After Big Brother and Jungle Camp, Germans can tune in to a TV reality show this week that breaks new ground in trashiness … Sperm Race. Twelve men will compete against each other to see which one of them has the ‘fastest’ sperm.
The contestants, who include two German celebrities and a health freak, begin by donating sperm in a clinic, say the programme’s producers, Endemol.
The sperm will then be frozen and sent to the company’s studio in Cologne, where the sperm will ‘race’ towards an egg – lured by a chemical that encourages them across the finishing line. Three doctors, including a gynaecologist, will be on hand to make sure the sperm behave correctly, while cameras will record it all.
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Everyone remembers the days when they’d make all types of buildings, cars, boats and anything else they wanted using Lego. However one guy in Hawaii has decided to use Lego to make his computer case completely out of Lego.
The completed Case (including Lego) would cost around $300-380US to build, which seems reasonably cheap for the comedic value of it, but as you’d assume it is noted to get incredibly hot and has had several overheating problems.
There are more pictures and the Specs included with the rest of this post.
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Readers may recall our article last week, “The Google Operating System, and why it’s virtually here already”, dealing with the possibility of a Google OS. Follow the link to read one journalists speculation that Google has a completely new internet in the works dubbed GoogleNet.
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It looks like the crazy japs are at it again. Whilst at first glance it might appear like a taxi with a jet turbine strapped to the roof for a high-speed James Bond chase, it’s actually a cellphone recharger. The original page is in japanese, but the device basically generated electricity so long as the fan is spinning, and this charge is delivered into the cab in order to charge the occupants phone. The biggest downsize of the device is that at present it only charges so long as the cab is running. For the small amount of power this thing generates, and the cost that must be associated with creating and installing, it’s beyond me why they don’t take the power directly from the car battery. Publicity from stories like this I guess :)
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Microsoft’s new Operating System – Windows Vista (Previously known as Longhorn) has just been previewed on a PC magazine web cast.
The clip which is downloadable here gives a basic introduction to the OS which should be released in early 2006. There isn’t any really interesting or shocking new information. The video shows tools and settings that many basic users would encounter in day to day usage.
Many of these concepts are in use by the other OS’s or Web Browsers but it’s about time MS started catching up with the others. It’s understandable that some people may think that these aren’t the greatest features and it’s probably a long time before its official but admittedly, being able to get a look at the next generation of operating system seems pretty cool to me.
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When this Australian woman agreed to having her picture in the Adelaide Advertiser after placing an ad for her unwanted furniture, I don’t think she meant to advertise her bondage fetish as well.
1 used bed w/ handcuffs anyone?
Apparently she’s now had to get her home number changed, probably as a result of the confusion over what she’s actually selling.
Read the original Adelaide Advertiser article here and the subsequent Media Watch story on the whole fiasco here.
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UPDATE: EPISODE LEAKED ONTO THE NET EARLY. CHECK THE NEWS HERE
< PSEUDO AMERICAN VOICEOVER >
You’ve waited all summer (or winter if you’re in Australia) and now it’s almost here! The O.C. Season Three!
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Rrrrrrre-cap!
Last time we visited Orange County, Caleb had just carked it, Kirsten was sent off to rehab for being an alcho, Jimmy and Julie decide to get back together again, and Ryan found out that his brother Trey tried to rape Marissa.
As a result of this, Ryan went over to Trey’s apartment to go Chino on his ass. Things went bad for Ryan (duh, never try and fight with your older brother. You learn that at age 3). Trey grabbed a telephone and was about to call long distance on Ryan’s face, until Marissa popped a cap in Trey’s back. Trey turned around with an OMGWTF look on his face before collapsing on the floor. *FADE TO BLACK*
It was, admittedly, a damn good ending to a fairly mediocre season.
SEASON 3 TRAILERS
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More can be found here and here courtesy of OC Trailers.
Lets see if this show can get any more incestuous, as well as keeping up the illusion that these twenty-something actors are supposed to be in high school.
The third season of The O.C. premieres in the US on 8 September, 2005. No word yet on an Australian air date.
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – Hundreds of looters battled police all weekend at the site of a beer train wreck in violence that left one woman dead, South African police said on Monday as they kept a heavy guard on the remaining alcohol.
The train carrying 180,000 crates of beer from South African Breweries derailed on Friday night near Waterval Boven, 124 miles east of Johannesburg, Superintendent Izak van Zyl said.
By Saturday morning, police were battling up to 200 people from the nearby township trying to make off with crates of beer.
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Miracles occur everyday. We’re not always aware of them, though they still happen…
Have a look at these images of a Honda doing a rail slide and somehow, landing it… sort of.
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The biggest thing stopping users switching to Linux is the unfamiliarity of the enviroment. It’s a steep learning curve to change from Windows to Linux. Changing to a Google operating system isn’t going to have that though, because we’re using all its components already.
It’s the google operating system, and even though it runs on Windows, it’s almost here. All it needs now is for google to go a step further and release it as a culminated project that doesn’t need windows to run on.
Google have just released google sidebar. It lets you search your entire computer, agregated news, tells you what’s popular on the net, takes notes, tells you the weather, and alerts you of new email. Let’s mark that down as the equivalent of a start bar in windows. Google also released their Instant Messaging Program today, with chat and voice support.
Desktop/Startbar – Check
MSN Messenger – Check
Google is also funding and heavily supporting the mozilla foundation, makers of the Firefox Browser, Thunderbird Email Client and Sunbird Calender program. Gmail adds to this with promises of unlimited storage and easy searching of mail.
Desktop/Startbar – Check
MSN Messenger – Check
Outlook – Check
Internet Explorer – Check
Picasa, now in it’s second version is google’s image editor and allows easy uploading of photos online, it’s just like Windows Paint, but not horribly featureless, hard to use and lame.
Desktop/Startbar – Check
MSN Messenger – Check
Outlook – Check
Internet Explorer – Check
Paint – Check
All of the above are free. Combine them together and your on your way to an Operating System. A free one, with features to not rival, but outdo microsoft, linux and apple in almost every aspect. Even put in a brand new operating system, people will be familar with how it runs already, the reason why most people aren’t switching to Linux.
Microsoft spends hugs amounts of money protecting itsprograms from piracy… but release your program for free and you don’t have that problem. That’s what I see google doing, releasing its operating system for free with a few targetted ads in it. Imaging loading up photoshop to have a window pop up asking if you’d like to download free templates. Imagine typing to someone on your instant messenger that you were going to Sydney on the weekend, to have your operating system ask you if you need somewhere to stay. Imagine talking to someone about cars you were thinking of buying, to have your operating system mention to you that if you bought a different type, you’d be able to get to work faster through an alternate route it would show you on satellite imagery.
It’s the google operating system, and you’re starting to use it already!
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