Archive for May, 2007
Wednesday, May 16th, 2007 by Insider
In the 70s, Uri Geller, an annoying fraud who claimed to be a spoon-bending psychic was all over late night television. Despite numerous debunkings it took years for his popularity to finally wane. Like most people, I had forgotten about him until he misused the DMCA to attempt to get an unflattering video taken […]
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Wednesday, May 16th, 2007 by Chad
It may have started as a touching tribute to a loved one but it ended up with a flesh eating zombie on the guy’s arm.
via digg
tattoos
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Tuesday, May 15th, 2007 by Insider
Good god!
Flier found in abundance posted around West Los Angeles near the Independent Sources corporate offices.
Not sure which of the following this flier is an indictment on:
1. Los Angeles and how shallow we are (i.e., people will say/do anything to be on TV)
2. MTV and how shallow and uncreative they are (40 Year-Old Virgin rip-off?)
3. […]
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Monday, May 14th, 2007 by Insider
Google, Technorati and others are reporting an unprecedented volume of searches for variants of “Allison Stokke”. Who is she? A little digging shows that she is an accomplished pole vaulter at Newport Harbor High…
Newport Harbor sophomore Allison Stokke cleared 13-4 (source)
source
and an interview on YouTube.
No one is certain how the Stokke mania got started but […]
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Posted in SexY, Not SexIST | 6 Comments »
Monday, May 14th, 2007 by Chad
According to the United Nations it is an inflation rate 2200%, a population verging on famine, and shortages of all the basic goods including gasoline, medicine and hard currency.
At least that is the vision the UN endorsed when it selected Zimbabwe to head the U.N. Commission on Sustainable Development over the protests of […]
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Friday, May 11th, 2007 by Insider
Tina Valdez: Bad Parent
Here’s a nice mother’s day story.
Texas mom Tina Valdez has been arrested for selling her 15-year old daughter to a sexual predator. To cover her tracks, authorities say that the 35-year old Valdez forced her 16 year old daughter to write a note saying she was leaving home to find her father. […]
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Thursday, May 10th, 2007 by Chad
Following the stunning success of their recent Oakland foray, the covert operators assigned the joint Office of the First Lady / CIA Task Force are at it again.
Many maintain that one of the most pernicious pieces of legislation passed in many years is the REAL ID Act. This act, supposedly designed to help with Homeland […]
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Wednesday, May 9th, 2007 by Insider
Bad Parent: Shayla Muldrow
Shayla Muldrow boarded a kids school bus on March 2, and demanded to know which child had slapped her 9-year-old daughter. After a 10-year-old girl raised her hand, police say Muldrow told her daughter to go back there and “handle your business,” which is code in the Muldrow family for go kick […]
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Wednesday, May 9th, 2007 by Insider
It’s not every day that one gets to write a headline like this.
Ruta Greiciute, a 22-year-old student at Kaunas Technology University, was hospitalized with a broken collar bone and nose after the 9-year-old male giraffe, named Solut, attacked her [after she and two friends climbed into the giraffed cage after having a few drinks].
Sweet.
tag: drunk […]
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Tuesday, May 8th, 2007 by Insider
Tom didn’t have to get busted again
Tom Sizemore has been arrested again. Here are the top 5 ways he could have avoided this fate.
#1. Stay away from Bakersfield, California when high. (Central valley police have little better to do other than bust Hollywood drug addicts. Just watch “Cops”.)
#2 When on probation…
a) Don’t hang around people […]
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Monday, May 7th, 2007 by Insider
Hot Teacher In Hot Water
The blog Odd Culture found another pretty good looking teacher arrested for unlawful sexual activity with a minor. First, let’s look at the perp:
Janet Lea Hughes
Hughes is 32 and is married, she’s also a mom making her an official MILF to boot. Unlike the way that these things normally go down […]
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Posted in (Un)education | 3 Comments »
Monday, May 7th, 2007 by Insider
This seems so American. A British man learns that he is, in fact, not dying and wants to sue the hospital. Of course if he was an American, it’d somehow be a class action suit.
Here’s the story.
John Brandrick, 62, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer two years ago and told that he would probably die within […]
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Monday, May 7th, 2007 by Insider
This should get your Spidey-Sense ‘tingling’
The itsy, bitsy spider went up the ear canal…
In what is sure to give nightmares to preteens as the story is told again and again, a fourth-grade boy was found to have two live spiders living in his left ear. The 8-legged invertebrates were living there for a least the […]
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Posted in Not the conventional wisdom | 2 Comments »
Thursday, May 3rd, 2007 by Insider
“Sorry Mr. Jobs, but man from Greenpleaze give me big money to be photo in!”
Greenpeace attempted to smear Apple with a “goofy Photoshop treatments of the company’s marketing materials” (Digital Daily). In typicalGreenpeace fashion, they over-reached.
According to the WSJ’s Digital Daily:
…Greenpeace, which didn’t even bother to actually measure toxins in Apple’s products. According to the […]
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Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007 by Insider
Man files $67 million lawsuit for a lost pair of pants. Targets Korean Immigrants Just Trying to Make a Living.
The really, really scary thing is that the lunatic plaintiff in this non-case is a judge. Yes, he’s the person that is supposed to protect society from this type of lawsuit abuse. He is either […]
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