So yeah, there's a freaking storm and flood

Hurricane Sandy being freakin' big at night. image: NASA

In case you didn't notice, there's a giant storm going across most of the US East coast. The local australian TV, Yes Channel 7 sunrise, seems to be going a bit overboard. Yes we get it. Floods and stuff. Where are the Men in Black to chase away the storm, wait I saw this happen in a Godzilla movie once some storm surge but with a giant monster behind it. Well same kind of effect. Yes , even the subway like here in this video, but this was from a thunderstorm a few years ago, gets flooded.

 Yeah and crane fell over. Looks good on TV with blurry drops of water on the camera adding to 'drama' for us viewers at home. Yeah sure it's annoying and stuff but hey, OK, get some sleep now.

Sandy franken storm closes pretty much everything in NYC

Well it looks sturdy enough to handle a bit of wind and rain.
May be a bit tricky for the people to get there. photo:wikipedia

Yep , that Franken freakin' monster of a storm Sandy, has pretty much led to the closing down of most of , if not all of NYC, including The New York Stock Exchange! that must be a pretty intense storm to do that kind of messing up.

So there'll be no trading, may be not even until Wednesday, oh nos! how will the economy survive? pretty sure keeping people safe might be a bigger priority.

The LAtimes mentions this too, and mentions a bunch of other business sand bagging up for that big' ol storm. Batten down them hatches...

Top ten critters that David Attenborough quite likes

So the SMH is reporting on what creatures that Sir David Attenborough quite likes. Well actually he thinks they deserve to be put in his own Ark. What, to whisk away, store and so forth, may be in space?

Olm salamander... just cause it's such slimy goodness!

For the complete list and wiki entries too...

Be soo lucky Britney!

lucky magazine

What the? people actually pay attention this? Well news.com.au has noted that Teen magazine called 'Lucky'... seriously a magazine called Lucky for teens? anyway... has apologised to Britney Spears for making a horrible cover with her on it? It's just a bad hair day or something?

Fans seem to be whining about her hair looking like a wig or something or photoshopped in or... well yeah there's some criticism, at least people seem to be paying some bit of attention. She still seems perfectly fine, I guess even the editors thought so at first glance.

Freakin' Franken storm for the US

Frankenstein's monster as portrayed by Boris Karloff

Hey did you see what I did there? Freakin' Franken storm? Actually it was just a variation on the Yahoo News headline which just soooo nicely fits into this news blog. They said "'Frankenstorm': Worse than sum of its parts'. Of course Yahoo News actually comes from the AP (Associated Press). Well their report even included the phrase "freakish". But want to know why exactly? well then read on.

Gollum gone fishing at NZ airport

My precious fish says gollum, well may be not the fish
but look he's trying to catch fish!

So clearly NZ takes their LOTR ( Lord of the Rings) stuff pretty seriously! there is a giant statue of Gollum trying to fish in the Foyer of a NZ airport! which airport? let me check on that for you... yep Wellington airport. It's an OK airport as far as airports go, don't really know...

So what's up with a freakin big weird statue , I mean if people' weren't freaked out about flying, now they can have " My precious, my precious hovering over the top of them"

Yeah I did see this first at geekologie so not even sure who gets the pic...

Breast freakin pot to baby

Well now this is some literal freakin' news from the BBC. They  are reporting that a woman in NZ pleaded guilty to giving her three month old baby cannabis via her breast milk. It's a legal first in NZ, so not sure where else in the world that happens. The charge was for giving a person under the age of 18 a controlled substance, so it's pretty much a form of child abuse. That's freakin sad.

Freakin' apple news

Apple fun time with an iMac, i think therefor iMac,
 lol, oh sorry to Descartes of course!
Cogito ergo sum didn't have a ring to it

So since Apple Inc, seems to live in the headlines so much and it's such a fun topic to read headlines I've created a separate blog for Apple stuff. So if you want some sort of sarcastic commentary about Apple news and related bits and bobs then check it out freakin' apple news ! It's funnsies of course. Of course you might be bored to death with Apple being in the headlines every fives minutes, but then again sometimes they take a break from time to time.

Are we freakin' slaves to technology?

The Scream: Really is that what technology is doing to us?

So, just browsing the smh.com.au as a nice handy source of information, well mostly headlines actually and this one pops up. "How to stop being a slave to technology" Well the article it self doesn't seem to be a quick how to guide, there's no step 1 step 2 as a starting point. It's just a series of quotes from some various authors. The main one mentioned is Mark Pesce who just makes a series of observations which may all well be true. But the title, the title of the article would suggest it should be about "how to!"


It's pretty obvious really step 1, turn off your gadget, step 2 sleep do something else.  Yeah I think they mentioned that point, but not until the end of the article! Technology is just a tool really, what ever, yeah people might get a bit carried away sometimes, but eventually the novelty wears off. So just sit back and freakin' calm down! puhlease! just chill freak down.

Cockroach eating man dies

Well this was sure to end quite badly according to some bizarre reports... yeah lets go to South Florida

Wikipedia cockroach image

 and go into a competition of eating cockroaches, then die. That's pretty much happened to this one dude  according to reports. Ordinarily roaches would not be toxic to eat, at least according to

"Michael Adams, professor of entomology at the University of California at Riverside, who added that he has never heard of someone dying after consuming roaches."

But who is to say wtf actually those buggers were rolling around in before hand.