Idle Stories

Museum of Failure Opens In Sweden 253
Nutella Used An Algorithm To Design 7 Million Unique Labels 95
Steve Wozniak's Biographer Pranked By Woz's Mom? 11
Ask Slashdot: Seen Any Good April Fool's Pranks Today? 106
Terrifying Anti-Riot Vehicle Created To Quash Any Urban Disturbance 195
Court Fines Canadian $26,500 For 'Unconscionably Stupid' Balloon-Chair Flight 101
Fans Choose A New Football Team's Plays With Their Smartphones 47
Web Comic 'Pokey The Penguin' Celebrates Its 19th Anniversary 67
German Government Tells Parents: Destroy This WiFi-Connected Doll 142
Hundreds of Stonehenge-Like Monuments Found In The Amazon Rainforest 147
Tostitos' Breathalyzer Bags Can Detect If You're Drunk -- Then Call Uber 75
How A Professional Poker Player Conned a Casino Out of $9.6 Million 406
Store Adds Donald Trump's Picture To $150,000 Gold-Encased iPhones 186
FBI Relents, Confirms Previously-Denied UFO Investigation 85
The FBI Spent Two Years Investigating An Online Cult That Didn't Exist 134
Canonical Names Ubuntu Linux 17.04 'Zesty Zapus' 67
Dilbert Creator Scott Adams Endorses Gary Johnson For President 523
The Ig Nobel Awards Celebrate Their 26th First Annual Awards Ceremony 37
Woman Sues Sex Toy App For Secretly Capturing Sensitive Information 211
Fugitive Arrested After Using 'Wanted' Poster As His Facebook Profile Pic 89
What Jonathan Coulton Learned From The Technology Industry 88
'Longest Living Human' Says He Is Ready For Death At 145 314
Hacked Hobbit Pinball Machine Joins IoT, Broadcasts Itself Over Twitch 45
Star Wars Actor Kenny Baker Dies at Age 81 51
How The Navy Tried To Turn Sharks into Torpedos 60
Wild Abuse Allegations Taint Indiegogo Helmet Maker Skully 84
Star Trek Convention Celebrates The Show's 50th Anniversary 25
Mysterious, Ice-Buried Cold War Military Base May Be Unearthed By Climate Change 108
British Newspaper Fooled By Online Harry Potter/Pokemon Go Hoax 36
Star Trek's 50th Anniversary Celebrated at Comic-Con 106
New Zealand Crowdfunds $1.7 Million To Buy A Private Beach 124
The Freeware Hall of Fame Enters Its 20th Year 41
Red Hat Exec Marries A Couple At Red Hat Summit 62
Is The Future Of Television Watching on Fast-Forward? 296
A New 'Quake' Episode Appears 20 Years Later 36
IBM Engineer Builds a Harry Potter Sorting Hat Using 'Watson' AI 117
Mattel Sells Out Of 'Game Developer Barbie' 224
Political Party's Videoconference System Hacked, Allowed Spying On Demand 32
Real-World Pong Created by Amateur Builders 39
The NSA's Delightfully D&D-inspired Guide To the Internet 43
Fake Facebook Event Draws Police, Spawns New Meme 92
History Buffs Discover Inaccuracies In Battlefield 1 Trailer 74
Original 'Doom' Level Remade in the New 'Doom' 46
New "Perfect Game" Donkey Kong Record May Be Unbeatable 77
Siri Voice Actress Doesn't Use Siri 82
RIP Kuro5hin 264
Online Voters Name British Vessel 'Boaty McBoatface' 221
Flying Jet-Powered Hoverboard Now a Reality 93
Underwater Sonar Robot Discovers A Real Loch Ness Monster (Prop) 62
Worshipping the Flying Spaghetti Monster Isn't a Real Religion, Court Rules 527
Free Lightsaber Event Now Battling Lucasfilm's Lawyers 198
Amateur Scientist Builds Thermite Grenade Cannon 97
Slashdot Asks: What's Your Favorite Easter Egg? 165
33,000 Sign Online Petition Promoting Guns At Republican Convention 663
Feds: Brink's Employee Makes Off With $196,000 In Quarters 142
Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli Threatens Ghostface Killah 108
Filmmaker Forces Censors To Watch 10-Hour Movie of Paint Drying 255
The Most Popular Bad Passwords of 2015 165
New Jersey Rejects Request For Dolphin Necropsy Results, Cites "Medical Privacy" 228
Chrome Extension Offers Trump-Free Browsing 247
Astronaut Tim Peake Calls the Wrong Number From Space 27
Meet the Scientist Who Injected Himself With 3.5 Million-Year-Old Bacteria 206
Economists Discuss the Financial Repercussions of the Destruction of the Death Stars 171
Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster Now Can Perform Marriages In New Zealand 209
Texas Plumber Sues Car Dealer After His Truck Ends Up In Videos of Syria's Front Lines 347
Study: Happiness Won't Extend Your Life After All 108
Hit-and-Run Suspect Arrested After Her Own Car Calls Cops 423
Museum of Political Corruption Planned For New York 97
Cuban Talks Trash At Intel Extreme Masters, Drops $30K of F-Bombs For Charity 53
Controversy Over High-Tech Brooms Sweeps Through Sport of Curling 181
Grow Your Daily Protein At Home With an Edible Insect Desktop Hive 381
Google Car Pulled Over For Driving Too Slow, Doesn't Get a Ticket 350
Same Birthday, Same Social Security Number, Same Mess For Two Florida Women 214
Head of Indonesia's Anti-Drug Agency Proposes Using Crocodiles To Guard Prisons 83
The Internet Falls For Rumblr, a Fake "Tinder For Fighting" App 135
A Scientist Is Selling the Right To Name His Newly-Discovered Moth On eBay 60
Bank's Severance Deal Requires IT Workers To Be Available For Two Years 602
A Remarkable Number of People Think 'The Martian' Is Based On a True Story 367
How Someone Acquired the Google.com Domain Name For a Single Minute 70
Australian Workplace Tribunal Rules Facebook Unfriending Constitutes "Bullying" 208
The Force Awakens With Devon's $28,500 Star Wars Limited Edition Watch 112
Plug In an Ethernet Cable, Take Your Datacenter Offline 150
How Calvin Klein's Obsession Is Helping Big Cat Conservation 48
You Can Now Be "Buried" On the Moon 72
More Cities Use DNA To Catch Dog Owners Who Don't Pick Up Waste 177
Germany Says Taking Photos Of Food Infringes The Chef's Copyright 280
Microsoft Creates an AI That Can Spot a Joke In a New Yorker Cartoon 66
North Korea Is Switching To a New Time Zone 236
Buzz Aldrin Publishes Moon Expenses Form 100
Girls Catfish ISIS On Social Media For Travel Money 238
San Francisco's Public Works Agency Tests Paint That Repels Urine 210
The French Scrabble Champ Does Not Speak French 113
Skype Translate Reportedly Has a Swearing Problem In Chinese 82
Techies Hire Witch To Protect Computers From Viruses and Offices From Spirits 232
'Pluto Truthers' Are Pretty Sure That the NASA New Horizons Mission Was Faked 321
Researchers Study "Harbingers of Failure," Consumers Who Habitually Pick Losers 300
Students Win Prize For Color-Changing Condoms That Detect STDs 171
Researchers Claim a Few Cat Videos Per Day Helps Keep the Doctor Away 59
You'll Totally Believe Why These Startups Failed 151
Egyptian Repairman Outranks Google 47
Indicted Ex-FIFA Executive Cites Onion Article In Rant Slamming US 194
Billboard Advertising Banned Products In Russia Hides If It Recognizes Cops 86
Musical Organ Created From 49 Floppy Disk Drives 76
Secret Files Reveal UK Police Feared That Trekkies Could Turn On Society 214
World's Rudest Robot Set To Simulate the Fury of Call Center Customers 150
Sorority Files Lawsuit After Sacred Secrets Posted On Penny Arcade Forums 257
17-Year-Old Radio Astronomy Mystery Traced Back To Kitchen Microwave 227
Woman Alerts Police of Hostage Situation Through Pizza Hut App 105
Stephen Hawking Has a Message For One Direction Fans 109
Ancient Hangover Cure Discovered In Greek Texts 105
Broken Beer Bottle Battle In Debate Over Merits of Android Over iPhone 134
MIT Celebrates 10 Years of SCIgen Bogus CompSci Paper Generator With New Tool 13
German Teenager Gets Job Offer By Trying To Use FOI For His Exam Papers 114
Judge Allows Divorce Papers To Be Served Via Facebook 95
Pi Day Extraordinaire 107
Major Museums Start Banning Selfie Sticks 183
Star Trek Fans Told To Stop "Spocking" Canadian $5 Bill 223
Statistical Mechanics Finds Best Places To Hide During Zombie Apocalypse 247
The Science of a Bottomless Pit 122
LG Exec Indicted Over Broken Samsung Washing Machine 132
The Oddball Side of CES (Video) 35
Hobbyists Selling Tesla Coil Kits To Fund Drone Flight Over North Korea 175
Texas Boy Suspended For "Threatening" Classmate With the One Ring 591
HOA Orders TARDIS Removed From In Front of Parrish Home 320
Ancient Planes and Other Claims Spark Controversy at Indian Science Congress 381
South Korean Activist To Drop "The Interview" In North Korea Using Balloons 146
The World of YouTube Bubble Sort Algorithm Dancing 68
Amazon "Suppresses" Book With Too Many Hyphens 292
Amazon UK Glitch Sells Thousands of Products For a Penny 138
Julian Assange Trying To Raise Nearly $200k For a Statue of Himself 171
A Paper By Maggie Simpson and Edna Krabappel Was Accepted By Two Journals 100
How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Twitterbot 54
Gangnam Style Surpasses YouTube's 32-bit View Counter 164
Pizza Hut Tests New "Subconscious Menu" That Reads Your Mind 186
Congress Suggests Moat, Electronic Fence To Protect White House 213
Entrepreneur Injects Bitcoin Wallets Into Hands 77
Maker Joe is a 'Maker' Sculptor (Video) 16
The Math Behind the Hipster Effect 176
Discovery Claims It Will Show a Man Being "Eaten Alive" By an Anaconda 164
Undersized Grouper Case Lands In Supreme Court 251
Russia Takes Down Steve Jobs Memorial After Apple's Tim Cook Comes Out 430
Dance Your Ph.D. Winner Announced 14
New Crash Test Dummies Reflect Rising American Bodyweight 144
"Dance Your Ph.D." Finalists Announced 19
Rosetta Probe Reveals What a Comet Smells Like 53
PETA Is Not Happy That Google Used a Camel To Get a Desert "StreetView" 367
Statisticians Uncover What Makes For a Stable Marriage 447
Darth Vader, Yoda, Chewbacca Aim To Invade Ukraine's Govt. In Upcoming Elections 63
China Worried About Terrorist Pigeons 92
Statistician Creates Mathematical Model To Predict the Future of Game of Thrones 127
Blood For Extra Credit Points Offer Raises Eyebrows In Test-Mad China 90
At CIA Starbucks, Even the Baristas Are Covert 242
Service Promises To Leak Your Documents If the Government Murders You 98
Friendly Reminder: Do Not Place Your iPhone In a Microwave 240
Netropolitan Is a Facebook For the Affluent, and It's Only $9000 To Join 178
Canon Printer Hacked To Run Doom Video Game 92
Chinese City Sets Up "No Cell Phone" Pedestrian Lanes 46
Laid Off From Job, Man Builds Tweeting Toilet 115
Dirty Diapers Used To Grow Mushrooms 97
The Frustrations of Supporting Users In Remote Offices 129
Indiana University Researchers Get $1 Million Grant To Study Memes 126
Murder Suspect Asked Siri Where To Hide a Dead Body 160
Entire South Korean Space Programme Shuts Down As Sole Astronaut Quits 186
Idiot Leaves Driver's Seat In Self-Driving Infiniti, On the Highway 406
Want To Work Without Prying Eyes? Try Wearing a Body Sock 75
Poetry For Sysadmins: Shall I Compare Thee To a Lumbering Bear? 31
The "Rickmote Controller" Can Hijack Any Google Chromecast 131
New Toyota Helps You Yell At the Kids 205
The Improbable Story of the 184 MPH Jet Train 195
Chinese Couple Sells Children To Support Online Game Addiction 131
A Brief History of Patenting the Wheel: What Goes Around Comes Around 36
Netflix Is Looking To Pay Someone To Watch Netflix All Day 86
The View From Inside A Fireworks Show 200
Study: People Would Rather Be Shocked Than Be Alone With Their Thoughts 333
Julian Assange Plans Modeling Debut At London Fashion Show 173
Match.com, Mensa Create Dating Site For Geniuses 561
A Physicist Says He Can Tornado-Proof the Midwest With 1,000-Foot Walls 501
Study: Male Facial Development Evolved To Take Punches 190
Study: Rats Regret Making the Wrong Decision 94
Ear Grown From Van Gogh DNA On Display 64
A Measure of Your Team's Health: How You Treat Your "Idiot" 255
Scott Adams's Plan For Building Giant Energy-Generating Pyramids 107
Organic Cat Litter May Have Caused Nuclear Waste Accident 174
FBI Need Potheads To Fight Cybercrime 319
Ohio Prison Shows Pirated Movies To Inmates 186
The Physics of Hot Pockets 222
New Cologne Answers the Question: "What Does a Bitcoin Smell Like?" 61
China Using Troop of Trained Monkeys To Guard Air Base 119
The Feds Accidentally Mailed Part of A $350K Drone To Some College Kid 157
Scientists Give Praying Mantises Tiny 3D Glasses 55
Band Releases Album As Linux Kernel Module 128
Mathematicians Use Mossberg 500 Pump-Action Shotgun To Calculate Pi 311
Skydiver's Helmet Cam Captures a Falling Meteor 142
Darth Vader Runs For President of Ukraine 114
North Korea: Male University Students Required To Get Kim Jong-un Haircuts 110
Website Simulates Amiga OS 45
Apocalypse NAO: College Studies the Theological Ramifications of Robotics 176
Exxon Mobile CEO Sues To Stop Fracking Near His Texas Ranch 317
Chevron Gives Residents Near Fracking Explosion Free Pizza 207
Asia's Richest Man Is Betting Big On Silicon Valley's Fake Eggs 269
South Carolina Woman Jailed After Failing To Return Movie Rented Nine Years Ago 467
Scientists Create Pizza That Can Last Years 225
Japanese Man Already Lined Up To Buy iPhone 6 114
Japan's Alleged Death Threat-Making, Cat-Hacking Programmer Says He's Innocent 69
Sinkhole Swallows 8 Vehicles Inside Bowling Green KY Corvette Museum 97
Skinny Puppy Wants Compensation For Music Used in US Interrogations 271
The Scent Rhythm Watch Tells Time By Releasing Fragrances 79
Slashdot PT Cruiser Spotted In the Wild 94
Historical Carbon Emissions From Dragons In Middle Earth 69
Surrey Hit With Catnado 95
Searching the Internet For Evidence of Time Travelers 465
There's Kanye West-Themed Crypto-Currency On the Way 237
Dogs Defecate In Alignment With Earth's Magnetic Field 222
Safeway Suspends Worker For Sci-Fi Parody of His Firing 191
What Sci-Fi Movies Teach Us About Project Management Skills 186
Wikipedia's Lamest Edit Wars 219
StarCraft II Gamer Receives US Pro-Athlete Visa 114
Microsoft's New Smart Bra Could Stop You From Over Eating 299
Property Managers Use DNA To Sniff Out Dog Poop Offenders 234
First Arab Supercar Costs $3.4 Million, Has Diamond-Encrusted Headlights 241
"Dance Your PhD" Finalists Announced 16
Dell Fixes Ultrabook That Smelled of Cat Urine 133
Azerbaijan Election Results Released Before Voting Had Even Started 266
What Are the Genuinely Useful Ideas In Programming? 598
Dutch Police Recruit Rats To Sniff Out Crime 80
Fighting Zombies? Chevrolet Reveals New "Black Ops" Concept Truck 220
Apple Maps Flaw Sends Drivers Across Airport Runway 311
Angry Brazilian Whacks NASA To Put a Stop To ... Er, the NSA 90
Toronto Family Bans All Technology In Their Home Made After 1986 534
Intel's Wine-Powered Microprocessor 126
Man Trying To Fly Across the Atlantic On Helium Balloons 92
Meet the Guy Who Fact-Checks Stephen King On Stephen King 121
TSA Reminds You Not To Travel With Hand Grenades 378
The iPhone 5S Hasn't Been Officially Announced, Already Has Line 181
Drone Hunters Lining Up and Paying Out In Colorado 206
Building Melts Car 151
Egyptian Authorities Detain French "Spy" Bird Found With Tracker 110
How One Man Turns Annoying Cold Calls Into Cash 227
Pastafarian Wins Battle To Wear Colander In License Photo 535
Bitcoin, BYOD, Phablet, Selfie, and Twerking Find Place In Oxford Dictionary 131
Dentist Wants To Clone John Lennon Using DNA Extracted From Lennon's Tooth 224
Amazon Selects Their Favorite Fake Customer Reviews 98
20 People Shot With BB Guns At LG G2 Promotional Event 151
10 Wearable Habitats To Shelter You From the Apocalypse 135
The Latest Security Vulnerability: Your Toilet 211
Give Zebrafish Some Booze and They Stop Fearing Robots 58
Man Builds Fully-Functional Boeing 737 Flight Simulator In His Son's Bedroom 128
Cybercriminals Has Heroin Delivered To Brian Krebs, Then Calls Police 187
Indian Army Mistook Planets For Spy Drones 143
Fake "Speed Enforced By Drones" Signs On California Freeways 218

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