Mojo Nixon: Still Performing
Reported 2017-01-20 08:03:47
By Baron Earl

Over 30 years after first appearing on the music scene with hits such as Stuffin' Martha's Muffin and Elvis is Everywhere, psychobilly sensation Mojo Nixon is still performing in front of live audiences. His latest musical masterpiece, Donald Trump Can Suck My Dick is now charting on YouTube. (More...)

Larry Wall Unveils Perl 6.0.0
Reported 2015-10-06 11:32:33
By El Destino

The first thing he did was thank Craigslist "for sponsoring me these last few years". On October 5th, 2015 Larry Wall addressed a crowd of geeks at San Francisco's Exploratorium, saying he couldn't properly express his gratitude to Craigslist. Then he acknowledged how long the development arc had been for Perl 6. "As the old joke goes, Perl 6 is coming out this Christmas." Only this time, he meant it. (More...)

UK Ministry of Defense redacts classified info by changing background color to black
Reported 2011-04-18 11:40:26
By Baron Earl

The UK Ministry of Defence released classified documents about its nuclear submarines. The documents were requested under the British Freedom of Information Act. Any still-classified information in the documents was supposed to be redacted, except that the government official in charge of releasing the documents didn't grasp that changing the background color to black does not actually remove any of the redacted text. (More...)

Meat Cocktails
Reported 2011-04-08 09:50:50
By Baron Earl

From the Smoked Tomato Martini to the Bacon Mezcal Margarita, bars across Southern California are combining meat and alcohol in the same glass, giving birth to a beautifully bloated abomination, the meat cocktail. (More...)

San Francisco Uber Alles
Reported 2011-04-07 17:58:50
By Baron Earl

On April 12th the San Francisco Entertainment Commission will be considering new rules proposed by the San Francisco Police Department for any event in the city where 100 or more people are expected to gather. Some of proposed rules include mandatory scanning of all patrons by metal detectors, scanning, recording, and storing the personal data from every patron's drivers license, providing that data to local law enforcement upon request (no warrant or crime required), and hiring private security guards for every event (preferably off-duty SFPD officers). (More...)

General Electric: Corporation with Benefits
Reported 2011-03-31 09:45:21
By Baron Earl

GE reported global profits of $14.2 billion with $5.1 billion of the total from U.S. operations. Its American tax bill? LESS THAN ZERO. Based on tax laws which G.E. lobbyists helped to write, G.E. managed to claim a tax benefit of $3.2 billion. (More...)

SF Chronicle finds a new way to keep subscribers
Reported 2011-03-27 18:22:22
By Baron Earl

The San Francisco Chronicle has found a new way to keep their newspaper subscribers from canceling their subscriptions -- they don't provide a "Cancel Subscription" option on the Subscriber Services page. (More...)

Perverted Sex in Marvel Comics?
Reported 2011-03-21 10:19:01
By El Destino

Choice one: unite with earth's Mightiest Heroes to fight the evil-est super villains. Choice two: lurk in a shower to peep on Ms. Marvel as she's soaping up her luscious naked superhero body. (More...)

Oh Hey... LOOK, We Have Comments
Reported 2011-03-18 21:12:01
By JRoyale

Wow... we have comments... I mean the PDJ now allows you, our shithead readers to leave us comments. (More...)

The Bacon Rocket
Reported 2011-03-17 13:08:14
By JRoyale

These blokes attempt to answer the age old question... can you make a rocket out of bacon? (More...)

WWE SMACK DOWN - From the Schoolyard
Reported 2011-03-15 15:13:54
By JRoyale

So I'm generally against all types of violence... but sometimes they just cross the line. And admittedly, I don't have the complete back story here, but honestly, you really don't need more than this video to figure out who's right and who's wrong and who deserved to eat concrete. (More...)

UFO over Brazil causes cameraman to take shaky, out-of-focus pictures
Reported 2011-03-02 22:16:23
By Baron Earl

The damn ay-leens are at it again, using their mind-rays to cause a cameraman to forget everything he knows about operating a video camera -- how to focus, how to hold the camera steady, how to frame his subject. (More...)

Caesar's Palace show combines glitz, tits, and Absinthe
Reported 2011-03-01 22:00:18
By Baron Earl

Combine "Roman Plaza", "speakeasy", "beer garden", "drinking games", "theater-in-the-round", "mirrors", "stained glass" and "velvet" with "Adult Show" and "90-minute performance" and you get the latest entertainment experience "Absinthe" from Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas. (More...)

Beaujolais named French wine of the year
Reported 2011-03-01 21:17:50
By Baron Earl

Normally enjoyed for it's quick buzz and skull-crack hangover, Beaujolais is not known as a wine savored so much as swilled. That may be changing because Georges Duboeuf Morgon Domaine Mont Chavy 2009 Beaujolais was named French wine of the year by some wine snob. Whether that means that this Beaujolais is a fine wine or that every other French offering tastes like donkey ball sweat is a matter of opinion. (More...)

Canadian scientists theorize about pint glasses of neutron star superfluid extract
Reported 2011-03-01 21:12:45
By Baron Earl

When Canadian scientists get all hot and bothered about a cooling neutron star in the constellation Cassiopeia, their thoughts quickly turn to glasses of superfluid. (More...)

Bride price: $2.7 million
Reported 2008-04-09 12:58:48
By h.r.taffs

You can't make this stuff up: in Abu Dhabi, the winner of a camel beauty contest was sold to a Dubai prince for $2.7 million. (More...)

San Francisco to Honor President Bush
Reported 2008-04-08 23:30:31
By Baron Earl

Naming schools, public buildings, and city streets after politicians and presidents is a long and honored tradition in this country. With President Bush slated to leave office in just a few more months, residents of San Francisco are already gearing up with a ballot initiative to rename a public facility after our departing 43rd President. If the ballot measure passes, San Francisco's shit will be processed by the George W. Bush Sewage Plant. (More...)

Charlton Heston is Soylent Green
Reported 2008-04-08 12:57:09
By h.r.taffs

Charlton Heston, inadvertent star of Bowling for Columbine, died on April 5, 2008 at the age of 84. Unconfirmed reports indicate that he shot his eye out and a BB gun was pried from his "cold, dead hands." (More...)

wikileaks.org DNS censored
Reported 2008-02-18 15:06:48
By Michael Bakunin

It's not prior restraint, because you can just memorize http://88.80.13.160/ (More...)

Bush Announces Economic Stimulus Plan, Stock Markets Plunge
Reported 2008-01-21 21:55:26
By Baron Earl

On Friday President Bush announced an economic stimulus plan. The plan was short on details, vague on implementation, fuzzy about who would be helped, but sharply targeted when it came to how many taxpayer dollars should be spent -- about one percent of the nation's GDP -- somewhere between $140 and $150 billion dollars. (More...)