• Employer beheads worker for not milking cows

    An employer in eastern India beheaded one of his workers for failing to milk his cows, police said on Saturday.

    Man, the HR departments in India are really strict.

  • To promote the new Nine Inch Nails album Year Zero, they had a whole alternate reality game set within the context of the album. It included shirts with secret messages, several websites with more hidden messages, and songs \”leaked\” on usb drives at concerts. It culminated in a free NIN performance in an abandoned warehouse for just 50 people that got \”raided\” by the police at the end. This forum has more info about the show and there\’s footage from it here. That\’s so damn cool.

  • Grindhouse to be sawn in two?

    …there have been reports that many film-goers have been confused by the movie\’s structure – mistakenly assuming that there was only one film on offer and leaving the cinema en-masse after the Rodriguez section.

    Bah, these are the same morons who were pissed at the end of Fellowship of the Rings cause they didn\’t know it was a trilogy. I better go see Grindhouse soon before I have to pay twice as much.

  • This is an interesting article about being the night watchman on Alcatraz.

    Erik Novencido worked the night shift for 10 years. The worst part was walking inside the electroshock therapy room. Once he took a picture at night to show friends. When he developed the film, he said, the snapshot showed a face in the room staring back at him.

  • The 2GB DS-Xtreme was announced last week. It has 4x the storage capacity of the first 512mb version at the same price, while the 512mb version is now $99. There\’s a ton of homebrew support for the DS, including ScummVM, which means you can play Monkey Island on your DS!

  • A guy in France built an amazing 1:3 scale model of a Ferrari 312PB. He replicated every little thing in 1:3 scale; functioning head lights, gearbox, spark plugs, radiator cap, brake pads. It includes a V12 engine that actually freaking runs and sounds like the real thing.

    All he needs now is a Swedish midget with mob ties to crash it on PCH.
    [ From Boing Boing. ]

  • Oh man, this is so awesome: the scary Mary Poppins trailer. Reminds me of the Exorcist.