Sickles Insight

ROME, Italy (Reuters) — A Sicilian mother took away her 61-year-old son’s house keys, cut off his allowance and hauled him to the police station because he stayed out late.
Tired of her son’s misbehavior, the pensioner in the central Sicilian city of Caltagirone turned to the police to “convince this blockhead” to behave properly, […]

A Bad Day at Coca-Cola: It looks to me like someone was having an off day at the Coke plant today. Photograph courtesy of my brother.

This is kind of a repost. Becky reminded me that people like images and not text. In fact, you probably aren’t even reading this. I should have remembered that earlier. So this is kind of a repost of previous material but with more captivating links! Click at will:

Remember the experimental psychology post I made a short while back - where you had to count the number of times the basketball was passed? Well, this is not the same thing, but it did bring together certain elements that reminded me of the video. Regardless, Watch the magic of changing the color of the […]

So, I’ve seen a lot of “geek” shirts as I walk around, and more often online. A recent digg victory prompted me to look at a few more selections and I found two that really made me laugh. I thought I would pass the thought to you. To me the first one looks like it […]

Despite the uproar of airbrushing the works of hurricane Katrina, I was recently reminded of the humor the folks over at Google throw into various aspects of their pursuit to overtake the world. This particular subject pertains to that of google maps. We are all familiar with the mapping tools that google provides along with […]

There is nothing unusual about this tech support call. Thousands just like it happen every day. Perhaps you can relate. The added video-commentary and call statistics are both humerous and infuriating to anyone who has ever had to do the same. This is an actual tech support call with an HP technician…
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This video makes fun of modern newbie computer users by illustrating - in a way fully understandable to them - how silly some of their questions are by creating a similar problem in the Middle Ages.
It’s from a show called Øystein & Meg (Øystein & I) produced by the Norwegian Broadcasting television channel (NRK) in […]