April 2008
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This was not a conventional family reunion: it was a gathering of the Fritzl...
– Austria: scale of the physical scars from Josef Fritzl emerges, Times Online.
This story is probably one of the creepiest, most fucked-up, most completely unimaginable I’ve ever heard. Can you say “psycho”?
OAKLAND, California — Jurors found Linux programmer Hans Reiser guilty of...
– Wired.com
I’ll be damned. I’ve been following the case since it started in ‘06 (thanks to Wired, who’s done a great job covering it) and I can’t say that I’m surprised as he painted himself pretty damn guilty, but… damn. He’s a software guy,...
Has anyone done the Miley Cyrus math? MIT’s Lohan-Britney theorem and...
– @jdickerson
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In B and early C, the operator was spelled =+ instead of += ; this mistake,...
– Damn those lexical analyzers and their seductive ways. Chistory
I’ve gone from preferring six-point font when I was twelve to 20-point...
– Steve Yegge
The bloodhound is the only animal whose evidence is admissible in an American...
– @triviabot
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Police in Congo have arrested 13 suspected sorcerers accused of using black...
– Penis theft panic hits city, Reuters.
Easily the strangest headline I’ve seen in years.
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Each time, when presented with a girl who would rather be watching TV than fuck...
– I Couldn’t Shut the Fuck Up, Letters from Johns.
Intriguing stuff from a world I know absolutely nothing about.
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Foggy San Francisco Skyline, by MumbleyJoe, via joelaz.
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Twitter.com is the best site for reading tweets, even though it’s not...
– Gruber, as always, is spot-on.
Sebastopol has been drawing disbelief and ridicule from news sources and...
– Analy High freshman Gordon Allen, via the Press Democrat.
Sorry buddy, Sebastopol’s had that rep for a long time, no getting rid of it now.
ASCII art spam. How quaint.
– @jimcorreia
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