Lembra Padre Adelir? O que teve a brilhante idéia de voar por aí com uns balões  e subiu, subiu, subiu tanto que foi pra céu? Então. Sei lá como, essa notícia foi para no Darwin Awards, que é um site que premia as mortes mais estúpidas do mundo. E a gente votou com força e...

Pra vc que votou junto, incansávelmente, incessantemente e repetidamente, a boa notícia: ele ganhoooooooou! Juro, ele ganhou. É serio, olha aí:

http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2008-16.html

E por hj... É só! Amanhã vou acordar melhor, vcs vão ver!

Ah! Passamos das 100 visitas! Valeeeeeu!

E parabéns pro blog que hj já fez uma semana e eu tõ cada vez mais viciada nessa coisa...

Sexta!

Beijotchau...

Vamos ajudar para que sua morte não seja em vão, vamos votar no Darwin Awards e colocar ele lá em cima como nosso representante mor! Então venho por meio deste post pedir o apoio da nação blogueira e seus blogs para divulgar e ajudar a eleger este humilde servo representante brasileiro no Darwin Awards.

Para votar é bom simples, clique AQUI, você ira direto para a pagina do padre no Darwin Awards, depois dessa até o final da pagina clique em nota 10 e depois em “Vote on this Darwin Award!” tão simples que até seu cachorro pode fazer ;)

Convido para participarem deste “meme”:
Leandro do Kibando e (VO)Andando
Marcos do Mark Urgh
Holy do Manicômio S/A

Você conhece o Darwin Awards??

O Darwin Awards é uma premiação internacional cujo principal objetivo é saudar a evolução da éspécie humana honrando aqueles que acidentalmente se matam de maneira estúpida comprovando que a seleção natural existe., um dos grandes visados para este premio este ano é nada mais nada menos que o nosso amado Padre Adelir que vocês sabem pegou muitos balões de hélio e subiu, subiu pra nao voltar mais (momento de tristeza). Recentemente seu corpo foi encontrado e seus parentes ja reconheceram, pois bem existe um sistema de votação no site e vocês podem entregar essa ultima homenagem a ele, basta clicar no link que eu vo colocar mais abaixo ou na imagem.

O mais interresante é a descrição do caso do padre no site que diz que ele nao merece um darwin awards, mas dois sim dois pois como ele era um padre fez voto de celibato e nao teria filhos de jeito nenhum.

pois bem entao votem para ele receber este premio em nome do Brasil.

Clicando Aqui

PS: E que Deus tenha piedade de nossas almas

From the AP:

The Spanish Red Cross said a 22-year-old man from California was gored in the abdomen and will have to undergo surgery. His name was not released. Andy Firestone, an 18-year-old from Los Angeles, called his first run at Pamplona "the most incredible experience of my life. I was afraid, but this is a once-in-a-lifetime thing."

"(It's) a rush of Adrenalin. I'll definitely do it again," said Australian Hugh Fontayn, 19.

For the locals in Spain the running is a historical custom and who am I to question how one culture wants to herd their livestock through a crowded village.  However, when you start adding in the late teen or 20-something, jack-ass wannabees who had a bong-fueled revelation to run with the bulls while reading the Cliff Notes of The Sun Also Rises for English 101at Chico State, I just lose all respect.

Then you get the inevitable, sad follow-up story of some gored kid's sister crying that Jimmy Dipshit was an adventurer, lived for the moment and how this is how he would have wanted to die.  What an amazing load of crap.  Any non-Spaniard who gets the horns should be refused medical help by all Spanish hospitals and be left to rot in the streets like month old tapas. Whatever bull gores these douche bags should be given Spain's highest honor and be renamed for the the kid he turned into a human shish kabob.

Eighth Place
In Detroit, a 41-year-old man got stuck and drowned in two feet of water after squeezing head first through an 18-inch-wide sewer grate to retrieve his car keys.

Seventh Place
A 49-year-old San Francisco stockbroker, who 'totally zoned when he ran,' accidentally, jogged off a 100-foot high cliff on his daily run.

Sixth Place
While at the beach, Daniel Jones, 21, dug an 8 foot hole for protection from the wind and had been sitting in a beach chair at the bottom when it collapsed, burying him beneath 5 feet of sand. People on the beach used their hands and shovels trying to get him out but could not reach him. It took rescue workers using heavy equipment almost an hour to free him. Jones was pronounced dead at a hospital.

Fifth Place
Santiago Alvarado, 24, was killed as he fell through the ceiling of a bicycle shop he was burglarising. Death was caused when the long flashlight he ha d placed in his mouth to keep his hands free rammed into the base of his skull as he hit the floor.

Fourth Place
Sylvester Briddell, Jr., 26, was killed as he won a bet with friends who said he would not put a revolver loaded with four bullets into his mouth and pull the trigger.

Third Place
After stepping around a marked police patrol car parked at the front door, a man walked into H&J Leather & Firearms intent on robbing the store. The shop was full of customers and a uniformed officer was standing at the counter.

Upon seeing the officer, the would-be robber announced a hold-up, and fired a few wild shots from a target pistol. The officer and a clerk promptly returned fire, and several customers also drew their guns and fired. The robber was pronounced dead at the scene by Paramedics. Crime scene investigators located 47 expended cartridge cases in the shop. The subsequent autopsy revealed 23 gunshot wounds. Ballistics identified rounds from 7 different weapons. No one else was hurt.

HONOURABLE MENTION
Paul Stiller, 47, and his wife Bonnie were bored just driving around at 2 A.M. so they lit a quarter stick of dynamite to toss out the window to see what would happen. Apparently they failed to notice the window was closed.

RUNNER UP
Kerry Bingham had been drinking with several friends when one of them said they knew a person who had bungee-jumped from a local bridge in the middle of traffic. The conversation grew more heated and at least 10 men trooped along the walkway of the bridge at 4:30 AM. Upon arrival at the midpoint of the bridge they discovered that no one had brought a bungee rope.

Bingham, who had continued drinking, volunteered and pointed out that a coil of lineman's cable, lay near by. They secured one end around Bingham's leg and then tied the other to the bridge. His fall lasted 40 feet before the cable tightened and tore his foot off at the ankle. He miraculously survived his fall into the icy water and was rescued by two nearby fishermen. Bingham's foot was never located.

AND THE WINNER IS...
Zookeeper Friedrich Riesfeldt (Paderborn, Germany) fed his constipated elephant 22 doses of animal laxative and more than a bushel of berries, figs and prunes before the plugged-up pachyderm finally got relief.

Investigators say ill-fated Friedrich, 46, was attempting to give the ailing elephant an olive oil enema when the relieved beast unloaded. The sheer force of the elephant's unexpected defecation knocked Mr. Riesfeldt to the ground where he struck his head on a rock as the elephant continued to evacuate 200 pounds of dung on top of him.

It seems to be just one of those freak accidents that proves... 'Sh*t happens'.

THEY WALK AMONG US.....

IT ALWAYS SEEMS IMPORTANT TO THANK THESE PEOPLE FOR REMOVING THEMSELVES FROM THE GENE POOL.

CLIQUE AQUI PARA ESCUTAR

Um agradecimento para a Gorda, pois a webcam dela acabou se tornando o único microfone decente na casa.

Um segundo agradecimento à Microsoft que me fez perder vários arquivos na pasta Meus Documentos após uma nota me lembrando que Eu tenho que registrar meu Windows, inclusive a versão editada do podcast e o filme porno da Leila Lopes, das Brasileirinhas, que Eu havia feito o download.

Notas para compreensão:

Zoação com o Fluminense: Aqui, aqui, aqui, aqui e aqui. Se não suficiente, procura no Orkut, em qualquer comunidade você acha.

Lei Seca: Padre que deixou de beber vinho e Quanto tempo esperar para eliminar o álcool do sangue,

Darwin Awards: Site (em inglês), Padre voador encontrado e outro idiota cara voa usando balões(extra)

Diablo 3: Vídeos; cinematic trailer, gameplay parte 1e gameplay parte 2. Fãs descontentes com os gráficos de Diablo e possível adaptação para consoles.

PS: O tempo de queda provável ao centro da terra pode ser encontrado aqui.

PS2: A citação ao filme da Leila Lopes foi só para catar uns paraquedistas vindos do Google. \m/ FUCK YEAH SEO \m/

A teenager was decapitated by a roller coaster after he hopped fences and entered a restricted area yesterday at Six Flags Over Georgia, authorities said.

Authorities were investigating reports from witnesses who said the teenager jumped the fences to retrieve a hat he lost while riding the Batman roller coaster.

Guess he won't be needing that hat now?

It must have been two years or so ago that I came across the Gashlycrumb Tinies for the first time. Totally gave us a stop-what-you're-doing-and-come-check-these-out moment in the graphics office, where everyone huddled over my shoulder to read the alphabetized taglines. Not since the Darwin Awards has gruesome been so good. Another day brightener (despite the dark subject matter).

Sarcasm, then, is a verbal hammer that connects people in both a negative and positive way. We know that sense of humor is important to relationships; if someone doesn't get your jokes, they aren't likely to be your friend (or at least that's my bottom line about friendship). Sarcasm is simply humor's dark side, and it would be just as disconcerting if a friend didn’t get your snide remarks.

It's also easy to imagine how sarcasm might be selected over time as evolutionarily crucial. Imagine two ancient humans running across the savannah with a hungry lion in pursuit. One guy says to the other, "Are we having fun yet?" and the other just looks blank and stops to figure out what in the world his pal meant by that remark. End of friendship, end of one guy's contribution to the future of the human gene pool.

Fast forward a few million years and the network of human relationships is wider and more complex, and just as important to survival. The corporate chairman throws out a sarcastic remark and those who "get" it laugh, smile, and gain favor. In the same way, if the chair never makes a remark, sarcastic people are making them behind his or her back, forming a clique by their mutually negative, but funny, comments. Either way, sarcasm plays a role in making and breaking alliances and friendship.

I guess this means that the Darwin awards must need a non sarcastic equivalent- the Intelligent Design awards, or something. Awards for those who were created so non evolutionarily perfect that they fail to register sarcasm as a form of humor, perhaps...

The Disease Management Purchasing Consortium (DMPC), the most comprehensive source of information about the disease management industry, announced today the winners of the “2006 Disease Management (DM) Intelligent Design Awards,” given annually to those contributions which most set back the evolution of the disease management and wellness fields. Just as engineers say that more is learned from a single bridge which collapses than from 100 which stay up, there are serious lessons to be learned from these often-humorous failures.

First place is awarded to Trestletree for the claim on its website that it “reduced absenteeism by 300%.” The winning screenshot (it is fifth in succession on the rotating www.trestletree.com home page, as of this writing) is also available from DMPC.

source

I had to see... Doug.

2nd Interviewer: Doug?

Vercotti: Doug (takes a drink) Well, I was terrified. Everyone was terrified of Doug. I've seen grown men pull their own heads off rather than see Doug. Even Dinsdale was frightened of Doug.

2nd Interviewer: What did he do?

Vercotti: He used... sarcasm. He knew all the tricks, dramatic irony, metaphor, bathos, puns, parody, litotes and... satire. He was vicious.

Presenter:By a combination of violence and sarcasm, the Piranha brothers by February 1966 controlled London and the Southeast of England. It was in February, though, that Dinsdale made a big mistake.

Gloria:Latterly Dinsdale had become increasingly worried about Spiny Norman. He had come to the conclusion that Norman slept in an aeroplane hangar at Luton Airport.

Presenter:And so on Feb 22nd 1966, Dinsdale blew up Luton. (shot of a H-Bomb exploding) Even the police began to sit up and take notice.

Monty Python's Piranha Brother's sketch

"Dark sarcasm ought to be taught in schools, he thought."
Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

Voltamos à velha historia da surra do psicólogo, ou uma bela bordoada dos pais com cara de pateta, o desgraçado aparece para dar entrevista a Noite dentro do Aeroporto com óculos escuro, a mãe tava com cara de interrogação, nem sabendo o que passava.

O que passa na cabeça com essas duas antas é que acordaram no dia seguinte, e ficaram se perguntando “não esta falando algo aqui?” bem do tipo Homer Simpson (tem o Bart, a Lisa e aquela pequenininha!), até se tocar que a pamonha da filha tava querendo dar umas amasso com a amiguinha bem longe. Sim! Olha a fotos das duas têm cara que gosta de “colar bolacha”!

De altfel, motto-ul sitului este:"Honoring those who improve the species...by accidentally removing themselves from it!"...Adica ceva in genul:"Bine ca ati murit, abia a mai scapat genomul uman de cateva gene de prostie!"

Pentru cei carora le place umorul negru, recomand cateva povestioare devenite faimoase deja:

• tipul care si-a taiat singur capul ca sa isi demonstreze barbatia aici;
• tipul care in loc sa raspunda la telefon, a raspuns la pistol aici;
• un tip care a plecat de nebun in desert si a murit evident aici;
• un cuplu care a cazut de pe casa in timp ce facea sex aici;
• si un galatean care si-a taiat organul genital aici.

Lectura placuta! :)

Eighth Place
In Detroit , a 41-year-old man got stuck and drowned in two feet of water after
squeezing head first through an 18-inch-wide sewer grate to retrieve his car
keys.

Seventh Place
A 49-year-old San Francisco stockbroker, who 'totally zoned when he
ran', accidentally, jogged off a 100-foot high cliff on his daily run.

Sixth Place
While at the beach, Daniel Jones, 21, dug an 8 foot hole for protection from
the wind and had been sitting in a beach chair at the bottom! When it
collapsed, burying him beneath 5 feet of sand. People on the beach used their
hands and shovels trying to get him out but could not reach him. It took rescue
workers using heavy equipment almost an hour to free him. Jones was pronounced
dead at a hospital.

Fifth Place
Santiago Alvarado, 24, was killed as he fell through the ceiling of a bicycle
shop he was burglarizing. Death was caused when the long flashlight he had
placed in his mouth to keep his hands free rammed into the base of his skull as
he hit the floor.

Fourth Place
Sylvester Briddell, Jr., 26, was killed as he won a bet with friends who said
he would not put a revolver loaded with four bullets into his mouth and pull
the trigger.

Third Place
After stepping around a marked police patrol car parked at the front door, a
man walked into H&J Leather & Firearms intent on robbing the store. The
shop was full of customers and a uniformed officer was standing at the counter.
Upon seeing the officer, the would-be robber announced a hold-up! and fired a
few wild shots from a target pistol. The officer and a clerk promptly returned
fire, and several customers also drew their guns and fired. The robber was
pronounced dead at the scene by Paramedics. Crime scene investigators located
47 expended cartridge cases in the shop. The subsequent autopsy revealed 23
gunshot wounds. Ballistics identified rounds from 7 different weapons. No one
else was hurt.

HONORABLE MENTION
Paul Stiller, 47, and his wife Bonnie were bored just driving around at 2 A.M.
so they lit a quarter stick of dynamite to toss out the window to see what
would happen. Apparently they failed to notice the window was closed.

RUNNER UP
Kerry Bingham had been drinking with several friends when one of them said they
knew a person who had bungee-jumped from a local bridge in the middle of
traffic. The conversation grew more heated and at least 10 men trooped along
the walkway of the bridge at 4:30 AM. Upon arrival at the midpoint of the
bridge they discovered that no one had brought a bungee rope. Bingham, who had
continued drinking, volunteered and pointed out that a coil of lineman's
cable lay near by. They secured one end around Bingham's leg and then tied
the other to the bridge. His fall lasted 40 feet before the cable tightened and
tore his foot off at the ankle.. He miraculously survived his fall into the icy
water and was rescued by two nearby fishermen. Bingham's foot was never
located.

AND THE WINNER IS...
Zookeeper Friedrich Riesfeldt ( Paderborn, Germany ) fed his constipated
elephant 22 doses of animal laxative and more than a bushel of berries, figs
and prunes before the plugged-up pachyderm finally got relief.
Investigators say ill-fated Friedrich, 46, was attempting to give the ailing
elephant an olive oil enema when the relieved beast unloaded.
The sheer force of the elephant's unexpected defecation knocked Mr.
Riesfeldt to the ground where he struck his head on a rock as the elephant
continued to evacuate 200 pounds of dung on top of him.

En otras palabras, los premios Darwin son entregados de forma póstuma a aquellos individuos que preservan nuestro acervo genético al matarse de formas realmente estúpidas, llevando a cabo planes que cualquier niño sabría que podrían terminar en accidente; como por ejemplo, el terrorista que envía una carta bomba sin todos los sellos postales necesarios y muere al volarse él mismo al abrir el paquete de vuelta; o como los surfistas que celebran un huracán realizando una fiesta en la playa para luego ser barridos por las olas; o mi favorito, el idiota que murió en un concurso de escupitajos.

Así que si crees tener lo que se necesita para ser nominado a un Darwin, éstas son las reglas para determinar a los ganadores de los premios Darwin:

Reproducción: Fuera de la piscina genética: Muerto o estéril.
Excelencia: Sorprendente mala aplicación de juicio.
Madurez: En la totalidad de sus facultades mentales y físicas.
Veracidad: El hecho ha de estar perfectamente corroborado.

Aunque el matar a estos individuos los descalifica automáticamente para recibir un Darwin, sin importar que tan grande haya sido el bien hecho a la especie humana al eliminarlo.

Más información: Darwin Awards, Wikipedia

So I've spent another day on line winding up Afrocentrists. The funniest thing about my latest wrangle was it eventually came to light that he thought a particular Dr Loring Brace paper said that the Neolithic Europeans weren't Caucasians.

Boy did I have a laugh over that when he proudly pronounced the paper said neolithic European weren't Caucasians... what a total muppet. Let's just say my respect for him as an adversary took a total nose-dive at that point. The paper was actually an discussion about variations in European cranial facial form, although it didn't say so explicitly, it was so obvious that it meant. I don't think Dr Brace ever expected someone to say that stone age Europeans weren't Caucasoid. LMAO.

It also made a passing comment about Egyptians being mostly Eurasian that he hadn't spotted when he'd read it...

I don't think he had a good day. I, on the other hand, had a blast.

Better start packing for Butlins, I suppose.

Website of the day

The Darwin Awards.

 Always cheering to find out how stupid some peoples deaths are.

This years runners up are...

Paul Stiller, 47, and his wife Bonnie were bored just driving around at 2 A.M. so they lit a quarter stick of dynamite to toss out the window to see what would happen. Apparently they failed to notice the window was closed.

Kerry Bingham had been drinking with several friends when one of them said they knew a person who had bungee-jumped from a local bridge in the middle of traffic. The conversation grew more heated and at least 10 men trooped along the walkway of the bridge at 4:30 AM. Upon arrival at the midpoint of the bridge they discovered that no one had brought a bungee rope. Bingham, who had continued drinking, volunteered and pointed out that a coil of lineman's cable, lay near by. They secured one end around Bingham's leg and then tied the other ! ;to the bridge. His fall lasted 40 feet before the cable tightened and tore his foot off at the ankle.. He miraculously survived his fall into the icy water and was rescued by two nearby fishermen. Bingham's foot was never found.

But the winner is..

Zookeeper Friedrich Riesfeldt ( Paderborn , Germany ) fed his constipated elephant 22 doses of animal laxative and more than a bushel of berries, figs and prunes before the plugged-up pachyderm finally got relief.
Investigators say ill-fated Friedrich, 46, was attempting to give the ailing elephant an olive oil enema when the relieved beast unloaded.
The sheer force of the elephant's unexpected defecation knocked Mr. Riesfeldt to the ground where he struck his head on a rock as the elephant continued to evacuate 200 pounds of dung on top of him.

Here at Gadget Freaks we love motorcycles and fast cars and crazy gadgets but some people really go to extraordinary extremes with extraordinary devices or vehicles in the name of fame, fortune and fun. So lets take a look at '5 Gadgets Guaranteed To Get You A Darwin Award'.

1- 3800 Horsepower Jet Motorcycle.

Looking at this motorcycle several words come to mind some of which I will not write here. Imagine riding this insane creation. Fitted with a Rolls Royce Viper MK 202 Turbo Jet engine it whacks an amazing 3800 horsepower plus a further 1200 ponies with the afterburner. With a wheelbase of 3.4 metres, it runs double disc brakes and has no chain or sprockets ( unlike the Y2K Jet Bike ) making it a true Jetbike!! Ironically the bike was built by Ron ( Mad ) Laycock who resides in of all places Darwin, Australia! This IS the Gadget Freaks top pick for a sure Darwin Award for the rider of this thing!

2- Turbo Pocket Bikes

Now if you've ever riden a pocket bike you'll know how insanely dangerous they are. Not to be dissuaded some future Darwin Award candidates have made the decision to turbo charge these things. That makes an insane power to weight ratio coupled with the procarious centre of gravity with a grown man atop makes these babies a definite sure fire gadget to get you an award.

3- Car Visor DVD Player and Game Station.

If you like playing computer games or watching DVDs while you are driving then you must be in the running for potential 'Darwinian Stardom'. This neat Car Sun Visor DVD and Game Player  will keep your eyes off the road so much that you can get an award without hardly trying. Imagine doing 100 mph down the highway and playing Mario Kart! Go on buy one, your posthumous 15 minutes of fame are calling!

4- Jet Engined Volkswagen Beetle.

Jet engines and terrestrial vehicles just don't mix. The legendary Jato Rocket Car ( jet assisted take off) which won the 1995 Award was a fine example. Combining a jet engine and a 1967 Chevy Impala equates to car and driver experiencing speeds and G-forces usually reserved for fighter pilots. It can, and in this case did, result in the vehicle becoming airborne for 1.3 miles and impacting 125 feet up a cliff face! Not pretty. I wonder if the owner of this 'Street Legal' Jet Engined Beetle is aware of this! Hold on Gadgeteers, we may have a winner! 

5- Rocket Powered Speedway Bike.

Just to show that folk have been 'chlorinating the gene pool' for considerably longer than the awards   have been running we have this blast from the past. In 1947 90,000 people in Wembly Stadium saw an attempt to increase the performance of a speedway bike by attaching 4 rockets to it. Check out the article here and there is even an historic news reel from the occasion.

Anyway, I digress. The first link led to an article on a jet bike. For whatever insane reason, someone though adding a jet engine to a bike might be a good idea, because obviously motorcycles and mopeds aren't flimsy or dangerous enough. The only positive aspect to the jet bike that I can see is that it runs on pretty much anything, "including peanut oil" but not "cyrogenic fuel" (whatever that is). To further my contention that the maker is completely off his rocker, he got the idea for this bike from thinking that it would be cool to strap a jet engine to his chest while skydiving. In other words, he's clearly a candidate for the Darwin Awards and has been watching too much of "The Rocketter."

To see the article click here.

While looking at the jet bike article, I saw a link to an article entitled, "Flight Attendant Torches Plane to Avoid Flying to Canada," which of course I had to check out as well. My favorite quote from this was,

"[The flight attendant] has been fired (we would hope so) and charged with setting a fire aboard a civil aircraft. He could face 20 years in prison. Regina, Saskatchewan may not be heaven, but it has to beat two decades living in a cell."

Apparently this 19 year old flight attendant was angry about being scheduled to fly to Canada so he set some toilet paper on fire in the bathroom. My first thought is, they hire 19 year old flight attendants?!? I'm sorry but what do they expect? He's probably just a rebellious kid right out of school. He certainly sounded like he was having a tantrum. I mean I can't really see a mature adult setting toilet paper on fire in the bathroom as some sort of revenge. Alright maybe a few...

Other questions also occur to me. Why didn't he set the fire before the plane took off? If the fire had gotten out of control-- although having been in many airplane bathrooms I'd say that is unlikely-- the flight attendant and everyone on the plane might have gotten hurt. Not to mention that they ended up landing in Fargo, which I can't imagine would be any better than Saskatchewan. To see full article click here. All of this seriously makes me wonder about the intelligence level of this country, although I suppose the flight attendant could have been Canadian ;-).

"A SWISS man died when he fell from a hotel balcony during a spitting match with a friend, a Swiss newspaper has reported.

The daily Blick said the 29-year-old man took a run-up from inside the room so he could spit further, but lost his balance and plummeted 6.4m to the street below.

He died in hospital.

The man had suggested the contest when he and two friends returned from a disco to their hotel in Cadempino in Switzerland's Italian-speaking Ticino canton in the early hours.

One of the men went to sleep, but the two others decided to see who could spit furthest from the balcony of their room. "

Didn't his mama ever teach him that spitting was rude?

Regular readers to Gadget Freaks will already know how much we love motorsports. So not surprising that when we saw this Race Simulator we had this sudden feeling that our lives were not complete. If you have a spare $20,000 you might want to buy the Virtual GT model but hey, why fanny about when you are shelling out this much cash! You might be better off with the Motion Pro 2 at a cool $25,995. Then there are the upgrades which include a panoramic display ($12,995), a six-speed gated shifter and progressive clutch ($1,049) and even enhanced on site set/training ($2995). I can just picture one in the Gadget Freaks office! 

Another slightly less expensive gadget spotted this week are these neat Spy Camera Sunglasses. The glasses have 2 in-built cameras on the side arms and transmit video to a wireless receiver. The receiver has a 2.4" screen with an internal memory of 128MB and supports an SD card up to 2 GB.

Here's one that will surely qualify for the Darwin Awards! This Pulse Jet powered bicycle looks rather lethal in our book. It is the creation of Robert Maddox, a 47 year old American who designs and builds the largest pulsejet engines in the world. This contraption runs on kerosene and can thrust power between 14-1000 lbs. Time to start chlorinating the gene pool we think!

This episode reminds me of one of my favourite cartoons from my childhood- Tom and Jerry's Cat Cruise.

The good bit is at 3min 25sec. Just as Jerry dives into the pool, Tom follows. But Jerry drains all the water from the pool by pulling the plug hole and poor old Tom lands flat on his head. It cracks me up every time.

Cheer up Sonny. At least you'll have plenty of time to watch cartoons now.

Stamattina ho preso il carica batterie delle pile, per ricaricarle dal momento che dovrò fare molte foto nei giorni che verranno, solo che era rotto. La presa era sbilenca e ciottolava tutta. Allora, com'è noto, io sono un'aggeggina del cazzo, voglio fare le cose ma non le so fare, ma le faccio, e spesso ci riesco, ma altre volte NO. E l'esito è sempre tragico. Allora, prendo il cacciavite, quello piccolo che ho rubato a mio fratello, ma è troppo piccolo. Allora vado in corridoio, nel cassetto degli attrezzi, e trovo il cacciavite a stella perfetto per la mia missione. Ho aperto la scatolina, e ho visto che finalmente potevo attaccare alla corrente la spina. AHAH! Dico, e rido tra me e me, Ti ho fregato, tecnologia! E con fare da pazza scienziata, attacco la spina (nota bene: che non aveva piu l'involucro di plastica, ma solo la spina e mille cosine strane, che c'erano dentro) e che succede? Ho preso la scossa, tremenda, un formicolio che mi è salito dalle braccia e mi è arrivato al cuore e ho sentito il cuore prima in gola poi direttamente nel cervello. Che trip!!! Cazzo! Mi sono un pò spaventata, ho lanciato in terra quella cosa del demonio che avevo in mano, e sono corsa mezza ridendo e mezza piagnucolando dal mio coinquilino, che sbigottito dalla mia idiozia mi ha abbracciato forte e mi ha tranquillizzato. Io però ridevo e continuavo a dire "potevo morire! ma che trip!" e non so tutt'ora se sono felice o terrorizzata di aver fatto questa esperienza. Stranamente, dopo mi sentivo felicissima.

Ma non è la prima volta che prendo la scossa. Quella precedente, è stata ancora piu cogliona. Mi ero arrabbiata con il mio computer, un annetto fa, e presa dalla rabbia, ho impugnato le forbici e ho tagliato un filo del computer, e anche lì presi la scossa, oltre a far saltare la luce alla casa. Non so perchè divento così scema e irascibile, e spero di non morire mai fulminata perchè altrimenti entrerei al volo nei Darwin Awards.

M'illumino d'immenso.

e se attacco i diti alla corrente

il baglior si fa piu intenso

Of course as he looked up, I lost my balance and ate it in a pretty spectacular fashion.

I remembered that experience after reading the following story,

Police: Motorcyclist flipped bird, popped wheelie, crashed

It's a good thing this guy didn't die, otherwise he might have been up for a Darwin.

Good for him.

gilmark