Michael Jackson’s Final Rehearsals For “This Is It” Tour, Video
He didn’t look like 50 years old at all, he didn’t look like he would die 48 hours later……
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Self Portrait Machine
Created by Jen Hui Liao, looks interesting.
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Grandmother Banned From Andy Murray’s Wimbledon Semi-Final
This is sad, to be considered a jinx by your own daughter.
GRANDMA JINX: Andy Murray’s grandmother has been banned from the guest box at Wimbledon – by her own daughter.
Judy Murray is worried that her own mom, Shirley Erskine, will jinx Andy, who is trying to become the first British man since Fred Perry in 1936 to win the tournament.
Murray lost his last three matches attended by his grandmother – each time on his birthday.
“She is clearly a jinx and I’m not taking her again,” Judy Murray told the Daily Express.
Murray comfortably beat Spanish wild card Juan Carlos Ferrero 7-5, 6-3, 6-2 Wednesday to reach his first Wimbledon semifinal – without Erskine at Centre Court.
However, grandma is still hoping to be let in for the semifinals.
“I’m trying to convince the family I’m not a jinx, because I want to be down there cheering Andy on,” Erskine said. “If I could do anything to bring Andy good luck, I would.”
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Sex Police To Patrol Nudist Beach
I bet tonnes of policemen volunteer to be assigned this duty!
Wardens will patrol a Dorset nudist beach to try to stop occasional sexual misconduct that police say “threatens to bring naturism into disrepute”.
Three wardens will patrol the National Trust’s Studland peninsula throughout the summer, including the nudist beach.
Nine sex offences were reported in the area between the summers of 2005 and 2008, which Dorset Police said was low.
Wardens will also target people dropping littering and those lighting unauthorised fires and barbecues.
A police spokesman said the wardens would help “to make visitors and residents feel even safer”.
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Bikini Bug That Eats Victims Alive
Ladies, take note.
The trip was a great success, and as I took the taxi to the airport I was pleased to see that I had only one mosquito bite. It was on the inside of my left upper arm, by the seam of my T-shirt. Never mind, I thought, it’s not even itchy: it will be kept cool in the plane’s air conditioning and will be almost gone by the time I’m back.
The reality was somewhat different. Within a few hours of arriving home, I was being violently sick.
Food poisoning or a bug from the plane, I decided. After 24 sleepless hours, I noticed that the bite was getting larger. By now, it was the size of a grain of rice. I also worried that it had become infected, because it was yellow and hard.
Two days later, I was no longer ill, but the bite was so uniquely painful that I was exhausted by it. It was relentless. It was now very raised, and very yellow. I was as repulsed as I was pained by it.
On my third night back, the pain was so intense that I was again unable to sleep. It was a sharp pain, as if someone had put a knitting needle in the freezer and was jabbing it into my arm. It was sporadic, coming in waves. Every time I thought it was abating and nearly fell asleep, it came back stronger than before.
At about 4am, I had turned the light on and was staring at the bite. Suddenly, it seemed to be moving. I must be very, very tired, I reasoned.
There was now a hole at the top of the bite, with what looked like pus; I wiped it clean with a piece of disinfected cotton wool. The pain abated. Twenty minutes later, more movement, more yellow stuff, more agony.
The next morning, I headed to a meeting in North London.
This time, I was in so much pain I was doing short, shallow breaths through my mouth and could barely stand on the train. Other passengers must have thought I was having contractions.
As the train passed the stop for Hampstead, very close to the Royal Free Hospital, I decided on the spur of the moment to have it dressed by a professional.
A triage nurse saw me quickly. I explained that I’d been bitten by a mosquito in Kenya, and it now seemed infected. I tried to add nonchalantly that I thought the area was wriggling. I didn’t want to be the ‘crazy lady’ of the day.
I needn’t have worried. As I rolled up my sleeve to show the nurse, it became immediately clear to both of us that it was not a mosquito bite. Out of the – now larger – hole popped what appeared to be a small maggot, accompanied by the now familiar wave of pain. I widened my eyes in horror.
‘Please, can I lead you into this room?’ she said in a very, very calm voice. She shut me into a small room with a foot-wide, securely sealed door. ‘I’m getting someone to come and see you,’ she mouthed from the other side.
I lay down on the bed in the room. I was crying with pain and now panicked by what was wriggling out of my arm. After about half an hour, a doctor from the tropical disease unit came to see me. After looking at my arm, he said he thought he knew what it was, but needed a second opinion.
An hour later, the head of department arrived. By this time, I’d had to turn the light out in the room as I was in so much pain. I’d had no sleep for three days and was in no state to meet the most devastatingly handsome doctor I had ever seen, but there he was. I was swooning with pain, but I swooned some more.
Dr Jake knew exactly what it was and confirmed it with a series of questions. Had I been in Africa? Had I worn a damp T-shirt while there? Had the ‘bite’ started out like a small red bump? Yes, yes and yes.
It was the larva of the tumbu fly, found anywhere in the tropics from South America and India, through to Australasia and Thailand, and I had a condition known as myiasis, when larvae live and feed on a host. It sounded disgusting. Worse still, it’s relatively rare in humans.
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Stripping Passenger Causes Chaos On US Airways Plane
What the hell……
A NUDE passenger’s bizarre behaviour has forced the diversion of a US Airways plane.
Keith Wright, 50, of New York allegedly disrobed in front of 148 passengers on flight 705 from Charlotte to Los Angles yesterday, an Albuquerque airport spokesperson said.
The flight crew become alarmed by his bizarre behaviour after he allegedly ran around the plane, refusing to put his clothes back on or be covered with a blanket.
Passengers helped physically restrain Mr Wright, who was eventually handcuffed to a row of seats, and the plane diverted to Albuquerque.
“We had to physically hold him down on the floor and handcuff his ankles, his wrist,” passenger Matt McGinnis told the US’s News 13.
Passengers were notified of a violent passenger, but everyone remained calm, a US Airways spokesperson said.
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DIY Circumcision Using Nail Clippers
Idiot!!!!!!!!
A man who gave himself a DIY circumcision using nail clippers was taken to hospital for emergency treatment.
The young man had to be rushed to the Lister Hospital in Stevenage, Hertfordshire. The wound was disinfected to cleanse it before he was given a bed in an observation ward.
“This is something we would advise men never to attempt,” a medic said, “The results can be quite horrific and long-lasting and have quite an affect on a man’s sexual performance.
“Using a pair of nail clippers must have caused excruciating pain, even if he had had a few drinks beforehand.”
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Swap My iPod With A Walkman
So, Sony’s Walkman turns 30 yesterday. Those were the days……
When the Sony Walkman was launched, 30 years ago this week, it started a revolution in portable music. But how does it compare with its digital successors? The Magazine invited 13-year-old Scott Campbell to swap his iPod for a Walkman for a week.
He had told me it was big, but I hadn’t realised he meant THAT big. It was the size of a small book.
When I saw it for the first time, its colour also struck me. Nowadays gadgets come in a rainbow of colours but this was only one shade – a bland grey.
From a practical point of view, the Walkman is rather cumbersome, and it is certainly not pocket-sized, unless you have large pockets. It comes with a handy belt clip screwed on to the back, yet the weight of the unit is enough to haul down a low-slung pair of combats.
It took me three days to figure out that there was another side to the tape. That was not the only naive mistake that I made; I mistook the metal/normal switch on the Walkman for a genre-specific equaliser, but later I discovered that it was in fact used to switch between two different types of cassette.
Another notable feature that the iPod has and the Walkman doesn’t is “shuffle”, where the player selects random tracks to play. Its a function that, on the face of it, the Walkman lacks. But I managed to create an impromptu shuffle feature simply by holding down “rewind” and releasing it randomly – effective, if a little laboured.
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Sex Club In Korea
Best part is the police can’t do anything……
A new type of sex club in the Gangnam area is heating up debate on sexual freedom in open spaces. A theme club which opened in a Gangnam street last month is gaining popularity by allowing members to openly have sex on the premises, said police officials yesterday.
The entrance is strictly restricted to couples who have received in advance their adult age certification through the club’s website.
Under the club’s motto that “all sexual taboos are taboos,” visitors freely have sexual relationships with their partners or involve themselves in partner swapping or group sex, according to officials. The rest of the crowd is free to watch any other couple.
The voyeuristic club is largely supported by its visitors, among whom many left messages on the website bulletin board, saying that they wished to revisit the place in the future.
Despite the social shock, however, investigators have feeble legal grounds to regulate such controversial clubs.
“The club managers claimed that many legal experts confirmed the club to be legal, as the sexual relationships are not based on prostitution but on the voluntary actions of the visitors,” said a police official.
They are also planning to publish advertisements in the media this month and have finished the draft versions, according to officials.
“Considering the negative effects that it may have on the general sense of morals, we feel the need to restrict the club,” said a police official. “However, as the club is not involved in any specific illegal actions such as drug trafficking or prostitution, we have difficulties in applying any legal restrictions.”
Criminal law experts also differ in their opinion concerning this unprecedented type of business.
“If all parties have a full prior understanding on the sexual activities within the club, they may only be punished for excessive physical exposure, which is only a minor offense,” said Professor Cho Kuk of the Seoul National University Law School.
Cho, nevertheless, pointed out the need to add a new clause to the present criminal law that may regulate the club owner who has provided for the space for such open sexual relationships.
Though some other experts said that open sexual activities in the club hall may be legally restricted, most of them agreed that the business type narrowly escaped the control range of the present law.
The controversial club’s website is presently cut off due to a traffic overload, but is under no legal restrictions, according to police officials.
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Standardized Cellphone Charger Coming Soon
A great news to me!
(CNN) — The frantic hunt for the right cell-phone charger will soon be a thing of the past — in Europe at least — as major manufacturers on Monday agreed to introduce a universal adaptor within six months.
Industry leaders, including Apple, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung and Sony Ericsson, have struck a deal with the European Union to introduce the one-size-fits-all charger by January 1, 2010, offering a solution to one of modern life’s chief frustrations.
As the number of cell phones has exploded over the past few years, so have the number of chargers — generating mountains of waste technology as users change or upgrade handsets.
Now the cell phone industry has agreed to standardize its chargers, making all handsets compatible with a micro-USB plug already standard on handsets such BlackBerrys.
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