Circumcising your eight-year-old?! WTF?!

Today's Obedient Yet Truly Morbid Fact!

Edwin B. Baxter, 33, of Oregon, was convicted in December 2004 of attempting to circumcise his 8-year-old son. The fundamentalist Christian, who sat with a Bible in the courtroom, decided to circumcise his son on Sept. 3 after reading the Old Testament: "I had no reason to think I would be in violation of any of God's laws. I felt it was an act of obedience." He put his son in a dirty bathtub on some towels and used a hunting knife, then called 911 when his son began bleeding profusely. His wife was pregnant with their 10th child. The boy recovered.

Culled from: The Columbian
Generously submitted by: Desmodus

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Yet more proof, as if we need it, that religion is hazardous for your health!

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Morbid Link Du Jour!

Now, here's a website that's not nearly as cool as it could have been - The Kill Everyone Project!

Here's the set-up:

"The world is overpopulated. The people that overpopulate it are stupid. They should be killed.

"Please help us achieve this noble goal virtually by participating in the Kill Everyone Project. The task is difficult, though. The population of the Earth is currently 6,489,333,770 people and it increases with an ever-growing pace!

"Our body count in 1,973 days is only 6,125,099,578. With current rate, the extinction will occur in 1,735 days. There are 75,051 participants involved in the project, who by average have killed 81,612 people each."

So basically, you click your mouse like crazy to kill people. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah...

Here's how I would do this site:

You add people that you know - by name - to the site, select a method of death, and kill them. When other people register and sign in, they do a search to see if the person they want to kill is already listed. If they're not listed, then they add them and kill them. If they are listed, darn, they go search for another person to kill.

Wouldn't that be MUCH more interesting? You could even have methods of body disposals! Fun, fun, fun!!! Of course, some boring person out there would probably try to have me arrested if I dared to start up such a site. People are just No Fun. But, then again, that's why we need to kill them all!

Thanks to kelshubert for the link.

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Shocking Soundbytes!

Robert forwarded me an .MP3 file which captured the roar of the deadly December 2004 tsunami that were picked up by underwater microphones designed to listen for nuclear explosions. MSNBC describes the file thusly: "The audio recording of the quake starts out silently. A low hiss begins and the intensity builds gradually to a rumbling crescendo. Then it tails off but, frighteningly, builds again in waves as Earth continues to tremble. The audio file is sped up 10 times to make it easier to hear. As it was recorded, the sound was at the lower threshold of human hearing, but it could have been noted by someone paying attention."

It makes for a rather creepy listen with headphones on.