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Imagine a metal sheath around your penis lined with spikes, so each time you get an erection your penis iron-maidened. Spiked penis sheaths are just one of the innovative methods designed to stop kids touching themselves, along with genital electro-shock, penis piercing, labia clamping and, for a few lucky girls, a clitoridectomy. Quite right too, masturbation turns your dink into a snail and your vagina into a bucket of chicken…

1. The Stephenson Spermatic Truss, patented in 1876, squeezed the penis in a small pouch, which was then stretched and strapped down between the legs, making erections a painfully cramped possibility.
2. The Bowen Device was placed over the penis and attached by the pubic hair, which would be plucked out if there was a rush of blood down below.
3. In 1848, Dr John Moodie invented a device which restricted blood flow to the penis, apparently discouraging erections
4. The penis cooler, invented in 1893 by Frank Orth, was worn at night and, through a system of levers, poured cold water over the genitals at the first hint of morning glory.
5. In 1873, a teacher from Belgium even invented a school bench to “prevent schoolboys from crossing or closing their legs… thus both the rubbing and heating of the genital parts are avoided”, which was meant to stop the mass murder of their sacred semen.
6. After the development of batteries, appliances emerged that gave electric shocks with every erection, training your penis like Pavlov’s dogs.
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In the US Patent Office records, there are over 30 patents for devices to prevent masturbation dating between 1856 and 1932. Luckily, around 1930 the medical profession disproved the theory and all us wankers were saved.

ViceLand and the letter M.

Her and other un-tooned fictional characters at Toxel.

Ok, I’m checking M[c]S tis evening, as I always do, and come across this gem of a post. That post led me to Tantus’ “The Vamp”. What should you get for the girl that already has a “sparkling” dildo? A bedazzled vagina. of course! That’s right ladies, you can get Vajazzled!

So how exactly does a lady get her business Vajazzled? It’s a 2-step process involving some pretty high-tech wax, and then some pretty fabulous Swarovski crystals. But before any crystallization can occur, the entire region gets waxed.
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I got a 2 or 3 minute break after my wax to “relax and get ready” for the actual Vajazzling. I laid back on the table (obviously pantless), and Jill prepped my area with a mild cleansing solution to rid the region of any remaining wax. Then came little sheets of real Swarovski crystals that she heated in the palms of her hands for a few seconds before applying to my freshly waxed skin. The bottom of each sheet of crystals has a strong adhesive material that’s completely invisible to the naked eye. Larger areas of crystals are applied directly from a sheet, while more design-specific crystals are painstakingly applied by a tweezer on an individual basis…

Wow. Just wow.

Eye Witness Account:

Sea World Response:

The Whales Story:

Orcas are hunters that should be out in nature free to hunt. Not in a pool like a prison doing stupid tricks for profit. Trainers have died and will continue to.

Waddington PLC, the printing company best known for its games including Monopoly, was involved in a most unusual venture during the Second World War: printing maps on silk, rayon and tissue paper for military use and smuggling some of them to prisoners of war.

The maps themselves were mainly small scale, covering large areas; many were copied from maps then available from Bartholomew’s in traditional paper form. (Bartholomew’s generously waived all royalties, for the privilege of helping the war effort). In addition tiny compasses were concealed in buttons, pens and the like; with these two items the escaper had some chance of finding his way to safety. Other useful items such as small supplies of food and water, and foreign currency, were usually included as well in ‘escape packs’. Some of the maps gave more than general information. The one shown here, designed for sending to prisoners, shows a route from Salzburg in Austria to Mojstrana in Yugoslavia (held by forces sympathetic to the Allies). The red route avoids the easy mountain passes and shows a harder but less populated way over the hills, and gives matter of fact advice on throwing stones at pursuers.

Waddington already possessed the technology to print on cloth and made a variety of board games, packs of cards and so forth that could sent to the camps. They began by printing silk maps for supply to air crews, both British and American, and went on to conceal maps inside Monopoly boards, chess sets and packs of cards which could be sent into the prison camps. The whole business of making the maps was shrouded in secrecy and the letters do not tell the whole story. The references to different coloured playing cards, for example, made in one of the letters, are not explained at all in the correspondence; many communications were by word of mouth and never written down for security reasons. A special code, which is described in another of the letters, was used to indicate to the Ministry which map was concealed inside a particular game so that it would be sent to a prisoner of war camp in the appropriate area. A full stop after Marylebone Station, for instance, meant Italy, a stop after Mayfair meant Norway, Sweden and Germany, and one after Free Parking meant Northern France, Germany and its frontiers. “Straight” boards were marked “Patent applied for” with a full stop.

I came across this first on Snopes and decided to check it out a little and came across this site that included maps and more details. Cool, right?

Roughly 2 million years ago, the Taylor Glacier sealed beneath it a small body of water which contained an ancient community of microbes. Trapped below a thick layer of ice, they have remained there ever since, isolated inside a natural time capsule. Evolving independently of the rest of the living world, these microbes exist without heat, light, or oxygen, and are essentially the definition of “primordial ooze.” The trapped lake has very high salinity and is rich in iron, which gives the waterfall its red color. A fissure in the glacier allows the subglacial lake to flow out, forming the falls without contaminating the ecosystem within.

via Antarctic Glacier Has Five-story Blood-red Waterfall of Primodial Ooze – GOOD Blog – GOOD.

Train vs. flood.

To prevent another “out gunned” scenario MetalTech, along with Indian special forces, have developed a $45,000 armored golf cart!

The MetalTech Anti-Terrorist Assault Cart (ATAC) can resist grenade blasts and gun fire.

via The MetalTech Anti-Terrorist Assault Cart (ATAC) | The Firearm Blog.

Is it ridiculous looking?  yep.  is it practically pointless?  yep.  will is sell millions to third world countries that just don’t have a clue?  yep.

toomanytribbles: atheist spirituality.

Edited clips showing loads of the corny one-liners used by David Caruso just before the Who song starts on CSI Miami.

via YouTube – CSI Miami – Endless Caruso One Liners.

A samurai named Kanemi Sanzaemon (Etsushi Toyokawa), who is known for his original “bird catching” style of swordplay is pulled into a battle to the death when he kills a feudal lord’s mistress after she uses her influence to corrupt local politics.

Cast includes Etsushi Toyokawa, Chizuru Ikewaki, Fumiyo Kohinata, Naho Toda, Koji Kikkawa, and Ittoku Kishibe.

So far, four samurai films have been adapted from the literary works of Shuhei Fujisawa and they’re all modern classics that recall a time long past when Japan’s film industry was cranking out a steady stream of samurai masterpieces. Other big-screen adaptations include THE TWILIGHT SAMURAI, THE HIDDEN BLADE, THE SAMURAI I LOVED, and LOVE AND HONOR. By the looks of it, HISSHIKEN TORISASHI appears to be another high-brow diversion from the C-grade, bargain basement schlock and anime that generally amounts to action films in Japan these days.

HISSHIKEN TORISASHI is heading to theaters in Japan on July 10, 2010.

Kung Fu Cinema

This looks like a must see Chamabara(Samurai) film! My favorite genre.

This actually looks watchable. I see many nods to the original as well as some Chinese culture thrown in. I plan on seeing it. Great quotes too.

Bob Marshall backpedaling, unsuccessfully : Pharyngula.

A new French antismoking advertisement aimed at the young that plays off a pornographic stereotype has gotten more attention than even its creators intended, and critics suggest that it offends common decency and creates a false analogy between oral sex and smoking.

France has banned smoking in cafes, bars and restaurants. But smoking is still increasing among the young in France, according to the French Office for the Prevention of Smoking, prompting an antitobacco organization called Droits des Non-fumeurs, or Nonsmokers’ Rights, to create the ad.

The slogan is bland enough: “To smoke is to be a slave to tobacco.” But it accompanies photographs of an older man, his torso seen from the side, pushing down on the head of a teenage girl with a cigarette in her mouth. Her eyes are at belt level, glancing upward fearfully. The cigarette appears to emerge from the adult’s trousers.

The ads try to convince them that smoking is “an act of naïveté and submission.

How is this supposed to dissuade possible smokers?
NY Times

click through and press the button.  I did it about 200 times so far today.

Instant No Button! Star Wars funnies FTW!.

Probably not safe for work. I can’t say why without spoiling it though …

Truly a man of steel balls and faith in his running ability.
This is an excerpt from one of the funniest flicks I have ever seen, Kentucky Fried Movie.

From Lance Armstrong on his bike, to a six-year-old in China learning martial arts, movement is the universal language that connects us all. It’s a language of beauty, drama, tragedy and triumph. And the road to athletic greatness is not marked by perfection, but the ability to constantly overcome adversity and failure.

“It’s not how you start, it’s how you finish. It’s not where you’re from, it’s where you’re at. Everybody gets knocked down, how quick are you going to get up?”

Visually beautiful commercial, but even better message. Great music too. The Hours – Ali In The Jungle.

Flood. Drought. Heat waves. Ice melt. The impact of a warming world is being manifested in a variety of ways, and we can see it from space. Browse through our gallery of pictures taken by NASA satellites looking down at planet Earth. Click on the images for more information and higher resolution images.

via Scientific Visualization Studio: Gallery of Animations.

It’s amazing to me that there’s still debate over this.  Isn’t the fact that we have temperatures swinging 40 full degrees in highs on back to back days proof enough that the climate is all sorts of fucked?

Curious Displays is a product proposal for a new platform for display technology. Instead of a fixed form factor screen, the display surface is instead broken up into hundreds of ½ inch display blocks. Each block operates independently as a self-contained unit, and has full mobility, allowing movement across any physical surface. The blocks operate independently of one another, but are aware of the position and role relative to the rest of the system. With this awareness, the blocks are able to coordinate with the other blocks to reconfigure their positioning to form larger display surfaces and forms depending on purpose and function. In this way, the blocks become a physical embodiment of digital media, and act as a vehicle for the physical manifestation of what typically exists only in the virtual space of the screen.

Curious Display – Julia Y. Tsao
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It wasn’t until 1947, following an apparent mid-flight sighting by respected pilot Kenneth Arnold, that the American public were introduced to the term ‘Flying Saucer‘. Other sightings were reported almost instantly, and within weeks the whole world was awash with stories of contact from other planets. Five years later, following another intense bout of activity in the U.S., Winston Churchill sought the opinion of his advisers by way of the memo seen below. The response, which can also be read below, was quick and with good reason as in 1950 the MoD‘s Chief Scientific Adviser had secretly set-up the beautifully-named Flying Saucer Working Party – a committee dedicated to such matters – and an investigation had already taken place.

Many other fascinating UFO-related documents can now be seen at the National Archives.

Transcript

SECRETARY OF STATE FOR AIR
LORD CHERWELL

What does all this stuff about flying saucers amount to? What can it mean? What is the truth? Let me have a report at your convenience.

W.S.C.

28.July 1952

Response

PRIME MINISTER

The various reports about unidentified flying objects, described by the Press as “flying saucers”, were the subject of a full Intelligence study in 1951. The conclusions reached (based upon William of Occam’s Razor) were that all the incidents reported could be explained by one or other of the following causes:-

(a) Known astronomical or meteorological phenomena
(b) Mistaken identification of conventional aircraft, balloons, birds, etc.
(c) Optical illusions and psychological delusions
(d) Deliberate hoaxes.

2. The Americans, who carried out a similar investigation in 1948/9, reached a similar conclusion.

3. Nothing has happened since 1951 to make the Air Staff change their opinion, and, to judge from recent Press statements, the same is true in America.

4. I am sending a copy of this to Lord Cherwell.

9th August, 1952.

Wow. Cool.
Leters of Note

From 1984 to 1994, a perfect storm of people and circumstances changed the face of animation forever.

Waking Sleeping Beauty is no fairytale. It is a story of clashing egos, out of control budgets, escalating tensions… and one of the most extraordinary creative periods in animation history.

Director Don Hahn and producer Peter Schneider, key players at Walt Disney Studios Feature Animation department during the mid1980s, offer a behind-the-magic glimpse of the turbulent times the Animation Studio was going through and the staggering output of hits that followed over the next ten years. Artists polarized between the hungry young innovators and the old guard who refused to relinquish control, mounting tensions due to a string of box office flops, and warring studio heads create the backdrop for this fascinating story told with a unique and candid perspective from those that were there. Through interviews, internal memos, home movies, and a cast of characters featuring Michael Eisner, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and Roy Disney, alongside an amazing array of talented artists that includes Don Bluth, John Lasseter, and Tim Burton, Waking Sleeping Beauty shines a light on Disney Animations darkest hours, greatest joys and its improbable renaissance.

An Official Selection at the 2009 Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and winner of the Audience Award at the Hamptons International Film Festival, Waking Sleeping Beauty is directed by Don Hahn, and produced by Peter Schneider and Don Hahn.

I have to see this!!!!! Still need The Lion King on DVD too.

Frame 137 Teaser from Judd L. Tilyard on Vimeo.

The film is a sci-fi action piece based on the work of James O’Barr creator of the Crow, and made with his permission. The comic first appeared in Dark Horse Presents, and was expanded by Judd Tilyard into a short film in 2009 after several years of development. The film was shot on the RED using Lomo Anamorphic Lens over a weekend. Sam ransom the ten year old boy who plays Jonny Z, the films hero, notably performed all his own stunts including the fire breathing and wire-work, some of which is showcased in the Teaser. The music used in the teaser, was also very generously recorded for the film by Nick Oliveri and Dave Grohl my sincerest thanks guys.

Red is one of the most expensive HD video cameras available. Only $17,000 for just the body. No lense (interchangeable) or other needed accessories. Basically the best digital camera available for indie filmmakers.

This trailer shows a certain amount of potential, but I need to see more. Their certainly hasn’t been too many cyberpunk films of late.

YouTube – The making of Old Spice’s commercial: The Man Your Man Could Smell Like.