Christmas is coming and Santa seems to be getting ready for some holiday shopping. I just love the image of a big bank robber riding off on a blue moped….maybe a police chase to follow… A rash of bank robberies in the past two days have police looking for several suspects. The last time Honolulu…
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Bamboo Bicycle
I was browsing on the internet today after riding my bike to various garage sales and going to the beach and found the following article by Steen Heinsen at the American Bamboo Society. I want one. If anyone has plans, please let me know. Here is one of many places I found to buy custom…
Popping the Bubble with Inflation
I’ve been noting the cost of normal non energy items going up. I bought a candy bar the other day and when I asked the clerk why a snickers is $.98 he told me “the prices of everything are going up.” He’s right. It’s more obvious here in Hawaii where virtually everything has to be…
Haunted Memories Changing Portraits
Okay, these are really fukn cool. I mean if you want to have a super creepy and somewhat subtle Halloween decoration…this is it…cd Haunted Memories Changing Portraits
Would you like fries with that?
I found this at the obscure store and thought it was good enough for fukn.us.. Fri, Oct 14, 2005 Elderly driver smashes into downtown Burger King Wausau Daily Herald An elderly man crashed his car into the Burger King in downtown Wausau on Friday morning. The man smashed his car into the main entrance at…
Chris of the Day: Chris Sawyer
(I like Chris Sawyer’s games…that makes him the Chris of the Day…cd. if you want to nominate a chris of the day email chris@fukn.us ) Chris Sawyer Software Development Computer Game Development, Design, and Programming Chris Sawyer is the designer and developer behind Transport Tycoon (published 1994/1995), the widely acclaimed RollerCoaster Tycoon game franchise (published…
Ananova – Musical breast implants
(This is like soooo Neal Stephenson… -kg) Computer chips that store music could soon be built into a woman’s breast implants. One boob could hold an MP3 player and the other the person’s whole music collection. BT futurology, who have developed the idea, say it could be available within 15 years. BT Laboratories’ analyst Ian…
How many branches of international NGOs are there in Africa? 397? 3,972?
No, there are 39, 729!!!!! Reuters AlertNet – Foreign NGOs map new route to African legitimacy
Reuters AlertNet – U.S. rejects Katrina meals, offers them to others
WASHINGTON, Oct 14 (Reuters) – The United States on Friday offered needy countries more than 330,000 packaged meals donated by Britain to feed Hurricane Katrina victims but rejected due to a U.S. ban on British beef. State Department spokesman Adam Ereli said the “Meals Ready to Eat,” or MREs, had been held in a warehouse…
'Cruel joke' of India's relief effort
(Here’s another look at how disaster response really “works.” And this isn’t just applicable to India. -kg) The good Samaritans – missionaries, doctors, political oddballs, power grid engineers, bankers, clerks, religious workers, unemployed youngsters- are all going up the picturesque mountain road in dust-caked smoke spewing vehicles bearing stickers like ‘Fallow me’ (sic) and ‘Killer…