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It would have been better if the nozzle was twisted to actually blow on your face instead of your hands.
Koreans! How to swear in English
Perhaps I have a future teaching English as a second language.
FBI claims no-one may publish its seal
The FBI ordered wikipedia to remove its seal from the article there about the bureau. It threatened to litigate. Unfortunately for the FBI, the law it cited is the one that forbids making counterfeit badges, and Wikimedia's lawyers mocked them in its response. John Schwartz in the NYT: "Many sites, including the online version of the [...]
Herpes Boy screening today at Comic-Con
Comic-Con attendees, don't miss the screening of Herpes Boy, "an award-winning independent feature film comedy about a social misfit with a facial birthmark (not herpes) who accidentally becomes an Internet celebrity." (more...)
4chan prank means Justin Bieber must tour North Korea
Justin Bieber's "My World Tour" Twitter voting contest asked fans to vote on which country he should tour next, without restriction on which countries could be included in the vote. 4chan smelled opportunity: Anonymous nominated North Korea, then the boards clickswarmed. At the time of this blog post, more than half a million votes now demand [...]
Hitler finds out about the BP Oil Spill
Creepy trivial fact: the spill started on Hitler's 121st birthday. A quick YouTube search for "Hitler BP oil spill" yields quite a few. of. these.
Speed camera foe buys Tennessee city’s police website
Someone should buy bluffcitypolice.com just to thwart their next move. BLUFF CITY, Tenn. – After a Tennessee police department let its website expire, the site was snatched up by a new owner — a man who uses it to gripe about traffic cameras that issue speeding tickets. Computer network designer Brian McCrary says he discovered the Bluff [...]
The Prisoner’s Dilemma
Well... if both are really "perfectly rational", and they have common knowledge of each other's rationality, then both should reason along the lines of "we're both using the same decision algorithm. So our decisions are going to strongly correlate. So there's effectively only two options: either both of us cooperate or booth of us defect. Both of [...]
Google to employees: “Mac or Linux… but no more Windows”
We first heard rumors of this policy change a couple of months ago, but now it's made the papers: the Financial Times is reporting that Google is phasing out the use of Windows internally, as employees are migrated to either Linux or Mac OS X on machine turnovers or new hires. The policy change was precipitated in large part by the security breach [...]
Hi, I’m Troy McClure. You may remember me from such movies as “You’re Reading This In My Voice” and “Even Though I Just Stated It, You’re Still Reading This In My Voice.”
Good news everyone, I have also invented a device that makes the final countdown play in your head!
“Hackers” say NO LATINOS on highway sign
A highway sign flashing "NO LATINOS NO TACOS" greeted drivers on the Palmetto Expressway in Northwest Miami-Dade, after hackers managed to alter it early Tuesday morning. The sign was in the northbound side of the 826, right near the Northwest 25th street exit. It's unknown how long the sign had been flashing the message, but by 6 a.m., [...]
I wish this guy the best
I think we should observe the fact that this fellow failed to make his "get-together" private. The only question is what to click? Attending, not attending, or maybe?
“The photograph has now been removed from the internet”
Emma Watson's spokesperson has branded an alleged naked photo of the Harry Potter star a fake - insisting the risque image has been technically doctored. The actress' legal team sprung into action after a photo allegedly featuring the 20 year old without clothes hit the web, immediately branding the nude snap a product of computer [...]
Six Terrifying Things You Didn’t Know about the Platypus
In this day and age everyone knows about the platypus. Nature's adorable little oddball that looks like the result of an interspecies relationship between a beaver and a duck. What most people don't know, however, is that the platypus is the product of Satan's nightmares sent to destroy us all. What follows are six facts about the platypus [...]
