsh turned off the speech centre of my brain for a few thousandths of a second to demonstrate the power of transcranial magnetic stimulation, a popular way to interfere with the most complex known object in the universe.
Myspace.com Blogs - Orwellian Los Angeles - Keith MySpace Blog
Topic: Miscellaneous
10:38 am EDT, May 15, 2008
Well last week here in Los Angeles, I was waiting to board the redline (subway) and snapped a picture with my cell phone camera. Not the best picture in the world, but I was just putzing around, waiting for the train, holding a quizno's to-go bag. Almost immediately, a vest wearing man with METRO emblazoned on his back who had been mopping the area nearby rushed up to me and the exchange went something like this: Him: Hey! It's against the 9-11 Law to take pictures down hear man! Me: You mean the Patriot Act? Him: No pictures. Me: Could you explain? What law do you mean? Him: You are lawyer? Me: No. Him: No pictures. You could be a terrorist. Very strict! Me: How about I take a picture of you? Him: F**k you...(I couldn't believe it either) He then proceeded to huddle in the corner and speak into his radio. Next thing I knew, a booming female voice very loudly announced over the loudspeaker "Attention to the gentleman in the plaid shirt: You are not allowed to take photographs in the Subway. You will be arrested if you continue to take photos and harrass the metro worker."
Photos are harassing..?? The paparazzi's are gonna be pissed. Good thing for terrorists they know how to use spy cams and cell phones to photograph their vacations. Hopefully they'll never find out about google earth.
Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection: Photographer Takes Pictures at the Port of Los Angeles and Has Two FBI Agents Show Up at His House Asking Questions
Topic: War on Terrorism
10:31 am EDT, May 15, 2008
iAccording to Bergman, he and a buddy were taking photos at the Port of Los Angeles when they were confronted by a security guard who told them that they could not take photographs of a Valero plant even from the public street. You can see some of the shots that they got that day on Flickr here.
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Fast forward to this morning when Bergman says two men with badges show up at his door:
"So, I go to talk to them. The first one informs me he needs to ask me some questions about what I was doing in the port complex two weeks ago. The other one demands to see my driver's license. I politely decline, and he informs me that he already has all the information on it (I look, and sure enough, there is a photo of me on his clipboard along with god knows what else). He makes a crack about "wow, you're younger than you look in this photo" when he comments on my birthdate (gee, thanks). I decide to give him my ID.
We exchange cards. I give him my business card that says "Photographer" as well as my iStock card (for legitimacy), and he gives me his card that says "Detective, FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force". Yikes."
Your tax dollars keeping you safe. Maybe someday they'll find a real terrorist.
The Get Out Clause, Manchester's stars of CCTV cameras - Telegraph
Topic: Society
10:48 am EDT, May 10, 2008
Unable to afford a proper camera crew and equipment, The Get Out Clause, an unsigned band from the city, decided to make use of the cameras seen all over British streets.
With an estimated 13 million CCTV cameras in Britain, suitable locations were not hard to come by.
They set up their equipment, drum kit and all, in eighty locations around Manchester – including on a bus – and proceeded to play to the cameras.
Afterwards they wrote to the companies or organisations involved and asked for the footage under the Freedom of Information Act.
Neat idea... shame the music isnt any better than it is... Maybe they should do film instead.
3 accused of using Humble corpse's head to smoke pot | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
Topic: Recreation
5:29 pm EDT, May 9, 2008
The Kingwood teenager's story of decapitating a corpse and using the head to smoke marijuana was so outlandish that at first Houston Police Department senior police officer Jim Adkins did not believe it.
"Fuck man... We're out of rolling papers! What now???"
MTV Multiplayer » Wii Pole Dancing Game Intended For Fitness, Fun For Men And Women
Topic: Humor
10:38 pm EDT, May 8, 2008
Ultimately Peekaboo and AT New Media want to do for pole dancing what ‘Guitar Hero‘ did for rock n roll!
Get a bunch of hacks who think they have an idea about how to play guitar, but actually suck, to spend hideous amounts of money? That part is fine, I guess, people want to be the rock star, but who aspires to being a stripper?
