Drunken gluttons order and eat 100-patty hamburger: “Cory Doctorow:

A group of drunken pals went to an In-N-Out burger shop on Hallowe’en 2004 and demanded a burger with 100 patties, setting some sort of gluttony record at the burger joint. In-N-Out is justly famous for making excellent fast-food burgers in an open kitchen, and for allowing customers to order as many patties as they’d like, at $1 per patty. The tale told on this website details the attempt of eight people to eat $100 worth of discount fried beef and processed cheese-food ’sweaty cheese.’

# Total calories (extrapolating from info provided here): 19490 calories
# Total eaters 8 (2 girls and one guy who already ate dinner and only ate 6 patties)
# Most patties eaten by one person : I think I ate about 20. I think Nalin ate about 20 as well (including the raw ones)
# Time to finish : less then 2 hours
# Number of people who barfed : 1 (way to go Elena!) Oh yeah…. nothing says ‘Vegas baby’ like barfing, not because of booze..but because of burgers.

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The IFPI said digital music sales tripled to $1.1bn from $380m in 2004 and predicted “further significant growth” this year.

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The armpit smells of old ladies are the latest mood-enhancing substances to be uncovered by scientists - but they warn that those of young men may have the reverse effect.

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accoding to this study:

In offices, common areas that are cleaned and disinfected every day have fewer germs and bacteria than most desks. (On average, the area where you rest your hand on the desk has 10,000,000 bacteria.)
The average desktop has more bacteria than any surface tested in the bathroom. Toilet seats and photocopier surfaces were the least contaminated sites sampled in all offices.

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from the sfgate:

an elderly man apparently upset about a parking dispute died in his burning house after trying to set fire to two of his neighbors’ homes using “homemade bombs,” authorities said. Police received a call about an explosion early Sunday and found the man standing in the street holding two handguns. One of his arm was in flames. When police told him to drop the guns, he fled into his house. Minutes later, flames and smoke came from the home, followed by several explosions, the city said in a statement.

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So, I’ve been going a little crazy with the analog photography lately.

I like that flickr displays the EXIF metadata to let you know what kind of camera took that photo. Obviously pictures that are a scan of photo taken with a non-digital camera do not contain that information. so, i did a quick search on the cpan and found Image::MetaData::JPEG

after reading some docs and using Data::Dumper i was able to come up with this script that sets the make and model info. here is an example I took with my Kodak Jiffy Six-20. if you find this useful, let me know…

download exif_makemodel.pl

Use this tutorial to turn your iPod into a blue box-like phone dialer. It’s as simple as adding tones and creating a playlist.

http://www.oldskoolphreak.com/tfiles/phreak/phreakingoutyour_ipod.txt

eBay is a dangerous place. Of the 7 cameras in this picture, 4 were procured via eBay.

Drunk Latvian had twice lethal alcohol level

A drunk Latvian had a blood-alcohol content more than 17 times the legal driving limit in the Baltic state when he was run over and killed, police said on Tuesday. The 50-year-old unnamed pedestrian, who also had more than twice the alcohol level considered lethal for most humans, was lying drunk on the road near his home in a remote part of eastern Latvia in the early hours.

Stalin’s half-man, half-ape super-warriors

The Soviet dictator Josef Stalin ordered the creation of Planet of the Apes-style warriors by crossing humans with apes, according to recently uncovered secret documents. Moscow archives show that in the mid-1920s Russia’s top animal breeding scientist, Ilya Ivanov, was ordered to turn his skills from horse and animal work to the quest for a super-warrior.

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This may be one of the oldest methods of photography, it uses a geranium leaf as the film which gets exposed to light and chemically treated to reveal the image.

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