More CEO Jokes
Because the jokes that serve as CEOs deserve all the recognition they can get Why is the nickname for CEOs ‘Deepwater Horizon’? Because they leave an oily trail … Read more
Blogs
Various blogs, featuring humor, oddities, news and interesting items.
Biggest Moon This Year May Cause Record Drunkenness on Cinco de Mayo
A new warning from the Astronomers Sociological Studies (ASS) group is being circulated around college campuses nationwide advising that this month’s full moon on May 5th may have … Read more
Gathering Honey from a Cliff Face
Twice a year the Gurung tribesmen of Nepal lower themselves down the face of cliffs in the foothills of the Himalayan Mountains using little more than rope ladders to collect honey.
In 1987, photographer Eri…
Kick-Starting the Baby Carriage
In 1923, Dunkley made the decision which was to earn them immortality: to produce a motor pram. The heart of this was a unit called the Pramotor, which was basically a scooter with the front’ wheel missing.The one-wheeled power pack could be fastene…
Nice Doggie?
In 2005, photojournalist Pieter Hugo saw a cellphone pic of a group of men in Lagos, Nigeria walking down the street with chained hyenas. The picture intrigued him enough to track them down and eventually go visit them.
In Abuja …
Leda and the Face/Palm (NSFW)
The London Metropolitan Police admitted there had been no complaints, but none the less they took a dim view of Derrick Santini’s modern rendering of Zeus ravishing Leda, the myth of the conception of Helen of Troy.
An officer took exception as…
Bookmobile
Bibliomules are used to “spread the joys of reading” in the foothills of the Venezuelan Andes, especially in the most rural areas where more conventional transport cannot reach.
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Startling Poll Results Indicate Why Romney Can’t Win Women’s Vote
Republicans are doing everything they can to turn the tides on the upcoming election and get the women’s vote, by trying to change their minds about Mitt Romney. … Read more
Computer Therapy
The following is a transcript of a conversation between a young woman giving the Touring Test to the ELIZA program (Named after the character in George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion) in the Project MAC computer at MIT in 1966.
Tho…
A Most Dapper Demonstration
Some nattily-attired chaps protesting the coming of Abercrombie and Fitch to Savile Row, London.
The protest began in earnest at 10:15am, when chumrades in arms marched around the corner to Abercrombie’s flagship store on Burlington Gardens, stabbin…
