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A pound of flesh: how Cisco's "unmitigated gall" derailed one man's life
cisco  canada  us  wtf 
july 2011 by ulrichp
Batman fan builds real Batmobile powered by jet engine | Tecca
batman  batmobile  cars  wtf 
july 2011 by ulrichp
Sinatra Song Often Strikes Deadly Chord - NYTimes.com
Next, he belted out crowd-pleasers by Tom Jones and Engelbert Humperdinck. But Mr. Gregorio, 63, a witness to countless fistfights and occasional stabbings erupting from disputes over karaoke singing, did not dare choose one beloved classic: Frank Sinatra's version of "My Way."

"I used to like 'My Way,' but after all the trouble, I stopped singing it," he said. "You can get killed."
sinatra  music  murder  crime  philippines  wtf 
february 2010 by ulrichp
VS. Forum
wtf 
november 2009 by ulrichp
Bashkortostan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Republic of Bashkortostan (Russian: Респу́блика Башкортоста́н; Bashkir: Башҡортостан Республикаһы) or Bashkiria (Башки́рия) is a federal subject of Russia (a republic). It is located between the Volga River and the Ural Mountains. Its capital is Ufa.
russia  bashkortostan  wtf 
november 2009 by ulrichp
15 More Images You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped | Cracked.com
wtf 
august 2009 by ulrichp
Damn Interesting • The Wrath of the Killdozer
Anyone who has tried and failed to influence an uncaring government cannot help but feel a twinge of admiration for the extreme measures taken by Marvin Heemeyer. But while there is certainly a time and place for relentless, city-crushing machines, the line between legitimate vigilante and crazy-muffler-man-with-notions-of-divine-approval is much too fine for any one man to distinguish.
crazy  wtf  killdozer 
july 2009 by ulrichp
WTFRPG: Wattadefooka Web MMORPG!
wtf  rpg 
july 2009 by ulrichp
Shark rides train, ends up dead in Miami street - CNN.com
shark  train  wtf 
july 2009 by ulrichp
Fan death - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fan death is a South Korean urban legend which states that an electric fan, if left running overnight in a closed room, can cause the death (by suffocation, poisoning, or hypothermia) of those inside.
humor  wtf  news  funny  psychology  culture  korea  wikipedia 
june 2009 by ulrichp
The great Atlantic Ocean swimming hoax - Fourth-Place Medal - Olympics - Yahoo! Sports
wtf  news  hoax  swimming 
february 2009 by ulrichp
Adobe UI Gripes
[Someone] moaning about shoddy UI inconsistencies and mistakes in Adobe products and how they get shittier with every release.
humor  mac  software  adobe  wtf  flash  funny  web  photoshop  design  lol  usability  fail 
january 2009 by ulrichp
Amazon.com: Indie Translations of Usher - A Tribute: MP3 Downloads: Various Artists
music  wtf 
january 2009 by ulrichp
Van Hansis to Star in Les Freres Corbusier's Dance Dance Revolution: Theater News on TheaterMania.com
Van Hansis will be among the 40-person cast of Les Freres Corbusier's Dance Dance Revolution, created by the company and featuring original songs by Gary Adler and Phoebe Kreutz. The production will play the Ohio Theater, December 3-20. Alex Timbers will direct.
theatre  music  videogames  wtf 
november 2008 by ulrichp
Jonathan Lee Riches - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jonathan Lee Riches is known for the many lawsuits he has filed in various United States district courts. Riches is incarcerated at Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) Williamsburg in Salters, South Carolina, for wire fraud under the terms of a plea bargain. His projected release date is March 23, 2012.
humor  wtf  literature  law 
november 2008 by ulrichp
The Awful Forums - My mother is insane (~5M of photos)
"My mother is insane. Like, one of those ladies you see on the local news insane. Since it's inevitably going to come up I'll get out of the way that I am too, but at least I take a full dose of my medication."
wtf  photography  health  shopping  psychology 
october 2008 by ulrichp
Amazon.com: The Manga Guide to Databases: Mana Takahashi: Books
wtf  books  database  anime  lol 
october 2008 by ulrichp
Stupid Shipping Gang: Dell Sends You An 8 lb Shelf In A Truly Gigantic Box
"Ok, at this point, we're starting to suspect that Dell wants to be on our blog. Why else would they hire a freight truck to deliver a gigantic box on a pallet that contained an 8 lb shelf?"
wtf  idiocy  dell  computers 
august 2008 by ulrichp
EPA: Salad Dressing Runoff Floods Ohio Homes
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - An Ohio EPA official says creamy ranch dressing mixed with sewage and storm runoff in the flooded basements of at least 10 Columbus homes.
food  weather  wtf 
july 2008 by ulrichp
Grand Jury Indicts Man Accused Of Posing As Doctor - WLWT Cincinnati
"Readnour operated the Monfort Heights Family Clinic in Cincinnati, where police said he performed medical procedures including immunizations, mammograms and colonoscopies."
medicine  wtf  crime 
june 2008 by ulrichp
Pregnancy Boom at Gloucester High - TIME
Good job, homeless guy!
health  news  sex  wtf  women 
june 2008 by ulrichp
Progressive Boink - the 40 Worst Rob Liefeld Drawings
Jesus Christ, Rob Liefield is terrible.
amusing  art  comics  hacks  history  humor  scifi  women  writing  wtf 
june 2008 by ulrichp
Physical Limits: Extreme Skydiver to Plummet 25 Miles to Earth
"If all goes well, he will jump from a balloon at an altitude of around 131,000 feet, or 25 miles above Saskatchewan, Canada. At around 115,000 feet his body will blow through the sound barrier."
science  sports  space  wtf 
may 2008 by ulrichp
Monster Burger! « Baud Attitude
"As an aside, the Monster Box - and the cakes they sell - are shaped like a piece of Japanese gym equipment. Just to keep the fitness theme going, see? ... All pretext of fitness goes away when you open your Monster Box."
food  wtf  japan 
may 2008 by ulrichp
MSN Careers - 15 Weirdest Work Stories of 2007 - Career Advice Article
wtf  work  interesting 
april 2008 by ulrichp
Strange & Unusual - Elderly Man Attacks Man with Pricing Gun at Wal-Mart
In which a 71-year-old man attacks an 80-year-old man with a pricegun at Wal-Mart.
walmart  news  wtf  shopping  crime  violence  amusing 
april 2008 by ulrichp
Sending an S O S for a PC Exorcist - New York Times
Man spends $1600 or so on a new Dell; is pleased when he can spend $800 to get it fixed.
wtf  computers  portables  news 
february 2008 by ulrichp
Video On Demand | KING5.com | News for Seattle, Washington
TSA detains, searches 5-year-old boy because his name is on the no-fly list.
news  video  idiocy  wtf 
january 2008 by ulrichp
Eazy Emo
Mashups ahoy!
music  wtf 
september 2007 by ulrichp
Getting Outraged Over MoveOn - TIME
Welcome to the wonderful world of umbrage, the new language of American politics. You would not have thought that the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly would be so sensitive. Sticks and stones and so on.
politics  idiocy  wtf 
september 2007 by ulrichp
FFXI Forums - "The Mother" of all Booost macros ... - Killing Ifrit
"I failed to capture it in it's entirety but I believe no mortal could do such a thing." Something like a 12 or 13-screen Boost macro. FFXI humor.
humor  ffxi  wtf 
august 2007 by ulrichp
Man burns down trailer in online feud - Yahoo! News
ELM MOTT, Texas - A Navy man who got mad when someone mocked him as a "nerd" over the Internet climbed into his car and drove 1,300 miles from Virginia to Texas to teach the other guy a lesson.
internet  news  wtf 
july 2007 by ulrichp
Bush Abolishes Fifth Amendment
A few days ago, Bush signed a new executive order in which he uses broad language to claim that he has the power to seize the property of any person who undermines efforts to promote economic reconstruction and political reform in Iraq.
politics  law  wtf 
july 2007 by ulrichp
Woman denied psych treatment by Scientology parents: I just butchered my family
The parents of a woman accused of murdering her father and sister apparently declined psychiatric treatment for her last year because of their Scientology beliefs, a report tendered in court states.
wtf  idiocy  psychology 
july 2007 by ulrichp
LOL Pranks: Optimus Prime is Refused Service at McDonalds, Shows Mercy to Feeble Humans - Gizmodo
Apparently it's against the law to order a fajita as Optimus Prime. Who knew?
food  humor  toys  transformers  video  wtf 
july 2007 by ulrichp
Slashdot | Music Industry Attacks Free Prince CD
You might not like Prince, but he's planning on giving away a free CD in a national British newspaper. Harmless publicity, right? The music industry disagrees. Executives are practically going insane over the idea and are threatening to 'retaliate'.
music  wtf  idiocy  news 
june 2007 by ulrichp
:: sasuraisamurai :: » Blog Archive » EVERYBURGER
Not one or two, but EVERYBURGER. All of them. Chocolate and biscuit masquerading as burger. Finally.
food  wtf  interesting 
june 2007 by ulrichp
Rip T&T: Tips & Tricks Mag Gets The Axe - Kotaku
Details on layoffs were not disclosed, but the freelancer, Jeb Haught, writes that LFP was "planning on firing the entire staff this week, with no severance pay, while they were away from the office at E3 promoting the magazine."
videogames  magazines  nostalgia  wtf 
june 2007 by ulrichp
DS Daily: Please win (no, really) - DS Fanboy
instead, it turns out that part of the game is that sometimes you need to win at Rock, Paper, Scissors ... and sometimes, you need to lose. We can't wait to see that screen. "Please lose!" Gee, thanks. Next you're probably going to tell me that I fail at
ds  interesting  wtf  humor 
june 2007 by ulrichp
Metroblogging NYC: Continental Flight with Human Waste Running Down the Aisle? Yeah, I Was On That...
"Despite that fact that the flight was only scheduled to be 8 hours, it wasn't until 32 hours later that we arrived in New Jersey." Read about Continental's massive clusterfuck.
wtf  idiocy  travel 
june 2007 by ulrichp
Pianos are for sissies; SMB theme on a Tesla coil :: DESTRUCTOID :: Hardcore video game blog
When real men kick out the jams, they do so wielding the might of Zeus via the marriage of technical wizardry and geekish intention -- on a Goddamn Tesla coil.
music  science  wtf  interesting 
june 2007 by ulrichp
Pharyngula: I get email
"The person who sent me this... is also a dinosaur denialist. The fun begins when she tries to explain why dinosaurs don't exist: dinosaurs were faked to justify birth control. ... Just roll with it. Don't try to understand it."
science  history  wtf  interesting  humor 
june 2007 by ulrichp
100-foot deep Andes lake disappears - CNN.com
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) -- A five-acre glacial lake in Chile's southern Andes has disappeared -- and scientists want to know why.
news  science  interesting  wtf 
june 2007 by ulrichp
Va. School's No-Contact Rule Is a Touchy Subject - washingtonpost.com
Fairfax County middle school student Hal Beaulieu hopped up from his lunch table one day a few months ago, sat next to his girlfriend and slipped his arm around her shoulder. That landed him a trip to the school office.
wtf  idiocy  news 
june 2007 by ulrichp
Shovelglove: The Sledgehammer Workout
diy  exercise  hacks  health  howto  humor  interesting  productivity  sports  useful  wtf 
may 2007 by ulrichp
Slashdot | AOL's Embarassing Password Woes
"Well, it turns out that when someone signs up for an AOL.com account, the user appears to be allowed to enter up to a 16-character password. AOL's system, however, doesn't read past the first eight characters."
security  internet  wtf  idiocy 
may 2007 by ulrichp
13-year-old conman wore pricey suits, hired escorts | NEWS.com.au
A 13-year-old boy who lives with his grandmother has been exposed as one of Britain's biggest internet conmen. The boy earned more than $607,000 by posing as the boss of several multinational companies selling various goods.
crime  news  internet  wtf 
may 2007 by ulrichp
Blundering Bush makes ANOTHER gaffe as he winks at the Queen | the Daily Mail
When you've just made it sound like the Queen is more than 200 years old, there may be a few ways of recovering from the gaffe. But turning to her and giving her a sly wink is probably not included in any book of royal etiquette.
news  politics  wtf  humor 
may 2007 by ulrichp
I was not a lab rat | By genre | Guardian Unlimited Books
A new book has rekindled old rumours that renowned psychologist BF Skinner used his baby daughter in his experiments. Stop this rubbish about me and my dad, says Deborah Skinner Buzan
books  myths  psychology  wtf  news 
may 2007 by ulrichp
Square Dance Revolution: a square dance calling game
Square Dance Revolution is a square dance calling game, in the spirit of the other "______ Revolution" games. It is a voice-controlled game, and you get points for calling varied interesting square dance material, with good flow, and for successfully reso
wtf  videogames  music  java 
may 2007 by ulrichp
The Cut-Up Eye
Leonard Richardson's scripts rescramble the Eye of Argon every five minutes, to make a completely NEW piece of ... scifi literature. Read it! Ponder it! Have your head explode from it!
fiction  humor  writing  interesting  wtf  scifi 
may 2007 by ulrichp
Very cool illusion
freakin' trippy
video  art  wtf  interesting 
may 2007 by ulrichp
SONGS TO WEAR PANTS TO
Andrew makes songs from your instructions. Good Lord, he's pretty good. I've never heard anyone sound alternately like that guy from Sum 41, Claudio Sanchez, and mc chris. The Exploding Dog of music.
humor  interesting  internet  music  wtf 
april 2007 by ulrichp
BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | 'Ghost yacht' found off Australia
Emergency services in Australia have launched a search for the three-man crew of a yacht found drifting off the North Queensland coast.
news  interesting  wtf 
april 2007 by ulrichp
Jeremy D. Miller -- The Shade Tree Developer : A Stupid Way to do Error Management
The clown that wrote a great deal of the original system (since departed) had a serious T-SQL fetish. The guy apparently truly believed that T-SQL was simpler and easier to maintain than C#.
database  c#  development  idiocy  wtf  work 
april 2007 by ulrichp
Did NASA Accidentally “Nuke” Jupiter?
I admit I don't understand the math behind this. Yes, despite being a CS major. Anyone with a science-oriented brain want to take a stab at it and see if it makes any sense?
history  interesting  science  space  wtf 
april 2007 by ulrichp
WTFPL - Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License
DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE // TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION // 0. You just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO.
humor  software  opensource  programming  wtf  law 
april 2007 by ulrichp
BetaNews | Vista Can Be Taken Down by an Animated Cursor
In what could be the most embarrassing exploit to impact Windows Vista since its commercial launch in January, security engineers at McAfee's Avert Labs confirmed today that the operating system can be caused to enter an interminable crash-restart-crash l
microsoft  security  windows  wtf  idiocy 
march 2007 by ulrichp
College Football Forum: Female Masturbator Strikes PIKES
Ann Arbor police are searching... for a woman who entered the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity last Thursday...and began to masturbate on a couch.
sex  wtf  humor  college  interesting 
march 2007 by ulrichp
Stunt stood test of time
Alvin 'Shipwreck' Kelly perched atop a pole on top of a hotel on Monmouth Street in Newpot, KY for 100 hours in 1928.
history  wtf  humor  interesting 
march 2007 by ulrichp
Freaky cat macro of the day
I CAN SEE FOREVER
animals  photoshop  wtf 
march 2007 by ulrichp
Comic book hero Captain America dies - Yahoo! News
"Captain America has undertaken his last mission — at least for now. The venerable superhero is killed in the issue of his namesake comic that hit stands Wednesday, the Daily News reported."
literature  wtf  comics 
march 2007 by ulrichp
Naughty Super Bowl Sparks Beefs To FCC - March 5, 2007
"Thanks CBS for turning my son GAY."
politics  sex  tv  wtf 
march 2007 by ulrichp
Happyface Spiders (Theridion grallator) (Annals of Improbable Research, Oct 2001)
The bright yellow, red, and black patterned Happyface Spider (a.k.a. Happy Faced Spider, a.k.a. Happy Spider, a.k.a. Theridion grallator) is delightful.
animals  wtf 
march 2007 by ulrichp
BBC NEWS | Americas | US soldier admits murdering girl
"A second US soldier's plea of guilty to the gang rape of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and the killing of her and her family has been accepted by a judge."
crime  politics  wtf 
february 2007 by ulrichp
cbs4.com - Tim Hardaway: 'I Hate Gay People'
“Well, you know, I hate gay people, ” Hardaway said in response to Le Batard. “I let it be known I don’t like gay people. I don’t like to be around gay people. I’m homophobic. It shouldn’t be in the world, in the United States, I don’t lik
wtf  idiocy  news  sports  sex 
february 2007 by ulrichp
An Epic Tale of Tragedy and Destruction
(and cat macros)
humor  wtf  animals 
february 2007 by ulrichp
Weekly World News - Story
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--Watch out, PC owners. There's something far worse for your computer than malicious hacking: dry hacking.
wtf  computers  humor 
february 2007 by ulrichp
Student’s Recording of Teacher’s Views Leads to a Ban on Taping - New York Times
"After a public school teacher was recorded telling students they belonged in hell if they did not accept Jesus as their savior, the school board has banned taping in class without an instructor’s permission..."
news  science  religion  education  wtf  idiocy 
february 2007 by ulrichp
Vanilla Ice Breaks Up MTV's Party
NEW YORK (AP) -- It somehow seemed fitting when Vanilla Ice trashed MTV's lame party.
music  video  news  humor  wtf 
february 2007 by ulrichp
Salon.com Technology | Courtney Love does the math
A great, coherent rant from Courtney Love, actually well-written, on how the music industry is actually pirating from its artists - pirating their fees, for one thing.
economics  interesting  law  money  music  p2p  politics  writing  news  wtf 
february 2007 by ulrichp
Farce of the Penguins (2007) (V)
"A mockumentary the illuminates penguin survival and mating rituals, as well as one bird's search for love while on a 70-mile trek with his hedonistic buddies." All-star cast? Bob Saget? WTF?
wtf  movies  humor 
january 2007 by ulrichp
Radio Shack Screams Nonsense On Phone With Rebate-Seeking Customer - Consumerist
ANYTHING ELSE, SIR?! ANYTHING ELSE, SIR?! ANYTHING ELSE, SIR?! ANYTHING ELSE, SIR?! ANYTHING ELSE, SIR?! ANYTHING ELSE, SIR?! ANYTHING ELSE, SIR?! ANYTHING ELSE, SIR?! ANYTHING ELSE, SIR?! ANYTHING ELSE, SIR?! ANYTHING ELSE, SIR?! ANYTHING ELSE, SIR?! ANY
wtf  idiocy  shopping 
january 2007 by ulrichp
7 Things You Didn't Know About PETA
"One entire PETA website is devoted to the claim-despite ample evidence to the contrary-that Jesus Christ was a vegetarian."
animals  wtf  news  politics 
january 2007 by ulrichp
Bush Speech Terror Claim Debunked A Year Ago
"A claim made by President Bush in his State of the Union speech last night, that an attack on an L.A. skyscraper had been averted, was universally debunked as a hoax by Mayors, CIA, FBI and NSA personnel and counter-terror experts nearly a year ago..."
idiocy  politics  wtf  news 
january 2007 by ulrichp
YumaSun.com > News - Scientists Can't Get Sloth To Move
'"Mats obviously wanted absolutely nothing to do with furthering science," said Axel Burchardt, a university spokesman.'
humor  news  animals  science  wtf 
january 2007 by ulrichp
Mexican prosecutors: man who tried to commit suicide beaten to death by police - International Herald Tribune
"MEXICO CITY: A man who tried to commit suicide by throwing himself onto the tracks of the Mexico City subway was later beaten to death by police, prosecutors said Saturday."
wtf  news 
january 2007 by ulrichp
Flatland, by E. A. Abbott, 1884
"Fie, fie how franticly I square my talk!"
books  math  science  wtf  interesting  ebook 
january 2007 by ulrichp
The Blotter - Debt Collectors Gone Wild
"Despite tough government regulations protecting people against abusive debt collectors, a three-month ABC News investigation found many unscrupulous collectors routinely ignore the law." Has transcripts, audio clips.
wtf  idiocy  money 
january 2007 by ulrichp
Police: Girl Locked in Room for 2 Years
"A 13-year-old girl's father and stepmother were arrested after the teen told police she had been locked in a room for nearly two years, allowed out only for meals, chores and one-minute timed bathroom breaks, authorities said."
news  wtf 
january 2007 by ulrichp
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