Archive for April, 2007

Cocaine and Ashes

(via smh.com.au) Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards has acknowledged consuming a raft of illegal substances in his time. And in comments published on Tuesday, he said he snorted his father’s ashes mixed with cocaine. “The strangest thing I’ve tried to snort? My father. I snorted my father,” Richards was quoted as saying by British music […]

Want free WiFi? Introducing Google TiSP…

Flush it away for free with TiSP (Toilet Internet Service Provider) (Via Google): Google TiSP (BETA) is a fully functional, end-to-end system that provides in-home wireless access by connecting your commode-based TiSP wireless router to one of thousands of TiSP Access Nodes via fiber-optic cable strung through your local municipal sewage lines.

My sweet lord

A planned Holy Week exhibition of a nude, anatomically correct chocolate sculpture of Jesus Christ was canceled Friday amid complaints from Catholics, including Cardinal Edward Egan. The “My Sweet Lord” display was shut down by the hotel that houses the Lab Gallery in Manhattan, said Matt Semler, the gallery’s creative director. Semler said he resigned […]

Sydney in darkness

The Sydney Opera House’s gleaming white-shelled roof was darkened Saturday night along with much of the rest of Australia’s largest city, which switched off the lights to register concern about global warming.