Saturday, June 30, 2007

Hamas 'Mickey Mouse' 'Martyred'

Hamas Mickey Mouse

From BBC:

A Palestinian TV station has killed off a controversial Mickey Mouse lookalike [see the Youtube video below] that critics said was spreading anti-US and anti-Israeli messages to children.

The Hamas-affiliated al-Aqsa channel aired the last episode on Friday, showing the character, Farfur, being beaten to death by an "Israeli agent".

"Farfur was martyred defending his land," said the show's presenter Saraa.

Israeli critics had said the show was outrageous and some Palestinian ministers tried to get it shelved.

In the final broadcast an actor said to be an Israeli agent tries to buy the land of the squeaky-voiced Mickey Mouse lookalike.

Farfur brands the Israeli a "terrorist" and is beaten to death.

He was killed "by the killers of children", Saraa says.

Al-Aqsa television told the Associated Press news agency the show, Tomorrow's Pioneers, was making way for new programmes.

Pictures: The Moment of Fighter Aircraft Collision in Air

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Buy iPig, the USD299 Piglet With Speakers and iPod

st paul saints iPig

Er..., iPhone has some competition with the iPig:

With all the hype surrounding the new Apple iPhone, the St. Paul Saints[known for its four-legged swine mascot] decided to have their own one-of-a-kind technological wonder: the iPig.

Thursday the team debuted the iPig, a little pot belly pig with speakers and an iPod strapped to the side of it.

The little guy was unveiled at the game in St. Paul.

The iPig only costs half of what the iPhone costs at $299. The iPhone goes on sale Friday at 6 p.m. for $499 to $599.

Source: CBS via Uniquedaily

Mike Smith, The Human Cannonball

Mike Smith, The Human Cannonball flying on the Royal Norfolk Show

At the Royal Norfolk Show in Norwich, the daredevil Mike Smith, performed an originally-thought impossible art of flying by being blasted out of the smoking cannon (Of course, he needed to wear the special jumpsuit and safety helmet)! The whole spectacular trajectory from ascending to landing 50 yards away on a giant safety net was perfectly recorded by the photographer Bill Smith using his high-speed professional Nikon camera.

Scroll down for three more photos.Mike Smith, The Human Cannonball flying on the Royal Norfolk Show Mike Smith, The Human Cannonball flying on the Royal Norfolk ShowMike Smith, The Human Cannonball flying on the Royal Norfolk Show Source: Dailymail

Website Operating System and Server of 2008 Presidential Candidates of United States

2008 Presidential Candidates of United States
  • Joe Biden (Democrat) - Linux, Zope by Interlix
  • Hillary Clinton (Democrat) - Windows Server 2003, Microsoft-IIS/6.0 by Paul Holcomb
  • Christopher Dodd (Democrat) - FreeBSD, Apache by pair Networks
  • John Edwards (Democrat) - Linux, Apache by Plus Three
  • Mike Gravel (Democrat) - Linux, Apache by Voxel Dot Net, Inc.
  • Dennis Kucinich (Democrat) - Linux, Apache by New Age Consulting
  • Barack Obama (Democrat) - FreeBSD, Apache by pair Networks
  • Bill Richardson (Democrat) - Linux, Zope by Interlix
  • Wesley Clark (Democrat) - Linux, Apache by Voxel Dot Net, Inc.
  • Al Gore (Democrat) - Linux, Apache by Rackspace
  • Sam Brownback (Republican) - Windows Server 2003, Microsoft-IIS/6.0 by RackForce Hosting, Inc.
  • Jim Gilmore (Republican) - Linux, Apache by 1&1 Internet, Inc.
  • Rudy Giuliani (Republican) - Linux, Apache by RackSpace
  • Mike Huckabee (Republican) - Windows Server 2003, Microsoft-IIS/6.0 by LNH Inc.
  • Duncun Hunter (Republican) - Windows Server 2003, Microsoft-IIS/6.0 by Individual
  • John McCain (Republican) - Windows Server 2003, Microsoft-IIS/6.0 by Smartech Corporation
  • Ron Paul (Republican) - Linux, Apache by Rackspace
  • Mitt Romney (Republican) - Linux, Apache by Rackspace
  • Tom Tancredo (Republican) - Windows Server 2003, Microsoft-IIS/6.0 by Interland 
  • Fred Thompson (Republican) - Windows Server 2003, Microsoft-IIS/6.0 by LNH Inc.
  • Tommy Thompson (Republican) - Windows Server 2003, Microsoft-IIS/6.0 by Time Warner Telecom, Inc.
  • Chuck Hagel (Republican) - Windows Server 2003, Microsoft-IIS/6.0 by Individual
  • Newt Gingrich (Republican) - Windows Server 2003, Microsoft-IIS/6.0 by Smartech Corporation
Source: Technobusiness

Video: Chinese Cyclist Was Crushed by Bus But Miraculously Survived

The traffic accident happened in Zhejiang Province June 7. Link

World Youngest Car Racer Stephanie Beane Is Only 10 Years Old

World Youngest Stock Car Racer Stephanie BeaneStephanie Beane, an ten-year-old girl from Eaton Town of Ohio, was officially recognised by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's youngest stock car racer on June 29. That day she drove a stock car on the track of the Sandusky Speedway Motor-Sports Park and roared around the track at speeds of about 60 mph to become the youngest stock car racer ever, beating a previous record set by 12-year-old Amanda Stroud, who competed in North Carolina during the 2001 racing season.

Scroll down for one more photo World Youngest Stock Car Racer Stephanie Beane

Source: Newhouse

First European Human Tooth Unearthed in Spain

Million-year-old european human toothScientists excavating in the Atapuerca Sierra site in the northern Spanish province of Burgos discovered the oldest European human fossil which turned out to be a million-year-old human tooth. The finding confirmed the mankind's presence in Europe started over more than 1 million years ago.

The fossil, which was the remains of an ancestor of Homo antecessor and gives a new perspective to human history, was found in the entry to Sima del Elefante, a pleistocene deposit that was the last to be systematically excavated in Atapuerca.

Source: Xinhua

Friday, June 29, 2007

Drunken Man Vomits His Head Off

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A scary story of  driving under influence happened in Beijing, China!

A running truck killed a drunk man by almost beheading him when he was vomiting out of a car window shortly after midnight last Friday in Beijing, the Beijing Times reported today.

The victim, surnamed Liao, and his friend Tan Tuanyuan were returning home after a night's drinking, the report said.

Tan, who was also drunk, drove his car to take Liao to his home in Shijingshan District. When they reached Badachu Road, Liao said he wanted to vomit and, according to Tan, "stretched his head out of the window,'' Tan then began pulling over but the car collided with a truck. Half of Liao's head was smashed by the impact with the truck, the report said.

The truck driver immediately called the police, but when police reached the scene, the car was not there. The police found only some of Liao's body tissue on the truck.
Around 3am, Tan surrendered to the traffic authority, the report said.

"I didn't know what happened at that time. (After the collision,) I was holding his hand, talking to him on the way to hospital," Tan said.

But Tan was so drunk that he drove the car in the wrong direction and did not stop until he rammed his car into a balustrade beside a railway line.

Source: Sh'aidaily

Ten English Guide books for Apple's iPhone on Amazon

Guide book for Apple's iPhone  

iPhone, The Missing Manual, by David Pogue

Guide book for Apple's iPhone

iPhone For Dummies by Edward C. Baig and Bob LeVitus

Guide book for Apple's iPhone

The Rough Guide to the iPhone by Rogh Guides

Guide book for Apple's iPhone

The iPhone Pocket Guide by Christopher Breen

Guide book for Apple's iPhone

Apple Training Series: iPhone Quick-Reference Guide by Peachpit Press

Guide book for Apple's iPhone

How to Do Everything with Your iPhone by Jason Chen, Adam Pash

 

Guide book for Apple's iPhone

The Pocket Idiot's Guide to the iPhone by Damon Brown

Guide book for Apple's iPhone

iPhone VISUAL Quick Tips by Kate Shoup

The two below have no image available yet.

iPhone Fully Loaded by Andy Ihnatko

Taking Your iPhone to the Max by Erica Sadun 

Compiled by Russell Shaw of ZDNet

Atmosphere of Jupiter Undergoing Dramatic Changes

Jupiter undergoing dramatic atmospheric changes

From the website:

Massive Jupiter is undergoing dramatic atmospheric changes that have never been seen before with the keen "eye" of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Jupiter is changing its stripes, perhaps because its seasons are changing, scientists reported on June 28, 2007. Between March 25 and June 5, 2007, Hubble's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 captured entire bands of clouds changing color. The image at left shows a thin band of white clouds above Jupiter's equator. The white color indicates clouds at higher altitudes in Jupiter's atmosphere. In the image at right, the band's white hue has turned brown, showing clouds deep within the planet's atmosphere. The whole band appears to have merged with the one below it.

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Video: First Look at Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

The video provided by The Insider includes the first look at the occlumency scene between Harry and Snape, in addition to other clips and interviews with Daniel Radcliffe. Source: Youtube

Tattooed Parrot Fish

tattooed parrot fishThose tattooed parrot fish were spotted in an aquarium shop in Suzhou, China. The flowers were tattooed on the squamas of those fish using lasers instead of chemical agents. The "make-over" is said to pose no harm to the fish and the tattoo will not vanish as long as the squamas are on the fish. Even though the price of those parrot fish with the beautiful appearance have increased times, they have attracted many consumers to the store. tattooed parrot fishSource: CRI

Video: Delta Flight 6499, Delayed SEVEN HOURS on the Tarmac

Lobstertexas uploaded the video to Youtube and introduced:

Delta Flight 6499 JFK to DFW on June 25 2007 experienced more than just a routine delay.. for seven hours, four children screamed, and we were told by crew that they couldn't feed us because Delta simply wouldn't allow it.

Have to admit, it's really a terrible experience, whoever on the plane.

Piglet's Dog Mother

piglet's dog mother From Website:
A dog feeds a piglet in Shenyang, northeast China's Liaoning province June 29, 2007. The piglet has been fed by the dog for some 40 days since its mother died soon after giving birth. The dog started feeding the piglet after encouragement by the farmer who placed the piglet with the dog in the doghouse, local media reported.
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Noelia's Stepfather Topy Mamery Leaked Her Sex Video

<blockquote>Shocked!

Poor Noelia. It’s bad enough her explicit sex tape got out, but then it turns out it was her very own stepfather who leaked it! The singer, and daughter of Yolandita Monge, accused her stepfather Topy Mamery addressing him specifically:

“Topy Mamery: Sólo tú, mi mamá [Yolandita Monge] y Dios, saben que digo la verdad y la justicia tiene que llegar. Haber robado trozos de mi intimidad para tratar de callarme y aniquilarme, es algo despreciable y bajo. A mi madre sólo le deseo que busque a Dios.”

“Topy Mamery: Only you, my mother [Yolandita Monge], and God know that I say the truth and justice must be served. To have robbed pieces of my privacy to try and silent and annihilate me, is something despicable and low. I only wish that my mother searches for God.”

Source: Lossip

Prince Charles Buys Dumfries House--a Scottish palace for £45M

The palace was bought by Prince Charles for the U.K. people, not as what I think he would buy it for his wife Camila, the Duchess of Cornwall.

Scroll down for those possible finest collections of furniture of Dumfries House in the world.

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No Matter Zonkey or Deerba, It's Offspring of Zebra Mother and Donkey Father

zonkey or deebraAnother interesting story after we had an atypical zebra-horse hybrid--Eclyse. From MSNBC

ST. THOMAS, Barbados - It's male.  But what is it?  A zonkey? A deebra?  That's the debate in Barbados since a zebra gave birth to a foal sired by a donkey.

Alex was born April 21, a milk-chocolate brown creature with the black stripes of a zebra on his ears and legs.  His face looks more like a horse, with a distinctive black "V" patch on the forehead.

While zebra hybrids are not uncommon, most Barbadians have never seen anything like [Zedonk] Alex.

His mother, Allison, is one of two zebras brought to the Caribbean island from Botswana, in southern Africa, in the early 1990s.  The other is George and both live at Highland, a six-acre ranch where goats, sheep, ducks and donkeys roam free.

George, however, suffered a long illness, and Allison became friendly with a donkey....

via Neatorama

MP3 Dining Table Sold at 148,000 Yuan

MP3 Dining TableA MP3 dining table with a price tag of 149,000 Yuan (~US$19500) was seen at the 5th Guangzhou International Hospitality Equipments & Supplies Fair (HOSFAIR) China. With a capacity of accommodate 25 people to dine at a time, the table was usually sold to the luxurious hotels. From Sharing News 

A sky-high priced dining table displayed by a company from Foshan was the most uniquely design product in the exhibition. The total surface area of the two layered table is 25 square meters. The lower layer is a classically luxurious hardwood carving of dragon and phoenix intervals. The upper layer is equipped with an auto-rotator where automated thermal sensitive electric steamboat spaced out in short distances so that dishes can be placed around the steamboats. There is a mini garden at the center of the table with a few tiny musical fountains. The fountains are able to dance rhythmatically along with a built-in MP3 player inside the table.

See also MP3 Loo. Link

Thursday, June 28, 2007

Wedding Photos of World Tallest Man Bao Xi-shun

tallest man Bao Xishun's wedding photoThe photos were taken in the middle of this month. Wanna know a bit about Bao Xi-shun and his wife Xia Shu-juan? Ok, you can visit the post featuring  Xi-shun's wedding gown.
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Video: John Stamos Talking Bar Story in Australia TV Interview

Ou, just because of this video surfaced on Youtube, I only got to know who is John (Philip) Stamos:

John Stamos [a Greek-Ireland descent] is an Emmy-nominated American actor. He is best known for his role as the character of Jesse Katsopolis on the TV show Full House, and currently the role of Tony Gates on the TV series ER.

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Video: Apple Teaches How to Use the iPhone Qwerty Touch Keyboard

apple iphone qwerty touch keyboard A lot of nice stuffs about iPhone were posted here, but no one was about iPhone's QWERTY Touch Keyboard, now it comes.
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New World Heritage Sites

New World Heritage site--Guangdong DiaolouOn the 31st World Heritage Committee meeting, UNESCO adds numerous new sites of cultural significance to its World Heritage list.  Among them, China's Diaolou villages in Kaiping were enlisted. The villages feature 1,800 fortified tower houses. They were built as a response to banditry in the late 19th and early 20th Century. As a patriotic Chinese, I am proud of it.

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