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Mike McKay was looking for a new writer, and he wants someone who can perform under the pressure of 140-character limits.  Spectacularly creative writers who can work under serious constraints, like the Old Spice Guy YouTube crew, are hard to find, so he turned to the one place where people live to zing out funny, […]

A few weeks ago, I called up my hosting service and renewed the URL for PopFi while, at the same time, upgrading my hosting plan.  When I was talking to the customer service dude, he told me that shorter URLs, like this one, are becoming more and more valuable as most of the four- and […]

When airport security officials at Houston’s George Bush International Airport looked over Housrou Kedji, the native of Togo was acting suspiciously.  He was nervous, sweating, his heart was racing, and his hands were shaking as he gave conflicting stories about the purpose of his trip to Texas.  The 42-year-old man was trying to board an […]

Dennis Hawkins is an unusual man with an unusual plan.  Bank robbers wear all kinds of crazy outfits to keep from being noticed and captured after the fact, but none have been quite this unusual.  Yes, I know I say that a lot, but Hawkins robbed a Swissville, Pennsylvania, bank over the weekend while wearing […]

Today, two people at my workplace are going to retire.  They’re thrilled about it, but not everyone accepts life after work quite so easily.  When the church council over the Saint Joseph congregation of nuns on the French Riviera decided it was time for three elderly nuns to move from the rigors of teaching and into a […]

Lost amid the bumper crop of iPhone 4 stories last week was the news that the white iPhone 4G is being delayed until later this year, due to what Apple describes as issues with the manufacturing process of turning the device into that sparkling white that Apple loves for all its gadgets and gizmos.  If […]

It’s hot outside.  Not just here in the sweltering American south, but no matter where you go in the northern hemisphere, things seem unusually warm.  In Germany, the weather is so hot that it’s affecting crops.  The German Farmers’ Association (or DBV in German abbreviation) has gone so far as to warn consumers that unusual […]

The Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Maryland Heights, Missouri, just outside St. Louis, was packed and ready for rock and roll.  Opening acts The Stills and The Postelles had played, though not without incident.  You see, the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater is infested with birds, so there’s a whole lot of bird poop on the stage.  The […]

When the Cardiff Botanical Society spent $120,000 to erect a statue of a surfer in the San Diego suburb of Cardiff-By-The-Sea, California, they never thought they were building a magnet for vandalism.  However, since it was erected in 2007, the $120,000 statue “Magic Carpet Ride” has become better known by the name The Cardiff Kook […]

The Valencia Club was a fairly popular local place in Penryn, California.  However, the bar closed down in June and was thought to be gone forever until Travis Lloyd Kevie, age 29, reopened the business on July 16.  The reopening attracted some attention in the area, including an article in the Auburn (California) Journal.  There’s […]

In a way, it’s a pretty serious crime.  An unknown man in Sussex, England, has been making posters of a male sex organ wrapped in a yellow ribbon, then posting those posters all over town in parking lots.  However, while the police are hunting the mystery wang, they’re having a laugh at the poster’s expense […]

For hundreds of years, Major League Baseball went without testing for performance-enhancing drugs.  Now, thanks in no small part to that criticism, they’re slowly becoming the most aggressive league in sports when it comes to drug testing.  First, there was its steroids urine testing for players in the minors, which spread to the majors.  Now, […]

It was a match made in heaven.  Once upon a time, when you got married, you stayed married, but these days, marriage is a gamble.  Half of all marriages end in divorce, so you’re kind of rolling the dice when you tie the knot.  Are you going to live happily ever after, or are you […]

An inexpensive laptop is one of the most commonly-discussed “want” devices for any poor second or third world country.  While the OLPC $100 laptop, with its Linux OS and hand-cranking charger has been a serious boon, it’s still fairly expensive to produce and sell to interested companies, so the Indian government has decided to fill […]