Jul. 1st, 2005
Parliament Hill.
Jul. 1st, 2005 10:55 am
If you watch this all day, you'll see most of the events. Shortly after 10PM EST, there will be fireworks visible over and behind the building.
This updates every 5 minutes.
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Dutch woman celebrates 115th birthday (that's not her picture, above)
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Man being sentenced for cocaine possession refuses to give a DNA sample to the state, on the grounds that they might clone him.
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Movie company needs to digitally shrink Mr Fantastic's penis so it won't scare the audience.
Baby albino cobras are so CUTE.
Jul. 1st, 2005 11:53 am
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Tornado formation, caught on video.
VIolent weather continues, as lighting strikes Kansas girl's bed, while she is asleep in it.
More weather: Lightning strikes the National Weather Service
Finally, remember this guy?
He's selling his robot on eBay.
Entertainment news!
Jul. 1st, 2005 12:15 pmNew German theme park for men lets men drive cranes, bulldozers, and other earth-moving and construction equipment
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NASCAR fans in Daytona Beach are faking handicaps and forging signs to get good parking spots.
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A study of women in video games.
Finally, in the spirit of ruining fun, modern parking meters have some nasty new features.
In Pacific Grove, Calif., parking meters know when a car pulls out of the spot and quickly reset to zero -- eliminating drivers' little joy of parking for free on someone else's quarters. In Montreal, when cars stay past their time limit, meters send real-time alerts to an enforcement officer's hand-held device, reducing the number of people needed to monitor parking spaces -- not to mention drivers' chances of getting away with violations. Meanwhile, in Aspen, Colo., wireless "in-car" meters may eliminate the need for curbside parking meters altogether: They dangle from the rear-view mirror inside the car, ticking off prepaid time.
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NASCAR fans in Daytona Beach are faking handicaps and forging signs to get good parking spots.
Also:
A study of women in video games.
Finally, in the spirit of ruining fun, modern parking meters have some nasty new features.
In Pacific Grove, Calif., parking meters know when a car pulls out of the spot and quickly reset to zero -- eliminating drivers' little joy of parking for free on someone else's quarters. In Montreal, when cars stay past their time limit, meters send real-time alerts to an enforcement officer's hand-held device, reducing the number of people needed to monitor parking spaces -- not to mention drivers' chances of getting away with violations. Meanwhile, in Aspen, Colo., wireless "in-car" meters may eliminate the need for curbside parking meters altogether: They dangle from the rear-view mirror inside the car, ticking off prepaid time.
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Jul. 1st, 2005 12:57 pm
Few names in history are as recognizable. Fewer yet evoke such vivid images: swirling fog and ladies of the night with death personified in a cape with a bowler hat. The faceless villian comes alive with Mezco Toyz' 10-inch Jack the Ripper roto-cast figure. Jack is fully articulated and comes complete with removable hat and fabric trenchcoat, 4 assorted knives, cleaver, handsaw, needle, uterus and medical bag that opens to store them all. To make it even more interesting, Jack is available in 2 versions: serious face sculpt and wearing a top hat, or grinning and wearing a bowler hat.
American political news, collected!
Jul. 1st, 2005 01:07 pm
Seattle Times on the New McCarthyism.
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Bush set up domestic spy service under John "Death Squad" Negroponte, aimed at making sure that Americans with bad opinions aren't sooper sekrit terrorists.
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Staff at the Lincoln Memorial are revising the video shown there, to remove footage of pro-abortion marches, Martin Luther King's "I Have A Dream" speech, pro-gay-rights marches, anything involving Bill Clinton, and other "Un-American" activies, and to edit it to replace them with pro-gun rallies, pro-Iraq War rallies, and the March For Jesus.
Finally,
How To Emigrate To A Civilised Country.
Warning: You may be required to learn to speak proper English, or French.
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Jul. 1st, 2005 02:26 pmDigging through my own archive, this one still pisses me off.
ELEVEN THOUSAND YEARS on the Shining Mountain, gone.
ELEVEN THOUSAND YEARS on the Shining Mountain, gone.
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Jul. 1st, 2005 04:29 pmSurely, locusts are at hand. Surely, a rain of fire and death shall smite both countries from above, any minute now. Go outside right now and watch. You should be able to see at least some of Canada go down. It should be quite the spectacle, all bloodshed and screaming and shards of exploded hockey sticks flying through the air like toothpicks. Bring an umbrella.
Already, Spanish and Canadian religious zealots and conservative hatemongers are wringing their hands and scowling heavily and heading for the gay-free bomb shelters, well stocked as they are with Bibles and potatoes and canned corn and secret stashes of German fetish porn and Spanish tapas and Canadian bacon and joylessness.
Already, the vast majority of Canadian and Spanish children are crying, trembling, sensing something is amiss, aware that the precious balance has been altered, their potential fates as imminent homophobes and conservative ideologues being thrown into question. I mean, what will they become? Who will teach them to hate gays and loathe anyone who is different and where will they learn to be all sexually uptight and sanctimonious and misguided? Oh, right. America.
This, after all, is the biggest question of all, the one thrown up like a mantra every time a large cultural question of sex and gender pops up: Who -- pray, who -- will save the children?
Children are going to be horribly affected by legal gay marriage, somehow. This is what the ideologues wail. Children are going to be psychologically damaged and morally mauled and sexually preyed upon by those deviant homos with their crazy beliefs and bizarre sexual practices and their whips and chains and weird paraphernalia and gay agitprop literature and creepy homosexual hand puppets.
This is what they sincerely believe, even though no one, not any Canadian, Spaniard or church leader, nor any homophobic U.S. senator, can exactly say how kids will be harmed. Just, of course, that they will.
Already, Spanish and Canadian religious zealots and conservative hatemongers are wringing their hands and scowling heavily and heading for the gay-free bomb shelters, well stocked as they are with Bibles and potatoes and canned corn and secret stashes of German fetish porn and Spanish tapas and Canadian bacon and joylessness.
Already, the vast majority of Canadian and Spanish children are crying, trembling, sensing something is amiss, aware that the precious balance has been altered, their potential fates as imminent homophobes and conservative ideologues being thrown into question. I mean, what will they become? Who will teach them to hate gays and loathe anyone who is different and where will they learn to be all sexually uptight and sanctimonious and misguided? Oh, right. America.
This, after all, is the biggest question of all, the one thrown up like a mantra every time a large cultural question of sex and gender pops up: Who -- pray, who -- will save the children?
Children are going to be horribly affected by legal gay marriage, somehow. This is what the ideologues wail. Children are going to be psychologically damaged and morally mauled and sexually preyed upon by those deviant homos with their crazy beliefs and bizarre sexual practices and their whips and chains and weird paraphernalia and gay agitprop literature and creepy homosexual hand puppets.
This is what they sincerely believe, even though no one, not any Canadian, Spaniard or church leader, nor any homophobic U.S. senator, can exactly say how kids will be harmed. Just, of course, that they will.
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Jul. 1st, 2005 04:46 pmIranian immigrant family in Toronto beaten severely and their place of work destroyed - by 7 members of the Toronto PD. This happened because they run a bar in the middle of the annual Gay Pride celebrations. When the writer fell into shock and called an ambulance the next day, members of those officers' division obstructed response so that no ambulance was sent for a full seven and a half hours.
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Jul. 1st, 2005 04:46 pm
"Ahh, monkeys. That seductive smirk, that smouldering look back, that metal pole up your ass - is there anything you won't do to entertain me?"
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Jul. 1st, 2005 06:00 pm14-year-old runs in front of a car. Man swerves to avoid her, grabs her by the arm, and lectures her about looking both ways before running out into the street because she scared the hell out of him and he nearly killed her.
Now he's been convicted of "unlawful restraint of a minor" and must register as a sex offender.
"This is the most stupid ruling the appellate court has rendered in years," said Barnaby's Chicago attorney, Frederick Cohn. "If you see a 15-year-old beating up your 8-year-old and you grab that kid's hand and are found guilty of unlawful restraint, do you now have to register as a sex offender?"
But Cook County state's attorney spokesman Tom Stanton said Barnaby should have to register "because of the proclivity of offenders who restrain children to also commit sex acts or other crimes against them."
In the criminal case against him, Cook County Judge Patrick Morse said that "it's more likely than not" Barnaby planned only "to chastise the girl" when he grabbed her, but "I can't read his mind."
"I don't really see the purpose of registration in this case. I really don't," Morse said
Now he's been convicted of "unlawful restraint of a minor" and must register as a sex offender.
"This is the most stupid ruling the appellate court has rendered in years," said Barnaby's Chicago attorney, Frederick Cohn. "If you see a 15-year-old beating up your 8-year-old and you grab that kid's hand and are found guilty of unlawful restraint, do you now have to register as a sex offender?"
But Cook County state's attorney spokesman Tom Stanton said Barnaby should have to register "because of the proclivity of offenders who restrain children to also commit sex acts or other crimes against them."
In the criminal case against him, Cook County Judge Patrick Morse said that "it's more likely than not" Barnaby planned only "to chastise the girl" when he grabbed her, but "I can't read his mind."
"I don't really see the purpose of registration in this case. I really don't," Morse said