March 2005 Archive

31 March 2005

Toshiba has developed prototype batteries that can be recharged about 60 times faster than conventional lithium ion batteries, and the technology could be commercialised for portable electronics products in about three years

Qiu Chengwei, an online game player from Shanghai, stabbed competitor Zhu Caoyuan repeatedly in the chest after he was told Zhu had sold his cyber sword for real money. The sale created a legal dilemma because China has no law covering the ownership of virtual weapons

Scott Richter, self-confessed Spam King and one-time peddler of ladies' underwear, has filed for bankruptcy, with Microsoft cited as the main reason

30 March 2005

BBC author Paul Rubens tried out amateur computer repair and wrote about it. All of the software was for Windows, and he finds what most of us do: Most of the problems I've been called to look at have been caused by viruses and spyware, some by strange software [conflicts], and only one by faulty hardware

A report [PDF] by Homeland Security Department Acting Inspector General Richard Skinner, said the agency misinformed individuals, the press and Congress in 2003 and 2004. It stopped short of saying TSA lied, Bruce Schneier didn't

A Dutch company has introduced a small downloadable program for mobile phones, called SimWatcher, which sends out an SMS message when someone steals a mobile phone and replaces the SIM card. The software reveals the number of the person who stole the phone and will also display a message on the stolen phone, saying that it belongs to someone else

Daystartech has released a new type of photovoltaic cell which, unlike almost all the cells currently in use, does not silicon. This is based on a thin titanium film. Given the current shortage of solar-grade silicon, and all-time high oil prices, maybe titanium solar panels are here at the right time

29 March 2005

Eddie Young created suspicion by collecting items from various department of K-Mart and taking them into the bathroom just before closing time. He was arrested after police said they found him operating a methamphetamine lab in the bathroom — via Warren Ellis

Pairs of shoes are mysteriously being dumped outside a farmhouse in Lincolnshire, England. Since December, more than a dozen have shown up on the side of the road, usually on Sunday. Some of the shoes are cheap, with price labels of £1.99 attached and some are more expensive designer brands. The (Foster family who live nearby) have video footage, which shows an elderly couple driving by in a green vehicle depositing the shoes. Mrs Foster said that although it was scary at first, she was rather hoping some of the pairs might fit — via BoingBoing

28 March 2005

Ovid had an unfortunate brush with identity theft when he discovered that thieves had racked up thousands of dollars on his credit card. But he's an intrepid and easily pissed-off soul, and by that afternoon had tracked the bastards down and had them arrested

A televised anti-piracy concert watched by 150 million included one performer asking; A copyrighted CD for 200 yuan [US$24], pirated one for 10 yuan, what will you buy? — The pirated one, answered the thousands of people in the stadium — via BoingBoing

Grafedia is hyperlinked text, written by hand onto physical surfaces and linking to rich media content — images, video, sound files, whatever. Grafedia can be written in letters or postcards, on the body as tattoos, on the street, or anywhere you feel like putting it. Viewers click on these Grafedia hyperlinks with their mobiles by sending a message addressed to the word + @grafedia.net to get the content behind the link

Two researchers, from the Florida Institute of Technology and Boston-based Security Innovation, surprised the audience at a computer-security convention last month with their finding that a version of Microsoft Windows was more secure than a competing Linux operating system. This week, the researchers released their finished report, and it included another surprise: Microsoft was funding the project all along

27 March 2005

In the aftermath of India being forced/coerced to adopt patent law that quite literally kills people as a condition for joining the World Trade Organisation (WTO), US representatives at the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) are moving to counter efforts by developing countries and numerous non-government organisations (NGOs) to bring public-interest considerations — like protecting human health — to its decision-making. Specifically, representatives have reportedly been circulating a draft paper that attempts to reframe the problem, arguing that WIPO is already addressing development issues and proposing merely a WIPO Partnership Program — an Internet-based database to bring together donors and recipients of IP development assistance — via BoingBoing

A woman bit into a partial finger served in a bowl of chilli at a San Jose Wendy's restaurant, leading authorities to a fingerprint database to determine who lost the digit. Employees at the Wendy's were checked and the fingertip didn't come from any of them, officials said, adding that the well-cooked finger may have come from a food processing plant that supplies the company. The woman involved at since been charged with grand theft for concocting the hoax in an attempt to swindle money out of the restaurant — via Moonbeam

Mozilla Firefox 1.0.2 and Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 have been released

26 March 2005

If you are using your limbs to disguise yourself, how do you flee danger without giving yourself away? The answer, when you have eight arms, is to use six arms for disguise and to walk across on the seafloor on the other two. Defying the notion that bipedal motion requires muscles attached to a rigid skeleton, the octopuses used the strong, flexible muscles in their back arms to walk across the seabed when pursued by camera-wielding biologists. The two species have slightly different strategies. Octopus marginatus from Indonesia wraps itself into a ball while walking, perhaps to imitate a coconut rolling with the current. Tiny Octopus aculeatus of Australia holds up six of its arms to disguise itself as a clump of seaweed, while walking at up to 14 centimetres per second — faster than it can manage using more than two arms

A Tyrannosaurus rex thigh bone fossil was reluctantly broken to fit in a transport helicopter, and inside soft tissue was found. It appears to include blood vessels and bone cells. Scientists hope to isolate proteins, and perhaps even DNA

The Canadian government has reportedly said no to the DMCA. It has released its plans for copyright reform with a limited anti-circumvention provision that would not cover the likes of DeCSS. It even avoided the US notice and takedown system that has caused a big headache for US ISPs

Yahoo has announced that it will give users of its free web e-mail service 1GB of mail storage matching offerings of rival provider Google

25 March 2005

Cybersource says it's currently talking to two domestic banks about providing Linux-based bootable CDs to consumers to ensure Internet banking security

Solar Death Ray is made of 112 mirrors mounted on a platform 4' wide and 6' tall. Each mirror is a square roughly 3.5" on edge. All these mirrors focus the sun to a single spot 5'6" from the mirror platform. A wooden fork extends from the mirror base to the area near the focus and serves as a mounting point for Solar Death Ray targets. The mirror platform is mounted to the support frame on a pivot that allows the platform to be angled. The whole system is mounted on a set of wheels. And, most importantly, you can melt stuff with it, like; AOL CDs, plastic army men, crayons and plastic ducks, all with full comedic photos and commentary

Bioengineers at the University of Maryland are developing contact lenses that change colour in response to changes in blood sugar. The approach would benefit diabetics who traditionally use skin prick tests to monitor their glucose levels — via BoingBoing

Artefacts found in caves by the Red Sea, along with pottery, could put a name to a mysterious land which provided the ancient Egyptians with gold, ebony and incense

24 March 2005

A man from Sydenham Park, southeast London, was trying to coax his cat back into the house before he went to bed got more than he bargained for. Instead of a tame pussy, the cat-like creature that emerged from the bushes in response to his calls was nearer the size of a Labrador dog. Neither was the snarling beast in the mood for a quiet bowl of milk. It flew at the man, giving him the fright of his life, and several nasty scratches. Officers who visited the scene soon afterwards believe they saw the culprit. Looks like Pheral has been out and about again

New technology from IBM is designed to stop spam by identifying the Internet domain it came from, and can help spot online scams such as phishing attacks and e-mail spoofing. The company announced the release of FairUCE, or Fair use of Unsolicited Commercial E-mail for the company's AlphaWorks advanced technology program, citing a newly released IBM survey that found spam is 76% of all e-mail and may cost US companies $17 billion to fight this year

An Indian woman committed suicide so her two blind sons could receive her eyes and see. But doctors say the chances of success are bleak. Thirty-seven-year-old Tamizhselvi's sons, Kumaran, 17, and Kumar, 15, have been blind since birth. Doctors in the southern city of Chennai say Kumar's condition cannot be helped with a cornea transplant and also suspect his elder brother does not have a cornea defect. We had told the family earlier itself that a corneal transplant was not needed for the younger son, said hospital official G Seethalakshmi. The family is insisting Tamizhselvi's corneas can only be used for her sons and no one else — via Warren Ellis

Greek prison guards will go on strike next week demanding a change of their American-made weapons that date back to the US wars in central America almost a century ago. While antique shops would be eager to get their hands on them, prison guards just want to get rid of their obsolete 1911 US Cavalry revolvers. The guns do not scare inmates any more as safety experts have advised guards not to fire them — via Neil Gaiman

23 March 2005

OurMedia is a service that will host your open-licensed materials forever, for free, with unlimited bandwidth. They're under high load right now, but I'm sure they'll be running more smoothly as they throw more servers at the problem — via BoingBoing

Yet another nail was hammered into the coffin of the GM food industry in Britain yesterday when the final trial of a four-year series of experiments found, once more, that genetically modified crops can be harmful to wildlife

John Howard is showing his willingness to roll over for the loony fundies reviewing the cases of long time illegally jailed immigrants who have converted to Christianity. Local Muslim leaders are far from impressed at the rank hypocrisy

Would-be search king Ansearch has ruffled a few feathers among Australia's top corporate brands by registering misspellings of well-known internet domain names in an attempt to drive traffic to the search engine

22 March 2005

The State Library of NSW has launched the first stage of a project to put an AU$1.5 billion collection of Australian culture online

The Dutch Attorney-General advises against reversal of the last verdict in the Scientology vs Karin Spaink case (part of Scientology's War on the Internet). A series of court battles between writer Spaink and the Church of Scientology has changed the copyright landscape of the internet in the Netherlands. In an early case, linking to infringing documents was considered infringement itself. Later this was reversed, although by then several unrelated cases (notably Deutsche Bahn vs Indymedia) had been decided on the basis of this judgement. On appeals, the court held that free speech sometimes trumps copyright: even though Spaink may have infringed on the Church's copyright, she was allowed to do so to bring to light the doings of what she considers an evil sect. According to the XS4All document, not only did the Attorney-General uphold the decision that Free Speech can trump Copyright, but concluded also that there may not have been infringement. The Attorney-General feels a work can be considered published even if publication happened against the will of the author. In the Netherlands, the Supreme Court can only reverse previous decisions by lower courts. Before it renders a verdict, it asks the Attorney-General for advice — via Slashdot

Computer chips capable of speeding data around by rippling the electrons on the surface of metal wires just got a step closer. Mark Brongersma, at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, has found a new way to model the three-dimensional propagation of these ripples — called plasmons — in two dimensions. He says the new model is much simpler and more intuitive than existing simulations and will be crucial in the design of plasmonic components for computer chips — via Warren Ellis

Yahoo has bought Ludicorp Research and Development — the company behind popular photo sharing site Flickr. According to the company blog; Flickr is going to continue with business as usual — except it won't have to draw straws to decide who gets paid. No financial terms were disclosed — via Warren Ellis

21 March 2005

The head of Britain's foreign intelligence agency told the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, that the case for war in Iraq was being fixed by Washington to suit US policy. Richard Dearlove, head of MI6, briefed Blair and a group of ministers on the United States' determination to launch the invasion nine months before hostilities began in March 2003

Alice Springs' council is poised to sign an agreement with Veridas Communications for city-wide wireless broadband, reducing its dependence for services on what one alderman claims is an uncooperative Telstra

20 March 2005

Anyone who has ever developed a web site knows that cross-browser and cross-platform compatibility is a nightmare, mainly due to Microsoft's willful non-compliance with the CSS2 standard. It seems Microsoft will continue their poor support for CSS2 even in the IE7.0 release. This may have worked when IE was the only game in town, but now that Firefox is a serious player, it won't help them keep market share as they think it will

News agency Agence France Presse has sued Google, alleging the Web search leader includes AFP's photos, news headlines and stories on its news site without permission. The French news service is seeking damages of at least $17.5 million and an order barring Google News from displaying AFP photographs, news headlines or story leads, according to the suit filed Thursday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia. Google is in the process of removing French news agency Agence France Presse (AFP) from its Google News service, which aggregates links to online articles and accompanying photos from about 4500 news outlets

Computers deliberately left open to online attack are being used to place spies in the hacker-controlled networks of infected machines. The fake zombies are deployed by members of the German Honeynet Project

19 March 2005

Jon Johansen has published a small program which allows the acquisition of DRM-free files from Apple's iTunes Music Store. He explains that his program works by bypassing iTunes which adds the DRM itself at the end of the transfer. His program, pymusique, is Windows-only compliant but it'd be easy to port it to other platforms. Alas, Apple were far from amused and have blocked the security hole the hack exploited. Pymusique is, once again, functional

Canadian blogger Jeremy Wright was detained and interrogated by US Immigration when he arrived in New York last week for a meeting with a media company to discuss a business opportunity in the area of blogging. It appears that the immigration people simply did not believe that Jeremy could make a living as a blogger. As a result they gave him the third degree for several hours — including a strip search — and incorrectly informed him that he was banned him from entering the US — via NevOn

18 March 2005

MIT has recommended Brazil install open source software instead of proprietary software offered by Microsoft on thousands of computers that will be sold to the poor

A fireball created in a US particle accelerator has the characteristics of a black hole, Horatiu Nastase has said. The Brown University physicist thinks the particles are disappearing into the fireball's core and reappearing as thermal radiation, just as matter falls into a black hole and comes out as Hawking radiation

17 March 2005

The pilot episode of the BBC's highly anticipated new Doctor Who series may have been intentionally leaked onto file-sharing networks to generate buzz. Earlier this month, the 45 minute premiere episode, entitled Rose, showed up on BitTorrent. The appearance of the episode generated a flood of discussion in online forums, blogs and the mainstream media. As a result, interest in the show, which debuts 26 March on BBC One, has skyrocketed

The newly invented Building in a Bag is made from cement impregnated fabic, that is sealed in an easily transportable plastic bag. You literally just add water, and then inflate. Twelve hours later, you have a ready to use building. Possible uses include shelter for disaster areas, and instant field hospitals

In what is probably the most moronic corporate idea I've heard in a long time, McDonald's is testing the use of remote call centres to handle drive-through orders. Company officials said the idea is aimed at reducing the number of mistakes at the window. Apparently McDonald's brain trust has never heard of Chinese whispers

16 March 2005

For the second time in about a month, a dog has been found hanged in suburban St Louis, and police are trying to determine if there is a connection — via Warren Ellis

The FTC has asked a US District Court to bar Spyware Assassin and its affiliates from offering consumers free spyware detection scans and from selling antispyware software, alleging that the software is not effective

15 March 2005

San Francisco Superior Court Judge Richard Kramer said that California could no longer justify limiting marriage to a man and a woman. The ruling came after litigation stemming from the city's decision last year to allow gays to marry. Those marriages were ruled invalid by the state’s Supreme Court but it then referred the issue to a lower court — via Warren Ellis

US politicians and journalists have said that internet bloggers should enjoy traditional press freedoms and not face regulation as political groups

Telemarketers world-wide are realising they can dodge long-distance costs, and US Do Not Call restraints, by voice spamming VoIP users. Different from spam over internet telephony because it's not automated, an analyst predicts homes and businesses could see some 150 calls a day from overseas call centres

14 March 2005

A leading internet security researcher has warned that personal home computers were never designed to act as secure ATMs and could not be trusted for internet banking or any other online transaction. Yet Australian banks continued to promote internet banking as safe because they did not want to pay for the only technology that could guarantee internet transaction security — a home eftpos system

Apple won the green light to subpoena amateur publishers for their confidential sources, a Californian Judge ruled today. Apple Computer, which wants to discover who leaked product information to three web sites, can now proceed with its subpoena against one of the ISPs hosting two of the websites, Santa Clara county court Judge James Kleinberg has ruled, as well as the web sites themselves

13 March 2005

A french appeal court has ruled in favour of a filesharer [Babelfish] who downloaded 500 odd movies, on the grounds that they were private copies, that he didn't redistributed them and that a tax was payed on blank media

The Bureau of Meteorology has upgraded its Web-based rain radar service, adding enhanced maps and finer grades of rain to a service that already ranks as the most popular and fastest-growing educational and government Web site in Australia

The Mozilla Foundation has published its Mozilla Application Suite transition plan, confirming that there will be no official Mozilla 1.8 release. There will be a 1.7.6 release to be maintained by the Mozilla Foundation. All future suite versions from the Foundation will be minor updates only. There is already a community effort underway to continue development

12 March 2005

Irish comic and satirist Dave Allen, famed for his TV shows, dies in his sleep at his London home aged 68. I, for one, will miss him greatly

A Pentagon report into the interrogation of detained prisoners found senior officials and US military policy hasn't led to abuse, despite failing to interview any of the detainees who claim they were abused. They vehemently deny the report is a whitewash and I have a bridge I'd like to sell them

AMD has officially unveiled Turion, its latest chip for mobile computing, a 64-bit processor aimed squarely Intel's Centrino product, which currently dominates the notebook PC market

11 March 2005

The Google News home page is now customisable, allowing you to add or delete main news categories, as well as increasing or decreasing the number of headlines within a section. They've also introduced a feature that lets you create your own section using keywords for a topic that interests you

A Brisbane rugby union team is facing legal action from a fast food chain because it has put McBrat across the back of players' shorts. McDonald's claims the Brisbane Irish team sponsor's nickname contravenes its intellectual property. But sponsor Malcolm McBratney, who is, ironically, an intellectual property lawyer, says the McBrats tag simply comes from his name. Mr McBratney says he is stunned that the fast good giant took exception when he tried to register the name in the Australian Trademarks Office

10 March 2005

Current Testra PR hype has it that nearly all ADSL-enabled exchanges will have ADSL2+ capabilities by mid-2006 under an AU$210 million program being undertaken by the telco

09 March 2005

Intel has introduced a new wireless networking standard called 802.11s. This standard utilises a mesh topology, allowing for fully self-configuring networks where each node can relay messages on behalf of others, thus increasing the range and available bandwidth with the number of nodes active within the system, versus the point-to-point structure of existing WiFi networks. This will radically transform WiFi hotspots, allowing the geographical area and available bandwidth on the network to scale with the number of participants

A restaurant in New Zealand has been fined NZ$3,000 for failing to keep its web site up to date. By having out-of-date menus and prices on its web site, it has breached the Fair Trading Act, according to the New Zealand Commerce Commission

08 March 2005

The russian site Allofmp3.com, which had been reported as being under investigation recently, has been let off the hook by the Russian DA, becuase of a loophole in russian law which allows users create copies of songs by request. Basically, even though the courts have found their site operator's behavior to be illegal — they can't prosecute because the user dynamically creates copies of songs to be downloaded themselves

Google's desktop search tool officially has left the realm of beta testing and is in full release. The company announced version 1.0 on Monday, along with several additional features. Google Desktop Search now supports the Firefox and Netscape Web browsers in addition to Internet Explorer

07 March 2005

Anonymous Internet access is now a thing of the past. A doctoral student at the University of California has conclusively fingerprinted computer hardware remotely, allowing it to be tracked wherever it is on the Internet

Don't have the .Net framework on your PC to utilise Broadcastpc.tv's spamming adware technology? No problem, they'll download it for you without you knowing. The problem is that it's a 23MB download and a 65MB install but, with the service packs and other extras, could end up eating 100MB of your disk space once installed

06 March 2005

If certain state officials have their way, cities in Texas will no longer be able to offer free WiFi to their citizens. This could set a dangerous precedent if passed, as broadband providers could start lobbying officials in the other 49 states to ban free WiFi as well. Pennsylvania has already fallen victim to such a law but it excluded Philedelphia due to the city's existing efforts. One of the members of the FCC is far from impressed at the move

Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena has been freed by her captors in Iraq but US forces mistakenly opened fire on the convoy taking her to safety, wounding her and killing an Italian secret service agent. Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said he had immediately summoned the US ambassador, declaring someone had to take responsibility for US soldiers opening fire. The US military has confirmed its forces fired on and wounded Ms Sgrena and killed a fellow passenger when their car sped up near a checkpoint on the road to Baghdad airport

05 March 2005

Perth-based ISP iiNet plans to expand its ADSL network to reach 90% of Sydney customers over the next 9 months as it spends $9.6 million to increase its presence on the east coast

Companies eager to tighten up their information security perimeters should focus not on technology but on teaching their employees how to say no, ex-hacker done good Kevin Mitnick told a full house at Toshiba's MobileXchange conference in Melbourne

The US military is funding development of an energy-pulse weapon, designed to deliver a jolt of excruciating pain from up to 2 kilometres away. Intended for use against rioters, it is meant to leave victims physically unharmed. The device fires a laser pulse that generates a burst of expanding plasma when it hits something solid, like a person, producing pain and temporary paralysis. Right now, researchers are attempting to optimise pulse parameters to evoke peak nociceptor activation or, to put it in plain English, cause the maximum pain possible. The potential for abuse of such a device have not gone unremarked

04 March 2005

If legend is to be believed, the future of the British monarchy lies in the hands of a sharp-shooting warder at the Tower of London. For the six ravens who roam one of Britain's landmark fortresses are under threat from up to 200 crows who have invaded their royal domain, spreading disease and stealing food. So every Sunday at dawn, before the daily tourist invasion begins, Yeoman Warder Derrick Coyle roams The Tower with his .22 air rifle to cull the crows. For the beefeater, it is a weighty responsibility securing a haven for the ravens. Legend has it that if the ravens leave, The Tower of London will fall and so will the monarchy

A pair of New York inventors believe they can thwart music pirates by secretly burying an anti-piracy warning in a track, which is disinterred if the copyright has been abused. Let's see how long that lasts before it's thwarted

Around 200 Victorian households are acting as the guinea pigs for Telstra's broadband-based home voice over IP service, which is due to be commercially available by mid-year

A 44-year-old Anchorage man had his penis surgically reattached after it was cut off by an angry girlfriend and flushed down a toilet

03 March 2005

Seems that the Aryan Brotherhood has taken up making meth labs for themselves across Texas, apparently many of which are in Dallas. The cops have been busting up the skinhead kitchens pretty regularly, so the AB has apparently gone all cop-killer fatwa on the Texas PD. Trouble is, they're morons. Why? Because they take the time to steal different cars every other day... And then park them in the same motel space every time. Yeah. They check into the same motel, even if one of their own got busted the night before — via Warren Ellis

Efforts to stamp out online piracy could give Hollywood a veto over new technology and stifle innovation, peer-to-peer software companies and their supporters told the US Supreme Court. Copyright holders have long sought to quash innovations from the printing press to the videocassette recorder to the CD burner that they have found threatening

02 March 2005

William Poole, a George Rogers Clark High School junior, was arrested Tuesday for making terrorist threats. The terrorist threats turned out to be a short story he wrote for English class about a high school overrun by zombies. Unfortunately for Poole, the local plods are so thick they can't tell the difference between fact and fiction and the kid is still locked up — via Ben Templesmith

People who rely on older versions of Quicken to download their financial data from banks and brokerages must upgrade to Quicken 2005 or lose this time-saving feature. In letters and e-mail messages sent to its customers in late January, Intuit said it was ending online services and tech support for Quicken 2001 and 2002 as of 19 April, effectively crippling the program

Telstra has begun upgrading its ADSL equipment to deliver internet services at speeds up to 16 times faster than are currently available. And, in an attempt to kill off competition from wireless ISPs, Telstra have switched on blanket WiFi coverage across the Sydney and Melbourne CBDs

An Iranian weblogger has been jailed for 14 years on charges of spying and aiding foreign counter-revolutionaries. Arash Sigarchi, who also edits a newspaper in northern Iran, was arrested last month after using his blog to criticise the arrest of other online journalists — via Politechbot

01 March 2005

The Holy Grail of researchers in the field of solar photovoltaic electricity is to generate it at a lower cost than that of grid electricity. The goal now seems to be within reach. A Palo Alto start-up, named Nanosolar claims that it has developed a commercial scale technology that can deliver solar electricity at 5 cents per kilowatt-hour. Ussume this is marketing hype until proven otherwise

Tony Tang and Eric Pattison from the University of Calgary introduce a new method of transferring files and possibly shooting your eye out. Using RFID and a toy dart gun — DartMail lets people physically shoot electronic information at others

John Gilmore, the millionare who cofounded the EFF, has been prohibited from travelling because he refused to show an ID while boarding an airplane. He's been under this self-imposed ban since 2002. When a gate agent asked for his ID. Gilmore asked her why. It is the law, she said. Gilmore asked to see the law. Nobody could produce a copy. To date, nobody has. The regulation that mandates ID at airports is Sensitive Security Information. The law, as it turns out, is unavailable for inspection. What started out as a weekend trip to Washington became a crawl through the courts in search of an answer to Gilmore's question: Why?

The retarded monkey boy won the Razzie worst actor of the year award on Saturday for his performance as president in Fahrenheit 9/11 but his moment in Hollywood's dubious spotlight was eclipsed by Halle Berry, who actually turned up to receive her embarrassing accolade. Berry was named worst actress of 2004 by the Golden Raspberry Award Foundation for her performance in Catwoman and she showed up to accept her Razzie carrying the Oscar she won in 2002 for Monster's Ball. She thanked everyone involved in Catwoman, a film she said took her from the top of her profession to the bottom. I want to thank Warner Brothers for casting me in this piece of shit, she said as she dragged her agent on stage and warned him next time read the script first — via Warren Ellis

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