Month: August 2006

(Witty Headline About A Man With Two Penises Would Go Here)

I’m at a total loss (I’m stupidly tired) for a sarcastic headline for this oddball news.

NEW DELHI: It is a problem of plenty. But definitely not a happy one. Sanjay (name changed), a small-time businessman from a UP town was recently admitted to a private hospital in the city with a unique problem – he has two fully functional male organs, a condition medically known as penile duplication or diphallus.

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Says a doctor in the hospital, “It is an extremely rare condition. More so because two fully functional penes is unheard of in even medical literature. In the more common form of diphallus, one organ is rudimentary.”

So one it not there just for show: This guy has two totally functional organs.

So while size may not matter, does quantity?

Headlines submissions are welcome. Comment below.

August 22, 2006

“Like Cookie Monster with a head cold.”

You know Bob Dylan is past his prime when he’s being compared to a plugged-up Sesame Street character.

Thanks Barney for the link.

August 22, 2006

Clean Up at Bend Blogs

The hourly updates over on Bend Blogs should go quite a bit faster now. I just finished putting 40 blogs into the “deprecated” status, meaning they won’t get listed in the feeds list and they won’t be checked for updates. Their archived data still exists on the site (yes, Bend Blogs does archive your data whenever it can — see Utterly Boring’s archive), so permalinks will still work. The blogs I deprecated were in one of the following categories

  • They haven’t been updated in more than 12 months.
  • The blog no longer exists.
  • The blogger has long since left Central Oregon (yes, Dane, you’ve been deprecated — get back to Bend and I’ll consider putting you back on there).
  • Or the blog was made private or “friends only” in LiveJournal or MySpace.

I’ll periodically check the blogs that I’ve deprecated to see if they reappear, and if they do, I’ll begin reindexing them again.

The one last thing I did was remove ” – MySpace Blog” from the 55 MySpace blogs’ titles, as it just seemed silly to have that as part of the title of the blog.

But we’re now at 210 blogs that have been updated in the last 12 months, and if anybody knows of any others that should be there, I’d love to hear it!

August 22, 2006

Weird Crime For The Day

I know pick-pockets have been known to do some odd things to distract people while they’ve taken their wallets, but throwing feces at them and then cleaning them up is a new one to me.

August 21, 2006

Remixed Classical Music

As a musician whose heard Canon in D played on dang near every instrument known to man, I appreciate it when somebody decides to mix it up and play it on electric guitar with a heavy-metal back beat. Watch below…

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August 21, 2006

Life Was Hard Before Computers

Can you imagine playing Tetris?

More at this Fark Photoshop Contest.

August 21, 2006

Another “Bend Is Going In The Toilet” Story in The News

This would probably be something more appropriate for Bubble Boy, but I didn’t have his email address (comment here with your email address — nobody will see it but you and me). But OPB has a series on their site about affordable housing, ton of jobs and lack of employes, and the promise of Juniper Ridge. Interesting series, but not really news to locals. Affordable housing is going by the wayside (the city council certainly isn’t helping things), especially now that many of the area’s mobile home parks are closing down. The job postings in Central Oregon are generally full of two kinds of jobs: entry-level monkey jobs that pay minimum wage, or upper level jobs that don’t pay nearly what they’re worth. And I personally don’t know enough about Juniper Ridge to make an educated opinion about it.

I’m actually not going to allow comments on this entry, instead requesting that you post in the thread over at Bend Forums about this, just so I can get some discussion going over there (and I think it’ll be far easier for people to get their point across, as the forum software there is far faster than my comment system here).

Thanks Kina for the tip.

August 20, 2006

Stupidest Bike Ever? (Now With Video!)

What is the point of a bike that you walk to move? Look at this thing, for crying out loud:

Wouldn’t it be easier (and just as good for you) to walk instead of “riding” the bike?

Link via American Inventor Spot

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August 20, 2006

Network News Themes

Being a musician and a media geek makes me appreciate this page full of network news themes. Thanks Barney for the link.

August 20, 2006

Chuck Norris Ain’t Got Nothing on Bruce Schneier

You’ve probably all seen the Chuck Norris random fact generator. While hilarious, I think the random facts about encryption-guru Bruce Schneier are just as scary as a round-house kick to the head from Chuck. Granted, you have to be a geek to appreciate stuff like this:

Bruce Schneier once broke AES using nothing but six feet of rusty barbed wire, a toothpick, and the front axle from a 1962 Ford Falcon.

August 20, 2006