I'm usually the first to shrug off Star Wars related nerdaphernalia as lame and/or overdone, but this one struck me as pretty funny.
Don't bother watching the intro (starts with a twitter post), but definitely check out the clip offered up on the site. It seems nerds around the world were pretty hard at work on this.
A flight attendant from jetBlue, irate at a passenger who refused to apologize for accidentally hitting him in the head with his luggage, has lived the American Dream.
From the metropolis article:
"Slater demanded an apology from the passenger, the official said, but the passenger refused. The two argued before the passenger told Slater to “f— off”, the official said. The official said that Slater then got on the plane’s PA system and directed that same obscenity at all the passengers and added that he especially meant it for the man who refused to apologize.
Slater is alleged to have then activated the plane’s inflatable emergency slide, grabbed two beers from the galley, then slid down the chute, the official said."
These are the stories that keep me going each and every day.
A girl working at a drive through window was handed a leaflet by a customer. The leaflet explained that if you had received it, its because the way you are dressed is tempting men to rape you...even if only in their minds.
It makes me think we should just carry around an arsenal of leaflets for different reasons.
side note: i was also amused that the url was truncated by 1 letter indicating that ungodly dressed women provoke rap. i couldn't agree more.
Last month, musician Billy Joel's daughter, Alexa Ray Joel, was rushed to the hospital in an apparent suicide attempt. She had taken an overdose of a homeopathy medication known as Traumeel, which is ineffectively used to treat joint pain seeing as it has no active ingredients. I can just picture this girl experiencing placebo induced feelings of dying to the point were others thought it necessary to rush her to the hospital. as stupid as this girl was for not knowing what kind of drugs she was ingesting it's, nonetheless, a great example of just how strong the power of belief can be over people's behaviors and actions.
a little background on homeopathy;
It was invented about 200 years ago by a German doctor named Samuel Hahnemann. He believed that — contrary to what we know about pharmacology — homeopathic medicines actually become more effective the more they are diluted. Homeopathic medications are often so literally watered-down that they don't contain a single molecule of the original medicine or substance. Depending on how diluted the solution is — as expressed on the label as X (a 10-fold dilution) or C (a 100-fold dilution) — there is often literally no active ingredient in the "medication."
It is just water. If homeopathy worked, it would violate basic rules of physics and science.
You can test the homeopathic principle yourself easily at home: Using this principle, the next time you reach for an aspirin or other pain reliever, you should probably crush the pill, pick out a few of the smaller crumbs of medicine, and take those. Less is more, so the less you take of the medicine, the more effective it should be.
As part of our special feature marking the 50th anniversary of the search for extraterrestrial life, they rounded up some of humanity's radio messages to the stars.
while you might like to check out this interesting little historical look at short radio signals sent into space you should pay particular attention to a Mr. Joe Davis.
In the 1980's it seems Joe was plagued by a particularly unsettling problem. aliens that may have already picked up radio transmissions of human faces and voices would have no idea what our reproductive systems looked liked, let alone sound like. after watching species for the 76th time Joe had a revelation. he would send the sounds of vaginal contractions into space. joe while in the midst of fulfilling his purpose in life was stopped by US air force. a bunch of prudes if you ask me. luckily however joe manged to get a couple of radio transmissions out their.
The bra’s magic lies in its patented “God’s Hand” technology. Simply press the button, and the hidden, hand-shaped panels expand, lifting your breasts to provide cleavage like you’ve never had before. And the longer you press, the bigger they get!
My favorite feature of the bra is the fact that they call the inflatable padding technology God's Hand. Talk about intelligent design.
A wife posed as a schoolgirl online to catch her husband using an internet chatroom to groom underage girls for sex.Cheryl Roberts, 61, had become concerned about the amount of time her husband David spent at his computer.To her disgust, Mrs Roberts discovered that her 68-year-old husband of 20 years had been logging on to a teenage chatroom.The message, signed with his nickname Corky, had been sent to an underage girl, but showed on his screen again when she sent her reply.
Rather than confront him, his wife used a second computer in their home to join the same chatroom, pretending she was a 14-year-old girl.The court was told that the couple then exchanged messages - while he was in his private study and she was in their living room next door.As well as sending explicit messages, Roberts even used a webcam to film himself performing a sexual act, thinking it was being watched by a young girl.But after he propositioned the 'girl' and asked to meet her for sex, his wife decided to act, contacting the police and the NSPCC.
When police seized his computer and found dozens of illegal child-porn images, Roberts assumed he had been caught out by routine monitoring of downloads. He was stunned when detectives broke the news that he had actually been chatting up his wife.
35 wacky science fair projects. this one took me a minute
I wonder what kind of research she did for her results section? Obviously Barbie! Wonder what his hypothesis was?
This list of geek laws was actually kind of lame. I was surprised such easy subject matter managed to be so unfunny. still, i'll share the 4th law for Virginia.
4. Somers and McCarthy’s Law: There is no dangerous unscientific theory so preposterous that no celebrity will espouse and advocate it.
"I believe that the greatest fear that we all should have ... to our freedom comes from this room, this very room, and what may happen later this week in terms of a tax increase bill masquerading as a health care bill," North Carolina Rep. Virginia Foxx said. "I believe we have more to fear from the potential of that bill passing than we do from any terrorist right now in any country."
In a disgusting display of reverse disablism, the quiet ones are frantically waving their hands at the decision to cast 13 year old Oscar Nominee Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine, Zombieland) in the role of Helen Keller.
The Alliance for Inclusion in the Arts (a group advocating affirmative action for the deaf and blind), told the New York Times "We do not think it's OK for reputable producers to cast this lead role without seriously considering an actress from our community."
She told Idiotechnica.com "Oscar or no Oscar - we just can't see her for the role."
"Your Wife Is Hot!" reads this billboard, but another similar billboard posted throughout South Florida is heating up a controversy over air conditioning advertisement.
They started springing up around South Florida earlier this year: Billboards declaring, "Your wife is hot!" The ads are for an air conditioning company, Around The Clock Air of Coral Springs. They go on to say, "Better get your air conditioning fixed."
Around The Clock's general manager Michael Lang says the provocative, eye-catching billboards have made for the most successful advertising campaign the company has had. "My wife loved the idea. She thought it was very funny," Lang said. His wife apparently wasn't the only one........
A French court's verdict against the Church of Scientology amounts to a "modern Inquisition" and threatens freedom of religion in France, a senior Scientologist said Tuesday.
Eric Roux, a spokesman for the group and an official representative of the organization's Celebrity Center, also said the church would appeal Tuesday's verdict.
A three-judge panel at the Correctional Court in Paris convicted the church and six of its members of organized fraud, but stopped short of banning the church, as prosecutors had asked.
A Doral man who ordered an "escort" at 5am seems confused as to how he ended up with a gun pointed at his head. Long story short. Guy is staying in a hotel in Hollywood. Calls a hooker. Two girls show up and take his money, but the skanks didn't put out, he tried to get his money back and the pimp put a gun to his head and suggest he seriously reconsider his refund request.
He said he was no longer interested in getting his money back and told police he wanted to prevent this from happening to anyone else.
I assume he means anyone else who orders a hooker at 5am. Good looking out man. Good looking out.
For those not familiar with the "car pool lane" concept, there are certain lanes reserved for people making efficient use of their vehicle (ie. with 2 passengers or more).
If this guy was really thinking, he would have let the Teddy Bear drive.
I'm usually the first to shrug off Star Wars related nerdaphernalia as lame and/or overdone, but this one struck me as pretty funny.
A flight attendant from jetBlue, irate at a passenger who refused to apologize for accidentally hitting him in the head with his luggage, has lived the American Dream.
“I’m always traveling for c**k. You’ve got to go where it is,” she added.
...and the INS cleaned up. One agent said "It's like shooting fish in a barrel"
A girl working at a drive through window was handed a leaflet by a customer. The leaflet explained that if you had received it, its because the way you are dressed is tempting men to rape you...even if only in their minds. 
Last month, musician Billy Joel's daughter, Alexa Ray Joel, was rushed to the hospital in an apparent suicide attempt. She had taken an overdose of a homeopathy medication known as Traumeel, which is ineffectively used to treat joint pain seeing as it has no active ingredients. I can just picture this girl experiencing placebo induced feelings of dying to the point were others thought it necessary to rush her to the hospital. as stupid as this girl was for not knowing what kind of drugs she was ingesting it's, nonetheless, a great example of just how strong the power of belief can be over people's behaviors and actions. 
As part of our special feature marking the 50th anniversary of the search for extraterrestrial life, they rounded up some of humanity's radio messages to the stars.
Okay, not really, but i feel so left out!
Clips from article: 
this one took me a minute
Obviously Barbie!
Wonder what his hypothesis was? 
In a disgusting display of reverse disablism, the quiet ones are frantically waving their hands at the decision to cast 13 year old Oscar Nominee Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine, Zombieland) in the role of Helen Keller.
