This story has two attractions for me.  The headline was enough for me to get my dumb-ass pen going, but the real question for me was simply this:  What is a “hooning offence”?

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The ever popular (I read his every post too) Seth Godin, uniquely qualified to make suggestions for the car industry, has an interesting idea today.  Go back to the “good ole’ days” when there were hundreds of car manufacturers.  The thought is that this would foster innovation.  While increased competition would certainly be welcome, as [...]

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Can you give me and my gun a ride to Washington, DC?
A brilliant taxi driver knew the answer, which WTF? No! So the taxi driver drops him off at the train station and calls police instead.
I can just hear the 911 call now:
911: “What is the nature of your emergency?”
Taxi driver: “Some dude with a [...]

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This poster on MarketWatch asks how Crox can be losing money by making a shoe for $0.03 and selling it for $30.  That is like asking why bottled watch frequently costs more than soda (or beer).

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[Updated 11/13/2008 from another news article]
Sometimes the pictures make the news by themselves.  Alcohol-related just jumps to mind before we even know any other details.
There is not much to do in Idaho sometimes.  Brutsche-Ely (the name speaks volumes too) evidently had about a dozen too many drinks.  She tried to hit a security guard.  Finding [...]

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Few and far between are the dumbasses that just leave me floored.  This one is a real head-fake.
First, the background.  van Tassel, former US Army Iraq veteran, dons a ski mask, grabs a nearby American flag, and a handgun.  His plan?!  To protest something from a bridge in Santa Barbara, CA.  He obviously has his [...]

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This Naugatuck man is a dumbass of the day wannabe.  This Yahoo article tells us of a man who fired a shotgun at a gas pump while people were standing around.  Fortunately, it didn’t explode.  Frustrated as his dismal failure, he drove off and promptly struck two cars.  2 cars!
Too bad that Darwin didn’t prevail.  [...]

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ZDNet had an interesting article questioning how the Internet would hold up to the Olympic streaming demands. Since all of the video will be using unicast technologies, it is a real question.

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The Dallas News tells us that police had to free 26 cheer leaders from an elevator at the University of Texas Jester Hall. Wow.
I have to assume that this was a cheer leader camp or such, and that the girls (where were the guys?) must have been really bored. Still, 26 is a [...]

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I remember Julie Wainwright from the old days, the pre-dot-com bubble days. The sock puppet was pure marketing genius at the time. Then it flopped.
She’s back with her website called SmartNow. She has a fascinating blog entry about some of the mistakes she made at/after the time and what she’s learned.
People always [...]

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