New Links: January 2005

A new study found that male monkeys will give up their juice rewards in order to ogle pictures of female monkey's bottoms. The way the experiment was set up, the act is akin to paying for the images, the researchers say.

The rhesus macaque monkeys also splurged on photos of top-dog counterparts, the high-ranking primates. Maybe that's like you or me buying People magazine.

The research, which will be detailed in the March issue of Current Biology, gets more interesting.

The scientists actually had to pay these guys, in the form of extra juice, to get them to look at images of lower-ranking monkeys.

The two apologized for offending people but refused to identify themselves. Reuters noted that under German law, charges can be filed against unknown persons, obliging authorities to track down the perpetrators.

• Against: World War, Genocide, Torture.
  
• For: Cleans Up Road.

According to the music industry, simply providing a link to the start page of the web site of a copying software manufacturer constitutes a violation of this law. Furthermore, Heise Verlag is accused of having provided "instructions on how to get around anti-piracy measures" in the above news item. Finally, the letter even speaks of the news item as "illegal advertising" for the sale of the software.

"It was a pretty raunchy, explicit film. It certainly pulled no punches. My wife and I were very shocked, but we watched it until the end because we couldn't believe what we were seeing."

"The closest you get to Starbucks in Oslo, is a chain of coffee shops called Kaffebrenneriet (The Coffee Roastery). Their greatest product is called Tors Hammer (hammer of Thor), which is a double espresso topped off with a cup of brewed coffee. Now that is pure devotion."

"My sources in the animation biz tell me that Disney, which will make Toy Story 3 without Pixar, cannot find a director to guide the project."

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"Every single animator of note has turned down the director's job. They don't want to cross Pixar. They've become the only deal in town."

"The driver said 'kids we've got porn, do you want to watch it'," one of the pupils told reporters. "Everyone started shouting yes, yes and he just put in a tape and we watched it on the small TV screens on the bus."

The children were aged 12 to 15.

Three 11-year-old boys and a 10-year-old girl tried to hijack a school bus Friday morning, Pennsylvania state police told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

• Nintendo DS system


• Super Mario 64 DS (pre-release version)(rated '3+')


• Metroid Prime Hunters: First Hunt (Demo version) (rated '12+')**


• Wario Ware Touched! (Demo version) (Rated '3+')


• Exclusive Nintendo DS T-shirt

**The wireless multiplayer function in Metroid Prime Hunters: First Hunt (Demo version) will not be compatible with the final European version of the game.

We were informed that an online service for DS is definitely on the way, and that you'll be able to download/upload information as well as play games online. In addition, apparently at least two US and Japanese third-party developers have been trialling the DS online, and have even managed to get more than 16 DSs linked wirelessly at one time.

At launch in the UK, there will be a total of 15 games available for the Nintendo DS. The strong software launch line-up includes games such as Super Mario 64 DS, Polarium, WarioWare Touched! and Pokémon Dash from Nintendo, plus great titles from the world?s top Publishers such as Rayman DS (Ubisoft), Project Rub (SEGA), The URBZ: Sims in the City (EA) and Spider-Man 2 (Activision).

The Nintendo DS will launch in the UK on 11 March 2005 at the estimated retail price of around £99. Software will be available at selected retailers at the estimated retail price of around £29 and £19, depending on the specific title.

Oh, I use FireFox. You guys dropped the ball on that security thing a LONG time ago. Too little, too late, folks.

Hi, can you make IE as secure as firefox?

Shouldn't be too hard right, since you guys have like 30 billion dollars? ... and mozilla has ... 2 ... million?

Thanks.

I found a security flaw where IE accidentally loses massive amounts of market share every time I launch it.

A trio of oddly colored Nintendo DSs sparked a celebrity bidding war at the Sundance Film Festival. Comedian Jay Mohr, actress Poppy Montgomery and actor Alan Cumming dropped a combined $14,000 for the three double-sided handhelds of gaming goodness.

HypnoCiné is a NEW hypnosis procedure pioneered by Master Hypnotist Mark Oliver, a clinical hypnotherapist for the past 20 years. The technique includes NLP, subliminal cinema and traditional hypnosis.

Mark Oliver, Master Hypnotist, brings you the kinkiest hypnosis ever. Not only control their actions but control their minds, the best in B&D and S&M hypnosis. This new and powerful hypnosis technique is a genuine hypnosis induction to alter the sexual inclinations of those few who dare to experience something different. Just sit your slaves in front of the TV and watch them transform. The more they watch the more they are programmed to do your bidding!

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - As a Ventura County public defender, Liana Johnsson has handled many life-changing cases, but her biggest public crusade these days has been going topless.

For months, Johnsson has been fighting to allow topless women at California beaches and parks, and now the issue has made its way to the Capitol. A group of lawyers, at Johnsson's request, has asked the Legislature to make topless sunbathing legal, saying the ban is the last criminal sanction that treats women differently than men.

Open Firefox ..type about:config in the address bar and press enter.

Type network.dns in the filter box at the top of the page, two results should remain.

Double click on network.dns.disableIPv6 to change its value to "True"

Restart Firefox. You should notice a speed increase, page to page.

Enjoy!

The ex-Manchester City striker joked David Beckham had turned down a move to Newcastle United because of trouble with the "Toon Army in Asia".

The MPEG LA has had 12 separate companies claiming that they have essential patents in the pool it is developing for the licensing of Microsoft?s video codec, dubbed VC 1 under the SMPTE standard (Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers).

The fact that 12 separate companies, possibly more, will decide the fate of the technology has implications for if and how much Microsoft must charge for the codec.

1. Doom 3
2. Grand Theft Auto: ?San Andreas"
3. Gunslinger Girls 2
4. Half Life 2
5. Halo 2
6. Hitman: Blood Money
7. Manhunt
8. Mortal Kombat
9. Postal 2
10. Shadow Heart

• 84% of net users have used a search engine
  
• 44% use only one search engine
  
• 40% of men online search daily compared to 27% of women
  
• 62% are unaware of the difference between paid for and organic results
  
• 25% of searchers have looked themselves up on a search site
  
• 92% of searchers are confident in their searching
  
• 17% say they always find what they are looking for
  
• 68% consider search engines to be a fair and unbiased source
  
• 55% disapprove of search sites collecting information about them

WHAT IS THE MUSEUM OF E-FAILURE?
This feature of Ghost Sites was launched in early 2000; it is an image gallery of some 1,250 screens captured from some 900 Web projects that for various reasons "went dark" during the years 1998 to 2004. Some had a chance to post a self-penned epitaph in the form of a "farewell screen"; others simply expired and drifted lifelessly, with no visible indications for their demise - often for many months. This collection provides a partial, but revealing look at the latter half of the Web's 10 years of existence. Annotations (Web Elegies) are included where possible in order to place each site in its historical context.

As the population shifts back to the big cities, you'll need a rolling urban command center. Enter the SYNUS concept vehicle, a mobile techno sanctuary sculpted in urban armor and inspired by the popular B-cars of congested international hotspots. Short and slim for easy city maneuvering, it looks bank-vault tough on the outside - with intimidating and outrageous styling that even features a vault-style spinner handle in back with deadbolt door latching. When parked and placed in secure mode, SYNUS deploys protective shutters over the windshield and side glass. Small windows on the flanks and roof are non-opening and bullet-resistant.

A skimpy prom dress aimed at teenage girls has sparked outrage among US parents.

The racy red dress, which has just two straps that barely covers the wearer's chest, is being aimed at young girls through adverts in girls' magazines.

It is so revealing that some shops are insisting on getting parental permission slips before allowing girls to buy it.
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But amazingly the £265 dress, which critics say turns girls "from a Prom princess to a porn queen", is one of the firm's best sellers.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A mother has been arrested on charges that she gave crack to her 4-year-old son to "calm him down."

Police are searching for a pistol-wielding robber who stole female leather bondage gear and an inflatable sex doll from an erotica store in Milan Wednesday.

Escaping war and the rise of Islamic moralism, thousands of Iraqi prostitutes packed their bags and fled to Syria.
[...]
The Syrian women, and their pimps, accuse the Iraqi women of spreading AIDS.

Even the UK Government, one of the strongest supporters of the proposed text, admitted that "Clarity will only come from the first test case in a European court."

A study into why women flashed crowds of Calgary Flames fans during last year's NHL playoffs should shed light on current Canadian attitudes about female nudity, says a Calgary professor.

A new reality TV show has been launched in Germany to find the man with the fastest sperm. The sperm will be attracted to the finishing line by a chemical lure identical to that emitted by the female egg in the womb.

A woman angry with her 12-year-old daughter for having sex forced the girl to drink bleach and sat on her until the child died, a police detective said.

The girl's 9-year-old brother was forced to watch the attack, Detective Warren Cotton testified Thursday in a preliminary hearing for Tunisia Archie, 31.
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Archie forced Jasmine's 9-year-old brother Jacorey to watch the attack and "told him that if he shed a tear that she was going to kill him, too," Cotton testified.

The research firm reported that Internet Explorer?s market shares have dropped by 1.5 percent to 90.3 percent, since December to Mid-January time frame. Mozilla?s Firefox gained 0.9 percent market shares to a full five percent. According to WebSideStory, IE?s market shares have been on a continuous decline since June of last year. Since then, Internet Explorer usage has dropped from 95.5 to 90.3, a 5.8 percent drop in almost seven months.

Rockstar Games let the good news fly today, announcing that its mega-hit Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas will arrive on Xbox and PC on June 7 in North America. Euro-gamers will receive the fifth game in the series June 10, 2005.

This series of articles describes a variety of Natural Phenomena - marine, terrestrial and extra-terrestrial - which have been named in honour of Frank Zappa, the smallest being a gene belonging to a bacterium, the largest being an entire planet.Many people are unaware that not one, but two extant marine creatures are named after FZ: one is a regular fish, the other a jellyfish.

Spider-Man creator Stan Lee is to get a multi-million dollar windfall after winning a court battle with comic book company Marvel.

A judge has upheld Lee's demand for 10% of Marvel's profits from the hugely successful Spider-Man films.

The first convictions for piracy over peer-to-peer networks have been handed down in the US.

New Yorker William Trowbridge and Texan Michael Chicoine have pleaded guilty to charges that they infringed copyright by illegally sharing music, movies and software.

During its investigation FBI agents reportedly downloaded 84 movies, 40 software programs, 13 games and 178 "sound recordings" from the five hubs that made up the larger piracy group.

• Battle of the Planets was called Kagaku Ninja-Tai Gatchaman in it's original Japanese incarnation, which translated to Science Ninja Team Gatchaman
• The annoying 7-Zark-7 & 1-Rover-1 were added by the Americans and didn't feature in the original Gatchaman

• As much as ten minutes of the program was taken up by the prattling of 7-Zark-7 and his 'friends'.
• Battle of the Planets had 85 TV episodes that were, effectively cut and pasted together from the 205 TV episodes of Gatchaman

• 3 further Gatchaman OAV episodes were made in 1993
• No one ever died in Battle of the Planets. When the programme was re-edited by Sandy Frank (who put over $5 million into production of this series), it was made clear that no-one was to die. So, during seemingly deadly attacks, 7-Zark-7 would add in reassuring comments. While it may look like a bunch of villains have had their throats removed by Mark's flying dart, 7-Zark-7's soothing tones will point out that "the sound of Mark's sonic boomerang caused slight, temporary concussions among the enemy - but they'll be up again shortly".

• Casey Kasem provides the voice for Mark. He was also the voice behind Shaggy in Scooby Doo, and an American DJ.
• Janet Waldo provided the sultry voice of Princess - and was also Josie in Josie and the Pussycats.

• Keye Luke was the voice of Zoltar - he was Mr Wing, the mysterious shop owner in Gremlins.

* Final image dimensions: 78.797 x 31.565 pixels
* Number of pixels in final image: 2,487,227,305 (2.5 gigapixel)
* Final image file format: 24-bit colour bitmap
* Final image file size: 7.5 GBytes
* Number of source images: 600
* Number of pixels in source images: 3,537,408,000 (600 images * 3008*1960)
* Lens focal length: 400 mm (equivalent to 600 mm on a 35 mm camera)
* Aperture: F22, Shutter speed: 1/100, ISO: 125
* Horizontal field of view of final image: 93 degrees
* Time required to capture component images: 1 hour and 12 minutes
* Time required to match overlapping images: 20 hours
* Time required to optimise project: 4 hours
* Time required to compose the image: 3 full days using 5 high-end pcs
* Time required to blend seams / correct misalignments / finalise image: 2 days

Magpie is an add-on for Firefox that allows you to quickly save media (images, videos) and other documents that you find on the internet. It is designed to help you quickly bulk-download media linked from web pages, as well as numeric ranges of files from sites using the Bukster protocol. Magpie also includes tools for adjusting a site's URL by incrementing/decremeting numbers in it, and for "sanitizing" links to real content by stripping off redirector script prefix/suffixes.

Beale Screamer has successfully cracked Microsoft's copy protection used in Windows Media digital right management software. The crack called Freeme strips off the piece from the WMA or WMV file that prevents copying the file.This is extremely bad news for Microsoft. Because they had some deals going with movie studios and recordlabels in order to get WM used as a standard in digital media distribution online.

Supper With The Stars is an exciting new service to make your party sparkle with an elusive touch of Hollywood glamour. Imagine having your favourite friends round for dinner. What would really make you party go with a bang? All your guests have arrived, now imagine their surprise when a top TV personality walks in and joins the party!

Beach Party:
Pedestrians turn into girls wearing swimsuits. Vehicles are also beach style and CJ will be dressed in shorts and sandals

This is still beta software. It has bugs. There are kinks to be worked out, and missing features, too. For example, we still miss some tags here and there, especially for certain weblogs, due to some post detection issues.

The report states that prehistoric brickwork has been crushed beneath military vehicles, precious stonework used to fill sandbags and important historical sites damaged by newly dug trenches.

• Mithraism - First Edition of the Universal Religion
• Saint Peter - Linking Rome back to the Godman
• Constantine - Pagan Thug Makes Christian Emperor
• Mary, Mary... Immaculate Deception
• Into the Darkness: The Triumph of Christian Barbarism
• The Papal Princes - Christian Lords of Hell on Earth

1. Beautiful, Snoop Dogg


2. Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Green Day


3. Strawberry Letter 23, Shuggy Otis


4. I Miss You, Blink-182


5. Wonderful Place, N*E*R*D*

Fine, so she is a slut! But she is a really rich slut, with supple pink lips and a remarkably even tan. You think that shit grows on trees? No, it doesn?t.

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So here?s the carefully selected candidates for DeathList 2005. A brief summary of the idea behind DeathList. The DeathList committee draws up DeathList at the end of each year with the objective selecting the most celebrities who will die in the next calendar year. The list comprises 50 celebrities, with no more than 25 who appeared on the previous year's list. The 2004 list had 12 successes but was unable to overhaul the record of 14 set in 2003. How will the 2005 runners and riders fare?

(The man) was arrested after he ran past a police car and failed to stop when he was ordered to do so by officers. Police chased him and were able to rein him in by using a Taser.

iGrill is a 600Mhz Mini-ITX motherboard, an 80GB hard drive, and a 250W PSU, running Gentoo Linux, all enclosed in a George Foreman grill. Technically it's lost the grilling-functionality, but with a bit of tin foil on top of the heatsink and a fork-bomb, I reckon I could probably still fry an egg with it.

Head detail is key. And, if at all possible, I try to avoid using any painted design pieces (call me a purist, but I just like the idea of relying completely on pure brick for detail).

A bookseller has become the first blogger in Britain to be sacked from his job because he kept an online diary in which he occasionally mentioned bad days at work and satirised his "sandal-wearing" boss.

I hope you kill every man, woman and child in Iraq, down to the lizards,
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And may George W. Bush drink the blood of every man, woman and child in Iraq,

"Even a 'tap' from a giant can be powerful. It will certainly be a blow far larger than anything else the ice tongue has ever experienced."

this GTA is no mere rehash but a completely fresh game. What's more, according to Rockstar, both games are "expected to be available near the launch of the PSP handheld system in North America and Europe". With PSP due to hit the UK in March, GTA PSP could be as little as two months away from release.

Please don't buy this pathetic excuse for a handheld console. The DS is by Nintendo and therefore has Nintendo games on it. This makes it better than this peice of Sony. If you want to watch DVD's, buy a DVD player. Oh sorry, this is portable so you can watch films whilst walking down Oxford Street, for example. Of course you won't be able to see the end of a film, and if you do, you wont be able to play games on the tube home, although with the quality of PS2 games, that's probably a good thing.

North Korea has launched an intensive media assault on its latest arch enemy - the wrong haircut.

A campaign exhorting men to get a proper short-back-and-sides has been aired by state-run Pyongyang television.

I need a lover who understands that 20 hours a day on the Internet is normal.

You will begin at home in your lounge, where you can begin the drinking or go straight out to the pub, restaurant, nightclub or kebab. In each area feel free to click around, you never know what you might find.

1. ILuvNUFC 78
2. Merg 56
3. mmChronic 54
4. Dogs 44
5. Bungers 43
6. Flip 39

Q. What did the leper say to the prostitute?
A. "Keep the tip!"
Boom, boom! Ahahahahaha!!!!!

To help those people with additional nipples grow and function as productive members of society through knowledge, counseling, self-empowerment, and regular encouragement.