Month: July 2009

Russian Interest

Getting quite a lot of random Russian spam comments on my blog. Babel Fish kindly informs me that todays reads:

On-line cinema, To [skachat] [porno] and XXX of video. [PORTALCHIK] reinforced-concrete pillbox k. Photos are hitching posts. Ridiculous stories. Site of new [vareza], everything for you

Other gems include:

Furniture stores, table and drawing rooms. [OOO] “Baltic region House”. Shelf. We present to your attention high-quality hull and soft furniture, namely bedroom, dinner tables and chairs, drawing rooms from the chief producers of Lithuania.

And with regards to this sage piece of advice:

It is possible to [podiskutirovat] in regard to this…

I’ll just have to take your word for it.

Tags Russia, spam

Uncategorized

PotW – 10/7/09

Tags Design, flight of the conchords, infographics, Michael Jackson, propaganda, rice, rubik's cube, trailer

Photography

Awesome Student-made HP Ad

Post author By Dan
Post date July 10, 2009
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HP – invent from Tom and Matt on Vimeo.

(thx to Gadsberry)

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Words

Royal Nicknames

Worst Nickname – James the Be-shitten
Most like a Comic Book Villain – The Universal Spider

Tags names, royalty

The Web

True

Post author By Dan
Post date July 7, 2009
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Tags facebook, t-shirt, twitter

Technology

Escape Tools

Post author By Dan
Post date July 7, 2009
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A collection of photographs of homemade prison tools.

SHOTGUN made from iron bedposts; charge made of pieces of lead from curtain tape and match-heads, to be ignited by AA batteries and a broken light bulb. On May 21, 1984 two inmates of a prison in Celle, Germany, took a jailer as a hostage, showed off their fire power by letting go at a pane of bullet-proof glass, and escaped by car.

DAGGER disguised as a wooden crucifix; found in an inmate’s cell in Wolfenbüttel prison, Germany, sometime around 1994; intended for use in an escape or as a general weapon. At that time a lot of crucifixes were fashioned in prison woodshops until jailers finally dug their true purpose.

TATTOOING NEEDLE made from a toothbrush handle, a ball pen and an electric motor; confiscated in ‘Santa Fu’ prison in Hamburg, Germany.Tattooing instruments are a popular and common source of income among inmates but are banned as ‘illegal objects’ due to the danger of infection (Aids, Hepatitis, etc.).

It’s scary the things you can make.

(via Boing Boing)

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