News Archive
Well, at Least He Won't Be Fathering More Fans...
Geoff Huish, 26, was so convinced England would win Saturday's match he told fellow drinkers at a social club, "If Wales win I'll cut my balls off," the paper said. Friends at the club... More
E-mail Stats
Eight years worth of e-mail, including spam, and the analysis of it. More
The Cuddly Menace
I was in a supermarket recently searching for a brown mustard-and-conditioner in one. It was while I was reading the ingredient label on a jar of Gouldens Dry Scalp Formula that I looked to the... More
2001: Explained in a Flash
The Discovery ship represents the pinacle of mans technological achievment - a phallic vessel from which it ejaculates David Bowman (the sperm), who then enters the vaginal-labial stargate,... More
Occupational hazards
I've taken to daily siestas on this futon sofa, short naps that have the quality of reluctant narcotic surrenders, and while they only last an hour or so the rest of the day is foggy and... More
Enema at the Gates
"My husband told me he loved me more than anything in the world except for God," she said. "I'm not ashamed of my husband because I loved him, and I supported him 1,000 percent,... More
DeLorean 25th Anniversary One Year Production
I don't know about you, but DeLoreans are awesome cars. Also, next year is the 25th anniversary of the DeLorean (1981-2006). I think it would be nice for a car company to lease the rights to... More
Where does all the processing speed go?
"... [Where] is all the CPU power going? How is it possible that a machine with a full gigabyte of memory can run out of room to run applications just as quickly as a machine with six... More
For the Record
We're called CAPITAL of Nasty not CAPITOL of Nasty. More
Solar Sensations Vibe
This unique solar-powered vibrator from California Exotic Novelties holds up to a 2 hour charge on a day in the sun. The unit is self-contained, and only requires being flipped "open" to... More
No one should ever work
Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world. Almost all the evil you'd care to name comes from working or from living in a world designed for work. In order to stop suffering, we have... More
The Mirror Puzzle 2003
Instead of a printed picture, the Mirror Puzzle, displays an image of whatever happens to be reflected at the moment. And while every piece has the same surface, each is uniquely shaped (unlike... More
University to offer e-mail spam course
The University of Calgary is about to introduce another controversial computer science course. Students will be taught how write programs that create e-mail spam as well as spy software. More
Sex and the single robot
Scientists have made them walk and talk. There are even robots that can run. But a South Korean professor is poised to take their development several steps further, and give cybersex new meaning.... More
The hostile takeover of childhood
"'Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture' by Juliet Schor and 'Consuming Kids: The Hostile Takeover of Childhood' by Susan Linn, are so stuffed with data and facts... More
Portable Rotary Cellular Phone
Yes, you read it right. Port-O-Rotary. We've gone and hacked into a rotary phone. (Via DRT) More
Congress proposes tax on all Net, data connections
An influential congressional committee has dropped a political bombshell by suggesting that a tax originally created to pay for the Spanish American War could be extended to all Internet and data... More
Congress proposes tax on all Net, data connections
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Running Windows viruses with Wine on Linux
It just isn't fair that Windows users get all the viruses. I mean really, shouldn't Linux users be in on the fun as well? Well... thanks to the folks running the Wine project, Linux users can... More
Jailed for using a nonstandard browser
A Londonder made a tsnuami-relief donation using lynx -- a text-based browser used by the blind, Unix-users and others -- on Sun's Solaris operating system. The site-operator decided that this... More
SpongeBob GayPants and the Fundamentalist Agenda
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Police Poo Poo Pranksters
German police are looking for pranksters who've been planting small flags featuring a picture of George W. Bush in piles of dog feces scattered about the European nation. More
Who's Gay Under The Sea? SPONGEBOB !!!
I'm sure that you've heard by now that Spongebob Squarepants is going to burn alongside the rest of the tormented for all eternity, since Dr. James Dobson of Focus on the Family decided that he was... More