2005-12-31

Ghost of Murdered Teen or Hoax

This is very scary, don't say you have not been warned. You can make your own conclusions. I have included the picture and article as is. You need Flash to view it properly.


I’m about as skeptical as they come, but listening to the investigator and seeing the photo of the room — assuming this isn’t some high tech, incredibly expensive hoax — then I think someone ought to check into this more thoroughly.

A teen was murdered in the home shown in the photo below. Soon afterward, his mother took the photo in preparation for selling the house. But something strange happened. The teen’s face appeared in the photo, just below the window. A psychic investigator was then called in.

There’s an audio track with this from the investigator, but I screwed something up and it’s very low and takes a while before coming on. Turn up the volume and try to spot the ghost image while you wait for the audio to begin. It’s worth hearing.



2005-12-30

How to replace the Hard Disk in your iPod

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I always wanted bigger, better, faster, my photo iPod only has 60GB. I want more, more, more. I want to put every single piece of music I have heard even if it was only once. Something like 250 GB music storage would be nice, or maybe 1 TB (terabytes = 1,000 GB). Should I wait for apple's new models? or should I get a screwdriver and do it myself. I am not very patient so I might as well do it myself.

Josh Highland did just that and shows it in Josh Highland's Blog with instructions and pictures showing each step, but he went for a smaller drive.

I will do that as soon as I can find a 1 TB drive that fits in my iPod.

Happy New Year


The New Year is near, just about to come out
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Start fresh for the new year

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Don't exhaust yourself partying

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And a Happy New Year

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2005-12-27

Winter is Here

Winter is here, the weather is cold. This morning my car thermometer showed 11 degrees centigrade. I thought I saw snow floating in the air, I was really surprised. I looked again and I could see white specs floating out of the window. I looked one more time and it was small pieces of Styrofoam (faleen) blowing in the wind. Too bad, no snow this year.

Because of the cold, I decided to change my desktop wallpaper to this:



I get these wallpapers from Digital Blasphemy. All the great wallpapers there are computer generated. Nothing exists in real life, only in the mind of the artist that coded these wonderful graphics. The site used to be free, but now takes payment for some graphics and free for others.

2005-12-26

Tamer Shehata's Wedding

Tamer Shehata was looking forward to getting married. The 26 year old Egyptian man was engaged to his fiancee for three years and tonight was his wedding night.

During his engagment period, he had never seen her full face as it was covered by a niqab. During the wedding reception a female guest approached him and whispered something in his ear. Tamer did not believe what he was hearing, he rushed to his bride to be and confronted her.

For the rest of the story, you can read it here.

After the Kuwait Fog, Now Dubai

After Kuwait's episode with fog followed by rain, it seems that the fog has moved down to Dubai, here are some really beautful pictures of the fog in Dubai blanketting the well known landmark buildings there.


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Food etiquette

You all know how to eat with a knife and fork, I assume, but how about other food etiquettes you should watch out for ? Here is a flash quiz about different food manners around the world. It will tell you if you are internationally refined. Bon Appetit.

2005-12-25

Cheney's iPod Takes Top Priority on Extended Flight

Everyone loves their ipod, Dick Cheney and George Bush both have ipods, now question for today, what is the most played song on your ipod?

I will start, my most played song is Obsession by Aventura.

2005-12-23

It wasn't her time

Here is an article about a woman who got shot in the head but did not die. In fact, after getting a bullet in the head, she walked to the hospital to get the bullet removed.

Reminds me of Black Mamba in Kill Bill, that also got shot in the head and laid in a coma for a few years and then woke up, then she wreaked vengeance on all who took part in her failed murder.

The Bride

2005-12-22

Gifts for Wives - Again


Because of Christmas time, I am getting a lot of hits on my don-veto blog from a variety of different search engines, from husbands looking for "gifts for wives". My blog comes as the second placement in Yahoo. The husband who reads my gift for wives entry, will have a nasty reaction and might need to book into a hotel for Christmas if he ever follows my advice.

Lesson for today, enjoy my posts, but don't try this at home.

2005-12-19

Mona Lisa's Smile

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A lot of people wondered about what was behind Mona Lisa's mysterious smile.
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Some theorized that it was Leonardo Da Vinci's self portrait,
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Others thought Mona needed serious orthodentistry,
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Maybe she wanted to fly,
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or just to party,
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or get something from Santa.


Well, scientists at the University of Amsterdam with lots of time on their hand cracked the secret of Mona Lisa's smile by analysing the famous Leonardo Da Vinci painting thourgh a computer that has been taught to interpret ladies smiling. The computer has determined that Mona Lisa's smile was that it conveyed 83% happiness, 9% disgust, 6% fear and 2% anger.

Full article here.

2005-12-18

Animal Fun



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Dog and Ball

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Free your goldfish

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Paddling Penguin

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Cats can play with Dogs

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Kitty Protest

British Airways flight to Tehran - Joke

A British Airways flight was going to Tehran from London.
When it gets close to Tehran it starts having some kind of trouble.
The pilot contacts the air tower at Tehran airport and asks for help:
"Tehran, this Captain Smith, British Airways flight 000, do you read me?"

"Felight 000, dis iz Tehran felight contorol, go ahead"

"Tehran, this is flight 000, we have a problem"

"Dis iz Tehran, vat kind of peroblem?"

"This is flight 000, we have lost power to our engines, please advice"

"Dis iz Tehran, I reed you, peleez check some sings for me, ok?"

"This is flight 000, go ahead"

"Dis iz Tehran, can you get emerzency pover to your enzines?"

"This is flight 000, negative, no power is available"

"Dis iz Tehran, can you peleez bering your altitutde to 20,000 feet?"

"This is flight 000, negative, our wing controls do not respond"

"Dis iz Tehran, can you peleez see if you can lover your veels?"

"This is flight 000, negative, landing gears are stuck"

"Dis iz Tehran, vould you peleez repeet theez vords after me"

"This is flight 000, go ahead"

"Dis iz Tehran, repeet theez words peleez:

ASH'HADO ANNA LA ILAHA ELLALLAH VA ASH'HADO ANNA MOHAMMADAN RASUL ALLAH"

2005-12-17

Enola Gay

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Enola Gay, you should have stayed at home yesterday
Aha words can't describe the feeling and the way you lied

These games you play, they're gonna end in more than tears someday
Aha Enola Gay, it shouldn't ever have to end this way

It's 8:15, and that's the time that it's always been
We got your message on the radio, conditions normal and you're coming home

Enola Gay, is mother proud of little boy today
Aha this kiss you give, it's never ever gonna fade away

Enola Gay, it shouldn't ever have to end this way
Aha Enola Gay, it shouldn't fade in our dreams away

It's 8:15, and that's the time that it's always been
We got your message on the radio, conditions normal and you're coming home

Enola Gay, is mother proud of little boy today
Aha this kiss you give, it's never ever gonna fade away

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Funny Syria Pictures



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Prestige

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Foreign Language Institute

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Scoping Chicks

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Innovative Architecture

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Syrian Limousine

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Dr Shit

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Stop on Red

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Car Dry Clean ?!?

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Cool Garbage


2005-12-15

The Loosing of the Shadow

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“Don't be afraid,” he said, smiling. “I'll call a woman's spirit. You need not fear a woman. Elfarran I will call, the fair lady of the Deed of Enlad.”
“She died a thousand years ago, her bones lie afar under the Sea of Ea, and maybe there never was such a woman.”
“Do years and distances matter to the dead? Do the Songs lie?” Ged said with the same gentle mockery, and then saying, “Watch the air between my hands,” he turned away from the others and stood still.
In a great slow gesture he stretched out his arms, the gesture of welcome that opens an invocation. He began to speak.
He had read the runes of this Spell of Summoning in Ogion's book, two years and more ago, and never since had seen them. In darkness he had read them then. Now in this darkness it was as if he read them again on the page open before him in the night. But now he understood what he read, speaking it aloud word after word, and he saw the markings of how the spell must be woven with the sound of the voice and the motion of body and hand.
The other boys stood watching, not speaking, not moving unless they shivered a little: for the great spell was beginning to work. Ged's voice was soft still, but changed, with a deep singing in it, and the words he spoke were not known to them. He fell silent. Suddenly the wind rose roaring in the grass. Ged dropped to his knees and called out aloud. Then he fell forward as if to embrace earth with his outstretched arms, and when he rose he held something dark in his straining hands and arms, something so heavy that he shook with effort getting to his feet. The hot wind whined in the black tossing grasses on the hill. If the stars shone now none saw them.
The words of the enchantment hissed and mumbled on Ged's lips, and then he cried out aloud and clearly, “Elfarran!”
Again he cried the name, “Elfarran!”
The shapeless mass of darkness he had lifted split apart. It sundered, and a pale spindle of light gleamed between his opened arms, a faint oval reaching from the ground up to the height of his raised hands. In the oval of light for a moment there moved a form, a human shape: a tall woman looking back over her shoulder. Her face was beautiful, and sorrowful, and full of fear.
Only for a moment did the spirit glimmer there. Then the sallow oval between Ged's arms grew bright. It widened and spread, a rent in the darkness of the earth and night, a ripping open of the fabric of the world. Through it blazed a terrible brightness. And through that bright misshapen breach clambered something like a clot of black shadow, quick and hideous, and it leaped straight out at Ged's face.
Staggering back under the weight of the thing, Ged gave a short, hoarse scream. The little otak watching from Vetch's shoulder, the animal that had no voice, screamed aloud also and leaped as if to attack.
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A sample from The Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

What color should your eyes be?

Your Eyes Should Be Hazel

Your eyes reflect: Intellect and sensuality

What's hidden behind your eyes: Subtle manipulation


Actually, they are a sort deep brown with a light grayish border, hard to describe.

babelfish

Do you want to write in different languages but never could spare the time to learn, or you have a hard enough time typing in english and would have a harder time typing on a foreign keyboard, well babelfish is the answer, link placed below. One word of warning, babelfish translates litteraly so the translation might come out sounding funny but it usually is understood.


Vous voulez écrire dans différentes langues mais pourriez ne jamais épargner l'heure d'apprendre, ou vous avez dur assez de temps dactylographiant en anglais et auriez un moment plus difficile dactylographiant sur un clavier étranger, babelfish bon est la réponse, lien placé ci-dessous. Un mot de l'avertissement, babelfish traduit litteraly ainsi la traduction pourrait venir hors de retentir drôle mais on le comprend habituellement.


Вы хотите написать в по-разному языках но никогда смогли не щадить время выучить, или вы имеете крепко достаточное время печатая на машинке на английском языке и имели бы более трудное время печатая на машинке на чужой клавиатуре, хорошее babelfish будете ответом, соединением помещенным ниже. Одно слово предупреждения, babelfish переводит litteraly поэтому перевод мог прийти из звучать funny но обычно понято.


Wilt kon hebben is u in verschillende talen maar nooit de tijd te leren sparen schrijven, of u hard genoeg tijd het typen in het Engels en zou het hardere tijd typen op een buitenlands toetsenbord hebben, goed babelfish het antwoord, hieronder geplaatste verbinding. Één woord van waarschuwing, babelfish vertaalt litteraly zodat zou de vertaling kunnen verschijnen klinkend grappig maar het wordt gewoonlijk begrepen.


Desiderate scrivere nelle lingue differenti ma potreste non risparmiare mai il momento di imparare, o vi divertite che scrivete in inglese e vi divertireste che scrivete su una tastiera straniera, babelfish buono siete la risposta, collegamento disposto sotto. Una parola di avvertimento, babelfish traduce litteraly in modo da la traduzione potrebbe venire verso l'esterno suonare divertente ma è capito solitamente.

Go to babelfish to be a polyglot.

2005-12-13

The Movie Spoiler

Ever been to seen a movie's trailer where they show you a mystery and tempt you to go watch the movie, or a movie is being shown but you can't stand the actor / actress but still want to know the story, or you just like to spoil movies for your friends. Well, I found a great site called The Movie Spoiler that has all the popular movies and more with the full story there especially spoilers telling you who did what.

How are smarties made?

Ever wondered how smarties, these colorful candy covered pellets are made ? Do they cover each chocolate with sugar candy and then hand paint each and every one of them?


The answer is simpler than this:-)




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2005-12-12

Sorry boys and girls....

sorry kids

Due to the fog, Santa had an unfortunate accident so christmas is cancelled this year

2005-12-11

Words of Love

Love


In English the different kinds of love get lumped together in one word which is love. You might feel different kinds of love but you call it simply "love". The ancient Greeks had separate words for the different loves that exist.


Eros

This is physical attraction,it is hormone raging love. Eros can be as small as butterflies in your stomach to strong sensual passion. It mostly is dependant on physical features and the proper settings. Take away the environment and appearance and Eros evaporates. It tends to be the first feeling of love a person feels and is what people usually associate with love.


Philia

Philia is the love friends have for each other. It is also dependant on time, surroundings and shared experiences. It is a very weak love. Harsh words can be spoken and philia goes out the door. Time and distance quickly weaken philia also.


Agape

Agape is the strongest love. It is unconditional self sacrificing love. It is the love where you are willing to give your life, all that you own and much more for someone. There is no self in this love, only for the other with no expectations of love reciprocated.


Storge

Storge is the love of a parent has for his child. It is natural, necessary, instinctive and automatic love. It is also the love animals have for their offsprings.


Pragma

Pragma is practical love. A statement like "I'll marry her because she is a good cook" would be an example of pragma love.



Now when you feel love, consider what sort of love you are feeling.

When there is fog, drive carefully

The last few days we had fog in Kuwait and a lot of people drove as if everything was normal, and here is the unfortunate result. Click on the picture to get a bigger view and if you have weak heart, don't look.