Obama’s Teleprompter Woes cause Late Nite ribbing by Leno

Obama's Campaign made fun of John McCain for being electronically challenged.  But by being so he doesn't need a working teleprompter to give a speech.  In jest the right leaning blogs have been talking...

Google News Snafu Wreaks Havoc on United Airlines Stocks

This goes to show you the power of Google: when old news, masking 'new' news, gets re-distributed through Google's all-mighty Engine of Search, it can have serious repercussions. Yesterday, a six year old...

Biometrics Exhibit Fails on Security

The Wellcome Trust, in showing off its new biometric ID scheme, dubbed "Medicine Now", has proven itself in need of an upgrade to pen and paper. "After being contacted by El Reg the website where the Wellcome Collection's "Medicine Now" show offers visitors the chance to view...

Yahoo! Music Store Support Dead by Sept. 30

Ownership of digital content remains a huge sticking point between purchasers and vendors, as buyers are led to believe that they're buying a product, whereas vendors insist on treating it as a lease."Several months after the Microsoft MSN Music Store snafu, Yahoo announced...

Hillary’s Grassy Knoll Supporters

About an hour ago I posted a story called The Flags Have Spoken! It’s a funny little ditty about how Hillary has to just glance at flags and they will magically fall over. Then came this comment from a...

Give Bush the Bushing legacy he deserves!

Right now, you can get in on the ground floor of the great SNABU movement. I figure President Boy George deserves a fitting legacy. What better one than giving the foul-mouth frat boy a curse word? We will replace the "f" word with the "B" word. Go to the WDYC...

Potty break mic snafu: CNN's Phillips chats in the loo during Bush speech

"Today, CNN’s Kyra Phillips got caught, well, with her skirt down. Someone in CNN left her mic open and on the air as she went to the loo in the middle of President Bush’s speech commemorating the Katrina anniversary. So instead of getting the president’s remarks,...

PayPal freezes out British user in 'terror' list snafu

"Mohammed works for the UK government, in a job which requires security clearance. He said: "I am not a terrorist or a criminal. How the hell can PayPal link me to that name on the SDN list, is it because my name is Arabic? Or is it because PayPal are just plain stupid?""

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