The Bible; Some people believe in what it says, even for some, when they haven't actually ever read the bible fully. Whilst others look at the bible as nothing more than fiction, a story book, or at best a cultural governance set by man. But whatever side of this equation you fall on, it might be in your interests to read these series on why I think the bible is just a little bit bullshit. If at any point you agree or disagree with something I have to say, I encourage you to comment on the post, or head over to our forum and discuss the matter there.

Section 1: The word of God.

The Bible would have us believe it is the word of “God”, a divine book descended from “Heaven”. But I have two main problems with this idea, the first of which being that the bible was not physically written by God, nor did it magically fall from heaven. Instead as we all should know, the bible was physically written by mere mortals, both men AND women. Now you can claim some divine entity came down from heaven and told them what to write all you like (I call a voice only you can hear telling you what to do a symptom of Schizophrenia nor divinity), but the fact remains it was actually written by human beings, not by divine entities and most certainly not by God. I find it most interesting that out of the hundreds of accounts, none of them were written by “Jesus of Nazareth” who the bible tells us is apparently simultaneously the SON of God AND God in human form. The mere lack of any accounts or scripture from “Jesus of Nazareth” is in itself most telling about the nature of the scriptures. That is to say if it was gods will to write them, surely god would have done at least some of the writing whilst in human form right?

Actually Christian testimony was originally entirely oral, and continued in this medium for roughly twenty years after the supposed death of “Jesus of Nazareth” before the “word of god” was written down as biblical scripture. These scriptures where in fact distributed secretly across early Christian regions that were under Roman rule. In actual fact Roman law at the time made it a capital offence to be Christian &/or to distribute Christian reading materials. Imagine for a moment you live in the year 25A.D. Villages are small, and cities while large compared to villages are still incredibly small compared to modern cities. There are of course no TVs, Radios, Telephones or Computers and there are no planes, trains or cars. This means that travel and communication between villages or cities is measured in days, if not weeks or months. If an Arab stranger rides into your village claiming to be from Egypt which is several months travel away, and tells of the destruction of an Egyptian city, then it's pretty likely, having nothing else to compare the claims against, that you're going to believe it.

So if you get this “secret” scripture proclaiming to be the word of a divine entity (“god”) that is filled with details about how enemy cities are crumbling, and how “god” is going to save his people from the Roman dictatorship, you'd certainly believe it. Instantly you're filled with hope for a better life, and future for your children who are probably currently slaves. Of course at the time there would be no way to verify how true the document is, or even who actually wrote it. In fact, a single document could have potentially been written by several people, as opposed to just one, and the author(s) weren't even necessarily Christian followers. In fact to this day, there is still no way of actually verifying who actually wrote any of these biblical scriptures. People have ideas about who wrote them, there are a wide range of theories, but there are actually no facts surrounding the author(s) nor their motives.

So while on one hand we have a book comprising the writings of unconfirmed authors, claiming to be the word of god, on the other hand there are far MORE biblical scriptures in existence than you will find in any bible. Each version of Christianity makes up their version of the bible from the scriptures it feels best represents their beliefs, but all leave more other then they put in. In fact there are some biblical scriptures which aren't contained in ANY bible. So we're meant to believe the people who wrote these scriptures were all influenced into writing the divine and infallible word of god, we're also meant to believe that some of those teachings should be excluded from our view? That some of them are irrelevant, or down right wrong? But wait, isn't “God” meant to be infallible? In fact, if the heads of the Christian churches honestly believed that all biblical scripture was the infallible word of god, and that god was our all knowing creator, then guess what; they would have no choice but to include each and ever biblical scripture as part of the bible. All of it, even the parts written by women.

Think about it, according to the bible, perverting the word of god is a sin, on you will go to hell for all eternity for. Guess what excluding some of the things “god” has apparently said through people in biblical scripture, in order to better show the word of god in the way you want it to be, would be called. Hrmmm. And guess what then spreading the teachings in such a perversion would be called. According to the beliefs of Christians themselves just by reading their bibles and spreading what they say as the whole word of god, all Christians are going to hell... :lol:

Links;

Wikipedia (Early Christianity)
Early Christian Writings
Religious Tolerance

So you went out and paid $800+ for your iPhone, or got jammed into a long term contract that sees you paying over $1000 for the device, you faithfully stood by Apple even though your iPod or iPhone exploded. Your even excitedly impatient for the release of the iPad near you so you can snap one up at $900, despite it's severe lack of features and general uselessness. You're a faithful Apple user, you buy apps by the dozen, you're addicted right?

You're even about to wet your pants over the release of the announced iOS 4.0 and the speculation over a new iPhone device. Well here is a feature in iOS 4.0 you may not have heard to much fan fare about, iAds. That's the name of course Apple have given to their new targeted advertising system, which will place targeted advertisements in your apps.

That's right you've paid for a device and an application that is going to spam the heck out of you every time you use it. I'm sure if you enjoy having ads all over the place this won't present the slightest problem to you, but for most people iAds might just be an iKiller. I mean we put up with the ads from Google, Facebook, myspace and the like because well, they're free services, ads are how they make their money. But apple make a hefty profit without ads, they're essentially asking you to pay for the privilege of being spammed. Apple CEO Steve Jobs has announced he plans to serve 1 BILLION ADS PER DAY

Sure you could just use the device in default and not download any extra apps, but seriously if you were going to do such a thing, why would you bother getting an iPhone or iPad? There are plenty of phones in the $100 - $200 range that have the same features as the iPhone minus the apps (Heck some even have the apps too now days).

So, why the sudden shift into advertising you might ask? Well firstly it isn't sudden, it's been planned for quite some time now. Apple plan to give 60% of the profits to the application developer and keep 40% to take care of the costs of serving those ads. It's a move that is meant to make iOS look like a more desirable platform to big name game and software developers, like Nintendo. Apple seems to think people will want to spend hours on end playing in-depth, graphic rich games on their iPhone or iPad as opposed to their Gaming Console or PC; I think Apple are a little delusional.

If Apple are so interested in gaming perhaps they should focus on making the MAC more gamer friendly, &/or developing a gaming console of their own. They sound like far more logical solutions to me, but of course in the world of Steve Jobs it's a better idea to attempt to get people to play games on a tiny screen (part of which will be taken up by ads while you're in the game) with poor user game controls. And of course the Telcos will love this idea, think about it. 17% of the mobile market in Australia owns an iPhone, each one being served data using ads, day and night! Oh yeah, get ready for your mobile bill to rise.

Which leaves just one question left, seriously, what is with Apple placing an 'i' before the name of every product they sell? Am I the only one who is getting annoyed at that? But I suppose if they insist on putting an 'i' before there advertising product, a more accurately descriptive name might have been "idontwantads".

Links;

iTWire Article
The Age Article
Nintendo USA President on Apple

Todays email scam struck me more than the usual ones do as instead of claiming to come from some ambiguous fictional entity, this one claimed to be a lottery draw done by GOOGLE! I know Google get into a lot of different areas of business, but random online lottery draws probably will never be one of those products offered by Google. The scammers email follows;

From: info@google.co.uk [143.89.13.26]
Reply-to: gca01122009@windowslive.com
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000
Message-ID:201004010022.o310Lxhb041468@mx4.ust.hk
To: My email
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 02:25:41 -0700
Subject: GOOGLE NOTIFICATION.

Google Incorporation®.
Belgrave House,
76 Buckingham Palace Road,
London SW1W 9TQ,
United Kingdom.
Notification Date: 26/03/2010.


GOOGLE PROMOTION

Dear Lucky Winner.
We wish to congratulate you once again on this note,for being part of our lucky winners selected this year. This promotion was set-up to encourage the active use of the Google search engine and the Google ancillary services.
Hence we do believe with your winning prize, you will continue to be active and patronage to this company. Google is now the world leading search engine worldwide and in an effort to make sure that it remains the most widely used search engine, an online e-mail balloting was carried out on the 1st of March 2010 without your knowledge and was officially released today being the 26th of March 2010. We wish to formally announce to you that your email
address was attached to a lump sum of Ј450,000.00 {Four Hundred and Fifty Thousand British Pounds Sterling} only.

We also wish to inform you that you have successfully passed the requirements,statutory obligations, verifications and our satisfactory report test conducted for all our online winners. A winning Cheque will be issued in your
name by the Google Promotion Award Team, and also a certificate of prize claims will be sent along side your winning Cheque.

Your Award Winning Details.
Code Number: GUK/3554749405GK
Ticket No: GUK/1008272745GK
Winning Number: GUK/99334353734GK


Information's required from you are part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program.To claim your won prize,please contact your claims representative(Barrister Pascal Greene)neatly filling the verification and fund release form below.

VERIFICATION AND FUNDS RELEASE FORM.

(1) Your Full Name.
(2) Your contact address.
(3) Your Nationality/Country.
(5) Sex.
(7) Age.
(6) Occupation
(4) Your Tel/Fax numbers.
(8) Ever won an online lottery before now?
(9) Alternate Email Address.

You are advised to contact your claims representative with his private email details below to avoid unnecessary delay and complications:

***********************************************
Foreign Transfer Manager.
Pascal Greene
Google Security Department (United Kingdom)
E-mail: pascalgreene@8u8.com

Congratulations from the Staff & Members of the Google interactive Lottery Board Commission.

Yours Sincerely,
Mrs. Tracy Chapman
Google Zonal Coordinator.
London,
United Kingdom

How can you honestly not laugh at that? From the mere fact they're sent it from Google UK, to their Buckingham Palace address, inability to make the £ sign, the fact apparently noted country western singer Tracy Chapman now works for google and, oh yeah the fact google would of course get you to reply to either a web form or google email address, the fact Google don't do lottery draws and of course where all scam lotto falls down, the mere fact that if you've apparently won the draw, why do they need to ask your name, let alone the rest of the details? So first I hit reply to hit up the reply-to address

From: My email
To: gca01122009@windowslive.com
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 23:04:30 +1000
Subject: Re: GOOGLE NOTIFICATION.

Hi Bill,

How are you going today? I must say I was surprised to hear from you, I was sure you had died in that unfortunate plane accident. You must tell me what happened. Where have you been hiding all this time?

Regards,

Peter

Unfortunately for this gag I almost immediately received a return de-sender on this message. It's gotta make you wonder, if the reply-to address, which differs from the google address the email apparently came from and thus helps to give the scam away doesn't actually exist what was the point of putting it in there? My next reply to the address they request reply to in the email made it through, check it out below.

From: My Email
To: pascalgreene@8u8.com
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 23:30:42 +1000
Subject: Re: GOOGLE NOTIFICATION.

Dear Tracey,

Thank-you for your email, I was delighted to hear you had finally given up trying to sing and instead opted for a job behind a keyboard. The world will be glad to know we will never again be tortured by your voice. I feel that you should indeed call me by my first name instead of "lucky winner" even though I am very lucky and I'm certainly a winner, so please be sure to call me by my first name from now on. I really don't understand why you need all those details from me if I've won your draw. I mean shouldn't you already have them? Never the less, here they are.

*(1) Your Full Name. Mark Brown
*
*(2) Your contact address. 4 Bridge Street, Peterborough PE1 1EH**
*
*(3) Your Nationality/Country. British/England
*
*(5) Sex. Male
*
*(7) Age. 48
*
*(6) Occupation Financial Analyst
*
*(4) Your Tel/Fax numbers. Tel: 0345 456 456 4 Fax: 01733 424405*
*(8) Ever won an online lottery before now? No, never. I'm so lucky
*
*(9) Alternate Email Address. None

*
I would like it if you could please *FAX* me the details of my winning, what I have to do in order to pick up the winnings as well as your contact details as soon as possible. Faxing works better for me than email, as it will give me a hard copy for my records and my secretary will hand it to me as soon as it comes through. Where as emails may take me hours to receive. Be sure to put ATT: Mark Brown on the cover sheet to be sure it gets to me in a timely manner. I am very excited about winning this lottery draw. Also please be sure to telephone approximately 15 minutes after you have finished faxing through the information to make sure I have received your fax. Thank you once again Tracey, have a lovely day.

Kindest Regards,

Mark Brown
Senior Analyst
Barclays Stockbroking

The beautiful thing about this is the address, telephone and fax number I provided all actually exist! They all tie to the real life Mark Brown as well! Although some people would know him better as Sargent Mark Brown of the Royal British Police force. That's right, its the street address, telephone and fax numbers for the Peterborough Police department. And Mark Brown is the Sargent in charge of the station.

I wish I could see the look on the scammers face when the call the telephone number after faxing the details of the scam through to the police station, marked attention to the officer in charge and find out they've been nicked.

To make it even more funny, I wrote to Google, told them all about the scam and even went so far as to provide them with a copy of the message and FULL email headers. Now not only will the Royal British Police be interested in the scammer, but Google will be gunning for blood on a fraud law suit.

I have a feeling someone in Hong Kong is about to have a VERY bad day.

It's happened to most of us at one time or another, you're walking down the street and someone walks passed wearing a T-shirt with a design, slogan or logo that you just have to have! You look everywhere for the shirt, in the designer shops, in the department stores, in the specialty boutiques but alas you're left shirtless and pondering where they got the damned thing.

Chances are they found it at one of the numerous online T-shirt shops, and with often reasonable prices why wouldn't you open yourself up to the 100's of millions of T-shirt designs on offer online, 24/7. Most fan based websites have their own store and merchandise, including even US! The TJandSarah.com webstore offers loads of great slogan T-shirts and other merchandise so you can show off your wit to the world. But of course, our products aren't going to be everyone's cup of tea, nor (unfortunately for us) would you want to shop exclusively with us for your T-shirt needs.

For the younger reader (or their parent/guardian) Emma-Lee Tee is a great place to start. They have a good selection of T-shirts for every type of teen; from the ultra hip to ultra hippie and with their Annabel collection they even have emos and goths covered too. As a bonus if you live in the USA or Canada shipping is free, but here is the best part if you're an international customer shipping is a flat rate $8! No more nasty surprises at the check-out.

After a T-shirt to make passes by laugh? T-Shirt Hell & CharGrilled are two places to find some pretty funny shirts. They offer a wide range of hilarious T-shirts to suit most styles of humor, from the in your face, to the most subtle satire. But of course they are only 2 of many websites offering hilariously slogan tees, so you also might want to hit your preferred search engine if you can't find what you're looking for there.

Of course for some of you the creative bug might hit and you'll want to design your own T-shirt; there are services that offer that too. Zazzle is a printing service which offers a wide range of product, style and colour options on which you can place your own designs, slogans or logos. Incredibly reasonable prices to! And if you feel so inclined Zazzle will even let you SELL your designs to the public too! Custom your shirt is another fantastic service offering things like stubby holders that Zazzle don't. The only draw back is you have to submit for a quote instead of the whole process being DIY.

So there you have it, a new window into the world of T-shirt design. Now you only need go forth and find that T-shirt you've been looking for, for the better half of a decade.

The following is a conversation that I took part in with some random loser for kicks on Omegle

You're now chatting with a random stranger. Say hi!
You: meow
Stranger: any horny girl for sex chat?
You: sure
Stranger: age?
You: how old are you first?
Stranger: 21
Stranger: u?
You: 19
You: are you at home?
Stranger: ya]
Stranger: why?
You: are you alone?
Stranger: ya
You: is anyone else in the house?
You: I just want to make sure we won't be interrupted
Stranger: ya, bt im alone in mah room
Stranger: no interreptn
Stranger: dont worry
You: Who else is at home with you?
Stranger: grand father
Stranger: he doesnt come to mah room
You: what's a mah?
You: is that your name?
Stranger: mah means my
You: oh, sorry I didn't realise you were mentally handycaped
Stranger: why?
You: I've never done it with a mentally challenged person before
You: can you still... perform?
You: ??
Stranger: i m nt mentally handicaped
You: what?
You: Yes, yes I know you're mentally handicaped... we discussed that already..
Stranger: I am absolutely fine
You: ok take your pants off
Stranger: ya i had already
You: take your nickers off too
Stranger: ok
Stranger: done
Stranger: you take your panty off too
You: you have to get me worked up first
You: how small are you?
Stranger: means?
You: how small is your penis?
Stranger: its 6 inchs
You: Yeah I had heard mentally challenged men also have small penises...
You: we'll have to work with it though
You: so, go ahead retard, get me hot
Stranger: what you are wearing now?
You: my bra, my nickers and my gown
Stranger: ok 1st remove bra
Stranger: Im kissing on your fore head
Stranger: then on your ears
You: slow down there retard
You: I know youre mentally handicaped but you're rushing it
You: you need to take it slower...
Stranger: ok
You: get me excited
Stranger: i come on your lips
You: no no no
You: you're rushing again
You: I don't want your sperm near my lips yet
Stranger: ok u point me what to do
You: Are you a virgin?
Stranger: i told that i wanna kiss ur lips wid my lips
You: no you said you come on my lips
Stranger: ya
You: So you're a virgin?
You: have you ever had a girlfriend?
Stranger: i have girlfrnd
You: wait...
You: you have a girlfriend right now, but you're trying to have cyber with me?
Stranger: so what?
You: Poor girl
You: no wonder you're still a virgin at 21
Stranger: whatever
You: cheating isn't cool
You: what is cool though is that this is being posted live on the internet for everyone to see...
You: oh, and the fact you've been scammed, I'm a guy
You have disconnected.

I stumbled onto this site the other day which suggested ways to have fun with those annoying email scammers. I seem to get one or two of them in my email a week so I thought I'd give it a try with my own little sense for flare on the whole idea of messing with them. I got two of them through today. The first one is from some man, claiming to be a girl wanting to "tell me something important".

From: hassa10nababy@katamail.com
Reply-to: hassanababy@gmx.com
Date: 16/02/2010 8:15 PM
To: My email
Subject: Hello,

Hello,
How are you? hope fine, I Want to introduce my self to you before I go further, My Name is Hassana lsaac. I will like to have a good relationship with you, if you wouldn't mind, I will like to hear from you soon through this email address (hassanababy@gmx.com) because, I have something very important I will like to tell you. Thanks and God bless you,
Miss Hassana lsaac.

I thought for a moment of doing my usual rutine of simply clicking the junk mail button and never having to hear from "Miss lsaac" again. But then I thought again and decided to mess with "her". First I replied to the email address she sent this from (the one she didn't want me to reply to) saying simply "Hi, how are you?". I though I can certainly do better than that, so I then emailed the address she DID want me to email to (hassanababy@gmx.com) with the following reply.

From: My email
Date: 17/02/2010 2:27 PM
To: hassanababy@gmx.com
Subject: RE: Hello,

Hi Glenda,

It's nice to hear from you, it's been awhile. What happened with that gentile warts problem? I hope it's all cleared up now, or is that the important thing you wanted to talk to me about? It's weird that you've turned into a Christian, I always thought you were a committed satanist. I should let you know we're having a sacrifice next week, you should come along. It's a nun this time, it'll be great.

Looking forward to hearing for you,

Peter

I'm awaiting "her" reply and I'll update you when it comes through. lol

It's important to note that when ever I sign up for things online which I think will give me spam, or indeed I reply to a scammer/spammer I use the name peter. This helps to distance me so no spammers or scammers know my name or details. This will become apparent in the email from the next scammer which I received a few hours later.

From: Paul_Meyers@mytopdealbrands.com
Date: 17/02/2010 2:47PM
To: My email
Subject: Partner with an online guru Peter

Hi Peter

My Name is Paul and I’m an internet professional. For almost 10 years now I have been working in
online advertising and last I will show you verified proof of how I made $136,808 in a single month.

Over the years I’ve seen it all, from the top opportunities on the web to the absolute scams. I’ve helped
my good friend Mike to make money online and now I’m going to help you. Truth is I’m no saint, I need
your help just as much as you need mine.

I’m not here to fill your head with false promises about myself or what you can achieve. Let me show you how.

Click here to learn more:
[insert stupid spam link]

Noting how well I figured the last email had gone I figured I should try something similar on this guy.

To: Paul_Meyers@mytopdealbrands.com
Date: 17/02/2010 3:01 PM
From: My email
Subject: RE: Partner with an online guru Peter

Hi James,

It's great to hear from you. It's been what 2 months since you emailed me last? How is Nancy and the kids? Well I hope. It's been awhile since I've spoken to Mike, tell him I said 'hi' and ask him if he ever found out which one of the prostitutes he was banging gave him Venereal Disease?

It's great to see your new job manually picking leeches off the rare and engaged Swap Camel has netted you so much revenue in the last month. Sadly I must tell you that the life of a Camel Leecher isn't for me, I'd miss the city far to much. Anyways it was great to hear from you james. I hope to hear from you again soon. All my love to Nancy and the kids

Peter.

I like the idea of purposely getting their name wrong, because when they reply it lets me know in the first sentence whether or not they're a real person or a robot. IF they're a real life person they'll correct their name and the rest of the details in my reply. If it's a robot it'll go on telling me a bunch of non-sense. Of course if it's a robot it'll end up straight in my junk mail pile. If it's a real person however I'm going to have lots of fun playing with them. I'll be sure to continue to post the fun I have with scammers into my blog for you all to read.

The other brilliant thing about posting this up is that I've included their email addresses. By doing so all the email address collection bots that spammers and scammers deploy across the internet will collect their addressed from my posts and end up spamming and scamming them. lmao. I've also decided to produce a new page on TJandSarah.com where you can enter in the email addresses spammers and scammers use to contact you. But instead of creating a black list like most people would I figure I can make this list HIGHLY visible to spammers sniffing for email addresses. In this way it's likely that they'll end up spamming themselves as well as all their other colleges

Sure it won't fix the spam problem, but it'll certainly be a laugh knowing their spamming themselves. Keep checking back on TJandSarah.com for updates on when the list will go live.

If you ever wanted to see justice come to missionaries, this story it is. The 5 Male and 5 female Christians from Ohio, USA who entered Haiti and stole 33 children have been denied bail. The group of 5 couples attempted to take the Haitian children across the border into the Dominican Republic with the idea of setting up an orphanage. The ill equipped group failed their duty of care with all 33 children suffering dehydration and hunger when they were stopped by border authorities. Some of the children also were injured and required urgent medical attention.

But perhaps even more scary is the fact the Christians seeming had forgotten (or perhaps they simply didn't care) to actually check the children they took really where orphans, with most of them actually still having living parents. A Haiti court has denied the group bail, ordering them to be remanded in custody; charged with kidnapping minors and criminal association.

In situations like this you just have to smile at the fact justice has actually prevailed. But you can't help but feel bad about all the millions who didn't have justice go their way. One would think by now Christian missionaries would be outlawed, I mean consider this; In the USA it was Christian Missionaries who stole native Indian children and denied them their culture. In Canada Christian missionaries did the same to the Inuit people and here in Australia they stole aboriginal children and trained them as servants. Now look at all the pain, suffering and money this has cost those countries? Yet we allow Christian missionaries to go forth from those very same countries and cause ever more havoc around the world.

At what point do our governments see the harm this is doing, at what point do they see that by allowing this practise to continue it costs governments more in tax payer funded charity. At some point surely our governments will see sense and benefit from ruling it illegal to go over seas as a missionary. Personally I think anyone who does such should be stripped of their citizenship and their actions dealt with in international court as crimes against humanity. Just remember, the worst acts in history were ALL perpetrated with the "best of intentions".

At any rate, I want to see more of these poor, third world countries standing up to missionaries, charging and imprisoning them for crimes like those of the 10 Christians in Haiti. If all third world nations did this, then perhaps just that would be a big enough deterrent to stop missionaries entering those countries in the first place.

Black music like rap, hip hop and this new very of r'n'b are weird sure, and they suck big time. But what is even weirder and completely sad is when White people, especially young girls, try to immitate it. To bolster my case I submit the video I pulled off YouTube below. Note other then how stupid their lyrics are and how funny they look trying to be black, that they have completely messed up the chroma key.

For quite some time now Indian's have been moving out of their over populated crap hole of a country and invading the rest of the world. Now the indian invasion has hit Yoville! This addictive facebook app has now been over run with indian's stealing jobs and ruining the poor yovillian way of life. Check out the evidence below

In other Yoville news, Tom Cruise has apparently joined the Zynga team. He can be found on the splash screen when the app loads. His picture is pasted below.

It is rare that I come across a modern day movie that I like, but french film À la folie... pas du tout (He loves me, he loves me not) certainly makes the cut. It is a movie that is well thought out, leaving plot holes tiny and scarce. The clever script is taken to another level both with insightful direction and divine acting on behalf of the lead roles.

À la folie... pas du tout tells the story of waitress/student Angélique whom is madly inlove with Cardiologist Loïc and plans to run off with him. Almost needless to say Loïc is married, and his wife is pregnant with their first child. Add to the mix, student doctor David whom himself has fallen for Angélique and you have a mature paletted thriller. The exploration of Angélique's erotomania indeed takes this film to another level.

Audrey Tautou plays Angélique exquisitely with her odd, but innocent look barely hinting at the world that lives inside her mind. The film is of course in french and thus subtitled, but I hope that will not put you off this masterful work. It plays in two halfs, first telling things as Angélique see's them, then once more from the perspectives of everyone else. Writer/Director Laetitia Colombani has certainly out done herself with this film, it will jerk your heart strings then send you on a white knuckle ride.

Links;

IMDB
Cinephilia

Channel 7 continues televisions fine tradition of copycatting shows that work; running ideas into the ground until no one is interested in watching them anymore. With the overwhelming success of Channel TEN's "Master Chef Australia", Channel 7 have announced a casting call for "My Kitchen Rules".

Their casting website states

"This new series will travel the country to find Australia’s best home-cooking team. In a unique twist, the teams-of-two in MY KITCHEN RULES will do battle from their own kitchens in each State.

contestants will also be required to turn their home into a restaurant for one night for their pressure test. Of course this is assuming you'll somehow be able to get some sort of agreement from your local council and your neighbors.

The show sounds very much as the same old, same old from Channel 7, just with it being a cooking competition instead of a renovation, building or gardening competition. It's very uninspired, but given it's from Channel 7 can we really expect anything more?

Links;
Casting Site
Channel 7
ABC News Story

The latest Sarah moment was classic Sarah. I was in the kitchen making dinner when she asked me where my phone was. "Why?" I replied.
"I think it's down the back of the sofa" I got back. "It's here in front of me" I said. "No I think it's down the sofa" she replied, as I looked at my mobile sitting joyfully in it's dock in front of me. "It's here in it's dock" I said "why?" I asked again.

"TJ, there is music coming from in the sofa, your phone has to be down there" I heard back. I walked into the lounge and could only hear the TV. "It's the TV" I said. "no it's not, turn the TV off and listen" she replied. Now the only things I could hear was music coming from the office where Bro was playing a game and a slight squeeching sound coming from the general direction of Bro's bedroom. "It's just Bro on the computer" I replied. "NO! It's NOT" she gnarled back at me. I walked toward the squeeching sound, which lead me to the bookcase and her bluetooth headset. I put the headset up to my ear and found it playing music.

That's right boys and girls, Sarah had pressed play on the music player in her mobile phone and didn't know what was going on. "It's your headset" I laughed. "Oh, can you play music through it?" she asked.

I have noticed of the course of running this blog that when Do gooders and Conspiracy nuts comment my blog with their banter about how terrible I am for speaking my mind because how dare I tell things as they stand, or that governments are really trying to control us they don't seem to actually put their name, even a first name in the name field. They make up some silly little descriptive text instead. Where as people who actually have something constructive to add, or dare I say it comment in agreement with me actually put their name in the name field.

I find that very telling of these peoples state of mind. They're happy to make these; lets face it dumb; comments which show they didn't quite grasp the concepts of my posts or in the case of some conspiracy nuts; grasp reality at all, but only on the condition that they think they're completely anonymous. Oh yes, the wondrous thrill of being anonymous! You can finally say what is on your mind without fear of reprisal, and of course the internet is anonymous right? I mean you can call yourself whatever you like and no one can see your face unless you want them to.

Unfortunately the internet isn't really a haven for being anonymous, everything you do online leaves a trail. One which leads straight back to your front door. See, when you sign up, perhaps all excitedly, for your internet connection you give them you name, address, phone number, blah blah blah all your personal details. Now while you're connected to the internet you have this brilliant little thing called an IP Address. Now your IP address is how the server say this website is on, knows to send this page to your computer. Think of it like a physical mailing address, if you wanted me to send you a picture I'd need to know where to send it right? Same goes for computers.

Now the brilliantly wonderful thing about IP Addresses is that they're exclusive to a single person at a time. That is to say, when you're online your IP Address is unique. And what do we know about things that are unique boys and girls? They're traceable!! As certain IP addresses belong to different countries and even different ISPs inside of those countries, it's easy to figure out where in the world you live, and what ISP your internet is going through. Now here's the fun part! It's easy as heck, with just an IP Address to find out someone's Name, Address and Phone number, from their ISP.

Guess what, this site as well as most popular sites on the web; such as facebook, myspace, Anything google (including YouTube), Anything Microsoft, etc. automatically collect IP Addresses from their visitors. This is a security measure so undesirable persons can be excluded and criminal charges can be brought if so is required. And so boys and girls, thus ends another lesson on how you are never anonymous. And from this lesson I hope people stop sending me Do gooder comments, the conspiracy theories can stay though, they make me laugh.

I have had several comments on this blog from people claiming conspiracies. While there are some conspiracies in the world; heck there is even a TJandSarah.com Conspiracies website in production; what these people are talking about just make no sense. Take our latest conspiracy theorist who claims global warming is a lie generated to gather more control for governments.

This argument might even hold the smallest amount of credit if not for the fact that it is only now after decades of warnings about global warming from the science community that governments around the world are starting to stop denying it. It might even hold a bit more credit, if not for the simple fact that not everyone in government is yet even convinced of it's existence or that change is required.

Simply put governments around the world are unable to agree on ANYTHING in regards to global warming. They lack a model country to copycat; which lets face it is all governments ever do.

And of course there are plenty of other crack pot conspicuous commenting my blog, all of whom demonstrate what happens when whilst having a mental illness you forget to take your medication. I invite you now to have a look back through my posts and look at some of the entirely humorous comments that some people have left.

Last night I watched a Documentary on Dominick Dunne entitled "Celebrity: Dominick Dunne" and he struck me as an idiot. For those whom have no idea whom Dominick Dunne is, he is a writer for Vanity Fair magazine whom writes about the judicial system and celebrities in trouble. The thing about Dominick is that he always presumes they are guilty.

The man has undoubtedly had a hard, but impressive life. Some of the things he has done most of us can only dream about, but that gives him no excuse to slander others. Nor does the fact that O.J Simpson most probably killed his daughter, give him an excuse to decide all celebrities are bad. His articles are almost always filled with rumors, lies and fiction but that never stops him entertaining them as fact.

He is also a man whom has turned on some of his celebrity friends when they have landed in hot water. His own son has nothing positive to say about the man, and quite obviously despises him. While Dominick maintains they have a great relationship. Where will the lies end Dominick? Where?

Links;

Wikipedia
Celebrity: Dominick Dunne (Video)

An 18 year old Belgian girl named Kimberley Vlaminck is threatening to sue a Tattoo artist after he Tattooed 56 stars on her face. Kimberley is claiming that she had only asked to have 3 stars Tattooed near her left eye and fell asleep while Tattoo artist Rouslan Toumaniantz was doing the tattoos. When she awoke she reports she was astounded that he had instead tattooed 56 stars across her face.

Rouslan the Tattoo artist responded to the girls claims stating that she had been awake the whole time and that she had indeed come up with the design. He reports that things only turned bad when Kimberleys father Diego saw the tattoo and was furious.

I'm inclined to believe Rouslan on this; I may have never gotten a tattoo myself but a great deal of my friends and family have. I know from seeing them performed that falling asleep while getting a tattoo is unlikely, especially given that this was a tattoo on the face. Not only that but, if it was only originally meant to be 3 stars as Kimberley claims then she would not have had time to fall asleep. 3 small stars would not take long, my cousin has a few stars on her arm and it only too a few minutes to do.

Unless Kimberley had just ingested some powerful sedatives then I can't see a reason why she would get on the tattooist chair, ask for 3 stars on her face and promptly fall asleep. That would be like going to the dentist, asking for a cavity to be filled and then immediately going to sleep. It's unreasonable and unrealistic for it to have happened.

Links

Telegraph.co.uk
Channel 10 Australia (Video)

About a year a go I started mucking about with the news/current affairs format with my camcorder. My camcorder has broken (by no fault of my own) so I haven't made any new episodes in awhile. After making this episode I did refine the idea quite a lot more however.

I am in the process of getting my camcorder fixed so you can expect episodes to start rolling out again shortly. As my ideas grow obviously the show will evolve and become more refined. It's of course my little experiment, but I'm hoping that one day it will allow me to produce something great.

Links;

Wondering Productions
Scattered Emotions

I have a few questions about p!nk which I think more people should be asking. Like for starters why do Australians love her so much? Do they not understand she advocated to the world that they boycott Australian sheep and wool products? It costs people their jobs, their livelihood and buckets of cash to the industry. Why? Because she misunderstood the practice of mulesing which while it looks painful, is much better than them having fly lava under their skin.

I know looking at the images it's hard to understand how this practice would be good for any animal, but it is. It stops Sheep fly from embedding themselves in the rump of the sheep, which will eat away at the sheep causing it pain and loss of the ability to walk. The lava will then burst out through the skin when they reach maturity. It's a common problem without mulesing. Honestly, if you where a sheep, which would you rather?

Now while p!nk has since retracted her statements to boycott Australian sheep and wool products, that hardly makes up for all the pain and heart ache she caused. She lost people money, and more over, lost some people their homes. And all they get is a "Oops sorry I didn't understand" before she skips off on her merry little way. How can True Australian's support a person like that? I am calling for a boycott on P!NK and a ban on her entering the country. She doesn't deserve to be graced by our beautiful nation.

My other question is; Is P!NK really Aaron Carter?

Links;

P!nk speaks for PETA

The final specs for the much awaited new iphone have been announced officially on the apple website. Dubbed the 3G-S it's really what the iphone should have been on it's initial release; a couple of years ago. The features are pretty ordinary with only a few tweaks to the phone to attempt to make it more relevant, but failing miserably.

Often we here phrases like 'worlds best smartphone' associated with the iphone, but here's a phrase far more suitable which you wouldn't have heard much of; 'bargain bin filler'. I still fail to see what all the excitement is about with such dismal specs. What are these new specs you ask? Lets take a look under the hood of the iphone 3G-S.

The camera on the phone has been upgraded to 3 megapixels and is capable of both stills and video. And yes this iphone CAN actually take video, be it only VGA! Crazily enough apple seem to have forgotten to put support for video capture into their previous software. With the current camera phone standard being 5 megapixels, and thanks to LG and samsung about to be lifted to 8 megapixels placing a 3 megapixel camera in the new iphone seems somewhat backward. Especially when you consider 3 megapixel cameras haven't been standard in camera phones for 2 years!

The new iphone will also support voice commands, so you can tell your phone to call Joe Blogs and it will call him based on the number you have stored for him in your phone book. Wait a gosh darn minute though, didn't that technology start appearing as standard in phones 8 to 9 years ago?

Apple have seen fit to add; wait for it; a compass to the iphone 3G-S. Why apple feel the average iphone user would be inclined to use a compass over the assisted GPS maps still boggles my mind. It certainly sounds very much like a feature they added that sounded sorta cool, just to flesh out the new features list a little.

The 3G-S will also be able to sms forward and send and recieve mms. Apparently iphone figured up until now the average iphone user had no use for mms messages or the ability to forward their messages to others, but they did need a compass?

A landscape touchscreen keyboard has been added to messaging apps, and you will now be able to cut, copy and paste words and photos. Apple have also added a search feature so you can search your phone for that email or note you're after. And yet still I'm not seeing anything special given this is meant to be a SMARTPHONE.

The phone has finally been brought into the current age of mobile internet with the inclusion of support for HSDPA, which will make surfing the web faster in supported area's. Hardware wise the phone has been upgraded so that apps will load up to 2 times faster. They have even finally included the ability to take voice memo's, a feature which most phones could do 8 or so years ago, and all but apple ipods have been able to do for almost as long.

One cool feature of the iphone 3G-S is it's support for Nike+ allowing you to insert the sensor into your Nike+ shoe and get stats about your work out direct to your phone. These stats are saved and you can see your averages and progress. This comes of course from the ipod apps which are able to do the same thing, but I guess it's much more practical to have it in your phone instead.

There are a few minor improvements to the battery life and the phone now comes in either a 16GB or 32GB model but that is about all the bang you get for your buck. Given the costs associated with an iphone it hardly seems worth rushing out to buy the new 3G-S which really is how the first iphone should have looked. The specs for this phone should be much higher then they are, if not only to keep up with the standards other providers are pumping out. But none the less, I'm quite sure there will be many people whom fall for Apple's marketing ploys and do indeed purchase the new iphone.

Which is a shame given there are so many phones out there which beat the iphone hands down. I've already given examples of this in my post "why iphones are for losers", but since then there have been even more advancements. In love with your apps? What about the much awaited google phone running android? Or for the true app lover, try running multiple apps at once!! Think it's impossible? Not on the new palm it's not!

In summary the new iphone is at least 2 years to late to the party, with the only phones still carrying hardware like it in the prepaid bargain bin. But still people, hooked on the marketing hype and under the misinformation they need one to be "normal" will rush out and buy the new 3G-S iphone. Which is disappointing but not unexpected.

Links;

Apples iphone 3G-S
Why iphones are for losers
Palm Pre
Googles G1 with Android

There is a children's show on ABC called "in the night garden" made by the same people who came up with "Tellie Tubbies". It's the typical weird voices and junk.

The show itself is rather weird and sorta funny. But the best humor comes from the fact that Sarah loves it. She's hooked and thinks it's the best.