My favorite explanation:
Scientists have show that the moon is moving away at a tiny, although measurable, distance from the earth every year.

If you do the math, you can calculate that 85 million years ago the moon was orbiting the earth at a distance of about 35 feet from the earth's surface.

This would explain the death of the dinosaurs. . . the tallest ones, anyway. . .

There's a few articles in the Japanese news papers:
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/
https://mainichi.jp/english/

Link to articles:
https://mainichi.jp/english/ar...
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/n...
https://mainichi.jp/english/ar...

I don't think I read alt.ensign.wesley.die.die.die, but I remember seeing it when looking thru newsgroups to subscribe to. Good times back then.

I think this should be effective against tele-spammers too:
http://www.jollyrogertelco.com...

It's not AI, but it's better in a way because the timed responses will talk over the caller and interrupt them.

"Windows just isn't ready for enterprise use yet." reminds me of:

Why Windows NT Server 4.0 continues to exist in the enterprise would be a topic appropriate for an investigative report in the field of psychology or marketing, not an article on information technology. Technically, Windows NT Server 4.0 is no match for any UNIX operating system, not even the non-commercial BSDs or Linux.
http://linux.math.tifr.res.in/...

The Register has a good article on this:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

"The policy document instead leaves people assuming Russia et al are forming a breakaway internet. In reality, it's basically calling for yet more root mirrors."
"But a parallel domain name system with a separate set of root zone servers? There's virtually no point."

It's all fun and games until the Lawyerclysm hits:
http://humorix.org/10187
http://humorix.org/10303

...it hits 99% and the economy collapses. Nobody wants to work in any occupation except the legal field. Indeed, with the high cost of legal insurance and the virtual guarantee of being sued at least once a month, nobody can afford to be anything but a lawyer, judge, or politician

Lawyers To Be Replaced With Perl Scripts
http://humorix.org/10523

This script, originally created as a way to generate mundane legal documents, achieved sentience last week and easily passed the Turing Test.

Caption fails (old but funny):

Make a short skit, act it out, take the CC output and redo the skit with the new words.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I assume like the day trip that 'Kidd of Speed' (aka Elena Filatova) took:
http://www.angelfire.com/extre...

It's still an interesting read though even if her motorcycle trip thru there wasn't true.

I did pretty much the same thing after high school. After a few years of working thankless, low paying, no future jobs, the company I worked for went bankrupt. I took the opportunity to go to college and got straight A's. I never would have been able to do that right out of high school as I didn't have the right attitude and the right motivation.

He's still writing for TheReg. It's about 1 story a month.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/d...

Unfortunately the original site of bofh.ntk.net doesn't resolve for me, but http://bofh.bjash.com/ has the original classics.

Reminds me of my favorite BOFH story involving killfiles:
https://www.andrews.edu/~freem...

"Excellent. What is a killfile?"
"Uh. It's a list of usernames/topics/news items etc. that you wish the news-reader to automatically skip so you don't have to wade through rubbish."
"Uh. No. Remember I said pertaining to Operations. A killfile is in fact a file with a list of names of people you are going to have killed."
"Oh. Of course."

It seems like this is a good place for a new app. It could display only your driver's license but not allow access to the rest of the phone without a PIN being entered. It would also have to shut off the data port, NFC, etc to prevent the other ways of getting data off of the phone with physical access.

For me, I'll stick with my plastic license.