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Of (wo)men and breasts

As a male, I am vaguely aware of the power of breasts. I can’t say I don’t like them, but I can say they don’t rule my life, or my behavior. Apparently, that is not true for all males, and even females. Clover Stroud decided to see what effect breasts can have on her life. Her breasts are naturally 36A, but with the help of some silicon, and special effects expert, they became 36DD overnight.

This is her story.

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Posted in creepy, news 9:29 am by MILITANTPLATYPUS

Fagbug

On the 11th annual National Day of Silence (April 18, 2007), Erin Davies was victim to a hate crime. Because of sporting a rainbow sticker on her VW Beetle, Erin’s car was vandalized, left with the words “fAg” and “u r gay” placed on the hood and driver side of her car. Despite initial shock and embarassment, Erin has decided to embrace what happened and film a documentary about her 58-day cross country tour around the US and Canada in her car known worldwide as the fagbug.

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Posted in Monday Morning News 10:24 am by MILITANTPLATYPUS

Paying the price

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The New York Times has a very interesting graph (see above) comparing adjusted fuel prices for now and 1920.

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Monday Morning News

Apple Makes $831 On Each AT&T iPhone

[UK] Schools warned off Microsoft deal

Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard: the Ars Technica review

Sprint: Unlock Yourself on the Way Out

400 Mbps Home Powerline Networking

House Bill Opens Door to E-mail Tax

Mozilla Separating Browser From The App

Security

Windows Update Screws Up Again; Pissed Off Users Discover Desktop Search Auto Installed

Attackers take aim at IE7 flaw

Hacker Criminals Find An Exploit In a Fix

Freeware of the Week

dashwire.com - Manage your cell phone on the web

News of the Weird

He’s not undead, just unsober…

Prostitutes sew lips together in protest

Australian Les Stewart holds what the Web site Oddee.com calls the “third most bizarre” of all Guinness Book world records: having typed out the written numbers “one” through “one million,” over a period of 16 years from 1983 to 1998, according to an August story in his local newspaper Sunshine Coast Daily. He said he typed for 20 minutes at the beginning of every waking hour during that time because he “wanted something to do.” “It just came naturally to me.” [Sunshine Coast Daily (Maroochydore, Australia), 8-22-07]

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California Wildfires

80 mph wind gusts, 283,000 acres burning, 500,000 people evacuated from their homes.

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Monday Morning News

Is the standard EULA doomed? Adobe plans to move key apps online

Money-Saving Comcast TiVo Spotted, Spy Shot Gallery

Associated Press Confirms That Comcast Blocks Some BitTorrent Traffic; Despite Comcast Denials

What Else Is Comcast Jamming? Gnutella? Lotus Notes?

Core of “Windows 7″ taking shape: meet the “MinWin” kernel

Firefox 3 Getting a Visual Makeover

Apple Posts Mac OS 10.5 Leopard Guided Tour

Security

With attack code circulating, RealPlayer fix coming

Exclusive: I Was a Hacker for the MPAA

New WEP Attack: Caffe Latte Hits Client, Not Access Point

Freeware of the Week

LinkSync 2.0 Beta 2b - Sync bookmarks for several browsers

News of the Weird

Ferry crews warned against smoking pot

Change for a million?

According to police in Warsaw, Poland, novelist Krystian Bala might have gotten away with torturing and murdering a businessman in 2000 if only he had resisted writing about his crime in his 2003 novel, “Amok.” The trail for the killer had been cold for several years until a tipster informed police of the book. In the plot, which authorities say bore a distinct resemblance to the 2000 murder, were details that police say could only have been known by the killer. After investigating, police found several other ties Bala had to the crime, including the fact that the victim was Bala’s ex-wife’s lover. Bala was sentenced in September to 25 years in prison. [The Times (London), 8-9-07]

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Texas Legislation - Cheating is our way of doing business

The Texas legislature has a motto: if you are going to cheat and do things illegally, go big, and get it on tape!

Voting for other members is done out of necessity…

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Posted in Monday Morning News, Pantheon of bad ideas, movie 10:01 am by MILITANTPLATYPUS

Monday Morning News

Apple Users Talking Class-Action Lawsuit Over iPhone Locking

AT&T threatens to disconnect subscribers who criticize the company

Demoniod p2p site returns from dead

Microsoft Extends XP’s Availability

Apple posts iPhone Human Interface Guidelines
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Adobe Acquires Virtual Ubiquity - Enters Web Office Fray

Google Street View Gets Blurry for Canada

Security

F-Secure sees smaller botnets on the rise

LA Airport Uses Random Numbers To Catch Terrorists

Windows Update update screws updating

Freeware of the week

FLV Player - Standalone FLV player for Windows

News of the Weird

These ballots can’t be stuffed

Man finds human leg in smoker purchased at auction

Just when Internet newspaper sites appear to be gaining ground as replacements for printed editions, a 70-year-old woman identified only as Maggie told the Edmonton (Alberta) Sun in September that her paper edition of the Sun is a crucial part of her daily diet, literally. She eats it, in strips, and has, she said, for the past seven years because it tastes good. “I can’t explain it,” she said, and it was only when she recently experienced a blockage of her esophagus, and doctors found a ball of paper, that she revealed her obsession. Doctors cited by the Sun said that except for the blockage danger, newspaper eating is not unhealthful. [Edmonton Sun, 9-5-07]

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Monday Morning News

New version of Gmail being tested

Starbucks To Start Up iTunes Wi-Fi Store with 50 Million Free Songs

Microsoft readies “Halo 3″ for launch

Australian Web Censorship Continues Down The Slippery Slope

Feeling tinfoilish? $5 billion suit against Google over privacy, terrorism - “Mr. Jayne has filed suit against Google and its founders for supposed “crimes against humanity,” aiding terrorism, and putting his personal safety at risk.”

Institute urges the EU to unbundle Windows

T-Mobile Kiosk: We Unlock iPhones!

Security

Critical Acrobat Reader security flaw exposes Windows to arbitrary exploits

Myspace to launch ad-supported cell phone

New $5 Bill Debuts

Freeware of the Week

Foxit Reader

News of the Weird

Tech worker dies in vat of sulfuric acid

Australian Navy Pays for Breast Implants

A Lake Charles, La., man was killed in August by a single gunshot, which was explained by Sheriff Tony Mancuso: “(The man and his girlfriend) were engaged in consensual sexual behavior involving a firearm when the firearm was discharged, resulting in his death.” [KPLC-TV (Lake Charles), 8-2-07]

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