Hell Of A Ride So Far

A media shit-storm has kicked off over here in Oz by the revelation that one of our top colleges has a pro-rape facebook page called Define Statutory. Just google it. My initial reaction was the same as my missus - that's their careers fucked then. And rightly so. Anyone who advocates rape can be strung up by the bollocks and then whipped with rusty barbed wire as far as I'm concerned.

Then I looked a bit closer at the story. You see, I couldn't believe that, no matter how macho a college was, someone would set-up a pro-rape group. It just doesn't ring true. So I started to look for details. A screenshot, quotes from the site, members names - anything. And found bugger-all. Not a sausage. The closest I got was a weak link saying that the site was actually a sport site set-up to encourage football players to go out and "rape" the opposition.

Now this is a totally different kettle of fish to a pro-rape site. From what I can gather, this is complete misrepresentation by the newspaper and journalist who broke the story. Unfortunately, this has now been picked up other news sites - including the Huffington Post - who have merrily passed it one without even the most cursory fact checking, damaging the reputation of one of Australia's top colleges and all of the people who attend there.

Remember. Not one screenshot, not one quote from the site appears anywhere in the news. All we have are outraged talking heads - who themselves haven't seen the site - bleating about how misogyny is endemic amongst our Universities and colleges and how "something must be done".

Rape is a loaded word and triggers strong reactions in people. but rape doesn't always mean forced sex. It has other meanings especially within the gamers world and sport. To be raped on World Of Warcraft or HALO is to be beaten badly by the opposition. Same meaning in football and rugby. You might not like the fact that the term is being misused in this way, you may want the word only to be used as the literal dictionary definition but that's tough luck. Language evolves and to be raped in a game is here to stay.

I might be wrong about the Facebook site. It might really be a pro-rape, anti-women site and all of it's members might be budding Jack The Rippers but I don't think so. What do you think?

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Well Jessica Watson has just set off in her bid to become the youngest person to sail around the world. She's not going to make it. She's too young, too inexperienced and too fucking stupid to have a prayer. Remember, this is the girl who managed to hit a massive cargo ship on her shakedown voyage. Barbie forgot to turn on her anti-collision equipment.

The absolutely best result I can see will be for her to give up a few days into her journey. At least that way she'll still be alive.

This is Darwin in action.

If she does die then the blame has to be first and foremost herself followed closely by her witless parents who encouraged her in this madness. After them you can add the corporate sponsors (yes, I'm looking at you Panasonic) and then all of the mouth-breathers who have been shouting "You go girl!!"

Yeah, she's gonna go alright - straight to the bottom of the ocean.


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A guy from B3ta has written/recorded an excellent rebuttal to Lily Allens rant about how piracy is destroying music. Even better, he's recorded it over the instrumental bit from her record "22".

It's as clever as a clever thing. Give it a listen/watch





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Just found this on B3ta links and it's fantastic. Well, it is if you like cooking.


http://ramkicooks.blogspot.com/

I think Mr Blaque will wet himself.


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A good mate of mine who goes waaaay back to alt.tasteless days has asked me to beg you for a favour.

His friend, 19-year-old Casey is battling a painful form of bone cancer called osteosarcoma. Sadly, her cancer has metastasised into her lungs and right shoulder, and she will be having her right leg and part of her pelvis amputated this September because the chemotherapy she's going through made her leg so brittle it fractured just from walking on it.

A few weeks ago, Casey entered into a contest by Victoria's Secret. The prize is a trip to New York City for three days of pampering at a spa, hotel suite, $500 shopping spree and a tour of the city (although she seems to be more excited about being able to ride in an airplane for the first time).

As a special favour to me, please visit www.bodybyvictoria.com/#/Gallery/880 and cast a vote for Casey so she can experience this trip of a lifetime. Simply click on the blue heart next to her picture. You can vote once per day until the contest closes on September 14th.

Casey is currently at number 2 and I'd love her to win. Look at the hottie who's currently winning and then look at Casey again. Who really deserves to win? Give her a click.


P.S. Please pass this e-mail along to family & friends, and/or re-post it in your Facebook, MySpace, LiveJournal or Twitter!


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Not a fluffy post, but something that has been pissing me off. The radical feminist movement who are accusing nurses and doctors of "raping" them. Here in Oz, epitomised, by this waste of space, Janet Frazer.

The link below is an article by a guy who I rarely have any time for, Andrew Bolt, but in this article I think he get's it spot on.

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25315240-5000117,00.html

And can I now reserve my place in Hell for thinking she got exactly what she deserved? But temper it by believing that the poor little sod who died shouldn't have, wouldn't have, if her mother had a shred of sense?

Her website is http://www.joyousbirth.info/

It's mainly about Birth is something that medics shouldn't be involved in, your body knows best and, if it all goes wrong, then it's the patriarchal society is at fault.

Oh.And pain is noble. If you don't go through screaming agony then you can't bond with your child.


But if someone calls a doctor, or nurse, a birth rapist around me, then they better be prepared for the consequences.

Spunkbubbles, the lot of them. The best part of them dribbled down their mothers thighs.

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People who know me know that I'm not a fan of Apple kit. In fact, I'm the exact opposite - I'm a kind of Mac-Hole. I hate the bloody things. I've a massive IMac sitting in the corner that I very rarely use except for testing compatibility with some of the web apps that I develop.

Well things are changing. I've just got an IPod Touch 2g as I needed it to test one of my applications that I'm writing. I needed to see if you could use one to update a system I'm writing for hospitals. A lot of the docs have IPhones and I didn't see the point of forking out for one of them when I could use an Ipod Touch for half the price.

It's blown me away. It's not technology - it's fucking witchcraft! The Shazam app, an app that can listen to a snippet of a song and then tell you what it is, is absolutley amazing. I've been playing it some really obscure stuff and it's spot-on all the time.

The interface, with it's multi-touch screen is a doddle to use. I love the "pinch grip" stuff you can do with it. I'm in love I tell you.

Of course, as soon as I got the thing I invalidated my warranty by Jail Breaking it so I can load whatever the hell I want to and aren't limited to what is provided via Apples App Store. Indeed, I can't understand why everyone who has an IPhone or a touch doesn't Jailbreak them. There's far more decent free apps that way.

The buzz in the tech world is that Apple is going to try and do what nobody has managed yet and produce a decent Tablet PC. The word is that this should be available this November. If it's anything like the IPod Touch it's going to be a winner. And I'll want one.

So there you have it. Me writing a favourable review about a Mac product. Who'd have thought it?

And there's a flying pig....

Cheers

Or, Google-Bomb for the win.

And a thanks to you all.

A search for Omnia Creative Consultancy or Omnia Creative brings Spimf's page up at number three.

So in 24 hours we've achieved our aim.

Now who said that Google didn't work that way?

In other news, a British journalist has taken up the cause and it looks like we're going to get some mainstream press in the near future.

Now to wait for the cries of anguish from Omnia.

Cheers

P.S. - If any other readers would like to add their own link I'll still be very grateful.

One of my mates, Spimf, got badly burned by a shower of twats in Dubai and I offered to help him get his own back.

The company in question is Omnia Creative Consultancy and I want to help them with some publicity.

So, what I'd like all of you to is to post an in-line link pointing to Spimf's blog post about them. Basically, I want you to use companies name as the text inside the link and the link to be:

ominousdubai.blogspot.com/2009/06/burned-in-dubai.html

Just like I did up above. If we get enough of us doing this then Google will rank Spimfs posting higher than the companies official web-site.

So any of you who can, please post the link onto Facebook, your blog, Myspace, your own websites if you have them. Anywhere and everywhere is the ticket.

Omnia Creative Consultancy claim to offer S.E.O services to their clients. Together, let's show them want Search Engine Optimisation really means.



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Happy Toast is a user on B3ta who never fails to amuse me. He's a fucking genius with the old Photoshop and video skills. But his latest effort has me pissing myself laughing.

A mad Bri called David Icke, for you 'Merkins, has been banging on about the Swine Flu vaccine being part of a huge conspiracy by the Elders of Zion, the Illumanatai and the New World Order. So he posted a video claiming that all vaccines are evil and are only there to fuck up your immune system and make you ill. Oh - and he thinks the Royal Family are Lizard Aliens.

His video is here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkiclMWy3Ns

but don't bother watching it. He really is as mad as a box of frogs.

And here's Happy Toast's version....Slightly NSFW.





To see more of Happy Toast's work you can visit his B3ta Profile:

http://b3ta.com/users/profile.php?id=46786

Or visit his blog:

http://happytoastsblog.blogspot.com/

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Me and the missus have outgrown our current flat so we're moving across town to Bulleen. We've rented a 3 bedroomed house near the Yarra Flats which will suit me as it means I can walk to the river for fishing whenever I want. Yay!

Now the bad news. I've got the bloody flu. Probably swine flu but I'm not going to bother going to the docs. No point. I'll just let it run it's course.


In other news, I've organised a piss-up for all the Melbournians I know from the net. So, if anyone who reads this blog wants to come along, drop me a line. It's on Friday the 3rd July at a pub called the Great Britain.

Cheers

Our embattled Prime Minister did himself no favours yesterday when he cocked up his D-Day speech.


Keyboard cat was not impressed.....

Thought I might as well jump on the bandwagon and create my own keyboard cat video.




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I'm not much of a gambler except for the bloody slot machine in the working-man's club which was on-site where I worked. (Weird story about why they had a club onsite - I'll explain one day).

Anyway, not much of a gambler but, over the last few days I've become addicted to Texas Hold' Em on Facebook and I found out a few things. I'm pretty good during the day or early evening. In a single day I managed to gamble my starting stake up to 480 000 dollars. (Don't panic. It's pretend money. I don't think I'd ever play for high stakes real money). But as soon as I've had a couple of glasses of wine I turn to complete shit. Went from 480 000 down to 19 000 in about an hour.

Back up to 70 000 now and have decided never to play if I'm drinking.

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Had fun couple of days learning all about streaming real-time video over the Net. It all came about as one of Mrs Legless's reaching places want to stream lectures to registrars in remote regions. As usual, they're dicking about getting quotes from all over the place - one's with lots and lots of zeros on them - and are getting nowhere fast. So I thought I'd give it a go.

Turns out you can do it for free using thus kit: http://www.umediaserver.net

So I downloaded the software and gave it a go. Works really, really well. So now I can stream audio and video from my desktop to anyone I like. Another nice feature is the ability to stream your desktop as video. Lovely for giving demonstrations.

I tested the stream this afternooon with Mrs Legless connecting from her house, across the Net, to my server. Worked a treat.

OF course the limiting factor is bandwidth. As the Interenet won't let you use multicast you're stuck with unicasting which means for each viewer you need a seperate stream. Unless you have a shitload of upstream bandwidth to play with you rapidly run out. I reckon only about 4 users over my 2meg upstream ADSL for full video. Streaming the desktop though means I could probably have about 10 - 15 users.


Been fun playing with it though. I'm bound to find a use for this sometime...

Cheers

Just posted this on the photobucket blog. The cunts have deleted my image of a pie with a sausage stuck in it because it, somehow, violates their terms and conditions. A pie. With a sausage stuck in it.

So I tried to find out a way of contacting them and ran into a brick wall. So I posted the stuff below onto their Blog. It was the only way I could find of gettiong a message to them.

Cheers

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Is this a joke?

Your support stinks. I mean really, really stinks.

Your so-called contact page has no way to email you or contact you - unless you want to buy something.

Your fucking forums are a joke, They don't fucking work - pretty much like your support.

I registered so I could ask why the fuck you'd deleted one of my images and everytime I try to open a thread I'm told that "I don't have permission!!' I also get this mnessage even if I try to edit my OWN FUCKING PROFILE!!!


OK. So that's the way you want to play. Well fuck you, and the horse you rode into town on.


I'll be writing up this experience on my blog and recommending that nobody uses this piss-poor excuse for a service. I'll also be downloading my images tomorrow and hosting them on my own fucking server. After that you can delete my account and shove your poxy system up your arse.

*Sigh* All I wanted to know was why you'd deleted one of my images. It was a picture of a pie. With a sausage stuck in it. Not even remotely obscene - unless you're a pie lover I suppose.

Fuck you.

Legless

A mate of mine is getting married and asked all of his mates to submit a recipe that would be bound and printed as a wedding memento. Excellent idea.

So I thought I'd submit a recipe invented by my old flatmate, Andy.

I give you....


The Amble Picnic.


The height of sophistication in Amble.

Ingredients.

Pie
Tin of pineapple rings
Sausage, deep fried.







Method.

Take your pie and shove the sausage into the middle of it so the sausage is poking skywards. Then, get someone who isn't from Amble, to open the tin of pineapples.
Note: If the chef is from Amble and attempts to open the tin themselves then make sure you have plenty of sticking plaster available.

Once you have the tin open, take out a single ring of pineapple and carefully place over the sausage.

Serve with 12 cans of wife-beater (men) or 2 bottles of Blue Nun (women).






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One Flu Over the Cuckoo's Nest.....

This latest outbreak of flu in Mexico is a bit concerning.

I first heard about it yesterday at about 10 pm. Then I set a Google Alert and had all of the emerging news stories emailed to me. Looks like this one could be a proper bastard.

The thing that bothers me about this flu is the way it kills people and, more importantly, the type of people it's killing. Normal, seasonal flu, tends to kill the very old and the very young. This one kills people who are in the prime of life. The age range 25 - 45. This is exactly the same demographic that the last great Pandemic Flu, the 1918 Spanish Flu, killed. And the reason is really nasty.

Recent research showed that way the Spanish Flu killed was to switch off a gene called RIG-1, a key component of the immune system, and this causes the immune system to run wild and attacks the body's own tissue. The immune system targets the cells in the lungs and, quite literally, destroys the lungs. Victims drown in their own blood. A gruesome way to die.

So the people most at risk of death (not infection - most people are vulnerable to catching this but most will recover) are the very fit and healthy, the people with robust immune systems.


Ironic, isn't it? If this flu goes pandemic we might end up with a world full of HIV positive people and wheezing asthmatics. Err, Puffs and No-Puff you might say....


Still. It'll probably come to nothing and will fizzle out in the next few weeks. But this report from a doctor in Mexico City suggests otherwise:

"I work as a resident doctor in one of the biggest hospitals in Mexico City and sadly, the situation is far from "under control". As a doctor, I realise that the media does not report the truth. Authorities distributed vaccines among all the medical personnel with no results, because two of my partners who worked in this hospital (interns) were killed by this new virus in less than six days even though they were vaccinated as all of us were. The official number of deaths is 20, nevertheless, the true number of victims are more than 200. I understand that we must avoid to panic, but telling the truth it might be better now to prevent and avoid more deaths.

Yeny Gregorio Dávila, Mexico City "


Enjoy your day.

Cheers

EDIT: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/queens/2009/04/25/2009-04-25_150_kids_sick_at_queens_school.html


Could be just hysteria but 150 kids reported sick at another school. If this turns out to be true, and it is the new flu, then this really could be the big one. We've be long overdue for a pandemic and this is shaping up to be a real killer.

The most incredibly display of sheer skill I've ever seen. Ever.

I'm just blown away by this guy. It's like the first time I saw parkour times 10 000.










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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8000447.stm


So the Yanks have racked up three points and a capture and now the cheese-eating-surrender-monkeys have captured another 11 to add to the bunch they offed the other week (mind - they did score an own goal and had the owner of the yacht die....). So, the question I want answered is when the bloody hell are we going to get on the score-board?


Think about it. This war against the pirates is tailor-made for us  Brits. The pirates have leaky speed-boats, hand-held GPS and are armed only with soft fruit (and the occasional AK47 and RPG). Whereas we have have mighty steel-clad ships, comabt drones, satellite imagery and helicopter gun-ships. - Oh - and guided missiles.   We can't lose. And if there's one thing we Brits all love is a good bloody war with someone we know we can beat hands-down. SO come on Gordan (you wall-eyed spastic porridge-wog) - cry Havoc and let loose the (sea) dogs of war!!


Before it gets really embarrassing and someone like the Italians score before we do.


Cheers