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Monday, September 08, 2008
(Daily Mail) Interesting Woman claims she was fired from her corporate job for taking maternity leave twice in 14 months (34)
(AFP) Sad The WWF reports that koalas are dying by the thousands due to land-clearing, steel cage matches (45)
(News.com.au) Asinine The limo company that owned the Mercedes Princess Diana died in wants to regain possession of it from the police so they can sell it for "a great deal of money." (47)
(The New York Times) Interesting Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthew dropped from MSNBC's election anchor desk (401)
(National Post) Obvious "When I see someone wearing Crocs, I immediately know we have nothing in common" (232)

Sunday, September 07, 2008
(ABC News) Asinine Problem: Your can't afford your current home. Solution: Find a newer, more affordable home and completely walk away from your previous financial obligations (104)
(WCPO) Fail TSA employee tells Cincinnati Police he's a federal agent, with predictable results (124)
(Bippity Boppity Bacon) Spiffy I call your bacon flavored vodka and raise you a bacon infused bourbon (103)
(Some Guy) Photoshop Photoshop this sweet ride (51)
(Reuters) Interesting Iran's armed forces will begin three days of Photoshop training on Monday (61)
(Albany Times Union) Interesting Score one for sanity as New York state court throws out lawsuit filed by woman who fell 120 feet from waterfall while walking along it blindfolded and wearing flat-soled no-tread shoes (81)
(Some Guy) Weird Creepy "Clowning for Christ" troupe scrubs cars for free at a "pray and wash" (w/creepy clown pic) (169)
(AP) Obvious As usual, most of the trash covering the Jersey Shore is from Pennsylvania (53)
(TBO) Florida Florida man steals $50,000 worth of bottled water from work...in a 6 week period (69)
(The Intelligencer) Hero America's longest-serving volunteer firefighter to be honored. Started as a 14-year-old, shortly after fire was discovered (26)
(Seattle Times) Silly Newest threat to America's children: Moms and babysitters who constantly yap and text while ignoring their anklebiters' needs (111)
(9 News) Dumbass Doctor? Check. Epidural? Check. Bourbon? Check. Wait...what? (49)
(London Times) Hero WW2 spy's plot to kill Nazi boss: With a bow & arrow (83)
(Hartford Courant) Sick Charity set up to benefit the families of fallen 9/11 firefighters gives almost nothing of $11 million in collected donations to the families (124)
(Boston Herald) Cool Three words: bacon flavored vodka (131)
(NewsOK) Dumbass Not news: Woman searches for missing dog. News: Uses pistol to search for missing dog. Fark: Shoots people who say they have not seen missing dog (69)
(Daily Star) Scary Pint of beer will be £7.50 by time of 2012 Olympics, and you don't even want to know what it will cost if you want it chilled (78)
(Some Guy) Followup The projected path for hurricane Ike now has the hurricane headed for . . . wait for it . . .wait for it . . . wait for it . . . Louisiana (242)
(Some Guy) Obvious What do you do when 78% of your students fail the state writing test? Call the results inconclusive and withhold them until asked (115)
(Some Guy) Spiffy Cabbage Patch kids turn 25, find it difficult to shed their adolescent image (60)
(Some Guy) Photoshop Photoshop this rude child (61)
(The Chattanoogan) Interesting Vice President Dick Cheney will speak at a Civil War re-enactment in Tennessee. Let's see, thousands of Confederates with rifles and cannons... what could possibly go wrong? (98)
(Local6) Florida Old and busted: Tourists visiting theme parks in Orlando. New hotness: Tourist visiting missing toddler's house in Orlando (34)
(Time) Florida "Florida has spent the last 80 years ignoring its vulnerability, developing its floodplains and shorelines, selling the dream of the Sunshine State. But the day of reckoning will come. Hopefully it won't come Tuesday" (103)
(MSNBC) News All your mortgages are now our mortgages (608)
(AFP) Obvious If there's one thing the UK and Ireland can finally agree upon, it's that carting your wife around over the shoulder is right boffo fun (24)
(Reuters) Interesting Unique Freud portrait of Bacon up for sale. No, it's not what you're thinking. Sometimes Bacon is just a guy, you know (58)
(YouTube) Amusing Worst guitar solo ever. Complete with devil horns at the end (237)
(The New York Times) Interesting Russian government afraid of smokers' wrath. "Fifty percent of citizens are smoking in this country," Mr. Medvedev said. "That's the highest rate in the world. I would not even mention alcohol" (69)
(some Yat) Spiffy Perhaps the greatest invention in the history of beer (49)
(thisismoney.co.uk) Interesting At 30 cents a pint, Chinese beer production set to become largest in world (72)
(Flickr) Cool Quite possibly the coolest cake you will see all day. All the muppet show characters done with incredible detail. It's time to play the music, it's time to light the lights (118)
(AP) Weird First the ham turned green. Then the eggs turned green. Now Sam I Am is having to deal with... green polar bears? (40)
(AP) Sappy If you're heading out to the Mojave Desert anytime soon, and have a little extra passenger space, then Sadie would love a lift. Oh, and just so you know, Sadie just happens to be a desert tortoise (31)
(9 News) Scary I kissed a girl and I liked it then I went to hell (379)
(Independent) Unlikely Pollution can make you fat, claims study by group of people who have never been to Los Angeles (25)
(Telegraph) Interesting Christians are going to dating workshops to learn everything from body language to pick-up lines. "You float my ark" (Voting enabled for your own) (184)
(News.com.au) Scary Aussies will be limited to one case of beer per day at the annual Bathurst 1000 car race. EVERBODY PANIC MATE (35)
(In a world...) Photoshop Photoshop the late Don LaFontaine (55)
(Some Arachnid) Scary Today's "15 tanks full of venomous spiders found in house" story brought to you by Sioux City, Iowa (88)
(News.com.au) Strange Guy breaks into house, then some weird stuff with cooking ingredients and whacking a man in the face with an 8-inch sausage, runs out, dog eats the weapon (51)
(Chicago Sun-Times) Sad A four-year old boy is in critical condition after being attacked by a ferocious Alaskan governor (122)
(Independent) Interesting Kim Jong Il joins Fidel Castro in ranks of world's zombie hordes (136)
(Some Guy) Strange Lawyer banned from city park after asking parents if he could tickle their children (97)
(Google) Sad The Dalai Lama's brother passes away. But on his deathbed he gained total consciousness. So he had that going for him. Which is nice (73)

Saturday, September 06, 2008
(Guardian.com) Spiffy Brits eat twice as much meat then they did forty years ago. Not that there's anything wrong with that (85)
(Cracked) Interesting A look at the personality types that litter the comments section of every Fark article. Includes Mr. Science, the Non-Believer and the Bully (278)
(my confined space.com) Photoshop Photoshop these climbing soldiers (46)
(Canada.com) Weird Study suggests that intellectual activities make people eat more than when at rest. Which explains the epidemic of super-fat Ph.D's, Physicians, and Lawyers (68)
(WebMD) Cool Marijuana cures antibiotic resistent staph infection MRSA; is there ANYTHING pot can't do? (306)
(AP) Dumbass "And the Lord sayeth, 'verily, when another driver doth cut thou off, thee shall freaketh out and wave a firearm at him.' Amen" (52)
(Some Halfin guy) Caption Caption this very Metal moment (98)
(AP) Scary Ike keeping his Saffir-Simpson hand a strong Cat 4, is set to biatch-slap the Turks, Caicos, and Bahamas. Promises he'll never do it again (90)
(WNBC) PSA Tips for New Yorkers to help them get through Tropical Storm Hanna or as Floridians call it, a thunderstorm (114)
(BusinessWeek) Asinine Ford actually makes a cool looking car. Bonus: it gets 65 MPG. Fark: They won't sell it in the US for "business reasons" (407)
(Some Guy) Spiffy After receiving criticism from parents who thought "she should have better things to do," Georgia superintendent wins $1 million for school system on "Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader" (90)
(CBS Sacramento) Scary Not news: Woman owes credit card company $7,000. News: Company sends bill to wrong woman, takes her to arbitration when she refuses to pay. Fark: They never tell her, and win the arbitration by default (171)
(Some Guy) Interesting 100 foods you should eat before you die (331)
(Yahoo) Obvious The 10 most affordable housing markets: why doesn't anybody want to live in MI, IN, OH, or PA? (306)
(AP) Strange Library fights to keep patrons by adding coffee house, a cafe and scenic views while reducing number of actual books. Next: Strobe lights and stripper poles (83)
(Some Guy) Photoshop Photoshop this concrete grinder (52)
(JSOnline) Interesting Milwaukee woman blows tire on pothole. Submits a bill to city for damage and... gets reimbursed. Pigs soon to fly. Pabst becomes tasty (91)
(Telegraph) Interesting Bug populations are on the decline. EVERYBODY PICNIC (77)

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