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Pope’s Failed Assassin Blames The Vatican, Not Bulgaria

Posted on November 10th, 2010 at 22:55 by John Sinteur in category: News

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Mehmet Ali Agca, who attempted to assassinate Pope John Paul II in 1981, putting the blame afterwards on the Bulgarian secret service, has now alleged that the Vatican government has masterminded the move.

"The Vatican government decided on the Pope’s assassination," Agca told Turkey’s state-run television in his first interview in his native country since his release.

"They planned and organised it. The order to shoot the Pope was given by Vatican secretary, Cardinal Agostino Casaroli."

Agca’s accusation is just one of many he has made since he met a forgiving Pope John Paul II in 1983. Once he claimed a connection to a Palestinian group, but later blamed the Bulgarian secret service.

Mehmet Ali Agca was released from jail in Turkey at the beginning of the year and promptly proclaimed that he is "the Christ eternal".

Bat-shit insane.


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  1. There is truly only one word to describe this person… Wacko!

Terror chief tries to board plane with banned liquids

Posted on November 10th, 2010 at 18:06 by John Sinteur in category: Security

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Britain’s anti-terror chief launched an astonishing attack on airport security staff after they stopped her taking a banned amount of liquid onto a plane.

Home Office minister Baroness Neville-Jones, in charge of national security, was en route to a Washington summit when she was found to have an over-sized aerosol can in her bag.

And, of course, rules are for plebs, not for a Baroness.


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Install Android 2.2.1 Froyo On iPhone Using Bootlace in Cydia

Posted on November 10th, 2010 at 15:28 by John Sinteur in category: Apple, Google

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Probably the most easiest way to install Android on an iPhone 2G/3G is via iPhoDroid, which we did cover previously. But the problem with it is; you should have a computer to run the whole process of installing Android on your iPhone 2G/3G. But thanks to Bootlace 2.1, you can now install Android 2.2.1 Froyo on your jailbroken iPhone without needing to connect it to any PC or Mac!

Okay…. counting down for the first person to update a demo unit in an Apple or AT&T store in 3, 2, 1….


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  1. Which store did you pick, John? ;)

  2. Not a lot of 2G/3G demo units left in Apple Stores, I’d guess.

Waterboarding: call to indict Bush following his memoirs confession

Posted on November 10th, 2010 at 15:26 by John Sinteur in category: News

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In the meantime, Amnesty International has called for the prosecution of the former president who confessed in his book having given the order to waterboard detainees in order to extract confessions.


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  1. Ofcourse not. Only young people that hack the O’reilly website should go to jail for 30 months.

Girls interrupted: same-sex couple banned from ball

Posted on November 10th, 2010 at 14:59 by John Sinteur in category: Foyer of Ennui (just short of the Hall of Shame)

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”I don’t think it’s appropriate they feel discriminated against, and I’m very upset they feel that,” [principal Heather Schnagl] said.

You don’t think it’s appropriate that your students have the ability to form independent thoughts? You don’t think it’s appropriate that your students feel that way about a policy which bars them from attending an event with their peers because their partners don’t have a penis?

How dare they embarrass you for being a fucking bigot.


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  1. “fucking bigot” gets a new and distinct meaning. About time too, I say!

Man loses $20 million after taking laptop for repair

Posted on November 10th, 2010 at 11:46 by John Sinteur in category: ¿ʞɔnɟ ǝɥʇ ʇɐɥʍ

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A New York couple have been charged with defrauding a wealthy musician to the tune of $20 million (£12.3 million) after he innocently visited their computer servicing company to have a virus removed from his laptop.


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Eat All The Twinkies You Want

Posted on November 10th, 2010 at 9:54 by John Sinteur in category: ¿ʞɔnɟ ǝɥʇ ʇɐɥʍ

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That’s the diet advice Rush Limbaugh has given his audience:

What have I told you about diet and exercise?  Exercise is irrelevant…. “How do you know all this?”  One of the reasons I know what I know is that I know liberals, and I know liberals lie, and if Michelle Obama’s gonna be out there ripping into “food desserts” and saying, “This is why people are fat,” I know it’s not true.  “Rush, do you really believe that? It’s that simple to you, liberals lie?”  Yes, it is, folks.  Once you learn that, once you come to grips with that, once you accept that, the rest is easy.  Very, very simple.  Now, my doctor has never told me to restrict any intake of salt, but if he did, I wouldn’t.  I’d just spend more time in the steam or the sauna sweating it out. 


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  1. …and one wonders why and how civil debate has broken down.

  2. Heartstroke comin’ in
    3…. 2…. 1….

  3. I think Limbaugh is just trying to see how much nonsense he can spout and retain a huge audience.

  4. @Maarten, you do have a point. After all, if he’s competing for ratings with the likes of Glenn Beck…..

  5. jeez, there’s just so much wrong with what he’s saying…
    he says that exercise doesn’t affect weight loss… so i suppose just doing nothing all day helps to burn calaries more than doing someting that actively burns calaries… i makes me want to weep
    and then he goes and says that “you’d think that just eating twinkie’s would be bad for your nutrition, but no, your cholesterol goes down”… so, basically he thinks that if ure choylesterol (sorry, i rally cant spell :) ) goes down u can just screw minerals, water and vitamens
    heh, i wonder how long that guy who only ate twinkie’s would have survived had he continued…

  6. For the first time in my life, I find myself not only thanking Limbaugh but actually wishing he’d gone one further. Given that his core audience is white, ignorant tea-partiers, he’s actually doing ‘Merica a favour by shuffling them off their mortal coil faster than they’d go otherwise.

    In my head, I have Limbaugh adding, “And that b*tch Michelle Obama also says that there’s a law… OF GRAVITY. Show this Librul conspiracy as wrong by going to the nearest cliff and jumping, jumping into that blessed free, ‘Merican, capitalist sky and fly, fly, fly!

    I can dream…

“The result was horrible, so I put it on YouTube.”

Posted on November 10th, 2010 at 8:44 by John Sinteur in category: awesome

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YouTube user Pallomember loves scary European death metal. But sometimes he wonders, wouldn’t scary European death metal be improved with a dash of Lady Gaga?

Yes. Yes it would.


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Android Marketplace

Posted on November 10th, 2010 at 7:34 by John Sinteur in category: Apple, Google

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The difference between the two markets feels like the difference between buying from an upscale mall, or buying from a back alley black market.


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  1. “Apple does a decent job of keeping unethical developers from preying on users who just don’t know any better.”

    That’s because Apple’s market share is mostly made of users who just don’t know any better.

  2. since when does ignorance about technology limit itself to one brand?

  3. The big joke being there isn’t much difference quality wise in the real gucci shades you buy in the upscale mall, and the cheap ripoff in the back alley black market. Both cost about the same to produce too. The real difference is what you pay for it, and where that money goes. A hint: not to the poor laborers that actually make these things. I’d be very happy with the back alley one, knowing I’m not throwing away money at buying myself the ‘image’ of being rich. I’m sure that’s not what the author meant though… :)
    Isn’t Apple’s mall governed by an Apple police force at the loading dock, deciding what gets in and thus is for sale in the mall and what is not? Feels more like the difference between a communist mall selling only what the Polit-buro thinks is good for you, and the capitalist free-market selling stuff no-one really needs, simply because they can. I favor neither.

  4. The Mac vs PC wars are back. Yawn.

  5. @john
    Since when a particular brand developed a business model based on hiding the “inner working” of a software to prevent users from tampering with their own machines. That’s a move that pretty sure alienates your techincally savvy customer base, leaving only the fashion addicted and the clueless behind.

  6. That’s a reason for technically savvy people to not choose the iPhone, yes, but it’s not a reason for the ignorant to specifically pick the iPhone over others. Thus, ignorance of technology still doesn’t limit itself to one brand.

  7. @Mr.N: Right, the iPhone isn’t popular at all with tech-savvy people.

  8. My wife, who is as technically astute as they come (she is a PhD particle physicist who is currently involved with the C++ standards working group), would cut off her arm (sic) before she gave up her iPhone. I who am a simple engineer would do likewise before I gave up my Nexus One. Of course, her main laptop is a Mac, her netbook is Ubuntu, and she manages a server farm of Scientific Linux systems at the lab. My systems are all Linux-based… At least we agree that MS products suck! :-)

  9. John: simply, people who don’t mind too much about what they are buying and the return for money go for the easiest pick: the cool cellphone they saw in the ads. That’s a iphone, right?
    Who cares if with half the price they could have had a smartphone that could actually make a decent phone call, handle a bunch of software without express approval from the handset manufacturer or work as a mobile modem without needing to infringe the law.

  10. You’re telling me the brilliant advertising is the root cause of the iPhone success?

  11. Yes, John, a major factor.
    The world is full of better handsets, better MP3 player, better laptops and better PCs, but Apple retains a strong share in all of those market segments. Why? Because is a cool brand, simply that.
    “better components”? A disproven myth.
    “more reliability”? No way, and poor repair service too (Nokia and Samsung battle for the title of most reliable mobile phones in terms of unit sold/unit serviced)
    “better overall performances”? Bullshit, lots of mp3 players out there give a fair beating at any ipod, and you can easily buy a laptop that puts the latest macbooks to shame for half the price
    “better interface/user experience”? Yes, of course. As long as you want to do something explicitly allowed by Apple, and as long as you pay the price set by Apple.

    Both of us (and many marketing studies, too) know that the real plus of Apple is the brand identity. They know, too: remember the idiotic “I am a mac/I am a pc” ads, don’t you?

I wonder. Did Apple pay them to do this?

Posted on November 10th, 2010 at 7:33 by John Sinteur in category: Apple, If you're in marketing, kill yourself


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