Welsh "out of office" email ends up on road sign
When road officials in Wales wanted a translation into Welsh for a road sign, they sent an email to the local government agency in charge of such things, which fired an email back in Welsh ... which the road officials, we should mention, couldn't read. And then guess what happened.
Cell phone pervert gets taste of his own medicine
A New York woman was horrified when she realized that a fellow subway rider was using a cell phone camera to take pictures up her skirt. But rather than get mad, she got even.
Nebraska politician unable to control robot minions
Mike O'Dell thought that his quest for city council would be easier if he could enlist an army of robot campaign workers. Little did he know that their automatic phone calls would drive voters away -- and he could do nothing about it.
Net-enabled toaster officially world's most pointless object
Have you ever wanted to download a graphic or short text clip from the Internet and burn it onto a piece of toast? Of course you haven't, because that's the most moronic thing that you or anyone else has ever heard of.
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