“Ancient Mummies Show Signs of Heart Disease”
Hm… maybe the sign of the Golden Pyramids was just as bad for you as the Golden Arches. 😉
Archive of posts filed under the Amusing/Interesting/Appalling category.
Various amusing or interesting topics, or things that shock and appall me. Kind of a miscellaneous bin.
“Can Science Beat the Doomsday Hype?”
Short answer: not bloody likely. At least not in my lifetime.
“Why the mainstream media is dying”
It’s hard to believe that this is the kind of organization that broke the Watergate scandal, among many others in years past. Sad. (Of course, it’s nothing I haven’t talked about before.)
“Feds: Top e-tailers profit from billion-dollar Web scam”
It just goes to show that no matter who you’re dealing with, or how trustworthy you think they are, it’s always a good idea to count your change. (In other words: “in God we trust. All others pay cash.”) 😉
“Worst Finder Ever”
And to think that I thought that I was the only person with this problem…
The All-Knowing Spam Javalin…
Complete text of a spam I recently received: Get an omnipotent porksword! Omnipotent porksword?! Running out of synonyms, guys? 😀
“Natural Super Glue Found on Asparagus Spears”
Now there’s a food that’ll really stick to your ribs! 😉
“Real calculators modeled after desktop calculators”
And I thought it was supposed to be the other way around.
Phone Gripes
Why is it, pray tell, that every time we get a new phone number, we also somehow inherit one place that insists on calling it repeatedly, telling us that we owe them money? When we moved into this house eight years ago, we got two telephone numbers (a home line and a business line). We …
“Bruce Schneier Action Figure”
For the true computer security geek: an action figure of cryptography and security expert Bruce Schneier. (At $99, I hope said geek is also making plenty of cash with his computer security skills.)