Monday, July 2, 2007

Saturday, June 2, 2007

Nobody's going to pay anything for my death certificate when I'm gone...

I Love Lucy cast death certificates and wills on eBay - TV Squad

Someone is selling the death certificates and wills of Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, and William Frawley on ebay. These aren't just one page descriptions of the date and manner of death, they are the actual detailed wills that they wrote before they died. Lucy didn't want to be embalmed and wanted to make sure her brother Fred and his wife didn't get anything. Desi made sure his mom was cared for. Vance left most of her estate to her much younger husband, and Frawley's will has a lot of bills and notes from creditors attached. It's probably interesting reading, but creepy.

M!

ID THEFT 101: BEAUTY CONS HER WAY ONTO IVYS' ROLLS AS AN ED. RINGER

ID THEFT 101: BEAUTY CONS HER WAY ONTO IVYS' ROLLS AS AN ED. RINGER By LUKAS I. ALPERT - New York News New York City News NY News

(you've gotta love the Post's headlines)

My favorite bit?

But investigators also stumbled upon some alarming information.

At least one soldier's family told Campbell they saw that Reed frequently received large amounts of money wired to her from Germany and Italy. She also placed numerous lengthy calls to people in the Netherlands. And at some point, she traveled to Florida to have plastic surgery done on her face.

Then she allegedly tried to get a cadet to furnish her with a certificate from the Army's assault school.

"At this point, it started sounding like it could be espionage and not just identity theft," Campbell said.

M!

Scripts

Odds and ends: http://www.dailyscript.com/tv.html

Even more odds and ends: http://www.simplyscripts.com/tv_all.html

Twin Peaks: http://www.glastonberrygrove.net/texts/index.html

If God were to piss acid urine down on the earth killing all the squirrels, no one would notice

Cumbria - The Lake District: Wordsworth Rap

It's a squirrel rapping Wordsworth.

Pulled this off somebody's facebook profile a while back when I was trudging for anything to keep me away from paper writing.

I don't know how to implant videos onto this thing. Fuck computers.

M!

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Invention: Furry TV - tech - 23 April 2007 - New Scientist Tech

Invention: Furry TV - tech - 23 April 2007 - New Scientist Tech

Furry vision

How would you like to watch a television screen that is also soft and pleasant to the touch? Welcome to Furry TV. It's no joke: consumer electronics company Philips says a single pixel can be made out of a piece of fabric covered with hair-like strands.

Here's how it works: imagine the fabric is red and the hair is blue. With the hairs lying flat obscuring the fabric beneath, the pixel looks blue. But applying an electrostatic charge causes the hairs to repel each other and stand on end.

This reveals the fabric underneath and changes the pixel from blue to red. With an array of pixels, Philips says it should be possible to build a furry display that can show complete images. The company hopes to build furry displays into outfits. But does that mean we would all have to dress like Teletubbies?

Read the full Furry TV patent application.

Monday, April 23, 2007

Flagellation ritual exposes Filipinos to rabies - health - 19 April 2007 - New Scientist Tech

Flagellation ritual exposes Filipinos to rabies - health - 19 April 2007 - New Scientist Tech

More than a hundred men in the Philippines may have contracted rabies after taking part in a self-flagellation ritual to mark Good Friday, doctors and local authorities said on Thursday.

A health alert was issued after a man who took part in the traditional ceremony – where participants slash their backs with knifes before flaying themselves with bamboo whips – died from the virus on 11 April.

Mario Morales, the mayor of Mabalacat in Pampanga province north of Manila, told local media that Eduardo Sese may have contaminated up to 100 people who shared knives to cut themselves. He was bitten by an infected dog in February 2007.

The government doctor in Pampanga, Maria Clara Aquino, said vaccines had been given to 103 people who could have been exposed.

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