An artist from Montreal, Canada, plans to build and launch a giant 300metre long Banana into space, the project that is called the Geostationary Banana over Texas, and the goal is to float the Helium filled Banana over Texas for just one month. So why would anyone want to float a giant banana in space? The 'goal' of the project is to promote contemporary art, but wouldn't the money be better spent on helping the homeless or building something that would last a bit longer?
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In a rush to buy a stamp? Tape the right amount of postage to the front of it and the US postal service will deliver it anyway. They didn't bother stamping it either, so it doesn't cost you anything.
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I checked my server logs last night, just to see if there was anything interesting. I use two different domains, one for my blog and one for images I use on forums and the like, so the logs for mi6.nu, my images domain are like a breadcrumb trail of my last month's browsing. I was pretty surprised to see a few URLs I'd never heard of as the referrers. A finnish site about Lordi was one and MySpace.com was the other. I hate MySpace, and there's no way I'd have wasted my bandwidth hosting pictures for it. The images being linked was Contemplating Existence, a wallpaper I made last year. Some Idiot was using the image as his background. It's great that he liked my wallpaper but firstly it's my property, he can't use it without my permission, and secondly, it's over 200KB, and was loaded 350 times in December. That's 65MB of bandwidth I've paid for!
I decided to teach the leech a lesson using .htaccess (info in read more), which lets you serve up a different image for specified referrers. Inspired by a recent blog post I'd read, I thought the Goatse pic would be a good choice. For anyone that doesn't know, Goatse was a site available at the turn of the millenium which scarred millions of impressionable AOL kiddies. Now whenever someone from an external site tries to use one of those images, they'll get a nice surprise. Let that be a lesson to anyone else who's thinking of leeching my bandwidth!
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Lordi, the Finnish monsters who won Eurovision have released their own brand of cola.
“The Lordi phenomenon has brought the whole nation together”, said Ritva Sinisalo, of the beer company which makes the drink.
The lead singer, Mr Lordi designed the label featuring the five members of the band in their monster costumes. Lordi kick off their Bringing Back the Balls to Europe tour in Stockholm on 16 September, and play five UK dates in October.
Source: BBC
Urinals shaped like an opera singer's mouth have been removed from an operahouse in Vienna.
The urinals included a set of lips, teeth and a bright red tongue, but a spokeswoman for the Vienna Department of Womens' Affairs said they were “tasteless and offensive”.
The owner of the operahouse, Neuhard Gerhard said he found it odd that the urinals, which had been in use for three years had only become an issue in the run-up to Austria's national elections.
Source: WGAL
A British motorist who blew up a road safety camera which had caught him speeding was jailed for four months Wednesday, Greater Manchester Police said. Craig Moore, 28, took his revenge on the camera, which had flashed him in the Hyde area of Manchester, in August 2005.
Although the camera itself was badly damaged, images of him speeding and returning to destroy the evidence were stored in recording equipment in its unscathed base. While Moore's attack on a camera was not Britain's first, it may rate as the most extreme. Other aggrieved drivers have previously used axes or paint.
“Speed camera vandalism is reaching epidemic proportions, and the only solution is to scrap cameras,” said Paul Smith, founder of Safe Speed campaign group which lobbies against the distinctive bright yellow devices. “Apart from their total failure to deliver improved road safety, they push good people outside of the law every day of the week.”
Cameras are waste of time, they don't help to reduce accidents because once you get a ticket, you go out and buy a camera detector so they never catch you twice.
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Matt Lucas and David Walliams have announced they plan to release a Little Britain. “We've had some sort of interest from America,” Walliams told ITV1 chat show host Michael Parkinson.
The comedy duo have signed a deal with Pop Idol producer Simon Fuller to develop a US version of Little Britain for the American cable network HBO. They'll probably do away with Emily and Florence, since transvestism is normally unique to the British sense of humour. Hopefully, the film will improve on series three instead of just copying it.
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A life-size replica of a Guantanamo Bay detainee has been placed in Disneyland by “guerrilla artist” Banksy.
The hooded figure was placed inside the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad ride at the California theme park last weekend. It is understood to have remained in place for 90 minutes before the ride was closed down and the figure removed.
A spokeswoman for Banksy said the stunt was intended to highlight the plight of terror suspects at the controversial detention centre in Cuba.
Source: BBC News
The trailer for Borat’s latest movie, released 3rd November 2006 is available on Apple’s website.
Dzienkuje!
Watch Trailer [Via: Philliponderings]
