Idle Stories for 2013

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
Don't Tie a Horse To a Tree and Other Open Data Lessons 109
PayPal Credits Man With $92 Quadrillion 151
Better Factories Through Role Playing 160
Cell Phone Powered By Urine 88
German Drone Darts Off and Hits Transport Plane On Ground 74
Apple Sued For Man's Porn Addiction 509
TV Programmers Seek the Elusive Dog Market 199
Real Version of Homer Simpson's Dream Car Built 53
PayPal Spaces Out With Paypal Galactic 60
How Not To Be a SEO Spammer 65
Pro Bono Lawyer Fights C&D With Humor 144
2 Men Accused of Trying To Make X-Ray Weapon 470
With Sales Down, Whale Meat Flogged As Source of Strength 311
Meet the 23-Ton X-Wing, the World's Largest Lego Model 121
Leaked Microsoft Video Parodies Chrome Ad 243
UN Says: Why Not Eat More Insects? 626
Astronaut Chris Hadfield Performs Space Oddity On the ISS 212
Beer Drone Delivery Service For South African Music Festival 61
Heavy Weather Exometeorology Style 26
Lawyer Loses It In Letter To Patent Office 342
Crazy Eric Schmidt, His Yacht Prices Are Insaaane! 179
Tiny Tentacled Microorganisms Named After Cthulu 54
How That 'Extra .9%' Could Ward Off a Zombie Apocalypse 204
How To Hunt a Cicada Smorgasbord 87
Creationist Bets $10k In Proposed Literal Interpretation of Genesis Debate 1121
Scientists Study Getting an Unwanted Tune Out of Your Head 219
Man Accused of Selling Golf Ball Finders As Bomb Detectors 131
Canadian Man Wants To Trade Home For Bitcoins 106
Wrong Fuel Chokes Presidential Limo 612
Jedi May Be Allowed To Perform Marriage Ceremonies In Scotland 196
V&A Scraps Napalm Death Gig For Fear Decibel Levels Will Damage Sculptures 79
"Lazarus Project" Clones Extinct Frog 154
Ukrainian Attack Dolphins Are On the Loose 99
Google Doodle Celebrates Birthday of Douglas Adams 104
Mobile Sharing: "Bezos Beep" Vs. Smartphone Bump 180
The Manti Te'o of Physics 101
MIT's Charm School For Geeks Turns 20 217
DRM Chair Self-Destructs After 8 Uses 215
State Rep. Says Biking Is Not Earth Friendly Because Breathing Produces CO2 976
Laser Intended For Mars Used To Detect "Honey Laundering" 387
Amazon Sells Out Predator Drone Toy After Mocking Reviews 147
Can You Potty Train a Cow? 214
Heavy Metal and Emergent Behavior 92
Ask Slashdot: Really Short Time Wasters? 279
Local Emergency Alert System Hacked, Warns Dead Rising From Graves 235
Pepsi To Release New Breakfast Mountain Dew 362
Copyright Claim Thwarts North Korean Propaganda 147
Interviews: Ask Blendtec Founder Tom Dickson What Won't Blend? 118
Air Quality Apps and Bottled Air Thrive On Beijing's Pollution 102
Robot Serves Up 360 Hamburgers Per Hour 299
Original Batmobile Sells For $4.2 Million 47
The Empire Writes Back About the Failed Death Star Petition 90
Swedish School Makes Minecraft Lessons Compulsory 162
How the Internet Makes the Improbable Into the New Normal 191
Dean Kamen Invents Stomach Pump For Dieters 483
Anonymous Files Petition To Make DDoS Legal Form of Protest 323
What Did Google Earth Spot In the Chinese Desert? 257
Annual "Worst CEO" List Released 121
An Oven That Runs Android 123
Japanese Cops Collar Malware-Carrying Cat 83
Dad Hires In-Game 'Assassins' To Get His Son To Stop Gaming 338
Teens Drug Parents To Get Web Access 505
Colleges Help Students Fix Their Online Indiscretions 189
Ask Slashdot: What Is Your New Years Eve Tradition? 256