Postcards From The Ledge

Monday, March 19, 2007

Anti-Theft Coffee Cup

Tired of the office clepto stealing your mug off your desk and wrapping his grubby lips around it, taking loud, disgusting slurps?

Help is at hand.

This great mug has a unique key/plug you have to plug in, otherwise the coffee makes a very messy exit.

Messy if you don’t remember to put the key/plug in yourself, but you’ll probably only forget that once or twice….

Source

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

British schools take on gambling addiction

As the online and offline gambling addiction among the youth of U.K. s increasing, some schools are taking that extra step in preventing it. At least two private schools in England are now offering their pupils classes which focus on the dangers that could result from compulsive gambling. Harlow School, located in Middlesex, and King's College School in south London are helping their young students to avoid gambling addiction.

At King's College School, suspicion was raised when some students start showing an odd behavior, being unprepared and distracted in class. It turned out that those students were gambling on the Internet until the late hours. Following this incident, the school, which already had a gambling educational program, went a step further as to bring a recovered compulsive gambler to the class.

Harlow School, which is a boarding school, is not aware of such incidents occurring with their pupils, because it's easier for them to monitor the Internet activities of their students, than the parents at home with their children. This did not ease the school board of the Middlesex school and they introducing their own program for gambling awareness.

It is expected over the course of the next few years more and more schools to employ such programs, or refurbish existing ones to cover the potential dangers of Internet gambling and betting.

OG Paper.com

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Sexy Multimedia Picturephone from the Future Is Coming

Latest buzz on the gadget scene is Verizon’s upcoming FiOS Fone, which it calls "the phone that pretty much does it all."



From the cryptic description, it looks like a videophone, desktop organizer and multimedia player that can also handle a contact list, voicemail, calendar and personal memos.

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Monday, March 12, 2007

Israel recalls ambassador found naked, drunk

Diplomat found bound, wearing sex toys outside El Salvador residence

JERUSALEM - Israel has recalled its ambassador to El Salvador after he was found bound, drunk and naked in the yard of his residence, a spokeswoman said Monday.
Tsuriel Raphael has been removed from his post and the Foreign Ministry has begun searching for a replacement, said spokeswoman Zehavit Ben-Hillel.

Two weeks ago, El Salvador police found Raphael naked outside his residence, tied up, gagged and drunk, Israeli media reported. He was wearing several sex toys at the time, the media said. After he was untied, Raphael told police he was the ambassador of Israel, the reports said.

Ben-Hillel said the reports were accurate and that Raphael has been recalled, although he did not break any laws.

“We’re talking about behavior that is unbecoming of a diplomat,” she said.
The ambassador did not file a police complaint in the incident, she said.

History of embarrassing incidents
Raphael had served for six months as the ambassador in El Salvador and for several years at different missions around the world, she said.

The embarrassing affair was one of several involving Israeli diplomats in recent years. In 2000, Israel’s ambassador to France died of cardiac arrest in a Paris hotel under circumstances the Foreign Ministry refused to publicize. Media reports said he was with a woman who was not his wife at the time.

Last year, Israel replaced its ambassador to Australia, Naftali Tamir, after he said Israel and Australia are “like sisters” because both are located in Asia and their peoples don’t have the Asian characteristics of “yellow skin and slanted eyes.”

In 2005, Israel canceled the appointment of a diplomat to Australia after it was discovered that he published pictures of nude Brazilian women on the Internet while on a mission in Brazil.

Source: MSNBC

Thursday, March 08, 2007

Don’t go and play poker in Norway…

Poker Bust in Norway

Authorities in the Industrial area of Strommond, Norway arrested 32 people at a poker club for ‘illegal organized poker’.

Most players were simply fined and allowed to go home, but those who were believed to be the organizers of the game were detained for further investigation.

The local police prosecutor had a very ‘Chief Wiggam’ style quote about the whole thing. "It was difficult to determine any connections among them," said Nicolas Nyhus.

"They most probably were just individuals who meet in the club to play poker."

Source

Tuesday, March 06, 2007

Man prangs £830k Bugatti Veyron

As a fan of all things fast and furious, reading this really hurt….

An unknown driver trashed an £830,000 Bugatti Veyron on Sunday in what UK tabloid The Sun is calling "the world's costliest road crash".



The 253mph beast crashed in pouring rain on a 40mph stretch of the B375 near Chertsey, Surrey, while allegedly doing 100mph. The driver apparently lost control and the hand-built French motor hit a Vauxhall Astra before "smashing into trees up a 3ft bank".

An eyewitness told The Sun: "It was clearly an almighty bang. Bits of Bugatti were strewn all over the road. The front had been virtually ripped off, every panel was damaged and the front wheels were pointing in opposite directions."

The Veyron is owned by by a businessman "who runs a car hire and management company with his brothers", The Sun notes. He claimed he'd rented it to the driver for a cool £20,000 having coughed up an over-the-odds £925,000 for the car, which was delivered just a week earlier.

Regarding a possible salvage operation, Nick Lancaster of car dealers HR Owen said: "It is the first Veyron I have heard of being damaged. We cannot say yet whether it is written off or not."

The Register

Thursday, March 01, 2007

A Canine Carsick Cure and Frozen Doggie Sperm

No more doggie puke in your car! Help is on the way. If you dread taking your four-legged friend anywhere in your car, then say hallo to Cerenia. This Food and Drug Administration approved drug will keep your pooch from vomiting when it gets motion sickness.

The bad news: You’ll probably have to take the dog to the vet (in your car), to approve its use.

Meanwhile,

More people are reportedly freezing Fido’s sperm.

WHY???? You might ask.

While professional breeders have long relied on canine semen banks to help ensure that the genes of top dogs are passed along to future generations, veterinarians say dog lovers everywhere increasingly are using sperm banks with the goal of eventually creating puppies with the traits of a favorite pet.

Another obvious question is: HOW????

Unlike men, male dogs aren't turned on by pornographic pictures or videos. Instead, canine semen banks often rely on a female in heat known as a “teaser” dog. When the male gets ready to mount her, technicians manually stimulate the dog's penis until the animal ejaculates into a collection kit called an "artificial vagina."

Sometimes, electrical stimulation is used to retrieve the sperm.

That’s my appetite gone….

Source: MSNBC and
WGRZ