Real or Photoshopped? These delicious vegetables look a little less appetizing than the company intended.
Year: 2006
So cute!
Photos of tiny animals on fingers. A Flickr photo-set, via Boingboing.
I need to add a ‘this is pretty fucking sad’ category for things like this.
Almost a third of Americans don’t remember what year 9/11 happened in. This just leaves me speechless.
All your cars are belong to us.
Hoboken robotic garage holding cars hostages. That’s what happens when you f*ck with the IT staff…
And to think, it’s still a minor for three more years.
The web turns 15 today. Precocious little scamp, isn’t it?
No one ever suspects the butterfly (larvae).
Parts of Sweden are overrun with caterpillars. Warning: a little gross. I used to see something like this when living on the South Shore of Montreal — every year in May the building I lived in would be swarmed by unidentified flying insects. I guess I should count myself lucky that they didn’t spin cocoons too…
Only in Japan…
Introducing the Mitsubishi i Hello Kitty edition. Not for the subtle. It’s been reported that simply climbing in this car will kill all the testosterone in your body.
Who says shopping has to be a tedious experience?
Amusing things to do in big-box stores. Never be bored shopping again!
419 great information resources :o)
A wealth of resources on the various permutations of the 419 scam. Remember, there’s no such thing as a free lunch, and no one will give you millions of dollars just for the use of your bank account. Don’t be a sucker.
A new twist on the “419” scam idea.
I received this in my inbox today. I have fairly strict spam checking, so I was surprised that this fell through the filters. Anyway, it’s basically a 419 scam, where someone is promised a certain amount of money for helping someone else retrieve a larger amount of money. For those who are wondering why it’s called a 419, it’s because scams of this type are so prevalent in Nigeria that a section of the penal code, section 419, was created specifically to deal with it. I’m a little surprised that anyone still gets caught up in that nonsense in 2006!
This is a bit of an evolution in the 419 scam. In this case the “sender” pretends to be someone who needs your help in retrieving property which is supposedly legally his. The text of the spam message is included further down. Continue reading A new twist on the “419” scam idea.