Reality is Stranger Than Fiction
I love stories of inept would-be thieves, such as this one. Even I, who have boundless faith in the power of human stupidity, find them hard to believe.
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.
Elvis Lives!…
…as the 761st-most-popular-name for babies in the year 2006. 🙂 I’m baffled by the popularity of the name Jacob though.
Oops!
Wishful thinking indeed. Priceless.
What’s In a Name?
I was just reading this article about two fairly-new TV-over-Internet startups, when my mind stumbled over this paragraph and fell flat on it’s face: The company is eschewing the vogue for user-generated novelty and signing up real talent. The latest name to be revealed is movie director Spike Lee, who will make an exclusive video …
Unarmed and Dangerous!
From the you’ve-got-to-be-joking division, by way of Boing Boing, comes this story of a man who’s had three amputations (both arms and a leg) and still out-drives police in car chases. Yes, as in more than one of them. I triple-checked my calendar, and we’re nowhere near April Fool’s Day.
Can Humans Live Without Fighting?
I saw an interesting article on Boing Boing a little while back, about human violence today and across history. “A deep look at the history of violence seems to reveal that modern culture may be making us less violent over time, not more.” That matches the impression that I’ve gotten from my history readings too, …
Holidays Around the World
My company is presently doing consulting work for a company in another country. It’s great… I get the holidays from my country, and the people I work with aren’t at work on the holidays in their country so I get those too. [1] I’m trying to figure out how I can get holidays from other …
“Hot rice, just add cold water”
One of those little technologies (mentioned in SF novels in passing) that has always fascinated me is self-cooking foods, or food packaging that automatically cooks the food it contains when it’s opened. That’s why I was delighted to see this story on Boing Boing just now. Geek heaven! Now, if they can just do the …
“The AACS Debacle”
Like many geeks, I’ve been watching the progress of what BoingBoing is calling “the AACS Debacle” with interest over the last couple days. For those of you not familiar with it, here’s the executive summary: some guy, apparently irritated that he wasn’t allowed to play the next-generation Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs on his Linux machine, dug …
“How Spider-Man Compares To Real Spiders”
As a long-time fan of Spider-Man stories, I was somewhat disturbed at the changes that were made to the canonical Spider-Man for the recent movies. The radioactive spider was out, replaced by a genetically-spliced one — more hip and new-millennium, you know. He now generated webbing from within his arms, instead of using a fast-setting …
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