Sexy Jihad

Greetings all
After a somewhat brief hiatus Sexy Jihad is now back, and badder than ever. Well, at least we look better
Now new & improved with the most excellent Cutile theme. Hopefully there will be more and frequent postings from now on.
Nice…very nice

News.com.au has an interesting if somewhat morbid interview with one of Singapore’s main executioners, Darshan Singh:
Mr Singh joined the British colonial prison service in the mid-1950s after arriving from Malaysia. When the long-established British hangman Mr Seymour retired, Singh, then 27, volunteered for the job. He was attracted by the bonus payment for executions.
Mr Singh […]

An alarming story at the BBC reports that worldwide arms spending has for the first time ever hit the $1 trillion mark:
Spending on weapons around the world topped $1 trillion (£560bn) for the first time in 2004, a new report says.
A study by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Sipri) found that countries around the […]

The BBC reports that some Israeli companies have been very very naughty:
Police in Israel say they have uncovered a huge industrial spying ring which used computer viruses to probe the systems of many major companies.
At least 15 Israeli firms have been implicated in the espionage plot, with 18 people arrested in Israel and two more […]

A new release of firefox, consisting of security fixes:

MFSA 2005-44 Privilege escalation via non-DOM property overrides
MFSA 2005-43 “Wrapped” javascript: urls bypass security checks
MFSA 2005-42 Code execution via javascript: IconURL

Get it or get 0wned!

A restaurant in Pennsylvania apparantly now offers the worlds biggest hamburger:
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Starting last weekend, a Pennsylvania restaurant put a 15-pound burger on its menu, claiming the largest burger available anywhere.
Dennis Liegey, the owner of Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub in Clearfield, 120 northeast of Pittsburgh, said the “Beer Barrel Belly Buster” weighs in […]

It seems that some people in Australia have been inspired by Easyjet and are about to start an el Cheapo cemetery. Excerpt:
After more than 15 years, Victorian company Palacom has won the right to establish what is believed to be Australia’s first vertical cemetery, in which bodies will be buried on their feet.
The cemetery and […]

The Airbus A380 has finally taken to the air, so reports the BBC:
The world’s largest passenger plane, the Airbus A380, is on its long-awaited maiden flight.
Thousands of aeroplane enthusiasts, many of them clapping and cheering, witnessed the twin-deck “superjumbo” taking to the air for the first time.
The flight was due to last between two and […]

It seems that Internal Affairs is investigating the NYPD for taking bribes from the MPAA. Excerpt:
Two NYPD veterans are being investigated by Internal Affairs for allegedly accepting payoffs from the motion-picture industry to arrest vendors of pirated DVDs, law-enforcement sources told The Post.
One officer, a sergeant on the force since 1992, has been transferred […]

AlJazeera reports on a new test in the US to evaluate the use of monkeys on SWAT teams:
A US police department in Arizona intends to follow through on a proposal to train a capuchin monkey for high-risk police operations.
A Special Weapons and Tactics (Swat) veteran from Phoenix, Sean Truelove, has researched the possibility of landing […]