Headlines from the Dysfunctional Future of Naught for Hire
The future of Naught for Hire is comically (sometimes) dysfunctional, a future filled by technology built by mega-corporations focused solely on the bottom line. Numerous appliances are built with AIs that exhibit an array of personality disorders.
Robocaller Ignores List and Keeps Calling People with "Soothing Voices" |
Road Maintenance Machine Lays Speed Bumps Across Santa Monica Freeway. Cars Lodged in Overpasses. |
Rampage Triggered When Auto-Tattoo Machine Glitch Gives Biker Giant Barney Tat |
Man Testing Diet Drug and Muscle Builder Looks Like Popeye. Even Has Stutter. |
Intelligence-enhanced Turkeys Surprise Hunters. "Hey, watch where you're putting that meat thermometer." |
Prozac Factory Leakage Affects Nearby Meat Packing Plant: 1,000,000 Happy Meals Served |
Facebook Page Showing Facebook Founder's Sex Tapes Shut Down--Woman in Video Seen Texting |
New Oil Spills Off West Coast--More Exploding Seagulls Over Beach Fire Pits |
Roomba Lawnmower Runs Amuck--Mows "Bite Me" in Giant Letters |
India outsources telemarketing jobs to US. American employees will be "named" Rajesh and Amit. |
Off-Duty Cop Shoots 3D Lobby Ad for Lethal Weapon 8: "I thought I was under fire" |
Defective GPS Units Are Surprising Hit With Masochists. "I SAID turn right, jerkwad!" |
Robot Sex Doll Files Restraining Order. |
Another Air Crash: NTSB Says Flying Still Safer Than Lawn Darts |
Shots Fired at PC: Woman Taken Away Repeating "No, I said you can't install updates!" |
Vandals Send Prank-Email Scary Images to Car Heads-Up Displays. Five Crashes and a Stroke so far. |
Damaged Multiplex Theater Reopens When Employee Brings Bigger Screen from Home. |
Eight Cars Go Over Grand Canyon Rim Before GPS Map Error Corrected |
Lovestruck Man Uses Giant Hologram to Append "Y" to the Famous HOLLYWOOD Sign |
Stadium Seatwarmers Recalled for Exploding Batteries--Dubbed "The Fire Down Below" |
Photored Camera Malfunction--No Pics of Red Light Runners, Just Cleavage |
President Madonna to Wed Again |
California Bankrupt After Lottery Snafu Awards Grand Prize to Thousands of People |
Tanker Truck Autopilots Hacked. Gigantic Collision Produces Massive Mix of Chocolate and Strawberries. |
Flash Mob Using Laser Pointers on White House Puts USA on Defcon 1 |
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