It was the second year of the first Palestinian intifada and the PLO leader Yasser Arafat, organized a group of Palestinian refugees and international supporters to board a "refugee ship" in Cyprus. The ship was given the symbolic name "al-Awda" (The Return).
The plan was to sail it to an Israeli port, forcing Israel either to sink or board the ship or let it land its refugees demanding their "right of return." Large numbers of journalists and observers were also on hand.
On February 14, the night before the ship was due to set sail, it was mysteriously blown up in Limassol harbour.
Responsibility for the sinking was never claimed but it was reported later that it was the work of an Israeli naval commando unit called Flotilla 13.
"It's not enough to be right," pundit Yoni Ben-Menachem told Israel Radio today. "You have to be smart as well."
31 May 2010
Cel mai bun cantec al celui mai castigator candidat al celui mai bun partid din Islanda.
Cel mai bun Partid, fondat de comicul Jon Gnarr, a obtinut 34,7% din voturi la alegerile locale din Reykjavik. Printre candidatii partidului, care a propus si construirea unui Disneyland la aeroport, mai figureaza un fost membru al formatiei de rock alternativ Sugarcubes, o casnica si un arhitect
29 May 2010
"Our Flag is tattered, and has a zero on it, and we will neither fight for nor salute it. Still, it's our flag, and to it will we pledge allegiance, because it stands for our belief in nothing, and the fealty to futility that entails. Oh God, let us believe that everything we believe is probably wrong, and that everything we think we know we don't, and that every act we take is a zero in the universal mathematics of nullity. Give us the strength to weaken, the courage to chicken out, and the conviction to remain forever unconvinced. Let us fall by the wayside, let us doubt, let us throw up our hands in abject surrender. Give us this day, O Lord, and we swear to God we'll do nothing with it."
[unremittingfailure winning]
[unremitting
28 May 2010
poop culture
Several buyers said the film overflowed with Hollywood debauchery, including more male frontal nudity than you'd find in some gay porn films and a stomach-turning sequence in which someone feuding with Phoenix defecates on the actor while he's asleep (reporter from the LA Times about the Joaquin Phoenix documentary)
Picnic de lupta pe campul de razboi
Chiar dacă fiarele contorsionate ale tancurilor sunt cât se poate de reale, soldaţii sunt de fapt păpuşi din plastic, iar la câţiva paşi de un tanc israelian Merkava cu ţeava tunului înnodată jucăuş o familie de libanezi stau aşezaţi la mese de picnic contemplând peisajul.
Forgive us, father, for we will sin
40 de femei, amante secrete ale preoţilor, i-au trimis lui Papei o scrisoare în care îi cer anularea legii celibatului, pentru că şi preoţii au nevoie să trăiască şi să simtă dragostea şi să iubească la rândul lor
27 May 2010
In Paradis femeile nu au voie sa voteze, nici macar goale
Appenzell is traditionally a rather devout and conservative region of Switzerland. It only gave women the vote in 1990 and its growing reputation as a paradise for naked hikers is not popular with locals.
ups
A survey of more than 1,000 men in India has concluded that condoms made according to international sizes are too large for a majority of Indian men.
26 May 2010
cine?
Braconierii arheologici folosesc turmele de oi pentru a se apropia de siturile din muntii Orastiei
24 May 2010
de la mine, pentru toata lumea si o stea
Momentul care i-a dat de gol a fost cel in care au inceput sa-si dea dedicatii unul altuia: ''Pentru fratiorul meu, cel mai tare spargator de banci''
23 May 2010
sarcasmometer: on
Devised by computer scientists at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the algorithm has been programmed to recognise sarcasm in lengthy texts by analysing patterns of phrases and punctuation often used to indicate irony.
The novel formula could pave the way for more sophisticated communication between humans and computers – the Holy Grail of artificial intelligence.
A computer algorithm capable of identifying sarcasm in written text has been developed by Israeli researchers.
The novel formula could pave the way for more sophisticated communication between humans and computers – the Holy Grail of artificial intelligence.
A computer algorithm capable of identifying sarcasm in written text has been developed by Israeli researchers.
22 May 2010
Fun fun fun fun fun fun. Fun.
Nu mi-e clar de ce nu se numeste Happiness Theory tho
Fun Theory is the field of knowledge that deals in questions such as "How much fun is there in the universe?", "Will we ever run out of fun?", "Are we having fun yet?" and "Could we be having more fun?"
Fun Theory is serious business. The prospect of endless boredom is routinely fielded by conservatives as a knockdown argument against research on lifespan extension, against cryonics, against all transhumanism, and occasionally against the entire Enlightenment ideal of a better future.
Many critics (including George Orwell) have commented on the inability of authors to imagine Utopias where anyone would actually want to live. If no one can imagine a Future where anyone would want to live, that may drain off motivation to work on the project. But there are some quite understandable biases that get in the way of such visualization.
Fun Theory is also the fully general reply to religious theodicy (attempts to justify why God permits evil). Our present world has flaws even from the standpoint of such eudaimonic considerations as freedom, personal responsibility, and self-reliance. Fun Theory tries to describe the dimensions along which a benevolently designed world can and should be optimized, and our present world is clearly not the result of such optimization - there is room for improvement. Fun Theory also highlights the flaws of any particular religion's perfect afterlife - you wouldn't want to go to their Heaven.
Finally, going into the details of Fun Theory helps you see that eudaimonia is complicated - that there are many properties which contribute to a life worth living. Which helps you appreciate just how worthless a galaxy would end up looking (with very high probability) if the galaxy was optimized by something with a utility function rolled up at random.
Fun Theory is the field of knowledge that deals in questions such as "How much fun is there in the universe?", "Will we ever run out of fun?", "Are we having fun yet?" and "Could we be having more fun?"
Fun Theory is serious business. The prospect of endless boredom is routinely fielded by conservatives as a knockdown argument against research on lifespan extension, against cryonics, against all transhumanism, and occasionally against the entire Enlightenment ideal of a better future.
Many critics (including George Orwell) have commented on the inability of authors to imagine Utopias where anyone would actually want to live. If no one can imagine a Future where anyone would want to live, that may drain off motivation to work on the project. But there are some quite understandable biases that get in the way of such visualization.
Fun Theory is also the fully general reply to religious theodicy (attempts to justify why God permits evil). Our present world has flaws even from the standpoint of such eudaimonic considerations as freedom, personal responsibility, and self-reliance. Fun Theory tries to describe the dimensions along which a benevolently designed world can and should be optimized, and our present world is clearly not the result of such optimization - there is room for improvement. Fun Theory also highlights the flaws of any particular religion's perfect afterlife - you wouldn't want to go to their Heaven.
Finally, going into the details of Fun Theory helps you see that eudaimonia is complicated - that there are many properties which contribute to a life worth living. Which helps you appreciate just how worthless a galaxy would end up looking (with very high probability) if the galaxy was optimized by something with a utility function rolled up at random.
Scareturday
Neighbors near Golf Course and McMahon in Albuquerque have found three severed cat heads on their streets in one day.
minoritați conlocuițoare
„Ţe bei acolo?”, se insinuează Dimitris Kokos, privind pofticios la paharul din palma cât un capac de WC a lui Şefcai. „Jidvei”, răspunde scurt tătarul. „De ţinţi stele?”, insistă grecul. „Îhî“, confirmă Şefcai sorbind tacticos vinarsul. „Bun! De sapte e prea dulţe...”
21 May 2010
so yeah
Scientists have turned inanimate chemicals into a living organism in an experiment that raises profound questions about the essence of life.
The bacteria's genes were all constructed in the laboratory "from four bottles of chemicals on a chemical synthesizer, starting with information on a computer," he said.
The synthetic bacteria have 14 "watermark sequences" attached to their genome -- inert stretches of DNA added to distinguish them from their natural counterparts. They behaved and divided in lab dishes like natural bacteria.
I, for one, welcome our bottled bacteriologic mycoplasma mycoides overlords.
The bacteria's genes were all constructed in the laboratory "from four bottles of chemicals on a chemical synthesizer, starting with information on a computer," he said.
The synthetic bacteria have 14 "watermark sequences" attached to their genome -- inert stretches of DNA added to distinguish them from their natural counterparts. They behaved and divided in lab dishes like natural bacteria.
I, for one, welcome our bottled bacteriologic mycoplasma mycoides overlords.
20 May 2010
17 May 2010
viata bate filmul
And just in passing we have this friend who, and let us preface this by saying there are hundreds of ways to find out your significant other is cheating on you, but how he found out his girlfriend Base was cheating on him, and this is totally a true story, was he found a condom wrapper in her vagina. Which is a plot line that's 1,000 times more interesting than the plot line of Iron Man 2, and unlike the hugely expensive Iron Man 2, cost only one torn condom wrapper to make!
mp3- acum si cu muzica.
ascult podcastul asta de 2 saptamani deja . Nu exista nici o piesa electronica in el. numai frumusete si relaxare.
Daca D-zeu ar fi in vacanta* asta ar avea in playlist pe ipod.
*Geneza 2.3
Nicolas Jaar - Tsugi Podcast 129 23.03.2010 by Sebasart
Daca D-zeu ar fi in vacanta* asta ar avea in playlist pe ipod.
*Geneza 2.3
Nicolas Jaar - Tsugi Podcast 129 23.03.2010 by Sebasart
16 May 2010
40/40 vision
Mengele's experiments also included attempts to take one twins eyeballs and attach them to the back of the other twin's head, so humans could fight better in war.
15 May 2010
praise me, lord!
If English was good enough for Jesus Christ, it ought
to be good enough for the children of Texas.
to be good enough for the children of Texas.
catch him if you can
Stanley Clifford Weyman (1890-1960) impersonated a US consul representative to Morocco, a military attaché from Serbia and a US Navy lieutenant, the consul general for Romania, a lieutenant in the Army Air Corps, a doctor in Lima, Peru, a State Department Naval Liaison Officer, a Secretary of State, the personal physician of Rudolph Valentino's widow, and other characters. "One man's life is a boring thing," Weyman said. "I lived many lives. I'm never bored."
14 May 2010
hello world
La 93 de ani, Kirk Douglas şi-a inaugurat blogul cu aceste cuvinte: „Bună, sînt tatăl lui Michael Douglas!“. I s-a răspuns: „Lasă bancurile! Eşti Spartacus“.
13 May 2010
i've always been a sucker for good montages
here's the thing that makes life so interesting. the theory of evolution claims that only the strong shall survive... maybe so, maybe so. but the theory of competition says, just because they're the strong, doesn't mean they can't get their asses kicked, thats right. see, with every long shot come from behind underdog will tell you is this, the other guy may in fact be the favorite, the odds may be stacked against you, fair enough. but what the odds don't know, is this isn't a math test, this is completely different kind of test. one where, passion, has a funny way of trumping logic. so before you step up to the starting line, before the whistle blows and the clock starts ticking, just remember out here, the results don't always add up. no matter what the stats may say, and the experts may think, and the Commentators may have predicted, when the race is on, all bets are off. don't be suprised if someone decides to flip the script and take a pass on yelling uncle. and then suddenly as the old saying goes, we got ourselves a game.
Machine says OK
"Over the next decade—a time New York City firefighters would refer to as "The War Years"—a series of fires swept through the South Bronx, the Lower East Side, Harlem, and Brooklyn, gutting whole neighborhoods, killing more than two thousand people and displacing hundreds of thousands. Conventional wisdom would blame arson, but these fires were the result of something altogether different: the intentional withdrawal of fire protection from the city's poorest neighborhoods—all based on RAND's computer modeling systems. "
pasted from a book so delightfully titled The Fires: How a Computer Formula, Big Ideas, and the Best of Intentions Burned Down New York City-and Determined the Future of Cities
pasted from a book so delightfully titled The Fires: How a Computer Formula, Big Ideas, and the Best of Intentions Burned Down New York City-and Determined the Future of Cities
A short lesson about fair play and dignity sau cum mi-a fost pt prima oara Gordon simpatic
Above all, it was a privilege to serve. And yes, I loved the job not for its prestige, its titles and its ceremony - which I do not love at all. No, I loved the job for its potential to make this country I love fairer, more tolerant, more green, more democratic, more prosperous and more just - truly a greater Britain.
ask the pope
Voyager 2 late last month began sending science data 8.6 billion miles to Earth in a changed format that mission managers could not decode.
Alien expert Hartwig Hausdorf said:"It seems almost as if someone had reprogrammed or hijacked the probe – thus perhaps we do not yet know the whole truth"
Have aliens hijacked Voyager 2 spacecraft?
Alien expert Hartwig Hausdorf said:"It seems almost as if someone had reprogrammed or hijacked the probe – thus perhaps we do not yet know the whole truth"
Have aliens hijacked Voyager 2 spacecraft?
12 May 2010
Anticrizul
Patriarhia Romana: Pentru a depasi criza economica trebuie continuate lucrarile la biserici
Tomorrow you'll be forgiven but tonight you will your teeth knocked out
[as kindly suggested by one Strangelovely dude]
11 May 2010
Summary
So av been away, here's a dump of random (long) readin.
Ca prea e short-attention-span orgy aici.
Povestea aia din libertatea dar scrisa impecabilisim. Telenovela feat math, onoare, birfe, embarasada, math.
Si daca tot sintem la subiectul asta
WikiLeaks I ♥
(-1)x(-1)x(-1)x(-1)x(-1)
n-ai cum
wt..?
If u RR me I cyberkill u !!
Ca prea e short-attention-span orgy aici.
Povestea aia din libertatea dar scrisa impecabilisim. Telenovela feat math, onoare, birfe, embarasada, math.
Si daca tot sintem la subiectul asta
WikiLeaks I ♥
(-1)x(-1)x(-1)x(-1)x(-1)
n-ai cum
wt..?
If u RR me I cyberkill u !!
10 May 2010
Ecstasy of God
Holy Rollers is inspired by actual events in the late nineties when Hasidic Jews were recruited as mules to smuggle ecstasy from Europe into the United States.
08 May 2010
Mr. Prius
"We're aggressively working right now to see how we can extend the OnStar business even beyond automotive," said Chris Preuss, who was recently named head of the OnStar brand after running GM's public relations.
07 May 2010
06 May 2010
o_O
A man banned from wearing skirts at certain times breached his Asbo by deliberately bending over in front of his neighbours, a court has heard.
Peter Trigger is banned from wearing a skirt or showing bare legs on a school day between 8.30am and 10am and 2.45pm and 4pm.
awesomeness. pure, black, thai awesomeness
[aud bine, now frozen, silence marks (?) the dance macabre]
yeah, i fuckin approve that, too
Hollywood film director Michael Bay hopes he can convince officials to let him blow up the Gulf of Mexico. The recent oil spill from the Deepwater Horizon oil rig has created ideal conditions for a Gulf-wide explosion.
in the mean time, still no cure for cancer
Wildlife documentary makers are infringing animals' rights to privacy by filming their most private and intimate moments, according to a new study.
Я хочу верить
He also asks if there are official guidelines for what government officials should do if contacted by aliens, especially if those officials have access to state secrets.
planet plastic
planet plastic
04 May 2010
Attack of the giant boobs
A Peruvian mother of four was trapped in her bed for six months because of her giant breasts.
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unrelated giant boob
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unrelated giant boob
03 May 2010
BMW XXX5
Dupa ce a constatat ca SUV-ul lui BMW-X5 a disparut din parcare, impreuna cu alte cateva masini, Nidelea a inceput sa strige in holul hotelului de cinci stele Melia Grand Hermitage si chiar si-a dat pantalonii jos in semn de protest.
BYOB, dude
"Politistii au audiat o parte dintre participantii la festival, afland de la acestia ca, in urma cu o zi, Cristian Dobre s-a aratat nemultumit fata de preturile mari practicate la singurul bar de acolo."
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