Idle Stories for 2015

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