August 31, 2005 | |
Katrina Cripples Gulf Gambling Industry | |
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Hurricane Katrina picked up several Gulf Coast casinos and hurled them hundreds of yards inland, crippling the region's gambling industry for months and potentially even years.
At least three of the floating barge casinos in hard-hit Biloxi were tossed from their moorings by the storm's 25-foot wall of water, their barnacle-covered hulls coming to rest up to 200 yards from the shore. | |
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Priceless |
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August 23, 2005 | |
AYBABTU | |
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August 22, 2005 | |
Failure | |
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The Commentator |
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When a star footballer makes an winning play, he doesn't stop to explain it to the team beforehand. He makes the move. Scores the points. Gets on with the game. No time for talk.
Think about it for a moment: You are that star footballer. |
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August 12, 2005 | |
8 sexiest cars ever | |
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These are the ultimate hot wheels—masterpieces of engineering and design that inspire lust in all who see them…To drive one is to have your sex appeal skyrocket.
“When people talk about sexy cars, they use the same language they’d use to describe a sexy person,” says Rob Myers, co-founder of Ontario, Canada-based RM Auctions, a leading classic-car auction and restoration firm. “They talk about a car being ‘hot,’ about being ‘turned-on,’ about getting a ‘rush’ from driving it, about lines and proportions and curves in all the right places.” | |
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August 10, 2005 | |
Man dies after 50 hours of computer games | |
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A South Korean man who played computer games for 50 hours almost non-stop died of heart failure minutes after finishing his mammoth session in an Internet cafe, authorities said on Tuesday.
The 28-year-old man, identified only by his family name Lee, had been playing online battle simulation games at the cybercafe in the southeastern city of Taegu, police said. Lee had planted himself in front of a computer monitor to play online games on August 3. He only left the spot over the next three days to go to the toilet and take brief naps on a makeshift bed, they said. | |
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August 08, 2005 | |
The End of Work | |
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European politicians often like to blame outsourcing for the disappearance of jobs. But in reality the work isn't going to the Chinese -- it's going to the robots.
In Western Europe, thousands of jobs have been eliminated as companies move their production facilities abroad. In many cases, the jobs are only temporarily being relocated to the Czech Republic or Poland. But these debates conveniently avoid the real problem: jobs aren't just being outsourced to lower-wage nations -- they're being replaced by automation. During the final two installments of a series of conversations with Jeremy Rifkin, the author discusses the disappearance of mass labor and offers prescriptions for countering the phenomenon. | |
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August 05, 2005 | |
High cost of smoking | |
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If the threat of cancer can't convince you to quit smoking, maybe the prospect of poverty will.
The financial consequences of lighting up stretch far beyond the cost of a pack of cigarettes. Smokers pay more for insurance and lose money on the resale value of their cars and homes. They spend extra on dry cleaning and teeth cleaning. Long term, they earn less and receive less in pension and Social Security benefits. And now, being a smoker can not only mean you don't get hired -- you can get fired, too: Weyco Inc., a medical benefits administrator in Okemos, Mich., after announcing it would no longer employ smokers, fired four employees who refused to submit to a breath test. | |
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August 03, 2005 | |
Show 'em what'cha got babies!!! | |
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Windows 2005!!! |
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Caption This! |
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What's the other hand doing? |
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What is the dude lookin at?!?! |
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Silicone Smiles |
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Hold your hooters! |
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Flatscreen TV |
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A good reason to be a virgin... |
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A Ugandan member of parliament has pledged to reward girls for their chastity by paying their university fees if they are virgins when they leave school, a local newspaper said Wednesday.
Bbaale County MP Sulaiman Madada said any girl in his district who wanted to take part in the scheme aimed at promoting girls' education would be given a gynecological examination by health workers to check they were virgins. "The criterion is that a student must be a virgin and from Kayunga district," he told the state-owned New Vision. |
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Was Di bumped off because of baby? |
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Diana's lover Dodi Fayed's father, Mohamed Al Fayed is convinced that a new enquiry will prove that the Princess of Wales was murdered in the 1997 car crash in Paris, because she was pregnant with his son's child.
"I was very close to Diana and I know many things from her that show this was no accident. One thing that will be shown to be true when the inquest is held is that Diana was pregnant with my son's child. The security services are clearly very nervous about the positive findings the investigation is uncovering," Contactmusic quoting him as saying to The Daily Express. |
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Hendrix 'quit army with gay lie' |
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Jimi Hendrix pretended to be gay so he would be discharged from the army, according to claims in a biography that has used his military medical records.
The rock legend said he left the 101st Airborne Division aged 19 in 1962 after being injured on a parachute jump. But Room Full of Mirrors by Charles R Cross says army records show he was discharged for "homosexual tendencies". |
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Can't wait for Xmas |
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That's what webcams are for |
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Forget about using webcams for MSN or to make some footage of your little kid to show to your grandmother living far away. There's only one good use for webcams.
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Dirrty is sexiest video |
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Christina Aguilera has clinched the title of sexiest music video for Dirrty.
Call On Me by Eric Prydz - which features gratuitous shots of a women’s aerobics work-out - was beaten to the No1 spot by Christina, whose provocative video is set in a boxing ring. The Top 10 Sexiest Videos in full are: 1. Christina Aguilera -Dirrty 2. Eric Prydz - Call On Me 3. Benny Benassi - Satisfaction 4. NERD - Lapdance 5. tATu - All the Things She Said 6. Madonna - Justify My Love 7. Kylie Minogue - Spinning Around 8. Mariah Carey - Heartbreaker 9. Britney Spears - Toxic 10. Narcotic Thrust - I Like It |
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Hillary explains her teeth |
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Hillary Duff was on Jay Leno. But her veneers are so huge, she basically is unable to speak anymore. So she took to explaining what's up with her teeth via body expression.
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Hot Teacher! |
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August 02, 2005 | |
Prank fools US science conference | |
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A collection of computer-generated gibberish in the form of an academic paper has been accepted at a scientific conference, to the delight of hoaxers.
Three US boffins built a programme designed to create research papers with random text, charts and diagrams. Two bogus papers were submitted to a computing conference in Florida, and one of them was accepted. | |
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Why I Will Never Have A Girlfriend |
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This is a question that practically every male has asked himself at one point or another in his life. Unfortunately, there is rarely a hard and fast answer to the query. Many men try to reason their way through the dilemma nonetheless, often reaching a series of ridiculous explanations, each more self-deprecating than the last: "Is it because I'm too shy, and not aggressive enough? Is it my opening lines? Am I a boring person? Am I too fat or too thin? Or am I simply ugly and completely unattractive to women?" When all other plausible explanations have been discounted, most fall back on the time-honoured conclusion that "there must be Something Wrong™ with me" before resigning themselves to lives of perpetual chastity.
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August 01, 2005 | |
Real-life Quake!!! | |
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Big Brother Sex Tape |
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Rebekah and Henrik (Big Brother 2004 fame) sneak off to the bathroom for some late night lovin. Here's the full, 8-minute uncensored footage imported from across the pond.
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