Sunday, July 15, 2012

Weekend Edition


Counting down the top 20 links we didn't cover during the week...

20 • Boyfriend Assaults Girlfriend With Steak Sauce Over Fifty Shades Of Grey - He still got the Wor(ce)st(ershire) of it.

19 • Raccoons Chase, Attack Woman Who Had Just Finished Jogging In Park / Tigers Kill Man Who Scaled Fence At Danish Zoo - It's no different this week...animals are pissed off at humans.

18 • Graphene Miracle #5,347: It Can Repair Itself Entirely Unassisted - Higgs-Boson?  Graphene is the God particle.

17 • Suicide Bomber Kills 7 Of His Own Family In IraqExplosive Fireworks Horrifically Severed And Blew Off A Paraplegic's Leg - Two perfect examples of exactly how bad things can go when you shouldn't be playing with explosives.

16 • Microsoft, NBC Dissolve MSNBC.com Joint Venture - No word on who gets custody of Rachel Maddow.


14 • Autistic Man Survives 3-Week Ordeal In Utah Desert - A happy ending to the story, even  though his autism was what got him into trouble.

13 • Nigerian Tanker Explosion, At Least 95 Killed After Crash As People Rush For ‘Free Fuel’ - It's usually a sign that signals a promotion for free gas, not a crash and gallons of it spilling out.

12 • San Bernardino Third California City To Seek Bankruptcy - If only they sold all that meth, they'd be in the black.

11 • 13-Minute Dark Knight Rises Featurette Hits The Movie's Major Characters And ThemesDC Is Just @#$%ing Gonna Give Up On Movies Until 2015 - Get hyped for now!  Because after Batman and Superman, DC has to learn how to make comic characters into film properties.

10 • Flying Robot Makes 3D Map Of Building's Interior - Just like those bots in Prometheus, now with 100% less Engineer dicks.

09 • Immigrants With ‘Gang Tattoos’ Denied U.S. Visas - The easiest way to keep the bad elements out of the country is if they make it obvious.

08 • Rejoice, For Edifi, The First Christian Tablet Is Here! - That damn headline takes all the sarcasm out of my comments on it.

07 • Blind Contestant Completes In Miss Florida - Yet she'll never see how silly pageants are.

06 • Found: Multiple People Combined Into Single Mummies - Who knew that Dr. Frankenstein was over 3,000 years old?


04 • Scientists Create Molecule To Make Teeth Cavityproof - Great news!  Now all we need is a company to sell it...

03 • Man Dies In Rollover Crash After Running Over Wife In SUV - There's one story every week that makes me smile at it's perfection, and this is it.

02 • Twitter Divides In Response To Daniel Tosh's Rape Joke - Yeah, I'll pick a side and back Team Tosh.  Comedy isn't pretty, but it's still comedy.  And let's keep everything in context.

01 • Auditors Say Billions Likely Wasted In Iraq Work - Was anybody surprised at this?  It's such predictable news that I can't switch from disappointment at being cynically correct to anger over it.

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