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Oct 01, 2007 at 05:11 PM |
The veteran star of the cult TV show Star Trek will soon be telling his legion of fans to “Boldly go… left at the next junction.”
Hollywood icon William Shatner will be lending his distinctive, oddly-modulated voice to a computer navigational device that’s been named after him. At a press launch for the ShatNav, the Canadian actor said: “With the ShatNav, even the most mundane school-run or shopping trip can become a pulse-pounding human adventure - a trek, if you will.
By combining the latest in high-tech, state-of-the-art navigational technology with the mad voice of Captain Kirk, you'll know you're listening to a machine that'll double damn-well make sure you’ll get to where you want to go. As I deliver your directions in my unique, staccato rhythm - Where. Every. Word. Seems to form. An urgent sentence - you can sit back and relax as I guide you to ‘Space – the final parking space.’”
The ShatNav will be released in time for Christmas and will feature a wide range of specially adapted classic Captain Kirk-isms including "Like a poor marksman you just keep missing the exit!", "You Klingon bastard, there's roadworks ahead!" and "KHAAAAAAAAN!!"
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Last Updated ( Oct 01, 2007 at 05:14 PM )
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Sep 28, 2007 at 05:19 PM |
Sony bosses have halted production of the latest Colin McCrae game as initial test-runs show players were left very disappointed.
One tester said "On level one you just have to stay very still in a dark wooden box for eternity. I can only play for three hours per night... I'm never going to complete it".
Sony have said they're instead concentrating efforts on their new release, SINGSTAR: PAVAROTTI.
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Sep 28, 2007 at 04:59 PM |
Al Qaeda appealed to the environmental lobby today with an announcement that it would carbon offset the attacks on the twin towers. A team from the “stop global warming” cell of the terrorist organisation has spent the last 6 months calculating the total carbon dioxide emissions from 9/11 and plans to invest in a range of offsetting green projects across the world.
The team has calculated that CO2 emitted from the world trade centre attacks was 4.501 million tonnes. However if the hijacked planes had continued their journey to their final destination they would have used 1.5 million tonnes more, and in addition the team claim that the slowdown in air travel in the aftermath of 9/11 reduced emissions by a further 3 million tonnes.
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The remaining impact is relatively small and so Al Qaeda is donating $45 to a hydro-electric power station in India, $20 to a bio-fuel centre in Finland and is also purchasing a worm farm and a leaf composter.
Terrorist experts studying the announcement say that further wind power schemes and re-forestation projects cannot be ruled out. |
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Last Updated ( Sep 28, 2007 at 05:01 PM )
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Sep 28, 2007 at 04:37 PM |
The Death Porn Bureau has mentioned this before, but we’re gonna say it again: This year, the number of child murders has tripled all across Russia, and the wave isn’t showing the slightest sign of abating.
The latest brutal murder of the underage occurred in the small town of Tolyatti, which sits on the Volga River in the Samara region. On the morning of September 20, the bodies of two young girls, aged 15 and 16, were found dead on an isolated bank of the Volga. They were hogtied and bound together, both had plastic bags wrapped around their heads. The cause of death has not yet been determined, but both girls were sliced up and had multiple stab wounds on their bodies. For some reason the killers fled the scene before they could finish the job. From the looks of it, they wanted to sink the evidence. One of the two girls had a large stone tied to her body. The girls, whose names aren’t being released, went missing about a week ago. The circumstances surrounding their disappearance aren’t clear, but it is known that the two were friends.
As Newsru.com reports, this isn’t the only child Death Porn to come out of the Samara region. Just a few months ago an 8-year-old Tajik girl was found dead in a large parking structure in Samara. Her tiny body was small enough fit into a plastic shopping bag, into which she was stuffed after being raped, beaten and strangled with a nylon cord.
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Last Updated ( Sep 28, 2007 at 04:39 PM )
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Sep 25, 2007 at 03:29 PM |
A man has been arrested for allegedly downloading child porn in a first-class airport lounge in view of other passengers. Australian Federal Police Assistant Commissioner Roman Quaedvlieg said the 44-year-old man had been downloading child pornography in the first-class lounge at Melbourne Airport on Friday.
He was using a free access computer at a desk and was overseen by passers-by. The commissioner said the man had IT expertise and had been able to circumvent the lounge's computer firewalls.
His home in Naremburn, Sydney, was searched and a computer and CDs were seized.
Police allege at least 57 images were downloaded at the airport and stored on the computer's hard drive.
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