NSFW--News Stories That Make You Say "WTF?!"

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

http://science.slashdot.org/science/08/ ... 3204.shtml

"On February 5, 1897, 111 years ago today, the Indiana legislature very nearly passed a bill 'introducing a new mathematical truth,' that would have erroneously established pi as the ratio 'five-fourths to four' or 3.2. The story explaining the rationale behind the bill and how they were prevented from legislating it when a real mathematician intervened is quite interesting, because the man who discovered the 'new mathematical truth' wanted to charge royalties, which could have made pi the first form of irrational property."

http://www.wired.com/science/discoverie ... ntech_0205

http://www.agecon.purdue.edu/crd/Localg ... i_bill.htm

http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/~hr/numb/pi-irr.html

http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1155

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

Remember those funny TV ads about a device that would send out an audible signal only mosquitoes could hear?

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/u ... 356157.ece

Apparently, they have them for kids in Britain.

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

The news has become more of a sham:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chez-pazi ... 87282.html?

Blog of the guy CNN just fired........for having a blog. Good read on the state of the news reporting today.

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

Britain to install sensors that detect how much blood and fluid are in your car:

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=10851

It will be used to catch people faking passengers in the HOV lane.

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

Particle accelerator sued on fears that it will destroy the world:

http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-990544 ... 47-1_3-0-5

I guess somebody is suffering from Black Mesa complex, eh?

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

Super sh!tty deal for this guy:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7326736.stm

Credit card gets stolen when the guy buys online, thieves buy child pr0n, he goes to jail, gets fired from his job, finally gets his name cleared, and now works a job for a quarter of what he used to.

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

Hackers compromise an epilepsy forum and put flashing pictures throughout it:

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jEG2 ... gD90H3NV01

Funny, but that's pretty d!ckish.

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

Volcano that causes a lightning storm:

http://www.universetoday.com/2008/05/07 ... no-images/

Looks like a weapon outta a Bond flick. Pretty awesome even if all you do is look at the pics.

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

Hacker leaves X-rated story on kids webpage:

http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=8377797

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

Do half the stuff we did at NDHS?

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=12156

Face 38 years in prison.

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

FISA becomes law:

http://www.dailytech.com/FISA+Becomes+L ... e12338.htm

It'll be coming here next.

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

Carry candy in a sock?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scot ... 554912.stm

Get charged with carrying a weapon. Ah, those crazy Brits.

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

You're getting old:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080819/ap_ ... ndset_list

And here's a list of things that have happened to prove it.

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

Dude gets a tapeworm from undercooked salmon?

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/08/19/tapewo ... ref=rss_us

I thought this was the best quote of the article:

According to the Web site mayoclinic.com, tapeworms can measure up to 50 feet long.

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

WTF awesome?

http://science.slashdot.org/science/08/ ... 2229.shtml

People leaving time capsules with 2000 year span so that people of the future know what we're like. Modern day Rosetta stones.