Posts by Hein Kruger

Technobullies on the rise in school yard stripping games

About time!

"Mishna says she sees a trend for the traditional victims of bullying - the computer geeks - to turn the tables in the online world."

As a geek who suffered quite a bit at the hands of the rugby jocks in high school, i definitely approve of this new development...

NZ plans four-nippled sheep

kiwis

lol, trust a kiwi to think up a excuse to get paid to look at sheep nipples

BitTorrent Inc offers legal downloads

Windows

I would love to be able to download and watch movies or tv-shows on my pc, but all these legal download services require the use of proprietary (usually micro$oft) operating systems, web browsers and media players.

There's simply no way I'm going to install windoze just so I can watch some horribly DRM encumbered movies.

Seems I'm going to have to continue doing it illegally...

If whales can communicate by telepathy, why can't humans?

Whale ESP?

I'm no biologist, but as far as I'm aware whales communicate using low frequency sounds. I would expect that the whales are equipped with the sensory organs needed to hear these sounds. I hardly think that qualifies as extra sensory perception...

Does garlic ward off the common cold?

Garlic cures

Very interesting. Of course if you were to ask the South African Minister of Health, Dr. Manto Tshabalala-Msimang (also known as Dr. Beetroot) about it, she wouldl tell you that garlic (in combination with beetroot and potatoes) is an excelent treatment for HIV, better than anti-retrovirals even!