Showing posts with label scams. Show all posts
Showing posts with label scams. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 1, 2008

386 - Cheapskates

1. Spare Change
3 quarters, 1 dime, 2 nickels, and 4 pennies are all you need to have exact change anytime you check out at the grocery store. Build an exact change holder to keep them from jingling around in your pocket.

2. Redneck Savings Account
If you do end up with some pocket change, don't bother counting it. Just weigh the coins, take a quick representative sample and let this website give you an estimate of how much money you have. Then spend that money on one of these counting jars.

3. Family Business
Getting your mother to drive you to work is another way to save money.

4. Two Buck Chuck
It turns out that expensive wine tastes just as shitty as the cheap stuff so don't waste your money.

5. Redbox
All you need is this list of codes and a wallet full of credit cards to get as many free movie rentals as you want.

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Thursday, May 10, 2007

324 - Telekinesis

Incredible

1. Incredible
Through the late seventies, a young man named James Hydrick rose to international fame by using his enormous psychic abilities to move pencils and book pages without physically touching them. By the early eighties he was touted as one of the world's leading psychics when he made an appearance on the popular television show That's Incredible.

Defined

2. Defined
In case you don't know, telekinesis or psychokinesis is defined as "the apparent production of motion in objects (as by a spiritualistic medium) without contact or other physical means."

Bunk

3. Bunk
Hot on the heels of his appearance on That's Incredible, Bob Barker invited Hydrick to be a guest on his variety show That's My Line. Barker was skeptical, so he also invited professional debunker James Randi to be a part of the program. Hydrick performed his page-turning feat successfully but his powers mysteriously failed him when Randi added a simple control to the experiment.

Confessions

4. Confessions
Shortly after his disastrous appearance on That's My Line, Hydrick revealed to investigative journalist, Dan Korem, that he was not actually psychic but that he had put his years in prison to good use by practicing a technique of blowing currents of air imperceptibly from his mouth to cause light objects to move. The video of his confession can be purchased from International Focus Press.

Testy

5. Testy
So, even though there is no actual evidence that psychokinesis has any basis in reality, you might still believe it is real. Here's your chance to see for yourself if you have any psychic powers yourself. This telekinesis test produces a series of random ones and zeros. Probability suggests that average occurrence of either digit should be about equal. By concentrating on one number or the other see if you can influence a statistically improbable amount of that number to appear.

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Wednesday, May 9, 2007

323 - with Links!

Elephant Legs

1. Elephant Legs
Mandy Sellars, suffers from Proteus Syndrome, the malady assumed to have affected Joseph Merrick, more popularly known as the Elephant Man. However, Ms. Sellers' affliction seems to be contained only in her legs, which have grown to enormous proportions. She isn't planning to have her legs amputated anytime soon, but seems optimistic about the things she'll be able do when that eventually occurs. Snowboarding, para-gliding , and white water rafting.

Do You Really Have to Be in It To Win It?

2. Do You Really Have to Be in It To Win It?
Chris Ong, the smartest guy that ever worked at a newsstand, put his name on the claim form, and collected approximately $574,000 from a winning lottery ticket that actually belonged to a pair of his customers. To avoid prosecution, he fled Australia and returned to his native Indonesia, where presumably half a million dollars will go a long way.

Who Is Going To Clean Up This Mess?

3. Who Is Going To Clean Up This Mess?
Possibly the world's greatest Rube Goldberg device built from hundreds of items found around the house.

120MPH

4. 120MPH
I've never really understood how driving a car powered by electricity which is most likely produced in coal or oils burning power plants could be more environmentally friendly than just driving a traditional vehicle. Anyway, if I had a spare $108,000, I'd buy this car in a second.

Loose Screw

5. Drastic Actions
If you are planning a murder/suicide, then that is dramatic enough, you really don't need to cut your own head off with a chainsaw.

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Monday, April 30, 2007

314 - with Links!

Drive-In

1. Drive-In
Another invitation to those that know me or live near me or want to travel. The double feature on Friday May 4th will be The Day The Earth Stood Still followed by Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey. Hopefully it won't rain out.

Love

2. Love
Intended as an learning aid for prospective heart patients, this interactive 3-D model of the human heart is pretty fun to play around with.

Four Inches Tall

3. Four Inches Tall
Although I can't find any evidence of Garth Brooks recording Tiny Dancer, I did uncover a Tim McGraw album which features a cover of the Elton John classic. Anyway, the point is this: Stop reporting on "the worlds smallest dogs" until they are at least a year old and thereby eligible to be considered fro the title.

Fake Cancer/Real Donations

4. Fake Cancer/Real Donations
I've always wondered about those donation buckets you sometimes see on the counters of fast food restaurants.

Mosquitotone

5. Mosquitotone
The world leader in innovative television commercials, KFC, is using weird high pitched subliminal noises supposedly only noticed by teenagers in their new ads. I heard it fine, and I'm no teenager.

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Wednesday, April 25, 2007

309 - Art

Pixels

1. Pixels
Twenty pixels square isn't a lot of space in which to be drawing your masterpiece. Do your best anyway. Add a link to your image in the comments section.

Condimentally

2. Condimentally
Ketchupart.com, without a lot explanation, features a bunch of pictures of plates decorated with intricate (and not so intricate) drawings done with... ketchup, natch.

Thievery

3. Thievery
Please think twice before buying from Todd Goldman's David and Goliath t-shirt company. While some of these allegations of stolen designs are questionable, other are pretty blatant and, therefore, shine a harsh light on the questionable examples.

Modern Montra

4. Modern Montra
It is hard to describe this series of drawings made by Thomas Broomeusing the letters that form the words describing the items being drawn. Just take a look.

Ping Pong Pixel

5. Ping Pong Pixel
Computer aided, automatic, over-sized photo replication in multi-colored ping pong balls.

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Friday, March 30, 2007

283 - with Links!

That's Not Perrier

1. That's Not Perrier
I'm sorry to inform you that any health benefits you received from soaking in the pure mineral water at the Saratoga Spa State Park in New York were imaginary. For the last 17 years operators of the spa have been pouring regular city tap water into their tubs. It's seems it is just to expensive to heat up all that mineral water.

Saturn is Creepy

2. Saturn is Creepy
Think there is something weird about the giant hexagon shaped storm pattern rotating around the north pole of Saturn? Well just take a look at the creepy human eye at the south pole.

Jesus F'n Christ

3. Jesus F'n Christ
Another reason why roadside memorials are a bad idea.

The Last Dragon He Ain't

4. The Last Dragon He Ain't
In case you need more evidence that chi power is bullshit, take a look at this "mystical" old man getting the crap beat out of him by a young guy. I feel kind of bad for the guy. He seems so surprised when his opponent is able to reach through "the flow" and punch him in the nose.

Big Stranger Rodeo

5. Big Stranger Rodeo
You see a big stranger. You jump on them, like it's a rodeo.Stay off ground for as long as possible. When you've fallen off...Leg it!

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Monday, March 12, 2007

265 - with Links!

Damn It Feels Good to Be A Gangster

1. Damn It Feels Good to Be A Gangster
Police said they caught an 8-year-old trying to sell marijuana to other children at a counseling center. He was turned over to his parents who apparently have never heard of child labor laws.

Sam Raimi Instructional Videos

2. Sam Raimi Instructional Videos
I know this seems like a pretty boring fork lift training video, but just muscle through it and see what it evolves into.

Pain Pong

3. Pain Pong
A deceptively simple twist on a classic game turns out to be incredibly maddening. So bad the creator named it "Jeu Chiant" meaning "Shitty Game."

Clothes Jacked

4. Clothes Jacked
A group of thugs not only kidnapped a young couple, they also stole their cars, they also forced them to clean out their ATMs, they also gropes the young woman, and then, in order to add insult to injury, they forced the victims to strip naked and left them stranded on the side of the highway. Cue sexy hitchhiking fantasy.

Essay Extentender

5. Essay Extentender
A good trick to increase the page count of your article, composition, discourse, discussion, disquisition, explication, exposition, manuscript, paper, piece, study, theme, thesis, tract, or treatise in a way that will be unnoticeable to the reader.

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Friday, March 9, 2007

262 - with Links!

Die Rache der Kiefer

1. Die Rache der Kiefer
Shark carcass discovered in Austrian river, revealed to be part of a hoax by a local chef with a strange sense of humor.

Peace Keepers

Dodge

3. Dodge
A simple game. Get your circle to the square without getting hit by the roving red dots.

Who Dini Now?

4. Who Dini Now?
How to escape from handcuffs using nothing but a common bobby pin.

Time Expired

5. Time Expired
I first thought the homeless parking meter was meant to collect money for temporary use of a spot on the sidewalk for sleeping or panhandling or whatever. That isn't what it is intended for at all.

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Sunday, February 25, 2007

250 - with Links!

The Fake Till Scam

1. The Fake Till Scam
The Real Hustle really is my new favorite television show. By supposedly teaching viewers how to avoid being scammed, they are giving me a lot of good advice on how to scam people. There are tons of short clips on Youtube or you can scam BBC Three and download the entire first two seasons.

Financial Independence

2. Financial Independence
In 1989 a dude bought a painting at a flea market and found a copy of the original Declaration of Independence stashed in the back of the frame. Just a few months ago, another dude found another copy at a thrift store for $4. I can't even find pants in my size.

Hard Core Sitting

3. Hard Core Sitting
Aaron Fotheringham rides his wheelchair skatepark-style, and eventually pulls off the world's first recorded wheelchair backflip.

Attention Wal-Mart Shoppers

4. Attention Wal-Mart Shoppers
John Page was bit on the pinkie by a rattlesnake in the garden center of a Florida Wal-Mart and wants to warn shoppers, "this will happen again."

One Quarter

5. One Quarter
John Shaeffer wants to show you how much energy you could conserve by switching from incandecent light bulbs to compact flourescent

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Friday, February 23, 2007

248 - Google!

Find a Tattoo of a Weasel

1. Find a Tattoo of a Weasel
Today's post will include my favorite google searches that have led visitors to this site. Even though I think it is pretty funny, I won't include all the suckers that come here looking for The New Paris Hilton Sex Videos.

2. "The Secret" Positive Thought Christian
My criticism of The Secret has really brought in a lot of viewers. Unfortunately, the majority of them are looking for the Christian angle on the subject. I doubt most of them care about the bad science for which "The Secret Crew" is responsible. I mean, come on, six days, virgin birth, talking snake, etc.

Operation Mincemeat

3. Sweet Operation Mincemeat
By far, the largest number of google searchers that end up here are looking for images relating to Operation Mincemeat. Maybe because google images only supplies two pages of results. The real question is; why do so many people want to see pictures of a dead body after it has been recovered from the sea. Sickos!

Awesome Magician in Grocery Store

Christian Art Prints with Hidden Messages and Cows

Christian Art Prints with Hidden Messages and Cows
This is my favorite one by far, and the one which made me think to compile this list. I see all of these topics gathered around the site so I understand why google sent this poor guy here, I just can't figure out what in the hell he might have been really searching for.

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