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Stripper stiletto stabbing

A 52 year old stripper? I mean seriously, who would pay to see that?

Police say a 52-year-old woman was attacked on her first day as an exotic dancer by a jealous co-worker wielding a stiletto heel. Police in Ohio said the woman was assaulted by a co-worker who didn’t think the club needed more dancers. It is alleged one of the dancers took her stiletto and repeatedly struck the woman in the face as she walked into the basement dressing room. The woman was treated at a hospital and received seven staples. She has declined to press charges against her attacker. Police said the woman took the job because she needed the extra money. She has refused to talk to police about what happened. Akron police Lt. Rick Edwards said Friday was her first day on the job. “The other girls were upset she was there and said ‘We don’t need any more dancers around here,” he said.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/5514609/stripper-stabbed-in-face-with-stiletto

Courtney Love sued for Tweeting

Courtney Love has become the first celebrity sued for tweeting. How could anyone, even Ms. Love, be that libelous in a micro-blog? The article on the ABC website says that the claim against her is for defamation, invasion of privacy and infliction of emotional distress for “an extensive rant” on Twitter. The article even points out the obvious that, “It is hard to be extensive when one is limited to just 140 characters.”

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/03/31/2531027.htm

I don’t like Mondays

In the immortal words of the Boomtown Rats: I don’t like Mondays…I want to shoot…Ooooooh…The whole day down.

I celebrated in the park

March 9th was the Monday of the Canberra Day long weekend. Of all the things to be doing on a day off from work, I can’t say I was overly thrilled at the prospect of listening to a bunch of local bands at Stage 88 and particularly not because we were supposed to be arriving at the venue around 1400h and spending at least seven hours on the grass before the fireworks display.

We arrived at about 1600h and got settled with just enough time to hear the end of one of the local groups, Los Chavos and the to hear all of the next local act, Chasing Bailey. The announcers, the current Mix 106 “Feel good” station’s breakfast DJ pairing, described Chasing Bailey as having played together since they were teenagers. Was that the best that could be said about the band? As it turned out, Chasing Bailey were no more than teenagers! Though capable, and certainly better than me, there was nothing, “Wow!” about them.

Following Chasing Bailey was the first of the headline performers for the evening, Jessica Mauboy. I am told Jessica was a contestant on Australian Idol so when she came on stage, I wasn’t surprised to hear what you would expect from the Idol franchise factory - a repertoire of manufactured music that appeals to pre-pubescent girls. She really can sing though, just not my sort of music.

Kate Miller-Heidke was next on the programme. From Triple J, I had heard her name but couldn’t put a song to it so I was interested to hear her perform. Again, a really good voice (she is classically trained) but the vocal stylings sounded like she was singing scales in the middle of her songs and what seemed to be a bit of posing and hand waving like this:

and this…

some more of this kind of action…

I get the feeling she likes it like that.

All these images were taken from http://katemh.com/ and I’ll take them down if there is a problem.

Next were the headline act, the Hoodoo Gurus. The Gurus came on at about 2000h and rocked for over an hour finishing with a double encore. For the most part, the set list was a a trip down memory lane though they did play a track that I had never heard before. It was clear that they had slowed down a little bit since I’d seen them last, and I was surprised to see Dave Faulkner wearing the same vertical stripe pants he was in 1992 when I saw them while I was at Uni! None-the-less they still ROCK!

Fireworks ended what ended up the show and finishing off what was an alright afternoon and evening out.

Death by rectal haemorrhage

I can think of a few nicer ways to shuffle off this mortal coil rather than bleeding to death from the rectum!

From ninemsn 23/2/09

A boy in China has been killed by an office chair after it exploded while he was sitting on it, according to reports.

The 14-year-old boy died from extensive bleeding after the chair’s gas cylinder burst, sending metal chair parts into his rectum. While pictures of the chair have swept the internet, they did not reveal the boy’s name or when the incident allegedly occurred. A gas cylinder containing compressed air is typical of adjustable office chairs. An air valve operated by a side handle on the chair may be used to raise or lower the seat. In 2007, another chair reportedly injured a person after exploding in China. Newspapers said a 68-year-old man escaped with minor injuries after a 20cm chair piece pierced his bottom.

Recording industry complains - 95% of digital music is obtained illegally!

Digital music revenues are up but the recording industry is complaining - Not like they don’t charge an arm and a leg anyway.

All that is happening is a rationalisation in the market. Consumers pay for good music and won’t pay for the rest of the padding that makes up an album, particularly as most of it is just rubbish. Why should an additional charge be levied on a medium that has increasing revenue purely on the basis of figures that they can’t prove?

From economist.com 4/2/09

Big record companies and music-retailer may be struggling, but sales of digital music are booming. Global revenues leaped by 28% last year, despite piracy - up to 95% of digital music is obtained illegally, reckons the IFPI, a trade body. Though this figure is disputed, governments are enacting tougher legislation to catch illegal file-sharers and shut down the sites they use. Last week Britain’s government proposed a £20 ($28.60) levy on every household using broadband to help offset the costs of piracy.

My thought for today

Everything is a matter of perspective.

More than ever, watch what you say

via the Sydney Morning Herald

Federal Parliament passed a law that allows the Government to read private emails, text messages and other stored communications without our knowledge. The power extends to innocent people, called B-parties, if they have been unlucky enough to communicate with someone suspected of a crime or of being a threat to national security.

I thought you should be aware of this sinister move on the part of the Australian Government to read private emails, text messages and other electronic data without our knowledge!

This is something that should not stand anywhere in the world, let alone in forward Western democracies.