So You Expect Us To Believe What?

Ok, let’s meet Neil Jorgensen, a man who can’t seem to stop contradicting himself, and providing material for the What the Fuck Department. After a year’s worth of good work at a casino near Iowa City, he got a gift certificate to stay there. So he did, and tried to get a hooker because, um, …

Bridge To Nowhere

I’m endlessly fascinated when odd things that you’d think would be impossible to steal get stolen. Things like rollercoasters, beaches or in the most recent case a 4 tonne railway bridge. The article is hilarious too, written pretty much exactly how I would have written it. The company which was responsible for looking after the …

Playing With Your Head

I never noticed them saying in this article that along with the brain-reading headset, there is a backup controler that uses the old-fashioned hands, because I think you’d need it. There is no way some game developer has managed to master the reading of thoughts when we can’t seem to create devices to do this …

Define Anyone, Please

I saw a story all about this woman who keeps getting declared dead by government computers when she’s not, and a statement jumped out at me. after someone dies, Social Security releases that person’s personal information on computer discs. He said the information is sold to anyone who wants it, like the Web site Ancestry.com. …

Tax Dollars Well Spent

Federal minister apologizes for joke he’s not sure he told Federal Fisheries Minister Loyola Hearn has apologized for a joke he’s not sure he made, responding to a complaint from a politician who didn’t hear it. Joan Burke, Newfoundland and Labrador’s education minister, demanded Hearn apologize Wednesday for telling what she called a sexist joke …