Communications

In Case of Rapture, Check Inbox 2

mattOzan writes "Wired reports on a handy new Web service at youvebeenleftbehind.com, where subscribers can have email notifications sent to 62 non-believing friends in the wake of The Rapture. Personal and financial documents saved on the website will automatically be decrypted and sent to loved ones as well, six days after the presumably sky-sucked administrators all stop logging into the site."
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Fake Bus Stop Keeps Alzheimer's Patients From Wandering Off 1

Everyone knows that Germany produces some of the world's greatest engineers but what isn't so well known is their accomplishments in tricking the senile. To combat the problem of Alzheimer's patients wandering off, some care facilities are installing fake bus stops to help corral patients. "It sounds funny but it helps, Our members are 84 years old on average. Their short-term memory hardly works, but the long-term memory is still active. They know the green and yellow bus sign and remember that waiting there means they will go home." said Franz-Josef Goebel, the chairman of a local care association called the "Old Lions." Errant patients now wait at the bus stop for their trip home. After sitting for awhile they forget why they are there in the first place and are brought back to the facility.
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Man Denied Boarding Because of Transformers Shirt 2

Brad Jayakody was told he would have to change his shirt if he wanted to catch his flight to Dusseldorf, Germany. The shirt that security at Heathrow got upset about depicts the Transformers character Optimus Prime holding a gun. Brad said, "I was flabbergasted. I thought the supervisor would come over and see sense, but he didn't. After I changed he said if I changed back I would be arrested." I would understand if the guy was wearing a Megatron shirt, after all that guy turns into a gun which could be very dangerous but Prime? There is no way a semi could fit on a passenger plane it's just silly.
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Japanese Woman Hid In Closet for a Year 5

spacecowboy99 writes "The BBC reports that a Japanese woman was caught living in a man's closet. Apparently he became suspicious when food went missing from his refrigerator, this prompted him to install a security surveillance system. It transpires that the Japanese woman had been living secretly in his home for over a year." At least the man didn't call a pest control service on her.
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Man Builds Hogwarts School From Matchsticks

It took Pat Acton more than two years and 602,000 matchsticks to build his latest masterpiece, a detailed scale model of Harry Potter's Hogwarts school. The model features all the turrets, walkways and towers seen in the films. He is currently working on scale model of the Minas Tirith fortified city from The Lord of the Rings movies. Pat says,"The Minas Tirith model will contain hundreds of city buildings. It will also be topped with the Tree of Gondor and the White Tower of Etchelion. The dimensions on it will be roughly 10 feet long and about nine feet wide. The great tower is seven feet tall." Imagine what this guy could do if he harnessed the power of Lego.
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Spanish Village Jumps the Baby 1

If you think the tomato throwing festival in Valencia is the craziest party going on in Spain, you've never heard of the baby jumpers of Castrillo de Murcia. Since 1620 grown men have been donning costumes and leaping over mattresses of babies in a rite meant to ward off the devil. We have a similar ritual at the office where CowboyNeal jumps over a row of cheeseburgers to ensure better internet connectivity.
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Man Really Loves His Car 4

57-year-old Edward Smith wants everyone to know that he is not "sick" or mentally disturbed. He likes movies about cars, he writes poetry about them, he sings and talks to them and sometimes when the mood strikes, he makes love to them. Edward first had sex with a car at 15 and now estimates that over 1,000 cars can call him lover. He currently lives with his "girlfriend," a white Volkswagen Beetle named Vanilla. Could someone please give this man a hug and tell him everything is going to be ok?
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Manager Disables Web Server by Sneaking Away Xbox 129

nz17 writes "While the administrator is away the managers will play. A custom Web server went missing at an unnamed public university, but who was the culprit? The department manager. Thinking that the Linux Web server (which used a Microsoft Xbox for its hardware) was a normal game console, he snuck the device out of the server room and home for his son to play over the holiday weekend. The philosophy students who used the server for their class were not amused."
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I Will Derive Screenshot-sm 269

Jamie stumbled upon a very choice video this morning called I Will Derive. To the tune of some song you've never heard before, singing about subjects you know nothing about... oh and a a TI-84 cameo. It features the dopiest dancing you'll see on YouTube today. I promise.
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Gourmet Jail 2

Italy's Fortezza Medicea top-security prison may be the only prison that has more people trying to get in than escape. A couple of nights a year the prison is turned into a restaurant in an attempt to teach inmates job skills and raise money for charity. To get a reservation you have to pass a background check and submit to metal detector tests before seating. Best of all, when someone talks about a tossed salad at Fortezza Medicea, they mean lettuce.
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Scientists Get $2m to See if Robot Can Stir Soup 3

A British lab has won a $2m grant to study whether or not a robot could be safely employed in a kitchen to stir soup. A lab spokeswoman said, "It will specifically look at the problems of a human and a robot working together in the same space, for example in a kitchen where the service robot is performing a task such as stirring soup, while you add cream." If there had only been an industrial revolution during the 1800s where people started working closely with machines we might have already had an answer to this daunting question.
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New Urinal-Based Video Game Makes a Splash 176

Those who enjoy drinking beer, playing video games, and (oddly enough) peeing in urinals may be able to reach true nirvana after all. "Place to Pee" is a new video game that relies on a player's ability to hit sensors in a urinal to control game play. While this may seem extremely male-centric, don't worry, ladies, the game designers have thought of you too, and have designed a specialized paper cone for participation. Man, it's a bad day to be a janitor.
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Lifestyles of the Poor and Drug Dealing 2

A Brazilian tour company is in hot water, after it was revealed that it was offering tours of Rio de Janeiro slums, including photos with the local drug gang members. For $55 you get a 4 hour tour of Rocinha, the city's largest slum, including a visit to the "bocas de fumo" where traffickers sell drugs to Rio residents. If you don't want to pay for the flight to Brazil, I will drive you into the slums of Detroit for the same price. Pictures with gang members are at their discretion.
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Serious Gamer Screenshot-sm 5

Duct Tape, the gamers best friend.
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Connection Reset by Peer Screenshot-sm 7

This is how you leave no doubt that you were a nerd.
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Good Sportsmanship Screenshot-sm 1

Sports helps teach kids pride, self-reliance and the shame of coming in fourth.
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One Fish Three Fish Red Fish Pee Fish 2

A Chinese restaurant in Changchun city has received some criticism for keeping ornamental carp in the four meter long urinal in the men's bathroom. A spokesman for the restaurant says the urinal contains a mixture of urine and water which was not harmful to the fish. The owner added that the fish were intended as an attraction for diners and were not used in dishes. I'm surprised this hasn't caught on in more businesses. I know I would enjoy golf a lot more if I could relieve myself into a box of kittens at every hole.

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