Thu, February 9, 2012

Absurd News Around the Web

 

Woman Swallows Pen, Keeps It In Her Stomach For 25 Years

Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Everyone loves a good medical mystery, just like on that sexy sex show Grey’s Anatomy.  Well, here’s one with a lot fewer hunks but a lot more WTFs:  A 76-year-old British woman suffering from weight loss and “the ‘rrhea” went to seek treatment.  She was referred to a GI specialist who made a…

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Computers Now Stealing Literature, Dorito Jobs

Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Have you ever wanted to read a story written by a machine, just like the proles did in 1984?  Well your long wait is finally over!  Say hello to Brutus, a computer at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute programmed with a series of mathematical equations that enable it to write fiction.  And yes,…

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It’s Official: Americans are the Coolest

Posted 5 months ago

Americans worried about crippling levels of unemployment, increasingly unstable income gaps between rich and poor, the apparent transformation of one of our major political parties into a take-no-prisoners apocalyptic cult, rampant unchecked criminality in government and finance, and the…

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