A feature from Google Labs gives you real-time suggestions for search queries as you type them. Some of the results are hilarious. The suggestions are influenced by the number of previous searches using those words and the searches it turns up can be funny, touching, puzzling and scary. 1. What would a… Never mind what [...]
September 23, 2009
The infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type a given text, such as the complete works of William Shakespeare. In this context, “almost surely” is a mathematical term with a precise meaning, and the “monkey” is not [...]
September 22, 2009
Reviews posted by Amazon customers have become one of the online retailer’s most useful and popular features. But they are open to abuse by mischievous commenters. This T-shirt attracted more than 1,400 reviews on Amazon. Here are ten items that have had their review threads hijacked and taken in bizarre directions by playful web users. [...]
September 21, 2009
Google loves to slip in-jokes and hidden features known as “easter eggs” into its products. Here are 15 of our favourites. 1) Google Reader ninja Probably the finest – and certainly the most childish – Google easter egg. Using the arrow keys, type “up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A” while using [...]
September 21, 2009
A former school teacher announced at a Texas Education Agency hearing that she is a 56-year-old virgin. She thought she was testifying at a hearing about sex education. She wasn’t. The woman, apparently hoping to impress upon the agency that you can teach kids to get sexy without taking their clothes off — for which [...]
September 21, 2009
When a white supremacist group VNN Vanguard Nazi/KKK tried to host a hate rally in Knoxville, Tennessee, they were foiled…by clowns! The 100th ARA (Anti Racist Action) clown block joyfully disrupted the KKK spectacle. Alex Linder the founder of VNN and the lead organizer of the rally kicked off events by rushing the clowns in [...]
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