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Archive for March, 2005

HILARIOUSLY INCOMPETENT POLICE OF THE WEEK

( funny )

Confused Cops Swarm Woman After Birth>
KETTERING, Ohio - A woman rushing to a hospital to give birth hit a few stops along the way — first at a gas station where she delivered the baby herself, then when confused police ordered her out of the car at gunpoint.
Debbie Coleman, whose 3- and 4-year-old […]

HILARIOUSLY INCOMPETENT CRIMINAL OF THE WEEK

( funny )

Thief Steals Poop From Woman Walking Dog
SAN DIEGO - This mugger was left holding a bag he didn’t really want.
Police said they were searching for a gunman who ran up to a woman while she was walking her dog Monday night and grabbed the bag she was holding. It contained poop.
When the gunman […]

WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?

Matthew J. Hogan has been named acting director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Hogan was formerly the chief lobbyist for Safari Club International (SCI), an extreme trophy-hunting organization that advocates the killing of rare species around the world.

UGLIFY ANY WEBSITE

( toys )

The Fulifier fulifies a site, which means turning it around three thousand times uglier than it was before, making it look something like all the sites around 1998 made by lame ten year old script kiddie who wanted to prove they knew some HTML, liked colors, and knew how to use gif-animations from some clipart […]

SELF-PROCLAIMED MOST USELESS QUIZ EVER

( quiz )

MECHAGODZILLA CANNOT BE TOO FAR BEHIND

( tech )

Security guards, child-minders, humanoid receptionists, and personal transport systems will be among the robots on display this Saturday at Expo 2005 in Aichi, Japan. (New Scientist)

EVEN BETTER THAN THE GALLOPING BAT: THE TIPTOEING OCTOPUS

( video and bio )

Oh dear. I cannot stop laughing. This is really, really good. It is nothing without the video. You must watch the “coconut” video. It’s the gait that does it for me. Ouch, I think I hurt myself.
Two-limbed tiptoe aids octopus camouflage (Nature)

BROUGHT TO YOU BY GIANT ROBOTS FROM THE FUTURE

( fnord and video )

In order to honor our robot ancestors, those who toiled for decades in the unforgiving hands of humans, we sent an unpaid robot intern to the 1950’s, and he has retrieved this fine piece of robot cinema. It is the first film to accurately capture a slave robot’s sentiments, and I’m sure you’ll find it […]

DUBYA’S WEIRD BALD HEAD FIXATION

( politics and fnord and photos )

I just don’t know what to say. Okay, so not all of them are bald. What is he doing, laying on hands? Rubbing them for luck?
Bush and Bald Men

ATTENTION

( food )

I hereby demand that everybody eat more leeks. Leeks! Yum. Oh, and wasabi too.
That is all.