Mr Gates is set to build himself a dream factory, one that when running will produce 35m gallons of liquor annually.
The lucky folks of Boardman, on the Columbia river, will play host to Bill’s boozy dream factory when it opens its doors toward the end of this year.
Sadly, the factory will not be a kind of alcohol-themed Willy Wonka’s, complete with lumpy rivers of advocaat and private army of caterwauling drunken dwarves. But instead, will produce fuel-grade ethanol on an industrial scale. Gates owns a quarter stake in Pacific Ethanol, which is behind the plant. The firm aims at a land-grab in the burgeoning west coast market for renewables by fermenting sweetcorn. Makes me wonder what they could call the brew… Alcorn, Sweet Brew, Corn on the Rocks…
Ethanol burns cleanly, producing carbon dioxide and water with no net gain in greenhouse gases, since the CO2 was trapped from the atmosphere by photosynthesis in the first place.
Found this on my merry travels around the interweb, a rather superb example of innovative guitar styles. Just shows that the traditional methods of doing things are all well and good but sometimes a little creativty goes along way.
“Hannes Coetzee is an aloe tapper and self-taught musician from Herbertsdale in the Klein Karoo. He plays traditional and original compositions using a teaspoon in his mouth to slide the melody on his guitar. The only known practioner of this style, he is able to play the melody and the accompanying chords at the same time creating the sound of two guitars with one.”
Words cannot express my opinion of the US, however, this guy does a very good job of the whole thing, making “Hail to the Cheif”, a popular american style tune thing, into a series of Hand Farts The current government should listen to this and take it to heart.
You sir, are indeed the cheif.
BoingBoing reports that Scientology is opening a “Super Power” training center in Clearwater, Florida. The Center will teach cult members who pay out how to enhance their powers of perception by using training techniques supposedly invented by founder and mediocre sci-fi hack L Ron Hubbard.
“Super Power uses machines, apparatus and specially designed rooms to exercise and enhance a person’s so-called perceptics. Those machines include an antigravity simulator and a gyroscope-like apparatus that spins a person around while blindfolded to improve perception of compass direction, said the former Scientologists…
Scientologist Ron Pollack, who donated $5-million to the Super Power fund after making millions in hedge funds in the 1990s, said he got a sneak peek. The head of fundraising for the project showed him a photo of “some high-tech thing” developed by engineers in Southern California that offers different aromas on demand. It’s for a drill to enhance one’s sense of smell, he said.
Pollack said he has no idea how Super Power will be set up, but is excited about the parts on ethics and perceptics, which he likened to a “trip to Disney.” “
3 seconds past the second minute of the first hour, on Thursday the 4th day of May, Two thousand and Six.
Doesnt look that good does it?
how about like this: 01:02:03 04/05/06
doesnt happen every day… well, not quite like that anyway
On eBay this week is the most sensational gift of all, the tools to Riches beyond the dreams of meer men. Avaliable from this auction is the Key to a box holding the numbers to the lottery, ‘the 99p Car Boot Sale Sunglasses of Protection. You will need these when opening the Lotto Box, to protect your eyes from the glare from the make-up of has-been celebrities, who will frolic around you, smelling the gold.’.. and so forth
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Hey peeps, just something linzi showed me thats really interesting, watch the following video and count the number of passes of the ball between people. Dont count the bounces, just the passes.
Comment with how many passes you count
Heres the page with the video on it, it uses a Java applet for some reason so make sure uve got that installed.
Quite simply, last year my house mates (you know who you are) bought me a lovely pair of Fire Poi. Now this seems like a good pressie for a juggly type person like myself. However, i had absolutly NO idea how to use the buggers…. till now. Miskin has provided me with lessons from Simon in how to do Poi. I just needed 10 minutes with someone who knew what they were doing and i was set. I can now do simple stuff but its a start.
So i was chatting to linzi about Labyrinth, and specifically the Dog from it (Ambrosius) and then got chatting about Contact Juggling (Bowies character does it) then followed the Wiki Route to the guy who does the actual work on the film, Michael Moschen. Checked out his site and noticed some fire poi type stuff in the videos section. Which got me thinking, wonder what other cool vids around around of fire poi. So i had a look around and found this on google videos:
I’m going to spend more time practicing these bad boys now, cos hot shit thats one cool bit of work
“Happy slapping” a term for the most chavish sport around where the objective is to randomly beat the shit/slap about a random passerby while recording said event on mobile phone. I just cant see what the hell the point is, and i pray that alot of these w*nkers get arrested. BUT if that cant be done, then i pray this happens alot more… the slappers victim, not best pleased about being hit in the face, decided to hit back, laid the guy out in one punch then kicked him in the ribs… hows that for a happy slap?
The video is a bit fuzzy (the mobile phone is obviously a bit shite)
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The current government should listen to this and take it to heart.
