Kid Creole & the Coconuts

God with right connections...

Lord Balaji was a locally popular Hindu god in Hyderabad, India, until a few years ago when a priest noticed that more of his worshippers were complaining that valuable U.S. professional "H-1B" visas were harder to get.
Overnight, Balaji was transformed from a purveyor of general prosperity to the "visa god," specializing in lucky H-1Bs, and the temple now draws 100,000 visitors a week.
Said one, "I've never heard of anyone who's gone to the temple whose visa (application) got rejected" (even though typical advice from priest is simply to walk around the temple "11 times").

About criminals TENOS, ZULKIJORA & MARISAR

These three weirdos (or perhaps it is only one changing the identity) have tried multiple times to leave comments on people's blog pages with virus infected links.

EVERYONE - PLEASE BE AWARE OF THESE CROOKS. DO NOT GO ON ANY LINKS OTHER THAN THE ONES CREATED BY THE BLOG PAGE CREATOR (just to be safe).

I am checking all the comments before they are published, so you should be safe here.

GET A LIFE, YOU FREAKS!!!! This world is strange enough without your lame contribution... Do you cheer when you make someone's life miserable? Pathetic little souls. It's actually sad...

Mar.02/2008 - Well, Mr. DURAN just joined in the gang. Congrats to all the alleged helpers offering "antispyware".

Tom Petty

Brilliant Britain

UNIVERSITY CHALLENGE (BBC2)
Jeremy Paxman: What is another name for 'cherrypickers' and 'cheesemongers'?
Contestant: Homosexuals.
Paxman: No. They're regiments in the British Army who will be very upset with you.

BEG, BORROW OR STEAL (BBC2)
Jamie Theakston: Where do you think Cambridge University is?
Contestant: Geography isn't my strong point.
Theakston: There's a clue in the title.
Contestant: Leicester.

BBC NORFOLK
Stewart White: Who had a worldwide hit with What A Wonderful World?
Contestant: I don't know.
White: I'll give you some clues: what do you call the part between your hand and your elbow?
Contestant: Arm.
White: Correct. And if you're not weak, you're...?
Contestant: Strong.
White: Correct - and what was Lord Mountbatten's first name?
Contestant: Louis.
White: Well, there we are then. So who had a worldwide hit with the song What A Wonderful World?
Contestant: Frank Sinatra?

LATE SHOW (BBC MIDLANDS)
Alex Trelinski: What is the capital of Italy?
Contestant: France.
Trelinski: France is another country. Try again.
Contestant: Oh, um, Benidorm.
Trelinski: Wrong, sorry, let's try another question. In which country is the Parthenon?
Contestant: Sorry, I don't know.
Trelinski: Just guess a country then.
Contestant: Paris.

THE WEAKEST LINK (BBC2)
Anne Robinson:- Oscar Wilde, Adolf Hitler and Jeffrey Archer have all written books about their experiences in what: Prison, or the Conservative Party?
Contestant: The Conservative Party.

BEACON RADIO (WOLVERHAMPTON)
DJ Mark: For Pounds 10, what is the nationality of the Pope?
Ruth from Rowley Regis: I think I know that one. Is it Jewish?

GWR FM (Bristol)
Presenter: What happened in Dallas on November 22, 1963?
Contestant: I don't know, I wasn't watching it then.

PHIL WOOD SHOW (BBC RADIO MANCHESTER)
Phil: What's 11 squared?
Contestant: I don't know.
Phil: I'll give you a clue. It's two ones with a two in the middle.
Contestant: Is it five?

RICHARD AND JUDY
Q: Which American actor is married to Nicole Kidman?
A: Forrest Gump.

LINCS FM PHONE-IN
Presenter: Which is the largest Spanish-speaking country in the world?
Contestant: Barcelona.
Presenter: I was really after the name of a country.
Contestant: I'm sorry, I don't know the names of any countries in Spain.

NATIONAL LOTTERY (BBC1)
Question: What is the world's largest continent?
Contestant: The Pacific

ROCK FM (PRESTON)
Presenter: Name a film starring Bob Hoskins that is also the name of a famous painting by Leonardo Da Vinci.
Contestant: Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

THE BIGGEST GAME IN TOWN (ITV)
Steve Le Fevre: What was signed, to bring World War I to an end in 1918?
Contestant: Magna Carta?

JAMES O'BRIEN SHOW (LBC)
O'Brien: How many kings of England have been called Henry?
Contestant: Er, well, I know there was a Henry the Eighth ... er... er ... three?

CHRIS SEARLE SHOW (BBC RADIO BRISTOL)
Searle: In which European country is Mount Etna?
Caller: Japan.
Searle: I did say which European country, so in case you didn't hear that, I can let you try again.
Caller: Er ..... Mexico?

PAUL WAPPAT (BBC RADIO NEWCASTLE)
Paul Wappat: How long did the Six-Day War between Egypt and Israel last?
Contestant (after long pause): Fourteen days.

DARYL DENHAM'S DRIVETIME (VIRGIN RADIO)
Daryl Denham: In which country would you spend shekels?
Contestant: Holland?
Denham: Try the next letter of the alphabet.
Contestant: Iceland? Ireland?
Denham (helpfully): It's a bad line. Did you say Israel?
Contestant: No.

PHIL WOOD SHOW (BBC GMR)
Wood: What 'K' could be described as the Islamic Bible?
Contestant: Er . .. ..
Wood: It's got two syllables . . . Kor . . .
Contestant: Blimey?
Wood: Ha ha ha ha, no. The past participle of run . .
Contestant: (Silence)
Wood: OK, try it another way. Today I run, yesterday I . . .
Contestant: Walked?

THE VAULT
Melanie Sykes: What is the name given to the condition where the sufferer can fall asleep at any time?
Contestant: Nostalgia.

STEVE WRIGHT IN THE AFTERNOON (BBC RADIO 2)
Wright: Johnny Weissmuller died on this day. Which jungle-swinging character clad only in a loincloth did he play?
Contestant: Jesus.

Bukowski Landmark

Charles Bukowski (1921-1994), a hard-drinking writer, best known for chronicling his own seedy life on the streets of Los Angeles, penned his first novel Post Office, at a bungalow. City leaders decided to name it a historic landmark, by recommendation of cultural heritage commission, despite its bedraggled condition.
Note being - "Hollywood is famous not because everybody has been a saint or a nun. It's always attracted complicated and important people and Charles Bukowski certainly fits that mold."(!)

Bob Seger

Alarming Headlines

Jilted Lesbian Rugby Player Killed Herself After Brutally Beating Lover Who Had Webcam Affair

Man, 75, Hurt While Riding Pet Buffalo

Boy Glues Hand to Bed to Avoid School

Grandmother of eight makes hole in one

Deaf mute gets new hearing in killing

Police begin campaign to run down jaywalkers

House passes gas tax onto senate

Stiff opposition expected to casketless funeral plan

Safety experts say school bus passengers should be belted

Quarter of a million Chinese live on water

Iraqi head seeks arms

Queen Mary having bottom scraped

Prostitutes appeal to Pope

Panda mating fails - veterinarian takes over

NJ judge to rule on nude beach

Child's stool great for use in garden

Organ festival ends in smashing climax

Javier and Marion

Neopisivo mi je drago za ovo dvoje. Cestitke Javieru i Marion na Oscarima!
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Soo glad these guys have won! (earlier about No country)

Recipe for Life

Holy Grail of Beers

Only 60,000 cases a year of Westvleteren are brewed because the Belgian Trappist monks with the centuries-old recipe refuse to expand their business. Westvleteren is sold only at the monastery gate, by appointment, with a two-case-a-month limit, at a price that's reasonable for retail beer, but anyone who gets it from a re-seller will pay 10 times that much. 'Producing more', said Brother Joris, 'would interfere with our job of being a monk.' Furthermore, said Brother Joris, referencing the Bible, 'If you can't have it, possibly you do not really need it.'
Makes you think...

Soldier of Fortune

Sam Levenson

1. The first screw to get loose in your head is the one that holds your tongue in place.
2. You're only young once. After that it takes some other excuse for behaving like an idiot.
3. Even if the majority agrees on an idiotic idea, it is still an idiotic idea.
4. There are more important things in life than money. The trouble is they all cost money.
5. On sex education in schools: Let them teach it! If the schools teach sex the way they teach everything else, the kids will lose interest anyhow.
6. Somewhere on this globe a woman is giving birth to a child every ten seconds. She must be found and stopped.
7. You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
8. I admit that my wife is outspoken, but by whom?
9. Insanity is hereditary. You can get it from your children.
10. Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.

Amazing Tool, courtesy of NASA

World Wind is an interactive world map that looks great and has the efficiency and simplicity of Google. Along with the basic geographic longitudes and latitudes, there is an endless source of geographical information.

LAYER MANAGER button offers you to choose the types of information World Wind will deliver: satellite, geo-satellite or aerial photographs. Every corner of the planet is visible and can be viewed. The final range of the browser ends with 100 metres from the surface. World Wind has obvious graphic superiority and accuracy of data, and it is becoming increasingly better connected with the rest of online open source contents daily.

PLACEFINDER tool - after choosing a location one can get abundance of information about it from encyclopaedic sources; images, maps and animations of immeasurable geographical significance. It is also in a real-time mode in which data and images of the virtual globe are only one or two days old.

I love the mission and alleged purpose of this program: To inspire the next generation of explorers!

Check it out!

So after over 60 years...

Germany launches the Tintin-style comic Book called `The Search` that tells the story of Esther, a fictional Jewish survivor of the Holocaust. Schools will aim to teach underprivileged children about the Nazi era. Germany now has the world's fastest growing Jewish community, with 220,000 arriving from the former Soviet Union since 1990. Racist violence remains a big problem there, and the revival of a Jewish community has brought a rise in anti-Semitism with it.

Tom Waits

Now, this is unexpected

What a combination...
Scarlett Johansson has worked with Tom Waits on the LP 'Anywhere I Lay My Head' which is coming out in May. Waits was "very pleased" with her vocal talent. She said: "Tom Waits' melodies are so beautiful and his voice is so distinct. I sent him some of my early, early recordings, and he said, 'Go ahead.'" Almost all songs are covers of Waits' songs. David Bowie and Yeah Yeah Yeahs guitarist Nick Zinner also worked on the record.
Can't wait to hear that one...

Buena Vista Social Club

Another interesting documentary

Kevin Macdonald's film, The Last King of Scotland, was a fictionalised account of Idi Amin. Now, Macdonald has raised the intriguing possibility that Che Guevara's capture by the CIA in the forests of Bolivia 40 years ago was orchestrated by Klaus Barbie, the Nazi war criminal called the 'Butcher of Lyon'. Barbie was the Gestapo chief in Lyon whose crimes included the murder of 44 Jewish children, taken from an orphanage and sent to Auschwitz. Improbably, the men's paths crossed in Bolivia. My Enemy's Enemy, a documentary directed by Macdonald, examines how Barbie's record was disregarded when he was recruited by US intelligence after the Second World War as a useful tool against communism. He evaded French justice by fleeing to Bolivia where, living under the alias Klaus Altmann, he was welcomed by fascist sympathisers. In 1966 a disguised Guevara arrived in Bolivia to organise the overthrow of its military dictatorship.
The Americans had been hunting Guevara and turned to Barbie for his first-hand knowledge of counter-guerrilla warfare: he had attempted to crush the French Resistance and was responsible for the death of its celebrated leader, Jean Moulin. Barbie met Major Shelton, the commander of the unit from the US, and gave him advice on how to fight this guerrilla war. Barbie had little respect for Che Guevara. He said once, "This poor man wouldn't have survived at all if he fought in the Second World War. He was a pitiful adventurer, nothing like his popular image. The people have turned him into a myth, a great figure. But what has he actually achieved? Absolutely nothing".' I suppose Barbie himself thought he had achieved a whole lot...
The Che claim came from several sources. In October 1967 the Bolivian army, with CIA help, captured the 39-year-old Guevara and killed him.
Barbie was involved in torture again in Bolivia and dreamed of establishing a Fourth Reich in the Andes. But he was tracked down by Nazi hunters and eventually extradited to France, where he was sentenced to life imprisonment and died in jail in Lyon in September 1991.

Beyond the Sea

Conspiracy - a must see series

THE SECRET RULERS OF THE WORLD
PART 1; PART 2; PART 3; PART 4; PART 5; PART 6; PART 7; PART 8; PART 9; PART 10; PART 11; PART 12; PART 13; PART 14; PART 15; PART 16; PART 17; PART 18; PART 19; PART 20; PART 21; PART 22; PART 23; PART 24; PART 25; PART 26; PART 27; PART 28; PART 29

Chicken...crossing the road, of course

Robert De Niro:
Are you telling me the chicken crossed that road? Is that what you're telling me?

Martin Luther King, Jr:
I envision a world where all chickens, be they black or white or brown or red or speckled, will be free to cross roads without having their motives called into question.

Grandpa:
In my day, we didn't ask why the chicken crossed the road. Someone told us that the chicken crossed and that was good enough for us.

Captain James T Kirk:
To boldly go where no chicken has gone before.

Sigmund Freud:
The fact that you are at all concerned that the chicken crossed the road reveals your underlying sexual insecurity. How do you feel about your mother?

The C.I.A:
Who told you about the chicken? Did you see the chicken? There was no chicken. Please step into the car.

Albert Einstein:
Did the chicken really cross the road or did the road move beneath the chicken?

Bill Clinton:
I did not cross the road with THAT chicken. What do you mean by chicken? Could you define the word 'chicken'.

Homer Simpson:
Mmmm Chicken.

Nick Cave

"Delicate" Art

The Centre for Recent Drawing art gallery in a London, England, suburb scheduled a series of 55 works by artist Jordan McKenzie, called "Spent," even though they consist merely of canvases onto which he had ejaculated and covered with carbon sprinkles. McKenzie maintained that the works were "heartfelt and delicate."

Metropia - Our Future?

Swedish animated feature film for adults is taking place in a near future in Europe. The world is running out of oil and the net of undergrounds has been connected, creating an enormous web underneath Europe. Roger from a Stockholm suburb tries to stay away from the underground, however one day he finds out that his life is controlled in every detail (Matrix?). He tries to break free, and in order to succeed he needs super-model Nina to help him...
It is a mix of animated and non-animated scenes. Voices by Juliette Lewis (Natural Born Killers) and Vincent Gallo (Buffalo '66). Sounds like a good one.

If My Nose Was Running Money

Southern Culture at its Best

Hexes and Sexes

FBI was investigating Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR), and found that the deputy director of that office, Ginger Cruz, a self-described Wiccan, had been threatening to place hexes on employees if they co-operated with outsiders' evaluations of the agency. The Director of SIGIR, Stuart Bowen, who was a former aide to President Bush, commissioned a book telling the history of the SIGIR, and also claimed printing cost of the book to be millions of dollars. He was "dating on government time", had unexplained absences from work and did some cover ups on time sheets to hide the absences. Former employees accuse him of taking non-work related trips to Texas and France, but counting it as paid time.
Bowen inteds to run for congress in Virginia...