Is It Friday Yet?

Some Halloween joy for the locals: the Evergreen Paranormal Group has a nice long list of haunted places in Washington (no, the other one). Here’s an especially creepy one:

Concrete – Mount Baker Hotel – Make it known that if you are going to this hotel, and you go upstairs be prepared, you will see a little girl about 4, with red hair and blue jean shorts on, with a pink shirt on! She might try to push you down the stairs (Do Not Be Alarmed!) but it does not work. All you can feel is a sort of tingle go through your body. You can hear a little girls voice saying “The bad woman?s gonna hurt me!” Also you might hear “Turn around, the bad woman will hurt you!” People say that her mother used to beat her to death.

A very large sculpture featuring an unusual method of bovine propulsion: “What you see may not be real.”

Instead of bringing 150 pounds of urine and wastewater back to Earth as cargo on the Space Shuttle, they send it down separately: Space Shuttle Unleashes Magnificent Plume of Pee

This reminds me too much of this.

From Mental Floss magazine by way of Neatorama: 4 Holy Women Transformed by Cheese

In what sounds like an April Fool’s joke from the Onion, KFC is test marketing a new sandwich called the “Double Down”, featuring cheese and bacon between two slices of fried chicken:

Food blog So Good has more on this tempting abomination.

When police in Peoria, Illinois want to clean up a neighborhood, they call in the Armadillo. Painted in police colors, loaded with cameras, and made further vandal-resistant, the retired armored truck is parked in front of a drug dealer’s house and left there. Poof, the problem goes away.

I wonder if there’s one that can get rid of Wal-Marts.

Always with America’s best interest in mind, the DHS is working on a new radiation scanner that is just as effective but costs twice as much:

“The Department of Homeland Security has said the new machines it is developing can distinguish between kitty litter and dangerous radioactive material and produce fewer false alarms than the current ones.”

I believe I’ve discovered the source of half the (why God why) PowerPoint slide shows my father forwards for my amusement: Corrupted-files.com. Like the name says, they offer deliberately corrupted Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files that you can use as a delaying tactic while you scramble to get your homework done.

Direct from Yahoo! Answers:

Apparently he hasn’t actually been watching either one of them…