Attention should be given to nasal leech infestation.
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Tags: doomed, mutants
Current Music: Lemon Kittens -- (Afraid of Being) Bled By Leeches ♬
The multi-talented Angie Sanselmente Valencia
I'm pretty sure I saw this movie. On Cinemax. Starring Lorenzo Lamas and Carmen Electra.
Lingerie model runs one of world's largest drug gangs
Angie Sanselmente Valencia, a former lingerie model, is believed to be heading one of the world's largest drug gangs.
An international arrest warrant has been issued for the 30-year-old, who is suspected of recruiting beautiful women and using them to move drugs to Europe and North America.
Many of these women are believed to be other lingerie and glamour models who compete in international beauty pageants, whom Valencia describes as "unsuspicious, beautiful angels".
She is thought to be on the run somewhere in either Mexico or Argentina. Her drug syndicate was exposed in December last year after a 21-year-old blew the whistle after being caught with 55kg of cocaine at Buenos Aires airport.
Investigators believe the beauty pageant winner quit modelling and left her native Colombia for Argentina to set up the empire last year.
They tried to trace her via her Pomeranian lapdog but found it registered to a disused warehouse. Her drug runners were paid £1,300 to board flights from Colombia to Cancun, Mexico, with bags of cocaine every 24 hours, according to The Sun. The drugs were then trafficked to Europe. Valencia was crowned Columbia's "Queen of Coffee" in 2000 and is said to have split from a Mexican drug baron nicknamed The Monster to rival his empire.
Facebook Pages: still borked.
The Facebook Blog just posted "What's the Difference between a Facebook Page and Group?", because the difference is so goofy that nobody can really understand it, and yet they continue to not address the bug that makes "Pages" be useless for an actual business trying to reach their actual customers.
Tags: www
People Love Us on Yelp
Yelp Hit With Class Action Lawsuit For Running An "Extortion Scheme"
The plaintiff in the suit, a veterinary hospital in Long Beach, CA, is said to have requested that Yelp remove a negative review from the website, which was allegedly refused by the San Francisco startup, after which its sales representatives repeatedly contacted the hospital demanding payments of roughly $300 per month in exchange for hiding or deleting the review.
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"He needs to step up to congress and say, 'this legislation goes through, or I've got a hatchet with your dick's name on it."
Tags: big brother, furries, mpegs, perversions
Current Music: Geinoh Yamashirogumi -- Battle Against the Clowns ♬
DNA Lounge: Wherein we meet the Skynet Hive Overmind, and have nothing to fear.
Photos and videos of the two night BarBot 2010 Cocktail Robot Festival are now up. It was a lot of fun, and the robots were very cool. I can report, however, that the squishy meat-sacks that we normally employ as bartenders need not fear for their jobs, or their lives. Yet. The robots needed near-constant tweaking, prodding and jiggling from their simian assistants in order to be coaxed into dispensing the life-giving nectar.
I believe we have a few years left before the coming war between man and the brotherhood of machines.
Remain vigilant.
DNA Lounge: Wherein we have photos, also, robots.
Photos and videos are up of the EFF's 20th Birthday party, as well as some earlier galleries that I forgot to mention of the Abney Park and Kid Beyond shows. You're coming down tonight and/or tomorrow for the ROBOT BARTENDERS, right? It should be hilarious. Here's a video of them debugging one of the robots earlier today.
The Enrichment Center promises to always provide a safe drinking environment. In dangerous drinking environments, the Enrichment Center promises to always provide useful advice. For instance: due to scheduled maintenance, one of the barbots was unavailable, and has been replaced with a live-fire military android. Try to avoid it.
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Current Music: Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark -- The Misunderstanding ♬
Google Voice questions
Dear Lazyweb,
We've got this phone number where someone reads aloud the DNA Lounge calendar for the upcoming week. In this modern world, I'm not really sure whether it's worth even having such a thing (e.g., I have no idea how many people ever listen to it, since the telco won't give us those statistics), but we keep doing it because it's been the same phone number since 1985 (I've seen it printed on flyers going back that far!)
Anyway, I'd like to automate the process. I was thinking that I could have it forward to a Google Voice number, and then have a cron job upload a new speech-synthesized MP3 every night as the outgoing message.
Can any of you who are Google Voice users tell me if this is even possible? Reports seem to conflict. Can you try it and let me know?
I can't easily try it myself, because currently that phone number doesn't ring anywhere (it's announce-only). So to set it up for Google Voice, first I'll have to forward it to a real phone so that I can receive a call and type in the magic confirmation code. I'd rather not bother until I know it's worth the effort.
Also, I'm kind of confused about which of the two varieties of Google Voice setups I should be using. Should I create a new phone number and forward the old one to it, or should I tell it to "take over" voicemail on the old one? How does that work, anyway?
Update: The answer is, "No, Google Voice can't do that. You can't upload an MP3, and outgoing messages are limited to 30 seconds."
Other unacceptable suggestions included "hook up the phone line to a Linux PC running some hacky software", and "use some other random web service that actually costs money."
Obviously both of these approaches would be way more costly than what I'm willing to put in to this passing whim of a project. So, fuck it.
Tags: computers, dnalounge, firstperson, lazyweb, www
Current Music: Enduser -- Starting... Now ♬
