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	<title>Stupidity Crisis &#187; Jon</title>
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		<title>Texting While Driving IMPROVED!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 13:47:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, you&#8217;re driving along, and you get a text from your significant other.  CLEARLY, they want you to drop everything you&#8217;re doing, take one hand off the sensitive control of that 1 ton vehicle traveling at say, 50mph, and answer their concern immediately.  &#8220;Hey babe, whut up? Whut r u wearing?&#8221; is just more important [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So, you&#8217;re driving along, and you get a text from your significant other.  CLEARLY, they want you to drop everything you&#8217;re doing, take one hand off the sensitive control of that 1 ton vehicle traveling at say, 50mph, and answer their concern immediately.  &#8220;Hey babe, whut up? Whut r u wearing?&#8221; is just more important than paying attention to the ~230 kJ kinetic projectile you&#8217;re currently at the helm of.</p>
<p>Sounds pretty good, right? WRONG.</p>
<p>Now, you can <a href="http://www.steering-wheel-ipad.com/">attach a full iPad to your steering wheel!</a> No more dicking with your iPhone while dicking with your dick with your other hand!  Now you can safely, and EASILY do stupid shit like read the news while driving!  Here are some quotes from satisfied customers who don&#8217;t sound made-up at all!</p>
<p><a href="http://stupiditycrisis.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/ipad_steering_wheel.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-371" src="http://stupiditycrisis.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/ipad_steering_wheel-300x226.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="226" /></a></p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think that I am exaggerating when I say that the iPad Steering  Wheel Mount         probably has saved my life.   Before I bought the mount, I was  always trying to text          and read E-Mail on my Blackberry while driving on my daily  commute in Seattle.&#8221; <a href="http://www.steering-wheel-ipad.com/stories.html">&#8211; Steve Holland</a></p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Often people         fall asleep in the middle of a clear and dry day with no traffic  and crash          while driving on I-57 because it is <em>so boring</em> and because  the speed limit         is only 65 miles per hour.  I have found that using cruise  control and          playing BeJeweled on my iPad mounted         on the steering wheel keeps me awake and alert without  distracting too much from          driving.&#8221; <a href="http://www.steering-wheel-ipad.com/stories.html">&#8211; Sam Dinsdale</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Go out and buy one today, so you do this to a mother and her two children!  And when your airbag deploys, you can KEEP READING because it&#8217;ll shove the iPad into your FACE. Ain&#8217;t safety GREAT?</p>
<p style="text-align: center"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://roadsafety.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/four-fatalities-in-sandton-accident.jpg" alt="" width="622" height="415" /></p>
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		<title>Plagiarism Plagiarized</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 17:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Full Story So, there&#8217;s this Argentinian politician who just proposed an anti-plagiarism law, which he apparently thinks is an anti-copyright infringement law.  We know this because he suggests that plagiarism is hurting the recording industry.   Okay, so clearly he&#8217;s involved with the Argentinian RIAA equivalent, and neither he nor they know what the difference is.  [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_bmM8TSPMGgc/S68Ug-rpv9I/AAAAAAAABGg/IrFiMJ6DUNc/s1600/plagiarism.jpg" alt="From http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_bmM8TSPMGgc/S68Ug-rpv9I/AAAAAAAABGg/IrFiMJ6DUNc/s1600/plagiarism.jpg" width="300" height="240" /><a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100514/0133339425.shtml">Full Story</a></p>
<p>So, there&#8217;s this Argentinian politician who just proposed an anti-plagiarism law, which he apparently thinks is an anti-copyright infringement law.  We know this because he suggests that plagiarism is hurting the recording industry.   Okay, so clearly he&#8217;s involved with the Argentinian RIAA equivalent, and neither he nor they know what the difference is.  Great, that&#8217;s pretty stupid already, even without getting into the whole RIAA/copyright debate.</p>
<p>To increase the stupid, he used Wikipedia to help write his proposed law.  That&#8217;s pretty scary.  A federal-level law, well, a law period, being based on Wikipedia.  Most high schools don&#8217;t let you use Wikipedia as a serious source, much less colleges and governmental institutions.</p>
<p>But here&#8217;s the real kicker.  Not only did he use Wikipedia as his source, he apparently stole 3 paragraphs straight up from Wikipedia.  Verbatim.  In other words, he plagiarized the Wikipedia article on plagiarism for his anti-plagiarism bill.  Sweet.</p>
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		<title>Diamonds are a Girl&#8217;s Best Friend&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:40:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;and a Guy&#8217;s Reason for Suicide. RF Moeller is a diamond dealer.  Some fellow made an ad for them.  Probably not the best idea ever&#8230;   but it is an interesting study on how most things are done on Facebook these days.  Most of the story has unfolded there, apparently, with apologies and so forth from [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8230;and a Guy&#8217;s Reason for Suicide.</p>
<p>RF Moeller is a diamond dealer.  Some fellow made an ad for them.  Probably not the best idea ever&#8230;   but it <em>is</em> an interesting study on how most things are done on Facebook these days.  Most of the story has unfolded there, apparently, with apologies and so forth from both Moeller, and the admaker.</p>
<p>Here it is below. Enjoy.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter" src="http://www.jckonline.com/common/jumplink.php?target=http%3A%2F%2Fconsumerist.com%2Fpoortastead.jpg" alt="" width="480" height="640" /></p>
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		<title>Drowning. LOL.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 22:58:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Failblog.  This was too good not to share.  It looks &#8216;shopped, but if it isn&#8217;t, then some sign maker somewhere needs to be fired, then given a medal or something.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From <a href="http://failblog.org/2010/04/02/epic-fail-photos-drowning-sign-fail">Failblog</a>.  This was too good not to share.  It looks &#8216;shopped, but if it isn&#8217;t, then some sign maker somewhere needs to be fired, then given a medal or something.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter" src="http://failblog.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/129144614332424537.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="500" /></p>
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		<title>Finding Shit is Hard</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2010 16:11:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It turns out that finding rare things in a sea of normal things is hard.  Incidentally, that&#8217;s what we rely upon when we go through TSA screening and they look for weapons on our person or in our carry-on baggage. From the NPR Article: &#8220;If you stick those 20 bags into a stack of 40 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright" src="http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/brainiac/airport_xray_scanner-thumb.jpg" alt="Xray Scan" width="350" height="289" /></p>
<p style="text-align: left">
<p style="text-align: left">It turns out that finding rare things in a sea of normal things is  hard.  Incidentally, that&#8217;s what we rely upon when we go through TSA  screening and they look for weapons on our person or in our carry-on baggage.</p>
<p style="text-align: left">From the <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122561355">NPR Article</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;If you stick those 20 bags into a stack of 40 bags, so on average  there&#8217;s a gun and knife in 50 percent of the bags,&#8221; Wolfe says, &#8220;people  missed about 7 percent of the bags.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>But when he took the exact  same 20 bags and stuck them in a stack of 2,000 bags so that the targets  showed up only 2 percent of the time, people got significantly worse.  &#8220;All of a sudden, people were missing about 30 percent of the bags,&#8221;  Wolfe says.</p></blockquote>
<p>Huh.  Well, now TSA screeners are going to be looking at baggage <strong><em>and</em></strong><em> </em>nekkid pictures, so I bet they get super better at this.  Right? Right?</p>
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		<title>Florida Doctor Has Hissy Fit</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2010 06:47:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A urologist in Florida hates the new healthcare plan, so he&#8217;s put up a passive aggressive sign saying he doesn&#8217;t want to treat people who voted for Obama.  Of course, he still has to treat them if he wants to keep his license/remain ethical, as per the Hippocratic Oath he took, but dammit, he wants [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright" src="http://www.cartoonstock.com/lowres/cgr0247l.jpg" alt="Hippocratic Oath" width="290" height="400" />A urologist in Florida hates the new healthcare plan, so he&#8217;s put up a passive aggressive sign saying he doesn&#8217;t want to treat people who voted for Obama.  Of course, he still has to treat them if he wants to keep his license/remain ethical, as per the Hippocratic Oath he took, but dammit, he wants to throw a hissy fit, and doggone it, he has.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/04/02/doctor-obama-supporters-health-care/">Full story</a> on <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/">Fox News</a>, as if we could trust them, anyway.</p>
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		<title>Pay Women to Play Games with You</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:23:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[GameCrush is a site where you pay $0.66/minute to play videogames with women. The women are compensated $30/hour to put up with the men that would frequent such a site. For more info: GameCrush press page As Penny Arcade put it in this comic and news post, you&#8217;re essentially renting women (buying a hooker) from [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="  alignright" src="http://drop.io/download/public/p7toc57mj9ywfuozjigl/b4699056511bc8a0e9549ea35a989fadfe496d75/Asset/25685045/v3/large_thumbnail" alt="GameCrush" width="288" height="283" /></p>
<p><a href="http://www.gamecrush.com/">GameCrush</a> is a site where you pay $0.66/minute to play videogames with women.</p>
<p>The women are compensated $30/hour to put up with the men that would frequent such a site.</p>
<p>For more info: <a href="http://gamecrush.presslift.com/gamecrush-spices-up-online-gaming-with-new-site">GameCrush press page</a></p>
<p>As <a href="http://www.penny-arcade.com/">Penny Arcade</a> put it in this <a href="http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/3/31/">comic</a> and <a href="http://www.penny-arcade.com/2010/3/31/">news post</a>, you&#8217;re essentially renting women (buying a hooker) from a digital storefront (brothel).  I mean&#8230; paying women to&#8230;play games&#8230;with..you.</p>
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		<title>Russian Roulette: For Kids!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 00:18:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon</dc:creator>
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		<title>Palin Pew Pew Pew</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 14:10:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The article isn&#8217;t super interesting, but the picture is somewhat terrifying&#8230; Not only does she look deranged, she&#8217;s got poor trigger discipline.  Granted, there&#8217;s no magazine in the weapon, but who&#8217;s to say that there isn&#8217;t a round in the chamber?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignnone" src="http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2010/03/25/alg_gun_sarah-palin.jpg" alt="Palin Pew Pew Pew" width="485" height="329" /></p>
<p><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2010/03/29/2010-03-29_sarah_palin_fires_back_at_politically_correct_democrats_over_use_of_hunting_term.html">The article</a> isn&#8217;t super interesting, but the picture is somewhat terrifying&#8230; Not only does she look deranged, she&#8217;s got poor trigger discipline.  Granted, there&#8217;s no magazine in the weapon, but who&#8217;s to say that there isn&#8217;t a round in the chamber?</p>
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		<title>Script Kiddie Fail</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:06:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well,  Larry Hyrd, aka Major Nelson of Xbox Live had his account hacked recently.  The code monkeys at M$ have fixed it all, supposedly. The script kiddies that did it thoughtfully gave a YouTube presentation of their doings, complete with a their website address, Skype Names, and AIM name.  Furthermore, they showed (in HD glory) [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright" src="http://www.brainfuel.tv/wp-content/uploads/2006/04/will_code_for_food.jpg" alt="Will Code HTML for Food" width="329" height="353" />Well,  Larry Hyrd, aka Major Nelson of Xbox Live had his account hacked recently.  The code monkeys at M$ have fixed it all, supposedly.</p>
<p>The script kiddies that did it thoughtfully gave a YouTube presentation of their doings, complete with a their website address, Skype Names, and AIM name.  Furthermore, they showed (in HD glory) their entire buddy list.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s awesome.  The internets already has their home address and facebook via WHOIS.</p>
<p>Full story and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyhPTcjSPlQ">YouTube Video</a> on <a href="http://kotaku.com">Kotaku</a> <a href="http://kotaku.com/5504145/xbox-live-directors-account-hacked-are-you-next">here</a>.  WARNING: You&#8217;ll want headphones for the video if you&#8217;re at work.  Lots of wannabe thug swearing.</p>
<p>Kotaku comment thread has his address and facebook page, if you are so inclined. Oh! And surprise, surprise, he&#8217;s from Florida.</p>
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