Dave Barry’s blog found this story: A mouse munched its way through thousands of pounds of cash after climbing inside a cash machine in Estonia. The animal was found in the machine [...]

MIT announced to the high school seniors who applied for admission who was accepted on March 14 at 1:59pm. Why? Because the time would then be 3.14159, the value of pi. If [...]

Man accused of robbing underwear shops claims that he thought he was a magic female elf. Fails to level up. Insert video gaming joke here. read more | digg story

John Dvorak’s block had this story: As a Valentine’s Day card smoldered, more than 100 members of the Hindu extremist group Shiv Sena chanted “Death to Valentine’s Day” and “People who celebrate [...]

You have to love the stupid criminal stories like this one from Dvorak’s blog: COVINGTON, La. Police said they caught a 16-year-old robbery suspect who had eluded authorities on several previous occasions [...]

Thanks to Steven Colbert of the Colbert report the word of the year for 2006 is … “truthiness.” “Truthiness” best summed up 2006, according to an online survey by dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster. [...]

A 28-year-old duck hunter was killed when he was accidentally shot by a hunting dog on an inlet of the Cumberland River in west Nashville, a state wildlife official said today. The [...]

From Dvorak’s blog another stupid criminal trick: [Cheyanne E. Dwiggins, 18, who was] arrested for shoplifting had filled her pockets with so many items that her weighted-down pants dropped to her ankles [...]

What is the cost of bad puctuation? It can be much higher than you would think from a story from the New York Times The dispute between Rogers Communications of Toronto, Canada’s [...]

According to an article in Boing Boing: When magician David Copperfield was mugged in Florida earlier this year, he turned his pockets inside out to show that he wasn’t holding anything but [...]