Saturday, June 12, 2004

Interesting 

If you're going to the USA soon and are going to be fingerprinted at immigration, it might pay to bring some gummi bears along.

Of the world's 100 largest economic entities, 51 are now corporations and 49 are countries.

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USA politics... 

A nice ribute to Ronald Reagan done in Flash.

Just in case anyone forgot what a great president he was, here's some info about what happened during his terms as leader of the USA.

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Tuesday, June 08, 2004

Internet 

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Interesting... 

Secret techniques employers have when interviewing potential employees.

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Monday, June 07, 2004

More random things... 

Breakdancing Transformers... very, very cool.

Test your reflexes by hitting the start button to begin and the stop button once the page has changed colour. [via In4mador!]

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Dubya 

If this story about Bush's behaviour is true then let's hope he isn't re-elected... for his sanity's sake.

Posted by - j - @ 8:01 PM | 1 comments

Random things... 

See how good your English is with this punctuation game.


The government answers the question we've all been asking: How big are their penises? [via Campus Underground]

How it feels to get shot.

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USA politics 

berg

Of course there will be consipiracy theories concerning the beheading of Nick Berg but there are some that raise some interesting questions.

First, this guy has analysed the tape and notes some inconsistencies.

There is also quite an in depth analysis of not only the tape but the surrounding circumstances. The page also has some good links to other sites relating to the video.

The video of the killing has many flaws including problems with time skips, audio dubbing, and the characteristics, appearance and speech of Berg and the killers. People from Middle Eastern cultures believe that Middle Eastern people were not involved in this video, based on the mannerisms, accents, behavior and appearance of the killers. A close inspection of the video suggests that Westerners may have been involved.

For a number of reasons, it does not appear that the Jordanian terrorist Abu Masab Al-Zaraqawi, who was voice identified by the CIA (and whose name was on the tape), was involved. He has a poorly functioning prosthetic leg and a hand tattoo, which should have been observed. Neither were. The accent of the speaker in the video was not Jordanian. Why has the CIA seemingly lied about the analysis of Al-Zarqawi's voice and his role in the killing?

Considering the many discrepancies and contradictions noted below, it seems possible that the Berg killing is a poorly crafted psy-ops exercise. This video was possibly constructed by U.S. operatives to impact the extremely volatile political developments in the U.S. and the international condemnation around the Abu Ghraib torture photos. The torture photos are mentioned in the speech in the video, though Berg may have been killed before the photos were circulated.

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Manipulation 

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Sunday, June 06, 2004

The internet 

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Monday, May 24, 2004

A bunch of stuff... 

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Wednesday, May 19, 2004

Flash 

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In the news... 

Childless couple go to a fertility clinic after being married for eight years, the result... They were told to try sex.

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Monday, May 17, 2004

Social Engineering 

A man walks into a store and walks out with just under $4000 worth of electronics. He's even offered help from the employees.

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Sunday, May 16, 2004

Scam a scammer 

p-p-p-powerbook
This guy sold a powerbook on e-bay but thought something was up. Read about his exploits and how he came up with the idea to send a p-p-p-powerbook instead.

Here's a link to the original Something Awful forum thread.

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Internet people 

gay marvin
Meet Gay Marvin, he's a british pop star. I don't know why I found it so funny but click the pic for his gallery.


Interesting car accessory.

Posted by - j - @ 9:22 PM | 1 comments

Flash 

Pass the ball from person to person.

I knew clowns were evil!

This is probably the most random thing I've seen in a while. Here's a story about a guy, a crab, and a levitating head.

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Thursday, May 13, 2004

Good advice 

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Wednesday, May 12, 2004

The Google Terrrorist 

It was the lead item on the government's daily threat matrix one day last April. Don Emilio Fulci described by an FBI tipster as a reclusive but evil millionaire, had formed a terrorist group that was planning chemical attacks against London and Washington, D.C. That day even FBI director Robert Mueller was briefed on the Fulci matter. But as the day went on without incident, a White House staffer had a brainstorm: He Googled Fulci. His findings: Fulci is the crime boss in the popular video game Headhunter. "Stand down," came the order from embarrassed national security types.
[From USNews.com]

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Nerd stuff 

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Flash 

Here's a movie featuring a nice shy girl.

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Online dating 

The two extremes in online dating services.

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World powers 

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Monday, May 10, 2004

Internet... 

Out of sight, a war is raging... Secret cameras have allowed us for the first time to see the mighty Traffic Light Wars.



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Thursday, May 06, 2004

Flash Games 

Catch fish in order to Feed Fullmo.

Ride an albatros in Yeti Sports IV.

Why not play some Panda Golf.

Quick Bricks is a very addictive game where the object is to get rid of all your bricks... quickly.

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USA Politics 

Claim vs. Fact
The Center for American Progress has launched this new database project to chart conservatives' dishonesty – and compare it with the truth. In this database, each conservative quote will be matched against well-documented facts, so that users can get a more accurate picture of the issues.

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The war on terror 

Who's getting rich from it? A list of companies involved and their political connections.

Some faux propaganda posters.

US commanders say they're not as bad as Saddam, but an Iraqi prisoner says they're worse.

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Monday, May 03, 2004

Flash 

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Virus 

New virus/worm that has Microsoft taking action, why are they taking action... because it's their fault.

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The Thule Society 

Welcome to the New World Order.

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Sunday, April 25, 2004

People 

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Friday, April 23, 2004

Good read 

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Wednesday, April 21, 2004

Flash 

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People's pages 

Meet Franco, he lives in a trailer park.

Meet Tony Hawks, he isn't a skateboarder but gets plenty of email from people who think he is.

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Funny 

A man has started taking pictures of celebrities holding his baby and made a website out of it... here's a very clever response.

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Flash 

Go the blue man!

Are you easily distracted?

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Strange... 

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New Zealand news... 

Welcome big brother! New Zealand passports soon to have microchips embedded in them.

Perhaps NZ isn't as open a country as we once thought. New survey shows that one in five immigrants experiences discrimination.

Finding your alcohol a little heavy on the pocket? Looks like bootleg booze is growing in popularity.

The jury hears evidence on the woman who drove her can through a party.

Shrek the wooly wanderer is now world famous.

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Monday, April 19, 2004

Flash 

Your all gay

A short song about Kylie Minogue's head.

A violent Kill Bill game.

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Sunday, April 18, 2004

Quiz 

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Friday, April 16, 2004

Flash 

A digital Simon, how good's your memory?

Enjoyable game called CATS, roll your mouse over the cats to make them sit or walk. Make them do whatever the 'leader' (the highlighted cat) is doing.

If you go down the stairway to heaven backwards... do you go to hell?

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Flash 

I don't know how I keep finding these things but here's Bun Bin in Hypnoterror. [link via Bloggerheads.]

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Thursday, April 15, 2004

Strange flash thingies 

First there was Hyakugojyuuichi!! Now three years later, there is an even stranger tribute called Hyakugojyuuichi Forever!! Be warned that these are very random.

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US Politics 

The transcript of Dubya's press conferance. My favourite part:

Let's see here, hold on. Michael. You're next.

Q Mr. President, why are you and the Vice President insisting on appearing together before the 9/11 Commission? And, Mr. President, who will you be handing the Iraqi government over to on June 30th?

THE PRESIDENT: We will find that out soon. That's what Mr. Brahimi is doing; he's figuring out the nature of the entity we'll be handing sovereignty over. And, secondly, because the 9/11 Commission wants to ask us questions, that's why we're meeting. And I look forward to meeting with them and answering their questions.

Q I was asking why you're appearing together, rather than separately, which was their request.

THE PRESIDENT: Because it's a good chance for both of us to answer questions that the 9/11 Commission is looking forward to asking us, and I'm looking forward to answering them.

Let's see --

Q Mr. President --

THE PRESIDENT: Hold on for a minute. Oh, Jim.

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Editor 

Very cool face editor.

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In the news... 

A man that was supposedly murdered returns after 22 years.

Argentine elephant treated for depression.

Scientists make water that isn't wet.

Neighbours are kept awake by a mysterious banging sound.

Flasher attacked by Catholic school girls then charged.

An escaped police suspect's description: white male, 5'10," 160 pounds with brown hair, blue eyes, and a scruffy beard. He is wearing blue jeans, brown shoes, and is handcuffed to a chair.

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Japan 

The J-List is a quite well established shopping site featuring all things Japanese. The creator of the site has also been recently interviewed by Wired News.

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Sleeping... 

Go to sleep while counting sheep and with a nice lullaby.

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Back in action 

Enjoyed my extended easter break, hope the one or two of you who actually visit this site were able to cope without regular updates. I finally stopped receiving the Sober.F virus after I received about 200 infected messages. Looks like I missed quite a bit while I was gone:

A few enjoyable flash games like Super Taxi, an incredible difficult kitty ballancing game, and running naked.

Spread the meme.

Michael Moore's website has a new intro page featuring Dubya's face made of pictures US soldiers who have died in Iraq.

Washington wages war on pornography.

A new trend in jewelry.

A man tries his wife's breast milk.

For those who've seen Deliverance, here's the duel.

Are you straight and proud?

The funniest news was probably Bush's yawning boy.

A guy visits the worst video arcade.

Here's a guy who has a flying cardboard box (streaming media .wmv)

A brand new Bush sloganator.

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Monday, April 05, 2004

Virus update 

Just got five more of the same virus which turns out to be the Sober.F virus, makes me think that quite a few fell for the fake GMX virus scan. Got the definition for it today but thanks to Nod32's heuristics didn't get caught out before hand. Take some good advice and download the trial version of Nod32, you won't regret it!

[update] Symantec has now upgraded Sober.F to category 3 (i.e. same as Netsky and Beagle) as of 3:00pm I've received it 15 times from various email addresses.

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In the news... 

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Sunday, April 04, 2004

Flash 

In A Break in the Road you wander around the city with your microphone recording rhythms and sounds, mix them together in your studio and then play your creation in a club.

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George Says... 

dubya
What do you want him to say?

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Browser wars 

OK, have given up on Avant Browser as I just can't get it to work how I want. The problem with a browser that renders with IE is that no matter how many bells and whistles you add to it it's still IE... and that's not good. Have gone back to Opera Browser as I really like how fast and easy it is to use, plus how customizable it is.

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eBay 

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New virus... 

I got an interesting virus just now, it looks like it's from hotmail but actually contains a new virus that my scanner didn't have a definition for (ate it because it was probably an unknown NewHeur_PE virus)... thank god for heuristics.

>From: RobotMailer@hotmail.com
>Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2004 20:52:33
>Subject: Fehler in E-Mail
>
>*** Auto Mail Delivery System ***
>
>Ihre E-Mail konnte nicht gesendet oder empfangen werden.
>Bitte überprüfen Sie nochmals diese E-Mail auf mögliche Fehlerquellen.
>attach: "AMD-System.txt"
>
>* End Transmission
>
>--- Web: http://www.hotmail.com
>--- Mail To: User-Hilfe@hotmail.com
>
>*** Mail Scanner: Kein Virus gefunden
>*** GMX Virenschutz
>*** http://www.gmx.net

Now I don't speak German but my email provider is based in Germany... for those of you (like me) who don't speak German... a translation curtesy of Babel Fish:

>Subject: Error in E-Mail

>Their E-Mail could not be sent or received.
>Please you examine this E-Mail again for possible sources of error
>attach: "AMD-System.txt" <--- actually a .php file!
>
>*** Mail scanner: No virus found
>*** GMX virus protection
>*** http://www.gmx.net

The thing that got me was the last part witht the false mail scanner, luckly I do all my virus protection on this side and have disabled any surver interference. No telling how many people will fall for this though.

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Internet 

In response to Google's Gmail, Yahoo has upgraded some users' e-mail capabilities.

Yahoo confirmed Friday that it has sent e-mail promotions randomly to some subscribers of its popular Web-based e-mail service. One promotion sent Tuesday upgraded users to 100MB of disk space as of March 31 for free, and gave allowances for sending and receiving larger attachment files using Yahoo.

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Peer-to-peer 

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New Zealand news... 

I really don't understand why New Zealanders entering the USA are to be fingerprinted. Aren't we supposed to be their allies? Imagine if we wanted to do the same thing...

Here's an obvious finding: Bad diets, lack of exercise and smoking takes toll of Kiwis.

The fact that Labour has regained a lead over National just goes to show you that the race card can only be played for so long.

If you live in Auckland watch out for an escaped mental patient.

A sad ending for twins brought to New Zealand for a heart operation.

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In the news... 

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Saturday, April 03, 2004

Non Sequitur 

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Internet 

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Internet 

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In the news... 

Let this be a lesson to you, in Germany don't steal electricity.

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Science! 

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Oops... 

An editing error makes for an explosive recipe.

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From B3ta 

A very, very random B3TA TV pilot

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Cars, cars, cars... 

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Free sample 

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Rolling stones 

Man makes his own stonehenge with no modern tools. He calls the technique the forgotten technology.

"At first, I brought a 1-ton block home from work," he says. "But I found I could move it around by myself pretty easily."

In an attempt to set a world record, he moved a 10,400-pound concrete column by himself, without any rollers. He even moved a large out-building for one of his sons.

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Friday, April 02, 2004

Cool science find... 

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Google news 

Do you use Google news but think the layout is a little boring? Enter newsmap to make a pretty treemap.

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Learn how to kill! 

The American army has released an official FPS computer game. Who do you think the final boss will be?

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Google Answers 

What some copyright free images? Here's a whole list of sites that have just that.

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Too much time and money? 

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eBay 

Quite a few of these virtual girlfriends are popping up now and it seems the bandwagon gaining momentum. Here are a few of the best.

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Thursday, April 01, 2004

Flash 

See if you can poke the worm.

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In the news... 

Woman gets a breast enlargement and grows extra breasts.

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Traveling 

These are the countries I've been to:


Create your own visited country map

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From B3ta 


(Sheep!)

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Wednesday, March 31, 2004

Cool tool 


Find out where in the world you are with Maporama.com.

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Sweet justice for spammer 

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Generator 

Make Bart Simpson write anything you want on the chalkboard.

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Surreal garden game 

Click the spinning thing to create a strange garden in this tinygrow game.

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Tuesday, March 30, 2004

Internet 

How long can you hold the button?

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Doonesbury 

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Internet 

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Saturday, March 27, 2004

Internet 

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Flash 

Play this cool building game called tower blaster.

Badger!

This short movie is called STFU, can you see why?

Japanese ping-pong.

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Non Sequitur 


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In the news... 

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From B3ta 

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Nice prank 

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"The inscrutable 8-ball revealed" 

Ever wondered how a magic 8-ball works? See the dissection that reveals all.

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Friday, March 26, 2004

Internet 

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In the news... update 

The gas station ninja has been caught.

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Thursday, March 25, 2004

Internet 

Good explanation of what RSS feeds are and why they're useful.

Personally I use Newz Crawler.

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Wednesday, March 24, 2004

In the news... 

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In the news... 

Hundreds of new fish species have been discovered on the bottom of the Tasman Sea.

This one is undoubtedly the strangest...

"The female is the size of a tennis ball [with] big savage teeth, little nasty pin eyes ... The male looks like a black jellybean with fins. When a male finds a female, he bites into her side, never letting go. He drinks her blood, in return for giving her sperm, the flesh of the two fish eventually fuses and they remain connected, permanently. They have found females with up to six males attached."

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In the news... 

A ninja robs a gas station in Norway.

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US Politics 

Are you an American citizen? Are you itching to impeach Bush? You can go here and here to get the job done.

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Porn search engines 

YaSEXHoo! was a new porn search engine along the lines of booble, one important difference is that it's no longer around anymore, probably because of pressure from the real Yahoo!

Booble is still alive and kicking and has even released a site that taunts Google's outrage.

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Flash 

A guy who is bothered by having your cursor in his face.

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From b3ta 

Giving birth...

(invisiblegovernmentdotorg)

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Internet 

Check out this awasome cartoon gif animation.

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Homeland insecurity 

Homeland Insecurity - The Board Game is a humorous take off of Monopoly... fun for the whole family

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