Productive at work

Oct 23
My new favorite Website: STFU Marrieds
Chockful of groan-inducing gems like the one above! (click on image)

My new favorite Website: STFU Marrieds

Chockful of groan-inducing gems like the one above! (click on image)


Oct 22

Suspect in a Miss. teen kidnapping

Suspect in a Miss. teen kidnapping

Suspect stabbed newlyweds in Victoria

Suspect stabbed newlyweds in Victoria

Suspect in a pub burglary in England

Suspect in a pub burglary in England

Suspect in a Fla. child assault

Suspect in a Fla. child assault

Suspect in Wales robbery

Suspect in Wales robbery

Suspect in a Thai robbery

Suspect in a Thai robbery

A post office robbery suspect

A post office robbery suspect

Sketch in missing Madeleine McCann case

Sketch in missing Madeleine McCann case

Sketch of  a Penn. prowler

Sketch of a Penn. prowler

HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MAN? The oddest police sketches

Police sketch artists provide an invaluable service in bringing perps to justice. Unfortunately they are handicapped by details (or lack thereof) that the witnesses provide.

And when that happens, we’re left with a rogue’s gallery of the bizarre.

But even such dubious sketches yield results. Remember this drawing? It’s the sketch of a person who fatally shot a woman outside a Target store in Georgia.

Remember this police composite sketch? At the time, I tweeted that Snellville, Georgia, P.D. might need a new sketch artist. Well, trust our local NBC affiliate to ask the tough questions of the police chief in this story:  We asked Snellville Police Chief Roy Whitehead “Do you think this is a helpful sketch?” He answered, “It’s helpful in some respects because it does point out that it’s a person that’s very slim, very slender.” He also said it shows the suspect was wearing a wig and a fake mustache. “So I think from that aspect it’s helpful,” he said.

Cops made an arrest in the case: it was the woman’s mother in law

Joanna Hayes is charged with murdering her daughter-in-law, Heather Strube, in a parking lot near a Target in April.

With that in mind, bone up on the details of our gallery:

Sketch 1: Man suspected in the gunpoint abduction of a teen in Leadington, Missouri.

Sketch 2: Sketch of man who broke into the home of a newlywed in Victoria, Australia, and stabbed them.

Sketch 3: Computerized image of a man who stole two small safes from a pub in Stalham, Norfolk.

Sketch 4: Sketch and mugshot of a man who squeezed the bottom of a middle-schooler in Naples, Florida.

Sketch 5: Computer sketch of a conman who tricked an elderly widow of her life savings in Wales.

Sketch 6: A robbery suspect in Thailand.

Sketch 7: A post office robbery suspect.

Sketch 8: The bizarre sketch released by police of the person who abducted Madeleine McCann.

Sketch 9: Sketch of a prowler who targeted young women as they slept in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania.


Oct 21

Oct 20

“It takes a matter of seconds for a thief to break into your car. All it takes is a hammer, an empty parking lot” …

… and, if the thief’s anything like this reporter,  many many many tries


Oct 19
“Umm, not the headline I’d go with”
This Wall Street Journal story is actually about how former colleagues of investor Raj Rajaratnam are bolstering the government’s investigation into the biggest insider-trading case in decades.
Fascinating story; unfortunate headline.
(Thanks, Amanda)

“Umm, not the headline I’d go with”

This Wall Street Journal story is actually about how former colleagues of investor Raj Rajaratnam are bolstering the government’s investigation into the biggest insider-trading case in decades.

Fascinating story; unfortunate headline.

(Thanks, Amanda)


Oct 14

TckTckTckCampaign ‘Beds are Burning’ A charity single that turns Midnight Oil’s call for reparations to the Aboriginal community into a rallying anthem for the climate-conscious generation.

Sixty musicians and celebrities from around the world — including Lily Allen, Duran Duran’s Simon Le Bon and Black Eyed Peas’ Fergie — took part to draw attention to the urgency of the global warming crisis.

Download the song for free here


Ouch!

On a given night, the Daily Show is 21 minutes long. On this night, Jon Stewart devoted 10 entire minutes tearing CNN a new one.

It starts at the 1:14 mark when Stewart mocks CNN for fact-checking the ‘Saturday Night Live’ Obama skit but then it goes on. And on. And on …


Oct 12

A fascinating video of media convergence and the digital world we now live in


Oct 10
Gulp!
(via  mabelmoments, via xreighted)

Gulp!

(via  mabelmoments, via xreighted)


Oct 8
My new favorite Web site: IJustMadeLove.com
Click on a country and find the exact spot where users did it.
Users are also expected to say whether the sex was indoors or outdoors and pick from five possible positions.
From a story in the Telegraph:

Sex in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean takes    place a lot more frequently than might be anticipated.
A mere seven, however, admit to having had sex in Saudi Arabia.

My new favorite Web site: IJustMadeLove.com

Click on a country and find the exact spot where users did it.

Users are also expected to say whether the sex was indoors or outdoors and pick from five possible positions.

From a story in the Telegraph:

Sex in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean takes place a lot more frequently than might be anticipated.

A mere seven, however, admit to having had sex in Saudi Arabia.


Oct 7

Jamie Foxx re-interprets his summer anthem ‘Blame it on the alcohol.’ You know, for the children.

Wonder how these kids feel. They made a similar song a full six months before Foxx’s appearance on the Jay Leno show.

Hmm, I smell a lawsuit :)


Oct 5
Wonder if this cashier at Costco resents the fact that a part of his anatomy universally symbolizes weakness

Wonder if this cashier at Costco resents the fact that a part of his anatomy universally symbolizes weakness


Oct 3
30 Dumb Inventions

(Rainy Day Cigarette Holder, 1954) Robert L. Stern, smoking a cigarette from his self-designed rainy day cigarette holder.

(via   bunkercomplex)

30 Dumb Inventions

(Rainy Day Cigarette Holder, 1954)
Robert L. Stern, smoking a cigarette from his self-designed rainy day cigarette holder.

(via   bunkercomplex)


Your Saturday morning hilarity
(via doodlepipski)

Your Saturday morning hilarity

(via doodlepipski)


Sep 29
The worst political tattoos of all time.
I clicked through the gallery, uttering a single word over and over again: Why?

The worst political tattoos of all time.

I clicked through the gallery, uttering a single word over and over again: Why?