Ryan Gardner on October 8th, 2005

For most of the game, it felt like “the same old cougars” were on the field. Because of KSL’s technical difficulties and a blocked PAT, we were behind in the game before it was even on my TV.
BYU held in there, and - with a couple lucky bounces of the football - was able [...]

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Ryan Gardner on October 8th, 2005

Have you always wanted to own your very own Abu Ghraib playset? There is one up on eBay now. It comes complete with a Barbie dressed in camouflage, and a naked prisoner. There are some nice details thrown in - like Betty’s cigarette, or the string attached to the neck of the prisoner.
It’s a [...]

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Ryan Gardner on October 8th, 2005

A developer of dashboard widgets got an email from an employee at an Apple Genius bar saying the following:
My name is Derek Rose, and I work at an Apple Retail store in Nashville, TN. Just wanted to let you know that I just had a customer come in to the Genius Bar with fears [...]

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Ryan Gardner on October 8th, 2005

With all of the commotion this week around the Noble awards, a group of the worlds leading scientists have met to award the “Ig Noble” awards. They are like the Nobel prizes, only for more funny research topics. Here are some of the winners (Article linking to description of the entire awards ceremony at end [...]

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