Hefner's chess board

Chess makers are targeting a new generation of chess players...

how Bush is funding his war.

Bush has came up with a new formula to fund his Iraq war

strange image

On the first anniversary of my brother's death (aged 41) his mates get together at his favourite surf spot. We had a bonfire and singing. Afterwards, this photo appeared interesting. It was smoke above his best mate. Smoke did not appear above any other person in other photos. I defined the smoke a little and turned it around...see what you can see...i (we the family) can see something or somethings.

see link for as good a resolution as can be..
http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x146/boozich/IMG_0169alteredangle.jpg

Judith chopping the head of Holofernes

Why did so many painters, especially the classical ones, have a thing for Judith chopping the head of Holofernes? This grisly scene was one of the most frequently painted by Italian Renaissance and Baroque artists. The subject is from the apocryphal Book of Judith, the Old Testament heroine of the Jews in their struggle against oppression.
It describes a wise and attractive Jewish woman who contrives a plan to save her besieged city (Bethulia) from the Assyrians. With her maid, Judith pretends to desert her town and visits the Assyrian general, Holofernes, in his encampment in the pretence to offer assistance in the siege of the city . Invited to spend the night, Judith instead takes advantage of Holofernes' drunkenness and, while he sleeps, cuts off his head.
All i can say is i came across pages of them so here are some..from top
Rubens,1622
Jean Cousin, 1590?
Luca Cranach 1530,
Massimo Stanzione 1640,
Johan Liss,
Hans Sebald Beham
Christofano Allori 1613,
Gustav Klimt,
Carlo Saraceni 1620,
Caravaggio 1698,
Artemisia Gentileschi 1620,
Aegidius Sadeler,
Boticelli,
Anon 19th cent.

god of harvests and abundance

this masterpiece is of fantasy and imagination by Giuseppe Arcimboldo (Italian painter 1530-1593). The mythical Vertemnus (or Vortumnus), god of harvests and abundance, is in fact a bizarre portrait of the Habsburg Emperor Rudolf II. In the sixteenth century the emperor's cosmopolitan court in Prague became a centre of international art, where Arcimboldo moved in the refined and exclusive circles of late European Mannerism. His painting might appear almost irreverent, but in fact is the manifestation of his eager search for new ideas and his exploration of different ways of expression. (It also gives quite a good impression of the Emperor.) This led him to break the usual rules in order to provoke uncensored reactions and emotions.

humorous book titles

My Golden Wedding
by Annie Versary
Cooking Spaghetti			Eating Disorders
by Al Dente			by Anna Rexia
Cosmetology			Candle-Vaulting
by Rosie Cheeks			by Jack B. Nimble
Crackdown			Car Capital Of The World
by Lauren Order			by Mitch Egan
The Insurmountable Problem			The Big Wave
by Major Setback			by Sue Nami
Crime Does Not Pay			The Candy Store
by Laura Norda			by Pepper Mintz
Errors and Accidents			The Complete Proctologists Handbook
by Miss Takes and Miss Haps			by Ben Dover
Events In The Soviet Union			A Load of Old Rubbish
by Perry Stroika			by Stefan Nonsense
Exercise on Wheels			Tape Recording for Beginners
by Cy Kling			by Cass Ette
Making the Least of Life			Don't Leave Without Me
by Minnie Mumm			by Isa Coming
When Shall We Meet Again ?			Making the Most of Life
by Miles Apart			by Maxie Mumm
The Artic Ocean
by I.C. Waters

make money from stockmarket

IF you don't know, you can make money trading on the stockmarket. Beware though, the big boys are in a dirty game where knowledge is everything and so is being first with it. So when you subscribe for that newsletter, you are probably already weeks...maybe even months down the road from the "action".

So, how do you make money? One of the best ways is to get advanced warning that the local market will go down and then have a system in place where you buy stocks that are not on a high PE ratio, and are in the top 300 companies and have a consistency in making profit.
So, the US market went down, the DOW by -360, S&P by -40.
marketwatch

COOOL!
The Australian market followed like a little lamb..ASX 200 -132, ALL ORDS -126.
ASX
This happens like clockwork. And rational people will know that a decent company with consistent profit (and minus any REALLY BAD NEWS-factor this into risk analysis) will bounce right back up.
You don't have to know why....it just happens.
One of the bigger falls was

MCC

MACAR COAL

MCC 8.090 -5.05% 8.050 8.150

So...if we are prepared to buy 1000 tomorrow at the $8 mark (depending if the US markets rally..then the Aust will follow and the chance is gone...otherwise we will have a stock that could be down as much as a dollar...on current pe of 22.. a bit high for this industry..lets see.

Closing prices are displayed for the last 5 days

Date	Last	% Change	High	Low	Vol *
01 Nov 2007	8.520	-5.86%	8.710	8.400	1,653,389
31 Oct 2007	9.050	4.99%	9.390	8.150	1,926,371
30 Oct 2007	8.620	2.86%	8.790	8.420	2,055,515
29 Oct 2007	8.380	7.71%	8.380	7.840	873,150
26 Oct 2007	7.780	4.57%	7.790	7.500	931,425