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Friday, April 18, 2003
Police armed with tasers
UK police armed with taser guns unfit for export.
Police officers are being armed with stun guns from this weekend even though the government has banned their export because of fears they could be used for torture.
Officers hope the Taser gun, which incapacitates its target by delivering a 50,000 volt shock, will reduce the number of suspects who are shot dead.
daisycutter 4/18/2003 4:14:42 PM - [Link]
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HIV on the rise in Russia
1.5 million HIV cases in Russia.
Russia has officially registered 235,000 HIV cases. However, Vadim Pokrovsky, head of the Health Ministry's AIDS Prevention and Treatment Center, told a news conference that the actual infection rate was much higher: an estimated 700,000 to 1.5 million.
daisycutter 4/18/2003 4:08:29 PM - [Link]
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Wednesday, April 16, 2003
Trees for travel
Trees for travel
Now, every time you travel by plane, you can buy a special certificate from Trees for Travel which guarantees that trees will be planted at projects in various countries, like Ecuador and Uganda, to compensate for the negative effects of your journey. Trees for Travel estimate that just one tree will absorb 20 kilos (about 44 pounds) of carbon dioxide every year for up to forty years.
daisycutter 4/16/2003 1:32:05 PM - [Link]
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5th Annual Masturbate-A-Thon
Masturbate for a good cause.
The fifth annual Masturbate-A-Thon is a day of solo sex to raise funds for women's health organizations. The event will be held on the honour system and you decide how long you want to masturbate in the privacy of your own home. The top fundraisers in each category will win some wonderful prizes.
daisycutter 4/16/2003 9:35:22 AM - [Link]
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US is bringing democracy
US is bringing democracy the Iraqi way:
stand still, listen and obey if you fail to do so you will be shot.
daisycutter 4/16/2003 9:24:57 AM - [Link]
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Tuesday, April 15, 2003
Diana Rigg gallery
Diana Rigg, Emma Peel in the Avengers, gallery. Safe for work.
daisycutter 4/15/2003 4:10:11 PM - [Link]
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Dart filled bombs in Israel
Flechettes, dart filled bombs, were not banned by the Israeli High Court.
Physicians for Israeli lobby group Human Rights said the use of shells packed with darts - known as flechettes - was in contravention of the Geneva Convention covering the rules of warfare and should be banned.
Flechette shells caused unnecessary human suffering and were indiscriminate weapons, they argued.
daisycutter 4/15/2003 3:38:05 PM - [Link]
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No sex for Iraqi looters?
No sex for Iraqi looters.
"A good Muslim woman would not let this man touch her, as a signal to everybody that this is not a way to behave," said Sheik Ali Jabouri, who also preached Monday morning that people must give up their loot.
daisycutter 4/15/2003 3:09:10 PM - [Link]
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Long legs for bigger babies
Women with long legs produce bigger babies.
Super-models have discovered a new benefit from being tall and slender. For every 2.5cm above the average mother's leg length of 76cm, the baby is almost .02kg heavier than the average 3.2kg. The research from the UK's Bristol University seems to confirm a trend among supermodels who have had bouncier-than-average offspring.
daisycutter 4/15/2003 2:58:56 PM - [Link]
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War calls for... eating out
War did not keep Americans glued to the tube with a pizza on their lap, instaed they went to eat out.
When the going gets tough, Americans eat out. You might think Americans would have lost their collective appetite for eating out ? with the war in Iraq, the bum economy, lousy weather, terrorism fears and even SARS scares. But many restaurants ? particularly casual dining ? saw surprising same-store sales boosts in March.
daisycutter 4/15/2003 2:43:01 PM - [Link]
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One in three under 24 has STD
One in three under 24 has STD.
By the time they're 24, one in three sexually active people will have an sexually transmitted disease, STD. The highest rates of gonorrhea and chlamydia are in women ages 15 to 19. More than half of the new cases of HIV infections are in people younger than 25.
daisycutter 4/15/2003 1:49:22 PM - [Link]
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Same sex attraction in KIWI women
Same sex attraction in KIWI women.
"At age 26, 11 per cent of men and 25 per cent of women reported being attracted to someone of their own sex at some time," researcher Nigel Dickson said.
Sexual attraction between women in New Zealand was high compared to other similar countries, he said. Occasional same-sex attraction was more common among the most educated.
Studies in Britain and the US using similar questions have found much lower rates of same-sex attraction among women of a comparable age."
daisycutter 4/15/2003 1:29:58 PM - [Link]
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Watching football cuts heartrisk
Watching football cuts heartrisk if your team wins.
The researchers believe the phenomenon may be due to a combination of low activity levels and the euphoria of a national win acting to reduce stress levels.
daisycutter 4/15/2003 11:59:31 AM - [Link]
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Alcohol increases impact vulnerability
Alcohol increases impact vulnerability
Studies have suggested it before, but researchers could not be sure that the alcohol-drinking accident victims had not been involved in far more violent crashes.
The latest research covered 1,362 car crashes, and took estimated crash forces into account.
It found that, on a scale of injury severity, alcohol-drinking crash victims were likely to be 30% worse off than their alcohol-free equivalents.
daisycutter 4/15/2003 11:21:48 AM - [Link]
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Hangover
After a five day party marathon I'm now sobering up and getting back on track, and that should include regular updating.
daisycutter 4/15/2003 11:06:29 AM - [Link]
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More Iraqi minister of information
In the mail I received this link to another Dutch/English 'fansite' for the Iraqi minister of information.
daisycutter 4/15/2003 11:02:11 AM - [Link]
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