Mark Willis [DeathMark | DrMong]

Back in business…

So - I havn’t made a blog post about any unusual news for a few months now, but now I’ve updated my site and cleared the 864 pending comments about viagra and such, I’m ready for more reporting in 2010!

An interesting thing is my blog gets alot of traffic, especially to my Aston Martin 177 post back in March ‘09. So much so infact, I’m top in Google image search for ‘Aston Martin 177′.

Anyway, stay tuned for uncensored news reporting in the new year!

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Pirate hunting

In Soviet Russia, you hunt pirates

A Russian cruise business has now turned the tables around on the Somalian pirates. The company provides a cruise ship for $5,790 a day, with the intent of sailing it past Somalia, and nowhere else. The business idea is simple: the cruise ship is the bait for the pirates. Try the real pirates, the seemingly harmless ship enters the waters around Somalia. And the Russian thrillseekers are loaded up with weapons to slay some pirates…

Rent an AK47

The rich russians who rent the ship are offered AK47s at $9 a day, with 100 rounds of ammo at $12. A grenade launcher costs $175 a day. These included three grenades, which are included in the rent. The use of Reeling in the permanently installed machine guns should cost $475.
And just incase something goes wrong, the cruise company provides Russian ex-special force guards.

Possibly a joke

This story might not be true, however even if it isn’t it’s a great idea!

Source

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Found: Loch Ness Monster, but it died 200m years ago.

The Loch Ness monster - that lived in the English Channel.

The Loch Ness monster (or at least the Plesiosaur that was found) existed during the Jurassic period about 150 to 200 million years ago when what is now the English Channel was a shallow, tropical sea.

The remains were discovered by fossil hunter Tracey Marler under rocks on Monmouth Beach near Lyme Regis, Dorset.

As experts examined the bones in detail, they were surprised to see teeth marks from where a predator dinosaur would have feasted on the carcass of the ‘lake monster’.

Mr Moore added: ‘Their predator would have been the ichthyosaur which was carnivorous.’

Natural England worked closely with the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site team to carefully extract the fossils.

The alternative of leaving it could have led to it being destroyed by ill-informed collectors or eventually being washed away and eroded by the sea.

Richard Edmonds, science manager for the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site, said: ‘There was a risk that we could have damaged the pavement by the act of removing the fossil.

‘Plesiosaur remains are rare. There are only 10 known examples of complete or even partial skeletons of this species.

‘I have been doing this for 30-odd years and I have only ever found the odd bone.

‘The specimen could not have been in a more sensitive location, in the famous and iconic ammonite pavement.’

It is hoped the skeleton, which is 70 per cent complete, will go on public display at the Lyme Regis Museum.

Source: Daily Mail

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Update on my GOW2 rankings calculator.

First in the world?

So, on the 26th March 2009 I was the ‘first person’ to publish an accurate (so far) list of the experience requirements of all levels of the new gears of war 2 rankings system. See it here: Rankings Calculator.

This sparked a HUGE surge of traffic to my site, with thousands of hits in the first day! (With thousands every day since, too!)

I guess this is my first ‘world first’ - however it is still yet to be confirmed 100%. Still, most other people who independently worked on solving the formula agree with me now on the GOW forums, and so have corrected their own lists.

I must also mention ‘Nolestrumpet’, who published a similar theory as to how the formula works (thus confirming what I was working on and sped up my trial and error with decay constants). Also ‘IB_O_IR_ID_O’, who provided analysis on several sets of data and confirmed my data was ‘accurate’ four days before anyone else on the net.

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Gears of War 2 TU3 Rankings Calculator

A new rankings system for Gears of War 2 online came out yesterday, with the release of Title Update 3.

So today I’ve created a relatively simple Rankings Calculator for the new Rankings system in GoW2.

It shows you how much experience is needed for each level, allows you to work out much more exp you need to get for your next level and so on.

You can view it here: Gears of War 2 Rankings Calculator

I take no responsibility for any days/months you may loose from your life by playing GoW2.

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Tax on Chocolate…

Some scottish bloke [an MP, and alleged Doctor] is saying there should be a tax on chocolate, much like there is on alcohol and cigarettes - to cut down on obesity.

This is stupid - tax on alcohol doesn’t stop people drinking, the news is also on about kids binge drinking. Tax on cigarettes doesn’t stop people smoking - which they know.

Why not just teach kids properly in school? If a child decides to eat mass amounts of chocolate after being told what it does (like they choose to smoke even though they know how harmful it is) then they’ll get fat. It’s just a form of natural selection.

More on this stupid man, and his suggestion here : BBC

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Aston Martin’s £1m car…

The world is apparently in financial crisis… car companies are apparently struggling (even though they’ve all been making vast profits for 10-50 years)… shops are pulling the ‘administration scam’

BUT ASTON MARTIN, who usually slap a £120,000 price tag on their cars, have unveiled a £1,000,000 car called the 177 (one-77) right in the middle of the worst recession for a ‘few years’.

This is probably their DBX model which they intend to run as their flag ship. It was shown at the Geneva Motor Show. BBC reported on it here.

If the 177 is the DBX, then it will have a top speed of around 205 mph (330 km/h) and a V12 mid engine tuned producing 700 bhp. This car will be very eco-friendly. Producing enough CO2 to keep a few trees fed! Yes, our exhaust is food for nature.

Top gear’s Clarkson recently said astons are now ‘uncool’ as all the footballers are buying them. And well, I don’t think many other people could afford this one.

It looks good, but £880,000 better looking than a DB9?

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CCTV footage of London’s Feb 2009 snow.

The heaviest snow in 18 years was caught on my office’s CCTV. This is what brought London to it’s knees…

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HMS Daring’s (D32) on it’s way home, for the first time.

So, the first of six new Type 45 Destroyers, HMS Daring, has completed it’s sea trials (stage 1) and so has been handed over to the Royal Navy (Dec 2008).

Three more ships are currently undergoing stage 1 sea trials, with two more in production. One of the first things the Royal Navy has said is “wut, da gun ain’t big enough lolz” and is investigating into upgrading the forward 114mm deck gun to 155mm.

I would assume these are to protect the future RN "Supercarriers" that will be finished in 2012 or so. As carriers are quite easy to hit from the air! (World-class anti-submarine military equipment is already available.)

But why would we need to upgrade our sea based anti-air capability, and to such an extent? Six ships able to fire missiles at aircraft 100KM away… Sounds a bit extreme for the "war on terror", which of course is just mostly urban.

Ignoring the fact that quite a few ships will be de-commissioned in the next few years, the govenment has been busy ordering stuff.

232 Eurofighers (£16 billion), 12 BAE Nimrod MRA4s (£1.1 billion), 138 F35 fighters (£8.1 billion) for the 2 new air craft carriers (£4 billion), six new anti-air destroyers (£6.7 billion) and much more…
But yet they can’t afford to keep old people warm?

Surly that can’t all be to take on somalian pirates or afghans. And look at the Americans, they are upgrading their sea based air attack capability too. But for what? What country has an air force, a navy and an army that hasn’t been invaded yet?…. Oh dear Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Source: All information in this post is publicly available. Google is your friend.

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Video of 6′2″ Irish man being born.

Just had to share this with the hundreds of spammers who keep trying to post links to medical supplies…

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