December 29, 2005
All cultures are not created equal

Actually, this one is a combination of culture and religion. Nazir Ahmed appears calm and unrepentant as he recounts how he slit the throats of his three young daughters and their 25-year old stepsister to salvage his family's "honor" -- a crime that shocked Pakistan. The 40-year old laborer, speaking to The Associated Press in […]

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December 29, 2005
This just in

Videogames are not the same as real life. Follow the link for an amusing video of an older gamer discovering that just because you can do a lap a Laguna Seca in an Acura NSX in 1:41 in a video game doesn't mean that you can do the same thing in real life.

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December 29, 2005
Morons everywhere

Last week over at OpinionJournal.com's "Best of the Web Today," James Taranto took note of an unfortunate choice of words on the Carl Zeiss Web site. Advertising Slogans German Companies Should Avoid "The final solution will be revealed on 01/18/06."--Carl Zeiss AG Web site On a photography message board I frequent, there was a post […]

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December 29, 2005
Those four levels of editors

Shocker! Los Angeles Times reporter doesn't check her source and ends up publishing an April Fools quote as fact on Page A1 of the paper.

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