[Stupid] Company makes debit card that lets you withdraw from your 401k plan at ATMs. This cannot possibly end poorly

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My Fox DC

[Spiffy] Senior citizen centers and retirement homes are using Nintendo Wii consoles to allow their elderly residents the chance to virtually experience the thrill of golfing, bowling and plowing through farmer’s markets all over again

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(Some Guy)

Tornado victim billed for cable devices (AP)

Filed under: General — Yahoo! News: Odd News @ 10:23 pm
AP - Having a tornado demolish her home was bad enough. But when Ann Beam received a $2,000 cable bill a few weeks later, she was floored. "I just couldn't believe it," Beam said. "I was like, 'What are they thinking?'"

Cops: Woman made up ‘cattle prod’ story (AP)

Filed under: General — Yahoo! News: Odd News @ 10:22 pm
AP - A woman who told police she had been stunned with a "cattle prod" by a man impersonating a police officer made up the incident, officials said Thursday.

I help you and then you steal my car? (AP)

Filed under: General — Yahoo! News: Odd News @ 10:22 pm
AP - Longtime friends Chase Torgerson and Cody Charpentier were driving along a northwestern Minnesota highway near Wilton when they saw a car fly through the air and crash into a median.

[Followup] Article about fake NASA ‘rocket’ but this time with a more understandable pic of a phone. Try and keep up here, people

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(KCRG TV-9)

[Interesting] Try to guess what element of a news photograph showing a bikini-clad woman smoking a water pipe in a Beirut conflict zone is upsetting people

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(Some Guy)

[Interesting] The origin of the common housecat has been traced to the Middle East. i can haz cheezburqa?

Filed under: General — Fark.com @ 9:44 pm
Discovery

[Silly] Fourth grade students in Utah are going out on limb trying to get the state tree changed from a “Colorado Spruce” to a “Utah Juniper”

Filed under: General — Fark.com @ 9:32 pm
Salt Lake Tribune

[Cool] Looking straight down at NASA’s Space Shuttle Atlantis — from 525 feet (160 meters) above the ground

Filed under: General — Fark.com @ 9:19 pm
(Some Guy)

[Amusing] Hydrogen peroxide enemas put Russian tourists in the hospital. In related news, there are now a bunch of blonde a-holes running around in Russia

Filed under: General — Fark.com @ 9:18 pm
Reuters

[Silly] New Zealand scientists turn off crying gene in onions, disappointed with lack of progress on shyness gene in sheep

Filed under: General — Fark.com @ 9:15 pm
Stuff.co.nz

[Scary] “Our landlord was a real nice guy until he started shooting at us through the floor”

Filed under: General — Fark.com @ 9:08 pm
WTAM

[Silly] Having solved all other medical problems, science tackles the most important issue of all: why we scratch

Filed under: General — Fark.com @ 8:53 pm
Newsweek

[Interesting] Sea captains’ logbooks from the 1800’s reveal secrets of New England’s fishing culture

Filed under: General — Fark.com @ 8:52 pm
Christian Science Monitor

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