Category: Weird

  • AVAST Mobile Security & Antivirus detecting everything as a virus?

    This morning I opened my Gmail app on my Android phone only to have it unexpectedly intercepted by Avast as being infected with malware. Strange, I thought. Gmail has always caught malware while still on the Google server.  Still, it was conceivable, and so I uninstalled the updated version and reverted to the factory one.…

  • A Vending Machine that Sells… Live Crabs?

    Here’s a video worth viewing.  Watch it, then consider: Are you impressed by the innovation and convenience-mindedness of humankind, or the limitless of our cruelty?

  • Bad name, bad placement, bad… bad.

    IMAG0005, originally uploaded by toddlyons. I saw this at the Uniprix pharmacy near my workplace. I’m not sure what the marketers were thinking when they named the product. I’m not aware of too many runaway best sellers (well, any) where the treatment was named after the disease.  Evidently, someone slept through that semester of university……