oingo-de-bloggo-de-boingo: November 2005

Woman has first face transplant

The BBC seem to be getting more and more tabloid in their online articles. This one's about a face transplant.

BBC NEWS | Health | Woman has first face transplant

They don't show you her 'new' face. So I wondered what she would want to look like.

For some Web Zen, I Googled Hello Kitty

What face would you pick for her?

Creative people 'luckier in love' - BBC

Creative people get more sex, a new study reveals. This much, I think we knew already. But read on...

"The more creative a person is, the more sexual partners they are likely to have, UK investigators have found.

Artists and poets had an average of four to 10 sexual partners, compared to three for non-creative types, Newcastle and Open University teams discovered."

Four to ten!!! Four to ten? Hahahahahahahahaha! Hahahahahahahaaaa! Ooooh! Hahahahahaha! Oh, dear... (wipes a tear from his eye)....

The article also says these creative types tend to be a little bit schizo. Well then, I must be certifiably insane.

Click for BBC article

Blasphemy in Narnia

CS Lewis wasn't keen on Disney's cartoons. Read his letter...Click for CS Lewis' letter

Georgie Best - superstar

Here's some video footage of Best at his best. Click for George Best - Brilliant Football Goal - video

Machinima: "The French Democracy" movie

This is first machinima movie to have a strong political plot. It's about the recent riots in France. It's really rather good. Click for "The French Democracy"

Btw...Machinima is a new genre of movie that uses video screen captures of video games as footage.

18 Tricks to Teach Your Body

Some of this stuff I know works. The other stuff, well... I've never tried. 18 Click for Tricks to Teach Your Body

Singapore 'tops execution league'

From the BBC:

"Singapore has the world's highest per capita execution rate, according to a report by Amnesty International.

The report said the Asian city-state, which has a population of four million, had hanged more than 400 prisoners in the last 13 years.

The rate is three times that of Saudi Arabia, the next country on the list."

Wow. That does seem a bit excessive.

Click for BBC report

Iron crotch Qigong

Yes, it's kung fu willies. No fighting, just eye-watering feats of strength (and stupidity). These men use their highly trained genitals to lift weights and tow trucks.

Apparently it's the rarest Qigong on earth. Well, I'm not surprised. Click for kock fu

Oh, and is it me or does the topmost photo on their page look a little bit gay?

Polygraph Test - for professional liars everywhere

How to pass the polygraph 'lie-detector' test. Click to pass the polygraph everytime

Click for antipolygraph

You never know... It might come in handy someday.

Informants and the war in Iraq

A couple of articles about how the CIA, looking for any excuse to invade Iraq, used testimonies of informants who lied to get visas... God bless America. Yee Haw.

Rolling Stone article

LA Times article

Turing Test Questions

What the hell is a Turing test? I hear you ask...

Well, it's a test to tell whether you're talking to a person or a machine.

So here are some questions that are designed to tell human from machine:

Turing Test Questions - add your own to the ever growing list

You never know, they might come in handy one day. Like when machines take over the Earth... Mmmmwwwaaahhhaaaahahhhahh!

And here's the Wikipedia page for Turing test

Monty Python Black Knight

A gift for the man who has everything... cut off his limbs. Click for Monty Python Black Knight

The product description reads "Knight's detachable arms and legs rip off to reveal bloody stumps"... Obviously

It's just a flesh wound... Ta Paul.

On the effectiveness of aluminium foil helmets

For paranoid tin foil hat wearers... Some MIT students have run some tests... Click for scientific study

Sony anti-customer technology roundups and time-lines

Time to say sory sony. Did you know that Sony has put malware onto their music cds that will install on your computer? If you play the music cd on your pc, it will either render your pc unusable or lay it open to serious vulnerabilities. Well done sony! Click for Boing Boing: Sony anti-customer technology roundup and time-line There are three pages. It's worth reading them all. Mind boggling.