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Laotions celebrate "pii mai" the Laos New Year, which involves copious quantities of water, alcohol, music and the odd bit of cross-dressing
Pii Mai

In other news while I was on the road some little turd got in and hacked all six of my websites achieving little more than to reinforce the notion that those who cannot create, destroy. Laos is proably the least developed country in South East Asia however I was able to resurrect the site. The culprit in the meantime has been tracked down and electrodes were applied to his testicles.

11th March 2002

Here's the thing. Three years ago I taught myself a bit of HTML code registered the domain http://www.insanitywetrust.com and came up with this lot. It's since come to my attention that I need to look into a content management system to facilitate site development. It's also come to my attention that I need to spend the next three months or so travelling through the north of Laos into southern China so updates will be few and far between. Until I get some minions I'm the sole idiot behind all this. Rest assured once southern China has been conquered and cms mastered abnormal transmission wll resume. In the meantime check out the archives, my other site http://www.travelsinasia.com our new project http://www.deadlineinternational.com featuring the investigative journalism of Ben Vidgen and feel free to contact us with your submissions and comments. (richard (at) insanitywetrust.com)

McNuggets

New York Times - Struggling to Squelch an Internet Rumor
Times Online - How internet turned ‘fact into a global lie
WFSA TV - Gang Initiation Rape Email Circulates; But Is It Real?
Salem News - Who really Spat on Veterans During the Vietnam War?
Reuters - The dumbest ever quiz answers

....in Kailahun District (Sierra Leone), women tell the story -- possibly apocryphal -- of an old woman who was huddled over her cook fire when a group of rebels entered her village. She was frying some tasty frogs. The rebels surrounded her, peering into the pot to see what she was cooking, and one of them said: "We are freedom fighters of the Revolutionary United Front. We have come to save you from the government." The old woman -- unafraid -- replied: "Then you must go to the capital. The government is not in my pot."

Women in Kailahun District tell that story over and over, and they laugh every time. They are so proud of that lone, bold old woman who told off those rebel men. That's the spirit of survival, still alive in them -- though they must know that the rebels probably shot that old woman and ate her frogs.

Ann Jones, the author of "Kabul in Winter: Life Without Peace in Afghanistan," works as a volunteer with the International Rescue Committee on a special project for its gender-based violence unit.

Los Angeles Times - A War on Women

A 15-year-old South Australian school student has busted the myth that goldfish have a three second memory.

News.co.au - Goldfish "three-second memory" myth busted.

Random Facts

# The only insect that can turn its head 360 degrees is the praying mantis.
# In 1990 there were about 15,000 vacuum cleaner related accidents in the U.S.
# Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
# A group of twelve or more cows is called a flink.
# Against Army regulations, George Armstrong Custer often wore a blue velvet uniform.
# Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive!

Fact Library

Hotmail Sucks

O.K. so hotmail, myspace etc. provide a free service but it still rips your undies a bit to have your account deleted. There is some recourse for the disgruntled however.....

hotmailsucks.com is a site fueled by one punter's outrage at having his account deleted for an alleged abuse of TOU. Our protagonist is the creater of the Tourist of Death site at the heart of the whole matter. After encouraging one dissenter to "go punch (himself) in the balls" he found his account had been deleted. His site encourages submissions outlining your own dissatisfaction with hotmail or msn.

More evidence that Bill Gates is the Antichrist

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