So who's got the stronger personality?

On the First iPod:

'One thing that's interesting is that the president likes artists who don't like him.'

20:24

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Run, Forrest, run

I'm an avid runner and I like to work out whilst listening to trance music, for it helps me to maintain a steady pace. But of late, I've been unhappy with the items on offer in alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.dance. Most of it may be very pleasant after having ingested a steady quantity of methylone or MDMA, I tend to favour a drug-free running environment.

So here's my solution.

1) Go to DI FM, which offers trance music with lots of vocals and enough consonants and predictable rhythms to help you concentrate on the distance to go, rather than distract you all the time
2) Download StreamRipper32 here
3) Add DI FM's Shoutcast streaming url to StreamRipper 32, select a directory where you want to store your new MP3's and start downloading. (I have to try about ten times on average before it starts to grab the Shoutcast stream, so some initial patience is required.)
4) Wait for about a day or so, and you'll have a nice dir full of MP3 files. I tend to convert all of it to WMA using dBPowerAMP because that way I can cram more music on my Nike Philips MP3RUN player / podometer.

Niets te danken, Super de Boer.

19:58

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Combatting terrorism, the Russian way

Ouch:

During the mid-1980's, multiple US citizens were taken hostage in Lebanon by Hezbollah, a terrorist group which received support from Iran and Syria. During this period, three Soviet citizens were taken hostage by Hezbollah for a period of one week. The reason why the Soviet hostages were released promptly was due to a single KGB operation. Within several days of the kidnappings, the KGB seized a leader of the Hezbollah, castrated him, stuffed his testicles into his mouth, shot him in the head and left his corpse at a Hezbollah base with an ominous note that if the hostages were not released immediately more of the same would occur.71 Although the method by which the KGB carried out the assassination was horrendous, the operation brought about the rapid and safe release of all three Soviet hostages.

13:03

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Van Gogh murderer speaks out

His royal highness and suspected Van Gogh murderer Mohammed Bouyeri bestowed upon the Dutch nation the great honour of hearing him speak. Until now, Bouyeri had adhered to the old Jihadi concept of omerta. But today, in the courtroom, his eminence was very talkative, and after he had absolved his brother of any involvement with his righteous act of religious wrath he even gave the DA some hints on to how to pursue a prosecution.

'I am glad my file is more nuanced than your statements (about me, AD), and I hope that in the future you will speak out in a more nuanced and professional manner. This is my story.'

Some people would charge for such invaluable insights, but Bouyeri isn't above offering his consultancy services for free. Perhaps we should all start to use the Jihadi methods of 'communicating' professionally. Has anyone got a sacrificial knife?

11:38

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