I got a LumberJack!!

All together now!



I'm a lumberjack, and I'm okay.
I sleep all night and I work all day.

MOUNTIES:
He's a lumberjack, and he's okay.
He sleeps all night and he works all day.

BARBER:
I cut down trees. I eat my lunch.
I go to the lavatory.
On Wednesdays I go shoppin'
And have buttered scones for tea.

MOUNTIES:
He cuts down trees. He eats his lunch.
He goes to the lavatory.
On Wednesdays he goes shopping
And has buttered scones for tea.

He's a lumberjack, and he's okay.
He sleeps all night and he works all day.

BARBER:
I cut down trees. I skip and jump.
I like to press wild flowers.
I put on women's clothing
And hang around in bars.

MOUNTIES:
He cuts down trees. He skips and jumps.
He likes to press wild flowers.
He puts on women's clothing
And hangs around in bars?!

He's a lumberjack, and he's okay.
He sleeps all night and he works all day.

BARBER:
I cut down trees. I wear high heels,
Suspendies, and a bra.
I wish I'd been a girlie,
Just like my dear Papa.

MOUNTIES:
He cuts down trees. He wears high heels,
Suspendies, and a bra?!


What's this? Wants to be a girlie?! Oh, My!
And I thought you were so rugged! Poofter!...


He's a lumberjack, and he's okay.
He sleeps all night and he works all day.

He's a lumberjack, and he's okaaaaay.
He sleeps all night and he works all day.

Asherons Call 2, the online MMO is bring shut off soon as it never took off enough to break even. Good quick read here
http://wired.co...tory_page_prev2

Those who still linger are trying to collect memories in any way they can. A newly popular pastime is to take nostalgic photographs. "A lot of folks have gone back to take screenshots of points of memory -- places where 'firsts' took place, like the first time to solo a difficult mob, that kind of thing," Ripley said. Maybe one day 30 years from now, they'll pull them out of a virtual shoebox to show their grandkids. You can't go home again.

Havent checked it out much yet, but thought it worth mentioning;

http://www.newnova.org/list_news.html

are starting where suprnova left off, as you'll see by the design.

You know how sometimes you just stumble across a great site and know immediately it's going onto your "to be checked out daily" list, well this is my latest.

http://digg.com/

Basically a user created news site full of news you would actually want to read, not the dumbed down mass media poop!

Check out http://www.blif...o/lies_eyes.php

tells you how to tell is people are lying to you, imagine people being an open book to you and not being able to get fibs by you. Studying NLP is on my to-do list this year for sure

As far as I am concerned, that news is to be filed under SCARY

From http://news.yah...b/prweb314382_1

Former Canadian Minister Of Defence Asks Canadian Parliament Asked To Hold Hearings On Relations With Alien "Et" Civilizations

November 24, 2005 -- A former Canadian Minister of Defence and Deputy Prime Minister under Pierre Trudeau has joined forces with three Non-governmental organizations to ask the Parliament of Canada to hold public hearings on Exopolitics -- relations with “ETs.”


By “ETs,” Mr. Hellyer and these organizations mean ethical, advanced extraterrestrial civilizations that may now be visiting Earth.

On September 25, 2005, in a startling speech at the University of Toronto that caught the attention of mainstream newspapers and magazines, Paul Hellyer, Canada’s Defence Minister from 1963-67 under Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Prime Minister Lester Pearson, publicly stated: "UFOs, are as real as the airplanes that fly over your head."

Mr. Hellyer went on to say, "I'm so concerned about what the consequences might be of starting an intergalactic war, that I just think I had to say something."

Hellyer revealed, "The secrecy involved in all matters pertaining to the Roswell incident was unparalled. The classification was, from the outset, above top secret, so the vast majority of U.S. officials and politicians, let alone a mere allied minister of defence, were never in-the-loop."

Hellyer warned, "The United States military are preparing weapons which could be used against the aliens, and they could get us into an intergalactic war without us ever having any warning. He stated, "The Bush administration has finally agreed to let the military build a forward base on the moon, which will put them in a better position to keep track of the goings and comings of the visitors from space, and to shoot at them, if they so decide."

Hellyer’s speech ended with a standing ovation. He said, "The time has come to lift the veil of secrecy, and let the truth emerge, so there can be a real and informed debate, about one of the most important problems facing our planet today."

Three Non-governmental organizations took Hellyer’s words to heart, and approached Canada’s Parliament in Ottawa, Canada’s capital, to hold public hearings on a possible ET presence, and what Canada should do. The Canadian Senate, which is an appointed body, has held objective, well-regarded hearings and issued reports on controversial issues such as same-sex marriage and medical marijuana,

Suprnova was the granddaddy of p2p sites for a long time, but its slightly back now, with news posts and an interesting tale of the truth over how and why it got shut down.

http://www.suprnova.org

From http://www.supr...Long&aID=72

Weren't we all glad when DVD's came out and we could burn more than 4 GB on each? Didn't we feel like we can store everything on them, compared to good old CD's?

Well glad the companies are still trying to outrun each other and are developing new products that will benefit us all very well. One of them is defenetly Maxell with its new product called HDV (Holographic Versatile Disc).


Maxell tells us that it will put affordable HDV's on market late next year, which will be able to hold 300 GB data. Drive's transfer rate will be 20 MB/sec, which will mean burning a disc will take as little as 4 hours, but if we think of lead-in and all other sort of stuff, we could well be looking at 5 long hours.

But Maxell says this is only the beginning. They say that technology is capable of 1.6 TB at transfer rate of 120 MB/sec.

'Holographic recording technology utilizes intersecting signal and reference laser beams to store data in a number of 3D hologram images capable of saving hundreds of data pages in a single location. One 5? inch-diameter optical disc can store up to 150 million pages -- more than 63 times the capacity of DVD. Also, with holographic recording, a multiple of form factors, such as discs, cards, etc, and laser wavelengths (red, green, and blue) can be used.' explained NE Asia Online.

"Unlike other technologies that record one data bit at a time, holography allows a million bits of data to be written and read in parallel with a single flash of light. This enables transfer rates significantly higher than current optical storage devices," said Liz Murphy, vice president of marketing for InPhase Technologies.

"Holographic media makes it possible for millions of pages of information and high-definition images to be held on one small, relatively inexpensive disc," said Steven Pofcher, senior marketing manager at Maxell.

HDV is expected to have lower price per GB then any other storage media.

Lets just hope they delivered it when they say they will. Imagine how many backed up movies you could store on there (hint: approximately 66 DVD?s and 428 ripped movies).

My favourite bit was

Lawyers gave warning last night that the decision could also hit compensation claims for ill-health made by other groups, such as heavy drinkers and obese people.

d'oh!

From http://www.time...1936975,00.html

SMOKERS are legally responsible for their own ill-health because of their negligence in failing to give up, the High Court ruled yesterday.

In a groundbreaking decision, a judge said that those who had smoked since 1971 were guilty of risking their own health because of the clear evidence that had emerged since then about the dangers posed by tobacco.

Lawyers gave warning last night that the decision could also hit compensation claims for ill-health made by other groups, such as heavy drinkers and obese people.

The court’s ruling came as a study published yesterday showed that, for the first time, more women now smoke than men. The Health Survey for England disclosed that 22 per cent of men smoke compared with 23 per cent of women.

Overall numbers for both genders fell but the proportion of men giving up was twice as high as that for women.

Smoking was declared a form of negligence by Mr Justice Stanley Burnton as he ruled on a claim for asbestos-related lung cancer made against the Ministry of Defence. The judge concluded that while Reginald Badger’s widow, Beryl, was entitled to compensation for his death the award should be cut by 20 per cent because as a heavy smoker he was guilty of contributory negligence.

Mr Badger had been exposed to asbestos while working as a boilermaker in Gibraltar and at Devonport dockyard from 1954 to 1987. He had been a smoker since the age of 16.

Mr Justice Burnton said that no one could blame Mr Badger, who died aged 63, for starting to smoke in 1955 because at the time the risks were not widely known. From 1971, however, he said that the introduction of health warnings on cigarette packets enabled him to infer that the public were aware of the hazards of smoking. Lawyers, including the judge, said that the ruling was the first in the High Court to consider the contributory effect of tobacco in negligence claims and would affect similar cases.

The ruling has been seen as a victory for insurance companies that have fought to try to reduce the cash payouts they have to make to victims of negligence.

But Adrian Budgen, a personal injury specialist at the solicitors Irwin Mitchell, said: “It’s an unhelpful precedent. It will result in greatly reduced damages in a lot of cases. That’s very sad and unfortunate.”

The film was ok, but too many slow moments and the pacing was off several times. The whole death of Aslan just comes across like a waste of time because;
A) you dont know him well enough to care
B) he comes back 10 mins later
so there's no emotional impact.

May just be rose-tinted glasses, but i remember the UK tv series more fondly than this.

http://www.tmou...US_kung-fu.html

safe for work, broadband (etc) recommended

For any Blue Beetle fans, artwork for the NEW Blue Beetle is available here;

http://www.news...modelsketch.htm

Cool costume!