14. februar 2004

Excuse of the day! A Greek man was surfing for porn, and was surprised to find a video showing his own wife and her lover having sex. The man said he found the site during an attempt to find out why his 25-year-old wife spent so much time on the internet on their home computer. Yeah, right. 8:36:34 PM    comment []  trackback []

— Our ancestors needed hard heads to survive Two scientists argue that long extinct hominids had a thick skull because the men were hitting each other over the head with clubs to win the women. In their book "Dragon Bone Hill, an Ice Age Saga of Homo Erectus," Ciochon and anatomy professor Noel Boaz say they would "lay bets that, as in many other species, we are detecting the results of sexual selection." In the rugged world of homo erectus, a tough skull served them well, scientists said. It would have been a tremendous advantage for survival, less likely to break on impact and geared toward winning fights. It's still like that some places on the countryside. Obviously, a guy looking like the one on the picture would probably need a club and a thick head to get women. 6:27:25 PM    comment []  trackback []

Woman at centre of Kerry accusation named The Sun, the British tabloid known for its topless page three girls, has named the Associated Press "intern"/journalist supposedly involved with John Kerry. Alex Polier, 24, was named as the woman at the centre of a scandal that threatens to damage Democrat Kerry’s bid for the White House. Her mother Donna claims Kerry, 60 — dubbed the new JFK — once chased Alex to be on his campaign team and was “after her”. There is no evidence the pair had an affair, but her father Terry, 56, said: “I think he’s a sleazeball. I did kind of wonder if my daughter didn’t get that kind of feeling herself. “He’s not the sort of guy I would choose to be with my daughter.” Terry, of Malvern, Pennsylvania, added: “John Kerry called my daughter and invited her down to Washington two or three years ago. “He invited her to be on his re-election committee. She talked to him and decided against it.” Kerry is on the verge of sealing the Democratic nomination to take on George Bush in November. [...] Journalist Alex was in Kenya last night refusing to comment. It is pretty obvious that Drudge called Alex Polier an "intern" to inspire associations to the Clinton/Lewinsky affair. Even if she could reasonably be called an "intern" with the AP at the time. I wonder how this will affect the career and life of the poor woman? Well, career wise, she may do well. Thanks to Tim Blair, who also had a link to a news article of hers with a somewhat unfortunate title. 4:31:35 PM    comment []  trackback []

Saddam the junkie A former aide to Saddam Hussein, Iraq's ex-Chief of Protocol Issam Rashid Walid, alleges that Saddam was a frequent user of drugs, ranging from cannabis to heroin. Walid, who is now based in London, is releasing a book titled In Saddam's Shadow, which is due to be released in French. He said: "Saddam was heavily into drugs. He began in 1959, with cannabis, and then when he seized power (in 1979), he used heroin at times. "He decided to invade Kuwait because he was probably not in his normal state. He was on drugs and drugs made him lose his mind." Too bad we didn't know that this whole war thingie was unnecessary. As VodkaPundit notes, Saddam only needed rehab. I can just imagine Saddam Hussein and Rush Limbaugh sitting peacefully together on Narcotics Anonymous meetings (Well, I lied. I honestly can't). PS: And here I thought a joint inpired people to make love, not war. 3:10:15 PM    comment []  trackback []

Windows source code leaked to the world About 13.5 million lines of source code to Microsoft Windows NT and 2000 operating systems, estimated to be around 15 % of the total, are being exchanged on file sharing networks worldwide, further damaging Microsoft's bruised corporate image. Microsoft has been guarding its source code, the company's "crown jewels" fiercly, so if this is the real thing, it is deeply embarrassing. It's a bit unclear who leaked the code, and whether it's been tampered with before release. The source code contains references to Microsoft partner Mainsoft (Ca), which may or may not be involved in the leak, and a lot of comment code with profanity. One can imagine e.g. /* I hope this messy code doesn't fuck up too many computers */ /* Does anyone have any idea what the hell this subroutine does? */ /* Routine to fuck up Real Audio good */ /* Shit on Java. Dodge this, Sun! */ Analysts are most worried about the possibility that malicious code writers will examine the code for vulnerabilities and write even more effective viruses, worms and trojans. On the other hand, there is little doubt that the good guys will be looking for exploits too, hoping they can be plugged before it's too late. Did Windows suddenly become open source? If you are into conspiracy theories, you may imagine that Bill Gates leaked this himself, so Microsoft can now blame any security holes on the code beaing leaked. That doesn't make much sense, of course, but then, conspiracy theories aren't supposed to. 2:29:23 PM    comment []  trackback []

Zimbabwe bans Valentine Day's marches Mugabe's police has that loving feeling about Zimbabwean women doing peace marches. Police banned peace marches planned by women activists to celebrate Valentine's Day, saying they would "shoot to kill" if the bans were defied, organisers said on Saturday. Their way of making the ladies all mushy inside, I guess. 12:43:51 PM    comment []  trackback []

Kerry scandalised everywhere but home It is funny how most American voters are still totally in the dark about the new Kerry intern sex accusation, while the sleezy, so far unfounded, story is making headlines all around the world: The sex scandal story makes prominent news in England, Scotland, Singapore, Australia, India, Taiwan, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Norway... you get the idea... But home in the US, most mainstream news sources seem to still avoid the story altogether or hinted extremely vaguely about it. Some typical rightist sources reported the allegation. Oh yeah. Slate found an excuse to report it, by writing a general press-critical piece on sex scandals. 12:06:17 AM    comment []  trackback []

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