Posted on Oct 24, 2007 - 12:42am by John P. in Videos - 8 Replies
This is pretty amusing. At the end of this video I think the guy says that he’s willing to come to America and win the $1,000,000 show? I guess he’s talking about some talent show, and to be honest this little act is quite amusing. Though I’m not sure he’s gonna be able to compete with the big boys.
Anyway, watch and judge for yourself. I know I’ve never seen anything quite like it.
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Posted on Oct 23, 2007 - 12:28am by John P. in Security, Travel - 23 Replies
Folks, I was at the airport and I popped open my laptop to hop on the net and upon doing so I encountered a seriously sneaky bastard. Do you see anything wrong with the image below?

Well, hopefully you notice the little icon of a laptop beside the network entitled “Free Public WiFi”. This is NOT a free wireless access point, but instead a laptop computer that someone has configured to capture your personal data and rob you blind.
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Posted on Oct 22, 2007 - 2:17am by John P. in Site Updates, Wordpress - 31 Replies
You know, I’ve had it completely with BlogRush. As far as I’m concerned John Reese can go get bent. Why? Well, this is a service that was so poorly rolled out that after I announced it right here on OMB I had to modify my post within 1 day. That is the ONLY time I’ve had to do that in over 850 posts.
Well, a few days ago John Reese sends this e-mail out to the world explaining that he knows there were some serious problems with the initial launch and that they are making a bunch of changes to clean up the site, and so on, and so forth.
So, like a sucker I thought I’d give them one more chance to redeem themselves and put the widget back in the sidebar. Within a very short period of time I was already noticing that there were porn links appearing in my sidebar, so I removed the widget.
Now, flash forward to today – when I don’t even have the widget on my site- and I get the following notice telling me that my content “did not pass our Quality Review criteria”. HA!
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Posted on Oct 22, 2007 - 1:10am by John P. in Finance, Politics, Thoughts - 13 Replies
We often hear about how the US is such a consumption oriented country. We’ve got the fattest people, we pollute the most, we’re spoiled… yeah, yeah, whatever.
But here is an interesting way to look at the economic impact the US plays on the global economy. You see, comparing the Gross Domestic Product of another nation, say… Canada, to the US is just silly. In fact, the entire output of Canada is roughly equal to just the state of Texas.
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Posted on Oct 21, 2007 - 1:27am by John P. in Politics, Videos - 37 Replies
A while back I wrote about a video of a Muslim cleric who gave a lecture on the proper way to beat a woman. And of course we were recently reminded of the true tragedy of spousal abuse with this film of a man actually beating his wife.
Well, thanks to Adi again we have this follow up lecture from another muslim “holy” man explaining with amazingly twisted logic why women do indeed need to be beaten.
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Posted on Oct 20, 2007 - 1:56am by John P. in Games - 15 Replies
Roulette is a casino and gambling game named after the French word meaning “small wheel”. In the game a croupier spins a wheel in one direction, then spins a ball in the opposite direction around a tilted circular surface running around the circumference of the wheel. The ball eventually falls on to the wheel and into one of 37 (in European roulette) or 38 (in American roulette) colored and numbered pockets on the wheel.
Albert Einstein is reputed to have stated, “You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it.” And indeed he was mathematically correct. Roulette is an absolute game of chance in which the house odds are stacked from 2-5% against you. Still, the little game I’ve embedded here is awfully fun to play!
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Posted on Oct 19, 2007 - 12:52am by John P. in Health & Fitness, The Man's Videos - 12 Replies
This is an old clip of a study of the effects of LSD on combat troops. It appears to be from around the 1940’s, and I don’t have any clue where it came from originally. But its mildly amusing to see a bunch of highly trained killing machines walking around aimlessly and falling over laughing.
LSD is typically delivered orally, usually on a sugar cube or in some sort of food product, so I’m guessing they were trying to determine how they could weaponize it by contaminating an enemy’s water supply or food supply. One surefire way to win is to make the other side not care if they fight any longer!
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Posted on Oct 19, 2007 - 12:01am by John P. in Web Links - 2 Replies
Posted on Oct 17, 2007 - 9:22am by John P. in Videos - 12 Replies
Christopher Walken is so awesome that he can tell one of the most boring stories ever and keep you sitting there just waiting to see what he’s going to say next. Here he is on a UK TV show hosted by Jonathan Ross telling the story of the Three Little Pigs. Enjoy!
When you’re done with this one, do not miss the classic Christopher Walken Saturday Night Live Cowbell skit, and of course I never tire of the Fat Boy Slim video Weapon of Choice featuring Walken’s awesome dancing.
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Posted on Oct 16, 2007 - 12:54am by John P. in Videos - 12 Replies
Came across this great short film about Mutually Assured Destruction. It’s not really a political commentary or anything, it’s just funny.
Be forewarned however that this one is NOT for the kiddies. Plenty of really bad language in this. Still, you’ll be laughing your A– off mates.
PS – Watch out for those nasty kangaroos!
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Posted on Oct 15, 2007 - 1:20am by John P. in Sports, Videos - 12 Replies
I’ve seen a lot of really kick ass acrobatics, but I’ve never seen a compilation like this before! According to the description:
This video shows the 5 different disciplines of sports acrobatics. This videos were recorded 2006 at the world championships of sports acrobatics in Coimbra/Portugal.
But all I can say is that even after watching Kristina Kireeva the contortionist, the Urban Ninjas, the incredible World Class Breakdancers and Chloe Bruce’s Martial Arts – there is stuff here that you won’t see anywhere else!
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Posted on Oct 14, 2007 - 1:36pm by John P. in 10 Best, Sports, Travel, Videos - 30 Replies
Cirque du Soleil is, without a doubt the most amazing circus on the planet. They find the most incredible performers on earth and assemble them on stage for shows that literally defy description and leave audiences gasping and begging for more.
I’ve seen a number of Cirque du Soleil shows in Las Vegas as well as in various cities when they travel. The bad news is that tickets normally run around $100 per person, and you have to buy them well in advance to get great seats. The good news is, you’ll never see anything cooler in your life, so the shows are worth every penny they charge. The even better news is that I’ve assembled 13 great acts here for you to see without having to pay to do it!
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