Aug 13

How To Be A Lazy Bastard by Edward Champion, has some excellent pointers for the aspiring lazy bastard or laid-off dot-commer.

Make sure you scroll down to Every URL Has Its Price.
[via: booboolina]

Aug 12

Mile-High club loses 2 members. An elderly couple who chartered a small plane on the pretext of having sex in the sky died when the plane plunged into the sea off the Florida Keys after they tried to hijack it to Cuba. A small tour company called Fly Key West, advertises "Mile High Club" tours on it’s website for people who want to have sex in a plane. "Once we were up in the air…they demanded to be taken to Cuba", said pilot Thomas Hayashi. A scuffle ensued causing the pilot to lose control of the plane, plunging it into the waters between Key West and Cuba.

Aug 09

Have you ever wanted to call the Vatican? Or maybe the Eiffel Tower in Paris? Well now you can, along with several thousand other payphone numbers at the The Payphone Project. The site has a searchable database of payphone numbers from all over the world. I also enjoyed Going Up by Christopher Daniels about his quest to find a payphone at the Eiffel Tower.

Aug 08

Marked down from $29.99 to a mere $19.99, who wouldn’t want a Bart Simpson radio control skateboard? (batteries not included)

Aug 08

Lost, is a tiny village in Scotland. Or the signpost, at least. The signpost for their village has gone missing.

"It’s quite difficult to find at the best of times…Now that someone has taken the signpost, people are getting even more lost”, stated one spokeswoman for the local tourist board. "We are appealing for Lost to be found and for the signpost to be returned."

Aug 08

Penney’s T-shirt angers home-school families. The J.C. Penney’s in Plano, Texas is removing a T-Shirt from it’s shelves after protest. The T-shirt shows a red trailer house labeled “Home Skool” - with “school” misspelled.