http://crazy-frankenstein.com/entertainment.html Entertainment : Crazy Frankenstein , crazy stuff , reliable and up to date cinema listings, TV, music, gigs, exhibitions, theatre, clubbing, comedy and much more. Breaking entertainment news on celebrities, TV shows, movies, music and books. Copyright 2010 Crazy Frankenstein powered by MWW Network en-us Mon, 11 Oct 2010 12:00:00 GMT 360 http://crazy-frankenstein.com/entertainment.html http://crazy-frankenstein.com/entertainment.html Mon, 11 Oct 2010 12:00:00 GMT Entertainment Entertainment : Crazy Frankenstein crazy stuff , reliable and up to date cinema listings, TV, music, gigs, exhibitions, theatre, clubbing, comedy and much more. Breaking entertainment news on celebrities, TV shows, movies, music and books. http://crazy-frankenstein.com/articles-and-stories.html http://crazy-frankenstein.com/articles-and-stories.html Mon, 11 Oct 2010 12:00:00 GMT Entertainment Articles and Stories : Crazy Frankenstein - crazy stuff , scary and crazy pictures,funny pictures, funny videos, flash games, flash animations, free wallpapers, cool sounds and more! http://crazy-frankenstein.com/articles-and-stories-page-2.html http://crazy-frankenstein.com/articles-and-stories-page-2.html Mon, 11 Oct 2010 12:00:00 GMT Entertainment Articles and Stories page 2 : Crazy Frankenstein - crazy stuff , scary and crazy pictures,funny pictures, funny videos, flash games, flash animations, free wallpapers, cool sounds and more! http://crazy-frankenstein.com/articles-and-stories-page-3.html http://crazy-frankenstein.com/articles-and-stories-page-3.html Mon, 11 Oct 2010 12:00:00 GMT Entertainment Articles and Stories page 3 : Crazy Frankenstein - crazy stuff , scary and crazy pictures,funny pictures, funny videos, flash games, flash animations, free wallpapers, cool sounds and more! http://crazy-frankenstein.com/d-day-allies-storm-ashore-in-normandy.html http://crazy-frankenstein.com/d-day-allies-storm-ashore-in-normandy.html Mon, 11 Oct 2010 12:00:00 GMT Entertainment D-day : Allies storm ashore in Normandy June 6, 1944 A short, low key announcement from General Eisenhower's HQ told the world that the long-awaited invasion of Europe had at last begun : " Allied naval forces, supported by strong air forces , begun landing Allied armies this morning on the northern coast of France . " No place names were given , nothing that would help the enemy. Combined Attack The Allied landing points become known as the day progressed.Many landed near Caen, 65 miles southeast of Cherbourg. It was the biggest combined land,sea and air operation of all time, and it begun in the evening , June 5 when airborne troops took off from airfields in southern England. Between midnight and dawn they landed by parachute or glider at key points behind enemy lines, with ammunition and equipment strapped to their backs. Throughout the night RAF bombers pounded German batteries along the French coast. At daybreak more then 1,300 heavy bombers of the US Air Force took over the attack .After substantial naval forces had swept enemy mines from the invasion route several thousand ships from ports all and over Britain, converged on the invasion coast soon after a.m. While battleship, cruisers and destroyers pounded the German defenses , engineers demolished beach obstacles , and troops came up behind them with tanks and self-propelled artillery. Germans Bluffed The Germans appeared to believe that the Normandy operations might be a feint to distract attention from the real invasion point. British and US air investigation had shown that the strongest German defenses were in the Pas de Calais, and a powerful armored force in the area had not area has not been moved. The question commanders on both sides were asking was whether the Allies could bring reinforcements faster by sea than the Germans can by land. In ordinary circumstances the land-based forces should have had the advantage , but RAF and US bombers had been attacking railways, bridges and radar stations . Allied air superiority meant that the only time the Germans could make large-scale movements was during the hours of darkness. " New Campaign " General Eisenhower addressed the peoples of Western Europe over the airwaves : " This landing is but the opening phase of the campaign in Western Europe. Great battles lie ahead. I call upon all who love freedom to stand with us. " http://crazy-frankenstein.com/the-most-unnessery-gadgets-to-buy.html http://crazy-frankenstein.com/the-most-unnessery-gadgets-to-buy.html Mon, 11 Oct 2010 12:00:00 GMT Entertainment Are buying unnecessary gadgets ? Did anybody have a feeling that you're buying really unnecessary technology stuffs day by day ? With the never-ending advances in consumer electronics, one too many blinks and you might miss the latest technology release. Smart phones ( iphone for example ), high-definition video cameras and the latest home audio/video components may seem like unnecessary gadgets today, but don't be surprised when you find yourself in the market for one of them in the not-too-distant future. You know there are those things that when you walk into someone else's home and you love them and they're completely useful yet not exactly mandatory for your home life's existence? Well that's what most of these gadgets are! Are they so unnecessary for living ? Are they really ? The list presents a vast variety of eye-candy technology. Check out the list below, and see if you can top it with your own. Bunkerbound USB Missile Launcher Frankenstein is an 1818 novel by Mary Shelley, first published anonymously in London, but more often known by the revised third edition of 1831 under her own name. It is a novel infused with some elements of the Gothic novel and the Romantic movement. It was also a warning against the "over-reaching" of modern man and the Industrial Revolution, alluded to in the novel's subtitle, The Modern Prometheus. Binary Clock This binary clocks gadget displays the time using blue LED's in Binary Code. Might take a short time to initially work out how to use it but then will be just like second nature to you. CD Lamp Honestly there is nothing cooler than unique gadgets other than unique gadgets that you can maneuver and set up all by yourself. This really awesome C.D. lamp lets you fill it with either old or current c.d.'s and just plug it on in. You can make it all by yourself if you're useful with tools and know what you're doing. What's needed to make this? It gives off a really cool light and vibe. Very cool. Nabaztag Wifi Smart Rabbit An ambient wireless device in the shape of a rabbit. Nabaztags are designed by a French company called Violet and available in the UK and now the US. He / She can then talk, read RSS feeds and email messages, dance, pose, sing, provide alerts for shares and the weather, and a wide variety of other services. The services are configurable through Violet's website and are constantly being increased. Nokia Pen Write and store up to 100 A5 pages in the Nokia Digital Pen. As easy to use as a normal ink pen, the Nokia Digital Pen provides you with a digital instrument that records as it writes. Slogan, sketch, or signature if it's written on digital paper, the Nokia Digital Pen remembers it. Get a brilliant story idea during lunch? Jot it down and it's stored in the pen. When you get back to the desk and put the pen in its stand, your thoughts are transferred to your compatible PC. And since it all works digitally, you can add colors and sketches to your notes for a look that's even richer and more alive on screen than on paper. The sleekly shaped Nokia Digital Pen remembers up to 100 sheets worth of text. Even the most prolific writers don't need to worry too much about running out of memory, because the pen connects smoothly to your compatible PC, where you can store your notes for further contemplation and distribution. Roccaforte Ultimate Game Desk A 500 US dollars + beast of a table that features a vast array of mini-tables for peripherals, extra monitors, speakers, and joypads. Made by Japanese company M-S-Y. Sunflower Solar Power Station The Sunflower might be the best designed solar power station ever created for the home and office. Solar panels found up top provide power throughout the day, while the rechargeable solar battery keeps things working at night. Also included is an integrated solar powered music system complete with speakers which is sure to liven up your home. No word yet on pricing or availability. Speak Easy Hands Free Kit Take calls on your mobile hands-free, while the speak Easy moves in sychronisation with the voice of the caller. Quite Spooky! Can also be used in normal hands free mode (i.e. the lips stay still) USB Wooden Memory Sticks Transfer files to and from the USB memory stick made from natural woods, professionally handmade to be unique and personal. Type: USB 2.0 Memory stick Memory sizes: 256 Mb, 512 Mb and 1 Gb Dimensions: Approx. 2 x 2 x 10 cm Packaging: White giftbox Suitable for: Windows, Linux and Mac Tunewear Tetran Cable Winderr This is the cutest cable winder you can have for your iPod. Just wrap your cable around the spikes and put the earbuds in the tetran's mouth http://crazy-frankenstein.com/the-danube-river.html http://crazy-frankenstein.com/the-danube-river.html Mon, 11 Oct 2010 12:00:00 GMT Entertainment The danube , Europe's River of Harmony and Discord Sometimes it's hard to tell where a river begins. It's doubly difficult with the Danube, born of two rival sources , both trickling down the slopes of Germany's Black Forest. The first third of its nearly , 1 800 miles journey to the Black Sea it supplies an idyllic course beside tidy villages and storybook castles. But there in another Danube River, mainly in Eastern Europe , one damaged by pollution and war . A Nato bombing campaign against Yugoslavia in 1999 destroyed industrial facilities , releasing contaminants into the water. But the Danube had a dual personality even before the bombing . The river is playground for swimming and boating ; it is also very much a working river of fisherman, barges, power plants, and shipyards. The working river is part of a busy transportation corridor connecting the North Sea with the Black Sea through the Main-Danube Canal , but it also feeds wetlands and valuable wildlife habitats . Today people along the river are striving to reconcile these competing demands and are beginning to undo years of environmental and war damage. The course of the river can be followed from Ulm, the first navigable point on the river, patrolled by graceful swans. Leaving Germany, the Danube flows eastward into Austria. The river passes castle ruins and apricot orchards that cover the banks with snowy blossoms. But no place is as identified with Danube's charm as Vienna . Vienna was hub of the Hapsburg empire, and in the 1860s , after Austria's defeat by the Prussians , Johann wrote the " Blue Danube " to cheer up his fellow Austrians. Downriver from Vienna the Danube cleaves Hungary's capital Budapest, with Pest on the left bank , commanded by the stately parliament building , Buda on the right , crowned by Castle Hill. The contrast between Blue Danube nostalgia and reality couldn't be sharper then in Yugoslavia , which was bombed by NATO , Sitting on the Danube 47 miles upstream from Belgrade, Novi Sad suffered mightily, with an oil refinery and three bridges blown up. Further downriver , near Belgrade , the attacks crippled the city of Pancevo, destroying petrochemical plants and an oil refinery. The 78 days of bombing left a mammoth job of cleaning up the river. http://crazy-frankenstein.com/the-chip-that-is-changing-our-lives.html http://crazy-frankenstein.com/the-chip-that-is-changing-our-lives.html Mon, 11 Oct 2010 12:00:00 GMT Entertainment The chip that is changing our lives How many people cloud say why 1959 is an important date ? Probably not many .But this the year when the chip was invented. You may then ask , " But what is a chip?! " It is the nickname for a small piece of silicon that, like magic, is changing modern life. This chip which under microscope looks like a city map of streets and buildings , is an integrated circuit, the " brain " in our computers, calculators, watches and other electronic goods that save time and labor and help us work with greater precision . Many uses were soon found for the new invention , and scientists made chips that were more and more complicated. Computers ,which were once so big and expensive, could now be smaller and cheaper. People could have their own personal computers and use them in their homes. Chips went into television sets, radios, car engines. In a popular video game the chip may take a player into space to fight imaginary battles, or in a fast car down a busy highway where there are many dangers. When we buy things in a shop that has an electronic cash register, the clerk just passes the articles we have bought over a certain spot, and the computer gives the price of each article , then adds them up , and finally corrects the shop's records of how much it has of each article. The place in California where this new industry originally developed got its nickname, Silicon Valley, from the material that is used to make the chip.Silicon Valley is near two well-known universities ( Stanford and Berkeley ) ,and it is interesting that ii is not far from the place where gold was discovered in 1849, which also brought thousands of people to California. This time people who came were scientists and engineers ! http://crazy-frankenstein.com/pc-junk-make-them-useful.html http://crazy-frankenstein.com/pc-junk-make-them-useful.html Mon, 11 Oct 2010 12:00:00 GMT Entertainment PC junk : Make them useful Are you expecting a new PC in your stocking this year? Then it's time to think about what you'll do with your old system. Repurpose? Recycle? Donate? Pass it on to a friend or relative? Here are ideas on how to prepare your PC for giveaway.Actually you can make your old PC in something useful stuff like bag, wallet , bracelet or maybe in some geek jewelry ! Look what you can make of PC junk : Floppy Disk Bag This is a bag I made from floppy disks. We found scads of floppy disks in a dumpster and wanted to make plate mail armor out of it (that is my next floppy project) . We found out that a bag would be a great proof of concept project. Wallet made from a computer keyboard In all likelihood there is a keyboard within a few feet of you. Inside that keyboard there probably is a circuit sheet that makes for a surprisingly durable and thin material for making a wallet. Why? In taking apart electronics i find uses for most of the parts. Things which can not be reused go into scrap piles for recycling. But these sheets couldn't be easily reused and probably can not be recycled. I tried using overhead transparency sheets that had been printed on for a customized clear wallet pattern but the sheets mark when folded or creased. These circuit sheets are extremely durable. Motherboard PCB Bracelet This bracelet is for the geeks of the leet'est and also for looking funky. What you need for making this bracelet : -1 Computer motherboard -Wire -telephone wire and thick copper wire (size of the earth wire for house wiring) This is excellent and the most interesting way to make something of your old components ! It's not big deal to make one just like you see but one question come on our minds : The components in a typical PC motherboard are loaded with lead and other chemicals ? Right ?! So , this is not something you want pressed against your skin . Geeky Earrings So, what you can offer your girlfriend for new and cool present in future ?! Geeky earring made of old circuit board ( for example) ! How knows maybe she like those because you make just for her and its still unique . And the best part of everything it's really easy to make something like this in fifteen minutes . Don't waste your time and junk and do it yourself. http://crazy-frankenstein.com/view-on-san-francisco.html http://crazy-frankenstein.com/view-on-san-francisco.html Mon, 11 Oct 2010 12:00:00 GMT Entertainment View on San Francisco Ships from Europe did not find the entrance ,the Golden Gate, to the great bay of San Francisco until the middle of the 18th century , although explorers were already sailing up the coast two hundred years earlier.In 1579, for example, sir Francis drake landed on the coast which covers the city every summer afternoon. The first small village here , Yerba Buena, was Spanish, then Mexican , and finally American. The discovery of gold nearby changed things. Thousands of people came to California during the Gold Rush of 1849, many of them to San Francisco ,its new name.The discovery of silver in the mountains brought more people. San Francisco grew until April 18,1906 when a great earthquake, and especially the fire that followed,destroyed almost everything. As the city began to grow again , people came from many countries, from different parts of the world. The Chinese settled in the oldest part of the city , today Chinatown. The Italians built their homes on a hill near the bay because many of them were fisherman. These hills were so steep that only cable cars could climb them. Today tall skyscrapers and other fine buildings climb the hills. There are lovely old homes,shops, churches, parks, and steep streets were visitors can still enjoy a ride on one of the old cable cars. But San Francisco is also a place where many young people go to school. There are several well-known universities in the city and others no far away ( Stanford, and the University of California at Berkeley just across the bay ). This is also a busy place were people work . They come to the city across several bridges. The most famous is certainly the one above the entrance to the bay , the Golden Gate Bridge. These are only a few of the sights of San Francisco. Which have you heard about? Golden Gate Bridge The Golden Gate is the strait connecting San Francisco Bay to the Pacific Ocean. The Golden Gate Bridge was the largest suspension bridge in the world when it was completed in 1937 and has become an internationally recognized symbol of San Francisco and the United States. It is currently the second longest suspension bridge in the United States after the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in New York City. The idea of a bridge to span the Golden Gate Strait was brought up in an article by the engineer James Wilkins. The bridge later earned its name, Golden Gate Bridge, after a mention of it in 1927, by San Francisco city engineer M. M. O'Shaughnessy. The bridge was the idea of Joseph Strausses, an engineer responsible for over 500 drawbridges. The bridge has approximately 1,200,000 total rivets. Upon completion, Joseph Strauss wrote a poem now on the Golden Gate Bridge entitled "The Mighty Task is Done" . Since its completion, the bridge has closed due to windy conditions five times; 1951, 1982, 1983, 1996, and 2005. http://crazy-frankenstein.com/the-sound-of-bagpipes.html http://crazy-frankenstein.com/the-sound-of-bagpipes.html Mon, 11 Oct 2010 12:00:00 GMT Entertainment The sound of bagpipes The most popular event at the three week Edinburgh summer festival takes place every evening in front of an old castle that stands on hill above the city. Thousands of visitors watch as bands march to the sound of bagpipes and drums.In attractive kilts each in the pattern, or tartan, of a clan the marchers make a very colorful picture. The first International Festival (and the first Festival Fringe, although it wasn't known as such until later) took place in 1947, in the wake of the Second World War, with an optimistic remit to 'provide a platform for the flowering of the human spirit' and enrich the cultural life of Scotland, Britain and Europe. The founders of the Festival included Rudolf Bing, (then the General Manager of Glyndebourne Opera Festival), Henry Harvey Wood the Head of the British Council in Scotland, and a group of civic leaders from the City of Edinburgh. The festivals have taken place every August since. Edinburgh is the capital of Scotland.It is an old city, but not the biggest ( Glasgow is twice as big) . From the top of the hill the castle looks down on the Old Town with its lovely houses 10 to 14 stories high. As people here like to say," Edinburgh had skyscrapers three centuries ago when New York was still a village ".Farther on is the Palace of Holyrood house, home of Mary , Queen of Scots ,whose son James VI of Scotland also become James I of England (1603) . In another part of the city were the homes of famous people like inventor Alexander Graham Bell , writers Robert Louis Stevenson and sir Walter Scott . Edinburgh has long been a university town since the 16th century , although this is not the oldest university in Scotland ( St.Andrews, 1411 ). A land of mountains , Scotland has only a very small part between Glasgow and Edinburgh which is good for farming , and most people are finding jobs in electronics, a new industry also the center of industry. Off the coast of Scotland there are many islands. Probably the best known are the Shetland Islands because of small ponies that are favorites with children who are learning to ride. As in many countries, football is very popular but did you know that , besides whiskey , the game of golf also originally same from Scotland ? Edinburgh has twelve golf courses ! Wind instrument consisting of two or more single-reed or double-reed pipes, the reeds being set in motion by wind fed by arm pressure on an animal-skin (or rubberized-cloth) bag. The pipes are held in wooden sockets (stocks) tied into the bag, which is inflated either by the mouth (through a blowpipe with a leather nonreturn valve) or by bellows strapped to the body. Nobody really knows when was made first bagpipe. Bagpipes were invented in the Middle East a long time ago, and were probably introduces into Britain by the Greeks, or more likely the Romans. Both had contact with the Britons, and so either seems possible. They were certainly there when the Romans had been in Britain for a few years, as there are carvings of bagpipe players. How long the pipes took to reach Scotland is unknown, but Northumbria has their own set of similar pipes. http://crazy-frankenstein.com/all-about-origami.html http://crazy-frankenstein.com/all-about-origami.html Mon, 11 Oct 2010 12:00:00 GMT Entertainment All about origami Origami (pronounced or-i-GA-me) is the Japanese art of paperfolding. "Ori" is the Japanese word for folding and "kami" is the Japanese word for paper. That is how origami got its name. However, origami did not start in Japan.The origin of the art began as Chinese Paper Folding. The Mexican origin began in the 6th century when Buddhist monks from China carried paper to Mexico. The first Mexican origami is dated from this period. At first, there was very little paper available so only the rich could afford to do paperfolding. The Japanese found useful purposes for their origami. For example, the Samurai (sa-MURE-ay) would exchange gifts with a form known as a noshi(NO-shee). This was a paper folded with a strip of dried fish or meat. It was considered a good luck token. Also, the Shinto Noblemen would celebrate weddings by wrapping glasses of sake or rice wine in butterfly forms that had been folded to represent the bride and groom. European origami evolved independently, although to a lesser extent; the baptismal certificate of 16th century, represented by a little bird (pajarita in Spanish or cocotte in French) was one of the only models developed outside of Mexican. During the Meiji period alone, there were many new origami creations conceived by numerous unknown inventors. However because origami required following precise directions, origami was not well received during the Taishou period (1912-1926), a time when educators favored placing importance on originality and creativity. Origami was deemed as lacking in these qualities. However, braced by a long history, origami once again regained its popularity. Origami only uses a small number of different folds, but they can be combined in a variety of ways to make intricate designs. In general, these designs begin with a square sheet of paper, whose sides may be different colors, and usually proceed without cutting or fastening the paper. Contrary to most popular belief, traditional Japanese origami, which has been practiced since the Edo era . One of the most famous origami designs is the Japanese crane. The crane is auspicious in Japanese culture. Japan has launched a satellite named tsuru (crane). Legend says that anyone who folds one thousand paper cranes will have their heart's desire come true. And how to make some origami figure ??! Are you looking for origami instructions? You've come to the right place! Here you'll find out how to make many kinds of neat and ingenious items. Look carefully this video : http://crazy-frankenstein.com/20-best-rock-songs.html http://crazy-frankenstein.com/20-best-rock-songs.html Mon, 11 Oct 2010 12:00:00 GMT Entertainment 20 best rock songs By definition, Classic Rock is an album-oriented genre. Still, each of us has our favorite individual songs. What constitutes the "best" of something is largely a matter of individual opinion, and few of us have 500 favorites of anything. You will see that several of these bands are influenced by other bands that either made this list, or are pioneers of Rock music altogether. In several cases, the musicians are outspoken liberals. On other hand it was very difficult to make list of best rock songs for all time and to have everyone favorite song here. 1. Winds of Change : Scorpions This song is one which never fails to give me shivers all over This powerful rock ballad, with the most amazing vocals by lead singer Klaus Meine was written to commemorate the breaking down of the Berlin Wall. 2. November Rain : Guns 'n Roses November Rain is one of the best known rock ballads the world over ,This epic ballad was written and performed by Guns 'N Roses at the height of their fame. The song is backed by some amazing lead and rhythm guitar, with Axl Rose's very typical vocals. 3. Bridge over Troubled Waters : Simon and Garfunkel Another ballad which sends shivers down your spine when you hear it, Paul Simons vocals take this ballad to a new height , the words are amazing When you?re weary, feeling small ; When tears are in your eyes, I'll dry them all.. I?m on your side, oh, when times get rough ; And friends just can?t be found Like a bridge over troubled water ; I will lay me down . 4. Everything I do : Bryan Adams This all time favourite ballad from the motion picture 'Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves' sees Bryan Adams at his absolute best. A combination of moving lyrics and music, along with harder rock sections makes this a must have for any one who is in to hard rock. 5. Whitesnake : Here I Go Again Again, GNR at their height , a brilliant rock song and a great melody which you love to hear over and over again ... 6. I would do anything for love : Meat Loaf A truly 'monster' ballad , Held the top of the charts for a very long time when it was released in 1993. If you havent heard it, listen to it, and if you don't have it, download it, steal it, buy it, do something !!! Great piano introduction and highs and lows, crescendos which thunder in and steal quietly out. 7. Broken Wings : Mister Mr A moving song, brilliant lyrics, was released in 1985 and is one of those songs which takes you to a different plane. Was the theme song for Formula 1 for some time , I think in 1999... 8. Kiss : I was made for loving you "I Was Made for Lovin' You" is a hard rock/disco song by the American hard rock band Kiss, originally released on their 1979 album.The song draws heavily from the disco style that was popular in the United States in the late 1970s.Kiss guitarist and vocalist Paul Stanley has stated that "I Was Made For Lovin' You" was a conscious effort on his part to prove how easy it was to write and record a hit disco song . 9. Metallica : Nothing Else Matters It was first released in 1991 on the self-titled Black Album. Many long-standing Metallica fans, who were used to the harsh lyrical nature of the first three Metallica ballads, did not appreciate the inclusion of a love song.Regardless, the song is now very popular among Metallica fans and hit #11 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks Charts in 1992. 10. Stairway To Heaven : Led Zeppelin Is a song by the British rock group Led Zeppelin, composed by guitarist Jimmy Page and vocalist Robert Plant, and recorded on their fourth studio album .The song was completed by the addition of lyrics by Robert Plant during the sessions for Led Zeppelin at Headley Grange, Hampshire, in 1971 "Stairway to Heaven" is the biggest-selling single piece of sheet music clocking up an average of 15,000 copies yearly. 11. I Can't Tell You Why : Eagles Is a song from the Eagles which appeared on their 1979 album The Long Run . The studio version became a Top 10 hit in early 1980; the song also appears in live versions on Eagles Live in 1980 and Hell Freezes Over in 1994. The song was written by Timothy B. Schmit, Glenn Frey, and Don Henley, and was the first Eagles song to feature Schmit (bass guitar) on lead vocals. 12. The Long and Winding Road : Beatles is a pop ballad written by Paul McCartney that originally appeared on The Beatles' album Let It Be. It became The Beatles' last number-one song in the United States on June 13, 1970. 13. I don't want to miss a thing : Aerosmith Even if you are not a rock fan, you would have seen the Bruce Willis starrer , "Armageddon". This contains the evergreen song from Aerosmith , a great love rock ballad . 14. Stand : Poison This is one of my favourite rock ballads, this uses a real choir along with the rock band and the harmonies and vocals on this song are brilliant. A very uplifting song. We all carry the cross and speak what we're taught Lies and money become the white man's god We've burned all our bridges one too many times The time has come now to draw the line Chorus: You know you've got to ; Stand, stand, stand for what you believe 15. It's My Life : Bon Jovi Bon Jovi has been nominated for Grammy Awards for their 2000 smash hit It's My Life. " became the most successful Bon Jovi single, hitting #1 across many countries and most importantly, becoming a symbol of band's longevity as they prevailed through many different changes in the mainstream rock scene with admirable success. Their first single in five years, "It's My Life" was released on May 23, 2000. It was written by Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora, Jay Orpin and Max Martin. 16. Black Velvet : Alannah Myles I personally wouldn't classify this as an out and out rock ballad, but this is one of the most amazing songs ever performed. The bass on this song is one of the best of all times, right up there with 'I want to Break Free' and 'Eye of the Tiger'. Very sultry, very sexy, and a great song. 17. Blood Red Skies : Judas Priest UN believable intro vocals, high pitched and very very powerful, in minor chords As the sun goes down, I move around....Under blood red skies The ''skies'' part climbs to an unbelievable high Please,Please listen to this song !! 18. Don't Speak : No Doubt People might not like this song making the list, but hey, Gwen Stefani is awesome, and the song is one of the best I've heard...... 19. Megadeath : A Tout Le Monde Is the fourth song on Megadeth's 1994 album Youthanasia . Beginning with a melancholy acoustic rhythm and Dave Mustaine's softly spoken vocals, the subject of the song ponders a life that, for whatever reason has clearly approached the end. 20. More than Words : Extreme O K this is not really a rock ballad, but one of the best songs ever written and performed. The song is entirely on an acoustic guitar, with brilliant vocals by the lead singer Nuno cortez. Very difficult to play, very easy to listen and sing along.... http://crazy-frankenstein.com/gateway-to-canada.html http://crazy-frankenstein.com/gateway-to-canada.html Mon, 11 Oct 2010 12:00:00 GMT Entertainment Gateway to Canada Jacques Cartier was born in 1491 in Saint-Malo, a port on the north coast of the duchy of Brittany, which would later become incorporated to France in 1532. Cartier was part of a respectable family of mariners also improved his social status in 1520 by marrying Marie Catherine des Granches, member of a leading ship-owning family. In 1534, Jacques Cartier set sail hoping to discover a western passage to the wealthy markets of Asia. He explored parts of Newfoundland starting on May 10 of that year, and what are now the Canadian Atlantic provinces, and the Gulf of St. Lawrence. On one stop at Iles-aux-Oiseaux, his crew slaughtered around 1000 birds, most of them great auks, which are now extinct. When Jacques Cartier sailed up St. Lawrence River in 1535, he was looking for a way to China. He was not the first visitors to Canada's east coast .The Vikings were there long before him , in the 10th century . Fisherman from different parts of Europe came in the15th century. But when Cartier found the entrance to the St.Lawrence and sailed up the river, he forund an easy way to the interior of this great land. On his trip up the river he saw whales and walruses , fish that look like horses and go on land at night ,as he described the walruses . There are still a few whales in the river , but no longer any walruses. After Cartier came settlers from France , England, other parts of Europe. Some stayed on small farms by the river ,others moved on to the interior where they hunted and traded with the Indians for furs. Many settled in the tons Quebec and Montreal . Until 1759 both England and France claimed this land. The English finally won this dispute in battle near Quebec , a battle in which the England and French commanders both died. For a long time ships that carried people and good up the St.Lawrence could go only as far as Montreal because of the dangerous rapids there. In 1959 the first big ships went thought a long channel that bypassed the rapids and went on to the river to the Gerat Lakes.As these ships sail by the beautiful Thousand Islands ( actually 1,800) their passengers can see many attractive summer cottages where people are enjoying themselves, happy to be away from the big cities a few weeks. Saint Lawrence River The Saint Lawrence River ( In French: Le Fleuve Saint , Laurent ) is a large south west-to-north east flowing river in the middle latitudes of North America, connecting the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean. It is called Kaniatarowanenneh ("big waterway") in Mohawk. It traverses the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario and forms part of the provincial boundary between Quebec and Ontario and part of the international boundary between Ontario, Canada and the U.S. state of New York. http://crazy-frankenstein.com/exploring-the-grand-canyon.html http://crazy-frankenstein.com/exploring-the-grand-canyon.html Mon, 11 Oct 2010 12:00:00 GMT Entertainment Exploring the Grand Canyon This beautiful area of America is reservations by the United States Government . Early residents soon discovered that tourism was destined to be more profitable than mining, and by the turn of the last century Grand Canyon was a well-known tourist destination. The Grand Canyon area stretches back 10,500 years when the first evidence for human presence in the area started. Native Americans have been living at Grand Canyon and in the area now covered by Grand Canyon National Park for at least the last 4,000 of those years. Anasazi, first as the Basketmaker culture and later as the more familiar Puebleoans, developed from the Desert Culture as they became less nomadic and more dependent on agriculture. A similar culture, the Cohonina, also lived in the canyon area. Drought in the late 13th century was the likely cause for both cultures to move on. A little over a century ago ( 1869) explorer John Wesley Powell led a small group of men down the Colorado River to explore the Grand Canyon. For three months they floated down the river in their heavy , boats past the steep red walls of canyon. In some places the river was slow and peaceful; in others there were dangerous rapids . they went by places where Indians sometimes crossed the river or made camp. During the trip Powell kept a diary . In this diary of his he described the river, the great canyon, waterfalls, plants and animals, but also the dangers. Once when the explorers camped for the night , Powell decided to climb up the steep cliff with one of his men .When they were about twenty meters up the cliff, Powell could go no farther , up or down. " I call to Bardley for help. he finds a way by which he can get to the top rock above my head , but cannot reach me. He looks around for a stick or a branch , but finds nothing .The moment is critical. If I lose my hold, I shall fall to the bottom .Then Bradley quickly takes off hos trousers and swings them down to me . I catch hold of the legs and , with his help , climb to the top ." The explorers went on but they had many problems. They were often clod and wet, and they didn't have enough food . They lost one of their boats . Many times they had to carry their boats along the river bank because of dangerous rapids or waterfalls.Three of the men left them. Finally they came to the end of their successful thousand-mile trip down the Colorado River . Today the Grand Canyon is national park , and many tourists visit it every year. Some of them go down the river in much safer then a hundred years ago . http://crazy-frankenstein.com/the-biggest-robberies-ever.html http://crazy-frankenstein.com/the-biggest-robberies-ever.html Mon, 11 Oct 2010 12:00:00 GMT Entertainment The biggest robberies ever Robbery is generally an urban crime. In common with most legal terms, the precise definition of robbery varies between jurisdictions. An act of robbery is also known as a heist.Some of robbers planed years to make good plan to still money as much they can and run away in some country were can to grant asylum.In the end ,almost all of them was caught or little numbers of them in asylum. Kent Securitas Depot : abducted the manager, then stole USD dollars 92.5 million (2006) The Securitas depot robbery was a robbery which took place in the early hours of 22 February 2006, between 01:00 and 02:15 UTC in England, an operation that succeeded in stealing the largest cash amount in British crime history. At least six men abducted and threatened the family of the manager, tied up fourteen staff members and stole pounds 53,116,760 (about US dollars 92.5 million or up 78 million) in bank notes from a Securitas Cash Management Ltd depot in Vale Road, Tonbridge, Kent. The manager of the depot, Colin Dixon, was abducted at about 18:30 on 21 February, apparently while driving his Nissan Almera to his home in Herne Bay. He was pulled over on the A249 just outside Stockbury, a village North East of Maidstone, by what he thought was an unmarked police vehicle due to the blue lights behind the front grill. A man approached him in high-visibility clothing and a police-style hat. The manager proceeded to get into the police imposter's car, thinking that he was a police officer, where he was then handcuffed by others in the vehicle. He was then driven west on the M20 motorway to the West Malling bypass where he was bound further, transferred into a white van and transported to a farm in an unknown location in west Kent. As this was taking place, the manager's wife and eight-year-old son were being held hostage at their home in Herne Bay, after they answered the door to men dressed in police uniforms, who falsely informed them that the manager had been involved in a road traffic accident. They were then driven to the farm at which the manager was being held, where he was told at gunpoint that failure to cooperate could put him and his family in danger. The depot manager, his wife and son were taken to the Securitas depot in Tonbridge at around 01:00, travelling in a plain white van, being held at gunpoint. At the depot, 14 members of staff were bound by robbers, armed with handguns and wearing balaclavas. The heist came to an end at approximately 02:15, although it was still another hour before staff members, who had been tied up, managed to raise the alarm. Police officers arriving on the scene discovered staff, the manager and his family, bound but physically unharmed. Banco Central in Brazil : tunneled 255 feet up to the bank, then stole 69.8 US dollarsmillion (2005) On the weekend of August 6 and August 7, 2005 a gang of burglars, suspected to be either the Gang of the Tattooed or Primeiro Comando da Capital, tunneled into the Banco Central in Fortaleza. They removed five containers of 50-real notes, with an estimated value of 164,755,150 reais (69.8 million US dollars, ?38.6 million, 56 million). The money was uninsured; a bank spokeswoman stated that the risks were too small to justify the insurance premiums. The burglars managed to evade or disable the bank's internal alarms and sensors; the burglary remained undiscovered until the bank opened for business on the morning of Monday, August 8. The Banco Central is a national banking institution charged with control of the money supply. The money in the vault was being examined to see if it should be recirculated or destroyed. The bills were not numbered sequentially, making them almost impossible to trace. Three months earlier, the gang of burglars had rented an empty property in the centre of the city and then tunneled 78 meters (255 ft) beneath two city blocks to a position beneath the bank. The gang had renovated a house and put up a sign indicating it was a landscaping company selling both natural and artificial grass as well as plants. Neighbours, who estimated that the gang consisted of between six and ten men, described how they had seen van-loads of soil being removed daily, but understood this to be a normal activity of the business. The tunnel, being roughly 70 cm (2.3 ft) square and running 4 meters (13 ft) beneath the surface, was well-constructed: it was lined with wood and plastic and had its own lighting and air conditioning systems. On the final weekend, the gang broke through 1.1 meters (3.6 ft) of steel-reinforced concrete to enter the bank vault. The bank notes weighed approximately 3,500 kg (approx. 7,700 lbs) and would have required a considerable amount of time and effort to remove. On October 22 the body of the suspected mastermind, Luis Fernando Ribeiro, 26, was found 9 October on an isolated road near Camanducaia, 200 miles (320 km) west of Rio de Janeiro. He had been shot seven times and had marks on his wrists as if he had been handcuffed. Five men were arrested September 28 with about 5.4 million US dollars of the money and told the police they had helped dig the tunnel. So far, authorities have recovered more than 7 million US dollars but 63 million US dollars remains unaccounted for. 50 million US dollars : Northern Bank robbery in Belfast (2004) The Northern Bank robbery was a large robbery of cash from the headquarters of the Northern Bank in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Carried out by a large, proficient group on 20 December 2004, the gang seized ?26.5 million in pounds sterling, making it one of the biggest bank robberies in British history. The police and the British and Irish governments claimed the Provisional IRA was responsible (or had permitted others to undertake the raid), a claim vehemently denied by the Provisional IRA itself and the Sinn Fein political party. The robbery, and the allegations and counter-allegations surrounding it, threw the Northern Ireland peace process into crisis. On the night of Sunday December 19, 2004 groups of armed men called at the homes of two officials of the Northern Bank, one in Downpatrick in County Down, the other in Poleglass, near Belfast. Masquerading as police officers, they entered the homes and held the officials and their families at gunpoint. Bank official Chris Ward was taken from Poleglass to Downpatrick, the home of his supervisor Kevin McMullan, while gunmen remained at his home with his family. Subsequently Mr McMullan's wife was taken from their home and held, also at gunpoint, at an unknown location. The following day both officials were instructed to report for work at the bank's headquarters at Belfast's Donegall Square West as normal. They did so, and remained at work after the close of business, and later in the evening they gave admittance to other members of the gang. The robbers entered the bank's cash handling and storage facility. This held an unusually large amount of cash, in preparation for distribution to ATMs for the busy Christmas shopping season. Cash was transferred to one or several vehicles (possibly including a white "Luton" van) at the premises' Wellington Street entrance, and the gang fled. Shortly before midnight the gang holding the Ward family left, and those holding Mrs McMullan released her in a forest near Ballynahinch. The haul included ?10m of uncirculated Northern Bank sterling banknotes, ?5.5m of used Northern Bank sterling notes, ?4.5m of circulated sterling notes issued by other banks, and small amounts of other currencies, largely Euros and U.S. Dollars. Central Bank of Iraq : Saddam took 1 billion US dollars a day before the war (2003) In March 2003, on several occasions beginning on March 18, the day before the United States began bombing Baghdad, nearly 1 billion US dollars was stolen from the Central Bank of Iraq. This is considered the largest bank heist in history. Approximately 650 million US dollars was later found hidden in walls in Saddam Hussein's palace by US troops. It is believed that this was the bulk of the stolen money. The remaining money is currently unaccounted for. Diyaa Habib al-Khayoun, general manager of the state-owned al-Rafidain Bank, claims that 250 million US dollars and 18 billion now worthless Iraqi dinars were also stolen, but by professional robbers unconnected to Saddam. In March 2003, a hand-written note surfaced, signed by Saddam, ordering 920 million US dollars to be withdrawn and given to his son Qusay. Bank officials state that Qusay and another unidentified man oversaw the cash, boxes of 100 US dollars bills, being loaded into trucks during a five hour operation. Qusay was later killed by US troops in a firefight. Dunbar Armored : inside man steals 18.9 million US dollars (1997) The Dunbar Armored robbery is the largest cash robbery to have occurred in the United States. It occurred in 1997 at the Dunbar Armored facility in Los Angeles, California. The thieves made off with some 18.9 million U.S. Dollars. The robbery was masterminded by Allen Pace, who worked for Dunbar as a regional safety inspector. While on the job, Pace had time to photograph and examine the company's Los Angeles armored car depot. He recruited five of his childhood friends, and on the night of Friday, September 13, 1997, Pace used his keys to gain admittance to the facility. Pace had timed the security cameras and determined how they could be avoided. Once inside, they waited within the staff cafeteria, ambushing the guards one by one. Pace knew that on Friday nights the vault was open due to the large quantities of money being moved. Rushing the vault guards, the robbers managed to subdue them before they could signal any alarms. In half an hour, the robbers had loaded millions of dollars into a waiting U-Haul. Pace knew exactly which bags contained the highest denomination and non-sequential bills. He also knew where the recording devices for the security cameras were located and took these. The police immediately realized it was an inside job and closely examined Pace, but could find nothing. The gang worked hard to conceal their new wealth, laundering it through property deals and phony businesses. Eventually, one of the gang members, Eugene Lamar Hill, erred when he gave an unknowing associate a stack of bills still wrapped with the original cash straps. The associate went to the police and Hill was arrested. Hill soon confessed and named his associates. Allen Pace was arrested and sentenced to twenty-four years in jail. Only a fraction of the money was ever recovered. Some 10 million US dollars is still unaccounted for. Boston Museum : dressed as police officers, stole 300 million US dollars worth in paintings (1990) Hours after St. Patrick's Day festivities wrapped up in Boston on March 18, 1990, two men dressed as police officers knocked on the security entrance side door of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum at 1:24 a.m. "The policy has always been that you don't open that door in the middle of the night for God. Why on this one night they opened the door no one can explain," Lyle Grindle, the museum's current head of security, told Access Control & Security Systems, a security industry trade publication. Grindle was not in charge of security at the time of the 1990 heist. Just minutes after letting them in, the guards quickly learned that the late night visitors weren't real cops. Though they apparently did not brandish any weapons, the intruders managed to overpower the two guards. They handcuffed the guards, bound them with duct tape and left them in the basement. In the fewer than 90 minutes that followed, the bandits went through the museum's Dutch Room on the second floor and stole three Rembrandts, including the Dutch artist's only seascape, "Storm on the Sea of Galilee." It was one of several works the thieves savagely cut to release it from its frame, leaving ragged edges of the canvas behind in otherwise empty frames, which continue to hang in the museum to this day. Also taken from that room was "The Concert" by Vermeer, as well as a Chinese bronze beaker located near the Rembrandt. The thieves also apparently tried to steal a fourth Rembrandt but were unsuccessful. Nearby, they also made off with "Landscape with an Obelisk," an oil painting by Govaert Flinck that was until recently attributed to Rembrandt, Flinck's mentor. On the other side of the floor, the thieves went into the Short Gallery and ripped five Degas sketches from the wall. Feet away a bronze eagle that adorned the top of a Napoleonic flag was also pillaged. A Manet portrait, located in the museum's Blue Room on the first floor, capped off the list of works the thieves stole. It is not known in what order the rooms were ransacked, since the thieves ripped out the surveillance tape before fleeing the museum with it. To this day, the small museum isn't able to collect insurance, since it carried no insurance policy at the time of the heist. Knightsbridge Security Deposit : requested to rent a safe deposit box, then subdued the manager and stole 111 million US dollars (1987) The Knightsbridge Security Deposit robbery took place on 12 July 1987 in Knightsbridge, England, part of the City of Westminster in London. Two men entered the Knightsbridge Safe Deposit Centre and requested to rent a Safe deposit box. After being shown into the vault, they produced hand guns and subdued the manager and security guards. The thieves then hung a sign on the street level door explaining that the Safe Deposit Centre was temporarily closed, whilst letting in further accomplices. They broke open many of the safe deposit boxes and left with a hoard estimated to be worth 40 million (equivalent to roughly 66 million US dollars at the 1987 exchange rate; the inflation-adjusted value would be 63.6 million , 111 million US dollars , as of 2005). One hour after the robbers departed, one of the guards managed to escape his handcuffs to raise the alarm. Police forensic investigators at the crime scene recovered a fingerprint that was traced to the Italian Valerio Viccei. After a period of surveillance, Viccei and several of his accomplices were arrested during a series of coordinated raids on 12 August 1987 and later convicted of the crime. Viccei would later published a book on the robbery. Brinks Mat warehouse : broke into warehouse to find ten tonnes of gold bullion worth 45 million US dollars (1983) The Brinks Mat Robbery occurred on 26 November 1983 when six robbers broke into the Brinks Mat warehouse at Heathrow Airport, England. The robbers thought they were going to steal ?3 million in cash; however when they arrived they found ten tonnes of gold bullion (worth ?26 million). The gang got into the warehouse thanks to security guard Anthony Black, who was the brother-in-law of the raid's architect Brian Robinson. Scotland Yard quickly discovered the family connection and Black confessed to aiding and abetting the raiders, providing them with a key to the main door and giving them details of security measures. Tried at the Old Bailey, Robinson and gang leader Michael McAvoy were each sentenced to 25 years imprisonment for armed robbery. Black got six years, and served three. Prior to his conviction McAvoy had entrusted part of his share to an associate John Perry. Perry recruited Kenneth Noye (who had links with a legitimate gold dealer in Bristol) to dispose of the gold. Noye melted down the bullion and recast it for sale. However the sudden movements of large amounts of money through a Bristol bank came to the notice of the Treasury who informed the police. Noye was placed under police surveillance and in January 1985 killed an officer he discovered in his garden. At the resulting trial the jury found him not guilty on the grounds of self-defence. In 1986 Noye was found guilty of conspiracy to handle the Brinks Mat gold, fined ?700,000 and sentenced to 14 years in prison. Three tonnes of stolen gold has never been recovered. It is claimed that anyone wearing gold jewellery bought in the UK after 1983, is probably wearing Brinks Mat. Lufthansa : 5.8 million US dollars at Kennedy Airport (1978) The 1978 Lufthansa Heist was planned by Jimmy Burke (immortalized in Martin Scorcese's Goodfellas), an associate of the Lucchese crime family, and carried out by several of his associates. It all began when bookmaker, Martin Krugman, told Henry Hill (an associate of Jimmy Burke's) about millions of dollars in untraceable money. The money was flown in once a month and was the money exchanged by servicemen and tourists in West Germany and that it was stored in a cardboard vault at Kennedy Airport. The information had come from Louis Werner, who owed Krugman 20,000 US dollars in gambling debts and worked at the airport. On December 11th, at 3.12 a.m. a guard, named Kelly Whalen, patrolling the cargo terminal, spotted a black Ford Econoline van pulling into a bay near a loading platform, for vaults. Whalen walked toward the loading bay, to investigate this peculiar appartion and was struck over the head with a .45 pistol. A wiry man in a black ski mask pulled his mask over his face as the blood began to pour from Whalen's wound. Another man grabbed Whalen's gun and thus disarmed him. Whalen was ordered, by the two men, to disarm the silent alarm, after he did this he was handcuffed behind his back. He saw a series of other men, all carrying rifles or pistols, running into the cargo terminal and then another man took his wallet and said that they knew where his family were and that they had men ready to visit them. Whalen nodded to indicate that he would co-operate with the thieves. Another guard, Rolf Rebmann, heard a noise by the loading ramp and when he went to investigate, 6 armed, masked men forced their way in and handcuffed him. They then used a one of a kind key from Werner and walked through a maze of corridors to where the two other employees would be. Once these two had been rounded up two gunmen ventured downstairs to look for unexpected visitors and then the other men marched the employees to a lunch room, where the other employees were on a 3 a.m. break. The gunmen burst into the lunch room and brandishing their firearms they showed a bloodied Whalen as an indication of their intentions if anyone got out of line. They knew each employee by name and forced them onto the ground. They made John Murray, the terminal's senior cargo agent, call Rudi Eirich on the intercom. The robbers knew that Eirich was the only guard that night who knew the right combinations to open the double door vault. Murray was made to pretend, to Eirich, that there was a problem with a load from Frankfurt and told Eirich to meet him in the cafeteria. As Eirich approached the cafe he was met by two shotguns and he saw the other employees, bound and gagged on the cafeteria floor. One gunman kept watch over the 10 employees and the other 3 took Eirich, at gun point, down two flights of stairs to the double door vault. He later reported that the men were informed and knew all about the safety systems in the vault and they knew about the double door system, whereby one door must be shut or the other one can't be opened or the alarm will be activated. The men ordered Eirich to open up the first door, to a 10-by-20 foot room. They knew that if he opened up the second door he would activate an alarm to the Port Authority. Once inside they ordered Eirich to lie on the ground and they then began sifting through invoices and freight manifests to determine which parcels they wanted of the many similarly wrapped ones. Finally they began hurling parcels through, one nearly hit Eirich's head, he saw it kicked open and said that inside was stacks and stacks of cash. Around 40 parcels were removed and Eirich was made to lock the inner door before unlocking the outer door because this would trigger an alarm to the Port Authority office. Two of the gunmen were assigned to load the parcels into the vans while the others tied up Eirich. A man, without a ski mask on, burst into the cafeteria and was euphoric, he said to the other gunmen that they had the money in the vans. He was quickly told to put on his ski mask by the other thieves, however some of the employees caught a glimpse of his face. They were told not to call the Port Authority until 4:30 a.m., when the men left it was 4:16 a.m. according to the cafeteria clock and no calls were made until 4:30, when a report of 5 million US dollars in cash and 875,000 US dollars in jewels being stolen was made. The employees complied because they knew if the police caught the men they or their families would be harmed or even killed. The robbery took only 64 minutes and was the largest cash robbery ever committed on American soil at the time. 300 million yen robbery in Japan (1968) The name, age and present whereabouts of one of Japan's most successfulcriminals are officially unknown. What IS known is that on the morning of December 10, 1968, a young man posing as a motorcycle policeman hoodwinked four employees of the Nihon Trust Bank out of 294,307,500 yen they were transporting in the car's trunk. The ''300 million yen robbery'' was Japan's biggest heist. But aseven-year police investigation led nowhere, and in December 1975, thestatute of limitations on the crime passed without an arrest; by 1988, therobber was relieved of any civil liabilities, freeing him, if he sodesired, for TV appearances and book signings. The 30th anniversary of the crime came and went no closer to a solution. Then Shukan Hoseki (Jan. 28) launched a series exposing the man who pulled off the job. Or so he claims. Reporter Takashi Obayashi says he traced 55-year Yuji Ogata to Kagoshima through the existence of a 500-yen note that Ogata supposedly gave to a 10-year old boy for ''good luck'' back in 1968. Ogata openly admitted that he and a cohortwere able to sneak the money past police roadblocks using a light truck transporting glass panes. Soon afterward they fled to opposite ends of the archipelago. But Focus (Jan. 27) responded by shooting numerous holes in ShukanHoseki's story, citing a lack of convincing evidence and attacking Ogata'scredibility. ''He always has been a bit of a windbag, '' remarks the wife ofhis alleged cohort. Soon afterwards, Shukan Shincho (Jan. 28) added its own denunciation of the Hoseki article, claiming that Ogata faces arrest for fraud. And if he had really managed to grab so much loot back in '68, it asks, why do his relatives insist he touched them for loans around the same time? Takashi Obayashi, writer of the Shukan Hoseki series, has anotherexplanation for Shincho's virulent attack: simple rivalry. ''They threatened Ogata with a smear campaign if he couldn't produce conclusive evidence,'' hetells Tokyo Sports (Jan. 23). ''Their circulation is down, and what's more,a sister publication, Shincho 45, recently began running its own seriesclaiming it has 'solved' the robbery." Great Train Robbery : stole 74 million US dollars without guns (1963) The Great Train Robbery was the name given to a ?2.3 million train robbery committed on 8 August 1963 at Bridego Railway Bridge, Ledburn near Mentmore in Buckinghamshire, England. The Royal Mail's Glasgow to London travelling post office (TPO) train was stopped by tampered signals. A 15-member gang, led by Bruce Reynolds and including Ronnie Biggs, Charlie Wilson, Jimmy Hussey, John Wheater, Brian Field, Jimmy White, Tommy Wisbey, Gordon Goody and Buster Edwards, stole ?2.3 million in used ?1, ?5 and ?10 notes the equivalent of ?40 million ( 74 million US dollars) in 2006. Although no guns were used in the robbery, the train driver, Jack Mills, was hit on the head with an iron bar, causing a black eye and facial bruising. The assailant was one of three members of the gang never to be arrested or identified. Frank Williams (at the time a Detective Inspector) claims to have traced the man, but he could not be charged because of lack of evidence. Mills recovered fully from the attack and died in 1970 from leukemia. Thirteen of the gang members were caught after police discovered their fingerprints at their hideout at Leatherslade Farm, near Oakley, Buckinghamshire. The robbers were tried, sentenced and imprisoned. Ronnie Biggs escaped from prison 15 months into his sentence, settling in Melbourne Australia, and later moving to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, when police found out his Melbourne address. Charlie Wilson escaped and was living outside Montreal, Canada on Rigaud Mountain. In the upper-middle-class neighbourhood where the large, secluded properties are surrounded by trees, Wilson was just another resident who enjoyed his privacy. Only when his wife made the mistake of telephoning his parents in England was Scotland Yard able to track him down. http://crazy-frankenstein.com/story-about-our-shiny-friend-television.html http://crazy-frankenstein.com/story-about-our-shiny-friend-television.html Mon, 11 Oct 2010 12:00:00 GMT Entertainment Story about our shiny friend : Television Are you remember of your first TV set in your house ? Try to remember how was long time ago when your TV was black-white. All family sit together at dinner table and watching his shiny friend , Television .Lot's of memory come on your mind I guess. And this is story about him ... The development of the television occurred over a number of years, in many countries, and using a wide application of sciences, including electricity, mechanical engineering, electromagnetism, sound technology, and electro chemistry. No single person invented the television; instead, it is a compilation of inventions perfected by fierce competition. Chemicals that are conductors of electricity were among the first discoveries leading to the TV. Baron Ons Berzelius of Sweden isolated selenium in 1817, and Louis May of Great Britain discovered, in 1873, that the element is a strong electrical conductor. Sir William Crookes invented the cathode ray tube in 1878, but these discoveries took many years to merge into the common ground of television. Paul Nipkow of Germany made the first crude television in 1884. His mechanical system used a scanning disk with small holes to pick up image fragments and imprint them on a light-sensitive selenium tube. A receiver reassembled the picture. In 1888, W. Hallwachs applied photoelectric cells in cameras; cathode rays were demonstrated as devices for reassembling the image at the receiver by Boris Rosing of Russia and A. A. Campbell-Swinton of Great Britain, both working independently in 1907. The first cathode ray tube scanning device was invented by the German scientist Karl Ferdinand Braun in 1897. Braun introduced a CRT with a fluorescent screen, known as the cathode ray oscilloscope. The screen would emit a visible light when struck by a beam of electrons. In 1907, the Russian scientist Boris Rosing used a CRT in the receiver of a television system that, at the camera end, made use of mirror-drum scanning. Rosing transmitted crude geometrical patterns onto the television screen and was the first inventor to do so using a CRT. The first practical signal generating tubes were invented by Vladimir K. Zworykin and Philo T. Farnsworth. Zworykin invented the iconoscope, which became the imaging iconoscope. Farnsworth invented the image dissector. Countless radio pioneers including Thomas Edison invented methods of broadcasting television signals. John Logie Baird of Scotland and Charles F. Jenkins of the United States constructed the first true television sets in the 1920s by combining Nipkow's mechanical scanning disk with vacuum-tube amplifiers and photoelectric cells. The 1920s were the critical decade in television development because a number of major corporations including General Electric (GE), the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), Westinghouse, and American Telephone & Telegraph (AT&T) began serious television research. By 1935, mechanical systems for transmitting black-and-white images were replaced completely by electronic methods that could generate hundreds of horizontal bands at 30 frames per second. Vladimir K. Zworykin, a Russian immigrant who first worked for Westinghouse then RCA, patented an electronic camera tube based on the cathode tube. Philo T. Farnsworth and Allen B. Dumont, both Americans, developed a pickup tube that became the home television receiver by 1939. To the surprise of most people, television transmission began almost 25 years before the end of World War II. John Logie Baird, in England, and C. Francis Jenkins, in the United States, both made public demonstrations of television in 1925. Unlike post-war electronic televisions, these early systems used mechanical scanning methods. Regular broadcast programming occurred in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, and the Soviet Union before World War II. The first regular electronic television broadcasts began in Germany in 1935, using first an electronic system with 180 lines, followed in 1937 with an improved system with 441 lines. The first regular public (i.e. not cable) television broadcasts with a modern level of definition (240 or more lines) were made in England in 1936 from Alexandra Palace. Regular network broadcasting began in the United States in 1946, and television became common in American homes by the middle 1950s. Shiny friend in color Toshiba launched basic research on color televisions in 1950. As the USA chose the full electronic NTSC for their color television signal standard in December 1953, NHK Science & Technical Research Laboratory and the technical research divisions of TV manufacturers focused on research on the NTSC system. From the late 1950s to the early 1960s, demand for monochrome television soared and created a new and thriving industry. Commercial color television broadcasting began in September 1960, 7 years after monochrome broadcasting. The Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) had entered the color TV fray and battled with RCA to perfect color television, initially with mechanical methods until an all-electronic color system could be developed. Rival broadcasts appeared throughout the 1940s although progress was slowed by both World War II and the Korean War. The first CBS color broadcast on June 25, 1951, featured Ed Sullivan and other stars of the network. Commercial color television broadcasts were underway in the United States by 1954. After overcoming production difficulties involving the three-color fluorescent screen and soldering of the frit seal glass, Toshiba completed a prototype of 17-inch square color picture tube on December 25, 1958. Two months later, on February 18, 1959, Toshiba completed the 430AB22 17-inch color picture tube using domestic parts developed by the trial production committee, and announced it as the first of its kind in Japan. Incorporating this picture tube, the 17-inch 17WG was launched in July 1960 as a genuine, made-in-Japan color television set. Present and future of television The future of television is now. High Definition Television (HDTV) was developed by the Japanese Broadcast Corporation and first demonstrated in 1982. This system produces a movie-quality picture by using a 1,125-line picture on a "letter-box" format screen with a 16 to nine width to height ratio. High-quality, flat screens suitable for HDTV are being perfected using synthetic diamond film to emit electrons in the first application of synthetic diamonds in electronic components. Liquid crystal display (LCD) technology is also advancing rapidly as an alternative to the cumbersome television screen. Assorted computer chips add functions like channel labeling, time and data displays, swap and freeze motions, parental channel control, touch screens, and a range of channel-surfing options. Flat panel (LCD or plasma) Modern advances have brought flat panels to TV that use active matrix LCD or plasma display technology. Flat panel LCDs and plasma displays are as little as 25.4 mm (1 inch) thick and can be hung on a wall like a picture or put over a pedestal. Some models can also be used as computer monitors. LED technology has become one of the choices for outdoor video and stadium uses, since the advent of bright LEDs and driver circuits. LEDs enable scalable ultra-large flat panel video displays that other technologies may never be able to match in performance. High Definition Television (HDTV) In the early 2000s, a number of high-definition television standards were competing for the still-developing niche markets.Current HDTV standards are defined by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU-R BT.709) as 1080 active interlace or progressive scan lines, or 720 progressive scan lines, using a 16:9 aspect ratio. All current HDTV broadcasting standards are encompassed within the DVB specification.The term "high-definition" can refer to the resolution specifications themselves, or more loosely to media capable of similar sharpness, such as photographic film. As of 2007, 24 million US households have HDTVs. Digital television of the future will allow the viewer to manipulate the angle of the camera, communicate with the sports commentator, and splice and edit movies on screen. Two-way TV will also be possible. Current screens may be used thanks to converter boxes that change the analog signal that presently energizes the phosphors on the back of your television screen to digital signals that are subject to less distortion and are the language of computers. Computer technology will then allow a world of manipulation of the data as well as broadcast of six times as much data. http://crazy-frankenstein.com/gold-and-salmon.html http://crazy-frankenstein.com/gold-and-salmon.html Mon, 11 Oct 2010 12:00:00 GMT Entertainment Gold and Salmon The Fraser River is the longest river in British Columbia, traveling almost 1400 km and sustained by a drainage area covering 220 000 sq. km. Its source is near Mt. Robson on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains in central British Columbia. The Fraser flows southwest, draining into the Pacific Ocean just south of Vancouver. It discharges 112 cubic kilometers of water per year, dumping 20 million tons of sediment into the Pacific. The discovery of gold near the Fraser River in 1859 brought thousands of people from all over the world to Vancouver. With their dreams of wealth they travelled north to small mountain stream where an English sailor , Billy Barker , was digging in the mud for gold. A town of gold ,miners , Barkerville as they called it , grew up , and of a short time them miners were producing twenty kilos of gold every day . A few became rich , often those who sold supplies to the miners :many lost everything . When there was no more gold , people left. On September 16, 1868, Barkerville was destroyed by a fire that spread quickly through the wooden buildings. Rebuilding began immediately, and at an impressive pace. Within six weeks, ninety buildings had been rebuilt. Today Barkerville is ghost town, but popular with tourists. European explorer-merchants from the east started to discover British Columbia. Three figures dominate in the early history of mainland British Columbia: Sir Alexander Mackenzie, Simon Fraser, and David Thompson. As employees of the Northwest Company, the three were primarily concerned with discovering a practicable river route to the Pacific, specifically via the Columbia River, for the extension of the fur trade. In 1793, Mackenzie became the first European to reach the Pacific overland north of the Rio Grande. He and his crew entered the region through the Rocky Mountains via the Peace River, reaching the ocean at South Bentinck Arm, near the site of present-day Bella Coola. Shortly thereafter, Mackenzie's companion, John Finlay, founded the first permanent European settlement in British Columbia, Fort St. John, located at the junction of the Beatton and Peace Rivers. The Fraser River takes its name from the first white man, Simon Fraser, who went all the way down the river to the Pacific in 1808.When he reached the mouth of the river ( today the fast growing city of Vancouver), he discovered that it was the wrong river. He was not exploring the Columbia River as he thought, but a different one ! When Simon Fraser travelled down the river, Indians helped him along the way , especially over the rapids. For centuries this was their river, and their lives depended on it, on the salmon that swam up the river every year. In the spring when millions of fish left the ocean and came up the river , the Indians were able to catch enough for the whole year. There were so many that they cloud catch them in nets and dry them in the sun for later use. Surprisingly, very few Northwest anglers are aware that the Fraser River offers some of the most spectacular salmon fishing in North America. Salmon stocks, returning to spawn, far exceed any other river on this continent, or for that matter, any other river in the world. When tourist salmon anglers think of B.C., they often dream of the west coast and its luxurious lodges, unspoiled wilderness and world-class salmon fishing. This ocean paradise is supplied with seemingly endless numbers of migrating salmon. Most anglers have a tendency to overlook this very basic fact; a major portion of these migrating salmon stocks are bound for the Fraser River, and thence homeward to the streams and rivers of their birth. The first salmon of the year to begin their journey homeward are the magnificent chinook (spring or king) salmon. The springs will start to enter the Fraser River in March, and will usually peak in June, about the same time the river crests with spring run-off. Although it can vary from year to year, depending on the snow pack and weather conditions, it's approximately the third week of June. The spring salmon will average 20 pounds, and can exceed 60 pounds, they are also highly prized for their firm-red meat and delicate flavor. Today, as in many other places, the river and the salmon are in danger . When a railroad or a dam is built, when trees are cut down, people interfere with nature and sometimes lose more than they gain . http://crazy-frankenstein.com/emerald-isle.html http://crazy-frankenstein.com/emerald-isle.html Mon, 11 Oct 2010 12:00:00 GMT Entertainment Emerald Isle Feeling a little green today? Don't worry. It's probably just an Irish kind of thing. Green is associated with Ireland, which is known as the Emerald Isle because it's green year round. And this is a special time around St. Patrick's Day when thoughts turn to Ireland, shamrocks and leprechauns. Ireland is an island with almost 2,000 miles of coastline in Western Europe. It's divided into two parts: the independent Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, a territory of the United Kingdom. The Republic is about the size of the state of West Virginia and takes up most of the island of Ireland. The people of Ireland speak English, but school children also learn Gaelic, a native language. Big pastimes are hurling, rounders, soccer, swimming and playing the tin whistle, similar to a flute but easier to learn to play. The Emerald Isle , this is what people call Ireland because of the green of the lovely countryside,the colour or emeralds . Two millions tourists visit this beautiful island every year. They come to see places they have heard about in Irish songs and stories . The Irish have always loved to sing and tell stories. one well known story is about the Blarney Stone. When someone starts to say a lot of flattering things , an Irishman will tell him that he has probably kissed the Blarney Stone. A person who kisses this stone is good at flattering people . Of course , visitors want to see the stone , although it is very hard to reach , high up on the wall of old Blarney Castle. Then there are the stories about leprechauns, little old men who have hidden away a treasure of gold. You can get this treasure , but you must first frighten the leprechauns , and this is not easy to do. There is one very old story that may even be true. The story is about St. Brendan who sailed west across the Atlantic in a small leather boat and found a new land. This was in the 6th century , four hundred years before Vikings ! St. Brendanwas away for seven years and had many adventures : there were storms, strange sea creatures, and at one point a whale even picked up his small boat . Finally he reached a beautiful island somewhere to the west. was this North America ? Many years ago Timothy Severin decided to find out. First he built a leather boat like St. Brendan's . Then he chose his crew. In May 1976 they left Ireland, and two months later after storms, ice and many other dangers they were in Iceland. The next year in May they sailed on ,and on evening of June 26, 1977 they reached Newfoundland. St. Brendan's voyage in his small leather boat was possible ! WHO WAS SAINT PATRICK ? The first amazing fact about St. Patrick was that he wasn't Irish and his name wasn't even Patrick! When he was born in ancient Britain, his name was Maewyn Succat. When he was 16, he was kidnapped by pirates, taken across the sea to Ireland and sold as a slave. Patrick escaped after six years and went to a monastery to become a Roman Catholic priest. When Patrick was about 60 years old, he returned to Ireland as a missionary and became the country's second bishop. St. Patrick established schools, churches and monasteries throughout Ireland. St. Patrick is surrounded by legends. A popular one is that he gave a sermon so powerful that he drove all the snakes out of Ireland. Since no snakes are native to Ireland, it probably symbolizes the pagans who either converted to Christianity or were run out of Ireland. Patrick used the three-leafed shamrocks to explain certain church teachings. The shamrock became the symbol of St. Patrick's Day. http://crazy-frankenstein.com/top-80-bad-predictions-about-the-future.html http://crazy-frankenstein.com/top-80-bad-predictions-about-the-future.html Mon, 11 Oct 2010 12:00:00 GMT Entertainment Top 80 Bad Predictions about the Future There are plenty of predictions for the future that are made by various psychics. Predictions about the future can range from business predictions to world catastrophe predictions. The predictions for the future may or may not come true. Here are some of the poorer predictions made over the years. Read and relish in the knowledge that hindsight brings us. # " Ours has been the first [expedition], and doubtless to be the last, to visit this profitless locality. " Lt. Joseph Ives, after visiting the Grand Canyon in 1861. # " I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious sensibilities of anyone. " Charles Darwin, in the foreword to his book, The Origin of Species, 1869. # " I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious sensibilities of anyone. " Charles Darwin, in the foreword to his book, The Origin of Species, 1869. # " I am tired of all this sort of thing called science here... We have spent millions in that sort of thing for the last few years, and it is time it should be stopped. " Simon Cameron, U.S. Senator, on the Smithsonian Institute, 1901. # " Man will not fly for 50 years. " Wilbur Wright, American aviation pioneer, to brother Orville, after a disappointing flying experiment, 1901 (their first successful flight was in 1903). # " Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. " Grover Cleveland, U.S. President, 1905. #" You will be home before the leaves have fallen from the trees. " Kaiser Wilhelm, to the German troops, August 1914. # " Our country has deliberately undertaken a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far reaching in purpose." Herbert Hoover, on Prohibition, 1928. # Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau. Irving Fisher, economics professor at Yale University, 1929. # " Democracy will be dead by 1950. " John Langdon-Davies, A Short History of The Future, 1936. # " This is the second time in our history that there has come back from Germany to Downing Street peace with honor. I believe it is peace for our time. " Neville Chamberlain, British Prime Minister, September 30th, 1938. # " The Americans are good about making fancy cars and refrigerators, but that doesn't mean they are any good at making aircraft. They are bluffing. They are excellent at bluffing. " Hermann Goering, Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe, 1942. # " It will be gone by June. " Variety, passing judgement on rock 'n roll in 1955 # " A short-lived satirical pulp. " TIME, writing off Mad magazine in 1956. # " We will bury you. " Nikita Krushchev, Soviet Premier, predicting Soviet communism will win over U.S. capitalism, 1958. # " In all likelihood world inflation is over. " International Monetary Fund Ceo, 1959. # " And for the tourist who really wants to get away from it all, safaris in Vietnam " Newsweek, predicting popular holidays for the late 1960s. # " Reagan doesn't have that presidential look. " United Artists Executive, rejecting Reagan as lead in 1964 film The Best Man. # " Remote shopping, while entirely feasible, will flop , because women like to get out of the house, like to handle merchandise, like to be able to change their minds. " TIME, 1966, in one sentence writing off e commerce long before anyone had ever heard of it. # " It will be years , not in my time , before a woman will become Prime Minister. " Margaret Thatcher, future Prime Minister, October 26th, 1969. # " Capitalist production begets, with the inexorability of a law of nature, its own negation." Karl Marx. # " Read my lips: NO NEW TAXES. " George Bush, 1988. # " That virus is a pussycat. " Dr. Peter Duesberg, molecular biology professor at U.C. Berkeley, on HIV, 1988. # " This antitrust thing will blow over. " Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft. # " The case is a loser. " Johnnie Cochran, on soon to be client O.J.'s chances of winning, 1994. # " There is no doubt that the regime of Saddam Hussein possesses weapons of mass destruction. As this operation continues, those weapons will be identified, found, along with the people who have produced them and who guard them. " General Tommy Franks, March 22nd, 2003. "... good enough for our transatlantic friends ... but unworthy of the attention of practical or scientific men. " British Parliamentary Committee, referring to Edison's light bulb, 1878. # " Such startling announcements as these should be deprecated as being unworthy of science and mischievous to its true progress. " Sir William Siemens, on Edison's light bulb, 1880. # " Everyone acquainted with the subject will recognize it as a conspicuous failure. " Henry Morton, president of the Stevens Institute of Technology, on Edison's light bulb, 1880. Space Travel # " To place a man in a multi stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth , all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne. I am bold enough to say that such a man-made voyage will never occur regardless of all future advances. " Lee DeForest, American radio pioneer and inventor of the vacuum tube, in 1926 # " Space travel is utter bilge. " Richard Van Der Riet Woolley, upon assuming the post of Astronomer Royal in 1956. # " Space travel is bunk. " Sir Harold Spencer Jones, Astronomer Royal of the UK, 1957 (two weeks later Sputnik orbited the Earth). # " There is practically no chance communications space satellites will be used to provide better telephone, telegraph, television, or radio service inside the United States. " T. Craven, FCC Commissioner, in 1961 (the first commercial communications satellite went into service in 1965). Rockets # " A rocket will never be able to leave the Earth's atmosphere. " New York Times, 1936. # " ... too far-fetched to be considered. " Editor of Scientific American, in a letter to Robert Goddard about Goddard's idea of a rocket-accelerated airplane bomb, 1940 (German V2 missiles came down on London 3 years later). # " We stand on the threshold of rocket mail. " U.S. postmaster general Arthur Summerfield, in 1959. Atomic and Nuclear Power # " There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom. " Robert Millikan, American physicist and Nobel Prize winner, 1923. # " There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will. " Albert Einstein, 1932. # " The energy produced by the breaking down of the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of these atoms is talking moonshine. " Ernest Rutherford, shortly after splitting the atom for the first time. # " Atomic energy might be as good as our present-day explosives, but it is unlikely to produce anything very much more dangerous. " Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister, 1939. # " That is the biggest fool thing we have ever done [research on]... The bomb will never go off, and I speak as an expert in explosives. " Admiral William D. Leahy, U.S. Admiral working in the U.S. Atomic Bomb Project, advising President Truman on atomic weaponry, 1944. # " Nuclear-powered vacuum cleaners will probably be a reality in 10 years. " Alex Lewyt, president of vacuum cleaner company Lewyt Corp., in the New York Times in 1955. # " The basic questions of design, material and shielding, in combining a nuclear reactor with a home boiler and cooling unit, no longer are problems... The system would heat and cool a home, provide unlimited household hot water, and melt the snow from sidewalks and driveways. All that could be done for six years on a single charge of fissionable material costing about 300 US dollars. " , Robert Ferry, executive of the U.S. Institute of Boiler and Radiator Manufacturers, 1955. Films # " The cinema is little more than a fad. It's canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on the stage." , Charlie Chaplin, actor, producer, director, and studio founder, 1916 # " Who the hell wants to hear actors talk ? " H. M. Warner, co founder of Warner Brothers, 1927. Telephone/Telegraph # " A man has been arrested in New York for attempting to extort funds from ignorant and superstitious people by exhibiting a device which he says will convey the human voice any distance over metallic wires so that it will be heard by the listener at the other end. He calls this instrument a telephone. Well informed people know that it is impossible to transmit the human voice over wires. " News item in a New York newspaper, 1868. # " It's a great invention but who would want to use it anyway ? " Rutherford B. Hayes, U.S. President, after a demonstration of Alexander Bell's telephone, 1876. # " The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys. " Sir William Preece, Chief Engineer, British Post Office, 1878. # " There will never be a bigger plane built. " A Boeing engineer, after the first flight of the 247, a twin engine plane that holds ten people. # " This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us. " A memo at Western Union, 1878 (or 1876). Television # " While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibility, a development of which we need waste little time dreaming. " Lee DeForest, American radio pioneer and inventor of the vacuum tube, 1926. # " Television won't last because people will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night. Darryl Zanuck, movie producer, 20th Century Fox, 1946. # " Television won't last. It's a flash in the pan. " Mary Somerville, pioneer of radio educational broadcasts, 1948. Railroads # " Rail travel at high speed is not possible, because passengers, unable to breathe,would die of asphyxia. " Dr Dionysys Larder (1793-1859), professor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy, University College London. # " What can be more palpably absurd than the prospect held out of locomotives traveling twice as fast as stagecoaches ? " The Quarterly Review, March edition, 1825 # " Dear Mr. President: The canal system of this country is being threatened by a new form of transportation known as 'railroads' ... As you may well know, Mr. President, 'railroad' carriages are pulled at the enormous speed of 15 miles per hour by 'engines' which, in addition to endangering life and limb of passengers, roar and snort their way through the countryside, setting fire to crops, scaring the livestock and frightening women and children. The Almighty certainly never intended that people should travel at such breakneck speed. " Martin Van Buren, Governor of New York, 1830(?). Other Technology # " If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said 'you can't do this'. " Spencer Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3 M "Post It" Notepads. # " What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck? I pray you, excuse me, I have not the time to listen to such nonsense. " Napoleon Bonaparte, when told of Robert Fulton's steamboat, 1800s. # " Caterpillar landships are idiotic and useless. Those officers and men are wasting their time and are not pulling their proper weight in the war. " Fourth Lord of the British Admiralty, 1915. # " The idea that cavalry will be replaced by these iron coaches is absurd. It is little short of treasonous. " Comment of Aide de camp to Field Marshal Haig, at tank demonstration, 1916. # " Very interesting Whittle, my boy, but it will never work. " Cambridge Aeronautics Professor, when shown Frank Whittle's plan for the jet engine. # " X rays will prove to be a hoax. " Lord Kelvin, President of the Royal Society, 1883 # " I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea. " HG Wells, British novelist, in 1901. # " The world potential market for copying machines is 5000 at most. " IBM, to the eventual founders of Xerox, saying the photocopier had no market large enough to justify production, 1959. # " [By 1985], machines will be capable of doing any work Man can do. " Herbert A. Simon, of Carnegie Mellon University , considered to be a founder of the field of artificial intelligence , speaking in 1965. # " Transmission of documents via telephone wires is possible in principle, but the apparatus required is so expensive that it will never become a practical proposition. " Dennis Gabor, British physicist and author of Inventing the Future, 1962. http://crazy-frankenstein.com/20-most-bizarre-jobs.html http://crazy-frankenstein.com/20-most-bizarre-jobs.html Mon, 11 Oct 2010 12:00:00 GMT Entertainment 20 Most Bizarre Jobs Many Job seekers will do almost anything to stand out among the competition. There is no length a candidate won't go to and no line someone won't cross in order to get a job. But what we do for livin' ? Many thing we can say ! Beside some regular jobs which is well-know to us , some people do very , very bizarre and odd jobs .Some jobs it's to awful here that you wouldn't consider even if you broke .. or you will. Here are some of the most bizarre things job seekers did to get noticed: Chicken Sexer Sorts through baby chicks to determine if they are male or female, and then segregate them. The chicken sexer puts the chicken hatchlings on the appropriate track early, enabling those chickens to receive optimal nourishment for their likely commercial role from an early age. Forest Fire Lookout This is the perfect job for solitary types with no fear of heights and the ideal opportunity to write the great American novel. The job consists of manning a tower in a national park or forest preserve and watching for signs of fire. It can be lonely work; for years the Forest service sought newlywed couples for this job. Pay is based on civil service wage levels (starting around 6,000 US dollars) and includes generous health benefits. Author Jack Kerouac did this Fantasy Broker A postal clerk wants to be a stand-up comedian for one night. A businessman wants to drive a freight train across a western State. A psychiatrist wants 20 dates on 20 weekends with 20 girls from 20 different countries. How do they do it? They see a fantasy broker whose business is making dreams come true. Originally pioneered in Chicago by an advertising executive, fantasy firms in several cities now do a booming business, charging from 150 US dollars to thousands to turn dreams into reality. Finder An Oklahoma City man makes a living finding unusual things for people like a pair of fleas dressed as bride and groom, a baseball signed by Jim Thorpe in 1933, and a client's missing brother. Finders Keepers, Inc., was started by an ex advertising agency employee who discovered he had a knack for finding odd props for TV commercials. "I have always been able to locate the rare and unusual with an uncanny facility," he says. "Suddenly it dawned on me that I could capitalize on my ability." Finders Keepers will look for anything, provided it's legal. The company's manager boasts a high success rate; however, he's still looking for an electric clock motor that runs backward. Card Dealer If you like to play cards, are manually dexterous, and hate working a 9-to-5 day, you have the qualifications for a casino card dealer. Contrary to the stereotyped shady gambler myth, casinos prefer to hire responsible people, train them carefully, and pay them middle-class incomes. Gambling is a business, and dealers are business representatives. One ex-bank teller started dealing blackjack as the result of a Las Vegas vacation. "Dealing," she says, "is like bank work. You handle money and you're on your feet all day. But the pay is better, the atmosphere is exciting, and the hours are flexible." Where to apply? Las Vegas. Or Reno. Or anywhere else that gambling is legal. Chimney Sweep Sweeps are respected professionals in Europe, with an official uniform black funeral suits, top hats, and turban that reflects the romantic image of the trade. Sweden's sweeps (both men and women) must serve a 2 year apprenticeship before being licensed to practice. The occupation is almost nonexistent in the U.S., but one Southern California sweep, formerly in the beauty supply business, charges 25 US dollars per 1 1/2 to 2 hour cleaning job and plans eventually to have sweeps all over Los Angeles working for him. "Chimneys in Southern California are terribly neglected," he says. "There are just no sweeps to clean them." Wrinkle Chaser The person that irons wrinkles from shoes as they are being made to ensure they are perfectly smooth when you buy them. Cowpuncher Cowpunchers herd, castrate and brand cattle. When you get bored castrating cattle, you get to repair fences, watering troughs and do other maintenance work on the ranch. Furniture Tester Want to relax for a living? The La z Boy Company (and probably others) employs furniture testers to check out their recliners. Upsetter Sets up and operates a closed-die forging machine that expands the ends of hot metal bars. Boner Inserts stays (bones or steels) into prepared pockets of woman's foundation garments, such as corsets and brassieres. Assistant in mortuary Ok , this job is more then bizarre , it's awful and disgustful ! They see every day dead people in mortuary , like we people on street and for them this is usual thing . The most bizarre thing what they do is : they bathes dead people before funeral ceremony ! Interesting to say that they have good paycheck every month . Hooker Inspector Inspects cloth in a textile mill for defects by using a hooking machine that folds the cloth. Odor Judgers Odor Judgers get to smell armpits all day to help make deodorants that will work well. Foot straightener Straightens and screws into place the feet on watch and clock dials during assembly. Brain Picker Places animal head on a table or on hooks in a slaughterhouse, splits the skull and picks out the brains.. Weed Farmer Grows weeds for sale to universities and chemical companies to be used in herbicide research. Ant Catcher Digs up live ants for use in pastic ant farms. Pillowcase turner Turns pillowcases right side out and stretches mterial to remove wrinkles. Carnival Barker Hustlers of all types can find their life's calling or an exciting summer job working as a carny. The job offers good pay (commission averaging 250 US dollars per week in lucrative locales), travel, and excitement. Long hours often an 18 hour shif are standard, and strong vocal cords are a must. It's also necessary to learn carnival language: A barker is a carny, a customer is a mark, a booth or concession is a joint, cheap prizes are slum. To apply, go to the nearest State or county fair when it opens and speak with the joint owners. Tell them you want to be a "1st of May" (carny for short term or new employee). http://crazy-frankenstein.com/history-of-the-medal-of-honor.html http://crazy-frankenstein.com/history-of-the-medal-of-honor.html Mon, 11 Oct 2010 12:00:00 GMT Entertainment History of the Medal of Honor Established early in the Civil War to "promote efficiency in the Navy", the Medal of Honor rose to prominence in American history and heritage. Only 3,444 Americans have been awarded Medals of Honor, and today only 110 of them survive. These heroes are a vanishing breed whose valiant history MUST be preserved for future generations. That heritage is nurtured and sustained on the ground floor of the Hall of Heroes. What is the Medal of Honor ? The Medal of Honor is awarded by the President in the name of Congress to a person who, while a member of the military, distinguishes himself or herself conspicuously by gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life or her life above and beyond the call of duty while engaged in an action against an enemy of the United States; while engaged in military operations involving conflict with an opposing foreign force; or while serving with friendly foreign forces engaged in an armed conflict against an opposing armed force in which the United States is not a belligerent party. The Medal of Honor is one of two military awards issued by the United States Armed Forces to be worn around the neck (neck order). The Medal of Honor is the only neck order issued to members of the U.S. Armed Forces. The other neck order is Commander's Degree of the Legion of Merit . The Commanders Degree of the Legion of Merit is only authorized to be issued to foreign dignitaries usually equal to military chiefs of staff. American military personel can be awarded the Legionaire's Degree of the Legion of Merit which is a standard suspended medal. The deed performed must have been one of personal bravery or sel sacrifice so conspicuous as to clearly distinguish the individual above his comrades and must have involved risk of life. Incontestable proof of the performance of the service will be exacted and each recommendation for the award of this decoration will be considered on the standard of extraordinary merit. History of Medal ... The first formal system for rewarding acts of individual gallantry by American soldiers was established by George Washington on August 7, 1782, when he created the Badge of Military Merit, designed to recognize "any singularly meritorious action." This decoration is America's first combat award and the second oldest American military decoration of any type, after the Fidelity Medallion The Badge of Military Merit, as it was called, fell into oblivion until 1932, when General Douglas MacArthur, then Army Chief of Staff, pressed for its revival. Officially reinstituted on February 22, 1932, the now familiar Purple Heart was at first an Army award, given to those who had been wounded in World War I or who possessed a Meritorious Service Citation Certificate. In 1943, the order was amended to include personnel of the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard. Coverage was eventually extended to include all services and "any civilian national" wounded while serving with the Armed Forces. Although the Badge of Military Merit fell into disuse after the American Revolutionary War, the concept of a military award for individual gallantry by members of the U.S. armed forces had been established. In 1847, after the outbreak of the Mexican-American War, a Certificate of Merit was established for soldiers who distinguished themselves in action. The certificate was later granted medal status as the Certificate of Merit Medal. Early in the Civil War, a medal for individual valor was proposed to General-in-Chief of the Army Winfield Scott. But Scott felt medals smacked of European affectation and killed the idea. The medal found support in the Navy, however, where it was felt recognition of courage in strife was needed. Public Resolution 82, containing a provision for a Navy medal of valor, was signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln on December 21, 1861. The medal was "to be bestowed upon such petty officers, seamen, landsmen, and Marines as shall most distinguish themselves by their gallantry and other seamanlike qualities during the present war." Shortly after this, a resolution similar in wording was introduced on behalf of the Army. Signed into law July 12, 1862, the measure provided for awarding a medal of honor "to such noncommissioned officers and privates as shall most distinguish themselves by their gallantry in action, and other soldierlike qualities, during the present insurrection." Although it was created for the Civil War, Congress made the Medal of Honor a permanent decoration in 1863. Only women who was awarded Medal of Honor Her Medal of Honor citation begins simply "Rank and organization: Contract Acting Assistant Surgeon (civilian)..." and goes on to list her accomplishments while assisting Union and Confederate casualties. Who was the only woman and only civilian to be recognized for her achievement on the field of battle with a Medal of Honor? Mary Edwards Walker grew up in rural New York and graduated from Syracuse Medical College in 1855. At this time women were often considered little more than property. One Congregational minister of the era wrote "The power of woman is in her dependence..." Ms. Walker set up office in Rome, New York, marrying a fellow student, one Albert Miller, but throughout her 13 years of marriage she was known as Mary Walker, foregoing the tradition of assuming her husband's name. Dr. Mary E. Walker, M.D., a Civil War physician, was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor in 1865, upon recommendation of Major General Sherman, and Major General Thomas. Men who remembered the early defeats of the Army of the Potomac in 1861 and 1862, whereas Washington itself became a hospital complex treating 20,000 plus wounded union troops. Field hospitals abounded, in which the most common surgery was amputation and embalming. As assistant surgeon, Dr. Mary Walker no doubt experienced her share of horror at human suffering. When captured, she became a prisoner of war in a southern prison in Virginia. Dr. Mary Walker's Medal of Honor was rescinded in 1917, along with 910 others. Today, some believe her medal was rescinded because of her involvement as a suffragette. Others, discredit that opinion as 909 medals rescinded were awarded to males. The stated reason, and credible one, was government's effort to ". . . increase the prestige of the grant." The Medal of Honor is the nation's highest military award for bravery. It is awarded by the President in the name of Congress. For this reason, it is often referred to as the Congressional Medal of Honor. Since it was first awarded in 1863 , 3,463 individuals have been awarded this medal. Nineteen individuals have been double recipients of the award. Recipients of the Medal of Honor are afforded a number of benefits as a result of this award. Since its inception, the laws and regulations that apply to the award have changed. In certain cases, the award has been rescinded. Six of the rescinded awards have been reinstated. On a number of occasions, legislation has been offered to waive certain restrictions and to encourage the President to award the Medal of Honor to particular individuals. Generally speaking, this type of legislation is rarely enacted. In a very limited number of cases, the medal has been awarded outside the legal restrictions concerning time limits. These cases are often based on technical errors, lost documents or eyewitness accounts, or other factors that have justify reconsideration. These cases, however, represent the exception and not the rule. http://crazy-frankenstein.com/20-worst-movies-ever.html http://crazy-frankenstein.com/20-worst-movies-ever.html Mon, 11 Oct 2010 12:00:00 GMT Entertainment 20 worst movies ever We have here some movies from not so far past and some movies from 90's and we do little jump and find out some the worst movies from middle of 20th century.Some of titles we never heard in whole life or see somewhere but on other hand some title are we known and for some people good movies.In this research we find out that some famous actors were in the worst movies ever . Anus Magillicutty (2003): the anti-movie that anti-matters he film focuses on the character Anus, who is obsessed with alcohol and sex. The story involves Anus' efforts to hide a dead body. Eventually, however, Anus also has a run-in with Satan. As Anus explains to his brother, "Remember that contract we had with Satan? To make us beautiful? ...I think he's come to collect." In late 2005 and early 2006, it ranked number 1 on the Internet Movie Database bottom 100 list, meaning that it received the lowest scores among people evaluating films in the site's extensive database. A critic from the State Press Magazine considers this to be the worst film ever, although the film was actually marketed that way, with the State Press quote appearing on the poster. Anus Magillicutty was directed by Morey Fineburgh, and although written by Abraham Fineburgh, there was allegedly no real screenplay. Gigli (2003): The end of Bennyfer Originally a very dark comedy with no romantic subplot, the producers demanded script rewrites throughout filming. Some reviewers dubbed the film "The ultimate turkey of all time", referring to Lopez's character's sex talk to Affleck's character inviting him to commit an act of oral sex: "It's turkey time." "What?" "Gobble, gobble." The Times newspaper gave the movie the rating below their lowest possible score of 0 stars, the only movie to recieve this score. This film is also said to have been a factor in the break up of the engagement between its two stars. Winner of 7 Razzies (including 2005's Worst "Comedy" of Our First 25 Years). In addition Ben Affleck mocked the film on Saturday Night Live and The Tonight Show. From Justin to Kelly (2003): From Theater To Video The movie features Kelly Clarkson and Justin Guarini, the winner and runner-up of the first series of American Idol, respectively. Texan singing waitress Kelly Taylor (played by Clarkson) meets Pennsylvania college student Justin Bell (played by Guarini), they fall for each other, and then spend the rest of the movie trying to get together. The critics began mercilessly deriding the movie upon news of its making, and the movie was the box office bomb they predicted despite its association with the popular television show. In an interesting twist, theater chains threatened not to show it at all when distributor 20th Century Fox anticipating a theatrical flop. On the Internet Movie Database website the film is currently the worst movie ever made. Other listing systems also rate it among the worst movies ever made. Craig Kilborn gave it a short and devastating review one day after its release, with the words: "Here's the movie: From Justin To Kelly. Here's my review: From Theater To Video". The film's choreography was considered so bad that a special Golden Raspberry "Governor's Award" was created just so From Justin to Kelly could win it ... Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002): even the game was better Starring Lucy Liu and Antonio Banderas, the film was universally panned by critics and is believed to have no redeeming features (not even the comedy value normally associated with bad films). It is often listed among the worst movies ever made. Financially, the film was a box office failure, grossing just over 14 million US dollars compared to its 70 million US dollars budget. Liu and Banderas play opposing secret agents who are supposedly enemies, but rather than fighting each other they end up teaming up to take down the megalomaniacal director of the NSA. A Game Boy Advance first-person shooter, Ecks vs. Sever, was based on a very old version of the movie's script and, storywise, is almost nothing like the film. It was released before the movie. A version after the movie's release, considered a sequel to the game but which followed the movie, was considered an impressive technological feat on the GBA and was much better accepted than the movie itself. Moulin Rouge ! (2001) : starring by Nicole Kidman A musical...about a love struck poet...in France? Save us a seat! Only drugged out hairdressers and pompous critics could endure this two-hour torture session. Not even Nicole Kidman on a giant swing could disguise the fact that this pretentious pabulum was merely a hyperactive fashion show pretending to be a movie. Little Nicky (2000) Adam, Adam, why hast thou forsaken us? Just when we'd learned to appreciate The Waterboy and Happy Gilmore as unpolished comic gems, you went all high concept, playing a mush-mouthed spawn of Satan. Too bad that between all the special effects and cameos you forgot to stick in a single funny gag. Battlefield Earth (2000) We're not alleging Scientology brainwashes its flaky flock, but that.d explain John Travolta's fervor to turn L. Ron Hubbard's book into this megabomb. The humans enslaved by aliens plot is lame, and Travolta.s manic performance as a nine-foot cosmic overlord makes Ricardo Montalban.s Khan look positively nuanced. Erin Brockovich (2000) : starring by Julia Roberts At last! Julia Roberts totally naked! She plays a secretary who uses her jahoobies to beat the bad guys. Ha, ha, fooled ya! This bait 'n' switch chick flick is actually about an overbearing, Wonderbra'd rabble rouser who yaps at an octave level somewhere between fingernails on a chalkboard and a dog whistle. Who's she hollering at? Who else male corporate wags who dumped a little poison here and there. Blues Brothers 2000 (1998) The use of unnecessary violence toward the makers of this sequel...has been approved. Not only did this sorely misguided sequel fail to elicit one measly chuckle, but it dared to try replacing John Belushi with a bloated John Goodman and a pink cheeked harmonica-honking brat. Prepare to burn in hell, Dan Aykroyd. Godzilla (1998) Can you imagine how many toy makers wanted Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich's heads on a platter after this colossal load was pinched out on the moviegoing public? When a movie is so bad that little kids aren't interested in plastic lizards that breathe fire, you know you're in trouble. But how could this have flopped? It starred Matthew Broderick! The Thin Red Line (1998) "Oh, my soul, let me be in you now..." Whoops, we bought a ticket to a WWII action flick but wandered into a candy ass poetry reading. Supposedly about a battle for Guadalcanal, Line had plenty of existential windblown grass and precious little combat, leaving Nick Nolte and Sean Penn holding their dicks instead of their rifles. The Postman (1997) Having given up on art films like Tin Cup and The Bodyguard, Kevin Costner directed, starred, and danced with letters in this tale of postapocalyptic mail service. There's an underdog, world-saving superhero, some bad guys who smoke, and a troubled, imperfect love interest. Sound familiar? It's Waterworld on land, with everything that implies. Double Team (1997) Chest-shaving Belgian midget Jean Claude Van Damme is a counter terrorist whatever that is hunting has been Mickey Rourke. Rourke, in turn, is gunning for Van Damme's preggo wife. This film also stars Dennis Rodman, prompting the Anti Rodman in Movies legislation currently before Congress. Spice World (1997) We'll tell you what we want, what we really, really want. We want 92 minutes of our lives back and a five way lesbian porn video to make up for this affront to A Hard Day's Night not to mention civilization as we know it. Apparently, Girl Power means farting around miserable London, acting stupid, and dressing like a street ho. Batman & Robin (1997) : or how Batman became gay The fourth installment of the Warner Bros. franchise that began with 1989's Batman and the lowest-grossing of the film series. This film is often billed as the worst superhero movie of all time, even to the point that star George Clooney said he would refund people's money if they stopped him on the street and said they had paid to see it. In an interview with Barbara Walters, Clooney claims he played Batman gay. The director Joel Schumacher also reputedly admits to not being proud of this film (to the point where he flat out apologizes for the film, according to his commentary on the 2005 Special Edition DVD set), despite earlier statements to the contrary. Batman & Robin earned the nickname "Batman on Ice" for a scene in which the titular heroes both inexplicably have retractable skate blades hidden inside their boots. The film was mocked for the poor script, over extending the campy attitude of the previous installment Batman Forever, the poor casting of other "big name" stars Uma Thurman and Arnold Schwarzenegger, and the addition of a poorly portrayed Batgirl, played by Alicia Silverstone. Likely due to the film's poor reception, no more Batman movies were made for nearly eight years. An Alan Smithee Film : Burn Hollywood Burn (1997) : directed by Alan Smithee In the film, an editor by the name of Alan Smithee (played by Eric Idle) has been allowed to direct Trio, a big budget action film starring Sylvester Stallone, Whoopi Goldberg, and Jackie Chan. However, the studio recuts the film, and when Smithee sees the results (which he describes as being "worse than Showgirls") and realises that he cannot use a pseudonym (because the only one allowed is "Alan Smithee") he steals the film and goes on the run, threatening to burn it. The film was written (and produced, though he wasn't credited for it) by Joe Eszterhas, and directed by Arthur Hiller. However, Hiller objected to the way Eszterhas recut the film. So, as a result, in one of Hollywood's greatest ironies, An Alan Smithee Film : Burn Hollywood Burn is officially directed by Alan Smithee. The movie was regarded as one of the worst films of all time, and managed to win five awards (including Worst Picture) at the 1998 Golden Raspberry Awards. The film grossed 45,000 US dollars, which, accounting for inflation, is less than Plan 9 from Outer Space made during its release. Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966) : where are the credits?! This is a no-budget horror film made by an El Paso, Texas fertilizer salesman. It is famous for having an opening nine minute sequence in which nothing happens but endless driving through the countryside, due to someone forgetting to add in the credits!. The film gained cult popularity by being featured on the Mystery Science Theater 3000 television show. It was the #1 movie on the IMDb Bottom 100 for a long time since the list was first created. Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino owns a rare 35 mm copy of the film, and has stated that it is his favorite "comedy." Monster A Go Go (1965) : No continuity, incomprehensible non ending The plot concerns an American astronaut who mysteriously disappears from his spacecraft as it parachutes to Earth. The vanished astronaut is apparently replaced by and/or turned into a large, radioactive, humanoid monster. A team of scientists and military men attempt to capture the monster and at one point succeed, only to have him escape again (however, both the capture and the escape are never shown, with only the narrator revealing this to us). Monster A Go Go has an unusual, perhaps even unique, production history. Director Bill Rebane ran out of money while making the film. Lewis, who needed a second film to show with his own feature, Moonshine Mountain, bought the film, added a few extra scenes and some dialogue, and then released it, creating an odd, disjointed film with little continuity. The film is infamous among those who have seen it for its incomprehensible "non ending." Plan 9 from Outer Space (1956) : almost starring Bela Lugosi The film is introduced and narrated by television psychic The Amazing Criswell, and involves aliens who attempt to conquer the Earth by resurrecting corpses from a cemetery. The aliens have divined that the human race will soon develop the ultimate weapon: a "solaranite bomb" (or "solarbonite") that can "explode the particles of sunlight" and ultimately destroy the universe. They have attempted eight times to persuade humanity not to build the bomb, but find themselves unable to even get humanity's attention. "Plan 9", their plan to resurrect the dead, is their final, desperate attempt. Unbelievably, this is all claimed to be based on sworn testimony, even though Criswell says it takes place in the future. Produced and directed by Ed Wood, the movie is widely regarded as a leading candidate for the title of "worst movie ever made", the film is infamous for "almost starring" Bela Lugosi, since the scenes featuring Lugosi were not shot with this film in mind at all. Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964) : martians kidnap Santa Claus Momar ("Mom Martian") and Kimar ("King Martian") are worried that their martian children are watching too much Earth television, most notably station KIDD's interview with Santa Claus in his workshop at the North Pole. So Martian leaders decide to kidnap Santa Claus from Earth and bring him to Mars to make toys for the children of their planet. Famous in the "so bad it's good" category, it has been featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000 and holds a spot in IMDb's worst 100. Also cited on a 10 worst list in The Book of Lists, The Fifty Worst Films of All Time, and the 2004 DVD documentary, The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made. Features an early screen appearance by 1980s film icon Pia Zadora. The Canadian TV channel "Space: The Imagination Station" airs this bomb every Christmas as a salute to bad sci-fi. http://crazy-frankenstein.com/the-story-behind-10-famous-entertainment-sites.html http://crazy-frankenstein.com/the-story-behind-10-famous-entertainment-sites.html Mon, 11 Oct 2010 12:00:00 GMT Entertainment The story behind 10 famous entertainment sites Let see what story is in back of famous entertainment sites on internet ! You know this site damn good and you will read some interesting stories who made this sites so famous ! We will introduce you with main creators of some unique entertainment sites ! FARK Originally, the web server on Drew Curtis' fark.com domain contained no content, except for an image of a squirrel with large testicles. Later, in 1999, the site introduced what would evolve into its current format, as a way for Curtis to share what he considered interesting news postings with his friends rather than sending them numerous emails. Features such as link submission and forums have slowly been added over the years, as popularity and participation grew. The number of registered Farkers surpassed 300,000 on August 19, 2006. The term "farking" was originally intended as a euphemism for the verb, "fuck". However, it has also come to refer to websites that have stopped responding due to a high load after being linked to from fark.com. Particularly small websites referenced by Fark headlines are often "farked", meaning that their servers have received so much traffic that they have stopped responding completely (see also: Slashdot effect). Controversy Fark and Something Awful have been engaged in a friendly rivalry of sorts, culminating in a Photoshop Contest between the two sites, judged by celebrity Wil Wheaton. Contrary to popular belief, there actually is no real rivalry between Fark.com and Something Awful. This rivalry was propagated mostly as an inside joke by Lowtax, the owner of Something Awful. The joke comes from the fact that Drew and Lowtax are close friends, and that Fark.com and Something Awful share some of the same readership. There are certain sites which Fark.com will not link to, such as The Washington Post, The New York Times, or Ananova.com. The reason for not linking to The New York Times and The Washington Post is that these sites require a user registration. Submitting any link which requires registration is frowned upon by the Fark community. Members can post links to The New York Times or The Washington Post in the forums during a discussion, but may not submit these links directly through the queue. Fark does not link to Ananova because the website had posted Fark's headlines without giving credit, in addition to posting many inaccurate articles. Ananova was receiving a great deal of traffic due to Fark's links while refusing to acknowledge Fark and reciprocate the gesture. While Ananova denied using Fark's headlines, Drew specifically put a few "fake" links on the main page which Ananova then posted. Drew then decided not to accept links from their website. Fark has often been criticized for running headlines and articles that are politically biased. However, they are accused of having both a conservative and a liberal bias. Drew has stated that rather than trying to keep it in the middle, admins enjoy running both far-left and far-right articles. The top four hated "groups" on Fark.com are (in no particular order) PETA, Catholic priests, the French, and Duke University, according to founder Drew Curtis. Fark has been accused of selling preferential placement of story links on the main page. Drew responded to this by saying he had considered selling links he was already going to post to servers that could handle the bandwidth, such as CNN or ABC. He claims the only type of links that are paid are some of the adult content (usually "boobies") links, and are clearly labelled as being sponsored. He also claims that thus far all sponsored links have been clearly labelled adult content links to ensure the links are trojan-free, spam-free, and spyware-free. Adult content links that are not labelled as sponsored links are not paid for and were submitted by individual users. According to Drew, there is currently nothing in the works to sell links to sites such as AP, CNN, or anyone else. During a discussion in a forum on such accusations, the moderators would repeatedly delete comments that questioned whether this was for or against Fark.com philosophy. Many people also complain that Fark will not publish their link to their main page or "greenlight" their articles. All of the links submitted on Fark.com are submitted by individual users and are approved based on content by administrators. Articles that are posted to the main page are selected based on the content of the article, how funny the headline is, and sometimes how much bandwidth usage the site can handle. The administrators will never greenlight an article because they were emailed and asked to do so. Something Awful is the brainchild of Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka, who remains in control of the site, despite the proliferation of writers and administrators who have assisted him over the years. The earliest comedic features of the website appeared originally on Kyanka's personal site ARCCentral, but were popularized on Planetquake including Cranky Steve's Haunted Whorehouse, which at that time presented comical negative reviews of user-made Quake II maps, and other reviews, notably of a Doom comic book, and some movies. After he was forced to resign from Planet Quake for publishing a derogatory Cranky Steve update about a fellow employee, Lowtax moved his personal features to a new site, entitled Something Awful, in late 1999. During this early period, Lowtax created some of SA's most famous and long-lasting characters and catchphrases, such as Jeff K., the Space Robots ICQ prank, and the Awful Link of the Day feature. Something Awful met with great financial difficulties during the period from 2000-2001 that threatened to take the entire site down. All front page updates prior to the end of August 2000 are missing due to server problems during this time period. Various sponsors, including GameFan and eFront, promised Lowtax payments in exchange for ad space, but none of these companies lived up to their promises. Details of the actual financial structure of SA have always been hard to come by, but some forum members assert that Lowtax has made, and continues to make, an enormous personal investment of time and money into the site to keep it running. The 2001 decision to charge a one-time fee (currently 9.95 US dollars) for forums access seems to be a cornerstone of the site's present financial stability. Continuous income is generated through new member fees and merchandise sales. Controversy In 2005, a 19-year old man asked for information on buckshots on the Something Awful Forums. A few days later he shot two persons. Forum members were accused to deny the responsibility of their actions when writing joking replies to the poster. Something Awful Something Awful is the brainchild of Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka, who remains in control of the site, despite the proliferation of writers and administrators who have assisted him over the years. The earliest comedic features of the website appeared originally on Kyanka's personal site ARCCentral, but were popularized on Planetquake including Cranky Steve's Haunted Whorehouse, which at that time presented comical negative reviews of user-made Quake II maps, and other reviews, notably of a Doom comic book, and some movies. After he was forced to resign from Planet Quake for publishing a derogatory Cranky Steve update about a fellow employee, Lowtax moved his personal features to a new site, entitled Something Awful, in late 1999. During this early period, Lowtax created some of SA's most famous and long-lasting characters and catchphrases, such as Jeff K., the Space Robots ICQ prank, and the Awful Link of the Day feature. Something Awful met with great financial difficulties during the period from 2000-2001 that threatened to take the entire site down. All front page updates prior to the end of August 2000 are missing due to server problems during this time period. Various sponsors, including GameFan and eFront, promised Lowtax payments in exchange for ad space, but none of these companies lived up to their promises. Details of the actual financial structure of SA have always been hard to come by, but some forum members assert that Lowtax has made, and continues to make, an enormous personal investment of time and money into the site to keep it running. The 2001 decision to charge a one-time fee (currently 9.95 US dollars) for forums access seems to be a cornerstone of the site's present financial stability. Continuous income is generated through new member fees and merchandise sales. Controversy In 2005, a 19 year old man asked for information on buckshots on the Something Awful Forums. A few days later he shot two persons. Forum members were accused to deny the responsibility of their actions when writing joking replies to the poster. College Humor The site was originally created in 1999 by Josh Abramson and Ricky Van Veen, two high school friends from Baltimore, Maryland as a means to stay in touch when they attended college. It has since blossomed considerably and is now operated by Connected Ventures, a New York company that also owns Bustedtees.com, Defunker.com and personal video sharing site Vimeo.com. Site traffic averages eight million monthly unique visitors; most visitors are male and in between the ages of 18 and 24. CollegeHumor.com has gained exceptional notoriety (and media exposure) by selling a novelty foam hand making a sexually-suggestive hand gesture known as the shocker (parodying the popular "We're # 1" foam hands sold at sporting events). This item has become one of CollegeHumor's best selling products. Some people have incorrectly credited CollegeHumor.com as coming up with the shocker, when in reality it had been an inside joke among college students for some time before collegehumor.com started selling the foam hands. The site is credited with launching the career of comedian Steve Hofstetter, the site's original columnist. Several other comedians have since written for the site, including Christian Finnegan, Ben Gleib, and Dan Levy. CollegeHumor has recently signed a deal with Paramount Pictures to develop films dealing with college humor. eBaum's World eBaum's World features entertainment media such as videos, Flash cartoons and web games. In 1998, founder Eric Bauman launched a bulletin board service, where people could dial in for free text jokes. That same year, while a senior in high school, he launched his homepage, eBaum's World. He uploaded his audio files of Mrs. Barnes, along with other goofy, bizarre, and just plain dumb media he collected: videos of skateboarders impaling themselves, fat ladies impersonating roosters, a preacher whose pauses had been overdubbed with flatulence. The word spread and eBaum's World is now getting 1.2 million hits a day. eBaum's World has garnered significant controversy in many Internet communities over the years due to numerous allegations of content being taken from other sites; such as YTMND, Something Awful, Albino Blacksheep, 4chan and Newgrounds; without attribution. Companies such as Viacom, 20th Century Fox, and Sega have all claimed that Eric and Neil Bauman have infringed on their copyrights as well. Eric Bauman denies critics' claims that the site's content is stolen, citing research done by site editors and the consent form that must accompany uploads of material. He claims to honor all requests to remove unauthorized material, but this is contested by some content creators. In particular, web artist and animator Jonti Picking, was only able to have his animations removed at the beginning of 2006. Bauman has claimed that he formerly worked with Picking, though Picking has stated that this is false. On January 24, 2006, USA Network made a deal with the Fox Television Studios to create a television program based on eBaum's World. Producers intend it to be a late-night companion special to air with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) Monday Night RAW featuring clips from the website as well as new and exclusive content including interviews with former and current eBaum's World subjects. General Mayhem General [M]ayhem, nicknamed by its users Genmay or the "[M]", is an Internet forum containing general discussion forums; its title aptly describing the character of these discussions. General Mayhem has very few rules. Genmay is currently one of the largest message boards on the Internet, with over 19,000,000 posts (considering the relatively small number of registered users). [1] While a diverse and independent community, Genmay is almost directly derived from a now defunct hardforums sub-forum of the same name. It bears mentioning that Genmay itself is a for-profit LLC. The current General [M]ayhem was founded after the original HardOCP sub-forum was spontaneously shut down by its owner, one Kyle Bennett, after a server upgrade. Following the upgrade, users found their favorite forum had evaporated. Any disagreement following the deletion was met by immediate banishment, hand-dealt by the infamous Bennett. Three forum members jumped on the idea of creating a new forum for the displaced community. FLECOM registered genmay.com, M|22 registered genmay.net, and James Crivellone registered genmay.org. The first controversy happened when the 3 domains were consolidated into one forum run on M|22's computer, a dual Pentium 3 which was frequently unable to handle the load that was required, and a question of ownership and control came up between the 3 leaders of the forum. FLECOM was eventually de-admined "from [his] own forum" and disappeared from the site. Crivellone gave up his control over the domain and left as well (going on to administer the more regulated forums of Rage3d). The control of the forum currently rests in the hands of M|22 and sanjay. Lately Genmay.org no longer works, although the Whois says that it still belongs to James Crivellone. A whois for Genmay.info also reveals it is owned by sanjay, although it features the same error message displayed on Genmay.org. The site is now owned and operated under the name General Mayhem, LLC, of which Sanjay holds a 51%, interest, and M|22 the remaining minority interest. Genmay is run off of a database server with two Opterons, 8GB of memory, and a dual channel UPS backed RAID array. There are four 1U Dell servers that serve Genmay via Squid proxies and Apache/PHP. Digg Digg started out as an experiment in November 2004 by Kevin Rose, Owen Byrne, Ron Gorodetzky, and Jay Adelson (who serves as CEO), all of whom currently play an active role in the management of the site. "We started working on developing the site back in October 2004," Kevin Rose told Richard MacManus of ZDNet. "We started toying around with the idea a couple of months prior to that, but it was early October when we actually started creating what would become the beta version of digg. The site launched to the world on December 5th 2004." Although the domain name of Digg is registered under the name Jerimiah Udy, he is not one of the original founders of Digg, but rather a friend of Kevin Rose's. The domain name was registered under Jerimiah's name because Rose did not want others to know that he was associated with Digg. He wanted Digg to stand on its own and not become a message board for all things he personally stood for. Kevin Rose's friend David Prager (The Screen Savers, This Week in Tech) originally wanted to call the site "Diggnation", but Kevin wanted a simpler name. He chose the name "Digg", because users are able to "dig" stories, out of those submitted, up to the front page. The site was called "Digg" instead of "Dig" because the domain name "dig.com" was previously registered by the Walt Disney Company. The original design was free of advertisements, and was designed by Dan Ries. But as Digg became more popular, Google AdSense was added to generate revenue. The site was updated in July 2005, to "Version 2.0". The new Digg featured a friends list, the ability to "digg" a story without being redirected to a "success" page, and a new interface designed by Daniel Burka, of the web design company silverorange. After the redesign, some users complained about the lack of the simplistic, minimalist layout used in the original version of Digg. The site developers have stated that in future versions a more minimalist design will likely be employed. On Monday June 26, 2006 V3 of Digg was released with specific categories for Technology, Science, World & Business, Videos, Entertainment and Gaming as well as a View All section where all categories are merged. A Sports category was added about a month later. Even though Digg is depicted as a user-driven website with non hierarchical editorial control, there have been recent complaints of intervention by editors to promote certain stories, bypassing the choice of users. The same editors are accused of hiding these facts by censoring stories which mention them and by banning users who have posted them. Founder Kevin Rose responded by blaming the promotion on users rather than staff. An expose by tech blog Forever Geek uncovered what it felt was obvious intervention by editors to promote or bury certain stories, bypassing the choice of users. It also implicated Kevin Rose himself for digging the same exact stories in the same exact order as the users, and therefore being complicit in the promotion. A statistical analysis of the diggs showed that an average of 7 to 8 of the users dugg each others stories within the first 24 diggs per story that made the front page, and Kevin Rose dugg 28% of these stories within the first 24 diggs. The accusations were addressed extensively by Rose in an appearance on This Week in Tech. On that podcast, as well as on the official Digg blog, he stated that the charges stemmed from a coincidence (two stories that Rose was found to have been the 17th person to "digg"), and that the whole snafu arose after ForeverGeek users were banned for artificially inflating the digg counts of their stories. The Best Page in the Universe The Best Page in the Universe is a personal satirical humor website created by self-proclaimed pirate George Ouzounian, better known as Maddox, from Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. The site originated from a text document he wrote listing 50 things that "pissed him off." He gave the list to several people on EFnet's #coders. The response was positive, so in 1997 he created the web site. As the title suggests, the website proclaims itself to be "The Best Page In The Universe", a name stemming from an old Yahoo! policy that blocked sites with the word "best" in the title from inclusion in their search engine. In protest, Maddox claimed the site to be the best in the universe and named it accordingly. Controversy With regard to his hatemail pages, Maddox has been accused of not actually arguing against the points his detractors make, but simply insulting the detractor and distracting the reader with visual aids. His defenders claim that these straw man arguments are intentional and the main criticism he is making of his detractors is that they care. Maddox is also often criticized for not updating frequently. He has responded to this criticism by posting a news update titled "Foreplay" in 2004 and a "special request" in 2005 Small updates are sometimes posted on the front page: an update on August 22, 2005 tells visitors, "Updates coming soon, I have work, get off my nuts." Due to the nature of his rants, some of his fans occasionally come to criticize him for attacking their favorite thing. He calls these people his "ex biggest fans" and says he has received "one email like this per week about every single one of my posts since 1998." Due to the controversial content, four countries and some internet filtering products have banned his website. On January 8, 2004, the United Arab Emirates was the first country to ban his website. On September 11, 2005, the site was banned in Saudi Arabia. His site is also banned in Myanmar. Maddox wrote the Websense article in which he described being filtered and banned on several services, such as Websense, Lexmark, and the Department of Defense. In addition, several cities have banned access to his site on public access computers, such as Sligo, Ireland. Beth Robbins, a mother, formed Mothers Against Maddox. Her slogan was, "Help us Fight and Finally Shut Down the Most Hateful site on the Internet." She also created a petition to get the site shut down. When Maddox wrote about it in his Websense article and posted a link to the original Geocities site, Mother Against Maddox was inundated with visitors and repeatedly exceeded its bandwidth limit, so Maddox hosted a mirror. After Maddox posted the petition link, the MAM petition shot up to the Top 10 Active Petitions on PetitionOnline, with Maddox fans flooding the petition and posting extremely vulgar comments. The petition was eventually deactivated. Maddox has a long-standing feud with Something Awful webmaster Richard Kyanka and many of the site's thousands of forum members. After a falling-out with the site's administrators, Maddox berated Something Awful as being too capitalist (since it costs 9.95 US dollars to register on their message boards). Detractors point out that Maddox sells merchandise from his website. Unlike Something Awful, Maddox does not require payment to use any part of his site. Maddox states on his online store that "You're not doing me a favor by buying this stuff. I'm doing you a favor by selling it." Rotten Rotten.com is web site with a slogan of "An archive of disturbing illustration" operated by Soylent Communications. It is devoted to morbid curiosities, primarily pictures of gruesome fatalities, deformities, autopsy or forensic photographs depictions of perverse sex acts, and historical curios that are disturbing or misanthropic in nature. The site was founded in 1996, and its format has changed very little since that time. Rotten.com was started by a California Bay Area BBS sysop in 1996. According to the rotten.com FAQ, it began as "a 'what should I do with this domain now that I blew a hundred bucks on it' exercise." On an April 1997 morning, shock jock Howard Stern surfed rotten.com live on national radio. Traffic jumped in one day from 4,500 people a day to 50,000. The site had to be closed down for a few days from the massive bandwidth increase. During 2000 and 2001, Rotten.com was strongly associated with several of the Slashdot trolling phenomena, with Rotten exhibits such as "The Incident With The Bird" and "The Incident With The Fish" responsible for penis bird and penis fish, ASCII art messages posted to the Slashdot website. Mischievous users also put disguised links to images on the Rotten.com website in their messages in an attempt, much like with the Goatse.cx trolling phenomenon, to trick unsuspecting readers into inadvertently viewing unpleasant images. YTMND YTMND, an initialism for "You're The Man Now Dog", is an online community centered around the creation of hosted web pages (known within the community as YTMNDs) featuring a juxtaposition of a single image or a simple slideshow, which may be animated and/or tiled, along with optional large zooming text, and a looping sound file. Images used in YTMNDs are usually either created or edited by users. Most YTMNDs are meant to expose or reflect the more inane facets of pop culture, and some can be considered inside jokes. YTMND originated in 2001 from Max Goldberg's original website, "yourethemannowdog.com", which he registered along with "dustindiamond.com" after seeing a trailer for the movie Finding Forrester. Originally, the website featured the text "YOURE THE MAN NOW DOG.COM" drawn out in 3D ascii text with no sound. The advent of zoomed text currently on the website was seen in the following months, where the website also featured a photograph of Sean Connery and a sound loop from Finding Forrester reciting the phrase "you're the man now, dog!" Goldberg's new creation inspired others to make similar sites with other movie and television quotations (or any other sound clip they wished to use). At first, Goldberg maintained a list and mirror of these sites, but the list soon became exceptionally long. In 2004, Goldberg wrote a press release after winning a lawsuit filed by Dustin Diamond for the "fan page" at the aforementioned dustindiamond.com. He mentioned yourethemannowdog.com, as well as a new website, YTMND, that would be ready by April 10. The website opened that day after rushing through the coding and design process. The site caught on in popularity and became an Internet phenomenon when major weblogs began linking to the Picard Song YTMND. Controversy In January 2006, eBaum's World hosted and watermarked a Lindsay Lohan montage created by YTMND user SpliceVW without crediting either SpliceVW or YTMND. In response to their actions, users from YTMND joined users from other Internet communities, namely Something Awful, LUElinks, Newgrounds, and 4chan, and decided to attack the forums on eBaum's World, using spam posting and DoS to repeatedly crash them. On June 10, 2006, a cease and desist form was sent to Max Goldberg by lawyers of the Church of Scientology, claiming that several Scientology based sites had infringed on their copyrights to some Scientology material. In response, Goldberg replied to the lawyer that the cease and desist form was "completely groundless" and he would not be deleting any Scientology related sites. Days later, a Scientology page section had appeared on the front page along with a disclaimer on the bottom stating the following: "This website is in no way affiliated, sponsored or owned by the Church of Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard, SeaOrg, Dianetics, volcanoes or aliens of any sort. We are, however, sponsored by Citizens for the Release of Xenu, a not for sanity organization." B3ta B3ta is a humorous British website, described as a "puerile digital arts community" by The Guardian. It was founded by Rob Manuel, Denise Wilton and Cal Henderson. To inspire creative works, B3ta poses a weekly image challenge, such as "if cats ruled the world" and a "question of the week", for example asking "what's your most embarrassing injury?". Throughout its history, B3ta and its contributors have been subject to a lot of controversy. The most notable events were the production of a Popstars flash animation which relied heavily on the use of phalli. When threatened with legal action the animation was pulled from the site. The site has also suffered from several media attacks and features in tabloid press on occasion. A photoshopped calendar by a member called sick_boy purporting to be of naked MPs caused particular concern. http://crazy-frankenstein.com/new-yorks-craziest-laws.html http://crazy-frankenstein.com/new-yorks-craziest-laws.html Mon, 11 Oct 2010 12:00:00 GMT Entertainment New York's craziest laws This is a list of crazy laws in New York history. Most of the laws listed below were repealed by now but there are many crazy laws on the list that are still being used. You won't believe what the crazy laws in New York is now! If you don't know for this laws and now you will know for all time ! Here is list : # A fine of 25 US dollars can be levied for flirting. This old law specifically prohibits men from turning around on any city street and looking "at a woman in that way." A second conviction for a crime of this magnitude calls for the violating male to be forced to wear a "pair of horse-blinders" wherever and whenever he goes outside for a stroll. # A license must be purchased before hanging clothes on a clothesline. # A person may not walk around on Sundays with an ice cream cone in his/her pocket. # Before the enactment of the 1978 law that made it mandatory for dog owners in New York City to clean up after their pets, approximately 40 million pounds of dog excrement were deposited on the streets every year. # Carmel: A man can't go outside while wearing a jacket and pants that do not match. # Citizens may not greet each other by "putting one's thumb to the nose and wiggling the fingers". # Donkeys are not allowed to sleep in bathtubs in Brooklyn, N.Y. # During a concert, it is illegal to eat peanuts and walk backwards on the sidewalks. # In Carmel, N.Y., a man can't go outside while wearing a jacket and pants that do not match. # In Greene, New York, During a concert, it is illegal to eat peanuts and walk backwards on the sidewalks. # In New York, you can teach your pet parrot to speak, but not to squawk. # In New York City you need a permit to transport carbonated beverages. # In New York City it is illegal for a man to give 'The Standard Lear' to a woman. Violators are forced to wear horse blinders. # In New York City, it's illegal to throw swill into the street. # In New York City it's illegal to shake a dust mop out a window. # In New York State it is still illegal to shoot a rabbit from a moving trolley car. # In Ocean City, New York It is illegal to eat in the street in residential neighborhoods, and the only beverage you can drink on the beach is water in a clear plastic bottle. # In Ocean City New York, It is illegal for men to go topless in the center of town. # In Staten Island, New York, It is illegal for a father to call his son a "faggot" or "queer" in an effort to curb "girlie behavior." # In Staten Island, New York, You may only water your lawn if the hose is held in your hand. # In Tonawanda, New York homeless people may not start a fire in the park unless they intend to cook food. # It is against the law to throw a ball at someone's head for fun. # It is illegal for a father to call his son a "faggot" or "queer" in an effort to curb "girlie behavior." # It is illegal for a woman to be on the street wearing "body hugging clothing." # It is illegal to jump off the Empire State building. # It's illegal in New York to start any kind of public performance, show, play, game or what have you, until after 1:05 p.m . # Jaywalking is legal, as long as it's not diagonal. That is, you can cross the street out of the crosswalk, but you can't cross a street diagonally. # Members of nine New York Indian tribes are exempt from the city's eight percent parking tax. # New York and a handful of other states require that toilets be evenly divided among men and women in public theaters or arenas. # New York: Citizens may not greet each other by "putting one's thumb to the nose and wiggling the fingers". It is illegal for a woman to be on the street wearing "body hugging clothing." You may not smoke within 100 feet of the entrance to a public building. Women may go topless in public, providing it is not being used as a business. # New York City may be the theater capital of the country, but it's illegal to have a puppet show in your window and a violation can land you in the snoozer for 30 days. # New Yorkers cannot dissolve a marriage for irreconcilable differences, unless they both agree to it. # Ocean City: It is illegal to eat in the street in residential neighborhoods, and the only beverage you can drink on the beach is water in a clear plastic bottle. It is illegal for men to go topless in the center of town. # Slippers are not to be worn after 10:00 P.M. # Staten Island: You may only water your lawn if the hose is held in your hand. It is illegal for a father to call his son a "faggot" or "queer" in an effort to curb "girlie behavior." # The New York City Transit Authority has ruled that women can ride the city subways topless. New York law dictates that if a man can be somewhere without a shirt, a woman gets the same right. The decision came after arrests of women testing the ordinance on the subways. A transit police spokesman said they would comply with the new rule, but "if they were violating any other rules, like sitting on a subway bench topless smoking a cigarette, then we would take action." Smoking is not allowed in the subways. # The New York State Senate passed a resolution to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Brooklyn Dodgers' 1955 world championship and expressed a longing that someday the Dodgers will return to "their one and only true home." # The penalty for jumping off a building is death. # To cut down on its once-horrific graffiti problem, New York City several years ago made it illegal to carry an open can of spray paint. # While riding in an elevator, one must talk to no one, and fold his hands while looking toward the door. # Women may go topless in public, providing it is not being used as a business. # You may not smoke within 100 feet of the entrance to a public building. # You may only water your lawn if the hose is held in your hand http://crazy-frankenstein.com/wired-ny-sculpture-pictures.html http://crazy-frankenstein.com/wired-ny-sculpture-pictures.html Mon, 11 Oct 2010 12:00:00 GMT Entertainment Pictures: Weird New York sculptures If you live in New York or if you want go in New york like a tourist ,you must see this really crazy and wired sculptures of this city . There are everywhere ,just go around the city and you will find this wired sculptures in very popular palces in " Big Apple " city .Pictures which you can see are from Lincoln Center, 58th Street plaza of the Solow building , Rockefeller Center Ice Rink , pictures near IBM building and more. Art to Crawl Around In All Summer Long Franz West's aluminum sculptures at Lincoln Center meet his first requirement for art they can be touched Franz West, the Viennese impresario who is responsible for these characters, likes to think of them as "fairy tale figures, maybe slaves and emperors," but without any specific story to tell or identifiable place of origin. "A narrative, but a narrative that you can't understand what it means," he says in heavily accented English. "If you put the figures together in a frieze, there's a story, but it's a nonsense story." Fittingly, the squat triangle these sculptures form conjures up a playful pediment for Lincoln Center's decidedly unplayful high-modern columned temples. Current exhibition of Sol LeWitt sculptures & drawing Last summer's installation by Conceptual artist Sol LeWitt includes five sculptures and one wall drawing. A prolific artist since his emergence in the mid-1960s, LeWitt is showing recent sculptures, called Splotches. With a palette of bold colors, LeWitt has created large-scale, painted fiberglass works. Their undulating, curvilinear shapes and vibrant hues brilliantly engage with the natural landscape of Central Park. Current exhibition of Sol LeWitt sculptures & drawing 2 LeWitt's wall drawing, Whirls and Twirls, echoes the abstract forms and vivid color of the Splotches. Taken together, these works represent a bright complement to the unique setting of The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden, which offers a spectacular view of Central Park and the Manhattan skyline. Joan Miro's Moonbird sculpture on 58th Street plaza of the Solow building Quite weird sculpture of Joan Miro which is named Moonbird . When you look better this sculpture you cloud say that is very expressive and with good coutures. Louis Bourgeois Spiders in front of the GE Building You cloud me amazed we you see this spider sculptures and for tourist is very attractive place in this part of city .Maybe you wonder how someone make this wired sculptures steel , you cloud ask Louis Bourgeois directly if you go in some of his next exhibition. Sculpture inside the glass atrium of IBM building Stainless steel and resin painted with acrylic urethane This is some of the best sculpture in IBM building , really amazing Stainless but the most interested is that shape and weird design style which we can see now. Surveying this scene are two gigantic 'eyebal' balloons, each 30 feet in diameter, floating 60 feet in the air above the Rockefeller Center Ice Rink. A 30 foot tall Buddha like figure with multiple arms and a pointed head the artist's largest sculpture ever will preside over the scene in 30 Rockefeller Plaza. "Tongari kun" (Japanese for "Mr. Pointy") as he is known in Murakami's universe of characters, will be flanked by four smaller figures. Low lying mushrooms, a familiar motif in Murakami's artwork, will surround the central sculpture and serve as seating areas for visitors. Surveying this scene will be two gigantic "eyeball" balloons, each 30 feet in diameter, floating 60 feet in the air above the Rockefeller Center Ice Rink. Murakami will also design the flags surrounding Rockefeller Center to complete the dazzling aesthetic transformation. urbo and Ferryman, two works by internationally acclaimed British artist Tony Cragg This is very amazing two works of Tony Cragg which is too wired and for some ordinary visitor or viewer of New York city. Wave UFO in the glass atrium of the IBM bulding Wave UFO , an all encompassing project that comes after three years of research fuses real time computer graphics, brainwave technology, sound, and state of the art architectural engineering to create a dynamic interactive experience. The connection between technology and spirituality, increasingly important in Mori's work, is effected here through the use of specially designed computer programs and scientific equipment that monitor and visually interpret the participants' brainwaves. http://crazy-frankenstein.com/futuristic-vehicles.html http://crazy-frankenstein.com/futuristic-vehicles.html Mon, 11 Oct 2010 12:00:00 GMT Entertainment Story : Futuristic vehicles : 37th Tokyo Motor Show With plenty of glamour and glitter, the biennial Tokyo Motor Show is underway, featuring nearly 700 vehicles, including motorcycles, and 38 cars developed by Japanese automakers having their world premiere. This year, most of the buzz is on a whole new line of futuristic and hybrid vehicles that boast state-of-the-art technology and challenge existing notions about driving. The whole exhibit is huge, divided into three main halls and two smaller ones. Upon entering the site, visitors first filter through the North Hall that features motorbikes and car parts. True biker buffs will want to check out the latest Suzuki super-bike, with its three-dimensionally mapped cams, which was launched at the show. Casual browsers will appreciate the beauty of the '70s retro Ducatis also launched at Makuhari. Toyota's PM concept car features a movable cabin Oddball hour The Carrozzeria hall lies between the North Hall and the main complex and houses most of the oddballs of the show, from colorful TVRs to customized Porsches and Mercedes to so-called kit cars such as the half car/half bike 3-wheeled Grinnall Scorpion. From here, visitors can zigzag to either the Center or the West Hall. The latter is home to Lamborghini, Ferrari (replete with Enzo, if only in North American specs) and new Maserati flagship-the huge Quattroporte that was unveiled at the show. Next door on the Fiat stand, don't miss the beautiful 8c Competizione concept car that hints at how the Italian manufacturer will develop the Alfa Romeo brand in the new millennium. From the Italian corner, photographers in search of a different type of beauty should head past the custom parts stalls to the tire makers' area, where the most scantily-clad companions pose. Nearby, Suzuki displays four concept cars: the S2, which should be heading for production soon; the S-Ride, a tandem two-seater attempting to blend the pleasure of a motorcycle with the practicality of a car; a futuristic 4x4 called Landbreeze; and the Mobile Terrace, which, as the name suggests, is a powered slab to which a number of different bodies may be attached. Fellow GM group member Subaru is close by, proudly displaying its misguided attempt at establishing a corporate identity by making all its upcoming cars uniformly ugly. Mitsubishi's aggressively styled Tarmac Spyder In the Center Hall, Nissan also has a bevy of concept vehicles, but conspicuously lacks a GT-R, much to the chagrin of the press and fans. However, the bizarre Jikoo two-seater is interesting, if only because it manages to be futuristic and retro at the same time. Mazda also managed the same trick with a teaser of what the next Roadster may look like-very similar to the original MX-5/Miata, but made of composite materials for an even better power-to-weight ratio. Honda is reinforcing its racing heritage with racecars and sports models at the fore, and the latest concept of the NSX's future at the rear. But the real surprise of the main hall comes from South Korea. The daring style and attractive lines of the latest Kias and Hyundais are only upstaged by the models (also imported from Korea) posing next to them. If cars such as the Kia KCV-3 and Hyundai Neos-II make it to these shores in production form, domestic manufacturers may have a fight on their hands. Honda's newest take on the NSX Heading east In the East Hall, the BMW 6-series has arrived, and is worth climbing inside to remember what really comfortable seats feel like. Mitsubishi has an expansive and impressive display, the highlights of which must be the aggressively styled Tarmac Spyder sporty drop-top, the SE-RO concept minivan that appears to have dropped in from an old Flash Gordon show and the futuristic "ai" subcompact hatchback concept, which will go on sale within a matter of months. Confusingly, Daihatsu also has a concept car christened Ai, this one a boxy but cute 2+2 K-car aimed squarely at young mothers. It will be interesting to see which company gets to keep the name. Daihatsu has one of the most interesting stands. The naked style D-Bone buggy is refreshingly different, the XL-C is strangely large for a K-car, while maintaining the exact same dimensions as all its competitors, and the incredible UFE-II hybrid car has achieved an incredibly slippery air resistance coefficient of 0.19, a world best which helped the car to another world record-60km/L (over 160mpg) fuel efficiency on mixed roads. Daihatsu's Ai concept car aimed at young mothers Conversely, big brother Toyota's stand is quite disappointing. The Fine-N and PM concept cars are incredible, but so far off current technology as to be ridiculous. The PM is a single-seat electric vehicle with a pod-like cabin and seat shape designed to fit the driver "almost like a glove," according to Toyota. Although its original color is silver, the PM can also emit colored lights to make it look pink, green or blue. The cabin is independent from the suspension system, enabling the vehicle to vary its posture according to speed. Other than that, the rest of the exhibits from Toyota can be found in your local dealership. Back in fantasy land, as you browse the exhibits, if that nagging little voice telling you that you're unlikely to own any of the super cars displayed anytime soon gets too loud, slip upstairs for a sneak preview of Gran Turismo 4 where you not only get to see incredible cars, but drive them, too. http://crazy-frankenstein.com/story-frankenstein-monster.html http://crazy-frankenstein.com/story-frankenstein-monster.html Mon, 11 Oct 2010 12:00:00 GMT Entertainment Story : Frankenstein monster Frankenstein is an 1818 novel by Mary Shelley, first published anonymously in London, but more often known by the revised third edition of 1831 under her own name. It is a novel infused with some elements of the Gothic novel and the Romantic movement. It was also a warning against the "over-reaching" of modern man and the Industrial Revolution, alluded to in the novel's subtitle, The Modern Prometheus. The subtitle The Modern Prometheus refers to the figure in Greek mythology who was responsible for a conflict between mankind and the gods. In order to help the people, Prometheus stole Zeus's fire from the sun. The people were thereby given an advantage to the animals since fire gave man the ability to make weapons and tools. Prometheus was severely punished by Zeus who chained him to a rock in the Caucasus. Every night, Prometheus was visited by an eagle who ate from his liver. During the day, however, his liver grew back to its original state. It also refers to the story of Prometheus plasticator who was to said to have created and animated mankind out of clay. These two myths were eventually fused together: the fire that Prometheus had stolen is the fire of life with which he animated his clay models. Because of the 'creating' aspect, Prometheus became a symbol for the creating artist in the eighteenth century. Victor Frankenstein can indeed be seen as the modern Prometheus. He defies the gods by creating life himself. Instead of being the created, Victor takes God's place and becomes the creator. Just as Prometheus, Victor gets punished for his deeds. He is, however, punished by his creation whereas Prometheus was punished by the god who he stole from. A more detailed summary would go like this: An English explorer, Robert Walton, is on an expedition to the North Pole. In letters to his sister Margaret Saville, he keeps his family informed of his situation and tells about the difficult conditions on the ship. One day when the ship is completely surrounded by ice, a man in bad condition is taken aboard: Victor Frankenstein. As soon as his health allows it, he tells Walton the story of his life. He grew up in Geneva, Switzerland as the eldest son of a higher class family. He was brought up with an orphan, Elizabeth and also had two younger brothers. He did not have many friends, Henry Clerval being the only exception. At the age of nineteen, Frankenstein became interested in natural philosophy, electricity, chemistry and mathematics. After the death of his mother, who succumbed to scarlet fever, Frankenstein left for Ingolstadt, Germany, to attend university. There, his interest in natural philosophy quickly became an obsession. He was particularly fascinated with the human frame and the principle of life. After four years of fanatic studying, not keeping in contact with his family, he was able to "bestow animation upon lifeless matter" and created a monster of gigantic proportion from assembled body parts taken from graveyards, slaughterhouses and dissecting rooms. As soon as the creature opened his eyes, however, the beauty of Frankenstein's dream vanished: it became a horrible creature. He realised he made a mistake in creating this monster and fled from his laboratory. On his return the next day, the monster had disappeared. Victor was consequently bedridden with a nervous fever for the next months, being nursed back to health by his friend Clerval. On the eve of the return to his parental home, he received a letter that his youngest brother had been found murdered. On his way home, Frankenstein saw the demon he has created and immediately realised that it is he who is responsible for his brothers death. Frankenstein decided not to tell his family about the d?mon because they would simply dismiss it as insane. As he arrived home, he was informed that the murderer of his brother had been found. The accused was Justine, a good friend of the family. When Justine has been found guilty and has been hanged, Frankenstein's heart was tortured. He could not stay in the house and started wandering in the Alpine valleys. There, Frankenstein was confronted with his creation who tells him his life story. After leaving Frankenstein's laboratory, he went to the village where he was insulted and attacked by the frightened villagers. He eventually went to the country and found refuge in a hovel next to small house inhabited by a old, blind man and his two children. By observing the family and by reading their books, the monster learnt how to speak and read. He felt compassion for the family who have to struggle to get by, and anonymously did chores for them. Longing for some kindness and protection, he decided to meet his hosts. He got into a pleasant conversation with the blind man but his children return unexpectedly. Horrified by his appearance, they beat him and he fled the house. Completely disillusioned, the monster was filled with rage and decided to find his creator. By chance he met Frankenstein's younger brother in the forest. As soon as he discovered that the boy "belongs to the enemy" he choked him. He also placed a portrait in the lap of a sleeping young girl, Justine, thereby incriminating her with his crime. The d?mon's only request from Frankenstein was that he should create another being: a female to accompany him. If Frankenstein complies, he and his bride will stay away from other people and keep to themselves in the wild. Frankenstein saw some justice in the monster's arguments and also felt that he has a duty towards his fellow-man, so he agreed to the d?mon's request. Victor left for England to finish his work accompanied by his friend Clerval, promising to marry Elizabeth on his return. When the work on his second creation was advanced, he started to question his promise. He was afraid that they might hate each other, or that they might produce a whole race of these creatures. When the monster visits to check on the progress, Frankenstein destroyed his work. The monster swore revenge and promised to be with him on his wedding night. The following day a body was found and Frankenstein was accused of murder. He was taken to the body which he identified as Henry Clerval. He was eventually cleared of all charges and returned to Geneva in a very bad condition. Frankenstein married Elizabeth after promising her to tell her his horrifying secret the following day. Remembering the monster's threat, Frankenstein was convinced that he would be killed that night. The monster, however, kills Elizabeth instead. Frankenstein lost another family member as his father died after hearing the news about Elizabeth's death. Frankenstein had now lost every sensation except for revenge. He followed the monster everywhere which eventually led him to the Arctic region, where he was taken aboard Walton's ship. After telling Walton his story, Victor asks him to kill the monster if he dies before he can do it himself. The ship has in the mean time been freed from the ice and pressured by his crew, Walton has decided to abandon his trip and return home. Victor's health eventually deteriorates and he dies. Just after his death, Walton finds the monster hanging over Victor's body. The demon speaks of his sufferings. Because of all the murders he has committed, he now hates himself. Since his creator is dead, he decides it is time that he too will rest in death. After stating that he will build a funeral pile for himself, he leaves the ship and disappears on his ice-raft in the darkness. Frankenstein in movies : The classic and definitive monster/horror film of all time, director James Whale's Frankenstein (1931) is the screen version of Mary Shelley's Gothic 1818 nightmarish novel of the same name (Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus). The film, with Victorian undertones, was produced by Carl Laemmle Jr. for Universal Pictures, the same year that Dracula (1931), another classic horror film, was produced within the same studio , both films helped to save the beleaguered studio. [The sequel to this Monster story is found in director James Whale's even greater film, Bride of Frankenstein (1935).] The film's name was derived from the mad, obsessed scientist, Dr. Henry Frankenstein (Colin Clive), who experimentally creates an artificial life , an Unnamed Monster (Boris Karloff), that ultimately terrorizes the Bavarian countryside after being mistreated by his maker's assistant Fritz and society as a whole. The film's most famous scene is the one in which Frankenstein befriends a young girl named Maria at a lake's edge, and mistakenly throws her into the water (and drowns her) along with other flowers. In addition to this film, dozens of other adaptations have been made of the Frankenstein horror story (and lots of other variations such as Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948), Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster (1965), Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein (1974) (shot in the same castle and with the same props and lab equipment as the original film), and Frankenhooker (1990)), including: * Frankenstein (1910), d. J. Searle Dawley, 16 minute silent, Edison Company * Life Without a Soul (1915), d. Joseph W. Smiley, the first feature-length Frankenstein adaptation, a lost silent film, Ocean Film Corp. * Frankenstein (1931), d. James Whale, Universal * The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), d. Terence Fisher, Hammer Films (UK) * The Horror of Frankenstein (1970), d. Jimmy Sangster, Hammer Films (UK) * Frankenstein Unbound (1990), d. Roger Corman, 20th Century Fox * Frankenstein (1993), d. David Wickes, Made for TV, Turner Pictures * Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994), d. Kenneth Branagh, producer Francis Ford Coppola, TriStar * Van Helsing (2004), d. Stephen Sommers, opens with a slightly modified (revisionist) creation scene and the ending burning windmill scene from the original film (in black and white!) as a springboard for the film Frankenstein is in some ways allegorical. The novel was conceived and written during an early phase of the Industrial Revolution, at a time of dramatic advances in science and technology. That the creation rebels against its creator can be seen as a warning that the application of science can lead to unintended consequences. http://crazy-frankenstein.com//the-scariest-holiday-halloween.html http://crazy-frankenstein.com//the-scariest-holiday-halloween.html Mon, 11 Oct 2010 12:00:00 GMT Entertainment The Scariest Holiday - Halloween Halloween is the one of the oldest and the spookiest holidays still celebrated today. Where you can find a pumpkin patch, corn maze, safe trick-or-treating, hayrides and other stuff ? Yes, only on Halloween day which many people started decorating their homes with some creepy and skoopy style. What other holiday do you have an excuse to eat all the sugar you want and wear whatever you want? Every kid (and kid at heart) looks forward to October, 31st each year. Little boys magically turn into vampires and little girls into fairies, bidding for the greatest haul of sugar laden sweets and candies. While millions of people celebrate Halloween without knowing its origins and myths, the history and facts of Halloween make the holiday more fascinating. Some people view Halloween as a time for fun, putting on costumes, trick-or-treating, and having theme parties. Others view it as a time of superstitions, ghosts, goblins and evil spirits that should be avoided at all costs. The History Halloween Halloween is on October 31st, the last day of the Celtic calendar. It was originally a pagan holiday, honoring the dead. Halloween was referred to as All Hallows Eve and dates back to over 2000 years ago. The ancient Celtics called the festival "Samhain" and observed it to celebrate the onset of winter and the beginning of the Celtic New Year. "Samhain" means "end of summer." In Ireland the festival was known as "Samhain", the feast of the Sun. In Scotland, the celebration was known as "Halloween." Samhain marked the third and final harvest, and the storage of food for the winter. It had nothing to do with anything evil, that is a modern day myth perpetuated in films. Samhain was a solar festival marked by sacred fire and fire rituals during the height of the Druids, the priestly caste of the Celtics. All fires except those of the Druids were extinguished on Samhain. All fires were than relit from the town's fire. The Druid fire was kept burning in the Middle of Ireland, at Usinach. So on the night of October 31, villagers would extinguish the fires in their homes. In Ireland and Scotland, the custom of extinguishing one's home fire and relighting if from the festival bonfire has continued into modern times. They would then dress up in all manner of fancy costumes and parade around the neighborhood. In some parts of modern Scotland, people still celebrate by building bonfires on hilltops and high ground. The fire is known as Halloween bleeze, and custom once included digging a circular trench around the fire to symbolize the sun. All Souls' Day All Souls' Day, observed on November 2, is celebrated with Catholic masses and festivities in honor of the dead. The living pray on behalf of Catholics who are in purgatory, the state in the afterlife between the land of the living and the otherworlds where souls are purified before proceeding to heaven. Souls in purgatory, who are members of the church just like living Christians, must suffer so that they can be purged of their sins. Through prayer and good works, living members of the church may help their departed friends and family. It was on Halloween in 1517 that Martin Luther began to try to reform the Catholic Church. It ended in the formation of the Protestant Church, which didn't believe in saints (in the Roman Catholic sense of of specific individuals). All Souls' Day has morphed and exists today, particularly in Latin America and Mexico, where All Hallows' Eve, All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day are collectively observed as "Los Dias de los Muertos" (The Days of the Dead). First and foremost, the Days of the Dead is a time when families fondly remember the deceased, visit their graves and clean the gravesites and leave fresh flowers. But it is also a time marked by Mardi Gras-like festivities, including spectacular parades of skeletons and ghouls. In one tradition, a mock funeral procession with a live person inside a coffin is paraded through the streets. Trick-or-Treating Some trace the origins of present day "trick-or-treat" to Samhain, which was the supreme night of demonic jubilation. Spirits of the dead would rise out of their graves and wander the countryside, trying to return to the homes where they formerly lived. Frightened villagers tried to appease these wandering spirits by offering them gifts of fruit and nuts. They began the tradition of placing plates of the finest food and bits of treats that the household had to offer on their doorsteps, as gifts, to appease the hunger of the ghostly wanderers. If not placated, villagers feared that the spirits would kill their flocks or destroy their property. The problem was... if the souls of dead loved ones could return that night, so could anything else,human or not, nice or not-so-nice. The only thing the superstitious people knew to do to protect themselves on such an occasion was to masquerade as one of the demonic hoard, and hopefully blend in unnoticed among them. Wearing masks and other disguises and blackening the face with soot were originally ways of hiding oneself from the spirits of the dead who might be roaming around. This is the origin of Halloween masquerading as devils, imps, ogres, and other demonic creatures. Others trace "trick-or-treat" to a European custom called "souling". Beggars would go from village to village begging for "soul cakes" made out of square pieces of bread with currants. The more soul cakes the beggars would receive, the more prayers they would promise to say on behalf of the dead relatives of the donors. At the time, it was believed that the dead remained in limbo for a time after death, and that prayer, even by strangers could guarantee a soul's passage to heaven. In many parts of Britain and Ireland this night used to be known as 'Mischief Night', which meant that people were free to go around the village playing pranks and getting up to any kind of mischief without fear of being punished. Many of the different customs were taken to the United States by Irish and Scottish immigrants in the nineteenth century, and they developed into 'trick or treat'. http://crazy-frankenstein.com/free-avatars.html http://crazy-frankenstein.com/free-avatars.html Mon, 11 Oct 2010 12:00:00 GMT Entertainment Free Avatars Free avatars and icons for message boards, forums, blogs ... we have here funny , carzy ,scary ,sweet avatrars and much more but you pick the best one!How to use these pictures ? You have to save the desired avatar to your hard disk and upload toa collection of free emoticons images and avatars. 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You have to save the desired avatar to your hard disk and upload toa collection of free emoticons images and avatars. Please , don't hot linking our avatars . http://crazy-frankenstein.com/funny-ads.html http://crazy-frankenstein.com/funny-ads.html Mon, 11 Oct 2010 12:00:00 GMT Entertainment Funny advertisements The page features many other funny advertisements pictures featuring pictures of animals, kids, drunks, adults, signs, celebrity mugshots and more.See how much crazy or funny can be some commercials to pull attention to people. Ha-ha!Don't drink this if you have some paln's with your girl! After shave your cat can too look like this!But don't forget to use Gillete. If you wanna won some fight with deer ... try new Mercedes Benz A class! Who konws .... maybe your girl be happy if you offer this condoms! And he is really good at teaching about sex ... ask Monica Lewinsky !She gonna tell how good he is! If I vomit because budwiser only ...whay to drink that ?? Oooo,my god!I gonna sneeze! Frogs can say what toilet papers is the best!There's opinion is important.. lol ! All your is neighbourhood overflow ...everything overflow...do you need hand wash for your car? Must be very interesting in that house of God .... http://crazy-frankenstein.com/funny-ads-page-2.html http://crazy-frankenstein.com/funny-ads-page-2.html Mon, 11 Oct 2010 12:00:00 GMT Entertainment Funny advertisements page 2 The page features many other funny advertisements pictures featuring pictures of animals, kids, drunks, adults, signs, celebrity mugshots and more.See how much crazy or funny can be some commercials to pull attention to people. Look this granny .... she whole use life Colgate for healthy smile! Do you want to be like that?! How don't love them .... fine taste,that crunch in your mouth,that roasted .... littles things! Hehehe .... we hope that lawyers don't see this! What miracle can do this beer??!! ....Think about that. Difficult to say ....what to give free ? Your cat or husband ??? lol ! How do the best hand-job ??? And for what ? It's must be very tasty if you get that sandwich with miracle whip ... What happend after hunting and a copule of beers? http://crazy-frankenstein.com/funny-jokes.html http://crazy-frankenstein.com/funny-jokes.html Mon, 11 Oct 2010 12:00:00 GMT Entertainment Funny jokes Attention!On this site is fulfil of free and grabbing stuff! and whole world who wanna make cash online with completing surveys. I am in this making cash online business for about a year and today I can say that you can really earn cash online.It's a hard job to find some good and paying program or site or something else on the internet. http://crazy-frankenstein.com/funny-answering-machine.html http://crazy-frankenstein.com/funny-answering-machine.html Mon, 11 Oct 2010 12:00:00 GMT Entertainment Funny answering Machine messages #1 After a power outage: Hi, this is Ralph. The good news is that my power is back on. The bad news for you is, so is my answering machine. So, leave a message. This is not an answering machine this is a telepathic thought-recording device. After the tone, think about your name, your reason for calling, and a number where I can reach you, and I'll think about returning your call. Hi, you've reached the home of George Ledec. If you are calling to collect a student loan, gambling debt, or other obligation, please press 1 and hang up now. If you are selling any product or service, or requesting charitable donations, please press 2 and hang up now. Otherwise, press 3 and leave your message now. Pressing 3 is optional. #2 Hello. If you're calling with bad news, leave your message now. If it's good news, wait for the tone. Hello, this is your local zoo. Do you like animals? We are experiencing severe problems with hot water. Would you be so kind as to allow us to bring our elephants over to your bathroom for a shower? (The most common response: "Well, sure, but my neighbor's bathroom is bigger and better equipped to handle elephants.") Congratulations! By correctly dialing 123 4567, you have become eligible to leave a message! (Applause.) Join the lucky few that have advanced to the next level! (Cheers.) And now, at the sound of the tone, leave your name, number, the time you called, and a brief message. #3 Hello... Yes, I'd like to order two medium pepperoni pizzas please, with extra cheese... Oh, did I get the wrong number? Sorry about that. (Click.) (Classical music:) This is our answering machine. (Switch to heavy metal racket:) This is our answering machine on drugs. (Silence...) Any message? Mom, Dad... Don't you think it would be easier to reach me if I had a cellular phone? So how about an early birthday present? #4 (In a good Australian accent:) G'day mate. Can't come to the phone now because I'm a bit tied up with this crocodile. Just leave a message, and I'll get back to you. You have reached 843 4734. Please hold while I process your call. (Pause.) Our extremely sophisticated computer system performed a trace on your number and was able to match it with our list of important callers. None of our staff is authorized to speak with you except for Fred, who is not here right now. Please leave your name phone number and a brief message at the tone. Thank you for calling and have a nice day. I can't come to the phone now because I have amnesia and I feel stupid talking to people I don't remember. I'd appreciate it if you could help me out by leaving my name and telling me something about myself. Thanks. #5 "Muppet Show" theme: It's time to leave a message After you hear the tone, It's time to leave a message 'Cause we're not at home tonight... It's time to leave a message On Kate and Shannon's phone, It's time to leave a message 'Cause we're not at home tonight. Just leave your name and number, Such simple things to do, And then when we get home we will Get right back to you. It's time to leave a message After you hear the tone. It's time to leave a message 'Cause we're not at home tonight. Gone to get a bite, Stayin' out all night, Yes we have a life! Leave a message, we're not home toniiiiight... Hitchhikers Guide theme: The Cerius Cybernetic Corporation was happy to correct the problem of all that icky person-to-person conversation that happens when people actually pick up the phone and talk to each other. So they added the "answering machine," which will cleverly record your message and play it back at the wrong speed, to make everyone who calls you sound like they have partaken a large supply of helium. Unless your message is REALLY important, in which case, the machine simply breaks its own tape, to insure that you never get the message at all. It would be a shame to waste all this brilliant technology, so please attempt to leave a message. Hello, this is the Computer Music Research Institute of Portland, Oregon. We can't take your call at the moment, but we would like you to leave a critique of one of our current works in progress. BEEP http://crazy-frankenstein.com/funny-parody.html http://crazy-frankenstein.com/funny-parody.html Mon, 11 Oct 2010 12:00:00 GMT Entertainment Check out this funny and crazy parody on pictures,products, law , games, commercials ,sport an ect. Let's see funny and crazy side of our environment. When you look in this flowers ... what you really see? This is boring! How law look's like to us? And what is this ...? Some anti-drugs campaign... lol ...What your parents think if you say that Josh giving you road-head? Don't go so high .... Pardoy on NFS game ... Do you need some sharp and new toilet paper? http://crazy-frankenstein.com/funny-tv.html http://crazy-frankenstein.com/funny-tv.html Mon, 11 Oct 2010 12:00:00 GMT Entertainment Funny tv Watch with us what is happening on tv daily !On what we laughing this days,what we see new this days,how make big scandal this days,what happend on this day and more . . . Santa's Back in Town Let's get into the Christmas swing with a new year's round of Christmas light displays! More from this creator here. Matisyahu: King of Beatbox This guy can beatbox with the best of them. An orthodox Jew with a soul foul of reggae, Matisyahu keeps his crowds riveted in expectation. South Park: Behind the Scenes CBS takes you behind the scenes with South park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone; two geniuses of today's cartoon television. What are your thoughts? Hammered Dulcimer Skills Max Zbiral-Teller has some sweet skills on the hammered dulcimer. Proof that rocking music can be made on just about any instrument! Doo Whop Horses Turn these four groovy mares into your very own barbershop quartet in this corny little flash toy. Science Experiment Gone Bad When sitting in a science lab watching a demonstration, the last thing you want to hear is "That wasn't supposed to happen". Santa's Back in Town Even YOU can have a place in South Park with this nifty tool! Go ahead and try it out; if you think you've got a good one, we've got a gallery started here. Mac vs. PC: Upgrading a PC The guys at TrueNuff bring you another Mac vs. PC parody. This time, Linux drops in to share some kind words. Let the Bodies Hit the Floor Here's a great compilation of that wacky and theatrical preacher, Benny Hinn. This guy might mean well, but I think all that "slain in the spirit" stuff is a load of crap. Jerome Murat: The Man With Two Heads This guy does a pretty awesome pantomime routine. Read more about this amazing artist here. http://crazy-frankenstein.com/misc-stuff-animated-gifs.html http://crazy-frankenstein.com/misc-stuff-animated-gifs.html Mon, 11 Oct 2010 12:00:00 GMT Entertainment Misc stuff : Animated gifs A category for stuff that doesn't necessarily fit anywhere else.You could find here our base of posts,gif animations, hot specila of Crazy Franky hour's ,useful advice and much more. http://crazy-frankenstein.com/crazy-gifs-animations.html http://crazy-frankenstein.com/crazy-gifs-animations.html Mon, 11 Oct 2010 12:00:00 GMT Entertainment Crazy gif animations What with Photshop we can do ? See this cool and crazy gif's animations which we made we just a little time. we do little pardoy of some popular moives , series , picture and you could recognize some stuff here. Animals is always our good inspiration and because that they are here the most. http://crazy-frankenstein.com/angelina-jolie-hot-lips.html http://crazy-frankenstein.com/angelina-jolie-hot-lips.html Mon, 11 Oct 2010 12:00:00 GMT Entertainment Angelina jolie : Those soft lips She was born Angelina JolieVoight in Los Angeles, on June 4th, 1975 her name meaning Pretty Little Angel. Her father, Jon, was already an established superstar,having topped the bill in such classics as Midnight Cowboy and Deliverance. When Angelina was 2, he'd scoop the Best Actor Oscar for Coming Home. By then though, he'd already split from her mother, the part-Iroquois actress and model Marcheline Bertrand (now Angelina 'smanager), who'd moved with Angelina and her brother James to the East Coast to the Palisades, New York, to be more precise. She is aslo a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency. She is often cited by popular media as one of the world's most beautiful women and her off screen life is widely reported. She has received three Golden Globe Awards , two Screen Actors Guild Awards and an Academy Award. Story : Angelina Jolie , Those hot lips Without a doubt, Angelina's hot lips are one of her greatest features and most recognizable traits. Her lips are so distinctive that several magazine articles, polls, blogs and the like have been created regarding her sexy lips and the speculation as to whether or not they're real. When you see her's lips which hypnotize you in one secound, we have one good question : how she have that hot lips ? Are Angelina Jolie's perfect hot tasty lips in fact a lucky genetic occurrence, or has she also sought out a doctor's help? Are her lips simply an unreachable goal for most women, or are they the work of a medical artisan with outstanding skills? A simple online search for a definitive answer yields thousands of links to pictures, blogs and other bulletin boards with the posts of many speculators. It seems that no one knows for sure. When asked if he had an opinion on the subject, Dr. Peterson would not go on record with a firm answer. "As a plastic surgeon, I find it unethical to give a definitive opinion on the subject, but anyone can look for the obvious signs." Although he did not give an answer, he did say that one could certainly look at certain evidence that would help you venture a more educated guess. "If you really wanted to know, you could look at a few basic things like her genetics and the looks of her parents and any siblings. You could also look at early pictures of her from when she was a child or teenager. You could also examine close-ups of the areas in question for scars and other obvious signs of work." Thin-lipped women all over the globe have admired Angelina Jolie's sexy and full lips, and have probably been a little envied and resentful as well. How does she get that supple smile? Rumors of cosmetic surgery mounted until baby Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt made her debut to the world last year sporting the same lip service as mom. So what is Angelina's secret? Genetics unfortunately not something you really have much control over. But how to Get Angelina Jolie's hot tasy Lips ? In simple five simple steps : 1.Exfoliate your lips with a warm, wet wash cloth by wiping back and forth for no more than 30 seconds. 2.Apply a good lip plumper (the most recent in lip enhancing technology). There are a few good brands sold in department stores and beauty supply stores. They literally plump up, smooth out and moisten the lips. For a natural alternative, cayenne pepper can be used. Apply a very small amount of the powder across the lips, and top with your favorite lip gloss. The cayenne will plump and color the lips by bringing making the blood flow increase (the same action the lip plumpers create), and the gloss will provide shine and moisture. 3.Line and fill in your lips with a light brown or nude lip liner pencil (match your skin tone as closely as you can). 4.Apply a matte flesh-toned lipstick. 5.Blot the lipstick by gently pressing your lips closed with a tissue in between. Tips * Alternatively, some lip glosses (like Lip Venom) use ginger and cinnamon to increase circulation in your lips to create fuller "bee-stung" looking lips. The cost of this beauty might be a slight burning feeling in your lips. *Reduce shine and make your lipstick last longer by adding an ever-so-thin layer of baby powder with a brush. If the look is a bit harsh for your taste, try adding some shine with clear gloss. *Make-up artists like this trick, too. Add dimension by taking a liner about 2 shades darker than the lipstick and drawing in a "shadow line" under the middle of the bottom lip. This can be very tricky to master, so make sure you practice before you wear it out. Study pictures of celebrities who have similar lip shapes to your own and try to copy the shadow line found on them. It's not about her luscious lips, her bonkable body, her tasty tattoos, her hot hands, her tasty titties, her beautiful butt, her tantalising tongue, welcoming womb or anything else you care to superficially think about her. She has a wonderful brain, granted, it's not that large, but there's enough of it to satisfy a man for life.But that hot lips .... no matters are they true of falsh , we love you just way you are ! http://crazy-frankenstein.com/our-post-amazing-skies-picture.html http://crazy-frankenstein.com/our-post-amazing-skies-picture.html Mon, 11 Oct 2010 12:00:00 GMT Entertainment Amazing skies pictures : My sky pictures (21.01.2007) All pictures are caugh with my digital camera.You must see some wonderful photos of sky in sunset or in winter time or some beautiful clouds ... Read more . . . 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