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Does this glue blob look like Homer Simpson?

Posted January 27, 2012 - 4:01 pm

It must be Friday - the weird videos are coming out.
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Creepy Robot Baby Aims to Inspire Parenting

Posted June 24, 2011 - 11:59 am

Japanese scientists strike again
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Teenage German bank robber pays for taunting email

Posted August 26, 2010 - 7:00 am

After emailing the police and the local media to correct errors in their reports, he was "completely shocked" when the cops showed up at his doorstep.
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Wisconsin lawmakers victim of bizarre blackmail scheme

Posted August 11, 2010 - 6:42 pm

Mysterious group blackmails Wisconsin state legislators, then tells lawmakers they should avoid passing laws that would interfere with the group's plan to blackmail child pornographers.
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Scam artists try to sell wooden blocks as laptops

Posted August 10, 2010 - 6:25 pm

Sure, it's hard to avoid a bargain, but you should probably check to make sure that the "laptop" you're buying second hand isn't just wood wrapped in bubble wrap with a Toshiba label slapped on it.
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Playboy launches website for office drones

Posted July 26, 2010 - 6:42 pm

The smut juggernaut is hoping TheSmokingJacket.Com will pass the safe-for-work test.
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Hobbyist builds home fusion reactor

Posted July 15, 2010 - 6:07 pm

By day, Robert W. Bussard toils as a web designer for Gucci. But in his spare time, he's looking to change the way the world generates electricity.
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Errant text message leads to drug bust

Posted July 14, 2010 - 6:03 pm

Here's a tip: if you're going to send a text message do your dealer asking if he has any pot to sell, make sure you enter their phone number correctly.
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Musician creates hybrid CD/vinyl disc

Posted July 6, 2010 - 7:35 am

One enterprising musician has managed to combine both legacy formats onto a single physical object.
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Epic tennis match overloads high-tech scoreboard

Posted July 1, 2010 - 10:22 am

Partway through last week's longest-ever professional tennis match, the IBM-supplied scoreboard, which could only handle digits up to 47, failed, and the umpire had to start announcing the score.
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Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg made secret moon trip

Posted June 25, 2010 - 6:13 pm

OK, maybe the artists themselves didn't travel to the moon -- but tiny original artwork that they created did.
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Australian court decides on meteorite custody

Posted June 23, 2010 - 6:07 pm

When a space rock falls to Earth, who does it belong to? The owner of the land that it slams into, or the first person to find it?
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Real Finnish police investigating virtual furniture theft

Posted June 17, 2010 - 6:39 pm

If you had spent money carefully collecting just the right furniture for your room, and someone stole it, you'd call the cops, wouldn't you?
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Mom finds abducted kids on Facebook

Posted June 16, 2010 - 6:35 pm

A search on Facebook suddenly brings Prince Sagala in contact with her now teenaged daughter, over 15 years after she was kidnapped.
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US military forced to use video games to whip flabby recruits into shape

Posted June 5, 2010 - 6:10 pm

Modern day youth find the experience of "exercise" so foreign that one US Navy admiral thinks that they should be eased into it with Wii Fit.
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Baby to be born online, given awful name

Posted June 4, 2010 - 6:07 pm

The little tyke who will be the first to have its birth streamed live over the Internet will also be saddled with the awful name Chattrspace.
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Is this Bulgarian cell phone number cursed?

Posted June 2, 2010 - 6:01 pm

If everyone who's assigned a specific cell phone number keeps dying under mysterious circumstances, is that a sign of supernatural foul play?
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Get ready for doomsday in the Mojave Desert

Posted May 27, 2010 - 6:12 pm

Whatever you're afraid of, you can hide from it in an underground bunker in California.
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Chinese scientists find good use for cigarette butts

Posted May 22, 2010 - 3:00 pm

Toxic chemicals in cigarette butts can be used to keep water pipes from corroding.
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Woman: 3D TV made me pregnant

Posted May 20, 2010 - 6:50 pm

"With today's technology, anything is possible," says duped husband.
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Asians turn important rituals over to electronics

Posted May 20, 2010 - 3:21 pm

The groom was handsome, the bride was radiant -- and the officiant was a robot named I Fairy.
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Meerkats look for love online

Posted May 6, 2010 - 5:27 pm

"Alert, dark eyed, inquisitive, free spirited lady" seeks mate for "fine dining, digging and cosy nights in!"
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Cell phone wrong number leads ambassador to give speech at school

Posted April 30, 2010 - 5:56 pm

Lazarous Kapambwe, Zambia's ambassador to the UN, was attempting to get a hold of his counterpart from Sierra Leone, but a misdial meant that he ended up calling a New Jersey high school student in the middle of the school day instead.
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Brit teen fired over Facebook

Posted April 7, 2010 - 6:38 pm

Unable to reach her via phone, her boss wrote a (terribly spelled) message firing her on her Facebook wall.
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Farmville obsession costs Bulgarian politician committee assignment

Posted April 5, 2010 - 6:24 pm

Dimitar Kerin, a city councilmember in Plovdiv, Bulgaria's second-largest city, was told repeatedly that the council chambers' Wi-Fi networks were not for social gaming.
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