Archive for the weird news Category

uBreakup: The Tackiest Way to Dump Someone

Oct 16th, 2006 Posted in humor, nerd culture, press, weird news | Comments Off

I found this company uBreakup,that allows users to avoid the “is it because I’m a half-man overweight circus runaway” awkwardness of most breakup calls. You record your free message and schedule the smackdown for whenever you like. Now all the service needs is the uDrunkDialThemBackHorny service. That’d be a real winner.

Valuev Vs. Barrett on HBO

Sep 27th, 2006 Posted in press, sports, tv, weird news | Comments Off

This looks crazy, but I had to post it. This is a real boxing match, not a joke, or scam. When I heard there was a big guy from Russia boxing I thought, 6’5″ 275lbs. This guy is 7′ and weighs over 325lbs. Thats nuts, and he’s fighting a much, much smaller guy. Makes me think of Bob Sapp of K1 and Pride fame.

I know this isn’t nerdy, or urban, but I had to post it. Sorry.

FemBot anyone?

Sep 27th, 2006 Posted in humor, movies, toys, weird news | Comments Off

While searching through the endless pages of Ebay I came across the greatest thing since sliced bread! Hollywood*props is auctioning off the orginal Vanessa Kensington FEMBOT for Austin Powers: the Spy Who Shagged Me!

Own your very own FEMBOT and make all your friends jealous… or creap them out. Whatever the result, you will have one awesome prop. Does this make you horney baby??? Yeah!!! Hopely they will sell the SHAGUAR next!

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Think your a wise guy?

Sep 22nd, 2006 Posted in press, tv, weird news | Comments Off

The Sopranos will be filming in a casino in Atlantic City on October 3rd and 4th. Grant Wilfley Casting is looking for upscale patrons to work as background in the episode. We are not providing transportation from NYC so you must be from the area or able to get there on your own. If you are available and fit the description please email your pic along with your height and contact info. Must be available both days. Please indicate if you are Sag or Non-Sag.

Contact: sopranosextras@gmail.com

Remember Ring Gives You a Burning Reminder

Sep 21st, 2006 Posted in humor, technology, weird news | Comments Off

The Remember Ring has a special nagging feature, using its “Hot Spot” technology that warms up to 120 degrees Fahrenheit for 10 seconds, every hour, on the hour, beginning 24 hours before that “special day,” apparently honoring the anniversary of your voluntary servitude. That’s supposed to be warm enough to be uncomfortable but not hot enough to burn you. The Remember Ring converts the heat from your hand into electricity using a micro-thermo pile, keeping that battery charged and its heat-bomb clock ticking away, ready to burn you again next year.

Tell the diabolical proprietors when your anniversary date is when you order the ring, and they’ll program it for you. Available in seven styles ranging from gold to silver, it has a lifetime warranty. We would like the company to add a special voice nagging option, kicking into an hourly whine about taking out the garbage once a week.

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Screech Scams Stern Listeners & Internet site

Sep 12th, 2006 Posted in tv, weird news | Comments Off

Journal Sentinel: If you’re one of the good Samaritans (or just one of the chumps) who sent former child actor and current beggar Dustin Diamond a bunch of cash for a T-shirt that says “I paid $15.00 to save Screeech’s house,” you might want to file for a refund.

Just do it quickly, because there are a few people in Denver who wouldn’t mind getting a piece of Screech themselves.

You might recall that Diamond, better known as Screech Powers on the ’90s sitcom “Saved By the Bell,” made a few headlines – and presumably a few bucks – when he went public earlier this summer with a suggestion he was about to lose his Port Washington home.

On the same Web site where you can buy a shirt, you can also download free ring tones that have Diamond, a stand-up comic, worrying about, among other things, being homeless or living under a bridge.

“This is Dustin Diamond,” goes my favorite one. “Please buy a T-shirt from getdshirts.com. I really don’t wanna do porn.”

Forget about getting a shirt from the man. I say we all send him a pair of pants. Who, after all, wants to see Screech in neither a house nor a wardrobe?

Diamond didn’t just get on Howard Stern with his plea. Executives at ManiaTV.com, the Internet TV network, even scheduled an Aug. 14 telethon out in Colorado.

Then something weird – or, should I say, weirder – happened. Jason Damata, ManiaTV.com’s communications manager, said the company flew Screech and a girlfriend named Jennifer out and put them up in a fancy hotel where they ran up a bill in excess of $600, only to find that “their shtick entirely changed.”

They somehow seemed to become uncomfortable with the fund-raiser.

When company executives tried to figure out what was going on, says Damata, Jennifer told the vice president of programming, Richard Ayoub, “This is more of a publicity stunt than anything. He is not really going to lose his house.”

Not lose his house? What about Howard Stern? What about all the money he’d, you’d think, already collected? What about that impending career in nudie flicks?

Not wanting to be part of anything that might be a ruse, ManiaTV.com pulled the plug and told a Denver reporter that, along with everything else, Screech had been really strange and obnoxious.

“They pretty much pulled a fast one on us,” is the way Damata put it to me.

I can’t claim the whole thing was a fabrication because there really is a foreclosure action – B&L of Grafton vs. DND of PW – pending in Ozaukee County Circuit Court, and it contended, when it was filed in May, Diamond was five months behind on $2,260-per-month payments.

He is still, according to B&L partner Lew Herro, “pretty far behind.”

Not that, according to Herro, B&L has seen any money from the T-shirt sales.

It appears possible Diamond really could lose the house, but Herro says his understanding is that he is making arrangements to get a mortgage – leading me to guess that maybe Screech realized having a big telethon and milking unsuspecting fans of their cash, at this point, would have been a creepy a thing to do.

Who knows? Maybe Screech will even send back any money he’s already collected to unsuspecting fans who thought he was truly in trouble.

That would be the happy Hollywood ending, wouldn’t it?

Too bad, in reality, he was still selling T-shirts on his Web site on Friday.

In South Korea, online rumors can hit hard

Aug 24th, 2006 Posted in technology, weird news | Comments Off

Kim Myong Jae’s estranged girlfriend was found dead in her room in Seoul on April 22 last year, six days after she poisoned herself.

Two weeks later, Kim, a 30-year-old accountant, found that he had been transformed into the No. 1 hate figure of South Korea’s Internet community, a victim of a growing problem in a country that boasts the world’s highest rate of broadband use.

First, death threats and vicious text messages flooded his cellphone. Meanwhile, spreading fast through blogs and Web portals were rumors that Kim had jilted his girlfriend after forcing her to abort his baby, that he had assaulted her and her mother, and that his abuse had finally driven her to suicide.

“By the time I found out the source of this outrage, it was too late. My name, address, photographs, telephone numbers were all over the Internet,” Kim said. “Tens of thousands of people were busy sharing my identity and discussing how to punish me. My name was the most-searched phrase at portals.” News reports and portals confirmed that his name was at the top of such lists.

The allegations against Kim were first posted on his former girlfriend’s home page after her death and quickly spread in various versions. Kim vehemently denies the allegations, and the police later said they could not substantiate them.

But Web users took the matter into their own hands. They bombarded Kim’s employer, the food and beverage company Doosan, with so many calls demanding that it fire Kim or face a boycott that Kim quit. Anonymous hate mail swamped the Web site of Kookmin University, where Kim attended evening classes, forcing him to drop out.

“I couldn’t believe what was happening to me was real,” he said. “My family had to move to a new house. I was afraid to dine out or use public transportation. I had to live like a fugitive.”

In South Korea, which has one of the world’s most developed Internet communities, the problem known as “cyberviolence” has reached frightening proportions, officials say.

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Woot! Not only when leveling up

Aug 18th, 2006 Posted in personal, urban, weird news | Comments Off

I was at the bar last night and in mixed conversation I heard someone say “Woot!” Me being the gamer I am, immediately responded to it with “What MMORPG you on?” He looked at me funny for a moment and then stated that he doesn’t play video games* and that he found a site called Woot! And that they had some awesome stuff on it.

After downing about 6 beers, I decided to head off and return home. Before making it to the bedroom I stopped and checked out the site. That jack-hole was right. It is a cool site, with great stuff. I can’t believe I had never found it before. You can check it out here. Enjoy!

*side note: that guys a jerk off because everyone at some point in their lives, whether it be boy or girl have played, and enjoyed playing video games, if they didn’t companies would stop making them.

Don’t Drink and Drive, especially when you own a beer company!

Jul 18th, 2006 Posted in press, weird news | Comments Off

Source: Associated Press

DENVER – Beer baron Peter Coors’ driver’s license has been revoked by a hearing officer who ruled the executive had been driving under the influence of alcohol, officials said.

Hearing officer Scott Garber ruled Friday that Coors did not stop at a stop sign on May 28 and was driving intoxicated.

Coors, 59, said he had consumed a beer about 30 minutes before leaving a wedding, the Rocky Mountain News reported Saturday. He faces a July 20 arraignment and has 30 days to appeal the revocation.

“I made a mistake. I should have planned ahead for a ride,” Coors said in a statement. “For years, I’ve advocated the responsible use of our company’s products.”

Coors’ spokeswoman, Kabira Hatland, said Coors was charged with driving while under the influence. Coors’ lawyer, Steve Higgens, did not immediately return a call seeking comment.

Hatland said that Coors rolled through a stop sign a block from his home in Golden and that an officer stopped him in his driveway.

In one breath test, he registered a blood alcohol level of 0.073 percent. In a second, 20 minutes later, he registered 0.088. In Colorado a blood alcohol count of 0.05 results in a driving while impaired charge, while a count of 0.08 results in driving under the influence.

Legal analyst Scott Robinson said drivers with no previous alcohol convictions are usually held to have driven while impaired, rather than the more serious driving while under the influence. A DWI finding can result in a loss of driving privileges for 90 days; DUI can result in suspension for a year.

Peter Coors “has never even had a moving violation,” said Coors spokeswoman Kabira Hatland.

Coors took over as president of his family’s company in 1987 and in 2000 was named chief executive of the brewer, with 8,500 employees and $4 billion in sales in 2003. Following a 2005 merger, it is now the Molson Coors Brewing Co.

Milwaukee gas giveaway sparks crashes, arrests

Jul 12th, 2006 Posted in weird news | Comments Off

MILWAUKEE — Two vehicles crashed, four people were arrested for fighting and three officers got sent to the hospital — all over some free gasoline Wednesday.

For the most part, hundreds of drivers waited patiently for hours for about $30 worth of free gasoline from Allstate Insurance.

Some cars started lining up before midnight for the gas, and the line stretched into a residential area, trapping some residents in their driveways Wednesday morning, said Anne E. Schwartz, Milwaukee Police Department spokeswoman.

That led to fights and arrests for disorderly conduct — in one case, three officers got blood on them from a bloody nose, Schwartz said. They went to the hospital as a precaution.

The two crashes apparently occurred when some queued-up motorists tried to let friends into line, Schwartz said.

“Any time you offer free gas when it is $3 a gallon, it is not surprising people would get excited,” she said.

Allstate Insurance gave away the semi-tanker truck of gasoline as a reward to Milwaukee for topping its annual “best drivers” list of safest cities with populations between 500,000 and a million people.

Local insurance agents started pumping the gas at a Milwaukee service station at 6 a.m.

Clarence Jefferson said he thought he’d be first in line when he got there at 4 a.m., only to find hundreds of others already ahead of him.

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