Taunt your family from the dead with a talking tombstone

Video tombstones and talking tombstones have, in theory at least, been around for a while. Or wait, maybe I’m thinking of Futurama. At any rate here’s another talking tombstone product, this one from a company called Objects.

The RosettaStone Tablet is a $200 device about the size of a credit card that can be embedded in or stuck to grave markers. It stores data on RFID circuitry, then powers up when a compatible cell phone is within range and transmits the data to the phone’s recipient.

Here’s my question: if you use the device for from-the-grave sexting, is that considered necrophilia?

“Speak From the Dead Via Talking Tombstone” [Tom's Guide]

(Photo: alistairhamilton and ElvertBarnes)

Posted on March 28, 2010 by Chris Walters |
 
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Saudi Arabia sentences TV psychic to death


The world doesn’t need more examples of how religion institutionalizes evil, but here’s one anyway. A religious court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced a man to be executed for practicing “black magic” because he hosted a TV show where he gave advice and made predictions. According to CNN,

The judges in Medina issued a statement expressing that [Ali Hussain] Sibat deserved to be executed for having continually practiced black magic on his show, adding that this sentence would deter others from practicing sorcery.

Sibat is actually Lebanese and lived in Beirut, but he was arrested by Saudi Arabian religious police when he was visiting their country in 2008, and he’s been their prisoner ever since.

This is why we can’t have nice things, people.

“Saudi Arabia ’sorcery’ death sentence upheld” [Amnesty.org]

Posted on March 27, 2010 by Chris Walters |
 
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What kind of monster are you?!?

You know how you’ve got those weird impulses and unsavory desires that you keep pushed down under the surface? The ones you would never act on? We’d like to bring those out and give them some fresh air. By answering a few thought-provoking and incisive questions below, our Monstersona program will calculate your personality type and tell you exactly which creepy jackass you would be. You know, if you were creepy and a jackass. And killed teenagers for a living.

Just answer the ten questions that follow to the best of your admittedly limited abilities. Remember, there are no right or wrong answers, only immoral ones. Read more

Posted on March 25, 2010 by Chris Walters |
 
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Victims of British serial killer speak in “The Drowning Girls”

“The Drowning Girls” is a play by Beth Graham about three women killed between 1908 and 1914 by George Joseph Smith, a British serial killer who was eventually convicted of murder and hanged. A lifelong criminal, Smith married repeatedly (and simultaneously) and in at least three instances murdered his wives by drowning them in bathtubs.

The landlord of a boarding house where Smith and one of his victims lived first noticed how the woman’s death matched a story at another boarding house, and brought both stories to an inspector’s attention. A third suspiciously similar death was then discovered, and after some investigation the inspector realized that the husband in all three cases was the same man. Read more

Posted on March 22, 2010 by Chris Walters |
 
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iPhone app review: Zombieville

Sidelong shooters like Zombieville make me crazy, because they’re simultaneously highly addictive and boring as hell. In Zombieville, you’re a last man standing type (or last clown standing, or ninja, or a few other funny choices) who’s out to cleanse his town of zombies. You start at the left of a level and run across town killing everything that comes after you. Occasionally you pass by houses that you can enter, both to hide out temporarily from zombies and to find more ammo or money. Read more

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