A Day in Paradise

If there is any word that describes my show it’s random and very experimental. This one went all wrong, but here are the show notes anyway.

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Enjoy and Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas!

Christmas Music by Vas (Little Drummer Boy), Justin (What Child is This?), and Nu Beat. Nu Beat music available on the podsafe music network.

Discussion on Media and controvertial religious issues which conveniently come up when the administration is in hot water about important issues.

Why Everything2 is better than Wikipedia when it comes to looking for random information.

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Oddly Enough News Article | Reuters.com

Oh the rigorous life of an actor…

He packed on 6.5 kg (14 lb) in just under a week by devouring 1.5 kg of pork and six bottles of beer a day and then immediately going to bed, taking sleeping pills to knock himself out when he was not tired, the report said.

Some quick thoughts Stanley ‘Tookie’ Williams execution.

Savetookie.org
Some notable quotes here. The “Redemption” Movie

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Iraq Prison Raid Finds a New Case of Mistreatment – New York Times

So I’m guessing this “Internet Posting” is just some 13-year-old with too much time on their hands. Almost deserves it’s own Mastercard ad.

An insurgent group, the Victorious Army Group, has extended a deadline for a Web design contest, according to an Internet posting. The group has set a Jan. 15 deadline for submissions of a design “worthy of the group’s reputation and the reputation of the jihad and the mujahedeen,” according to a translation provided by the SITE Institute, which monitors jihadist messages.

The winner is promised “God’s blessings” and the opportunity to fire three long-range rockets at an American military base.

Story also reported here along with the rules and original flash announcement.

A quick line-up of music which I’ve been wanting to play for a while, so here it is, in the tradition of John Lennon and his peace activism through music.

Music courtesy of:

“Mr President” – Fool Moon – http://www.the-healing.com (music video available)
“Do you think about me” – Chris Paulson – www.chrispaulson.de Dedicated to Ali Ismaeel Abbas.
“Imagine This: – Wax Audio – Download album

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SuprGlu – Sebastian Bergmann

Hey, cool service! Looks like I’m GuprSlu’d too!

FIFA boots chip ball from 2006 soccer World Cup

The ball will also not be used in the FIFA Club World Championship games in Tokyo this December, the association said Monday in a joint statement with German sportswear manufacturer Adidas-Salomon AG, which will supply the official game balls at both tournaments.

“The technology isn’t perfect yet,” said Adidas spokesman Jan Runau. “We’re still working on it. We have to be 1000 percent certain that it works perfectly before we can deploy it in professional soccer games.”

Engineers working on the smart ball had hoped the technology would be ready for the World Cup tournament next year.

In October, Günter Rohmer, director of performance-optimized systems at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits in Erlangen, Germany, said the technology had been tested at the main soccer stadium in Nuremberg for several months and more recently in an under-17 FIFA tournament in Peru. “The technology has performed well, and we’re pretty optimistic that it will be used at the games in Germany next year,” Rohmer said at the time.

In their joint statement, FIFA and Adidas said they decided to “focus on the further development and testing of the system before using it at tournaments on the highest profession level.”

Runau declined to say when the smart ball will be ready for professional use.

Now I’ve been to 3 christmas markets so far, and already have a christmas tree up, but there’s nothing like a piece of spam which brings the spirit of chirstmas right into your mail folder.

Merry Christmas from our F*cking Spammer friends!

ABC News: 16-Year-Old Wins Science Scholarship

Now, not to brag… but as soon as I saw the headline on google news a little voice in my head said “home schooled”.

A 16-year-old, homeschooled California boy won a premier high school science competition Monday for his innovative approach to an old math problem that could help in the design of airplane wings.

Michael Viscardi, a senior from San Diego, won a $100,000 college scholarship, the top individual prize in the Siemens Westinghouse Competition in Math, Science and Technology.

Viscardi tackled a 19th century math problem and his new method of solving it has potential applications in the fields of engineering and physics.

Reminds me of a US spelling bee which made news because the winner wasn’t home schooled

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Australian executed in Singapore

Nguyen Tuong Van, 25, of Vietnamese descent, was hanged at Changi prison despite repeated pleas for clemency from the Australian government.

He was convicted three years ago of carrying nearly 400g (14 ounces) of heroin at Singapore airport while travelling from Cambodia to Australia.

US carries out 1,000th execution

Kenneth Boyd, a convicted killer, was put to death by lethal injection in North Carolina for the murder of his estranged wife and her father in 1988.

He was given three drugs – one to put him to sleep, another to paralyse him, and a third to stop his heart.

Boyd, 57, has said the death penalty is “nothing but revenge”. Relatives of his victims say he deserves to die.

Another fun bit of spam… well at least he doesn’t say that absolute secrecy is important

My name is Alter Wolfgang. I am a senior partner in the firm. This investigation involves a client who shares the same surname with you and also the circumstances surrounding investments made by this client at Deutsche Bank AG.

The Deutsche Bank AG Banking client died intestate and nominated no successor in title over the investments made with the Bank. The essence of this communication with you is to request you provide us information/comments on any  or all of the four issues:

1-Are you aware of any relative/relation who shares your same surname whose last known contact address was Hamburg, Germany?

2-Are you aware of any investment of considerable value made by such aperson at the Deutsche Bank AG? 3-Born on the 1st of June 1927

4-Can you establish beyond reasonable doubt your eligibility to assume status of successor in title to the deceased?

It is pertinent that you inform us ASAP whether or not you are familiar with this personality that we may put an end to this communication with you and our inquiries surrounding this personality. You must appreciate that we are constrained from providing you with more detailed information at this point.

Please respond to this mail as soon as possible to afford us the opportunity to close this investigation.

Thank you for accommodating our enquiry.

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Wolfgang Alter

USATODAY.com – A false Wikipedia ‘biography’

This kind of stuff is just funny these days… actually, it’s the people who actually think that wikipedia is a viable source of reference that is funny…

Talk about 1000 monkeys… I for one, perfer to get my news and information from more reputable sources. Like Slashdot!

Of course the funny thing about this is that the story saying that the wikipedia article is false became part of the wikipedia article. Ouch, my brain hurts!

Stanley “Tookie” Williams‘ execution date is set for December the 13th. Visit Tookie.com for more information on what you can do to save Tookie.

“Why” written and performed by my good friend Andrew Peterson, audio clips taken from Breakdown FM’s coverage of the Save Tookie Rally. Listen to the full show here.

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