http://www.tattoo-design-gallery.com Oddities from around the Globe - Oh, and some free tattoo designs for downloading Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:26:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Why do people get tattoos? This is a question often posed by those who have no interest in and who have never considered getting a tattoo themselves. Those of us who do have tattoos rarely think of the question, as body modification of any type is a very personal choice. No ... http://www.tattoo-design-gallery.com/tattoo/why-do-people-get-tattoos.htm I'm thinking of getting another tattoo done but I'm a bit of a wimp when it comes to the pain. A friend of mine (lets call him Bob* for his own protection) claims his tattoo's just *tickled* a bit when he got them done! And to prove it the macho ... http://www.tattoo-design-gallery.com/tattoo/bobs-skin-cuttingburning-tattoos-quest-scarification.htm I recently came across an article regarding the Taipei government initiative towards WIFI coverage for it's citizens. The city now boasts nearly 90% coverage for WIFI and expects to hit the 100% mark very soon. It's not free but can be accessed by monthly subscribers to one of the state ... http://www.tattoo-design-gallery.com/misc/where-is-our-wifi.htm Animal-Human Hybrid myth or reality? Many of us know or heard of human and animal cloning but what of a hybrid? Well the reality is it has actually happened on numerous occasions. One of the first accounts of this was in 2003 at Shanghai Second Medical University. They successfully made ... http://www.tattoo-design-gallery.com/misc/animal-human-hybrids-myth.htm Stringerz letmedownload Google unveiled it's Free Internet Broadband (Google TiSP) earlier this morning. Currently available only in the U.S and Canada, it's going down well with initial testers. Users who sign up online for the TiSP system will receive a full home self-installation kit, which includes a spindle of fiber-optic cable, a ... http://www.tattoo-design-gallery.com/misc/tisp-enabled-hardware.htm Recently out of curiosity I started reading up on the various state laws in America with respect to Tattoo's. It turns out that these laws are very state specific rather than federal. Some states are actually completely unregulated while others are extremely strict. In Nevada this is split down to ... http://www.tattoo-design-gallery.com/tattoo/tattoo-regulation.htm I recently read the article about David Beckham's tattoo controversy. For those who have not read, it's basically about him being sued by a tattoo artist for using his tattoo in a promotional campaign without consent. This seems to set a strange new legal situation in the tattoo community. Some ... http://www.tattoo-design-gallery.com/tattoo/tattoo-copyrights.htm It seems to have become a bad thing to openly discuss religion in public. Well actually I am not sure it was ever a safe topic in public. Now that I am older and hopefully wiser I have become less afraid of this topic. Why do so many of my ... http://www.tattoo-design-gallery.com/tattoo/religion-the-most-dangerous-topic.htm I came across an article about skinheads and their tattoos. It seems there is a trend toward face tattoos within this group. The article went on to suggest the funny irony of skinheads in effect darkening their faces with these tattoos. Toward the end of the article there was ... http://www.tattoo-design-gallery.com/tattoo/the-poor-swastika-2.htm Jose Luis De Jesus Miranda, has claimed to be Jesus and now claims to be the anti-Christ. He is the leader of the highly controversial church "Growing in Grace" based in Miami Florida. His followers call him "daddy". His church boasts a cable TV spot, 335 education centers, 200 pastors, ... http://www.tattoo-design-gallery.com/tattoo/church-has-its-congregation-get-matching-666-tattoos.htm