Day: July 30, 2014

Some events in our lifetime tend to embody the spirit of the people involved a bit more than others. Kanye West putting an end to Coinye, the Bitcoin currency clone, truly seems like quite the Kanye-esque move.

That said, just like the Black Knight, Coinye ain’t quite dead yet.

West sued Coinye over using his likeness and name without his permission, essentially winning the decision thanks to many of the plaintiffs not showing up. As such, Kanye has raised his arms up in the air, presumably wearing leather jogging pants and telling his tale while on a moving motorcycle. That said, the judge hasn’t signed off on the judgement, and even then, clones of this clone have started to appear!

This is what gay fish do: they multiply.

Things are getting a bit … North Korea-y in Venezuela a year after Hugo Chavez’s death.

First, his successor, Nicolas Maduro, claims to have twice received otherworldly visits/messages from Chavez in the form of birds.

Then, Venezuela’s ruling Socialist Party declared Chavez their “eternal leader.”

And now, party supporters have launched a font patterned after Chavez’s handwriting: ChavezPro.

The joke’s on the Socialists, though. Although they distribute the file for free in accordance with their principles, Hot Topic will make millions off of it by printing it on $30 t-shirts.

The scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee are smart people, unfortunately, they also have southern accents. Guess how things went when the lab offered classes to change that?

Our guess is that it’s pretty easy being a human resources person at a federally funded national laboratory. That means that putting on classes to improve worker abilities must be challenging. Helping people get rid of their southern accents must have seemed like a good plan, after all, regardless of how smart you are, your accent doesn’t get the best press. HR people probably got tired of hearing people say “nucular.”

As you may have guessed, staff at the lab complained, and the accent reduction class was cancelled, y’all.