This is somehow more depressing than notalwaysrite:

Literally unbelievable, a collection of Facebook status threads from people who think Onion stories are real.

M0F10L8 -- took me a while to figure this one out ( Read more... )

Security fail (hilarious photo)

This looks really, really painful. captainparanoid and I recently did something from the opposite end of the spectrum -- after having our food delivered to our table at a restaurant with the usual "careful, hot plate" warning, we both grabbed on to see who would give up first. There were no winners.

nhl.com video: the Sedin ( Read more... )

In Facebook Scrabble, click on the stats button, then click on highest word score, and note how many people claim to have played OXYPHENBUTAZONE for 1778 points :-)

(Googling suggests this is by no means a recent thing; I'd just never bothered to look at the stats page before.)

Oops: TSA misses a loaded Glock in carry-on: "A man who flew out of Houston's George Bush airport discovered a loaded handgun in his carry-on bag after landing; he'd forgotten he was carrying it and the eagle-eyed TSA screeners were too busy ogling his penis to spot the loaded gun in the nearly empty bag from which he'd dutifully removed his laptop ( Read more... )

Phil Plait's top 14 astronomy pictures of 2010. I like #7, "Death Spiral of a Star" the best, not because it's the prettiest necessarily, but, well, read the description. (It's not as impressive without having the picture in front of you too, which is why I'm not quoting it here.)

via boingboing, a mesmerizing 13-day time-lapse of a 747 being ( Read more... )

Misc links from the past few weeks

Sears for Zombies. Be sure to click on the "Switch to Zombian" link in the upper right (under "Share this Page")

Zombie t-shirt

Contrary to conventional wisdom, science shows that you can compare apples and oranges.

vending machine in Nanjing dispenses live crabs: "This live hairy Shanghai crab vending ( Read more... )

boingboing:

Firesheep should freak you out, at least for a moment. It's a Firefox extension that lets any normal human being--I'm not talking about you, BoingBoing readers--install the add-on and then steal the active sessions of people using unencrypted browsing sessions with popular online services on the same Wi-Fi network. This involves no Wi- ( Read more... )

Not really a surprise, sadly. via sabyl on FB, ironically :-)

Facebook's New Groups Feature Worries Some

A Facebook spokeswoman confirmed that group members can only add their friends to the group. "If you have a friend that is adding you to groups you do not want to belong to, or they are behaving in a way that bothers you, you can tell them to stop ( Read more... )

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101005121822.htm

In what may be the first comprehensive study of its kind, a University of Colorado Denver Business School student has revealed the top reasons for Facebook unfriending, who is unfriended and how ( Read more... )