Monthly Archives: July 2007

Akai Professional MPK49 MIDI Keyboard Controller (Official Release Details?)

Maximize musical ideas on-stage or in a home studio setting with the new Akai MPK49 performance controller. The Akai MPK49 ushers in a new era for USB/MIDI controllers by combining a high-quality, 49-key, semi-weighted keyboard with aftertouch and 12 MPC-style drum pads. 48 total pads are accessible via 4 pad banks. The pads feature popular [...]

How about bull’s penis for dinner?

If they deep fried it a bit, it would very much resemble calamari, no?

11-year-old charged with drink-driving

An 11-year-old girl was charged with drunken driving after leading police on a chase at speeds of up to 100 mph that ended when she flipped the car in an Alabama beach town. A video camera in the police car captured the look of surprise on the officer’s face when he approached the wrecked car [...]

Improve your CV; become a condom tester

Condom makers say it’s the world’s best job, a “sexecutive position.” An Australian company is seeking real life testers for its condom products. “Got what it takes to be an official condom tester?” asks an advertisement launched by Durex Australia next to a photo of a busty young woman in a revealing nurse’s outfit. “With [...]

Jogger trips suspected wallet-snatcher

The long arm of the law caught up to a suspected thief, but not without help from a jogger’s well-placed foot. The suspect allegedly stole a wallet from a 72-year-old woman Friday evening at a store in this Detroit suburb. He was running down busy Nine Mile Road with a store employee in pursuit when, [...]

Men disguised as Muslim women rob bank

Two armed men disguised as Muslim women in burqas held up a bank in Sarajevo and got away with some $40,000, Bosnian police said on Tuesday. They said the pair entered a Union bank branch in the capital wearing head-to-toe black dresses and veils typical of women adhering to the orthodox Islamic code and trained [...]

Jesus… WTF?