How To Open Locks With Improvised Tools.

Cubs centerfielder Felix Pie has a twisted testicle.

#2: Religions that their parents don’t belong to.

White people will often say they are “spiritual” but not religious. Which usually means that they will believe any religion that doesn’t involve Jesus.

Popular choices include Buddhism, Hinduism, Kabbalah and, to a lesser extent, Scientology. A few even dip into Islam, but it’s much more rare since you have to give stuff up and actually go to Mosque.

Also check out #67.

A step-by-step guide to the subprime mortgage meltdown (PPT file). Simple yet remarkably accurate (and sadly funny). Be warned, contains profanity.

More proof that we are screwed.

Seriously.

Michael Nygard was held up as security staff gathered around his MacBook Air, trying to make sense of the slender laptop. One of the less technically knowledgeable staff points out the lack of standard features as cause for alarm.

“I’m standing, watching my laptop on the table, listening to security clucking just behind me,” Nygard recalls of the situation. “‘There’s no drive,” one says. ‘And no ports on the back. It has a couple of lines where the drive should be,’ she continues.”

Nygard was made to wait until a younger agent came over to the gathering to inform his comrades of their error, that it is indeed a laptop and not a “device”. After making three attempts to describe the concept of a flash-based hard drive, security lets Nygard through the checkpoint, only to go back to the service center to rebook, as his flight had since left.

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