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The Rambo Death Chart

January 30, 2008 By: Z Category: Current Events 1 Comment →

Rambo Death Chart

This is amazingly awesome.

This is a statistical analysis of all the Rambo movies since the beginning of time.

Track Santa with Google Earth

December 24, 2007 By: Z Category: Current Events No Comments →

Contentmob has a cool tutorial on how you can track Santa live in 3D with Google Earth.

Check out the tutorial here: http://reviews.contentmob.com/santa

Michael Vick Letter to Judge

December 14, 2007 By: Z Category: Current Events No Comments →

Here is the actual Michael Vick Letter to the Judge and letters of support from Hank Aaron, George Foreman, and others!

http://alt.coxnewsweb.com/ajc/pdf/vickletters/vick1.pdf

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22-year-old Intern Loses 800,000 Social Security Numbers

July 27, 2007 By: Z Category: Current Events No Comments →

A 22-year-old intern said today he’s the ’scapegoat’ for the loss of over 800,000 social security numbers – or roughly 7.3% of the people in the entire state of Ohio

Ha. Sucks to be that intern.

‘The extent of my instructions on what to do after I removed the tapes from the tape drive and took the tapes out of the building was, bring these back tomorrow.’ Three months into his $10.50-an-hour internship, he left the tapes in his car overnight — unencrypted — and they were stolen. Interestingly, the intern reports to a $125-an-hour consultant — and was advised not to tell the police that sensitive information had been stolen, which initially resulted in his becoming the prime suspect for the theft.

Read more.

Bull F*cks Dude Up Bad, Son!

July 20, 2007 By: Z Category: Current Events No Comments →

This is nuts. This bull speared this guy in the leg with its horns. Don’t mess with bulls! Obviously…

Bull Horn in Leg

iPhone Line-Stander Craigslist Ad: “We will cap any mother f*cker that tries to cut in line!”

June 28, 2007 By: Z Category: Current Events, Technology No Comments →

I’m available as of today to begin camping out for you. I charge a rate of $30 per day non-negotiable and will be out there every day. I have 10 years experience camping out at product launches

Xbox, Xbox 360, PS, PS2, PS3, PSP, Gameboy, Gameboy DS, Gameboy DS Lite and Wii to name a few. My girlfriend will switch off with me for bathroom/food breaks (no extra charge). We’re aggressive when it comes to line cutters ( We will cap any motherfucker that tries to cut in line ) and will keep you updated via text, MMS photos and videos or email.

We require 1/2 of the camping fee up front and the rest when you arrive at the store to pay for your iPhone(s). If you’d like us to purchase the phone for you we do require the amount for the phone otherwise we will call you an hour before the store begins handing out the phones.

Email if you’re interested. We’re willing to hit any AT&T store in the valley.

InformationWeek reports on the current status of the entrepreneurial spirit of America and the iPhone, pointing out the above Craigslist ad. The iPhone drops tomorrow, and in the context of this post, I f*ckin love capitalism!

Don’t Drop the Gay Bomb!

June 11, 2007 By: Z Category: Current Events No Comments →

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CBS5 reports on the Pentagon’s canceled plan to unleash a homosexual fury of gaydom in the form of a bomb! The intent of the bomb was the chemically incite soldiers to irresistibly engage in sexual acts with their fellow soldiers. I’m sure this would really make the democrats happy!

Semi-truck takes man in wheelchair for a wild ride!

June 07, 2007 By: Z Category: Current Events, Uncategorized No Comments →

Wheelchair Ride

Daily Hook news is back with a great story!

PAW PAW, Mich. — A 21-year-old man was taken on a wild ride Wednesday afternoon when the wheelchair he was in became attached to the grille of a semi-truck and was taken four miles down a highway at about 50 mph.

and the best quote of the article…

“You are not going to believe this, (but) there is a semi pushing a guy in a wheelchair on Red Arrow Highway,” an unknown caller told the Michigan State Police.

Poor guy! But, this is a classic Daily Hook story for sure!

Read more on the Red Arrow Highway wheelchair incident!

MTVs The Hills Star, LC Reported to Have Sex Tape

April 15, 2007 By: Z Category: Current Events, Pop Culture No Comments →

If you’ve listened to our podcasts, you know by now that we are tremendously huge fan’s of MTVs The Hills, mainly because of LC (Lauren Conrad). Well LC seems like a great girl and the perfect girlfriend, however recently it has surfaced that she has a sex tape! It seems like these days you can’t “pass go” in Hollywood unless you have a sex tape, so maybe its her big break. Various internet sources claim that her douche bag ex-boyfriend Jason has been shopping around the sex tape for $500,000 to several porn companies. Against these reports, LC wrote on her blog that no such video exists. I can’t wait to see how this plays out! The Daily Hook will keep you posted and provide links to video footage if it is ever made available!

iPhone .. iHandcuffs – to DRM or not to DRM

January 14, 2007 By: Z Category: Current Events, Music No Comments →

There is a great article in the New York Times about copy protection with its regard to digital music and the iPod/iPhone and copy protected portable music players in general. The author writes,

As consumers become more aware of how copy protection limits perfectly lawful behavior, they should throw their support behind the music labels that offer digital music for sale in plain-vanilla MP3 format, without copy protection.

I totally agree.

Read the full article here.