Kick ass movie - Clash of the Titans

I know this posting doesn't really belong here. But I got to say that this is one hell of a kick ass epic!

Catch the official trailer here

Love the trailer soundtrack? Well, that's exactly the background music playing on my blog.... RELEASE THE KRAKEN!

Come on... help yourself to the mp3 here.

No prizes for guessing what the tree is doing...

Teens murder parents over video games!

I foresee this sometime back... the day has finally arrived...



News 1 - 25 Jan 2010

(Rome) -- An Italian teen stabbed his father in the neck with a 15-inch kitchen knife Sunday following an argument over a soccer video game.Police say the man is recovering in a hospital.



The argument apparently broke out when the dad gave his 16-year-old son advice on how to improve his play of the Sony PlayStation game.



Police say the boy grabbed a kitchen knife, stabbed his father and then cleaned the weapon at the kitchen sink in front of his mother.She says her husband stumbled into the kitchen clutching his bloody throat.The woman says their son is obsessed with PlayStation.She and her husband had given him the soccer video game last week as a birthday gift so the boy wouldn't play violent games.The teen made no attempt to resist arrest following the stabbing incident.



News 2 - Jan 2010

This horrific incident is simply beyond words. A 15-year-old Romanian boy stabbed his adoptive mother to death after she refused to pay the Internet bills. The boy, Ionut, is addicted to online video games.

It was said that Ionut stabbed his adoptive mother 17 times when she decided to stop paying the bills. This was so he would cut down the time he was spending in front of the computer playing his games. What is even more disturbing about this incident, however, is that a mere three hours after the killing, Ionut left the home and headed to an Internet cafe to play Counter-Strike.

Meanwhile, the husband of the victim found her dead in their home and subsequently reported the incident to the cops. Ionut, later on, turned himself voluntarily to the authorities, calmly telling them that "I think I'm the one you're looking for."

Ionut has been admitted to an underground psychiatric clinic in a local hospital. Test will be conducted to determine his pyschological state, and if found that he was fully competent when the crime was committed, he could face up to 12 years in prison for the murder.

Webcam fluke saves tourist lost on ice - whose say webcam is for porn?

From The Times -

A man who lost his way in the dark while wandering around on sea ice off the coast of Germany was saved by a woman 300 miles away who spotted him on a webcam, according to police.
The unnamed man, in his forties, had ventured out on the frozen North Sea at the resort of St Peter-Ording on the northern tip of Germany to take pictures of the sunset, but became disorientated when darkness fell.

“He got lost on the ice and could not find the coast again because it was covered in snow,” Kristin Stielow, a spokeswoman for the local police said.
The man began to flash his pocket torch in the hope of being rescued. The beams were picked up by a sharp-eyed woman 500 km away in western Germany who had also been watching the sunset via a webcam installed on the beach.

She alerted the police, who were able to guide the hapless amateur photographer to safety.
“He escaped without injury but could well have died from cold or been injured on the ice or drowned when the tide came in,” Ms Stielow said.
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The webcam can be found here http://www.tz-spo.de/webcams/

Australia most sinful nation in the world: BBC Study

Good job mate!

MELBOURNE: Australia is the most sinful nation on the Earth, a study has claimed as the country ranked first overall in seven deadly sins, which include lust, greed and pride.

The country that gave the world The Body, Sylvania Waters and Les Patterson has been ranked first overall in a study of the seven deadly sins - lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy and pride," according to 'Courier Mail' newspaper that qouted the latest edition of BBC's focus magazine.

Australia took out the dubious honour in the edition of BBC's magazine of science, technology and the future.

While US topped the table for gluttony, South Korea topped the list for lust.

Iceland ranked number one for both pride and sloth and Mexico topped the list for greed, the study revealed.

Australia's biggest weakness was envy and ranked in the top 10 in all categories to give a higher aggregate than the US, Canada, Finland or Britain.

The article, which argues that people are "bad" by nature, has found social data to compare nations under the categories of wrath, sloth, pride, lust, greed, gluttony and envy. The report said to determine country's wrong doings, the researchers studied levels of violent crime by comparing incidents of assault, rape and murder per 1000 people.

For sloth, they looked at the number of days off workers have. For pride the comparison was made on plastic surgery rates per capita, and for lust they looked at the amount people spent on porn.

Italian teen stabs father in PlayStation row

ROME - An Italian man who argued with his son over Sony PlayStation tactics was recovering in hospital on Monday after the teenager stabbed him in the neck with a 15-inch kitchen knife, police and hospital officials said.

The man, identified as Fabrizio R., suffered a deep cut to the throat after his 16-year-old son, Mario, attacked him during an argument on Sunday over the soccer video game FIFA 2009.
Police said the argument broke out when the 46-year-old storekeeper offered his son advice on tactics to improve his play, and then turned the television off in response to his son's behavior.
Fetching a knife from the kitchen, Mario stabbed his father in the neck before returning to clean the weapon at the kitchen sink in front of his mother and leaving it to dry on the draining-board. Forty-six year-old housewife Monica B,. told Italian daily Il Corriere della Sera that she had no idea what had happened until her husband stumbled into the room, clutching his throat.
"I saw Mario come back into the room, he seemed calm, he went to the sink and I noticed him washing a knife," Monica told the newspaper. "Then my husband came into the room with a hand round his neck, dripping blood."

The teenager shut himself in his bedroom after the attack and made no attempt to resist arrest, police said.

The game had been given to Mario a few days earlier, as a birthday present.
"Mario is obsessed. He's forever playing on his PlayStation, and we bought him FIFA 2009 because we didn't want him playing violent games," his mother told Il Corriere.

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