In one of history's more absurd acts of totalitarianism, China has banned Buddhist monks in Tibet from reincarnating without government permission.

I didn't know you could even regulate such a thing.

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Another Ferrari Enzo has been involved in a serious accident, this time in the French city of Nice. The story of the crash was first reported in local newspaper Nice-Matin, which confirmed that the driver of the supercar was Russian born billionaire Suleyman Kerimov. The car, which was traveling at high speeds, skidded off the road and hit a tree before igniting. Both the driver and his passenger are said to be seriously injured.

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Seriously, how much does the idea of a Screech Sex Tape make you want to puke. Excuse me while I slit my wrists. Anyway, if you want you can watch part of it here. Ugh...

Screech Sex Tape

Today I received a "limited edition cryptex" from Google for being a finalist in their Da Vinci Code contest. It's nothing special really since there are 10,000 finalists, but I'll take it. Hey maybe I'll win the big grand prize!

This is just crazy.

Though the man, who is now 37, stopped taking the drug seven years ago, he still suffers from severe physical and mental health side-effects, including extreme memory problems, paranoia, hallucinations and depression. He also suffers from painful muscle rigidity around his neck and jaw which often prevents him from opening his mouth. The doctors believe many of these symptoms may be permanent.

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So he sorta busted his 16 and 17 year old friends having sex. Maybe posting the pics to the web wasn't the greatest idea, but come on, 20 years in prison? If it was his Dad who took the pics, and pleasured himself to them that's another story.

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Wisdom in Chains (Spook City Records) had their van stolen this weekend. What the thief didn't know is that one of the band members was still in the vehicle. Here's a statement from guitarist Richie Krutch:

"We rolled into Columbus, OH at around 4am, we came straight to our boy's pad. Everyone went into the house to chat and catch some sleep, I decided to stay in the van, I was tired out, and like my privacy. Within an hour or two of being here some bastard jumps into our shit and starts driving it away, he didn't know I was in the back. I surprised this fucker with some blast to the dome, maybe 8/10 shots, eventually he ran off the road and crashed. I went flying all over the fucking place, and he was saved by the air bags, I grabbed a screwdriver to finish this sucker off but he split out fast. So now we are fucked, our van is demolished and we are in a rough situation."

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"A citizen journalist snapped a jaw-dropping set of photos of a berserk motorist attacking a young bike-messenger in Toronto's Kensington Market. The incident reportedly began when the motorist tossed litter out his window, and the courier threw it back in; the motorist reportedly threw a cup of coffee on the courier and the courier reportedly keyed his car. The intrepid photographer calmly stood and fired off shot after shot of the motorist completely losing it, attacking the courier, screaming, and generally going nuts, and braved the man's charge with a baseball bat when he was noticed with his camera."


This guy obviously has some anger management issues.

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Holy crap, can you say invasion of privacy three times fast? Yeah, it's an easy sentence to spit out and just as easy as this cell phone tracking tool. Enter a phone number and it finds it's location using GSM cell tower data. First a text message is sent to the user and they have to allow tracking, however I'm sure a way around this will be invented...lucky for me it only works in the UK so far.

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A woman who had been blind for 25 years awoke in hospital after suffering a heart attack and found that she could see again.

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It has recently come to our attention that Apple Computers' new television commercial for the Intel chip features a shot-for-shot recreation of our video for 'Such Great Heights' made by the same filmmakers responsible for the original. We did not approve this commercialization and are extremely disappointed with both parties that this was executed without our consultation or consent. -Ben Gibbard, The Postal Service

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Now you won't be able to tell the difference between the crazy bum at the park and a guy on his cell phone. Prices start at $599.

At the center of the Audex jacket is a control panel located on the left- hand sleeve, allowing for simple and easy access to your incoming and outgoing calls, and music selections. Connect a compatible Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone** to the panel wirelessly, while hooking up your iPod® player via hidden, unobtrusive wires within the jacket. Speakers and a microphone are located in the hood for taking and making calls as well as listening to music.

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The owner has sent an apology letter, and fired the employee.
Apparently hackers took the site down with denial of service attacks.

As Thomas Hawk points out there is no reason to start hammering their business by doing other illegal activities. Also the apology letter is nice of course, and quite appropriate, but I would never buy from them now. I feel sorry for the owner if he is trying to run a legitimate business and one employee has basically brought it to a standstill.

Nissan Motor said Friday it had created a paint that repairs scratches on its own, restoring a car's surface to normal within a week.

Makes no sense to me but hey, I'll take it!

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This is out of control:

At eight years old Song is already talking about building flying cars and defying Newton's law of gravity while others his age are attending the first grade. He completed his elementary, junior-high, and high school curricula in just nine months, something that usually takes 12 years, and has been admitted as a freshman to the physics department of Inha University.

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Here's a layout I drew up about 6 months ago, put it through my testing, almost went live, and then decided against it. Oh well. Sometime soon I'll redesign everything and it'll be mind boggling.

Trashed New Layout

A TEENAGE girl has been shocked and humiliated after students at her private school distributed a porn video they thought she starred in. The 17-year-old from northern New South Wales was stunned to discover students had copied footage from an X-rated website featuring an actress she looked like.

The 10 seconds of film was then circulated by email to dozens of other students, wrongly claiming she was the star.

Sucks to be her.

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Can I get a collective, "What the hell?" I think In Flames was doing just fine with Nuclear Blast. Just think of the Boys Night Out/In Flames tour possibility! Oh well, goodluck to both the label and the band. I'll still always be an In Flames fan.

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While the gulf coast is still battling total mayhem the same storm brought once in a lifetime waves to the florida pan handle.

Katrina Surf

A Welsh View has a growing collection of links to coverage of the hurricane. If you're tired of the same boring news on CNN check out all of this for sure.

Hurricane Katrina Videos

Coolest iPod mod ever.

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CHICAGO, Aug. 17 (UPI) -- An oil expert and author who correctly forecast $3 per gallon gasoline in the United States this year says the price will reach $5 next year.

Craig Smith, author of "Black Gold Stranglehold," told the Chicago Sun-Times there's also a possibility the price could hit $10 per gallon if terrorists strike a major Middle East oil field.

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This makes me want to puke.

Gone:

Destroyed

The band Death By Stereo is being sued for a 2003 incident in which an audience member was killed when he fell from a 3rd story window, along with 5 others. I'm sure the band had a lot to do with it. They must've pushed the people out the window. Yeah that's it.

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Welch broke the news Sunday on Bakersfield, California, station KRAB-FM.

"I had it in my heart to come here and explain to you," Welch said. "I'm good friends with Korn. I love those guys, and they love me, and they're very happy for me."

Addressing the aggressive tone of the music he made with Korn, Welch said, "Anger is a good thing, and if kids want to listen to Korn, good, but there's happiness after the anger. I'm going to show it through my actions how much I love my fans."

(He quit the band if you didn't gather that)

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ASPEN, Colo. (AP) -- Hunter S. Thompson, the hard-living writer who inserted himself into his accounts of America's underbelly and popularized a first-person form of journalism in books such as "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," has committed suicide.

Thompson was found dead Sunday in his Aspen-area home of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, sheriff's officials said. He was 67. Thompson's wife, Anita, had gone out before the shooting and was not home at the time. His son, Juan, found the body.

I'm not going to claim I've read his books, but I definitely know about this man and his influence on literature. It's sad that something like this has to happen for me to suddenly feel the urge to read more of his writings.

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Kevin Keogh spent the morning doing ordinary chores. By afternoon, he was climbing out the window of his Mercedes and onto the roof as it sped down a busy street. Standing on top of the car, his arms outstretched as if he were surfing, he jumped to his death.

A leading theory is a parasite he caught on a trip to Mexico several years earlier. The bug can live for years inside the body, travel to the brain and cause seizures and hallucinations — symptoms Keogh started suffering a few months after his trip.

Interesting story.

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LITTLETON, Colorado (AP) -- A dentist found the source of the toothache Patrick Lawler was complaining about on the roof of his mouth -- a four-inch (10-centimeter) nail the construction worker had unknowingly embedded in his skull six days earlier.

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"Britain's geologists are about to celebrate the fact that the universe is exactly 6,000 years old. "

WHAT?

Last I checked I thought the universe was around 14 billion years old. What the hell is this crap?

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Somebody tell me what the hell is the deal with the trucker hat craze. They aren't hot, and never will be. It's even more mind boggling when someone who used to be hot like Britney starts wearing them all over. It's definitely not surprising though when her filthy weirdo she calls a husband sports the "Rock out with your cock out" hat. Anyway, I'll only allow decent looking hats, like the one pictured.

Britney
Gross Husband

On this day we lay to rest an important piece of history. Why is it important? Because it had to do with me. Lets just say I'm currently hating my life.

Read the story if you want, but clicking the video on the right is much better. Video of the actual traffic stop, and I'm happy to see that the cop didn't let him off because of who he is. Al Gore payed up as any normal American would.

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"China beefed up its ongoing crackdown on internet porn on Monday with new rules published that allow courts to issue life sentences to those convicted of posting pornography online.
The measure applied to those guilty of the profit-oriented production and dissemination of pornographic material through the internet, mobile phones and "phone-sex" services, according to the Supreme People's Court website."

Life sentences? I'm not saying I'm really into porn or anything, and lets just pretend that I don't have 13 gigs of it on my hard drive, but come on China. True, it's pretty bad how accessible free pornography is to children on the internet, just the pop-up ads alone provide sneak peeks at what they can get with minimal effort. But to give out a life sentence for trying to make a buck makes me want to puke. And for those people that do like porn you better hope Japan doesn't do something like this, because we all know where the filthiest most wretched porn comes from.

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I don't know the source of this thing, nor do I know how legit it is. I'm pretty sure it's probably not true after the massive 9/11 commission reports recently released. But really, I wouldn't be surprised if it was.

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What kind of tasteless tacky mother f-er made something like this and sent it out in candy boxes? It's totally beyond comprehension. I bet that assclown Michael Moore had something to do with it. That's right, I blame him. You heard it here first.

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Believe it or not the October issue of Playboy magazine is going to feature women of video games. It's an interesting move by the magazine, but there's a little something inside me that definitely wants to see it. Unfortunately I don't think I've played any of the games being showcased. Not to mention they missed the best one, my own video game playboy entry.

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(Yahoo) > An alleged peeping Tom is in the intensive care unit after reportedly being assaulted with a tree branch, NewsChannel5 reported.

This family caught the bastard and beat him within inches of his life for an hour??? Good lord just call the cops. I mean I hate cops but they gotta be good for something.

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The PTA president of a Torrance elementary school was charged Monday with engaging in sexual acts with two teenage boys who attend nearby West High School.

Sheryl Graham, 42, a wife and mother of five children, was expected to surrender to authorities in Torrance Superior Court on Wednesday to face four counts each of sexual intercourse with a minor and oral copulation of a person under 18, Deputy District Attorney Mike Gargiulo said.

This is my old high school! Nothing that entertaining ever happened when I went there. Oh, and a little side note...I'm sure she forced herself on them, they definitely didn't feel like getting head that day.

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So somebody has gotten a patent on a device that will allow you to walk on water, and look like a jackass while doing so. Sounds kind of fun though I have to admit. The inventer was quoted saying "It's basically a one-man show, I have drowned a lot of money in this venture." -- drowned?

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(CNN) > Researchers working with Raytheon Co. have developed a weapon called the Active Denial System, which repels adversaries by heating the water molecules in their skin with microwave energy. The pain is so great that people flee immediately...
...The pinpoint accuracy of a laser could eliminate collateral damage caused by missile explosions, the argument goes, and stun gun-like weapons could save lives in hostage or bomb-threat situations. Directed energy also has the potential to explode roadside bombs or mines from a distance.

The future of weapons is insanely disturbing. How do we know what the lasting effects of such technology will be? Although the goal is "more humane" it's a bit hard to swallow.

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NEW YORK (AP) -- After escaping from the circus, a white tiger alarmed picnickers and motorists Saturday on what for him apparently was a calm, half-mile stroll through an unfamiliar urban jungle...

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Just what you've always wanted to spend that old half a million dollars on. Your very own Authentic WWII PT Boat in Military Configuration. It's the last one around. Dust off that briefcase of money and have at it.

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If you missed the Michael Moore interview on The O'Reilly Factor the other night, which you probably did, here's the video link. I watched it the other day and it's quite interesting. Watch out for the 30 second ad at the beginning, but the interview itself is a good 6 minutes or so.

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As if riding a segway didn't make you into a big enough jerk now some dumb bastards decided to play polo while riding them, put it on video, and add a crappy sound track. Enjoy...I guess. Sorry it's 17 megs.

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Britney sure is lookin gross lately after shes let herself go to shit. You'd think with a newly acquired man she'd have something worth looking good for. Anyway try not to puke.

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What's sad is I can relate to this. Back in high school a couple friends Shahab and Travis and I fumbled with an M80 on it's way out my car window. Last minute it found it's way outside and underneath some lady's car where it blew up. Ah, the things we never got busted for...

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Nothin much to say but if Martha Stewart did what she's been convicted of then I'm all for her doin some time, stupid bitch thinks having millions of bucks gets her past the law.

Quick! Name a USC Heisman Trophy winner who murdered two people and got away with it.

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2 things:

--> The assclown on Jeopardy has finally done it, he's made over 1 million dollars, and he's not done yet. And speaking of 1 million we've hit 100 entries over here at Kleffmanstyle. That's almost 1000 entries, which is almost 1 million entries! See what I'm sayin?!?

--> This supposed "Cameron Diaz sex tape" from when she was 19 is SO incredibly bad, please spare yourself the time wasted and the disappointment. Instead spend that time getting the Severina Vuckovic sex tape from awhile back if you never saw it. [Not safe for work. Think about it...'sex tape']

Seems that all my buddies are covering themselves in ink these days, but it's not quite as strange as when a good looking popular actress goes to Thailand and covers her back in a 8" x 12" tattoo of a tiger.

(newscientist) > Brain implants have been used to "read the minds" of monkeys to predict what they are about to do and even how enthusiastic they are about doing it.

It is the first time such high level cognitive brain signals have been decoded and could ultimately lead to more natural thought-activated prosthetic devices for people with paralysis, says Richard Andersen project leader at the California Institute of Technology, in Pasadena, US.

This is just plain incredible...

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(CNN) > NAPLES, Florida (AP) -- A man who walked into a Wal-Mart covered in blood and bought garbage bags Friday was charged with murder after authorities found a stabbed body in a trash bin.

I really can't understand people. Theres not much else I can say.

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(CNN) > Somewhere in Germany is a baby Superman, born in Berlin with bulging arm and leg muscles. Not yet 5, he can hold seven-pound weights with arms extended, something many adults cannot do. He has muscles twice the size of other kids his age and half their body fat.

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TOKYO, Japan (Reuters) -- A Japanese teenager was forced by his teacher to write an apology in blood after dozing in the classroom, the school's principal said on Monday.

What kind of sick son of a...

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Someone built a full scale model of the Simpson's home, inside and out. So sweet.

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VENTURA (AP) A passenger who wanted off a Los Angeles-bound Greyhound bus is lucky to be alive after he jumped out the bus' emergency window and landed on Highway 101...

What is going on in this jackasses brain?

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I swear to you one day I WILL own some sorta flying machine, maybe something similar to this crazy contraption...

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Pretty intense video of a navy helicopter going down.

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"Nearly 100 students have shed their inhibitions to set a new world record by riding a rollercoaster naked."

"They were all younger and thinner so I had to suck my stomach in." -- Said one participant.

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KATMANDU, Nepal -- Ace Sherpa guide Pemba Dorjee scaled Mount Everest in a record 8 hours and 10 minutes Friday, beating the previous mark by more than 2 1/2 hours, Nepal's Mountaineering Department said.

The climb from the 17,380-foot base camp to the 29,035-foot summit usually takes about four days.

I could beat that bastard by a mile, but I don't really feel like it.

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Elderly couple finds nearly their whole house covered in human blood and have no idea whos blood it is...

Why does the sickest shit always have to happen in Iowa?

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"After Roger Chamberlain checked out last week, the cleaning crew discovered mattresses and bedding were slathered with the slippery stuff. Vaseline covered the TV set, furniture, carpeting and towels -- and everything else in the room."

This is strangely like the dream I had the other...uhhh nevermind.

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This is by far the most ridiculous thing I've seen in soccer, and I'm only a closet soccer fan. Seriously though this goalie has got to be the biggest joke that ever joked a joke...except for the fact that he's not really. It's just that one doesn't expect such a thing from premiereship soccer...