Thank You!

[shanmonster]

Over the years, www.shanmonster.com has been hosted by some very generous folks. Most recently, it has been Kutulu, who has been maintaining the servers, despite often being over a thousand miles away from the box the site's hosted on. I'd like to extend a huge thank-you to him for all these years of help. Kutulu, you're frigging awesome!

My site will soon be changing servers. professormass is donating space on his own machines, and I hope to see shanmonster.com up and running again very shortly.

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Link time!

Now the Hell Will Start: This looks like a fascinating book, and I plan on nabbing it from the library soon. Accused of murdering his C.O. in WWII, Pvt. Herman Perry goes AWOL and lives with a tribe of headhunters. And yes, it's a true story.

Father Learns Kids Don't Inflate: "A Cambodian father and mechanic learned the hard way not to inflate children when he inserted an air hose designed to fill car tires into his 5-year-old son's anus and blew him up."

Chinese man sticks 2008 needles in his head to mark Beijing Olympic Games: So what do the pins in his shoulder represent (thanks, warrenellis)?

Fake Bus Stop Keeps Alzheimer's Patients From Wandering Off: "The idea was first tried at Benrath Senior Centre in Düsseldorf, which pitched an exact replica of a standard stop outside, with one small difference: buses do not use it" (thanks, gha5t).

Coco Wang: Earthquake Strips: Poignant comic strips about the recent earthquake in China (thanks, officialgaiman).

KMart Sells Abstinence Gear: Marketed only towards girls, these pants feature the slogan "True Love Waits" emblazoned over bum and crotch. Nice.

Heelarious: High heeled shoes for infants.

Girl Swallows 30 Magnets, Steel Balls: This could have been natural selection in action....

The Dragon Cars Mania: Russians really know how to rice up their cars.

Comments

[momus.livejournal.com]

Police were not expected to take action against the father, blaming the incident on pure stupidity, against which there is currently no law.

0_o

...ummm...

Bwuhahahahah!

Also...

[momus.livejournal.com]

"Mega Brands was saddened to learn that a child sustained injury from ingesting a large number of toy parts, some of which apparently contained magnets. While we have not been able to confirm whether the toy involved was a MEGA Brands product, it is clear this was a highly unusual and isolated situation and is not indicative of any problem with Mega Brands' magnetic construction toys currently on the market. In general, if a child swallows 30 pieces of any toy, it is likely that it will result in harm regardless of the toy in question."

I'm starting to sense a theme here...

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Oh man. I couldn't read more than four of those comic strips. Wrenching...

[tailchaser.livejournal.com]

the fake bus stop is absolutely brilliant.
my ex's father had Alzheimer's and was in a hospital with other sufferers of it. he kept escaping and heading to the bus stop that was close to the hospital.
luckily the bus drivers must have been used to it, cause they would stop and either call for help, or escort him back to the main doors.
he was always in his pjs and looked confused. he just thought the bus would get him home.

[entropy156.livejournal.com]

Hmmm....apparently the author of the Russian car story never saw any of the Alien films.....'cause those aren't dragons.

Нужен совет знатоков

[(Anonymous)]

Приветствую всех!
У меня такой вопрос,кто что интересное подскажет буду признателен.
Мы с друзьями собираемся поехать в круиз по просторам России и ближнего зарубежья месяца на два на своих машинах,но не как не можем согласовать маршрут,если у кого уже был опыт такого путешествия,может,что посоветуете.Девчонок с собой не берем,думаем,что во все городах России с этим не будет проблем,если у кого будут рекомендации и в вопросе отдыха с девушками тоже буду признателен.

С уважением Сеньчик

[real-bethy.livejournal.com]

Some people should not be allowed to reproduce. Ever.

Look at me...I'm turning into Zed!:) Next I'll be suggesting truth machines and denying the existence of human rights. Ah, he'd be so proud of me. :)