A New Zealand pizza chain, aptly named Hell Pizza, is taking its dining experience to a new level with a new promotional campaign, Pizza Roulette.

“It doesn’t cost. But someone pays,” their slogan warns. To play their deadly Pizza Roulette, you just say the word and they’ll put two drops of the “hottest chili known to mankind” atop one slice. Just for some perspective, this sauce has “the same kick as police pepper spray” and is 1,000 times stronger than a jalapeño pepper.

It could make for a particularly cruel joke birthday present or a sneaky way to get back at a nemesis, or just a new way to spice up your nights in. Their disclaimer cautions that the pizza chain will not be responsible for “loss of mental faculties, emotional damage, eye bulge,” as well as alien abduction, muffin tops, mermaid tail, the weather and bank fees, among other things.

Hell Pizza shot a video with the Wellington Firebirds cricket team to demonstrate the spicy factor, and the result is no joke. However, it does seem more manageable than Cluck U/University Chicken’s infamous 911 Challenge, where participants must sign a waiver before eating the 911 sauce-laden wings that are sure to leave them feeling sick for days afterward.

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Make no mistake I don’t do anything for free
I keep my enemies closer than my mirror ever gets to me
And if you think that there is shelter in this attitude
Wait til you feel the warmth of my gratitude.

One, I get the feeling that it’s two against one.
One, I’m already fighting me, so what’s another one?
One, The mirror is a trigger and your mouth’s a gun.
One, Lucky for me, I’m not the only one.

And if it looks to me like you in your reflection
Plan to add your own fight to this dimension.
Then tell it that this ain’t no free-for-all to see,
There’s only three
It’s just you and me against me.

One, I get the feeling that it’s two against one.
One, I’m already fighting me, so what’s another one?
One, The mirror is a trigger and your mouth’s a gun.
One, lucky for me, I’m not the only one.
Lucky for me, I’m not the only one.

And if your foot’s on to sick a thousand “yes men”
Brand or brake into the middle of this little plan…
Then there’s your plan to hear me say,
That I won’t play around the way, anyway
I plan to plan around them.

One, I get the feeling that it’s two against one.
One, I’m already fighting me, so what’s another one?
One, the mirror is a trigger and your mouth’s a gun.
One, lucky for me, I’m not the only one.
Lucky for me, I’m not the only one.

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Introducing the Cheese Burger Pizza from Pizza Hut Middle East: A cheesy, burgery pizza pie ”Pizza like substance” with a crust made entirely out of open-faced sliders.

On a diet? Check out the Chicken Fillet Pizza: A BBQ chicken pizza topped with green peppers, and crusted with mini chicken fillets.

There’s something for every future coronary artery bypass graft recipient at the Crown Crust Carnival.

Not since the KFC Double Down, have my arteries shuddered so much just at the mere thought of ingestion.

This leaves me with one simple question:

WHY WOULD YOU PUT THIS IN YOUR MOUTH??!

[Eater]

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Nobody knows how this happened. There are no pharmaceutical factories nearby. Months ago, there was a small pharmaceutical shop, but it was closed by the authorities. They think it may be a secret laboratory, but nobody knows anything about it and the police has no leads.

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Hundreds of Thousands May Lose Internet in July

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press
WASHINGTON April 20, 2012 (AP)

For computer users, a few mouse clicks could mean the difference between staying online and losing Internet connections this summer.

Unknown to most of them, their problem began when international hackers malware producers ran an online advertising scam to take control of infected computers around the world. In a highly unusual response, the FBI set up a safety net months ago using government computers to prevent Internet disruptions for those infected users. But that system is to be shut down.

The FBI is encouraging users to visit a website run by its security partner, http://www.dcwg.org , that will inform them whether they’re infected and explain how to fix the problem. After July 9, infected users won’t be able to connect to the Internet.

Most victims don’t even know their computers have been infected, although the malicious software probably has slowed their web surfing and disabled their antivirus software, making their machines more vulnerable to other problems.

More of this AP story as told on ABC NEWS: http://abcnews.go.co…36#.T5HtNo6kT8C

 

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Foreplay after Marriage

Teller performing "Shadows"

Teller, the silent half of the well-known magic duo Penn and Teller, has sued a rival magician for copying one of his most famous illusions. The case promises to test the boundaries of copyright law as it applies to magic tricks.

In “Shadows,” a spotlight casts a shadow of a rose onto a white screen. When Teller “cuts” the shadow on the screen with a knife, the corresponding parts of the flower fall to the floor.

A Dutch magician with the stage name Gerard Bakardy (real name: Gerard Dogge) saw Teller perform the trick in Las Vegas and developed his own version. Bakardy sells a kit—including a fake rose, instructions, and a DVD—for about $3,000. To promote the kits, he posted a video of his performance to YouTube and prepared a magazine ad. (With the video down, the link points to screenshots from the video filed by Teller in his lawsuit.)

Teller had Bakardy’s video removed with a DMCA takedown notice, then called Bakardy to demand that the magician stop using his routine. Teller offered to buy Bakardy out, but they were unable to agree on a price. So Teller sued Bakardy last week in a Nevada federal court.

Can you copyright a trick?

A fundamental principle of copyright law is that copyright covers the expression of ideas but not the ideas themselves. This puts the essential elements of the trick—the concept of rose petals falling when the shadow is “cut” and the technical details of how this effect is accomplished—outside the bounds of copyright protection.

So what’s left? According to New York Law School professor James Grimmelmann, copyright law protects pantomimes and choreographic works. So Teller may be able to claim the “Shadows” routine is protected under these categories. Teller describes “Shadows” as a “dramatic work.”

Teller’s case may hinge on exactly how similar Bakardy’s routine is to Teller’s. in a 1983 copyright registration,Teller describes the sequence of actions that make up his performance. Ars Technica was not able to find a copy of Bakardy’s video, so we weren’t able to determine how similar Bakardy’s routine is to the one described in Teller’s copyright registration.

Still, Grimmelmann argues that “Teller has an uphill fight on his hands.” In a 2007 paper that became an instant classic, Jacob Loshin showed how magic thrives without significant protection from either copyright or patent law. Instead of relying on formal legal mechanisms, magicians derive benefit from their inventions through informal social norms that encourage magicians to give due credit to the original inventor of a particular trick.

Further reading

• Teller’s complaint (ia601207.us.archive.org)
• Orginal Article

If you’re skinny, you’ve earned the escalator.