Archive for August, 2005
Rock still lives.
Hard Rock Cafe’s 112-foot electric guitar sign survives 7 hours of 100-mph hurricane-force winds in Biloxi. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, August 31st, 2005.
WONDERPIZZA.
Pizza freshly cooked and delivered from a vending machine. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, August 31st, 2005.
Customer incentive.
Overdue phone bill customer in England receives late notice telling him to pay up or else he will be ‘hospitalized‘. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, August 31st, 2005.
Foreshadowing.
‘How to throw the best hurricane party (when it’s safe to do so)’. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, August 31st, 2005.
Model for quitting.
Fill-in-the-blank letter of resignation generator. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, August 31st, 2005.
Social web.
Craigslist Lost & Found for New Orleans being used to track lost family and friends displaced by Hurricane Katrina. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, August 31st, 2005.
We the sons of Mesopotamia.
Full text of the draft Iraqi Constitution. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, August 31st, 2005.
Pricelessly awful.
The ‘Chuck says, Rufus says, Kathy says‘ hilarity that was R. Kelly’s live performance at the MTV Video Music Awards. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, August 30th, 2005.
Martial law.
Prisoners from the Orleans Parish Prison are staged on the highway as floodwaters from Hurricane Katrina cover the streets.
Post date: Tuesday, August 30th, 2005.
Too late.
Innocent maid criminally convicted and executed in 1945 posthumously pardoned in Georgia.
Post date: Tuesday, August 30th, 2005.
Stranglehold.
Ted Nugent is offering his hunting skills to protect Manitoba from bears.
Post date: Tuesday, August 30th, 2005.
Got a 308 area code?
Beware of the repeat, message-leaving prank caller that no one can understand.
Post date: Tuesday, August 30th, 2005.
Nano-technique.
Proving nanotech’s benefit: ‘A new technique for treating glass that can permanently prevent glass from fogging and virtually eliminate glare‘. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, August 30th, 2005.
Supramolecular nano-stamping.
Using DNA as moveable type to allow the mass-production of a whole variety of nano-devices. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, August 30th, 2005.
Not ready for prime time.
Man who held up a convenience store with a ‘drill bit‘ may have been influenced by TV crime shows. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, August 30th, 2005.
Train Man.
Say you’re a geek in Japan and get a discounted movie theatre ticket.
Post date: Tuesday, August 30th, 2005.
Bargaining agreement.
Traffic ticket deadbeats in Malaysia: 50 percent discount on all your outstanding traffic fines during National Day.
Post date: Tuesday, August 30th, 2005.
Wakamaru.
Robot that works as a house sitter and recognizes 10,000 words to go on sale in Japan.
Post date: Monday, August 29th, 2005.
Challenge Darth Vader.
Flash game: Darth Vader uses the force to read your mind. (via)
Post date: Monday, August 29th, 2005.
Don’t milk them. Race them.
Cow racing: A fine, bovine tradition. (via)
Post date: Monday, August 29th, 2005.
Book ‘em Dano.
Cow blamed for causing traffic accident is put behind bars in Colombia.
Post date: Monday, August 29th, 2005.
F-ing limit.
School in England allowing students to swear at teachers a maximum of five times per lesson.
Post date: Monday, August 29th, 2005.
Coffee buzz.
Study finds coffee to be more healthy than fruits and veggies. (via)
Post date: Monday, August 29th, 2005.
I pity the fool.
Mr T to reprise his role as Clubber Lang in the upcoming Rocky 6. (via)
Post date: Monday, August 29th, 2005.
Miracle mice.
Mice given experimental injection able to regrow hearts, toes. (via)
Post date: Monday, August 29th, 2005.
Human cannonball.
Man enters the United States after being shot out of a cannon from Tijuana. (via)
Post date: Monday, August 29th, 2005.
Potty U.
The World Toilet Organization is opening the world’s first toilet college.
Post date: Monday, August 29th, 2005.
Chupacabra.
Man in Texas may have caught an animal of legend, a chupacabra: a mix between a hairless dog, a rat and a kangaroo.
Post date: Saturday, August 27th, 2005.
One-legged bandit.
Man test-driving a prosthetic leg walks off without paying.
Post date: Saturday, August 27th, 2005.
Energy.
Explaining and understanding the equation E = mc2. (via)
Post date: Saturday, August 27th, 2005.
Mmm. Cheeto.
Algona, Iowa: Home of the World’s Largest Cheeto.
Post date: Friday, August 26th, 2005.
Sleep ain’t cheap.
Nap for 70 cents a minute at the Mall of America in Minneapolis.
Post date: Friday, August 26th, 2005.
Fuhgettaboudit.
Take the only guided bus tour of the best pizzerias in Brooklyn. (via)
Post date: Friday, August 26th, 2005.
Painters needed.
Woman painting her car with nail polish wants your help. (via)
Post date: Friday, August 26th, 2005.
Spray off the lbs.
Getting high on weight loss: SLIMist, the inhalable weight-loss alternative. (via)
Post date: Friday, August 26th, 2005.
Come on.
Boy inventor given a grade of C for inventing a hamster-powered cell phone charger.
Post date: Friday, August 26th, 2005.
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