Read a little. Learn a lot. • Tightly-written news, views and stuff • Follow us on Twitter • Be a Facebook Fan • Tumble us!

30 Aug 2010 21:07

tags

World: Not even MacGyver convinced by odd couple’s weird luggage

  • We don’t know yet if these two end up being bad guys or are just really strange people.
  • A U.S. official • Speaking about the detention of two people who had some really weird crap in their checked luggage on a flight from Chicago to Amsterdam. (They were detained by Dutch police after the end of the flight, by the way.) One dude had $7,000 in cash for no good reason. The other had a cell phone taped to a bottle of Pepto-Bismol (which isn’t a bomb, by the way), a bunch of cell phones taped together (also not a bomb) and a bunch of watches taped together (not a bomb, either). ABC News has reported that it appeared to be a dry run for a bombing attack, to check how secure the system was, but officials don’t know yet. Let’s hope they were just idiots who were holding a bottle of Pepto-Bismol for ransom. source
Posted by Ernie Smith • 0 Comments • Permalink

27 Aug 2010 22:15

tags

Politics: Fidel Castro convinced Osama bin Laden is a U.S. spy

  • Who showed that he [Bin Laden] is indeed a CIA agent was WikiLeaks. It proved it with documents.
  • Former Cuban dictator Fidel Castro • Saying some crazy crap about Osama bin Laden, the CIA, George W. Bush and Wikileaks. We wish we could add more to this, but we simply can’t. It’s just too crazy. source
Posted by Ernie Smith • 0 Comments • Permalink

26 Aug 2010 18:58

tags

World: Khuram Sher: Terror suspect previously terrorized “Canadian Idol”

  • This guy right here? Terror suspect. No, really. Khuram Sher, who was arrested early Thursday in Ottawa, may have thought a little differently about Western culture a couple of years ago. The self-proclaimed Hilary Duff fan sang Avril Lavigne’s “Complicated” for the bemused judges, who also learned that Sher also likes “hockey, music, and acting.” What they didn’t learn is that he might have ties to al-Qaeda. Count your blessings that he didn’t win. source
Posted by Ernie Smith • 1 Comment • Permalink

25 Aug 2010 10:47

tags

World: Worst person ever drops a cat in a trash can for no reason

  • Hey, a kitty! Aww, you’re so cute. But I’m a completely evil human being, so I’m going to drop you in this trash can, because I don’t think there’s a video camera watching me. Oops. source
Posted by Ernie Smith • 0 Comments • Permalink

24 Aug 2010 10:26

tags

Offbeat: Question of the day: Why are there slices of brains in these jars?

You want to click on the link. You know you do. It’s too tempting. Click it. Click … it. You want to know why these brains are in jars. Click it. source
Posted by Ernie Smith • 0 Comments • Permalink

21 Aug 2010 14:54

tags

Offbeat: Sun Chips bags so environmentally friendly, they won’t shut up

  • The thing is, you feel guilty about complaining since they are doing a good thing for the environment. But you want to snack quietly and you don’t want everyone in the house to know you are eating chips.
  • Sun Chips fan Kathy Frederick • On the major annoyance that is the new Sun Chips packaging. See, Frito-Lay, the makers of the chips, started packing them in new compostable bags, which are environmentally friendly but REALLY GOD DAMN LOUD. Loud enough that there’s multiple Facebook pages devoted to the phenomenon. This video puts the whole situation into perspective – the bag is nearly 20 decibels louder than your average chip bag. 95 decibels for a chip bag? And we thought normal chip bags were loud. source
Posted by Ernie Smith • 1 Comment • Permalink

21 Aug 2010 12:02

tags

World: Well, that was fast: Rape charges dropped against Wikileaks founder

  • 6 the number of hours that the stupid case had big media play source
Posted by Ernie Smith • 0 Comments • Permalink
 

17 Aug 2010 11:00

tags

U.S.: Desk cleanout find: Government misses 9/11 interrogation tape

  • no The CIA has claimed that they didn’t have any interrogation tapes of 9/11 plotters, and that they were destroyed.
  • but Apparently, that’s not true; they managed to find one just hanging out under some bureaucrat’s desk. Heckuva job. source
Posted by Ernie Smith • 0 Comments • Permalink

16 Aug 2010 20:31

tags

Tech: Thanks to Google’s Eric Schmidt, our name is now Jim-Bob

Apparently Schmidt recently suggested that teen may have to change their names as adults to avoid getting nailed for the stupid crap they did. No words … source
Posted by Ernie Smith • 0 Comments • Permalink

13 Aug 2010 17:55

tags

Offbeat: Posted without comment: Dude writes giant message with GPS

Posted by Ernie Smith • 1 Comment • Permalink
 
<< newer 
top tags
older >>