Have folks heard that North Korea hired Chinese to play the part of North Korean soccer fans in the stadium, because most North Koreans can't leave the country?

Stay classy, Kim Jong-il!

My congressman (who wants to be my senator) on the campaign trail. What a weasel.

Heck, I lose my phone all the time when it's visible! An invisible phone would have to be glued to my person.

I'm waiting for the invention of earring phones.

The Anosognosic’s Dilemma: Something’s Wrong but You’ll Never Know What It Is (Part 1)

Wheeler had walked into two Pittsburgh banks and attempted to rob them in broad daylight. What made the case peculiar is that he made no visible attempt at disguise. The surveillance tapes were key to his arrest. There he is with a gun, standing in front of a teller demanding money. Yet, when arrested, Wheeler was completely disbelieving. “But I wore the juice,” he said. Apparently, he was under the deeply misguided impression that rubbing one’s face with lemon juice rendered it invisible to video cameras.

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As Dunning read through the article, a thought washed over him, an epiphany. If Wheeler was too stupid to be a bank robber, perhaps he was also too stupid to know that he was too stupid to be a bank robber — that is, his stupidity protected him from an awareness of his own stupidity.

Dunning wondered whether it was possible to measure one’s self-assessed level of competence against something a little more objective — say, actual competence. Within weeks, he and his graduate student, Justin Kruger, had organized a program of research. Their paper, “Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties of Recognizing One’s Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-assessments,” was published in 1999.

The NYT article is kind of longish... and also part 1 of a 5 part series.

I am writing up the documents about my work procedures and what I propose that I do from home. At current count, I use 13 different applications to do my admin job. 13! and that is not counting word, excel, and lotus notes as apps.

suddenly is struck by a vision of Micheal Vartan ripping open the side seam of his priest cassock to get to the Glock strapped to his thigh.

OMG, that's just...not damned fair, you!

And I gotta go teach critical thinking. PFFT.

From Think Geek: OFFICIALLY OUR BEST-EVER CEASE AND DESIST

Recently we got the best-ever cease and desist letter. We're no stranger to the genre, so what could possibly make this one stand out from the rest?

First, it's 12 pages long and very well-researched (except on one point); it even includes screengrabs of the offending item from our site. And we know they're not messing around because they invested in the best and brightest legal minds.

But what makes this cease and desist so very, very special is that it's for a fake product we launched for April Fool's day.

It wasn't the iCade, or the Dharma Initiative Clock, or even the Tribbles 'n' Bits Breakfast Cereal.

No, it was the Canned Unicorn Meat.

The very special but also very real letter is from the National Pork Board, who claims we're infringing on the slogan "The Other White Meat," a slogan they're apparently thinking about phasing out anyways. A screengrab of the product page is below.

Luckily, the Sisters at Radiant Farms, where the unicorns are nursed through old age before being slaughtered, canned, and brought to market at ThinkGeek, have nothing to worry about--this kind of use is protected as a parody. (We're hoping the NPB doesn't tell the Sisters that unicorns don't actually exist; it'd break their little sparkly hearts.)

OMG, that's just...not damned fair, you!

perhaps you would wish to ponder the ever important question -- is he wearing pants under the cassock? or perhaps some matching black boxer briefs?

You did not live in the same Canada I lived in. Not even Quebec.

Don't care! The heart wants want it wants.

Don't care! The heart wants want it wants.

Yeah, it's really your heart talking here, sure.