Category: Weird

Exec Sued Over 241k Strip Club Tab – October 21, 2005

Savvis CEO disputes major lapdance bill. Proof positive of the old stripper adage: "You won’t get laid but you sure will get f$%#ked" 

BBC NEWS | Technology | Deadly plague hits Warcraft world

"Many online discussion sites were buzzing with reports from the disaster zones with some describing seeing "hundreds" of bodies lying in the virtual streets of the online towns and cities."

This is fascinating. A virtual flu wipes out an online game. Not the first time it has happened either:

"The "Corrupted Blood" plague is not the first virtual disease to break out in game worlds. In May 2000 many players of The Sims were outraged when their game characters died because of an infection contracted from a dirty virtual guinea pig." (otherwise known as the DVGP)

That has to be the acronym of the day.

Modern Drunkard Magazine Online

"I busted out of rehab …"

After this week, I think I want to run Modern Drunkard’s website. Any place with Absinthe advertisers and columns titled: "You’re a Drunk" and "How to Ace Your Next Intervention" has to be a party.

 

The Amazon.Com Customer Service Page 

 Customer service hacks? Pissed off at Amazon, want to vent? Good luck finding their customer service phone number. Unless you visit this page.

Knee Defender – How to use it

Good piece in the NYT about economy class etiquette. As a 6′ 4" traveler, this could be a godsend.  

Russia’s Biggest Spammer Brutally Murdered in Apartment – NEWS – MOSNEWS.COM

Thanks to Art Jahnke for pointing me at the ultimate no-spam solution 

If these words were people, I would embrace their genocide.

"Blogging: If minds had anuses, blogging would be what your mind would do when it had to take a dump."

 Finally, I have found the Ambrose Bierce of our time.