This is the best worst video you’ll see for a while. That’s a 20-month-old baby in the carriage, watching Barney on her mom’s iPhone. And then the guy who sort of looks like Jim’s dad from American Pie bends over and steals it. Again, from a baby. He stole an iPhone from a baby and was caught on CCTV and the rest of the world wanted to be mad at him but could not stop laughing. [The Sun via CNET] More »
It is one thing to like Apple products. It is quite another to let your insane tech zealotry escalate to the point where you are actually paying other people to inject ink into your skin with needles so that you may forever serve as a fleshy canvas displaying your deranged, rabidly fanatical devotion to an operating system. Here’s a bunch of certifiable lunatics who did that second thing. More »
Will.i.am and Simon Cowell Are Bringing You an X Factor for Tech Whether You Want It or Not [Television]
Posted in: Today's Chili If you thought judge-critiqued and/or audience-voting-based reality TV shows were getting old, you’d be right, but that doesn’t mean they’re going away. X Factor’s Simon Cowell and the Black Eyed Peas’ Will.i.am are reported to be whipping up a new one right now, but it’s not for singing, or any kind of performance art. No, no, no. It’s for tech moguls. More »
This Crazy Steve Jobs Sculpture Is Supposedly Made with a Touch of Jobs’ Stolen Trash [Wtf]
Posted in: Today's Chili You may remember the Steve Jobs action figures that were introduced and then canceled earlier this year. Now there’s a new Steve Jobs figure on the horizon, one that supposedly contains a weird and creepy ingredient: trash stolen from Jobs himself. More »
We’ve seen some awesome, hilarious and good-hearted proposals but we’ve never seen anything as twisted as this: a guy and girl fly a two person plane and take in the sweeping views (cue: aww) but then things take a wild turn, as the plane begins to crash. Well, “crash”. More »
Man Jailed for Accidentally Sexting His Whole Address Book (Including Some Tweens) [WTFriday]
Posted in: Today's Chili You know that episode of The Newsroom where the sassy British lady accidentally emails the whole staff from her BackBerry instead of her boss? A 24-year-old swimming coach did that, but with a fairly graphic sex message. And for extra credit, he had some underaged girls in his phone. That meant trouble. More »
The worst part of going to the doctor’s is being poked and prodded with any number of terrifying probes and needles, but you probably haven’t seen many of the really scary implements that are out there. Here are 16 crazy ones you probably don’t want anywhere near you. More »
JK Rowling’s new book The Casual Vacancy—her first for adults—is a pretty big deal in the publishing world. So is the Kindle. And that is why it is so very funny and great that the Kindle version of the ebook seems to be a woefully misshapen train wreck. More »
If Poltergeist taught us anything, it’s that you shouldn’t build a house on a Native American burial ground. Obviously the owners of Flagstaff’s Arizona Snowbowl Ski Resort have never seen that movie because they’re literally about to shit all over one, by expanding onto 74 acres of sacred land in the San Francisco Peaks and manufacturing 100 percent of its snow from sewage. More »