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Skirmisher

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The Skirmisher is a repository of intriguing stuff as well as an ongoing thought experiment.

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  • The Most Tastefully Designed Phone Ever

    Posted on Tuesday November 24th, 2009 at 02:07 in strange

    The designers and manufacturer of the classic Erotica phone sincerely believe that there’s only one thing men want to do their entire lives, and that’s a vagina. And when they’re not doing a vagina, they will want to talk to a vagin...

  • Polar Bears’ Zoo Job Given To Robots

    Posted on Thursday November 19th, 2009 at 03:11 in robots: toys

    What are you gonna do if your polar bears keep dying on you? Use robots! A zoo somewhere, whose polar bear display has gone empty for some time because of the bears’ annoying habit of actually dying, has installed a family of robotic polar bea...

  • IBM Mimics Cat Brain

    Posted on Thursday November 19th, 2009 at 03:00 in computer and computing innovations weird developments

    Not to be dissuaded by the current impossibility of building a computer at par with that of a human brain, folks at IBM patted themselves in the back for at least making one as powerful as a cat’s cerebral cortex. The computer has 147,456 proce...

  • Dad Uses Son As Guinea Pig In His 3-year “Would Klingon Be An Awesome Human Language” Experiment

    Posted on Thursday November 19th, 2009 at 02:30 in weird offbeat wtf news

    Not only does d’Armond Speers have a name like d’Armond fucking Speers, he’s also batshit crazy. Not only is he batshit crazy, there’s a method to it, which lasted 3 years: speaking to his son in nothing but Klingon, just to s...

  • You Can’t Take Away His Xbox, And Live

    Posted on Thursday November 19th, 2009 at 01:42 in video games and gamers

    A 15-year-old boy, who called up 911 to ask if his douchebag parents had any right to take away his Xbox, learns the bitter lesson that having your parents feed, clothe and shelter you actually give them rights to take away your toys. That’s no...

  • The Internet’s History, In Convenient Staccato

    Posted on Thursday November 19th, 2009 at 01:25 in telecom, true history

    Maybe because, as nutshells go, the convenience of seeing lotsa things in a single glance is just, well, convenient! So if you want to apply that convenience to something long and hard and full of fun, like the Internet, feel free to hit this. ...

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