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by Amy Bennett

A tribute to the weird, funny, twisted, technology-driven world we live in.

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Computing power pooled to find very, very large prime number

A hardy network of 75 PCs running Windows XP managed to suss out a 13 million digit prime number -- and earn a $100,000 prize.

Posted on 10/7/08 at 5:15 pm | mathematics, prime number
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Gym patrons forced to generate electricity

Connecticut residents who just want to lose a few pounds have been forced to mount diabolical devices that help pump electricity back into the utility grid. Is no one safe?

Posted on 10/6/08 at 5:19 pm | energy
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Quiz: The week in quotes

Who seems to wonder if its users may not be human? Who narrowly escaped the credit crunch? Who thinks free shipping is worthy of 5 stars? Take the fun Friday quiz!

Posted on 10/3/08 at 12:25 pm | quiz
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Cell phone pervert gets taste of his own medicine

A New York woman was horrified when she realized that a fellow subway rider was using a cell phone camera to take pictures up her skirt. But rather than get mad, she got even.

Posted on 10/2/08 at 10:29 am | weird news
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Oklahoma tax authority scopes MySpace for tax cheats

Kegheadz, an Oklahoma party-planning service run by college students, told the local tax authorities that they'd planned fewer than 20 parties over the past two years, netting less than $2,000 in profits. But the company's MySpace page told a much different story -- and the state has sent them a bill for $320,000.

Posted on 10/1/08 at 12:23 pm | MySpace, social networking
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Musical pavement infuriates neighbors

It was an outside-the-box, some may say brilliant, marketing campaign for Honda: put grooves in a local highway that cause Honda Civic drivers to hear the William Tell Overture. Pity the neighbors.

Posted on 9/30/08 at 1:43 pm | Honda
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E.R. workers fired after posting wound pics online

Spend an hour or so with the Internet and you'll discover that if you can imagine it, someone, somewhere, wants to see a photo of it. Yet, the Web-surfing public's taste can sometimes still surprise.

Posted on 9/29/08 at 9:26 am | photo sharing
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Quiz: The week in quotes

Who rigged the test? ... What's 1400 times bigger than an iPod? ... Is the datacenter of the future a tent? ... These questions and more in our fun Friday quiz.

Posted on 9/25/08 at 4:33 pm | quiz
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Nebraska politician unable to control robot minions

Mike O'Dell thought that his quest for city council would be easier if he could enlist an army of robot campaign workers. Little did he know that their automatic phone calls would drive voters away -- and he could do nothing about it.

Posted on 9/25/08 at 10:27 am | weird news
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Net-enabled toaster officially world's most pointless object

Have you ever wanted to download a graphic or short text clip from the Internet and burn it onto a piece of toast? Of course you haven't, because that's the most moronic thing that you or anyone else has ever heard of.

Posted on 9/24/08 at 11:25 am | weird news
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