These are the sick ****s that have been all over Australian news for the past week for filming a DVD involving a huge number of disgusting and illegal acts.
Well we’d love to bring you an inside view. We present the MySpace pages of the boys themselves:
http://www.myspace.com/stefanporto
http://www.myspace.com/retro_paku
http://www.myspace.com/magnawoo
http://www.myspace.com/dr_porto
http://www.myspace.com/boofaloveslivvy
http://www.myspace.com/35129496 - Deleted but comments remain
The comments reveal all of them aren’t going to school any more. If you still have no idea what this is all about, check out one of the Today Tonight segments here
P.S. I hope they all rot in jail.
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There was a time, not too long ago, when I was a staunch supporter of the American way. Yes, I admit it; I was one of the flag-waving idiots who blindly pledged their support after seeing what I believed to be a foreign entity smash a couple of buildings and kill thousands of my fellow countrymen. Doom on me. However, I wasn’t alone.
I, like millions of others, was suffering from a disease called “Patriotism”. We were the unknowing victims of propaganda. Extreme thoughts began to come to the forefront of everyday conversation. “Let’s annex Mexico and Canada, nuke the Middle East, and build a wall around our borders!’ Otherwise civil and intelligent people were making crazy proposals. The brainwashing of the American people was very nearly a complete success.
It was wrong. It was all wrong.
It is funny how hindsight is always 20/20. In the days after 9-11 our country became a plethora of raving lunatics. Not only were we pledging support to our monkey of a commander, but we were also giving our money without question to anyone on the street corner with a fireman’s boot and a sign. We proudly sent our young soldiers halfway across the world to die in the desert in the name of all that was red, white, and blue.
Somehow we ended up in Iraq. “A few weeks,” they said, “and we will leave the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates triumphant!” They promised us we would not have another Vietnam on our hands. For a short period of time, a lot of us forgot that politicians lie. We were still drunk from the fear and anger of 9-11. “Kill them all!” we screamed, while stumbling around looking for a couch to call home. The hangover would rear its ugly head all too soon.
The Patriot act. “In order to protect freedom we must take it away!” With that, George W. Bush became our dictator, whether we liked it or not. Sure, it was supposed to be repealed as soon as we were out of danger, but the people who created it knew something we didn’t; we would never be out of danger. There will always be someone who hates us. If not, they could always make someone up.
Abu Ghraib. They say a picture is worth a thousand words; well, these pictures were worth millions of them. We were no longer liberators in the eyes of the world; instead we had become worse than the ravenous dogs we replaced. No self-respecting American could see those pictures and still hold his head high. The patriotism party had officially ended. “Welcome to the Republic”, the signposts read.
It didn’t stop there. For a while, it seemed as if every other week we were learning some new and interesting fact. Bush had a domestic spying program, Cheney was trigger happy, and Michael Moore ate too many big Macs. If one did not know better, one might have thought civil war was imminent. However, change was not to come. Bush stole his second election in four years as Americans carelessly watched football and drank beer.
Now we find ourselves at the end of 2006. A nuclear war with North Korea looms in the not so distant future. Our way of life is about to end. Our train has just about reached its station. Those of us who are spared will be left to defend what once was a really good idea that turned foul in the blink of an eye.
This is the land in which we killed Kennedy but let Bush live. For that alone we deserve to burn.
Note: I have no intention to do any harm to Bush. However, I would like to see him get kicked in the ass.
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I’m going to do a little personal pimpage today. I’m involved with a group that’s just launched a brand new Australian weather website. It’s far superior to anything else in Australia and all the weather is provided free of charge.
So how am I involved? I’m producing one of the emags with OG. Its high quality, both in design and content… and I’m asking for sandstorming readers support. For only AU$22 you get the mag and personalised weather for a year. If you want a sample of the sort of quality of what we’re releasing, check out the free windsurfing mag on of the other guys has done on the site.
So check out Ask Huey
And subscribe to the Live Sail Die sailing magazine
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Yup, we’re finally confident that it’s ready to show the world.
The Trailer Mash is a website totally devoted to collecting recut trailers and trailer mash-ups. Browse by the genre they were recut into, or just check out the Top Rated Trailers for the best of the best!
Our stats show many of you have already visited it though through the Network bar up the top. Go check it out… blog about it (please)… post it on forums… We wanna make it big!
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As a follow-up to Johnsee’s article “Sportsgirl Stealing Designs or about to sell Threadless?“, I decided to go and get photos of one of the stores, tell my side of the story, and give my thoughts on what happened.
The Situation
My girlfriend and I were shopping at a particular shopping centre in Brisbane last week. She and I have become avid Threadless browsers and buyers over the past year, so we’ve become pretty familiar with all the designs that have been printed. As we went past a Sportsgirl store (a popular young women’s clothing franchise here in Australia) she noticed in the display window a “kissing birds” sticker that looked strangely familar:
The last picture is from a Threadless shirt called For The Birds, and, like all Threadless prints, was designed by a member of the Threadless.com community. It was created by Travis Matthew Stearns and submitted on 25 July 2005, so there’s definitely no confusion as to which one came first. Read the rest of this entry »
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- Learn 3 good knots. Like a bowline, reef knot and clovehitch
- Learn a fancy napkin fold
- Learn two good card tricks
- Learn three good jokes off by heart
- Learn ‘hello’ and ‘thank you’ in five languages
- Learch to twirl a pen in your fingers
- Learn the phonetic alphabet
- Learn to juggle
- Learn three good pieces of oragami
- Learn one tongue twister really fast
- Learn five star constellations
- Learn three good shadow puppets
- Learn to mix 5 different cocktails off by heart
- Learn to wolf whistle
- Learn to platt
- Learn how to skim a stone
- Learn 5 inspirational quotes
- Learn the different types of clouds
- Learn to skip
- Learn to draw a good cartoon face
- Learn to memorise Pi to 5 or 10 digits
- Learn how to splice rope
- Learn how to make a paper cup
- Learn how to do a hand stand
- Learn how to stand on your head
- Learn how to dance
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I use my USB drive for everything. It runs Portable Firefox, Portable Thunderbird and also holds most of my files. While it’s great having these programs run no matter where I am, frequently backing up the data is a pain. I wanted an automatic solution. Unable to find a good solution on the net, I created one for myself.
Step 1: Create the folder you want to backup to (Mines c:\removablebackup)
Step 2: Create the backup batch file for your USB key. You can do this by inserting the following in a textfile and saving it as backup.bat. An example is provided below:
@echo off
echo -------------------
echo Removable Device Automatic Backup
echo -------------------
echo No Rights Reserved, do whatever you want with this.
xcopy "*" "c:\removablebackup\" /Y /E /R
echo Backup Complete!
Pause.
Make sure you change the section in bold to reflect your individual backup location.
Step 3: Place the following in a text document, and save it directly to your removable drive as autorun.inf:
[autorun]
action=Backup
open=backup.bat
label=Backup
includeRuntimeComponents=True
Step 4: Your done! Now whenever you insert your USB key you should see this nifty backup option:
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| They aren’t hugging, she’s trying to strangle him for choosing BigPond. |
Even if you use just half the possible monthly bandwidth on your Telstra Broadband plan, you could end up owing Telstra almost half a million dollars! Don’t believe me? Then read on…
Telstra BigPond announced the other week that they were soon to be releasing new cable internet plans. Hardly surprising considering the only other cable internet provider in Australia offered far superior plans on every level.
The plans released however, did not include any changes on the minuscule download limits, expensive excess transfers fees or incredibly slow cap speeds. They did however, offer to upgrade the speed of users connections for a $10 fee. This shocked many users, as Telstra had previously advertised the cable download speed as unlimited.
For $79.95 at the two ISPs you would recieve the following:
Telstra: 10 Gigabytes of data before having your speed slowed.
Optus: 20 Gigabytes of data On-Peak + 40 Gigabytes of data Off-Peak before having your speed slowed.
Putting that one plan aside, where most user’s get caught using BigPond is agreeing to a cheaper contract with a very small data transfer, but expensive fees for exceeding that usage. Unlike Optus, on all but one of their plans, bigpond charges for excess usage. Optus merely slows the users speed.
Now I get to my point. On BigPond’s new plans, they advertise the maximum speed as 17mbps. Now whilst obtaining and keeping that speed is next to impossible, for the purpose of my argument let’s assume you reach what BigPond advertise the plan as having.
If you suscribe to BigPond Cable Extreme 200MB plan, for $39.95 a month, and maxed out your hypothetical download bandwidth for a month (we aren’t even uploading a thing!) at the end of the month you would owe BigPond, $853,000!
There are 2678400 seconds in a month. (60 * 60 * 24 * 31)
A connection running at 17mbps (17/8 = 2.125mBps) would therefore transfer 5691600 mB (2.125 * 2678400)
At a charge of 15 cents per megabyte, this would equate to $853,740 (5691600 * 0.15)
Time to change ISPs I think!
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Ahh, Valentine’s Day, aka Singles’ Awareness Day. Obligatory love-related article follows…
I was reading a book a few years ago entitled How to Make Anyone Fall in Love with You by Leil Lowndes (1996), half out of curiousity, half out of quiet desperation. Anyways… one of the most interesting excerpts I found was this:
A Quiz: Who Loves More, Men or Women?
Men suffer a bad rap for being less romantic than women. Naturally, if you do a survey of men or women at the mall asking “Who’s more romantic?” the majority will say women. At first glance, the evidence is pretty overwhelming that women are the romantics. Indeed, they are when it comes to saying “I love you,” remembering Valentine’s Day, and knowing “it’s the little things that count” (like an engagement ring). But when it comes to the truly deep and important definition of romance, you men are the big winners.
At some point in your life, gentlemen, the woman of your dreams will probably say accusingly (in response to one of your everyday “insensitive” remarks) that “you men are all alike! You’re so unromantic!” My gift to you is the following. Someday it will come in handy, in self-defense. I’ve packaged it neatly in the form of a quiz that you can give her when she calls you unromantic.
Who really is capable of loving more, men or women? Read the rest of this entry »
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As a result of all the changes to Sandstorming, it has been harder to keep an accurate track of the site’s traffic data from last year, and I was unsure how I was going to approach this article because of this.
One thing that we have been able to track though is the number of comments. So, whilst these may not be the best or most viewed articles of last year, they’re certainly the ones that created the most response.
And why “Top 11″ you ask? Well I started writing the Top 10 ages ago, and one of the later articles from 2005 got a bit more popular and made it into the list. I didn’t want to delete my awesome journalistic efforts, so I just added one more.
Anyways, here it is. The Top 11 Sandstorming Articles of 2005. Enjoy.
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