Stumbled across this today, which would have been wonderful in the WBF studio. GasBGon – Flatulence Filter Seat Cushions.

You no longer have to be embarrassed by the untimely passing of intestinal gas among your friends or family. GasBGon has been designed and tested to absorb the odor and sound of flatulence. Malodorous gas is a naturally occurring event, obviously affecting some people more than others. Yet, clinical studies show that the average person produces one to three pints of gas and passes gas 14 times a day.

So this guy gets arrested and faces five years jail and US$250000 fine for telling a spammer he would…

…disable you with a bullet and torture you with a power drill and an ice pick, then hunt you down and castrate your employees.

While the media find it amusing that someone would go to such lengths, I have to ask, how is it that he receives so few spams that he can concentrate so intently on one of them? And how come they’ve arrested a guy with such lame come backs? We’ve all done better, even on a bad day. SPAM rage (CNet)

You have to wonder why on Easter Sunday, all the large stores are shut (presumably not to celebrate Ramadan), yet when they open again on Monday, they’ll be stacked full of chocolate eggs. Commercialism at its best. Somehow this reminds me of Adolf Hitler in 1936 when he finally gave in to the unions and gave them a labor day holiday, then the next day he outlawed unionism. Reminds me, but I’m not sure why…

Now that Gulf War II is all but complete, the anti-war nations are lining up to provide free aid. Why? Because aid leads to more permanent lucrative trade deals, and the idealistic anti-war campaigners marching in the streets cannot see past “blood for oil” to “blood for trade”. The French and Germans, both whose history of weapons of mass destruction are clearly on record, now have their regime change, their citizens’ respect, and their global trade deals. No wonder French is still the language of diplomacy.

How can G.W. Bush seriously put his case for peace when he comes out with Christian tainted rhetoric such as:

I don’t believe liberty is America’s gift to the world; I believe it is God’s gift to humanity.

So, how many of you dear readers also have a snivelling little turd as your head of state, who refuses to sign the Kyoto protocol? Of course, pleasing big business is much more important than whether it will be possible to actually live on this damn planet in several years’ time. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/09/04/1031115886013.html

Here’s a Microsoftism to tickle your hearts. Microsoft has joined with the University of Waterloo (in Canada no less) to include a mandatory course on C# for all electrical and computer engineering students, which they must pass. Check it out at http://uwstudent.org/story/9658

The Liberal party returns to government, when education means an archery range and an indoor swimming pool, when health and hospital means pay for it yourself, when getting old means go get fucked, when tax reform means pay more tax, when science and technology means emigrate, and the blinkers of the nation’s populace are still well and truly in place. Here’s to four more years of dumbing down of the nation, and more of the almost irrepairable financial, social and moral damage the Liberals have been doing to Australia since John Howard first took government. Get a dog up ya.

Watching the Gold Coast Indy 300. It’s amazing how while 80% of the drivers and team employees are from outside the U.S., they STILL, on Australian soil, insist upon both a christian prayer and the singing of the U.S. national anthem over the P.A. While this was happening, the telecast showed drivers and teams paying no attention. This is the same CART championship which is trying to become a world motor racing formula. www.cart.com

Today Jean Alesi ends his Formula 1 career in Suzuka. Come on Jean, let’s go another year!