Apple Computer reported today that it has developed computer chips that can store and play music inside women's breasts.
This is considered to be a major breakthrough because women are always complaining about men staring at their breasts and not listening to them.
BANGKOK: -- The Cabinet Tuesday sent back the Alcoholic-Beverage Control Bill for further discussions among relevant authorities.
The bill is designed to impose many restrictions on alcoholic-beverage sales, including a ban on people under 25 years old age to buy the alcoholic drinks.
According to the bill, discounts and promotional gimmicks for the sale of alcoholic beverages will also be banned.
An informed source said the Cabinet extensively debated on how to implement control measures
Thai government confirms attempts of military coup
It was true, rather than just rumor, that some militarymen were trying to stage a coup d'etat in Bangkok to oust caretaker Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, Thai government Spokesman Surapong Suebwonglee said Tuesday.
Surapong told a press conference Tuesday morning that a group of militarymen, as reported earlier, were mapping out a plan to stage a military coup while the caretaker Prime Minister was out of home for an overseas business
This is a link to an interesting (and controversial) article on Thai politics. Best not to post the article here. Comments, however, are welcome.http://asiasentinel.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=153&Itemid=34
There are 191 countries on planet Earth. According to the statistic on the upper right hand corner of the home page, there are ThailandFriends members in 185 countries. Which are the only six countries without TF members?
Police defuse bomb near residence of Thai prime minister
Police explosive experts defused a bomb hidden in a car near the residence of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and detained a suspect Thursday, police said.
"The bomb experts have defused the bomb and the car is being towed to a safe place for further checking," police said.
Police detained an army officer, identified as Lt Thawatchai Klinchana, driver of the car whose bore fake license. He was taken to the police Crime Suppression
Stab victim says attack gang 'hated men'
BY KERRY BURKE, MIKE JACCARINO and RICH SCHAPIRO
DAILY NEWS WRITERS
An oxygen tube pumping air into his lungs, the 28-year-old man allegedly beaten and stabbed in the West Village by a gang of petite lesbians described the attack yesterday from his hospital bed. "They hated men," Wayne Buckle said from the intensive care unit of Saint Vincent's Hospital Manhattan. "I think it would have been any man and not just me." Still shaken by Friday's ter
Thailand's Criminal Court today found the three remaining Election Commissioners guilty of violating elections laws and sentenced them each to four years in prison.
The sentences have not been suspended.
To protect their Thai Rak Thai paymaster and their "good names" (what a joke), these three have been holding the country hostage for months.
I can't think of more selfish and corrupt b*st*rds who deserve it more than these three.
Well, then again there's Thaksin and some of his ministers.
The mayor of Manila, the capital of and largest city in the Philippines, is named...
PeeWee.
I kid you not.
The Honorable PeeWee B. Trinidad.
Would you vote for a man whose name is PeeWee?
This is not an ad. I have nothing to do with this. Just thought Thai people would be proud and New Yorkers might be interested.
Roll Over Tommy and Give Einstein on the Beach The News
Ramakien: A Rak Opera at Lincoln Center Festival, 28-30 July 2006:
Thai Artists Re-imagine the Rock Spectacle
Ramakien: A Rak Opera, a contemporary music and dance interpretation of The Floating Princess episode of the Thai Ramayana, will have three performances, July 28, 29 and 30 as part of the Lincoln
Lick her's quicker to meet gals
BY BARBARA ROSS and DAVE GOLDINER
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Thursday, May 11th, 2006
The alleged foot-licking pervert who admitted attacking dozens of women on the subway told cops it was just his way of meeting ladies, prosecutors said yesterday.
"I do this to make them laugh and smile and open to talk to me," Joseph Weir, 23, of Brooklyn wrote in his confession, authorities said. "I just want to get to know them."
Weir apologized to an estimated 70 victi
While still owned by the Shinawatra family, Shin Corp sued media reformer Supinya Klangarong and editors of Thai Post newspaper for printing comments by Supinya that the company had benefitted from its political connections. Shin Corp was asking for 400 million baht in damages.
In front of hundreds of supporters who had assembled at the court, the judge announced that the defendants, Supinya and the editors of Thai Post , were innocent of the charges laid against them and subsequently dismissed
"Roger Federer breaks down in tears as he makes his winner's speech at the Australian Open follwoing his victory over Marcos Baghdatis. Picture: EPA"
What is with this guy?
Every time he wins a Grand Slam tournament he breaks down and starts sobbing uncontrollably.
Okay, the first time he won I understood. You finally climbed that mountain. But still sobbing like a baby after the seventh freakin' time?
I never knew it was so emotionally wrenching to win a few hundred thousand dollars.
An
November 20, 2005
To Be Young and Hip in Bangkok
By MATT GROSS
TO the untrained eye, the Au Bon Pain at J Avenue, a strip mall on Soi Thonglor in Bangkok, doesn't look like much. On a recent evening, a group of university students in jeans and studded belts were "studying" their textbooks and showing off their new cellphones. At another table, four office types were examining floor plans. A mother brought her children in for snacks. A young woman quietly smoked a cigarette.
It could have be
Someone needs to tell certain people in this country that the end point - top or bottom - of a crowded escalator is not an appropriate place for...
...contemplation.
From Forbes Magazine's Halloween Issue
They're famous across the globe. Their work is treasured by millions. And they're rolling in cash--they just can't spend any of it.
The 13 members of our annual Highest-Earning Dead Celebrities list brought in a collective $186 million in the last year. They, or more accurately, their estates, earned that money by selling their work--both written and recorded--or just the rights to use their likenesses on T-shirts, posters or in advertisements. Sometimes
After numerous rounds of, "We don't even know if Osama is still alive,?
Osama decided to send George Bush a letter in his own handwriting
to let him know he was still in the game.
Bush opened the letter and it appeared to contain a coded message:
370HSSV-0773H
Bush was baffled, so he e-mailed it to Condi Rice.
Condi and her aides had no clue either, so they sent it to the FBI.
No one could solve it so it went to the CIA, then to NASA.
With no clue as to its meaning, they eventually ask
Bangkok Phone Tree
Phasa Thai: got neung
For English and someone who can?t speak it: press 2
To be disconnected: press 3
To be transferred to the wrong department: press 4
For someone who will exclaim ?Falang! Falang!? put down the phone and run away: press 5
For someone who only knows how to say ?thinai khap??: press 6
For someone who will put you on hold until Academy Fantasia is finished: press 7
For someone who will giggle at everything you say and whose only response will be ?I dun
Go to the Google search engine page
In the blank box type in the word
failure
Instead of clicking on the button that says Google Search ...
Click on the button next to it that says
I'm Feeling Lucky
See what comes up.
Do this before the people at Google realize and fix it.
Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has put Thailand on a Terrorism Full Alert today after receiving information that following the bombings in Bali something might happen here.
Which of course means nothing will.
Today, anyway.
Five reasons to believe computers are female:
1. No one but the Creator understands their internal logic.
2. The native language they use to communicate with other computers is incomprehensible to everyone else.
3. The message "Bad command or file name" is about as informative as, "If you don't know why I'm mad at you, then I'm certainly not going to tell you".
4. Even your smallest mistakes are stored in long-term memory for later retrieval.
5. As soon as you make a commitment to one,