James' shared items

And now for a stunningly on-the-money movie trailer parody:



Thanks to Ben for this... but it's still not as good as Avatar 2 ;)

...no seriously, watch this:



This is the latest story from Nick Hayden & myself on Series 2 of Hungry Beast on ABC1. I'd love to know what fucked up invention you'dve made if YOU were the US government...

So various websites for the Australian Government were pulled down today by a group known as Anonymous. It was dubbed "Operation Titstorm" This is how they did it.



Oh, and if you want to check out my other lil' new tv gig of the week, there's this

Yet another reason why Charlie Brooker is my hero:

Grant writing makes you crazy and also forces bloggers to stoop to ever lower levels. Hence this from the Discover Magazine blog via Boingboing.

While trawling for gold in the medical case literature they struck it rich with the story of the 15 year old girl with no vagina who got pregnant by giving her boyfriend a blow job (British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology: 1988 Sep;95(9):933-4). Not possible? You be the judge:

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I try not to post too many memes, but this is pretty amazing - because it's every meme. This is over 10 years of viral phenomenons combined to music. Sure, this video has been around for about 4 years - but I'm slow & out of touch:)

Made up words that you may find useful.

A little while ago, the Washington Post’s Mensa Invitational asked its readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and then supply a new definition.
Turns out many of the winning entries would be particularly useful in augmenting our professional nursing vocabulary:

• Reintarnation:
 Coming back to life as a hillbilly.
• Bozone:
 The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating.
  As in “the bozone layer”.
• Foreploy:
 Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.
• Cashtration:
 The act of paying medical bills, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.
• Giraffiti: 
Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.
• Sarchasm:
 The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn’t get it.
• Inoculatte:
 To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
• Hipatitis:
 Terminal coolness.
• Osteopornosis:
 A degenerate disease.
• Karmageddon: 
It’s like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it’s like, a serious bummer.
• Decafalon:
 The grueling event of getting through the night shift without coffee.
• Glibido:
 All talk and no action.
• Dopeler effect:
 The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
• Arachnoleptic fit:
 The frantic dance performed just after you’ve accidentally walked through a spider web.
• Beelzebug: 
Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.
• Caterpallor:
 The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you’re eating.
• Ignoranus: 
A person who’s both stupid and an asshole.

Real words that you may find useful:

And whist we are enhancing our prosaic word power,  here are a few more descriptors that, with a little imagination, can be wedged into your nursing progress notes:

• Girn – To bare your teeth in anger and sadness
• Wamfle – To walk around with flapping clothes.
• Franch – To eat greedily.
• Nazzard – A lowly or weak person.
• Cachinnate – To laugh noisily.
• Sesamoid – Having the size and shape of a sesame seed.
• Yerk – To tie with a jerk.
• Crurophilous – Liking legs.
• Glabella – The space on your forehead between your eyebrows.
• Fample – To feed a child.
• Coprolalomaniac – Someone who compulsively uses foul language.
• Glossolalia – Gibberish; babble
• Gash-gabbit – Having a protruding chin.
• Sneckdraw – A sneaky or mean person.
• Hircine – Something that smells like a goat.
• Wallydrag – A completely useless person.
• Onygophagist – A person who bites his or her nails.
• Pronk: — A weak or foolish person
• Pulveratricious— Covered with dust
• Ithyphallophobia – Fear of Erections

Finally,  just to throw a little Japanese phrase into the mix, you might like commit the following to memory:
“Ara! Onara suru tsu-mori datta keh-do, un-chi ga de-chatta.”
The literal translation of this phrase is “Oops! I meant to fart but poop came out”.
Might just come in handy one day.