Humorous, Odd, or Interesting

"Urgency" Messin With Your Swing? Try UroClub

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 05:32:20 PDT

Ok, this is simply just too odd. You can now get a portible male urinal shaped like a golf club to allow you to take a wizz "without any embarassment" in plain daylight on the middle of the golf course. Hmmm, maybe the odd shape of the handle and the strange sight of a golf club with a towel attached to it could be a dead giveaway, ya think?
Anyway, it's supposed to resemble a standard 7 iron. I recommend that if you use the UroClub that you take your...more

Couple "divorced without knowledge"

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:20:58 PDT

This has got to be one of the craziest stories I've heard in a while.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A happily married couple in northern India got the shock of their lives when they learnt they had divorced 10 years ago, the Times of India reported on Tuesday.
It turns out the woman's brother-in-law, a lawyer, forged the divorce papers. He denies any wrongdoing.
As always, most Reuters stories are short...more

What Would You Buy with 3 Trillion Dollars?

Mon, 12 May 2008 08:17:49 PDT

This website is hilarious and really depressing at the same time. It's a faux shopping website and unlike most shopping websites, it's not supposed to help you save money. Your task is to see how many things, people, islands, etc. that you can buy if you have the estimated cost of the Iraq occupation to flush down the drain.
So gentlemen and ladies, start your pocketbooks.
http://www.3trillion.org/

Santa, you�re movin� to a place you can�t spell�

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 11:50:03 PST

They have the oddest but amusing stories on Google (if you personalize the page to include Odd News from Reuters.) This blog post about Kyrgyzstan declaring itself Santa�s new home is kinda funny. Engineers declared that Santa's Christmas route would be more efficient if it started in Kyrgyzstan. Said blogger says, "Excuse me? Have you heard many complaints about Santa�s so-called inefficiency? I haven�t. If Kyrgyzstan is so well located, why don�t lots of world tours already start there? Plus, if Kyrgyz officials are so smart, why don�t they a.) get some full-time vowels in their name and b.) declare...more

Lose a Glove (in Pittsburgh, PA)? Find it Online

Sat, 22 Dec 2007 01:36:22 PST

Well, I guess now we've seen it all. If you lose a glove, there's a website where you can go to find it. It's only running in Pittsburgh, PA right now though, but the woman who runs it hopes to expand it soon.
I wouldn't hold my breath to see this work as the next untapped craze or business model of the Internet though. The woman who runs the site is an art student and it sounds like the website may be as much of an art project as it...more

Honey, please go check the back door...

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 11:31:47 PST

Honey, please go check the back door. I think that you forgot to lock it. And while you are up, put out the cat and the trash...
I hate to be coarse -- but What the F***! Locks on the White House doors? Does the President carry a key to the front door -- the most powerful person in the Free World?
Ain't there armed Secret Service stationed 24/7?
I saw a...more

No More POP-CORN After Sept 19th - AT&T Time Service Ending

Sun, 02 Sep 2007 12:08:16 PDT

All things come to an end and it looks like the time of day service that has been offered by one company or another since 1929 is ending. On Sept 19th, you will no longer get the time of day when you call POP-CORN in Northern California. Or 853-XXXX in Southern California.
The move will allow AT&T to retire aging equipment that they said can no longer be repaired. Probably more importantly, it allows for 300,000 phone numbers to be freed up.
While...more

Weekly World News to close (aliens not blamed!)

Wed, 25 Jul 2007 03:56:30 PDT

Oh no! Another sign that newspapers are dying...
"Publisher American Media Inc. said on Tuesday it will stop printing the Weekly World News, which for 28 years gleefully chronicled the exploits of alien babies, animal-human hybrids and dead celebrities."
Though I was not an avid reader, I could always rely on the WWW for a good laugh when I was standing in line at the grocery store. The claims were just so outrageous that they were laugh-out-loud funny.
How...more

Disconnected: Sprint Boots Customers for Complaining

Tue, 10 Jul 2007 07:21:08 PDT

Disconnected: Sprint Boots Customers for Complaining
Frequent Whiners Told to Take Their Cell Phone Account Down the Street
I saw this on Good Morning America today. Here's the web link.
1,000 customers were sent a Dear John letter for excessive complaining. In some cases, according to the article, ��there were a small number that had been calling us over a period of six to 12 months, sometimes 300 times a month,� Sprint spokeswoman...more

Extreme Money-Saving Tips

Sat, 28 Apr 2007 11:15:01 PDT

Here are a few extreme money-saving tips from the Motley Fool's Living Below Your Means discussion board that I found amusing:
Jennlee222: I've sold my hair on eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY - News). People think that's weird.
MeiraMeira: I primarily shower at my gym. I don't pay the water bill at my apartment, but I do pay to heat it, so why should I?!
WendyBG: I fix things. For example, when the cord in...more

Global warming caused by daylight savings

Fri, 27 Apr 2007 09:21:28 PDT

Finally, the cause of global warming...
http://www.nctexasbirds.com/images/hot_news.jpg

Sci-Fi Interior Designer Auctioning Off His Star Trek Decor

Tue, 27 Mar 2007 10:24:31 PDT

This guy has to be the new poster child for having too much time on his hands. This guy, Tony Alleyne, decorated his entire apartment to look like scenes from the Starship Enterprise from Star Trek: The New Generation series. He started it after he got divorced and now he's selling his creation on eBay. Incredible...
LINK: Apartment Transformed into Star Trek Shrine
http://good-times.webshots.com/album/556186106XjZSzz

Face blindness

Tue, 06 Feb 2007 11:32:36 PST

CNN just posted an article about face blindness. I have never heard of this condition.
CNN breaks it down like this:
� Face blindness is an impairment in the ability to recognize faces
� Sufferers are usually able to see facial features but not retain them
� As many as one in 50 people may have some form, researchers theorize
http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/conditions/...ness/index.html
I...more

Business 2.0's Dumbest Moments in Business 2006

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:02:29 PST

Woo hoo! My news article of the year is out again! It's the 101 Dumbest Moments in Business List by Business 2.0 full of ideas so ridiculously stupid and naive that you would have thought we were still right smack in the years of the Internet bubble.
Link: Business 2.0 - 101 Dumbest Moments in Business 2006

AT&T Hits Rewind on the Cingular Name

Fri, 12 Jan 2007 06:03:30 PST

As if the whole AT&T / Cingular takeover, re-takeover ordeal wasn't confusing enough, it appears that AT&T has decided that they're going to phase out the name Cingular in favor of good ol fashioned AT&T.
Link: AT&T ending Cingular name on wireless (CNN/Money)
I don't recall how this whole soap opera unfolded. Maybe someone can help fill in the blanks or correct me.Cingular Buys AT&T Wireless and to my dismay, I turn on my AT&T phone one day and it says "Cingular"...more

The Worst Christmas Song of All Time

Mon, 18 Dec 2006 09:42:24 PST

O.k., folks, Father Guido Sarducci is back and he's baaaaaaad! Some of you may remember the comedian Don Novello and his character, Father Guido Sarducci, who used to appear in skits on Saturday Night Live.
The San Francisco Chronicle featured an article today about Father Guido's latest song release, which is being advertised as the worst Christmas song ever. It really made me laugh - I hope you enjoy it, too.
The article:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c...DDGLAN0IM11.DTL
The...more

Stealing Horses, a New Low in Online Scams

Sat, 09 Dec 2006 02:14:05 PST

This webpage that I ran across the other day is both really funny and sad at the same time. The last time we posted for a roommate on Craigslist, we got almost nothing but replies from scammers looking to pull a quick bank fraud trick on us. I thought that was about as low as it got, but it gets better.
Apparently, the same trick is being pulled on animal sales. I ran into this website called the "Cowboy Way Classifieds" that specializes in Cowboy stuff, especially horses. They have a...more

Australian Man Tries to Drive 300 Miles In Reverse

Sat, 07 Oct 2006 09:24:02 PDT

I'm sure this guy was just inspired by the strategic feat of brilliance engineered by the NASA Mars Rover team when they resorted to driving one of the rovers backwards after one of its front wheels went gimp on them.
He only made it 12 miles of the 300 miles to his destination before police stopped him doing 40 mph on a remote highway. Even if he got there safely, I just can't imagine the magnitude of head, neck, and back pain the guy would have ended up with. I...more

Artist Designs Microscopic Sculptures Invisible to Naked Eye

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 01:53:17 PDT

This is absolutely unbelievable. There's this guy named Willard Wigen in Birmingham, England, who makes micro sculptures. He literally turns things as small as grains of sugar or dust particles into artwork. His work requires so much concentration and stillness that he has to first meditate to slow his heartbeat down so he can sculpt in between heartbeats since his movements need to be THAT precise. There's a few pics attached of his work that was taken from snopes.com where this article that I'm going to reference is found.
LINK:...more

Old School "Comic Book" X-Ray Glasses

Wed, 13 Sep 2006 10:26:12 PDT

Time for very random thoughts... All of a sudden I'm struck with a long supressed curiosity about those X-Ray glasses that were always advertised in Comic Books and sold in novelty shops. I never got a pair and I briefly donned a pair owned by a friend in elementary school.
Since I'm sure I'm not the only one who has this recurring curiosity, here's a web page that I found that supposedly explains how those X-Ray glasses worked.
http://www.blamepro.com/how/how4.htm