An idea for a short story popped into my head. Someone driving a car accidentally hits a pedestrian at some remote location. He calls the police to report the accident and call for help for the badly injured pedestrian. The emergency operator wants to know the exact location of the accident but the driver has no clue where he is so hangs up. He drags the injured pedestrian into his car, drives to main street unloads the deceased pedestrian and calls the emergency service again this time able to pinpoint the exact location…

Stupid idea? Yeah I thought so as well.. so I searched the internet to see if someone already thought of this before I did. Guess what? It’s a little different though. A man calls the emergency service because his wife is attacked by a warthog real bad. The 911 guy wants to know the address.
“Yeah, we’re at 1825 Eucalyptus drive…”
“Can you spell that for me, sir?”

“Eeehhhmmm…. I’m gonna drag her on over to oakstreet and you can pick her up there…”

Some say it’s a trick, others believe levitation is actually possible. Even fatties can do self levitation you only have to believe you really can. This guy is pretty much convinced of his own abilities…

Maybe not the best magician out there but he may stand a chance as a comedian…

Today I got a link from my good buddy Emiel about a wasp sucking machine. It turns out the inventor (Matthias Wandel) has a website with a lot of strange contraptions and weird thingies that he built. I must admit I highly admire the creativity and craftsmanship of Matthias. He reminds me a lot of Wallace (from Wallace and Gromit). Not convinced? How about his Jenga Pistol or his Binary Marble Adding Machine or how about his 1-pin dot matrix printer? Check out his website it is really great. If there is ever going to be a MacGyver award it should go to Matthias Wandel. From his creations you can see this incredibly cool guy combines craftmanship with a lot of humor. I’ll be spending a lot of time on his site.

I wasn’t going to blog about this when it first made headlines but now there is a nice continuation so here’s the story. Some lunatic developer, Armin Heinrich — who calls himself an artist — has created an application for the Apple iPhone that does absolutely nothing. The application is called “I am rich” and sells for $999.99 on the iPhone App Store. The idea of the application is that you buy it to show off how rich you are. You will get an application that does nothing but it shows an icon on the application menu. That is where you show off how rich you are.

An application for snobs. I really don’t like the idea behind it and I thought nobody would be dumb enough to actually buy it. But here’s the funny part. One dude claims he bought the application by accident. He clicked on the application, has 1 click checkout enabled and is now the proud owner of an application that does nothing for $999.99.

I don’t think the application says “I am rich”… I think it says “I am stupid”… It has now been removed from App Store.

Now I think George Carlin would have loved this silly tribute to his work… eh… to death…
Stephen Colbert pays tribute in his own funny way…

George Carlin is op één en zeventig jarige leeftijd overleden. George Carlin is een opstandige stand-up comedian die weliswaar veel vloekt maar ook hele rake dingen zegt. Een groot humorist is heen gegaan…