Counting down the top 20 links we didn't cover during the week...
20 • Radiohead Drum Technician Killed In Stage Collapse - Say what you will about their music, but their stage show is really avant-garde.
19 • Microsoft Surface Is Hiding A Pressure-Sensitive Keyboard, Multitouch Trackpad And Kickstand - To be an iPad killer, you have to think different.
18 • Who Is Rodney King? Who Is Dick Clark? The Titanic Was Real? How Death, Major News Events Expose Twitter’s Generation Gap - Translation: stupid, uninformed kids know nothing of their history or culture. 140 characters is not a Twitter limit, but their mental processing cap.
17 • 13 Tech Sounds You Don’t Hear Anymore - Don't tell those Twitter kids, because they won't recognize these.
16 • Feds Bust Russian Prostitution Ring In L.A. - It would have been higher if the story was they helped open one.
15 • Jack Osbourne Says He Has Multiple Sclerosis - Karma couldn't tell the different between one television reality family and another? Look out Kardashians...
14 • It Takes A Hell Of A Lot More Water Than You Think To Make Jeans, Burgers, Pizza And Other Stuff - And surprisingly, the main ingredient in all those is not water.
13 • Roger Clemens Acquitted On All Charges - Justice really struck out at the plate this time.
12 • LA Kings Stanley Cup 2012 Celebration / Construction Of A Championship Team - Besides enjoying the awesome victory from last week from almost inside the celebration, the LA Kings Insider shows how the team that won the Stanley Cup came together.
11 • Infinite Schwarzenegger Gear Up Scene - When killing thousands, it takes a while to get ready...
10 • Sex Toy Fools Entire Chinese Village / Super Terrific Japanese Thing: Vagina Panties - Both of these are horrible...Asia should be ashamed.
09 • Headless Corpses Found In Paris Picnic Spot - Ahh, still a city of charm and romance!
08 • Students Left In ‘Mass Hypnosis’ After Demonstration Goes Awry - They made the mistake of not having them pay for next semester's tuition first before putting them in a trance.
07 • Lancaster Boy, 7, Found Hanging By Karate Belt In Backyard - Clearly, he did not pass his test and earn his belt.
06 • Gene Simmons Themed VW Bug For Sale On Craigslist - You may never want to drive it, but there's nothing wrong with looking at it.
05 • Man Goes On $1.5 Million Gambling Spree, After ATM Glitch Allows Him Unlimited Withdrawals - It should have been corrected to say $1.5 million losing spree.
04 • Displays Might One Day Be Made of Just Air And Water - Does that mean View Sonic may one day be bought by Evian?
03 • Baby Soaps And Shampoos Trigger Positive Marijuana Tests - That's what happens when you use Cheech & Chong rather than Johnson & Johnson.
02 • The 40 Worst Rob Liefeld Drawings / 40 More Of The Worst Rob Liefeld Drawings - If you're not convinced he's the worst artist of a generation after 80 drawings, you're either blind or Rob Liefeld.
01 • Burritobot: A 3-D Printer That Spits Out Burritos - Food and technology, together...perfectly.
2 comments:
I love your site and look forward to days like this when you suddenly provide a half-dozen links and posts, but I have to say #7 is incomprehensible. How can the death of a seven year old child elicit any humour or entertaining diversion? I think the story is absolutely heartbreaking and brings to mind the day my friend walked into her toilet to find her son hanging inside.
Earlier in the week, I did not make a post on this story (http://news.yahoo.com/china-executes-four-drug-traffickers-153822229.html) about what I think is an "extreme" concept of what they billed as a national anti-drug day. I'm sure somebody could and would find offense over my angle, but I can not allow that to influence my posts. As it turns out, I omitted that story not out of potential responses, but due to my own lack of interest in it.
Sorry if that link inadvertently struck a nerve by reminding you of a personal event, but not every post or part is based on something overtly funny. Actually, there's a lot of droll and unpleasant news / info I come across that hopefully becomes more palpable when put through the IOvUF filter.
There is a fair amount of content that people will have different moral / ethical / political / practical reactions to - as they should, and I try to make light of the more serious stories. Sometimes it offends, sometimes it titillates, and sometimes both.
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