Never Wear Mom Jeans!

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Another US Nuclear Failure

According to a note published by Military, crewmen of the USS Hampton Nuclear Submarine, failed to perform the daily tests that monitor the sub's nuclear reactor safety. Furthermore, they tried to cover their failure by falsifying records. Though there were never any possible dangers both to the crew or the public, it is a situation to take very seriously, specially after the B-52 nuclear bombs mini scandal (see below). And if you like near Apocalypse situations, please watch this video, on the US nuclear deterrent capabilities, fast response, and horrendous, but enticing, consequences.
Image: US Navy.

Miss England, to fatten up some pounds

"But I'm going to eat, you know, healthy fats such as nuts and avocado, oily fish, things like that", said Georgia Horsley, Miss Englad 2007 for the Miss World Pageant, since the organizers asked her to fatten up a few pounds before the contest takes place in China, on Dec. 1. She is currently size 4, certainly far away from the ideal size 0 so eagerly sought after bay many models.
Note and photo: Yahoo! News.

Puerto Rican Horror Against Pets

According to Yahoo! News, San Juan, Puerto Rico, imposed a no pets policy to all people living in a place known as Barceloneta. To compulse it, the Mayor offices hired a certain, Animal Control company, whose duty was to take our furry friends to a shelter. Instead of following those directives, Animal Control employees, after taking the pets with sedatives, in front of children, throw them away from a bridge to their deaths. Some pets, severely hurt, even tried to get back, but died. I am really astounded, how can people be so hard against animals? The words of a Buddhist monk come to mind, "if a sole creature remains suffering, the universe will never evolve". Righteous words, but, as a friend of mine uses to say, "now, go and tell those people to see if they can understand". The city paid a $60 fee per pet cleared from Barceloneta. The CEO of the company just said that those animals were not theirs. I was not to write this, but these people deserves to burn in hell.
No photo, I am mourning.

Kim Jong Il, an Internet expert

Seoul, South Korea: North Korean leader Kim Jong Il called himself an Internet expert during summit talks with South Korea's president this week.

The reclusive leader made the remark after South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun asked that South Korean companies operating at an industrial park in the North Korean city of Kaesong be allowed to use the Internet, Yonhap news agency reported, without citing any source.

"I'm an Internet expert too. It's all right to wire the industrial zone only, but there are many problems if other regions of the North are wired," Kim told Roh, according to Yonhap. "If that problem is addressed, there is no reason not to open" the Internet, Kim said.

North Korea is one of the world's most closed nations, with the totalitarian regime tightly controlling outside information and tolerating no dissent. Radios and TV sets in North Korea can only receive state broadcasts and ordinary people are banned from using mobile phones, let alone the Internet. However, the country's ruling elite appear to have regular access to outside information.

Kim reportedly asked former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright for her e-mail address when she visited Pyongyang in 2000. A North Korean general cracked a joke about President Bush during high-level military talks with the South earlier this year, saying he read it on the Internet. The North's leader is also a big fan of South Korean movies and TV dramas, and Roh gave him a bookcase of South Korean DVDs as a gift this week. Text: AP. Photo: APImages.

A not so clean McJob

A jury awarded $6.1 million Friday to a woman who was forced to strip for a search in a McDonald's back office after someone called the restaurant posing as a police officer reporting a theft.

Louise Ogborn, who was 18 during the 3 1/2-hour ordeal, was forced to undress and perform sexual acts with the boyfriend of a former assistant manager at the restaurant while the man was on the phone with the bogus caller, according to a surveillance video shown to jurors during the four-week trial.

Ogborn, now 21, sued McDonald's Corp., claiming the fast-food giant failed to warn her and other employees about the caller who already struck other McDonald's stores and other fast-food restaurants across the country. She sought $200 million in damages, but McDonald's argued the company was not responsible and was being sued because of its deep pockets. The jury award $5 million in punitive damages and about $1.1 million in compensatory damages. McDonald's was evaluating whether to appeal the decision, a spokesman said.

The caller to the Mount Washington restaurant impersonated a police officer when he gave a description of a young, female employee accused of stealing from a customer, the lawsuit said. According to testimony, Ogborn fit the description, and the caller instructed an employee to conduct the search.

Donna Summers, a former McDonald's assistant manager who also sued the fast-food chain, led the strip search at the direction of the caller. Summers and Kim Dockery, another assistant manager, were named as defendants in Ogborn's suit, but the jury ruled they did not have to pay any damages.

Summers was placed on probation for a misdemeanor conviction in the case. Her former fiance, Walter Nix Jr., is serving five years in prison for sexually abusing Ogborn during the ordeal.
Text: AP. Photo: APImages.

The Spice Girls Return

Whilst Britney loses her children custody, due to her high octane drugs and alcohol lifestyle, according to a US Judge; the Spice Girls sells all of their next London concert tickets in just 38 seconds. My heart aches because I really dislike seeing Britney going down that way.

Photo: Yahoo! News.

Salad á la Giger-Arcimboldo

These images were created by Till Nowak, a digital artist from Mainz, Germany. They are so cluttered with details that you can almost look at them with a magnifying glass. Vibrant colours, lifelike textures and a master 3D rendering can almost send this Alien to a well dressed table, albeit one prepared to serve extra galactic delicatessen, obviously an eclectic fusion between HR Giger and Giuseppe Arcimboldo creations. The latter was an Italian painter from the Renaissance, recognized as a forefather by 20th. c. Surrealism. The Making of Salad, in PDF format, can be read here.
León Ricardo, thanks cor the tip. Images: Framebox.de.