Go ahead, tell me that wouldn’t happen a thousand times a day.

I dare you to ask tech support experts if I’m right. I think most will agree with me.

I just saw something on Ars Technica that I can’t help find both funny and sad at the same time. It’s essentially proof of what I think a lot of people have known for a long time and that is that most people’s brains have apparently begun to lose weight in all the wrong ways.

Sometimes I wonder if the people putting headlines on a site bother to check with each other before they do something. Judging from a couple of headlines I saw today on Iwon’s news page in the technology section (as of Jul 23, 1:06 pm (ET) anyway.):
Review: TextBuyIt fun, easy to use, but limited
Yahoo CEO [...]

It’s ridiculous enough that the US Military managed to screw up and send a shipment of nuclear missile fuses to Taiwan but now China seems to think they’ve got some kind of right to start demanding things from the US over the matter.
I am not a hamster, I’m more than willing to grant that it’s [...]

It’s amazing, some of the things that people will try to get away with. Like the guy that took off in a doughnut delivery van and led police on a hundred mile an hour chase. You know the results, he was arrested at gunpoint.
Then there’s a guy in Australia that called the cops [...]

Over the years I’ve seen and heard a lot of stories about medical mixups of one kind or another and some of them have even been funny. Even if a lot of them do end up sounding like really bad jokes. This one is pretty bad in more ways than one.
There’s a short [...]

I don’t actually have a contest running for the most annoying news item but if I did, I think that The most recent winner of this award would have to go to the GAO.
GAO: Vets Healthcare Not Meeting Standards
The Army has yet to fully staff the new “warrior transition units” being put together
because of poor [...]

This person walks into a Victoria’s Secret in Flagstaff, Arizona and gets away with 350 Bras. According to the story this daring theft took place in broad daylight while the store was open. Add to that the fact that the anti-theft tags on them didn’t set off the store alarm and the fact that [...]

That’s right. An actual US Navy Barracks in Coronado, California just outside of San Diego. is shaped like a swastika when seen from the air. Here’s a link to a Google map view of it. All you need to do is click on the ‘x’ in the white balloon to get rid [...]