Kiwiblog

A friend sent me a link to these photos.

Well you can’t tie me kangaroo down, but you can try and eat a wallaby if you are a greedy snake.

Now you look at that and think no way is that snake going to fit that wallaby inside him/her.

Score one for the snake.

From Predictably Irrational:

The order reflects the number of hits in Google!

Am using the holiday period to go through my inbox of things sent to me in the last four months which I wanted to check out but did not have time at the time. Above is one of them – the winner of Ukraine’s got talent.

Oh this is quite adorable. The police officer shows remarkable patience as the cat climbs up!

The Daily Telegraph reports:

Women should wear clothes that bare 40 per cent of their flesh to maximise their chances of attracting men, new scientific research indicates.

Not just that, but more:

The study, published in the journal Behaviour, found that the most popular women combined the 40 per cent rule with tight clothing and provocative dancing. The 15 per cent that combined all three criteria were approached by 40 men each.

Who would have thought – showing some flesh, tight clothing and dirty dancing may attract men. This is world class research from the University of Leeds.

They do find that there is such a thing as too much flesh:

Women who revealed around 40 per cent of their skin attracted twice as many men as those who covered up.

However, those who exposed any more than this also fared worse. Experts believe that showing too much flesh puts men off because it suggests they might be unfaithful.

Oh wow, really? That girl wearing the belt pretending to be a skirt isn’t going to want to settle down with me and have five kids?

This is almost too bizarre to be true:

Visitors to Kelly Tarlton’s Underwater World were stunned to see one shark give another shark an impromptu caesarean section.

Staff were initially dubious when visitors came running to tell them there were baby sharks spilling from a wound in a female school shark’s stomach – courtesy of a large bite by another shark.

But they found a female with a large gaping stomach wound and four babies swimming in the tank.

A shark as a surgeon – no need for all those years at medical school.

I had never heard of Tripit, but saw on my Linked In updates that a couple of peopel I knew were using it, and beign curious I checked it out.

This is one of the most useful websites I have experienced. It basically allows you to enter in details of a trip, and it produces an itinerary that you can not just print, but share with family and friends.

You can also have it automatically place into your calendar all the major events.

But that isn’t what is so cool. It is the user interface.

Even entering in flights manually is easy. Just need the airline code and flight number and the date. It then looks up (for every airline in the world) the departure and arrival times, the type of aircraft, a seating plan for the aircraft, the terminal you leave from etc etc.

But even that is nothing compared to the e-mail interface. Just e-mail your airline tickets confirmation e-mail to their e-mail address, and they automatically add it to your trip schedule.

And you can do the same with your hotel booking confirmation. One e-mail, and they list your hotel, its address, when you can check in and check out, what room size you have.

Forward to Tripit a dozen of your confirmation e-mails, and bang your multi-week itinerary is put together.

It is also smart. It adjusts your check in time to take account of your flights. You can also add on things like rail or rental car bookings, tour packages etc. They have interfaces to over 500 tourism companies.

They also automatically generate local maps, including routes between airports and hotels etc.

This will save me heaps of time planning future trips. It just brings all your travel arrangements together in one place, and of course you can then access them on your iPhone or Blackberry also.

I keep saying location based services are the next big thing and a Kiwi company is proving me right:

US mobile search pioneer GeoVector is turning heads with a New Zealand-developed application that allows people to discover businesses and landmarks and call up information on them simply by pointing their smartphone in any direction.

The application, World Surfer, works on the iPhone 3GS and smartphones running Google’s Android operating system.

Both have built-in GPS chips and compasses, so that they can work out where they are and in which direction they are pointing.

The software calls up information from web sources such as Google Maps, Microsoft search engine Bing and Wikipedia, and in New Zealand, details of restaurants, accommodation and landmarks stored in the database of local electronic mapping company GeoSmart.

I’d use an application like that all the time, when not at home.

Chris Keall blogs at NBR:

A group of Chinese students have created a programme that can take a simple free-hand drawn sketchy, then turn it into a photo montage using images pulled from the web.

Check it out. Now that is true innovation.

Fun little quiz here. I got 10/10. Eight answers I knew, and two I made intelligent guesses about. Most readers should be able to get seven or higher.

The Press reports:

A new Kiwi study confirms what most women probably suspect – men look at a woman’s breasts before her face.

Researchers at Wellington’s Victoria University have found nearly half -  47 per cent of men first look at women’s breasts.

A third of men’s “first fixations” are on a woman’s midriff. Less than 20 per cent of first glances were directed at a woman’s face.

Where would we be without such research.

Outrageous Fortune star and New Zealand’s “sexiest woman” Robyn Malcolm said women would be aware of men taking a peek but it had to be expected at times.

“There’s a contract, isn’t there? If I’m going to go out in a low-cut top it’s not saying I’m asking for it, but it’s not that I’m not. I’ve a really low-cut dress and I really like it. We check each other out physically. Why wouldn’t we?”

She said the Outrageous Fortune male stars were not shy about taking a look at their female co-stars’ cleavage.

“We joke about it on the show all the time.”

True Westies!

Stuff covers the important issues today:

It does not require a great deal of imagination to work out the marketing strategy of the Lingerie Football League (LFL), which opens its debut season tomorrow (NZ time).

The underwear-clad female players are hoping, however – probably in vain – to be taken seriously.

The LFL, born out of the commercial success of the ‘Lingerie Bowl’, a halftime show of women in scanty outfits broadcast during the halftime break in the NFL’s Super Bowl, has 10 teams competing in seven-a-side full-contact American football, with players dressed in sports bras and the tiniest of shorts.

I suspect it will not be long until it is on Sky Sports. The AFL equivalent of beach volleyball!

Stuff has a wonderful collection of 23 weird animals.

Guess what animal this is?

And how does this dog see?

One of the most fun festivals in the world I reckon, happened this week – La Tomatina.

During the pelting.

The afthermath.

And the main square.

Photos from news.com.au

AP reports:

A district attorney’s office spokeswoman says an ex-model found dead in a suitcase and missing her fingers and teeth was identified through her breast implants.

Spokeswoman Farrah Emami said 28-year-old Jasmine Fiore was identified using the serial number from her implants because detectives couldn’t use fingerprints or dental records.

Who knew breast implants have serial numbers!

Doesn’t this bring back memories. Too good to be forgotten.

Weddings are meant to be celebrations and this one definitely was. Very cool. The video has been viewed 6.7 million times.

Hat Tip: Stuff

An imaginary chocolate fish for anyone who can identify what this is or was. The photo was taken in 1956.

Check out the “My First Dictionary” blog. I like it.

Hat Tip: Clint Heine

AAP report:

A Norwegian man faces a heavy fine and a driving ban after police caught him having sex with his girlfriend while speeding on the motorway.

Police say the 28-year-old man and 22-year-old woman were caught in the act late on Easter Sunday by traffic police on a highway 40km west of Oslo.

Officers clocked the couple’s silver Mazda 323 racing at 133kmh in a 100kmh zone, veering from one side to the other.

They say he couldn’t see much because her back was in the way.

That is very dangerous. Everyone knows you should slow down to 50 km/hr whle having sex.

AP report:

The President of Paraguay has admitted that he is the father of a child conceived while he was still a Catholic bishop.

Whoops.

But it gets better.

This is the mother, aged 26. But the relationship has been going on for a decde – since she was 16!

These would make police pursuits much more fun. These Italian police cars can hit 192 m/hr which is 307 km/hr.

Political geeks might want to try out ugov.co.nz, which is a forum based debating game simulating the New Zealand Government.

This is amazing. Someone took hundreds of photos of the crowd at Obama’s Inauguration, and has stuck them all together on a site where you can peer in from any angle, and also zoom in to see individual faces and people. The VIP section is especially interesting.

The HoS editorial approves of a new service:

Every so often an invention comes along which is so brilliant that we wonder how we ever got on without it. Fire is an excellent example. Ditto the flush lavatory and sunglasses.

A new reminder service established by an enterprising American might not beat, say, child immunisation as a contribution to human civilisation, but it has to be reckoned a contender.

PMSBuddy.com, a website on which you can sign up to be sent an email alert that someone in your life might be approaching a particularly tricky time of the month, has received more than 100,000 enrolments. Men who enter the date and length of the last menstrual cycle of up to five women, will receive timely messages like “She’s on yellow – tread carefully, fella”. The founder of the free service, 28-year-old Jordan Eisenberg, says he hopes to launch it as an iPhone application soon – presumably a must for subscribers who don’t check their emails regularly.

Rejoicing in the slogan “saving relationships one month at a time”, the website should prove a boon for men who lose track of time while trying to work out what they did wrong two weeks ago.

This reminds me of an incident at Otago University. One day, one of my good friends, Jo, snapped at something I said or did. I was, as usual, being provocative and deserved it but normally Jo was very placid and never responded to my stupidities. I was surprised she did and cracked a time of month joke. She responded that it was in fact that time, and that might be why she was cranky.

Anyway I said that it is more fun when she bites back at my hassles, so I wrote up on my wall planner her cycle dates, so I would know when to best hassle her. Jo was there when I did this, and was laughing. We were good mates, but totally platonic.

Now what I didn’t consider was how people might react, without knowing the context of it being a joke between Jo and I. Anyway the next day we were having a party in my room, and suddenly one of the attendees asks whether Jo and I are sleeping together.  We both basically call him crazy and say how in hells name led him to think and ask that. He then pointed to my wall planner and asked why did I have Jo’s cycle marked on it for the rest of the year.

We both looked at each other and burst into hysterical giggles. This made everyone more suspicious until we explained. I’m still not sure everyone believed us!

Anyway back to the main topic of PMS alerts, I was about to joke that there is probably a Facebook application that allows you to notify certain friends of your timing. And to my astonishment, there actually is. It has 791 users!