…probably not available in the Guinness Book of World Records or Ripley’s Believe It or Not
UPDATE 11th Dec 2007: First published in September 2006 by Irish magazine The Dubliner, this has since been established to be fake. Nordegren has never posed in the nude. The pics are fact those of Playboy model Kim Hiott, mostly from a 2000 edition. The Dubliner has issued an apology and lost the lawsuit.
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Mrs Woods, Elin Nordegren poses in softcore pics [Update 11th Dec 2007: link not working anymore].
Tags: elin nordegren, elin woods, tiger woods
Burning Man is an annual event held at Black Rock Desert, Nevada.
It lasts about a week.
In 2005, about 35,000 people attended!
And what it is exactly is difficult to explain.
It’s like all these thousands of people converge in the middle of the desert, create a temporary city and do all sorts of fun things. After it’s over, they go back to their lives, leaving no trace of them ever being there.
It culminates in the burning of an effigy of a man:
Sounds like something I’ve got to add to my list of things to do before I die.
There are many pics of this event around the Net, but this one I found the best, because it looks at it from the point of view of a Burning Man “virgin”:
http://www.jeremedia.com/photos/bm/
Tags: burning man, effigy, strange events, social events
Burning Man is an annual event held at Black Rock Desert, Nevada.
It lasts about a week.
In 2005, about 35,000 people attended!
And what it is exactly is difficult to explain.
It’s like all these thousands of people converge in the middle of the desert, create a temporary city and do all sorts of fun things. After it’s over, they go back to their lives, leaving no trace of them ever being there.
It culminates in the burning of an effigy of a man:
Sounds like something I’ve got to add to my list of things to do before I die.
There are many pics of this event around the Net, but this one I found the best, because it looks at it from the point of view of a Burning Man “virgin”:
http://www.jeremedia.com/photos/bm/
Tags: burning man, effigy, strange events, social events
For man, it’s JL Hunter “Red” Rountree (1912 - 2004) who did his first heist at age 86. In all, he managed 3 successful bank robberies in 5 years.
Why did he do it? A bankrupt, he wanted to get his fortune back.
He died at age 92 in prison.
For a woman, possibly it’s a yet unnamed 79 years old.
She was arrested in Chicago after trying to hold up a bank with a toy gun.
She was wearing “a white visor that read “princess” and black sunglasses.
An FBI agent’s affidavit says she walked into a Bank of America branch and told a female cashier she could not speak very loud because she had just come from the dentist.
When the cashier leaned forward, the woman pulled out what appeared to be a gun and said: “Give me $30,000. My friend is across the street. And no dye.”
However, the cashier reached into her drawer and activated a silent alarm before walking away from the counter.
The robber waited a few minutes then walked out of the bank, ditching her trench coat as she left. A bank employee flagged down a police officer who arrested her outside.
Tags: rountree, bank robbers
For man, it’s JL Hunter “Red” Rountree (1912 - 2004) who did his first heist at age 86. In all, he managed 3 successful bank robberies in 5 years.
Why did he do it? A bankrupt, he wanted to get his fortune back.
He died at age 92 in prison.
For a woman, possibly it’s a yet unnamed 79 years old.
She was arrested in Chicago after trying to hold up a bank with a toy gun.
She was wearing “a white visor that read “princess” and black sunglasses.
An FBI agent’s affidavit says she walked into a Bank of America branch and told a female cashier she could not speak very loud because she had just come from the dentist.
When the cashier leaned forward, the woman pulled out what appeared to be a gun and said: “Give me $30,000. My friend is across the street. And no dye.”
However, the cashier reached into her drawer and activated a silent alarm before walking away from the counter.
The robber waited a few minutes then walked out of the bank, ditching her trench coat as she left. A bank employee flagged down a police officer who arrested her outside.
Tags: rountree, bank robbers
The Harm Reduction Journal is suggesting the above.
If so, what should be done now?
That we should outlaw cigarettes and legalise marijuana instead?
The families of people who were hanged for marijuana / ganja trafficking will throw a fit - from the lowest of the low, up to national hero status?
Tags: harm reduction journal, cannabis, marijuana, ganja
Tech entrepreneur Mrs Ansari, 40 became the 4th space tourist, and the first woman, and of course the first Iranian.
Like the previous 3, she reportedly paid USD20 million (16 million euros) for the privilege.
But what interested me more was her life story which is truly inspiring:
She arrived in the US at age 18 totally unable to speak English.
But she proved to be a wizard at electrical and electronics engineering, and went on to earn her Master’s.
And she proved to be an even bigger wizard at being a techpreneur: founded a company making software for switching signals on phone networks. Knowledge gained at first and postgrad degress put to good use. I guess that would be good enough for a PhD, if she went for it.
But she reserved her best for last: selling her company for more than USD500 million at the height of the dot com boom just before the bubble burst.
So I think it’s safe to say she can afford to go up there.
Her quote is worth putting up: “People think they reach the height of their life at age 40. I’m hoping this is just the beginning of another hill that I will be climbing.”
Tags: anousheh ansari, ansari, space tourist
Tech entrepreneur Mrs Ansari, 40 became the 4th space tourist, and the first woman, and of course the first Iranian.
Like the previous 3, she reportedly paid USD20 million (16 million euros) for the privilege.
But what interested me more was her life story which is truly inspiring:
She arrived in the US at age 18 totally unable to speak English.
But she proved to be a wizard at electrical and electronics engineering, and went on to earn her Master’s.
And she proved to be an even bigger wizard at being a techpreneur: founded a company making software for switching signals on phone networks. Knowledge gained at first and postgrad degress put to good use. I guess that would be good enough for a PhD, if she went for it.
But she reserved her best for last: selling her company for more than USD500 million at the height of the dot com boom just before the bubble burst.
So I think it’s safe to say she can afford to go up there.
Her quote is worth putting up: “People think they reach the height of their life at age 40. I’m hoping this is just the beginning of another hill that I will be climbing.”
Tags: anousheh ansari, ansari, space tourist
Tech entrepreneur Mrs Ansari, 40 became the 4th space tourist, and the first woman, and of course the first Iranian.
Like the previous 3, she reportedly paid USD20 million (16 million euros) for the privilege.
But what interested me more was her life story which is truly inspiring:
She arrived in the US at age 18 totally unable to speak English.
But she proved to be a wizard at electrical and electronics engineering, and went on to earn her Master’s.
And she proved to be an even bigger wizard at being a techpreneur: founded a company making software for switching signals on phone networks. Knowledge gained at first and postgrad degress put to good use. I guess that would be good enough for a PhD, if she went for it.
But she reserved her best for last: selling her company for more than USD500 million at the height of the dot com boom just before the bubble burst.
So I think it’s safe to say she can afford to go up there.
Her quote is worth putting up: “People think they reach the height of their life at age 40. I’m hoping this is just the beginning of another hill that I will be climbing.”
Tags: anousheh ansari, ansari, space tourist
Of all the chain emails I received everyday, this one takes the cake and actually made me forward it to others. So if you want your chainmails to be forwarded, you know what to do.
Read it at the source.
Tags: chain emails, chainmails
