Its not appropriate to put current event items in the "Putin without a shirt" thread.
Re: Not worthy of a thread News
Posted: Tue April 23, 2013 5:19 pm
by Green Habit
The AP's Twitter account was hacked. Oops.
AP Twitter hacker wrote:Breaking: Two Explosions in the White House and Barack Obama is injured
Re: Not worthy of a thread News
Posted: Tue April 23, 2013 5:20 pm
by Norah
Lots of hacking of news twitter accounts lately. 60 Minutes was hacked a week or so ago and a bunch of CBS News accounts (including local affiliates and O&Os) were hacked over the last week.
Re: Not worthy of a thread News
Posted: Tue April 23, 2013 5:23 pm
by Green Habit
cutuphalfdead wrote:Lots of hacking of news twitter accounts lately. 60 Minutes was hacked a week or so ago and a bunch of CBS News accounts (including local affiliates and O&Os) were hacked over the last week.
Twitter should probably be asking verified users what Ed's last name is.
Re: Not worthy of a thread News
Posted: Tue April 23, 2013 5:24 pm
by Norah
Green Habit wrote:
cutuphalfdead wrote:Lots of hacking of news twitter accounts lately. 60 Minutes was hacked a week or so ago and a bunch of CBS News accounts (including local affiliates and O&Os) were hacked over the last week.
Twitter should probably be asking verified users what Ed's last name is.
60 Minutes tweeted out that they were working on a story for this sunday (would have been last sunday) about how Obama is in bed with Al Qaeda affiliates in Syria.
Nasa Mars Rover Accidentally Draws Penis On Red Planet
Nasa's $800m Mars Exploration Rovers have accidentally drawn a penis.
The twin exploration vehicles Spirit and Opportunity were launched nine years ago, in an effort to search the surface of Mars for signs of water erosion and possibly even life.
According to Nasa, since then the rovers have driven over more than 10km of Martian land, directed by teams back on Earth combined with autonomous cameras designed to avoid potential problems with the terrain.
It appears that part of the robots' programming involves spinning in tight circles to test nearby terrain and find new routes.
Humorously, depending on your age perhaps, that has the unfortunate consequence of drawing a certain shape on the surface, which when discovered by Reddit essentially crashed Nasa's website.
The image was posted on Nasa's site and appears to be a genuine picture from the Martian surface - albeit one taken at an unfortunate angle.
It's not clear which of the rovers drew the shape, or even when it was made.
Nasa lost communication with the Spirit rover in 2009 after it became stuck in some sand. Meanwhile the Opportunity is still traversing the surface on its way to the Endeavour crater. http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/04 ... &ir=Canada
Re: Not worthy of a thread News
Posted: Wed April 24, 2013 9:15 pm
by Whitey McTeeth
mastaflatch wrote: Nasa Mars Rover Accidentally Draws Penis On Red Planet
Nasa's $800m Mars Exploration Rovers have accidentally drawn a penis.
The twin exploration vehicles Spirit and Opportunity were launched nine years ago, in an effort to search the surface of Mars for signs of water erosion and possibly even life.
According to Nasa, since then the rovers have driven over more than 10km of Martian land, directed by teams back on Earth combined with autonomous cameras designed to avoid potential problems with the terrain.
It appears that part of the robots' programming involves spinning in tight circles to test nearby terrain and find new routes.
Humorously, depending on your age perhaps, that has the unfortunate consequence of drawing a certain shape on the surface, which when discovered by Reddit essentially crashed Nasa's website.
The image was posted on Nasa's site and appears to be a genuine picture from the Martian surface - albeit one taken at an unfortunate angle.
It's not clear which of the rovers drew the shape, or even when it was made.
Nasa lost communication with the Spirit rover in 2009 after it became stuck in some sand. Meanwhile the Opportunity is still traversing the surface on its way to the Endeavour crater. http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/04 ... &ir=Canada
congrats to Mars and its first penis joke.
Re: Not worthy of a thread News
Posted: Wed April 24, 2013 9:41 pm
by VinylGuy
McParadigm wrote:
Nuff said.
Putin should have been a republican candidate. Its perfect.
Re: Not worthy of a thread News
Posted: Wed April 24, 2013 10:31 pm
by bada
VinylGuy wrote:
McParadigm wrote:
Nuff said.
Putin should have been a republican candidate. Its perfect.
only if it was a dude with his shirt off.
Re: Not worthy of a thread News
Posted: Thu April 25, 2013 2:11 pm
by Biff Pocoroba
It wasn't a joke that People's most beautiful woman is... Gwenyth Paltrow?
Re: Not worthy of a thread News
Posted: Thu April 25, 2013 9:02 pm
by broken iris
Phase one contract for Cali's multibillion dollar high speed rail system awarded to... wait for it... Senator Feinstein's husband. The winning bid will cost the state a microscopic $35,000,000 per mile* to connect Madera and Fresno (not including land acquisition, utilities, and the trains themselves).
They don't even make an attempt to hide this stuff anymore.
Re: Not worthy of a thread News
Posted: Fri April 26, 2013 5:01 am
by simple schoolboy
broken iris wrote:Phase one contract for Cali's multibillion dollar high speed rail system awarded to... wait for it... Senator Feinstein's husband. The winning bid will cost the state a microscopic $35,000,000 per mile* to connect Madera and Fresno (not including land acquisition, utilities, and the trains themselves).
They don't even make an attempt to hide this stuff anymore.
Governor Brown's monument won't build itself.
Re: Not worthy of a thread News
Posted: Tue May 07, 2013 3:30 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
3 girls missing in Cleveland for 10 years escaped their captivity yesterday. One had a kid.
Re: Not worthy of a thread News
Posted: Tue May 07, 2013 9:23 pm
by Birds in Hell
E.H. Ruddock wrote:3 girls missing in Cleveland for 10 years escaped their captivity yesterday. One had a kid.