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I'll play Need for Speed now and then, Most Wanted is My flavour there... Oh and Guitar Hero, nothing like Metallica Therapy... (I know these aren't FPSs)

A man was struggling with what to wear to a fancy dress party, when he had a great idea. The party's host answered his door to find the man with no socks, shoes or shirt on. "What are you meant to be?" enquired the host. "A premature ejaculation" replied the man. "I just came in my pants!"

Thankyou 80)

I'll send her around your place to practice when I'm done with her...

I dunno, 'Happy Crack' sounds tasty...

This is GM's artwork but just showing what I been doing with it if it had gone unnoticed until now The Firey Phoenix makes a great bg for uninstallers too, Thanx GlaSs MaSter... I need to make an icon though I think, 2 one for the package and one for the uninstaller instead of the pirate ones I been using...

Ever been stressed about not knowing enough? Don’t worry, you’re not alone: From No One Knows What The F*** They’re Doing by Steve Schwarz, with the added note that "this chart is not to scale; the red slice is unimaginably large".

Anyone who’s ever tinkered about with making electronic circuits can you tell that it can be a fiddly, irritatingly delicate process If you can’t afford the expensive kit needed to print up proper circuit boards, you can quickly end up with a tangled mess of wires and components plugged into a ‘breadboard’. A company called AgIC has come up with a solution: Special ink that can be used to literally draw the circuit you need It’s a lot less fiddly than other ‘DIY’ methods available, such as etching circuits by mixing hydrogen peroxide and vinegar. And, even better, it’s compatible with inkjet printers, so you can design intricate circuits and then have them printed out precisely, at a fraction of the cost of traditional circuit board ‘printing’ The ‘pen’ version costs just $19, but the kit to adapt a printer is a little more pricey at $299 But there’s less than 2 days to get in on the Kickstarter. Maybe now kids will get to make something more exciting in their school electronics lessons than a rubbish fuse-tester that goes “beep” [MEDIA]https://d2pq0u4uni88oo.cloudfront.net/projects/852452/video-348525-h264_high.mp4[MEDIA]

As I lay in bed reading this on a tablet I wonder exactly how correct these statistics are, I personally prefer to sit at a desktop and this isn't normal for Me at all but I remember My ex wife always on facebook, gaming on her phone over 5 years ago and her cousins and friends and I could easily imagine higher numbers of hours used with the numbers of tablets and smartphones out there, damn We have 5 working in Our house, and 3 laptops...

OK Cupid have decided to take a stand. If you try to access the dating website using Firefox, this is what you see: If other popular websites follow suit, this could become a big problem for Mozilla.

Orders start in Australia Today

I was, a HL fan, Dr Freedman at the Mesa Research Institute... Gimme that Crowbar... But I'm not really a gamer, and if I played you multiplayer fps you'd have an awesome score, I suck... LoL... Give me a real gun though and I'll teach you how to shoot....

Being under constant surveillance has never been so adorable Sure, we may be living under the shadow of ever-increasing government and corporate scrutiny - but Italian design company Parson just unveiled these wonderfully cute covers for the threatening lenses ominously pointed at our vanishing privacy and personal freedoms. Look! They’re animals! An owl Could not be more on-trend with this year’s Urban Outfitters crowd, unless it was wearing a moustache. A grasshopper Look at its little feet! A furtive squirrel Ok, you got us, we’re starting to find them cute. AND THAT’S HOW THEY WIN. A sinister parrot on every corner In reality, they’re designed for places like nurseries that already have security cameras. The idea is that kids will find these friendly creatures a bit less scary. http://www.parson.it/online/animals.html

If you had a spare £23,000, what would you buy? The best holiday in the world for you and all your friends? Several horses? An entire house in a place that’s not London? Well think again - if this had been 1963, you could have spent all that dosh on…*drumroll* …a video recorder! This was the first-ever VTR marketed for domestic use Party time. That £1,278 18s translates as £22,694.34 in today’s money. That would buy you a brand new Philips EL3400 1” Helical Scan Recorder. Oh, when the ad says “the other channel”, it really means “the other channel”. There were only two channels - BBC Two didn’t launch until ‘64. Oh, that high-pressure media landscape of the 60s. It may have been extremely expensive but, hey, it was pretty cheap compared to its predecessor, the Ampex VRX-1000, which retailed for over $50,000. (That’s £257,828 in today’s money!) The Ampex dev team records Top Gear while watching Downton Abbey. But why the massive leap forward in home video recording technology on 1963? Why would so many more people want to record things off the TV… in that specific year? Aha. It’s the year that Doctor Who started, with all-time best Doctor William Hartnell. Suddenly, it all makes sense.

Good one 80)

Dear Mum & Dad, I am well. Hope youse are too. Tell me big brothers Doug and Phil that the Army is better than workin' on the farm - tell them to get in bloody quick smart before the jobs are all gone! I wuz a bit slow in settling down at first, because ya don't hafta get outta bed until 6am. But I like sleeping in now, cuz all yagotta do before brekky is make ya bed and shine ya boots and clean ya uniform. No bloody cows to milk, no calves to feed, or eggs ta get or feed to stack - nothin'!! But ya haz gotta shower though, but its not so bad, coz there's lotsa hot water and even some soap and a light to see what ya doing! At brekky ya get cereal, fruit and eggs but there's no kangaroo steaks or possum stew like wot Mum makes. You don't get fed again until noon and by that time all the city kids are buggered because we've been on a 'route march' -strewth... its only just like walking to the windmill in the back paddock!! This one will kill me brothers Doug and Phil with laughter. I keep getting medals for shootin' - dunno why. The bullseye is as big as a bloody possum's bum and it don't move and it's not firing back at ya like the Johnsons did when our big scrubber bull got into their prize cows before the Ekka last year! All ya gotta do is make yourself comfortable and hit the target - it's a piece of piss!! You don't even load your own cartridges they comes in little boxes and ya don't have to steady yourself against the rollbar of the roo shooting truck when you reload! Sometimes yagotta wrestle with the city boys and I gotta be real careful coz they break easy - but it's OK coz it's only one at a time like, it's not like fighting with Doug and Phil and Jack and Boori and Steve and Muzza all at once like we do at home after the muster. Turns out I'm not a bad boxer either and it looks like I'm the best the platoon's got, and I've only been beaten by this one bloke from the Engineers - he's 6 foot 5 and 18 stone and three pick handles across the shoulders. As ya know I'm only 5 foot 7 and eight stone wringin' wet, but I fought him till the other blokes pulled me off and carried me to the boozer. He didn't come with us though, said somethin about sore mouth... I can't complain about the Army - tell the boys to get in quick before word gets around how bloody good it is. Your loving daughter, Sheila.

that is just wrong, she was a pretty girl...

That is funny, cat is a beautician and the stories she can tell... TeeHeeHee, Har, Har Har...

We don’t know what future holds for us, but what we do know is that for every new iterations of Windows release it should push the technology forward. Windows 8 was a major leap from Microsoft by transition away from the traditional Windows desktop to a fusion of legacy and modern UI. What’s ahead? We don’t know, but we can imagine and try to picture the future. This is what one has done. He created a concept video of what the next version of Windows might or should look like. http://youtu.be/-cUJhaZ0Xq4 It might look very similar to what we have right now, but if you pay attention, deep down there are many enhanced user experience improvements. Big applause to Andrew for this concept video of the next Windows release. http://youtu.be/6COcMfrXvDE

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otherland I've read these before, even bought them to do so, would like a copy to read in spare time even if it takes Me several years... LoL Will be looking out for this in the future also:

TYVM Saa...

Vintage Mugshots from the 1920s William Stanley Moore – I recently stumbled upon an incredible collection of vintage mugshots housed by the Historic Houses Trust. Many of these intriguing photographs are also accompanied by a description of the person and the crime(s) they have committed. For example, the image above of Mr. William Stanley Moore was taken May 1st, 1925. The caption describes him as: an opium dealer operating with large quantities of faked opium and cocaine. Also a wharf labourer and associates with water front thieves and drug traders. The images themselves are of excellent quality, beautifully composed and in many cases, quite artistic. Please enjoy this curated selection of 30 photographs along with brief descriptions of each when available. 2. Albert Stewart Warnkin and Adolf Gustave Beutler 18 October 1920 Albert Stewart Warnkin is listed in the NSW Police Gazette of 10 November 1920, as charged with attempting to carnally know a girl eight years old. No entry is found for Beutler, whose picture is inscribed ‘wilful and obscene exposure’. 3. Thomas Craig, Raymond Neil (aka “Gaffney the Gunman”), William Thompson and FW Wilson January 25, 1928 This photograph was apparently taken in the aftermath of a raid led by Chief Bill Mackay – later to be Commissioner of Police – on a house at 74 Riley Street, ‘lower Darlinghurst’. Numerous charges were heard against the 15 men and women arrested. It was a house frequented by ‘reputed thieves’. 4. Eugenia Falleni, alias Harry Crawford, 1920 When ‘Harry Leon Crawford’, hotel cleaner of Stanmore was arrested and charged with wife murder he was revealed to be in fact Eugeni Falleni, a woman and mother, who had been passing as a man since 1899. In 1914, as ‘Harry Crawford’, Falleni had married the widow Annie Birkett. Three years later, shortly after she announced to a relative that she had found out ‘something amazing about Harry’, Birkett disappeared. 5. Ah Low May 31, 1928 6. Joseph Messenger February 15, 1922 Joseph Messenger and Valerie Lowe were arrested in 1921 for breaking into an army warehouse and stealing boots and overcoats to the value of 29 pounds 3 shillings. The following year, when this photograph was taken, they were charged with breaking and entering a dwelling. Those charges were eventually dropped but they were arrested again later that year for stealing a saddle and bridle from Rosebery Racecourse. As an adult Messenger was active in inner-Sydney underworld through the 1920s, and he appears in the NSW Criminal Register (16 July 1930 entry no 171) as a seasoned criminal and gang affiliate. 7. De Gracy (sic) and Edward Dalton circa 1920 8. Frank Murray alias Harry Williams February 4, 1929 Harry Williams was sentenced to 12 months hard labour on March 1929 for breaking, entering and stealing. Although he ‘consorts with prostitutes’ and ‘frequents hotels and wine bars in the vicinity of the Haymarket’, he is described as being of ‘quiet disposition’. 9. Gilbert Burleigh and Joseph Delaney August 27, 1920 Gilbert Burleigh on the left is identified as a ‘hotel barber’, and Delaney’s picture is labelled ‘false pretences & conspiracy’. A companion photograph makes it clear that in fact Delaney was the hotel barber – meaning one who books into a hotel, boarding house or residential and robs (or ‘snips’) fellow patrons, usually in the dead of night 10. William Cahill July 30, 1923 VINTAGE MUGSHOTS ‘SPECIAL PHOTOGRAPHS’ BY NSWPD These pictures are from a series of around 2500 “special photographs” taken by the New South Wales Police Department photographers between 1910 and 1930. These “special photographs” were mostly taken in the cells at the Central Police Station, Sydney and are, as curator Peter Doyle explains, of “men and women recently plucked from the street, often still animated by the dramas surrounding their apprehension”. Doyle suggests that, compared with the subjects of prison mug shots, “the subjects of the Special Photographs seem to have been allowed – perhaps invited – to position and compose themselves for the camera as they liked. Their photographic identity thus seems constructed out of a potent alchemy of inborn disposition, personal history, learned habits and idiosyncrasies, chosen personal style (haircut, clothing, accessories) and physical characteristics.” 11. Sydney Skukerman, or Skukarman September 25, 1924 An entry in the Supplement to the NSW Police Gazette Sydney for Skukerman, (alias Kukarman, alias Cecil Landan) is captioned ‘obtains goods from warehousemen by falsely representing that he is in business’. 12. “Silent Tom” Richards and T Ross April 12, 1920 13. George Whitehall February 24, 1922 George Whitehall, carpenter, handed himself into Newtown police after hacking to death his common-law wife, Ida Parker on Thursday afternoon 21 February 1922, at their home in Pleasant Avenue, Erskineville. This photo was apparently taken the following morning at Newtown Police Station. 14. Guiseppe Fiori, alias Permontto August 5, 1924 No entry for Fiori/Permontto is found in the NSW Police Gazette for 1924, although this photo appears in a later photo supplement, in which Fiori is described as a safebreaker. 15. John Walter Ford, Oswald Clive Nash June 1921 16. Kong Lee November 27, 1922 Kong Lee makes numerous appearances in the NSW Police Gazette as a ‘safe blower’ and ‘thief’, and is noted in the issue of February 1929 as having recently been seen riding trains ‘in the company of card sharpers and spielers’. 17. Ernest Joseph Coffey June 2, 1922 18. Ernest James Montague August 29, 1927 19. Walter Keogh February 9, 1922 Walter Keogh appears in the Photo Supplement to the 1923 NSW Police Gazette (7 February Group 1 p. 4) identified as a pickpocket, and later in 1928 (26 December, Group 4 p. 15) as a ‘suspected person and bogus land salesman’. Keogh was also profiled in exposes in the newspaper Truth in 1928, as a ‘go-getter’, ie a con man who sells suburban building blocks at grossly inflated prices, by falsely leading the buyers to believe the lots may be promptly resold for a huge profit. 20. Thomas Bede November 22, 1928 21. Masterman Thomas Scoringe November 29, 1922 22. Patrick Riley August 11, 1924 Patrick Riley (alias Matthew Edward Riley) was convicted in October 1924 of making counterfeit coins, and of having a coining instrument (ie a mould) in his possession, for which he was sentenced to two years imprisonment with hard labour. 23. Alfred John (or Francis) West April 7, 1922 24. Walter Smith Deember 24, 1924 Walter Smith is listed in the NSW Police Gazette, 24 December 1924, as ‘charged with breaking and entering the dwelling-house of Edward Mulligan and stealing blinds with a value 20 pounds (part recovered)’, and with ‘stealing clothing, a value of 26 pounds (recovered) in the dwelling house of Ernest Leslie Mortimer.’ Sentenced to 6 months hard labour. 25. Sidney “Pretty Sid” Grant October 11, 1921 A picture of Sidney Grant (alias ‘Pretty Sid’) appears in the ‘Criminal Photographs’ section of the New South Wales Police Gazette, 2 May 1923 captioned ‘Confidence man (notes for gold)’. In his landmark sociological work, The Big Con (first published in 1940) David Maurer describes a con trick known as “the hot-seat”, then being practiced in Europe by “such masters of their profession as Pretty Sid, Snowy T-, Kangaroo John, Melbourne Murray, Devil’s Island Eddie, Slab B[rennan] …” It was not unusual then for the most accomplished Australian con artists to seek fresh fields in Britain, Europe (especially France) and North America, where their skills were held in high regard by fellow professionals. 26. Hampton Hirscham, Cornellius Joseph Keevil, William Thomas O’Brien & James O’Brien July 20, 1921 27. Sidney Kelly June 25, 1924 Details surrounding this particular photograph are unknown, but Sidney Kelly was arrested many times and much written about in newspapers during the 1920s, 30s and 40s. He was charged with numerous offences including shooting, and assault, and in the 1940s was a pioneer of illegal baccarat gaming in Sydney. This image appears in the Photo Supplement to the NSW Police Gazette, 26 July 1926, p. 6 captioned, “Illicit drug trader. Drives his own motor car, and dresses well. Associates with criminals and prostitutes.” 28. Harold Price August 13, 1923 Harold Price was a thief and gunman. This photograph was taken after he was was arrested and charged with committing robbery under arms at a house in Randwick, Sydney, for which he was sentenced to two years hard labour. 29. Frederick Edward Davies July 14, 1921 The handwritten inscription on this unnumbered Special Photograph reads ‘Frederick Edward Davies stealing in picture shows and theatres Dets Surridge Clark and Breen Central 14-7-21′. Police held sneak thieves in particularly low regard, which may account for the decision to photograph Davies in front of the police station’s toilet stalls. 30. Herbert Ellis circa 1920 The precise circumstances surrounding this picture are unknown, but Ellis is found in numerous police records of the 1910s, 20s and 30s. He is variously listed as a housebreaker, a shop breaker, a safe breaker, a receiver and a suspected person. A considerably less self-assured Ellis appears in the NSW Criminal Register of 29 August 1934 (no. 206). His convictions by then include ‘goods in custody, indecent langauge, stealing, eceiving and throwing a missile. About the Forensic Photography Archive In 1990 the Historic Houses Trust rescued a remarkable collection of NSW Police forensic photographs from a flooded warehouse in Lidcombe. Created between 1912 and 1964, the archive contains approximately 130,000 glass plate negatives depicting crime scenes, police activities, forensic evidence and mug shots and may be the biggest police photography collection in the southern hemisphere. The Historic Houses Trust has the job of conserving, repackaging, digitising, researching and cataloguing the archives contents, for which original record systems have been lost. Major exhibitions featuring the archive have travelled widely, including Crime Scene and Femme Fatale and two books have been produced City of Shadows and Crooks Like Us by Peter Doyle. Ongoing discoveries from the archive are regularly displayed within a dedicated in the Archive Gallery at the Justice & Police Museum. The current exhibition is Collision: Misadventure by Motorcar which depicts car crashes and traffic accidents between 1920 and 1960 as well as the changing streets of Sydney, developments in automobiles and the increasing involvement of police in traffic management. The Historic Houses Trust continues to explore this fascinating archive, attaching stories to events, histories to scenes, and motives to seemingly inexplicable behaviours. More details about the archive and information about upcoming exhibitions can be found on the Historic Houses Trust website http://hht.net.au. The Justice & Police Museum is open daily 9.30am – 5pm, cnr Albert & Phillip Streets Circular Quay, General $10 | Concession $5 | Family $20, T 02 9252 1144, books available at http://shop.hht.net.au. Photographs by The Sydney Justice & Police Museum Source: http://twistedsifter.com

TYVM Saa, You da Man...

It is a bit special, that's why I had to share....

I am forever changing Mine so will give a try, TY...