Calling him the oldest tagging suspect they have ever captured, Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies arrested a 74-year-old Los Angeles man for allegedly putting “slap tags” on the inside of Metropolitan Transportation Authority buses. For the last seven months, deputies assigned to the Special Problems unit of the Sheriff’s Transit Bureau have been trying to [...]
September 24, 2009
You won’t find any of these items in eBay’s motors section or in collectibles. Instead, the strangest eBay auctions are to be found by trawling through the thousands of items in the “everything else”. Here, we run through the 10 most bizarre. A “dead fairy”, a “mutant cucumber”, or a pint of sun-dried bees are [...]
September 23, 2009
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 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 20, 2009
Drunken clowns, Pope hats and spaghetti bathers are just a few of the things traded on Craigslist. Earlier this year the website agreed to drop its “erotic services” section over claims that it promoted pornography, but otherwise the unmoderated, anything-goes ethos on which its success was built continues. Below we present a selection of some [...]
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