Month: February 2005
How To Destroy The Earth
Just bookmarking this site here, just in case I ever need it. Really.
Quote For The Day
“Most people would expect a huge bill to create an S&M dungeon, but you’d be amazed just how cheap it is.” Full Story.
Defend Yourself
We’ve all seen the “surveillance” video where the guy goes nuts and throws his computer across the room after beating the living tar out of it. What would happen if the computer fought back? Probably this. Thanks Simone for the link.
Your Garage Door Opener Might Go Dead
Apparently the radio frequency used by garage door openers is owned by the U.S. Military and always has been. The Military has long allowed garage door opener manufacturers to use it without problems, but the FCC says the Military may be taking the frequency back. Full Story with link to FCC letter. Thanks Greg for the link.
I’ll Take A Steak, and A Blindfold
Technically, this isn’t a health code violation as long as the participants all bring towels. But I know I’d be a little disgusted by it.
NEW YORK (Reuters) — The diners arrived at a nice Manhattan restaurant on a cold February night and stripped off coats, hats, gloves and scarves. They didn’t stop there.
Skirts, shirts, pants, underwear and stockings all ended up stashed in plastic bags by the bar as the patrons got naked for the monthly “Clothing Optional Dinner.
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Health regulations mean staff must remain clothed even if they wanted to join in. And diners must bring something to sit on — a towel or, for discerning women, an elegant silk scarf.
Full Story. Thanks Cheryl for the link.
A Gorilla With A Nipple Fetish
This is a strange, strange world we live in.
Two former employees of the Gorilla Foundation, home to Koko the “talking” ape, have filed a lawsuit contending that they were ordered to bond with the 33-year-old female simian by displaying their breasts.
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The suit, in any case, says that Patterson would interpret hand movements by Koko as a demand to see exposed human nipples. She warned Alperin and Keller that their employment with the foundation would suffer, the suit says, if they “did not indulge Koko’s nipple fetish.”