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Damming footage of MEP’s signing in on Friday morning to get their allowance for the day and then heading off to the airport to get home for the weekend.

I suppose that technically this is fraud. If I were to submit a similar expense to my company not only would I be liable for it but so would my employer. Also, I’d be fired.

Kathy Sinnott (Irish MEP) tries to justify herself. You don’t sound very convincing Kathy…

Also, Kathy two things:

- Showing email headers proves nothing.

- You have just given out personal information online (names and valid email addresses) without the owner’s permission. Tut tut tut.

Left the missus as a WoW Widow? Look no further.

EPIC FAIL!

A daredevil inventor has made his first public flight with a pair of homemade jet-powered wings.

After five years of training and many more years of dreaming, Yves Rossy from Switzerland took to the skies, performing figure eights above the Swiss Alps.

The 48-year-old former fighter pilot and extreme sports enthusiast stepped out of a plane at 7,500 feet (2,300 meters) and unfolded the rigid eight-foot (2.5-metre) wings strapped to his back.

Passing from free fall to a gentle glide, Mr Rossy, or Fusion Man as he prefers to be known, then triggered four jet turbines and accelerated to 186mph.

Steering only with his body, he dived and soared, and even managed a 360 degree somersault.

He eventually landed safely on an airfield near the eastern shore of Lake Geneva.

After the flight, Mr Rossy said: “I just had a little problem with one of the jet engines at the beginning - but it was straightened out by one of the technical assistants who was in the plane.

“Then the four jet engines worked properly so I could jump out of the plane, and it was just wonderful, it was a complete success, also the weather conditions were excellent!”

The birdman said he is ready now for a bigger challenge - flying across the English Channel later this year.

Just how many people can you fit into a SUV???

The cops are hilarious in this one.

Lucky he went for expired instead of used condoms…

A Durban man took a plunge with a difference when he bungee jumped 30m using an elastic rope made from condoms.

Jump master Carl Dionisio made the unusual jump at the Wavehouse at Gateway to get what he described as “the virgin buzz” one got on the
first bounce back.

The condom bungee jump was the first of its kind in the world and Dionisio said part of the thrill was getting recognition from the jumping community.

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Or should that be are alive? Arrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

Jolly ol’ soul Nat King Coleslaw couldn’t stand retirement’s tough schedule with endless hours of self love - caved in and is now back to show us his durty.

Welcome back Nat!

CurryChips

This is just too funny!!!

Well, what do you know. Someone has actually stepped up to the line and admitted what we already knew. The concept of Net Neutrality is dead. But then, if you believed that it was a runner you’re an idiot in my opinion.

Virgin Media’s CEO - Neil Berkett - has hit out calling Net Neutrality bollocks. Also he admits that the company are already providing tiered services to content providers.

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This is no new news, but it is refreshing that it’s getting airtime. Mobile Operators have been working on this model since the introduction of WAP. ISP’s have been gearing themselves to content based models for years now. Bandwidth is a finite resource and costs money. With the ever increasing demand for ‘bandwidth’  from the consumer and contention theft mechanisms (P2P applications) such as Skype, iPlayer, and Joop applying blame to the ISP’s and diverting the cause from themselves - the time has come to stand up and be counted.

ISPs will gear your product and tier your service. And do you know what, they’ll make money out of it. They’re in the business of business after all.

Rule # 1 of the Internet - People are idiots. Perhaps folk will reaslise there’s no such thing as a free lunch now. Probably not though.

Kobe Bryant jumps over an Aston Martin - who cares?

Darwin Award candidate attempts to re-enact Kobe’s ’stunt’

Hilarilty ensues…

Fans of pop star Rick Astley descended on London’s Liverpool Street train station for a “flashmob” event.

The “flashmob” - where a group of people assemble in a public place for a brief period of time - happened just before 1800 BST.

Some of the fans donned Astley masks in honour of the 1980s hitmaker, before the crowd sang his trademark hit Never Gonna Give You Up.

Takes portsnap.com to the next level.

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Rule # 1: All people are idiots.

Rule # 2: Don’t try to understand why people do things, just understand that they do.

Rule # 3: It will break.

Rule # 4: As the guys that make the Internet ‘happen’, no one knows what you do.

Rule # 5: Everyone has an opinion on how to do what you do.

Rule # 6: If something goes wrong, it’s your fault. Even if you have nothing to do with it. See Rule # 7.

Rule # 7: Even though you have no ownership or responsibility for it, you can probably fix it. See Rule # 6.

Rule # 8: To understand recursion, you must first understand recursion. See Rule # 6 and 7.

Does all the usual things that a Parrot device does. Excellent Bluetooth handsfree, easy controls etc…

However, the new spin on this is that they dropped the CD player and replaced it with onboard flash, USB, and data card inputs allowing multiple means to push music and media to your sound system. The extra advantage is that the space saved by doing this creates a neat storage area in behind the faceplate. An tidy spot to drop your ipod and keep it hidden. (oh, it has an ipod terminated USB cable too…).

It is due to be released on the 1st May 2008.

I’ll be having one of these I think.

Relationships between the BBC and internet industry have plunged to an all-time low, after the BBC’s internet chief Ashley Highfield used a blog post yesterday to tell ISPs to get stuffed - and even threatened to name and shame them.

The cost of carrying iPlayer traffic has been a sore point for ISPs, who must absorb steeply rising traffic costs. Regulator OFCOM’s Market Impact Assessment estimated the P2P version of iPlayer would create up to £831m in extra costs for the internet industry. In the first month of the “low bandwidth” iPlayer, ISPs saw streaming costs rise 20 per cent.

But Highfield, Director of Future Media and Technology at the £4bn-a-year corporation, said the BBC won’t help them out.

“I would not suggest that ISPs start to try and charge content providers,” he scolds.

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So, the BBC pushes peer to peer technology, gets the user to hammer the crap out of their ISP service as if it were uncontended and then blames the ISPs when they pipe up and remind everyone that bandwidth isn’t free. Lovely…

Well, I grabbed the bull by the horns and installed Firefox 3 Beta 5 RC2. It’s pretty sweet. I had 3 Beta 4 but it started crashing every five minutes - it looks like Java borked it up nice and proper.

The only gripe I have is the addons not working. But I’ll get over that I think. So far so good.

Microsoft will announce the much-rumoured refresh to its mobile phone operating system, Windows Mobile, on 1 April 2008.

An improvement over Windows Mobile 6 released in February 2007 the new version, unsurprisingly named 6.1, will be a stop-gap measure to keep both consumers and industry happy until the launch of Windows Mobile 7.

Leaked screenshots of 6.1 have already done the rounds in the blogosphere, and show the system has been simplified with the screens displaying less mess than the Vista-inspired version 6.

A new look with new fonts, new homescreen and new features such as a task manager and copying and pasting in Internet Explorer all bode well for users of Microsoft’s OS for handhelds.

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This really has me lost for words. It’s a long clip - be warned - but it’s well worth watching all the way through.

This is a clip of a tour through a museum run by Creationists for Creationist kids.

Commentary snippets are:

TSA being pro-(re)active it seems. I suppose it’s a start.

On the flip side, Mac nuts may actually like the rubber glove treatment…

Recently there have been reports that the MacBook Air has been getting strange looks from xray screening folk at airports. Here’s the reason why.