{"id":636,"date":"2006-07-09T23:53:08","date_gmt":"2006-07-10T07:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/?p=636"},"modified":"2006-07-09T23:53:08","modified_gmt":"2006-07-10T07:53:08","slug":"random-crap-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/09\/random-crap-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Crap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.guardian.co.uk\/games\/archives\/2006\/07\/05\/sony_ad_casues_white_riot.html\">Sony ad casues white riot<\/a> (from \/.) &#8211; <em>A new billboard advert for Sony&#8217;s white PSP has caused consternation across the US videogaming community. The ad shows a white model dressed entirely in white threateningly grasping the face of a black model. Next to them are the words, &#8220;PlayStation Portable. White is coming&#8221;. The ad can also be seen on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yourpsp.com\/psp\/psp.html#locale=nl_nl&#038;section=homepage&#038;setlocale=true\">Dutch official PSP site<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Did you know they were making a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.transformersmovie.com\/\">Transformers Movie<\/a>? Though the premise seems rather different from the original storyline.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20060705\/od_nm\/germany_balls_dc\">Police arrest cement soccer ball pranksters<\/a> &#8211; <em>Police in Berlin said on Wednesday they had arrested two men on suspicion of <strong>placing cement-filled soccer balls around the city and inviting people to kick them<\/strong>. At least two people injured themselves by kicking the balls, which were chained to lampposts and trees alongside the spray-painted message: &#8220;<strong>Can you kick it?<\/strong>&#8220;<\/em> Though as evil as it is, it&#8217;s such an awesome prank.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20060703\/od_nm\/australia_brother_dc\">Australian PM calls for &#8220;Big Brother&#8221; eviction<\/a> &#8211; <em>Australian Prime Minister John Howard called Monday for reality television program &#8220;Big Brother&#8221; to be taken off the air after an incident between contestants prompted an investigation into sexual assault.<\/em> This article wasn&#8217;t too interesting, but I wanted you to see the <a href=\"http:\/\/gjohnson.net\/stuff\/bb6.au.day069.live.feed.incident-korntunes-cut.avi\">actual video<\/a> (from \/.). What sexual assualt? It looked like there was a complete consensus to me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20060703\/od_nm\/grandpa_dc\">Man prefers jail to being at home with grandpa<\/a> &#8211; <em>An Italian man escaped from house arrest and <strong>begged police to put him in jail because he could not bear living with his grandfather<\/strong>, his lawyer said Monday. The 30-year old, who could only be identified by his initials A.M., had been placed under house arrest for six months in the Sardinian town of Sassari after a scuffle with a policeman.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20060705\/od_nm\/life_hotdogs1_dc\">Japanese man eats record 53 3\/4 hotdogs<\/a> &#8211; <em>A Japanese man <strong>devoured 53 3\/4 hotdogs in 12 minutes<\/strong> Tuesday to break his own world record but Takeru Kobayashi said he really prefers tofu.<\/em> What&#8217;s with Japanese men and being able to eat fast?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20060705\/od_nm\/india_skull1_dc\">Piece of man&#8217;s skull falls off, draws crowds<\/a> &#8211; <em>Hundreds of people are thronging a hospital in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata to see a patient holding <strong>a piece of his own skull that fell off<\/strong>. Doctors say a large, dead section of 25-year-old electrician Sambhu Roy&#8217;s skull came away Sunday after severe burns starved it of blood.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20060705\/od_nm\/sign_dc\">Speeding fine? Just switch the road sign<\/a> &#8211; <em>Hopwood, 44, had been snapped by a speed camera breaking the 30 miles per hour limit. <strong>So he went to a 40 mph area, removed a red &#8220;40&#8221; warning sign, drove back to the 30 mph area, attached it to a lamp post<\/strong> and took a photo as &#8220;proof&#8221; that his offence of driving at 48 mph had not been so bad.<\/em> Haha!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.break.com\/index\/alien_scare_scream.html\">Alien Scare Screaming Girl<\/a> &#8211; <em>In order to frighten his sister this guy puts a very creepy child&#8217;s mannequin next to her bed in the dark and tapes her reaction. He was expecting her to be scared, but not that scared. She goes completely hysterical!<\/em> I don&#8217;t know if I should laugh or feel sorry for the girl. Then again, as a brother who has a sister, I loved playing these type of pranks on her.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/news.ars\/post\/20060630-7176.html\">Is that other driver on the phone, or merely drunk?<\/a> &#8211; <em>Three accidents occurred during the testing, all of which involved cell phone users rear-ending the pace car. <strong>Phone users were also slow to brake, displaying reaction times 9 percent lower than unimpaired drivers<\/strong>, and slow to accelerate, with a 19 percent decrease in returning to speed after braking. This is viewed by the researchers as especially significant, since it has implications regarding traffic flow in high-density areas. In contrast, alcohol-impaired drivers tended to drive more slowly, yet more aggressively than other drivers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghibli.jp\/ged\/\">\u30b2\u30c9\u6226\u8a18<\/a> (from MS newsgroup) &#8211; A new film from Studio Ghibli called <em>Tales from Earthsea<\/em> (Gedo Senki). It&#8217;s based of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Earthsea\">Earthsea<\/a> novel and I&#8217;ve heard many good things about it. Can&#8217;t wait to see this. You can watch the trailer here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=icAm9zf7WCo\">Trailer 1<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8IMuz1eyPI4\">Trailer 2<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony ad casues white riot (from \/.) &#8211; A new billboard advert for Sony&#8217;s white PSP has caused consternation across the US videogaming community. The ad shows a white model dressed entirely in white threateningly grasping the face of a black model. Next to them are the words, &#8220;PlayStation Portable. White is coming&#8221;. 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