flickering pictures

You know the old joke: “What do you get when you cross Vincent Price, Michael Jackson, 1,500 Filipino inmates and a transvestite?”
I think I missed the boat on this one, and some of you have probably already seen this. But sweet mercy it’s fantastic. If you ever go to jail in the Philippines, […]

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About 25 young ne’erdowells are being forced to take court-ordered poetry classes after they threw a party in Robert Frost’s summer Vermont home, smashing windows and furniture and littering the property with plastic beer cups.

And yes, I came up with that headline all by myself.
From AP/AOL News:

“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,” [the teacher] […]

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There’s something just beautiful about this. And something creepy…
ASIMO can run, speak, climb stairs, serve coffee, navigate through crowds of people, link up to computer networks, deliver weather reports and recognize faces, speech and environments. He works as a receptionist at Honda’s offices in Saitama, Japan.
In case you’re interested, ASIMO is taking some […]

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Really.
From the “micro-nation”’s official website:

Our nearest neighbour, the United Kingdom, noted our country with some disdain and much indifference […]. As time moved on, our Principality became more firmly entrenched; an attempt by the UK to occupy our country fell to the UK Courts to be quashed, and finally our permanent presence was accepted. Following […]

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Burmese ex-pat women are taking advantage of their ruling military leaders’ anti-panty superstitions to turn subjugation into subversion, resulting in one of the neatest political write-in campaigns I’ve ever heard of. So far, women across Europe, Brazil, Canada, the Philippines and Singapore are taking part.
From the Panties for Peace Canada website:

The Panties for Peace […]

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Remember those ads for Lifelock, an identity theft prevention company, where the firm’s CEO plasters his social security number on the sides of buses to illustrate the effectiveness of his protection services? Enter the inevitable:
From the New York Times:

Attorney David Paris said he found records of other people applying for or receiving driver’s licenses […]

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The 40,000 residents of Muskogee, Oklahoma have elected 19-year-old John Tyler Hammons as mayor. A crossover candidate if there ever was one, Hammons heads both the Young Republicans and the Young Democrats at his college. He garnered 69 per cent of the vote, beating three-time mayor Herschel McBride.

And for all you eligible young […]

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