It’s been many years since I’ve seen a good flame war break out, but this one is making up for lost time. The Church of Crazy Tom Cruise Scientology tried to put a $5000 bounty on members belonging to Anonymous, the online hacker group. After all, their latest project against scientology describes everyone from across the Internet banding “together for a fight that transcends our differences and takes us to a level beyond our individual selves.”

The hackers are using every channel necessary to attack the loony cult.

From packet flooding directed at their servers, to faxing endless amounts of black paper to their machines, these guys are pulling out all the stops. The Internet is shaping up to be Public Enemy #1 as far as L. Ron Hubbard’s establishment is concerned. Videos and websites spread the message to try and discredit an already wavering “belief.”

Gawker, for example, is about to get sued for posting a video showing Tom Cruise weirding out a camera while talking about the topic. Amidst stammering and wide-eyed confessions, he opens his heart about peace, culture, and car accidents.

With that post having been seen over 2 million times, just on Gawker’s site, it’s easy to understand why scientology is so scared to let the strange video stand. After all, the sketchiness of the organization works against whatever they’re trying to achieve. Let’s hope the hackers bring home a victory.

The Hump is one of many trendy foodie outposts in environmentally-conscious Santa Monica, California.  However, a sting operation conducted by the producers of the Oscar-winning short “The Cove,” about the annual dolphin kill in Japan, revealed that The Hump’s airport location has been serving meat from an endangered animal in its sushi.  The Hump’s head […]

Charles L. Stewart’s religious practices are a bit strange.  He claims that, as part of his religion, he had to illegally import a dangerously invasive species of Giant African Snail so as to protect his followers from illnesses.  Stewart, from Hialeah, Florida, maintains that drinking the mucus from living snails is a common practice to […]

Sometimes it’s really, really hard not to make a Polish joke.  For example, when a Polish guy robs a bank with a spoon.  Or, in this case, when a Polish great-grandmother gets banned from riding her bicycle after biking around while drunk.  However, while the concept is funny, the penalty is not.   Keystyna Patycka, a […]

On the remote island of Svalbard, Norway, is the most genetically-diverse spot on planet Earth.  The island itself isn’t the most pleasant place; in fact, it’s a miserable, frozen rock above the Arctic Circle where the only wandering life is polar bears.  However, dug into the side of Platåberget Mountain is the Doomsday Vault.  Better […]

I’m not sure what to blame for this one.  The recession?  The fact that nobody uses cash anymore?  The fact that she robbed what sounds to me like a little bodega?  Take your pick.  Either way, a woman in Thermal, California went to a lot of effort for very little reward.  She used a semiautomatic […]

After one too many close calls with a screeching, honking car, Peter Smith had officially had enough.  Tired of eating dust and getting cursed at by angry drivers, the dedicated bicycle rider from Austin, Texas, started circulating a petition.  Over 2 years and 50,000 signatures later, and he finally achieved his dream:  Google Maps has […]

Normally at this time of year, Wilbraham Park in West Cape May, New Jersey is a pretty depressing place.  It’s still at the tail-end of winter there, so everything’s dark and dreary and generally not the most pleasant to look at.  Of course, when spring comes, everything will be green again, but until then someone […]