venus williams blog: October 2006

Unofficial Google Stores

Google textile store in Istanbul, Turkey.

Google internet cafe in Cairo, Egypt.

Google Fashion in Shaoxin, Zhejiang Province, China

Google Fashion in somewhere in Turkey.

Pictures were found on Gseeker (3) & Googlified (1, 2, 4)

Previously, Random Citations posted a Google Fashion house also in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China.

Jesus Loves You

Jesus Loves You was found at 43°38'43.00"N 115°59'33.50"W on Google Earth or Google Maps somewhere about 17.5km (10.9 miles) east of Boise, Idaho. via Gseeker

This is probably one of the largest "Jesus loves you" signs in the world. Each letter is about 9.5 meters (31 feet) long.

Video: Chelsea 's Goalkeeper Petr Cech Injuried

Obviously, this violates the Joga Bonito spirit!

The Moon Trees

From NASA (via)

Apollo 14 launched in the late afternoon of January 31, 1971 on what was to be our third trip to the lunar surface. Five days later Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell walked on the Moon while Stuart Roosa, a former U.S. Forest Service smoke jumper, orbited above in the command module. Packed in small containers in Roosa's personal kit were hundreds of tree seeds, part of a joint NASA/USFS project. Upon return to Earth, the seeds were germinated by the Forest Service. Known as the "Moon Trees", the resulting seedlings were planted throughout the United States (often as part of the nation's bicentennial in 1976) and the world. They stand as a tribute to astronaut Roosa and the Apollo program.

Video: The Saints Are Coming

Enjoy this nice song performed by U2 & Green Day!

Kate Moss' Nose Done Plastical Surgery

Indeed in Miss Moss's first fashion shoots back in the early 1990s, she had quite a wide flat nose.

Photographed in 1998, the model still had a rather wide nose.

However five years later in 2003, its shape appeared to be a little narrower.

A year ago, pictured in New York, the central column of the nose still looked to be well-proportioned.

Most recently, Miss Moss, 32, went to a masquerade ball in London this week, and hid her face beneath a mask altogether.

However, when she was photographed at Heathrow yesterday, her nose looked to have much more marked indents on either side.

One leading plastic surgeon named Alex Karidis of the St John and St Elizabeth Hospital in North London argued surgery or drug abuse could have been to blame.

"The nose certainly seems to be retracted. Past drug abuse is certainly a possibility - but then so is surgery in the form of a tweak or adjustment."

Cricket Lovers

Monkeys watch from a stadium gallery as the England cricket team practises in Ahmadabad, India.

Giant Watermelon Weighs At 57-Kilograms

It's more like a winter melon!

A farmer displays a 51-kilogram (112 pound) Chinese watermelon in Xiangfan, Central China's Hubei Province October 24, 2006. The giant Chinese watermelon is 115-cm (3.7 feet) tall with a 112-cm (3.6 feet) perimeter.

Four-Legggd Chick Killed By Extra Anus

The four-legged clucker named Forzie was found dead by its owner who plans to donate it to the Auckland Museum after undergoing some necessary process.

The Te Uku-bred Barnevelder chick - hatched at Marlene Dickey's property at the start of last month - has died.

But it wasn't the extra legs that led to its death, more likely an extra anus, Mrs Dickey believes.

"He developed two bottoms and I think he got glugged up," she said.

While she was surprised by Forzie's death - he weighed a "good pound of butter" and was gaining feathers slowly - it was not totally unexpected, she said.

Lady Who Had Toad's Toxic Fluid Addiction

A fascinating story about a family dog called Lady!

Lady "was really perky, and happy, and generally excited to see you when you came in the door every day," recalls Andrew Mirsch.

But that was before the Mirsch family moved into a new house.

"We noticed Lady spending an awful lot of time down by the pond in our backyard," Laura Mirsch recalls.

Lady would wander the area, disoriented and withdrawn, soporific and glassy-eyed.

"Then, late one night after I'd put the dogs out, Lady wouldn't come in," Laura Mirsch says. "She finally staggered over to me from the cattails. She looked up at me, leaned her head over and opened her mouth like she was going to throw up, and out plopped this disgusting toad."

It turned out the toads were toxic -- and, if licked, the fluids on their skin provided a hallucinogenic effect.

What followed was the Mirsch family's quest to stop their cocker spaniel from indulging herself. But it wasn't easy. Lady was persistent, and resourceful.

The situation seemed to resolve itself when the toads went into hibernation for the winter.

But when they returned, so did Lady -- and with a vengeance.

"We couldn't keep our dog's addiction a secret any longer," Laura Mirsch says. "The neighbors all knew that Lady was a drug addict, and soon the other dogs weren't allowed to play with her."

In the end, Lady seems to have found a way to manage her problem.

"She seems to have outgrown the wild toad-obsessed years of her youth," Mirsch says, "and now only sucks on weekends."

Video: Friday The 13th Video Game Review

Very Nice!

Cute VW Bug Car

A vw that looks like a pig, its got the nose, ears and even a tail!

Even though the buns are said to be tasty, I am still scared the color additives added! The buns were made and sold at 1RM each [money channeled to the charities] by volunteers in Sam Wong Kong Temple, Batu Gajah of Malaysia's Kedah State during this Nine Emperor Gods Festival.

Video: Love At First Sight

The creativity of the lady in the video is admirable. Entertaining indeen!

Pestulent Poser

Mr. Mark spied this young couple just at the right moment as dad was loading his camera whening visiting Heian Shrine, Kyoto, Japan. A great shot!

Chase Plane Photo of Space Shuttle Launch

A gorgeous picture of a space shuttle launch taken by a NASA's WB-57 chase plane instead of from the International Space Station.

Oh, Jayden James, It's Official!

Finally, TMZ solves Britney's baby mystery after obtaining a copy of the birth certificate (the screenshot above from TMZ's pdf file ) from L.A. County Registrar-Recorder's office in California. The latest addition to the Spears-Federline family is a boy, now officially named Jayden James!

Twins Alicia And Jasmin Singer, Australia's Beautifully-Different Black and White Twins

The Australia couple Natasha Knight of mixed-race Jamaican-English heritage and Michael Singerl of origin in Germany are well blessed by one-in-a-million chance.

Establishing a little individuality is a challenge faced by most twins.

But nature has already given Alicia and a helping hand.

Gorgeously chubby and sunny-natured, the five-month-old girls already turn heads when their parents take them out.

But many do a double take when they realise Alicia is black while Jasmin is white.

Alicia's eyes were brown and her hair was dark. Jasmin's eyes were blue and her hair was white.

The Australian sisters, who were conceived naturally, were born in May and live with their parents in Burpengary, north of Brisbane.

Dog Lover Setenced One Year In Jail For Stealing Pup

Picture credit: Germanshepherds.com

Xia [a migrant worker in Hangzhou, China] once worked in the kennels, where he fell in love with the dogs. Upon his return home to Anhui Province, his passion got the better of him and he snuck back to spirit away a 5-month-old German Shepherd in June.

Caught while escaping with the pup, which was valued at about 8,000 yuan (US$1,011), Xia was sentenced with one year in jail and fined 3,000 yuan (US$379).

Previously, a boshintang [a traditional food called dog meat stew in South Korea] lover was also caught by the police after the owner of a Pedigree dog spotted her pet's telltale collar in front of the man's house.

Britney Spear's Second Baby Is A Girl!?

The Federline-Spears couple seems to present the world with a super joke.

A mystery is growing around Britney Spears’ second baby.

It was widely reported that on Sept. 12, Spears gave birth to a baby boy that she named Sutton Pierce. Spears has not confirmed those reports, and pics of little Sutton have yet to surface. Sources tell the Scoop that may be because there is no Sutton Pierce Spears Federline.

“That’s not the baby’s name,” one source insists. “It’s Jayden James. J.J. for short.”

Another source insists that the baby isn't a boy at all — but a girl.

The picture above is an issue cover of magazine Bazaar for which Britney Spears posed earlier this year, not long after she announced her second pregnancy.

Why Is The Sky Blue?

A clear cloudless day-time sky is blue because molecules in the air scatter blue light from the sun more than they scatter red light. When we look towards the sun at sunset, we see red and orange colours because the blue light has been scattered out and away from the line of sight.

The white light from the sun is a mixture of all colours of the rainbow. This was demonstrated by Isaac Newton, who used a prism to separate the different colours and so form a spectrum. The colours of light are distinguished by their different wavelengths. The visible part of the spectrum ranges from red light with a wavelength of about 720 nm, to violet with a wavelength of about 380 nm, with orange, yellow, green, blue and indigo between. The three different types of colour receptors in the retina of the human eye respond most strongly to red, green and blue wavelengths, giving us our colour vision.

Video: Steve Ballmer Selling Microsoft Windows 1.0

If not this vintage video (yes! I called it a vintage because it was aired as early as in 1985 the time a PC to the most of families is a luxury), I don't even know there is a Windows 1.0. The earliest version of Windows OS I encountered in the late of 1990's during my college era is 3.2.

YouTube Asked To Submit User Data

It's no secret that millions of Internet users every day watch copyright-infringing video clips on YouTube, the upstart Web site that Google Inc. has agreed to acquire for $1.65 billion.

What's less known is that YouTube has been watching the watchers.

YouTube's actions in response to a subpoena it received in May show that it has been keeping tabs on users who post copyrighted material to its site -- and in one case shared the name of a user with lawyers from a Hollywood film studio.

On May 24, lawyers for Viacom Inc.'s Paramount Pictures convinced a federal judge in San Francisco to issue a subpoena requiring YouTube to turn over details about a user who uploaded dialog from the movie studio's "Twin Towers," according to a copy of the document.

YouTube promptly handed over the data to Paramount, which on June 16 sued the creator of the 12-minute clip, New York City-based filmmaker Chris Moukarbel, for copyright infringement, in federal court in Washington.

China Plotting Blog Real Name System

[...] A real name system will be an unavoidable choice if China wants to standardize and develop its blog industry, Huang Chengqing, ISC secretary general, told Xinhua on Sunday.

An official with the ISC confirmed on Thursday that the society is working on a real name system for Chinese bloggers, which attested to netizens' longtime guess about it and triggered a hot controversy.[...]

Huang said the foundation of the blog real name system is an equilibrium between freedom and responsibility. "There exists no freedom without any abstention, and to limit also benefits the further development of this industry."

He said the system they have recommended is a background real name system, which requires bloggers provide their real names and other real information when applying for a blog but allows them to use pseudonyms in their blog articles.

American Man Accused Of Having Sex With Dog

PIERCE COUNTY, Washington -- A man accused of having sex with the family dog has been charged under the state's new animal cruelty law, which makes bestiality a felony, a prosecutor said.

Michael Patrick McPhail, 26, of nearby Spanaway, pleaded not guilty Thursday to one count of first-degree animal cruelty in Pierce County Superior Court.

Assistant Pierce County Prosecutor Karen Watson said McPhail was the first person in Pierce County to be charged with the new bestiality offense.

McPhail's wife told investigators that she found her husband on their back porch Wednesday night having intercourse with their 4-year-old female pit bull terrier, the Pierce County sheriff's office report said. The dog was squealing and crying, according to charging papers.

The woman took photos with her cell phone and called the sheriff's office. via Boing Boing

British Teens Most Sexually Active in Europe

British teenagers are the most sexually active in Europe and children should be taught about contraception to stem the problem of teenage pregnancies, a report published on Monday said.

A study by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) found that 38 percent of British 15-year-olds had had sex in the period from 2001-2.

That compared to just 15 percent in Poland, 16 percent in Spain and was also far greater than the countries with the second highest proportion - Sweden, Finland and Germany.

In addition Britain had the highest rate of teenage births, an average of 26 live births per 1 000 women aged 15 to 19.

Sexually related diseases such as Chlamydia and herpes had also risen amongst young people, with one in three 15-year-olds admitting they didn't use condoms.

Video: Learn How To Juggle 3 Balls At A Time

You have possibly watched and been stunned by one of the most popular videos on Google Video called Amazing Juggling Finale. Now you can learn how to juggle from Jason Garfield [wiki] who is a professional American juggler and the founder and president of the World Juggling Federation.

Gossip: Brad Pitt Paid For Bad Sex

Poor Angelina Jollie!

A whore, using only the name Olivia, has released a tell-all book, claiming she was paid $660 to have with Brad Pitt. The incident took place many years ago but Olivia retells the story like it was yesterday.

"We got right to it," says the sex worker in her raunchy book, Hooking Up: You'll Never Make Love In This Town Again.

"Nothing romantic, nothing kinky. The guy just wanted to get off," she says of the normally clean-cut Hollywood hunk.

"He put on a condom and the whole thing was over pretty quick."

Doorway Page

A SEO that Google will spare no efforts to axe!

Doorway pages are web pages that are created for spamdexing, this is, for spamming the index of a search engine by inserting results for particular phrases with the purpose of sending you to a different page. They are also known as landing pages, bridge pages, portal pages, zebra pages , jump pages, gateway pages, entry pages and by other names. Doorway pages that redirect visitors without their knowledge use some form of cloaking.

If you click through to a typical doorway page from a search engine result page, in most cases you will be redirected with a fast Meta refresh command to another page. Other forms of redirection include use of Javascript and server side redirection, either through the .htaccess file or from the server configuration file. Some doorway pages may be dynamic pages generated by scripting languages such as Perl and PHP.

Doorway pages are often easy to identify in that they have been designed primarily for search engines, not for human beings. Sometimes a doorway page is copied from another high ranking page, but this is likely to cause the search engine to detect the page as a duplicate and exclude it from the search engine listings.

Video: Dancing Bear

Cool! What a freak bear in zoo!

Future of Singapore

A blog by Derek Wee currently has only one post (snips posted as follows) with a great popularity that caused the Wee Shu Min saga (netizens have already dug up her bikini photos) in the tiny city state, Singapore.

When I read the Straits Times article (dated 24 Sep) on PM Lee calling the young to be committed and make a difference to Singapore, I have so much thought about the issue.

I am 35 years old, graduated from University and gainfully employed in a multinational company. But I cannot help but feel insecure over the future of Singapore. Lets face it, it’s not uncommon to hear, “when you are above 40, you are over the hill”. The government has been stressing on re-training, skills upgrading and re-adapt. The fact is, no matter how well qualified or adaptable one is, once you hit the magical 40, employers will say, “you are simply too old”. [...]

On PM Lee calling the young to be committed and make a difference. Look around us. How dedicated can we be to Singapore when we can visualise what’s in store for us after we turned 40? Then again, how committed are employers to us? But we can’t blame them. They have bottom lines & shareholders’ gain to answer to. Onus is really on the government to revamp the society. A society that is not a pressure cooker. A society that does not mirror so perfectly, what survival of the fittest is. But a society, where it’s people can be committed, do their best and not having to fear whether they will still wake up employed tomorrow. Sadly, Singapore does not offer such luxuries and security anymore. [...]

Many of my peers, bright and well educated have packed up and left. It’s what MM Goh called “quitters”. It’s sad but true, Singapore no longer is a place where one can hope to work hard their lives and retire graciously. It’s really the push factor. A future is something we sweat it out, build and call our own. Unfortunately, people like me, mid 30’s going on 40’s, staying put by choice or otherwise, we can’t help but feel what lies ahead is really a gamble.

To PM Lee and the Ministers, we are on a different platform. Until you truly understand our insecurity, the future of Singapore to me remains a question mark.

Video: Dog Burglar

Oops! Nowadays dog possibly likes money check more than meat bone! Apparently, you need to use a bag with extra safety measureskeep your wallet safe!

Women Vs Men

Funny stuff received from a cycled email for your laugh:

Smart man + smart woman = romance
Smart man + dumb woman = affair
Dumb man + smart woman = marriage
Dumb man + dumb woman = pregnancy
A man will pay $20 for a $10 item he needs.
A woman will pay $10 for a $20 item that she doesn't need.
A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband.
A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend.
A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
To be happy with a man, you must understand him a lot and love him a little.
To be happy with a woman, you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.
Married men live longer than single men do, but married men are a lot more willing to die.
A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn't.
A man marries a woman expecting that she won't change, and she does.
A woman has the last word in any argument.
Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.

Weird Chinese Woman Drinks Almost A Ton Of Gasoline

I am shocked!

This 46 year-old wacky Chinese lady has a hobby of drinking gasoline and eating pesticide. In the last 10 years she drank almost a ton of gasoline. When she was little, she loved the smell of gasoline and pesticide. Her first sip of gas was in 1995 and ever since then she’s been addicted to it and had to drink it everyday. She could even tell the premium or regular just by tasting it.

Against Nature? The First Ever Gay Animal Exhibition

Interesting!

The Oslo Natural History Museum opened the show last week and says it has been well attended, not least by families.

The exhibition [...] includes photographs of one male giraffe mounting another, of apes stimulating others of the same sex, and two aroused male right whales rubbing against each other.

It says homosexuality has been observed among 1,500 species, and that in 500 of those it is well documented.

"Homosexuality is a common and widespread phenomenon in the animal world," says an exhibition statement.

"Not only short-lived sexual relationships, but even long-lasting partnerships; partnerships that may last a lifetime."

It says sex between animals - as between humans - is often a matter of enjoyment, rather than procreation, and that this applies to animals of the same sex as well as opposite sexes.

Go to the homepage made by University of Oslo to read more about Homosexuality in the Animal Kingdom.

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