So you’ve got an unmanned flying drone with deadly weapons, controlled by ground stations that could be hundreds or thousands of miles away. Of course you run it with the most popular and least secure operating system on the planet! I mean, what could possibly go wrong? I’ve said it before, in all-caps and bold [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Amusing/Interesting/Appalling category.
“7 Habits of Highly Effective Marketting” [sic]
In honor of the year’s first Friday the thirteenth: it’s not bad luck when you bring it on yourself.
“Fast food firm fields Sith sandwich”
I’m a hard-core geek, but even I am just shaking my head in bafflement.
“Man convicted of murder gets retrial after virus eats transcripts”
Twenty years ago, headlines like this one wouldn’t have even been imaginable.
“Mysterious severed feet and the Crazy Statistician”
Remember those severed human feet that were being reported last year? As it turns out, there’s a very simple, if somewhat gruesome, explanation for them.
“Whose bear urine is this? – Intraoffice email at National Geo”
My wife’s high school newsletter apparently had a section titled “Overheard in the Halls,” which as I understand it detailed bits of conversation heard in passing, with no context, which sounded either very humorous or utterly bizarre. I think this would have qualified, in spades.
“Dot-dash-diss: The gentleman hacker’s 1903 lulz”
Wow… it seems that hacking, and hacker pranks, got their start well before the first computers were created. I can’t imagine how Marconi could have thought any clear-text wireless signal was secure against eavesdroppers. Even if his patented tuning system worked to keep the signal on a very narrow band, all it would take to [...]
“Television show hosts eat each other’s flesh in front of studio audience”
I go to great lengths to satisfy my curiosity, but there are some lines I just don’t think I’d cross. (Via BoingBoing)
“Mysterious metal ball from space falls in Namibia”
A large metal ball that fell from space into the Namibian grasslands last month is not alien, officials say, but that’s about all they know for certain about the object. [...] Uh-oh. Ape #1: Dear me. What are these things coming out of her nose? Ape #2 (looks through binoculars): Spaceballs. Ape #1: Oh, shit. [...]
“A Very Portal Christmas Tree”
For those of you who don’t know, there’s a rather famous game called Portal. From the Wikipedia entry: [...] The game primarily comprises a series of puzzles that must be solved by teleporting the player’s character and simple objects using “the handheld portal device”, a device that can create inter-spatial portals between two flat planes. [...]