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Decided to post this image here rather than on my digital art blog ToxicChili.com as it seemed more appropriate, lol.

This is a 3D rendered image I created of the Grim Reaper.  Click on the image to view in full size.

congrats to RATM for making UK Christmas number one for 2009, it makes a change from the x-factor winners of recent years claiming the top spot.

So, does this mean Christmas is saved forever from the manufactured pop we have been force fed? unlikely.  The x-factor winner Joe McElderry still sold 450,000 copies of his single and has still made Simon Cowell and SyCo (who incidentally is part of Sony Music) enough money to cover their Christmas cake and crackers for another year.  RATM are signed to Epic, which is also part of Sony Music.

So the real winners this Christmas are….  Sony Music because not only did  SyCo do pretty well through x-factor and record sales, but they had the unexpected bonus of getting another 500k of online sales/downloads for RATM.

Personally I don’t buy into the whole Christmas number one thing anyway and would rather spend my money on something far better, maybe some liquorice allsorts or a Christmas chocolate selection pack.

Maybe when a truely independant artist makes Christmas number one, it will be something worth shouting about.

Thanks for reading and have a very merry Christmas and a great new year.

Taken from a post on SocietySucks.com

When oil prices reached $147 per barrel, people were saying that oil would reach $200 per barrel, there was talks of hybrid cars, using alternative methods for fuel, etc. etc.  But then prices crashed below $40 per barrel and the $4 gallon (in the US at least) was gone.  So is this crisis over? unfortunately not, but it seems that people have already forgotten the high price of a gallon of fuel and US oil consumption is on the rise again.  Demand for gasoline in the US is already up 6% since last September and many of the projects that were viable when oil prices were high have been scrapped or put on the back burner.  One alternative fuel, Ethanol, uses more energy to produce it than it can actually provide and also has other non-desirable side effects of using a food to make a fuel.

Americas account for 4.3% of the world population, yet they consume 26% of the world oil consumption, in contrast Europe makes up 6.8% of the world’s population and consumes 11%.  High tax on oil in Europe has made people use more economic cars, with fuel economy being double that of the average American car.

If you now add China, India and Asia to the equation, with the introduction of $2500 cars.  Car ownership in these areas is soaring.  Just a 3% increase in demand for oil will mean demand will once again outstrip supply.

So how long before part 2 of the energy crisis?  12 months, 6 months, 3 months???  Everyone is so wrapped up in the financial crisis that once again they won’t see this coming, even if they do, it is pretty much too late to do anything about.  The US may hold off the $10/gallon for a little while, but $5/gallon will soon be a reality.

Want to discuss this more? visit SocietySucks.com and have your say.

 If you got fed up of hearing my moans, rantings and general junk that I posted (I know I did lol), well now you have an opportunity to post your own at my new forum www.SocietySucks.com.  Its quite new but already gaining popularity.  So feel free to visit and join.

In my usual search around YouTube I came across a song and a band from my past, one that I use to love when I was at school and much to my parents annoyance I would play loudly. So I decided that I would do one of the blogging sins and create a list of 10 songs that influenced me when I was a child/teenager (It seems a long time ago now).

Adam & The Ants - Probably one of the first bands and songs that I really liked as a child was Stand and deliver by Adam & the Ants. Im not quite sure what it was about it, perhaps the White tape across his nose or when he smashed through the window, who knows. I still on occassion listen to some of there music.

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Taken from the Telegraph.co.uk, “A seven-year-old boy was kept chained in a closet as relatives hacked off pieces of his flesh to eat, a court has heard.”

We hear pretty nasty things happening all the time, but my daughter came across the above story while browsing the Internet for the usual random thing.

Its an extremely disturbing article about a mother would chained up her two sons and allowed some horrendous abuse in the name of a religious cult. below are some excerpts from the article itself.

The abuse – involving members of a religious cult – was uncovered by chance last May when a neighbour’s television baby monitor picked up graphic pictures of what was happening next door.

Ondrej and his nine-year-old brother Jakub were locked and chained in the cellar for months by their mother Klara, 31 – a member of a group called the Grail Movement.

He was caged, beaten and gagged to stop him screaming, according to reports.

Mauerova had the monitor installed so that she could watch the abuse from her kitchen but the images were picked up by a neighbour who used an identical system to monitor a newborn baby, the regional court in Brno has heard.

Police were called and the two boys as well as what appeared to be a 13-year-old girl were freed.

But the girl later turned out to have been one of the alleged abusers, 34-year-old Barbora Skrlova.

You can read the full article here ‘Cannibal relatives ate boy alive’ By John Bingham

We all need sleep but many of us internet addicts fuel our night times with Caffeine just to allow us to cope for that few extra hours online while we update our blogs, kill a few more enemies or just to chat with friends we have never actually met. What if there was a way to stay awake longer without feeling tired??. The military is always developing ways to make soldiers stay awake for days at a time without the need for sleep, but at what cost?

There have been many attempts to surpress the need for sleep. 70 years ago a chemical called dexedrine (dextroamphetamine) was introduced by the pharmaceutical company Smith, Kline, and French. It was used in the the 2nd World War and appeared to have few side effects. But by the 60’s it was discovered that higher and higher doses were needed and giving up the drug was another problem causing disturbed sleep to violent outbursts. Not to be detered by this, the latest solution is Modafinil, researchers found that troops could perform effectively 40 hours at a time and then get a normal nights sleep without needed sleeping pills. The US Airforce has approved its use and the French Foreign Legion gave it to soldiers in the first Gulf war. So is this the solution, developed further could we live in a sleep free society? being able to operate productively days at a time without getting fatigued or imparing our judgement?

Looking further into this shows more worrying facts. Firstly no one really knows the true purpose of sleep. Is it true we sleep to stop feeling tired? is it also true that we eat to stop feeling hungry? Scientists are now starting to discover links between life-threatening illnesses and sleep deprivation, including Breast cancer (especially women involved in shift work) and heart disease. Even reducing your sleep by one hour a day could have a significant impact. A major study showed that reducing your sleep by 2 hours from 7 hours a night to 5 hours a night increases our chance of premature death by up to 70%. So by gaining a few extra hours a night by not sleeping are we in fact risking losing this time later on.

Perhaps instead of finding ways to get more hours in the day and get more out of our lives, we should be looking at ways of having better nights sleep. If you don’t get some sleep now, the saying ‘We can sleep when we are dead’ might happen sooner than you realise.

Thats all from me, now get some sleep

Tthe D.O.M Team finally got caught for there hacking activities.

It was announced today that the spanish police has arrest five members of the hacking team know as D.O.M team.  D.O.M is ranked number 26 for all types of attacks with nearly 22,000 credited to them.  For defacements they are the 5th most prevalent.  The name D.O.M means Dark Owned Mafia.

You can read the full story here.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/05/17/spain.hackers.ap/index.html

Check out the new blog CyberHacking.com for the latest information on security updates and issues.

Just a quick note to say I’m finally back.  I took some time out from blogging during the Easter break and needed to re-motivate myself.  Anyway, I finally got off my backside and posted, albeit not the most interesting post in the world.Firstly, I apologize to everyone I owe EC credits to for winning the scratch card thing, I will get this sorted in the next few day.

Secondly, coming soon I am doing a competition titled ‘Become a millionaire - Win a Million’ -  Yes, thats right, im giving a million away in a competition.   Yes okay there is a twist, but you will find out soon

Anyway, watch this space for the next update in the next day or so

Its 9am Easter Sunday Morning and I just wanted to wish all my readers a very happy easter, I hope you all got loads of chocolate eggs to indulge yourself on. My kids have plenty of chocolate to send them completely loopy and buzzing round the house for a few days on a chocolate high.

So where did Chocolate Easter Eggs come from? It seem the the first chocolate eggs appeared around the early 1800’s, starting in France and Germany before spreading across the rest of Europe. At first they were solid because chocolate as it is now didn’t exist and making hollow eggs was a far more difficult process involving making a paste from ground roasted Cacao beans. With the discovery of modern chocolate making processes and mass products methods, chocolate eggs soon became the easter gift of choice in the UK and by the 60’s this had spread worldwide.

Thanks for taking the time to reading my blog, hope everyone has a great easter break