November 15, 2013 0 A Boy Named Sue What do Steve Jobs, George W. Bush, Martha Stewart, the Eiffel Tower, Pluto, and the entire [...]
November 14, 2013 0 Balloonacy There’s something inherently fun about trying to set a new world record, especially if doing so as a [...]
November 13, 2013 0 Operator Unknown Get a traffic or parking ticket and it will probably bother you for the rest of the day. Anecdotally, these [...]
November 12, 2013 0 Somebody Set Us Up the Bomb Bomb threats as hoaxes are, unfortunately, not all that uncommon. In recent weeks, for example, a man called [...]
November 11, 2013 0 Flopping Fast A gigaflop is a billion — one thousand millions — flops. A flop is a “floating point [...]
November 8, 2013 0 Stichting De Eenzame Uitvaart Every year, countless numbers of people pass away alone, without family or friends to give them [...]
November 7, 2013 0 Can’t Hardly Wait Worst. Thing. Ever. You’ve probably seen or heard someone say that, usually in a [...]
November 6, 2013 0 Finding Columbo From 1968 through 1978, and again from 1989 until 2003, actor Peter Falk graced television screens as [...]
November 5, 2013 0 When the Mouse is Away… Introduce a mouse into an area with a few dozen people sitting around, and you’d expect a few shrieks [...]
November 4, 2013 0 The Debt Re-Collector On April 3, 1882, notorious American outlaw Jesse James was shot in the back of the head by Robert Ford, one [...]