The Ultimate Insult

If you’re like me and enjoy your FireFox extensions a little too much and acquire too many after awhile, hopefully breaking up each tab into its own process (a la Google Chrome an supposedly IE 8, which i was unaware of) will make FireFox more stable and not have the whole browser crash due to one [...]

I know, I’ve been a bad host this year and have been neglecting the site even more than usual. I’m going to try to stay with it, and hope to be a bit more attentive in 2009.
Happy holidays to all and thanks to the folks who still check in from time to time.
-Scott

To keep the true-crime fanatic in me satiated, I’ve started a site that links to disturbing (in my opinion of course) news stories. Submissions are welcome as well if you’re interested in the seedier bits of news as well. Disturbing Humans is the place, and it’s not for everyone so be warned. All stories linked [...]

Remember the contest that cities competed in for the Simpsons Movie premiere? Ed dropped by and posted an update to the story. It appears that everyone who actually did something for the video got screwed out of actually attending the premiere themselves. Classy.

I love me a good conspiracy theory. The new look at Robert Kennedy’s assassination has me interested.

The Bain Collection over at the Library of Congress is great. Mainly taken from the early 1900’s – 1920’s, these are photos that were taken for a news service and are pretty varied in subject.

I didn’t even know David Cross was in the Alvin and the Chipmunks movie, but it appears he does and got some hate for it. David replies to some of his critics.

NOTE: I’ve IP banned two posters. One was replying over and over using different names but with the same IP, the other was the user “bags”, who even after saying he was no longer going to visit my site insisted on posting the same stupid comment reworded again and again. I’m sure he’s lame enough [...]

ABC News has an interesting article for true crime readers: “Could Jeffrey Dahmer Be to Blame for Adam Walsh’s Murder?”. An interesting theory, probably never to be proven.

“Scientists cast doubt on Kennedy bullet analysis”. You think?

I assume those who don’t get UK-BBC will have the chance to see BBC’s Panaorama’s “Scientology And Me” (Mon 14 May, 8:30 pm – 9:00 pm; you see can see their latest shows here) online.
In the meantime, catch the segment reporter hard at work and the same reporter chatting with a church spokesman.

“Man, 48, Dies Battle Dancing”. I didn’t even know battle dancing was a real thing, it sounds like something out of a bad comedy where rivals have a dance off. Even though I didn’t realize it was a real thing, I still think 48 is a bit old to be doing it.

CNN reports “Activists attack sellers of bottled waters”. Penn and Teller called this as Bullshit a while ago. (see related video there for the rest of the show)

The Chaser (Australia’s version of The Onion) made the news twice last week with their TV show:
An Australian kid duped Youtube into removing Chaser clips and one of the Chaser hosts got close to Hillary Clinton.
Here’s one of their skits goofing on the words ‘Al-Qaeda’ and ‘terrorist’ and here is Hillary Clinton on the Chaser:

Ok, laughing when someone dies isn’t very nice, but this news story made me laugh. “Man painting love message on rock dies after fall”, “Friend who witnessed fall says victim complained girlfriend’s name was too long”. Those two lines together make the magic.

Leave it to WFMU’s Beware of the Blog to inform me of what might be a human case of the Shope papillomavirus. Here’s a comment from this “Beware of the Blog” post: “These growths look very similar to ones caused by the Shope papillomavirus strain in rabbits. This virus also causes keratin growths that eventually [...]

I don’t usually post regular news items, but come on… not only was this guy involved in a car crash that killed two people, a severed head was found at the scene that is suspected to be his missing wife. Story at NWCN.com.

R.I.P. Larry ‘Bud” Melman.

Pardon the lack of updates this week. Some sort of plague has hit my house leaving my kids and wife sick all week long, leaving me with a little less time than usual. Back to normal soon is the plan.

Read about the 30 strangest deaths in history according to Neatorama.