• Woman has pencil removed from head

    Margaret Wegner, now 59, was 4 years old when she fell while carrying the 3.15 inch-long pencil, which went through her cheek and into her brain.

    Most people tuck their pencils behind their ears if they don\’t want to lose them.

  • In Silicon Valley, Millionaires Who Don\’t Feel Rich

    Mr. Steger, 51, a self-described geek, has banked more than $2 million. The couple’s net worth of roughly $3.5 million places them in the top 2 percent of families in the United States.

    Yet each day Mr. Steger continues to toil in what a colleague calls \”the Silicon Valley salt mines.\” He typically works 12 hours a day and logs an extra 10 hours over the weekend.

    Waaahhh, I have $3.5 million but I don\’t feel rich, my life sucks, waaahhh.

  • A skyscraper in London has to be demolished from the ground up because of the way it was built. Each floor was hung from a huge beam at the top of the building supported by the central core. That first picture is so awesome.

  • Think Geek sells an actual 3D model of MC Escher\’s Waterfall.

  • All aboard Amtrak\’s booze train

    Amtrak is trying to gin up new business by offering $100 in free alcohol to customers on some overnight trains.

    I believe NASA also has a booze train, except they call it a space shuttle.

  • DP Review, er, reviews the Leica M8, the digital version of Leica\’s classic M rangefinders. Looks really cool but it\’s expensive at $4800 without a lens.

  • Man arrested for public sex acts

    …police found the video camera and a \”large amount\” of 8mm and VHS video of Dills engaged in masturbation and sex acts with traffic signs near his home, McManus said.

    Yeah, those street signs are fucking hot.

  • Astronauts Have Flown While Drunk, NASA Finds

    NASA’s astronauts have flown while intoxicated on at least two occasions, according to reports of an internal NASA investigation, and the astronauts involved were warned that their drunkenness constituted a safety risk to the flight.

    I think NASA needs to install on the space shuttle one of those car breathalyzers that you have to blow into to start the car.