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The Hawkeye Initiative: Ruby Underboob and Brosie the Riveter

Outstanding story about a prank involving a gaming company CEO and a stereotypical-underdressed-comicbook-female-character poster.

Don’t make fun of renowned Dan Brown

Amazing.

Renowned author Dan Brown woke up in his luxurious four-poster bed in his expensive $10 million house – and immediately he felt angry. Most people would have thought that the 48-year-old man had no reason to be angry. After all, the famous writer had a new book coming out. But that was the problem. A new book meant an inevitable attack on the rich novelist by the wealthy wordsmith’s fiercest foes. The critics.

Renowned author Dan Brown hated the critics. Ever since he had become one of the world’s top renowned authors they had made fun of him. They had mocked bestselling book The Da Vinci Code, successful novel Digital Fortress, popular tome Deception Point, money-spinning volume Angels & Demons and chart-topping work of narrative fiction The Lost Symbol.

The critics said his writing was clumsy, ungrammatical, repetitive and repetitive. They said it was full of unnecessary tautology. They said his prose was swamped in a sea of mixed metaphors. For some reason they found something funny in sentences such as “His eyes went white, like a shark about to attack.” They even say my books are packed with banal and superfluous description, thought the 5ft 9in man. He particularly hated it when they said his imagery was nonsensical. It made his insect eyes flash like a rocket.

Don’t walk, run — run and read the whole thing.

27 Middle-Class Problems

Life is hard sometimes, and there’s only one way to handle it: Share your pain on Twitter .

I’m not a fan of Buzzfeed’s throw-semi-plagiarised-crap-at-the-wall-and-see-what-sticks shotgun blogging, but this one really works.

Steampunk weapons useless against fists

PRETEND ‘Steampunk’ weapons are less effective than fists, a fight has revealed.

Brilliant.

In the matter of BSkyB vs HP Enterprise Services...

In the case of BSkyB vs HP Enterprise Services (2010), a contractual wrangling over a failed IT rollout, it become important to consider the professional qualifications of the staff HP had assigned to the contract. One of them, Joe Galloway, the managing director of the division of HP that had done the work, claimed to have an MBA. This degree, however, came from a “degree mill” i.e. a place that sells degrees to anyone who will pay for one:

In his first witness statement at paragraph 8, Joe Galloway stated that “I hold an MBA from Concordia College, St. Johns (1995 to 1996)”. … In fact, Concordia College is a website which provides on-line degrees for anyone who makes an application and pays the required fee.

One of the prosecution lawyers then proceeded to demonstrate just how shady Concordia College was in this marvellous manner:

This was effectively and amusingly demonstrated by an application which was made on the website for an MBA degree for a dog “Lulu” belonging to Mark Howard QC. Without any difficulty the dog was able to obtain a degree certificate and transcripts which were in identical form to those later produced by Joe Galloway but with marks which, in fact, were better than those given to him. In addition, a recommendation letter was provided to Mr Galloway and the dog by a person who purported to be President and Vice-Chancellor of Concordia College and University…

If you like this, the Wikipedia page list of animals with fraudulent diplomas is definitely for you.