Category Archives: U.S.

reddit be hackt, yo!

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reddit headerUnless the “IAUP VIOLATOR” title is one they wear proudly.

Test it yourself: go to reddit.com and look at the header image. Instead of its usual friendly, literate alien, you’ve got a couple of incestuous-looking aliens with some rather emphatic text above them. IAUP, by the way, stands for Internet Acceptable Use Policy. The hacked image is meant to imply that reddit does not abide by basic internet standards.

Is anyone taking credit for this yet? Leave your breadcrumbs in the comments section, please!

UPDATE: reddit be not hackt. Reddit be self-mocking. This is an improvement; now if we could only get them to stop lol-ing and get fixing things.

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random morbidity

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Haditha

Why is it that when it’s the government that executes someone,
it is never described as “execution-style?”

Stars and Stripes

But it is called the Executive Branch.

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you say tomato, I say tomahto; you say botox, I say botulinum toxin type A

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Botox, yo

A doctor in Las Vegas has been arrested for injecting into the faces of his unsuspecting patients a derivative of the deadly botulism toxin.

He has admitted injecting the patients, who came for Botox treatments, with paralyzing shots of botulinum toxin type A instead of the Botox for which they had paid. Sounds like a pretty open-and-shut case, eh?

Except for one thing: Botox is botulinum toxin type A.

It’s just the trademarked version, the brand name version. It is the same exact substance.

So what this case comes down to is, they paid for the paralytic facial neurotoxin version of Louis Vuitton and instead got the paralytic facial neurotoxin Louis Vutton. How embarrassing, to have a knockoff face!

I cynically predict it will not go to court when the patients realize their names will be part of the public record. Charges dropped in exchange for free treatments, you’ll see. Hey, counterfeit youth is addictive, as John Wyndham knew.

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paging Christopher Walken…could Christopher Walken please report to the Walls of Jericho?

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Well, now it’s official. Welcome to the End Times.

With musical accompaniment.

Well, it would have musical accompaniment, if the Archangel Gabriel (or Gabe, as we like to call him) hadn’t, in a move startlingly reminiscent of (if not actually plagiarized from) Terry Pratchett‘s scene of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse getting one of their horses stolen and so becoming the Three Horsemen and one Pedestrian of the Apocalypse, actually misplaced his trumpet in Salt Lake City, triggering a terrorist alert.

The bloody Mormons, eh? And here everybody thought it was gonna be the godless atheists that brought this down.

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the joke is on you

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Patrick KnightHe who laughs last, laughs best? As jokes go, this one deserves a place in the history books.

Double murderer Patrick Knight (the Insane Cajun) achieved global fame over the past month for his quest to find the funniest joke in the world and tell it at his own execution. That execution happened last night, and here is the joke:

“I said I was going to tell a joke. Death has set me free. That’s the biggest joke.
I deserve this.”

“And the other joke is that I am not Patrick Bryan Knight and y’all can’t stop this execution now.
Go ahead, I’m finished.”

From the AP via Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

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