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  • British Gov. Hacks al-Qaeda Website, Replaces Bomb Making How-To w/ Cupcake Recipe
    June 3, 2011
    Your wife is gonna be PISSED when she finds out you blew up the sewing machine. The British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) were able to hack an al-Qaeda website showing followers how to make homemade bombs, and replaced the instructions with recipes for "The Best Cupcakes i... / Continue →
  • Painting Instantly With 840 Paintball Guns
    May 14, 2011
    This is a video of what appears to be a group of terrorists with a 840 gun paintball rig in the back of a truck that can instantly produce a piece of graffiti in a fraction of a second. It's reminiscent of when the Mythbusters painted the Mona Lisa with paintballs, except with... / Continue →
  • Vader Announces Death Of Terrorist Obi-Wan
    May 12, 2011
    Because I'll continue getting this tip for days to come if I don't post it, here it is -- a parody of the New York Times article about President Obama announcing that terrorist Osama Bin Laden was killed, except with Darth Vader announcing the death of Obi-Wan Kenobi instead. O... / Continue →
  • 'Robocop' Sunglasses To Help Scan Crowds, Identify Perps At The Next (2014) World Cup
    April 13, 2011
    Picture unrelated related enough. If all goes according to plan, Brazilian police forces will be equipped with 'Robocop' sunglasses before the next World Cup (see what I did there?), capable of scanning and detecting the faces of known trouble-makers/terrorists and alerting of... / Continue →
  • Security: Biometric Ear Scanners Coming?
    October 12, 2010
    Aural fetish "scientists" at the University of South Hampton claim they've developed a biometric ear scanner than can identify individuals with almost perfect accuracy. I'm skeptical, but still cutting both my ears off tonight. Suck it, Van Gogh -- GO BIG OR GO HOME! Biometr... / Continue →
  • BEWARE OF STRANGERS WITH CAMERAS
    September 10, 2010
    Granted he does look like the unabomber, but still. You can't go busting every photographer taking a picture of an airplane. Next thing you know we won't even be able to skateboard at the mall! Oh, right. Per some people that're pissed off about the poster: "A lot of my fr... / Continue →
  • 9/11: The World Trade Center From Space
    September 11, 2009
    This is a picture of the World Trade Center after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, taken by current commander of the International Space Station at the time, Frank Culbertson. Damn, has it really been eight years? Remember. The World Trade Center Terrorist Attac... / Continue →
  • Inventor Denied Patent For Human 'Killer Chip'
    May 17, 2009
    A Saudi inventor was recently denied a German patent for what is being described as a "killer chip". What is a killer chip? Cooler Ranch Doritos, hands down. The basic model would consist of a tiny GPS transceiver placed in a capsule and inserted under a person's skin, so th... / Continue →
  • Cell Phone Goes PEW PEW PEW PEW
    December 26, 2008
    Remember the cell phone gun that Italian police found in a raid on the mafia? Turns out they're mad popular in Europe. And, I've got to tell ya, I'd almost be fooled if it looked like a Blackberry and not a phone from the 90's -- the 1890's (note to self: fact check 19th cent... / Continue →
  • Terrorist LEGO Minifigs Stir Controversy
    December 4, 2008
    I can't say that I'm surprised, but apparently people are taking offense to LEGO minifigs that have been modded (by BrickArms) to resemble terrorists and Nazis. Mohammed Shaffiq of Muslim organisation The Ramadhan Foundation told The Sun the figures were 'absolutely disgusting... / Continue →