Olympic Net-Casts Taken by Terra
Terra, owned by Spain’s Telefonica - the largest Internet company in Latin America, now owns the rights to broadcast the Olympic Games of Beijing via their website. Terra has said it will be ready to launch on August 1st.
The site will feature 13 different channels, covering the events, news and happenings of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games 24 hours each day the games are held. They also plan to provide SMS updates, downloads of old streams, live coverage and image galleries to it’s visitors.
I guess this is just part of all the hype over the Olympic Games in Biejing. I’ve never been one for the Summer Olympics, but I know it might mean something to some people. Like Chinese people. I wonder how much the government is setting aside to bribe the judges into only giving golds to Chinese competitors. You know what? They probably have so many Chinese competitors that they’ll have 20 Chinese in one race, and then 5 other competitors from other countries.
The Chinese are crazy about the Olympics, yo!
-Fin-
The Nintendo Timeline of Products
Today, I was walking through MBK, one of the larger malls in Bangkok. Amongst the various idiotic foreigners getting screwed on prices because they fail to learn Thai, I ran accross one shop. This shop carried every type gaming system ever created. There were Sega Genesis, Game Boys, Playstations, Xboxs, Famicoms, and even a classic Commadore system. On top of this, there were systems I didn’t even recognize like what looked like a purple Nintendo system that got sumo-crushed by a boombox on front of it. I was amazed.
I asked the owner where he got all this stuff because Bangkok couldn’t have provided all this, not with their economy. The owner said he owns the same type of store in Japan, and just imports it and sells it near the same price. I didn’t ask, because I knew everything in there was way out of my budget, but it is a store I will stop by again, just to see what else he can bring in.
Anyways, I stumbled around to this image and it just brought back memories. I remember playing my first Gameboy, and it was the old 1989 system. I also oned the NES and eventually upgraded to a SNES to 64 to Gamecube. I still haven’t gotten the Wii, but they are plentiful in Thailand, unlike you suckers still in America. Sure, its a couple hundred dollars more, but it might be worth it. After I buy my PS3 for Final Final Fantasy XIII and Grand Turismo 5, the Nintendo Wii is next on my list!
Man Fakes Heart Attack To Avoid Bill
Ingenious criminal activity shouldn’t be seen as this heinous once they are caught. While this man is obviously wrong in his doings, we can’t help but sit back and have a nice laugh at what he was attempting.
A Milwaukee, WI (of course it happened in Wisconsin) has been arrested and charged with defrauding a restaurant as a habitual crime. His tactics included eating at “high-class” restaurants and then faking a heart attack to avoid the “high” bills.
Just how high class was this man eating? Applebee’s high! He racked up a shockingly expensive bill of 23 dollars after consuming a steak at the Milwaukee-located Applebee’s. He then faked a heart attack and was rushed to the hospital without leaving a cent behind. Oh yeah, this was his second faked attack. During the first faked heart seizure, he stumbled out of a taxi cab without owning up to the driver. I wonder why he didn’t drive him to the hospital…
Anyways, when he arrived at the hospital, a doctor recognized the man and knew he had been faking it, as he just saw him in the hospital a few weeks earlier. He was handed over to police.
After sentencing, this man could face up to nine months in jail with a $10,000 fine.
If you are going to bail out of paying a restaurant, at least do it at a place you can’t afford. Faking the heart attack is too risky, and not worth the time and needles at the hospital. I would suggest the “Oh, I left my wallet in the car” move. Works like a charm. This one is good for those who actually drive a car, though. For the others, there is the “ditch and run like the wind” tactic.
[via sfgate]
Aussie Sees a UFO, I See a Moon
I can’t get enough of these silly Australians. They are funny, polite, and inteligable creatures. They also love Thailand, which is great. Most of them aren’t fat like the Americans that I see walking… stumbling around Kao-San Road with a 15 dollar prostitute hanging off of their side. Sometimes you get the oddity of an Aussie, though. This seems to be one such case.
A woman called into a Wales police station, saying she had spotted a stationary object in the crowd. Could it be a UFO she might be thinking.
Here’s the ‘999′ (emergency number of Australia) conversation:
Control: “South Wales Police, what’s your emergency?”
Caller: “It’s not really. I just need to inform you that across the mountain there’s a bright stationary object.”
Control: “Right.”
Caller: “If you’ve got a couple of minutes perhaps you could find out what it is? It’s been there at least half an hour and it’s still there.”
Control: “It’s been there for half an hour. Right. Is it actually on the mountain or in the sky?”
Caller: “It’s in the air.”
Control: “I will send someone up there now to check it out.”
Caller: “OK.”
An officer was sent to investigate. Here is the ending conversation with control and the officer:
Control: “Alpha Zulu 20, this object in the sky, did anyone have a look at it?”
Officer: “Yes, it’s the moon. Over.”
Either the lady that called in the “UFO” was messing with the police like Australians do, or she was just the rare idiot of society. Perhaps it was her first night she’d ever glanced outside her window, as the moon couldn’t have been there yesterday, could it have?
[via telegraph]
7 Foods You Should Eat, But Don’t
Food, the real drive of life. Don’t deny that no matter how much you would like to get away from it, you could never get away from your favorite snack foods and cravings. Sometimes, you just got to healthy it up, though. There are several foods we could try to replace our favorites, but here are some of the healthiest and most nutritious foods you could eat. You probably haven’t tried them yet…
Kale
We all loved it when Moma would tell us to eat our vegetables. Moma was right, and you should have listened to her. One green, leafy vegetable she never fed you, though, was kale. Boil up a cup of kale and consume. You just got your daily value of vitamin A times two! On top of this, you’ll take in a little bit of the B-complex vitamins, some vitamin C, as well as a bountiful amount of calcium. Kale takes a conisuer’s tongue, so the taste may not be for everyone. Check out other similar greens like Swiss chard, collards, and mustard greens if you just can’t swallow Kale.
Avocado
I, for one, love avocado! To bad it costs 5 dollars for a small dip-bowl of guaccamole in Thailand, otherwise I’d be eating it everyday, especially after knowing this information. It contains pockets of monosaturated, cholesterol lowering nutrients making it extremely healthy for your heart. It also contains proteins, vitamins A, B, and E, potassium, as well as copper (a nutrient not normally found in non-meat foods).
Barley
Barley seems to be a long lost and forgotten food source. Used in a plentiful amount in our history, it is all but lost unless you are getting it from your alcohol, beers, and wines (which is good in small amounts, occasionally…) Barley’s can provide one with 25% of a person’s daily value of fiber in just one cup. It also contains high fields of potassium, protein, and iron. Other grains in barley’s family can only help it’s benefits, too.
Lentils
The lentil is a popular ingredient of thick stews, soups and chili, but outside of that scope, many people just don’t eat them. You should consider it though, because of its high protein and fiber aspects. A cup of lentil will provide your body with nearly 50 percent of your necessary daily intake of protein; it will give you a 65% boost in your fiber consumption. Lentils are also high in iron, calcium, B vitamins, copper, phosphorus, and potassium. I forgot to mention one more thing, though. There is no fat.
Soybeans
One cup of soybeans can take 40% of your daily value of protein off your list of things to do for the day. You will also find it fulfilling some fiber, calcium, iron, phosphorus, magnesium, and potassium needs. The FDA loves soybeans so much that they added to a list of foods that can help reduce the chances of forming heart harming illnesses. Menopausal women make claims that consuming soybeans can lower the heat from hot flashes, but the estrogen in it may increase the risk of breast cancer.
Sweet Potato
Need a little vitamin A in your diet. This Thanksgiving favorite can fill it for a week! A cup of our favorite potato can fill five times the daily value of vitamin A. There are also featured as high resources of vitamin C and numerous other minerals such as calcium, potassium, iron, magnesium, and phosphorus. As with lentils, sweet potatos are a fat-free miracle.
Dried Figs
You will not find figs in Fig Newtons (Dissappointing, I know), but you will find them in any grocery store! I highly recommend you go pick some up as they are extremely high in calcium. Eat just 10, and you’ve matched the calcium percentages of a cup of milk. You’ll also get plenty of fiber, Bi-complex vitamins, a little potassium, and iron to sprinkle the top.
Lounge Chairs That Clean Your Clothes
Being the messy male that I am, I take my dirty clothes and sling them on this fancy chair in front of the computer. They are nice for support, but don’t compare to lumbar support you’d find in the classiest of chairs. The clothes would be much better being washed noting the slight stench and sweat stains lying on them (a freelance writer’s work is much more stressful than you could imagine.)
Thank god for Indian designer Harsha Vardhan because he has got a concept that could work out for me. This little lounge chair actually has a hi-tech pressure washing device on the inside. It isn’t your normal tumble washer that you have to hit when it starts shaking. Instead, it cleans with air. Ionized air. Sounds fancy. No need to hook it up to a water source, either, so it will work perfect in a bedroom, living room, and even your child’s room. Teach them to wash themselves. I know how lazy you really are.
It’s name has been coined as the “Alternative Clothes Cleaner.” Futuristic? Hardly, but this little piece of furniture is. It is still a concept, so I guess I will have to wait a couple more years until I can wash this sweater beneath my butt.
Take Care of Unhealthy Food Cravings
Why is it that we always crave for that crappy food that is unhealthy and full of calories that make our weight explode? Sure, the taste of chocolate is overly scrumptious, but why you think you crave it and why your body craves it aren’t the same. You may think you crave that chocolate because of the taste. Your body craves it because it is linked to chemicals in your body. The fact of the matter is, you can take care of these cravings with some more simple, healthier food choices.
Take that chocolate for example. Yummy says tummy, tongue and mind, but what your body really craves is a little magnesium. For the cure to this deadly itch, try some fresh nuts. Sunflower seeds and several fruits may seize that chocolate sweet tooth from you.
Other types of sweet snacks like candies and other sugar packed junk foods make your body crave for several types of nutrients. Chromium cravings can be taken by bchicken, cheeses, grapes, broccoli, beans (dried) and for the brave ones, liver. Sweet cravings are linked to carbon which can be found many types of your favorite fresh fruits. Your body may need a little sulfer soothing from cranberries, cabbage, or horseradish. For a phosphorus problem you have a wide selection of choices to cover you - from meats, dairy, seafood, nuts and grains.
When your body crazes something oily and fat, that burger from the big M or that greasy pizza, your body is saying it needs to be fed some calcium. Find it in dairy products, broccoli, kale, a variety of cheeses, or take that burger off the sesame bun and try that.
These are just 3 of the many cravings one might be searching to fix. Here is a website that will let you know how to sooth the rest of your bad food cravings. Check it out at: http://www.naturopathyworks.com/pages/cravings.php
10 Must Have FREE Mac Apps
I’m a Windows-user for life, and I couldn’t imagine being away from it. However, I do dream of one day owning the next-gen in Macintosh G hardware. They do an amazing job processing graphics, which as a writer, isn’t something I do much. The thought of owning such power is amazing though. For those that are running Macs, though, you probably need some programs to fill up that desktop space. Let’s fill you in on what you need.
Mozilla Firefox - No Internet surfing experience would be completely fulfilled without Mozilla Firefox. With Mozilla Firefox 3 breaking download records, it goes without saying that it is well trusted. It also allows amazing support with hundreds of plug-ins, theming options, and security that other browsers can’t provide. I would never try any other browser, no matter how stellar the reviews are after trying Firefox for the first time. Firefox does a great job hooking you with what it is loaded with.
Mozilla Thunderbird - For those tired of using programs like Outlook, or just don’t want to have to log into Gmail to view their mail updates, check out Thunderbird. As well as being a great email client, Thunderbird has support to view all your RSS feeds in a categorized fashion, as well. It is developed by the same guys that made the record-breaking Firefox, Mozilla, so you can be assured that it is dependable. Spam filtering is being the fold!
Gimp.app - It is no Adobe Photoshop, but it will do what you need it to. Gimp is a free image editing program that is said to be up to grade with Photoshop, providing all the basics that a photo-editing program needs, as well as throwing in advanced options using layers, effects, fliters and color balance tools. Gimp is the must have for those not able to purchase a legal copy of those more expensive imaging software tools.
Cyberduck - Got a webpage? Then you might need a FTP (file transfer protocol) program. Cyberduck is top ranking FTP software amongst free file-transfer programs. It offers you the ease of drag-and-drop transfers with an easy to use interface that even the least geeky of web-nerds could understand.
Miro - Quicktime is boring, hard to use, and hardly supports the file types you actually use. With Miro, you no longer feel screwed when your MPEGs fail to load. Miro is an amazing video player sporting a myriad of features. Want to watch a video off of YouTube? Search for it and download it instead! Subscribe to video RSS and watch it as soon as it is broadcast. Miro also doubles as a Torrent app.
Quicksilver - This application would be excellent for a freelance writer and blogger like me. Why? Quicksilver lets you launch all your programs without taking your hand off the keyboard. When the hotkeys on your keyboard just don’t cut it, Quicksilver will. Activate it, type in a couple letters and hit enter. Viola! The program you wanted opened in seconds, rather than you having to dig into your harddrive to find it.
The Unarchiver - The ever so important unzipping program is something no computer should come incomplete without. With so many different zipped file types - 7zip, .zip, . tar, .bz2, and the Mac perplexxing .Rar file types - you will want a program that can handle them all fast and easily. The Unarchiver handles all major zip files and some of the not as well known types. This program is essential for those wanting to send and recieve large files in small packages.
Senuti - Apple is nice enough to give awesome G5s, but they screwed iPods up when they decided not to let you transfer music files directly off of the iPod onto your Macs harddrive. Not to worry, though, when you have Senuti! Senuti lets you rip the music straight off your iPod and directly into any computer you choose. No longer are you limited to a designated computer where you have to load all your songs.
Burn - This approprietly named app does just what you think it does. It burns CDs and DVDs. Its simple interface and ease of use makes it a favorite amongst Mac owners. One can burn music, movies, and data files to make sure you are getting the most out of that overpriced DVD-drive. Burn it up, baby!
NeoOffice - Last in our line up of just 10 of the great applications for Macs is NeoOffice. NeoOffice is the Microsoft Office minus the giant price tap. Based and built off of the OpenOffice.org coding, you are getting a program that is completely compatible with Word and Open Document formats. There are programs similar to that of Excel, Word, Publisher, and all your other desktop favorites.
Got any more suggestions for our next list. Voice them in the comments!
Homeless Die in the Name of Science
Poland has found a way to finally put those hobos to use. Unfortunately, they are dying in the process. I can’t help but feel for the above homeless man and his anger towards the evils of Polish doctors.
In order to test a possible vaccine for the bird flu, 3 doctors and 6 nurses headed into town and found a few homeless people. Being bribed with the equivalent of 3 dollars, they were stuck with a needle they were told contained a traditional flu vaccine.
While it is still “unknown” whether or not the leads of death are due to the vaccine, what the doctors have done here isn’t quite what I like to call humanitarian.
Poor bums. I hate needles, but these guys will do anything for a buck or two. I wish I could hire some of the hobos around Thailand to write for me. Unfortunately, the ones that speak English avoid my capture.
As for this story - this might not be the first time they’ve done tests on homeless men and women, though.
The medical staff, from the northern town of Grudziadz, are being investigated over medical trials on as many as 350 homeless and poor people last year, which prosecutors say involved an untried vaccine to the highly-contagious virus.
And then in Poland again:
In 2002, a number of ambulance medics were found guilty of killing their patients for commissions from funeral companies.
Oh, boy. Remind me never to go broke in Poland. I don’t want my intestines turned into some of their scrumptious sausage. Perhaps that is the secret ingredient.
[via telegraph]
Wal-Mart May Have to Pay Up to $2 Billion
This is a story straight out of my home-state, and a pretty entertaining one at that. My mother hates anything with the name “mart” in it, although she doesn’t hate Wal-Mart - or is it Walmart* now? - as much as the big K-Fart. Anyways, I’m sure this will please the hell out of her.
A Minnesota judge ruled that Walmart may have infracted Minnesota labor laws over 2 million times in the past 6 years, calling what Walmart did “dehumanizing”. The infractions include not allowing workers to take break, making employees work through lunch, and working them off of their time shifts involuntarily and without pay. Each infraction is chargable, by law, with up to a $1,000 fine.
2,000,000 x 1,000 = … Add the zeros… (I was never good at math)… oh 2 BILLION Dollars!
Walmart is in some deep doo-doo now… just like Nancy Braun, one of the 4 named plantiffs in the suit:
In several instances no one came in time for her to go to the bathroom. “I would end up soiling myself,” said Braun, now 53 and living in Rochester. “Sometimes I’d have other clothes with me in my locker, or they would say to me, ‘We have clothes in the store you can buy.’”
Sounds like Nancy could use some Depends, or this. All joking aside, you can’t help but feel sorry for the woman and the rest of the people working at Walmart. Besides being labeled as hicks and sillies that aren’t good enough for the real working class America, they’ve got to put up without any food. God forbid no lunch break! Damn you, Walmart (star)!
Can you believe this, though? Walmart may be considering an appeal! How? They are reviewing the Minnesota labor laws and Walmart rules to find any loop holes. Chances are they will find one, and Nancy will be left with her good ol’ Depends (aisle 17), unfortunatly.
[via star tribune]
-
Categories
-
Advertise Here
Get more information about advertising on Blogosis here.
Recent Comments
- Nintendo Wii - Good site I "Stumbledupon" it today and gave it a…
- Justin Dupre - C-Squared: Ridiculousonism - Clickbooth will most likely... could be ...out of…
- C-Squared - http://www.cantgetrich.com/2008/03/17/i-cant-believe-this/…
- Justin Dupre - Nope. They are sending me a C&D email for that…
- nitro2k01 - Holy crap and crappy hole! You gotta be joking right?…
- Bruce Cat - Glad you found a solution Justine
… - Justin Dupre - Oh my god... That is ... aweful! Good luck, I'm gonna…
- Mr. Polite - So yeah, blogging when you don't want to, or need…
- Mr. Polite (iPhone) - busy with clients is what I've been for the last…
- Brenda - I agree that you should only blog when you have…