It seems like almost every time you look at the price of gas these days it’s gone up higher. Thing is, the only reason for it to be as high as it’s been in the last twenty years or more is pure greed combined with a major dose of plain old fashioned stupidity.
I think [...]

I have to say that when I saw this on Yahoo’s Odd News I’m glad I wasn’t drinking at the time. I hate having to clean the monitor and keyboard after spraying coffee all over everything.
Florida Sen. Carey Baker has introduced a bill that would ban Metal replicas of bull testicles as bumper ornaments. [...]

That’s right. There’s a new magazine in the works called “Snob“. It’s the brainchild of a Russian billionaire by the name of Mikhail Prokhorov. He’s putting out $150 million to create a magazine, website and television station. Obviously enough, it’s aimed at those who are successful and those who want to be.
I [...]

The CEO of Virgin Media is proving that aside from being a typical greedy-as-all-get-out-corporate-goon, he apparently doesn’t have any functioning brain cells dedicated to logical thought.
That’s because he’s also quoted as saying that he’s already doing deals to deliver some people’s content faster than others… If you aren’t prepared to cough up the extra cash, [...]

As computer companies go, Apple Computer has a long history. They’ve been associate with the “apple with bite out of it” logo for a long time. Now they seem to think that they’re the only ones that should be allowed to use an apple as part of the design of their logo
There’s a [...]

IBM is working on another one of those oh-so-brilliant ideas (not) of ways to identify people (like we really need more of THAT nonsense!)
They’re saying that their system can identify people by recognizing their typing patterns. Apparently there’s even directions for modifying the GNOME Display Manager on linux systems to support “user verification through [...]

It’s been a while since I’ve posted a video here and when I saw this one I just had to share it here. It’s a music video that features Agent Smith from The Matrix. I can only imagine how much work it took to achieve this effect. I am not a hamster, [...]

I got another one of those “Breaking News” items the other day. This one came from FoxNews but I also got similar “Breaking News” announcements from ABC news, CBS news and at least one other.
It announced in screaming all-caps:
JURY RULES DEATHS OF PRINCESS DIANA, DODI FAYED UNLAWFULLY CAUSED BY RECKLESS ACTIONS OF DRIVER, PAPARAZZI
For [...]

The olympics are going to be getting started in China soon and it seems that the closer opening day gets the more trouble there is over it.
Thing is, there’s actually serious reasons behind this trouble. Oh, I am not a hamster, I’m not saying that the violence and other BS that’s been making it [...]

I suppose most people have heard by now about the group of third graders that had planned to handcuff their teacher, put tape over her mouth and hit her over the head. The nine year old kids had planned the whole thing and brought things they were going to use… tape, handcuffs, a knife [...]