Idle Stories for 2014

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