many websites focused on adult or erotic material have experienced an upswing in sales in the recent weeks since checks have appeared in millions of Americans' mailboxes across the country.

For all I care you can believe that God is a space turtle who shits out the world every morning and eats it again every night, and one day the world will hatch open and the almighty Son of Turtle God will emerge from the placenta of the earth and vomit rainbows onto the true believers before carrying them on His back to the promised land of Turtopia. It's a free country, go nuts.

The museum was extremely busy on a weekday afternoon, filled almost exclusively with the stone-washed jeans, tucked-in shirts, and patriotic colors of Wal-Mart brand families, who regarded my friend and me with raised eyebrows and icy stares. They probably thought we were gay, and were afraid they might catch it.

American waste water treatment plants remove all but trace contaminants from the drinking water supply, but currently they have no way to even recognize drugs at homeopathic dilutions, let alone to not remove the molecules they don’t contain. Even more shockingly, the federal government hasn't set any safety limits for not containing no molecules of homeopathic drugs in drinking water.

Tags: The Stupid

the oven is useless by default.

there’s no good reason for an oven to insist on knowing the time before it will cook anything.

To address both of these things, we added a button called "Safe Delete" to every explorer window.  Clicking this button would instantly delete all of the files shown in the window permanently from the system, overriding every confirmation, bypassing the recycle bin, and also zeroing out the space on the disk that the files used to occupy (hence the "safe" name).

We wanted to button to be in a prominent place in the UI, since hiding it would defeat the purpose of a fast and easy delete mechanism.  However, we also felt it was important to indicate to users that the button performed a destructive action and wanted to make sure they didn't hit it by accident.  Therefore, we made it RED (the universal color for danger) and put a large X on it.  Here is what the UI would have looked like:

(note that the close button was moved in and the icon changed to a neutral image with a less intense color, indicating that at least in Explorer, closing a window is a benign task with no possibility of data loss.  Non-explorer windows would still use the standard buttons.)

A Montana high school has canceled the remainder of its football season, after a hazing incident -- in which a boy was taped to the ceiling of a school bus.The hazing reportedly happened during a football road trip, while school officials were present.

while school officials were present

• "We're like children on Christmas morning.. from what I'm told"
  
• "I guess not everybody knows how to respond when Opportunity knocks their house down"