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23 Oct 2010 23:02

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Biz, Offbeat: Surely, this qualifies as governmental overreach

  • cute Two young entrepreneurs, aged 4 and 6, decided to sell pumpkins outside their home in Idaho to raise money for sports.
  • callous Officials from the Idaho State Tax Commission busted the kids for running a business without obtaining proper permits. source
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22 Oct 2010 23:48

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Offbeat: Man tumbles off cliff, is not resuscitated by prayer

  • sad Guy at faith-healing school falls off 200ft cliff whilst drinking with friends.
  • stupid Rather than call paramedics, friends attempt to “pray him back to life.”
  • awful When that fails, friends debate for hours about whether to call the police.
  • resultThe victim survived, is now paraplegic, and is suing his old friends. source
Posted by Seth Millstein • 0 Comments • Permalink

21 Oct 2010 11:52

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Offbeat: Dallas local news station takes piss out of social media

  • This seems like a not-so-subtle attempt to remind people that for all those Web-centric services out there, the local news was first. Our favorite part is when they pull out the Skype. (Thanks Charles Apple for bringing this clip to our attention.)
Posted by Ernie Smith • 0 Comments • Permalink

18 Oct 2010 18:55

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Offbeat, Tech: Thief steals computer, sends victim backup of hard drive

  • bad A Swedish professor placed his laptop behind a door for several minutes whilst doing laundry, where it was promptly stolen.
  • good As a consolation, the thief backed up all of the professor’s documents and sent them to him a week later. How thoughtful! source
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18 Oct 2010 10:54

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Offbeat: Posted without comment: First ad based on Chilean mine disaster

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15 Oct 2010 13:04

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Offbeat, Politics: Sarah Palin invokes unicorns, pixie dust in attack on Dems

  • [Democrats] act like they’re permanent residents of a unicorn ranch in fantasyland if they really think they’re gonna be able to turn it around with the liberal policies they have to continue, and you know, it’s pixie dust.
  • Sarah Palin • At a speech in California, although with a quote like that, the context is irrelevant. She also commended California for being the only state that “puts a mama grizzly on its flag.” Good Lord. source
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15 Oct 2010 10:29

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Offbeat: Annoyingly powerful lawyers try to kill D.C burger joint over smell

  • smart DC burger joint Rogue States catches onto the grilled-meat-on-a-bun trend currently taking over the city. We pass by this place every single day. (No smell, BTW.)
  • stupid Upstairs is a powerful law firm. The firm sues over the wafting smell of burger. A judge gets involved. Rogue States has to close because of this stupid crap. source
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15 Oct 2010 09:43

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Offbeat: Balloon Boy’s dad, in retrospect: “He was a crackpot”

  • I can’t help but feel I was responsible for stirring the thirst for fame inside of him that led to last year’s hoax. It’s something I have to live with, and sometimes it makes me feel like I want to climb into a box and hide.
  • AOL News contributor David Moye • Explaining how his dealings with Richard Heene may have contributed to the “Balloon Boy” incident a year ago this week. See, Moye worked as senior editor for a service called FlashNews, which provided odd, offbeat news to radio stations and newspaper columnists. And Heene, see, is a crackpot. So Moye covered him more than once. The first time, he referred to Heene as the “Bob Vila of Cardboard Boxes,” after Heene made a video for kids featuring a cardboard puppet named “Boxter.” Dude loves his boxes. Moye also did stories with Heene playing  wacky storm-chaser in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. “After all,” he writes, “he was a crackpot and my audience — wacky morning disc jockeys — would eat this stuff up.” All of this, by the way, was before he got pseudo-famous on “Wife Swap.” Great work, David. source
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12 Oct 2010 01:10

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Offbeat, U.S.: This is not a typo. Seriously.

  • 101 years spent trying to get US citizenship source
Posted by Seth Millstein • 0 Comments • Permalink

10 Oct 2010 22:47

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Offbeat: Show-off: 22-year-old ex-poker player makes our life seem boring

  • I knew that I should stay in school, but in the back of my mind I was thinking, ‘This is so easy, why wouldn’t I just do this?’
  • 22-year-old University of Maryland student Steven Silverman • Discussing his life as a high-stakes poker player, a lifestyle he’s since left behind. Silverman quit college to pursue the dream, and in the process won millions of dollars. He also lost a lot of money, too. He was robbed at gunpoint during a poker match. He even put in time on a reality TV show. But, after getting stressed out on the poker scene, he ended up going back to school and “retiring” from the poker scene. Dude has managed to live a lifetime in just a couple of years. source
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