I don’t like Big Brother. If I want to watch a bunch of people behaving badly, I’ll go hang out with the drunks in my alley. And it’s so boring. To an outside observer, my life would appear incredibly dull, with occasional nudity. I accept this as a condition of my existence. To the producers of Big Brother, the inanity [...]
A Cincinnati family discovered their new TKO punching bag was filled with underwear. Yes, that’s right. Not sand or pellets or water. Underwear. Some of it used. TKO called the bag/hamper a ‘quality control error’ and is replacing the unit. That, my friend, is the most colossal quality control failure in the history of quality control. [...]
Drooling fanboys and awkward middle-aged men are buzzing about the possibility of a new Star Wars flick to be announced on the 30th anniversary of the first movie. Rumors have been circulating about the new film for months. Plans for a Star Wars TV show have already been confirmed. Allegedly, the new film will be a [...]
McDonalds is launching a petition campaign to change the dictionary definition of ‘McJob’. The Oxford Dictionary currently defines ‘McJob’ as “an unstimulating low-paid job with few prospects” McDonald’s claims this definition is ‘out-of-date’ and ‘insulting to its employees’. I, for one, would have to agree. I’ve lost track of the friends, families and even casual [...]
Hat tip to Metafilter for this one. Amazing footage of a three-way battle royale between a herd of buffalo, a bunch of lions, and a crocodile. Apparently, massed hooves and bad attitudes trump pointy teeth and claws.
Maybe. BBC reports that a hammerhead shark at the Henry Doorly Zoo in Nebraska had a virgin birth. No word yet on a shark Judas. In other news, male sharks fear increasing redundancy, plan to step up random eating of surfers.
Nicholas Negroponte, MIT professor and founder of the One Laptop Per Child program, is accusing Intel of forcing his initiative to provide cheap computers to school children in the developing world off the rails. Negroponte says Intel is selling its own cut-rate laptop, the Classmate, below cost to drive OLPC out of their target markets. [...]