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The Speci-minder is an R2D2-wannabe robot that transports medical specimens and sincerely thinks you dumping your feces into its containers is the next best thing to tuna sandwich.
Speci-Minders first employer, Christiana Hospital near Wilmington, DE, named their robot Frances. Says Cheryl Katz, Administrative Director, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, “We have a very large clinical lab, […]

Japan Airlines (JAL) pilot Masahiro Nomura is the latest Asian addition in Lisa Nowak’s hopefully growing number of fanboy me-too all-for-love adventurers, as the object of Nomura affection (his stewardess ex-girlfriend) found herself the star in her own radio show.
Between June 2002 and November last year, Nomura secretly set up two wireless microphones at the […]

Somebody in Brazil, probably smart enough to wander into one of those pleasant-sounding favelas toting a shiny Macbook Pro, got mugged and shot. This is his Macbook Pro, and according to certain excitable people, the laptop still works. The technical lesson here kids is: buy at least four Macbooks to cover vital spots of your […]

As Kareem Nabeel Sulaiman’s imprisonment sprouts an online cottage industry of fine Kareem-inspired apparel, coffee mugs, and nice buttons, it also brings home the juicy fact of Egypt is now officially the must-go destination for bloggers with an unshakable martyr complex and a finger that must scratch whatever itched, where putting into mere words whatever […]

A recent Hyundai TV ad has a male toddler picking up a female toddler on their way to the beach. But despite Hyundai cleverly editing out the sexually charged scenes that must take place somewhere between the pretty sunset, the Hyundai Santa Fe parked in the darkness [with lots of make-out room!], and the crisp […]

At least 30 new animals, including this pictured psychedelic octopus, have been found in the waters off Antarctica. The find has been so “excitingly colorful” that the scientific expedition’s members, realizing that their lunch of canned stuff wasn’t as colorful, called up their mamas and blamed them for their sheltered, geeky lives. They now won’t […]

“Sony you went wrong with your PS3,
I just keep playing my 360
Hope this song has [unintelligible, probably an expletive] you understand
Now you know how you’ve killed your brand”
Delivered through The Fray’s “How to save a life” ditty, “How to kill a brand” is a fine pop specimen of Sony bashing that any ignored and unfulfilled […]

In a Virginia high school, kids who shouted “We love Jesus!” during a basketball game against students of a Jewish school were subjected to a sensitivity training for such a naughty act.
Dennis W. Price, principal of the Virginia Beach school who also watched the game, said the rivals exchanged chants, “Then, at some point, our […]