Hey! Teacher! Leave those kids alone!
So a couple of weeks ago I heard the news that, on my old “high-school”, a teacher was put on non-active because he was having a sex-chat with a 12 year old girl on the internet while his laptop-screen contents were beamed onto a big screen in front of the entire classroom. (Dutch article here.)
Interestingly, [...]
‘Amusing’ Blogger translation bug
So I was trying out some API connection, for which I had set up an account on Blogger. Now, the profile over there is displayed in Dutch .. And it translates the sign ‘Cancer’ to the disease ‘cancer’ in Dutch:
The correct translation is of course, ‘Kreeft‘.
That’s the problem with homonyms, words written the same, [...]
:(
 by in Animals & Nature, Sad Stuff |
I just read the news that earlier this week, Alex the Parrot has passed away.
I quote:
She recalls the bird said: “You be good. I love you.” She responded, “I love you, too.” The bird said, “You’ll be in tomorrow,” and she responded, “Yes, I’ll be in tomorrow.”
Touching…
I never expected me to say this, but …
What the fuck is up with todays youth?
I was sitting in the train minding my own business, when at a certain station this older guy tried to unfold his foldable bicycle. Tried — because it didn’t work initially. All in all it was relatively amusing because you could hear the guy curse the bike..
Another [...]
Fuck The Police!
No justice no peace, motherfuckers.
When do this idiots get it into their thick heads that they are there to serve the fucking people, and not to attempt to keep up their appearance?
See, over here in the Netherlands, a 16 year old (!!!) girl was arrested and fined (and her jacket was taken) because her [...]
James Brown R.I.P.
I just caught the news that, sadly, James Brown passed away this Christmas morning.
I remember him being on some talk show on the BBC this year — alive and kicking so I was rather surprised to read about this.
His music has been an inspiration to many musicians — I know there’s numerous songs sampling him [...]
Want to own a filesystem?
| by in Internet & Technology, Sad Stuff, Software |
I just caught this Wired article through Slashdot. Hans Reiser, the creator of ReiserFS — a computer file system — is currently in jail because he’s suspected of murdering his wife. (Yeh the tough reality is that the moment somebody dies or disappears, the spouse is the number one suspect.)
He was actually already arrested on [...]
Just don’t let me see you shoot no dogs…
| by in Random Rantings, Sad Stuff |
It’s bad enough to kill a man — but shooting the dog too is a wee bit excessive, don’t ya think?
Damn cops…
In a true ‘Free World’…
…one would not, and should not, be prevented to take your own life. Apparently — ‘the law‘ decides that you may not do that.
Of course they don’t want you to do that because the State will loose money: the national income will be lower in the future if a few people would take their own [...]
Dutch Donald Duck cartoonist convicted for sexually abusing minors
| by in Sad Stuff, The Netherlands |
The 32 year old Dutch freelance Donald Duck cartoonist Sander G. has been convicted for sexually abusing young girls on the internet. Presumably, he was bothering them with indecent proposals and posing naked in front of a webcam.
Abuse, Donald Duck, The Netherlands
Shifting away responsibility and blame…
So, de Van Der Sloot case is in the news again.
It really makes me sick how parents rather point the finger at someone else, whereas they are just as responsible for this situation in the first place.
Sure it is a sad story that somebody made the girl disappear, and of course, it is irrelevant that [...]
Bird-flu: It’s baaaaaaaack..
| by in Animals & Nature, Health, Sad Stuff, The Netherlands |
Apparently, bird-flu broke out again (Dutch) here in the Netherlands. While driving home yesterday, I did notice the signs like this, but hadn’t heard any news that day:
Sign that prohibits the transport of mammals, poultry, eggs and manure.
Coming home, I checked the news to find out that a new case of the bird-flu was discovered [...]
What really happened…. ?
Whatreallyhappened.com reports that, apparently it has been reported that the two Israeli soldiers were caught on Lebanon territory, as opposed to the Israeli statement that they have been captured in Israel…
Truth, Propaganda, War, Middle East
What the ….. ?!
Someone pointed me to something which, if that shit is for real, would make Marc Dutroux look like Gandhi.
Nukes and Peace
| by in Interesting Links, Sad Stuff |
I just discovered this image through Sean Coon’s site.
Brilliant..
3 year old child gets fine for peeing in public
| by in Humour, Sad Stuff, The Netherlands |
I just read this (Dutch) news about a three-year-old kid getting a €75 fine for peeing in public here in the Netherlands.
Apparently, the kid was with its mother and it badly needed to ‘go’. As there was no public toilet in sight, she let ‘m pee in the bushes. Meanwhile, a cop saw all this [...]
Some of the sickest shit I’ve ever seen…
I just noticed this image right here. That’s some pretty sick stuff…
‘Humanity’ never ceases to amaze me.
Israel, Middle East, Hatred, War On Truth
So it’s my holiday…
| by in Animals & Nature, Bunnies, General, Health, Sad Stuff |
…and as with every start of a holiday, some shit happens to one of our animals. Every year it’s the same story, but with a different animal each time. We got four in total, 2 cats and 2 rabbits.
So we were sleeping and in the middle of the night, last friday, we heared a *bang*, [...]
Jihad Watch — WTF?
Don’t know how I got there, but I discover this site that I wished I didn’t.
Apparently, the site in question sees itself as some authority on Islam — because they say they’ll educate the West about them (they obviously misspelt ‘propaganda’ there).
Anyways, it is clear that they haven’t read this article (which really makes a [...]
McKinnon to be extradited to America after all
| by in Computers & Hardware, Freedom & Repression, Internet & Technology, Media, Religion & Politics, Sad Stuff, Security & Privacy |
Seems like the pleads didn’t help Gary McKinnon at all. Because of a dumb extradition treaty he’ll be extradited to the US. For, according to the media,
[..] the “biggest military hack of all time” [..]
Which in itself is absolute bullshit because the ‘biggest military hack’, at least strategically, is the forced usage of Microsoft Windows [...]
Kansas reinstates death penalty — WTF?
So, Kansas is reinstating the deat penalty, joining another 37 states in the US that are up to these uncivilised and inhumane practices. That’s not a good thing at all. Yeah, the US, the land of the free, and murderers of the possibly innocent (and that’s not limited to their internal politics either).
The church did [...]
Sick American fucks jerking off at the image of a dead man…
So, they killed him, and these sick sadist fucks are showing his picture all over the fucking media. Yeah — as if that releasing all those snuff-pictures will really do any good.
It makes me angry, and I bet it makes the more radical people angry.
Yeah so thank you US military for, once again, making [...]
The Greensboro Massacre
Today, Sean Coon’s Lyricist Wednesday-post featured an OMD song, called ‘88 seconds in Greensboro‘, referring to the Greensboro Massacre. I had nothing better to do, so today I got my ignorant ass to actually read up on the story and check the Greensboro’s Child documentary trailer and excerpt.
Before today, I didn’t know anything about [...]
Don’t believe the American lies!
Well, this comes as a surprise (sarcasm): The Washington Times reports that:
Venezuela has allowed its intelligence service to become a clone of Cuba’s while it shelters groups with ties to Middle East terrorists and allows weapons from its official stockpiles to reach Colombian guerrillas, a senior U.S. official said yesterday.
Of course, that’s a lie. A [...]
This wasn’t my choice and definitely not theirs….
Every weekday morning, like many other slaves in this day and age, I fill up a big mug with some fine coffee and get into my car to drive to work.
It’s Spring-time, a new beginning, the start of a lot of new life: all types of birds are returning from their stay in warmer locations. [...]
Wow — a 20p bounty on rabbits…
| by in Animals & Nature, Bunnies, Sad Stuff |
I just accidentally hit this BBC article here telling of a 20p bounty for every rabbit killed on Shetland.
They aren’t responsible for that situation.
Mr Ratter, who is also a Shetland Islands councillor, added: “The damage they can cause is huge, especially in an area like the south end of the island which is sandy. Rabbits [...]
Nice way to start the spring..
| by in Animals & Nature, Belegana, Health, Interesting Links, Sad Stuff |
If there’s one thing us humans can do, collectively, it must be fucking up this planet. The Register also reported it yesterday, and in case you missed it, the UN released a report on how recent human activity has messed-up the planet we live and depend on. To quote The Register:
As much as 80 per [...]
German bird-flu fears cause people to get rid of their cats
| by in Animals & Nature, Cats, Health, Sad Stuff |
Apparently, because of the fears of the bird-flu going around and the fact one dead cat was found suffering from it, German cat-owners are massively dropping their cats at animal-shelters, causing those to overload.
What kind of pet-owners are these people?
I mean, when those people were sick, their cat probably kept them company the whole [...]
Cat’s recovering now, kinda…
| by in Animals & Nature, Cats, Health, Sad Stuff |
Holy cow — yesterday was a terrible day. The cat went to the vet for some heavy cancer-surgery thing and we got her back with a big fat stitch across her belly with 2 tubes sticking out, so that excessive fluid can leave her body. The big fat stitch is there because her milk-glands, nipples [...]
Cat’s back from the vet now…
| by in Animals & Nature, Cats, Health, Sad Stuff |
And *gulp* does she look shitty.
Big fat stitch across her belly, almost from armpit to her hind-legs, a drain in it which drips some fluid and blood every now and then.
Not a pretty sight at all…
Animals, Pets, Cats, Surgery, Cancer
Cat’s at the vet now…
| by in Animals & Nature, Cats, Health, Sad Stuff |
So, the cat is at the vet now for the big surgery-thing to remove half of her milk-gland tissue stuff from her belly where the tumours are growing.
I hope the procedure’ll be a breeze for the vet and she’ll be OK in 2 hours.
Hang in there, Mimi.
Animals, Pets, Cats, Surgery
The long-term effects of short-term short-sighted selfishness
| by in Animals & Nature, Cats, Health, Sad Stuff |
OK, so we have two cats, a male and a female. The male has been neutered for quite some time. The female wasn’t spayed because me and the girlfriend thought we’d like to have kittens at some certain point in life.
The female of our two cats, Mimi.
The Cat Pill
So we did give her the ‘cat-pill’, [...]
Google Desktop privacy concerns
Hot from the EFF’s site:
“Coming on the heels of serious consumer concern about government snooping into Google’s search logs, it’s shocking that Google expects its users to now trust it with the contents of their personal computers,” said EFF Staff Attorney Kevin Bankston. “Unless you configure Google Desktop very carefully, and few people will, Google [...]
Uranium run on 25th January 2006
| by in Health, Media, Religion & Politics, Random Rantings, Sad Stuff, Space & Beyond, The Netherlands |
On Indymedia there’s an article explaining how, on the 25th of January this month, a train will be shipping Uranium Hexafluaride (UF6) from Germany to The Netherlands, and from there to Russia:
German and Dutch nuclear opponents plan to disrupt a consignment of depleted uranium hexafluoride they say is due to run Wednesday, 25 [...]
Navy denies killing Gonzo
According to the Times, UK navy denies killing Thames whale
NAVY sonar and military explosions have been blamed for disorientating the bottlenose whale that died on Saturday after two days in the Thames.
All in all the used depth-charges and explosions might have caused the whale to get confused and swim up the river Thames.
To continue [...]
Gonzo’s dead…
| by in Animals & Nature, Sad Stuff |
During the rescue attempt, he passed away.
Update 2006-01-23 12:23: Added link to Yahoo! article.
Gonzo, England, Whale
Outlook for Gonzo looks promising…
| by in Animals & Nature, Sad Stuff |
In case you haven’t yet heard of it, a whale, nicknamed Gonzo, had reached London through the river Thames. The outlook for the poor bugger was bleak.
A rescue operation is currently still underway and a transcript of all events can be found here. Luckily, things look promising:
Experts say Gonzo’s condition is ‘resonable’ and the likelihood [...]
Netscape Webmail SNAFU?
Why is the account reset and zapped?
Honouring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Day should be a global holiday remembering the importance of civil rights and liberties and evil of oppression.
Mexican Vulcano-rabbit: another species existence threatened
| by in Animals & Nature, Bunnies, Random Rantings, Sad Stuff |
According to this article here is seems that the so-called Mexican Vulcano Rabbit is another species being threatened to disappear from the face of the earth because mankinds’ messing up their habitat.
Truly sad stuff to see nature raped and pillaged all around us.
Animals, Nature, Rabbits
Stanley “Tookie” Williams executed
Mr. Arnold “Terminator” Schwarzenegger declined clemency for Stanley Williams. As USATODAY reports;
Williams, co-founder of the notorious Crips gang, had been on death row nearly a quarter century for the 1979 shotgun murders of four people in Los Angeles. He maintained his innocence and never expressed remorse, a key factor that Schwarzenegger said influenced his decision.
Probably, [...]
Richard Pryor R.I.P.
| by in Sad Stuff |
One of the funniest motherf*ckers on earth passed away.
Another innocent animal killed
| by in Animals & Nature, Sad Stuff, The Netherlands |
Yesterday, some guys tried to rob a physically handicapped person. Her handicapped-vehicle ended up stuck in a ditch and because the person didn’t have any money on her, the robbers brutally killed the dog by dangling him on his colar on a fence, effectively hanging him.
Suddenly the killing of the sparrow this monday seems less [...]
Dutch domino record breakers are sparrow-killers
| by in Animals & Nature, Sad Stuff, The Netherlands |
The show must go on: even if an animal has to get shot?
