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Business

Great Moments in Apple Analysis

5:40AM Jason Chen | Benjamin Reitzes of Barclays Capital drops this insightful load in a NYT piece on Apple strategy: More »
Entertainment

This Is How You Record a TV With a Camcorder So You’re Just an MPAA Toolbag, Not a Pirate

12:00PM Matt Buchanan | No clever invective needed: It’s an instructional video from the MPAA showing how to record a TV screen for classroom clips, instead of ripping a DVD. I think they really mean it, too. =( [BoingBoing] More »
Computers

Disgruntled MacBook Air Owner Has Poor Problem-Solving Skills, A Knife

9:29PM John Herrman | This gentleman is extremely upset about his MacBook Air’s damaged hinge, so what does he do? He stabs it in the face, obviously. More »
Games

Big Shot Allegedly Throws Taco at Mummy for Unplugging Xbox

1:00AM Mark Wilson | Zachary Moir, 19 (though mentally about 7 and 3 months), was arrested under charges of assaulting his mother— with a taco—because she unplugged his Xbox when he wouldn’t come downstairs for dinner. More »
Random Stuff

Russian Moron Trademarks Emoticons

3:00AM Jesus Diaz | For some reason, Russian entrepreneur and famed sequins underpants collector Oleg Teterin, thinks that he has the right to trademark emoticons. But don’t fret: this brilliant genius will let individuals use :-) for free. More »
Online

Religious Group Now Protesting Online Porn in the Sky While God Smiles Suspiciously

12:30AM Jesus Diaz | I will never understand why some religious groups keep whining about the most inane sexual things, from Susan Storm’s bra size to Princess Peach’s underpants, but the last protest by religious group “Focus On The Family”–urging people to bully American Airlines for their in-flight unfiltered wireless internet access–makes me want to start slapping them right, left and centre. Apparently, “Focus On The Family” is imagining row after row of seat screens full of all kinds of human, animal, and mini-fig genitalia. Their senior analyst for media and sexuality–take that Dr. Ruth–David Weiss had this very stupid thing to say: More »
Vehicles

Moron Lies Down on Moving Motorcycle to Send Text Messages

6:00AM Sean Fallon | If laws about driving and using mobile phones in American cities are cramping your style, move to scenic India where anything goes! Watch in horror as this lunatic barrels down the highways of New Delhi sending text messages. Hey, why stop there? Yeah, go on and take that nap. Your fellow motorists will love it and the police…haha what police? [Geekologie] More »
Entertainment

Guy Makes a Comic to Try to Justify Acting Like a Jackass at the Apple Store

6:17AM Adam Frucci | Jim Dougan wanted to install an Airport Card in his wife’s MacBook. He realised that a normal screwdriver wouldn’t open the case to allow him to do so. A Google search would have shown him that he required a Torx Wrench #8. He did not make a Google search. Instead, he made a fool out of himself in the Apple Store, yelling and screaming at the Genius Bar employees. He was clearly in the wrong, but to make himself feel better and get internet sympathy, he made a comic about his experience. More »
Press

Crutch Vader Avoids Jail, Dark Side Wins Again

12:13AM Jesus Diaz | District Judge Andrew Straw has given Crutch Vader a “suspended 12 months” jail sentence plus an order to pay US$500 to the “victims”—two morons members of the Jedi Church of England—and their lawyer. This means that Sir Lord Vader Von Drunk—real name Arwel Wynn Hughes—will avoid jail. Quite frankly, after seeing the video of his innocuous attack, I can’t believe the judge actually considered putting this guy in jail. [BBC News] More »