Notes from the Surf
America's 10 Most Confusing Traffic Signs
http://jalopnik.com/5044869/americas-10-most-confusing-traffic-signs
"The far left lane is lava (yeah, we're sticking to this)."
Everybody's PIN Revealed!
http://www.positiveatheism.org/crt/pin.htm
"Not intended for criminal use!"
How "NCSA_Mosaic/2.0 (Windows 3.1)" ultimately resulted in "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13"
http://www.webaim.org/blog/user-agent-string-history/
Nobody ever said technological evolution was pretty, but some kind of intelligent design might have been nice =)
Perhaps his boss wasn't evil after all
http://www.wetherobots.com/2008/09/02/banal/
"Hey you! I'm not paying you to read Everything2!"
Ronald McDonald fails to prevent war between Georgia and Russia
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/06/russia.mcdonalds
So much for this piece of airhead pop-punditry from Thomas Friedman - but at least it sounded good enough at the time to make the rounds of the media.
When Pinky and the Brain become the leaders of the free world
http://surreality.info/up/bush_Pinky.jpg
...poor, poor Pinky...
ABC News Reporter Arrested in Denver
http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=5670682
"Move along citizen. Nothing to see here."
Soccer players and fans punish security guards who beat some guy with a banner
http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/6zidz/security_guards_beat_man_at_soccer_football_game/c05aerk
"It's kind of sad that watching law enforcement/security get beat up makes me cheerful and feel free."
The Battle of Saint Paul: Gallery 1
http://news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=2008090316161856
Images from the streets outside the convention halls.
Greek "Robin Hoods" take and hand out food for free in Thesaaloniki
http://www.ainfos.ca/en/ainfos21355.html
Apparently it's actually Robin Hood and her band of merry women.