﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Silicon Investor - Things that make you go...hmmm.</title><copyright>Copyright © 2013 Knight Sac Media.  All rights reserved.</copyright><link>http://www.siliconinvestor.com/subject.aspx?subjectid=58765</link><description>This place is for anything that makes you raise an eyebrow, chuckle, grimace, give a face palm, wince, or just generally say....WTF?   As we all surf the interwebz we find things that really don't have a place on SI....here's that place.   Whether it's stories, words, SI posts, pictures, or just any...</description><image><url>http://www.siliconinvestor.com/images/Logo380x132.png</url><title>SI - Things that make you go...hmmm.                             </title><link>http://www.siliconinvestor.com/subject.aspx?subjectid=58765</link><width>380</width><height>132</height></image><ttl>10</ttl><item><title>[Charlie_R] mirror.co.uk </title><author>Charlie_R</author><description /><link>http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=28893378</link><pubDate>5/14/2013 12:40:48 PM</pubDate></item><item><title>[arno] hmmm...I wonder</title><author>arno</author><description /><link>http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=28884923</link><pubDate>5/9/2013 2:57:41 PM</pubDate></item><item><title>[Jorj X Mckie] Was her name Karen Valentine?</title><author>Jorj X Mckie</author><description /><link>http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=28884456</link><pubDate>5/9/2013 11:42:23 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>[Jorj X Mckie] I like to think that it was a character building trip for her.</title><author>Jorj X Mckie</author><description /><link>http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=28884453</link><pubDate>5/9/2013 11:41:50 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>[longnshort] lolol, my wife knows better than ride a tandem behind me.</title><author>longnshort</author><description /><link>http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=28884439</link><pubDate>5/9/2013 11:35:52 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>[Jorj X Mckie] that reminds me of when my wife and I did the AIDSride on a tandem.   San Franci...</title><author>Jorj X Mckie</author><description>that reminds me of when my wife and I did the AIDSride on a tandem.   San Francisco to Los Angeles....600 miles....and she was sitting behind me on the tandem the whole time.   "ooops, sorry bout that babe!"   Bwaaaaahaaaaahaaaaaahaaaaaa!!!</description><link>http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=28884424</link><pubDate>5/9/2013 11:29:44 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>[longnshort] during the race the monkey was farting in the bears general direction the whole ...</title><author>longnshort</author><description>during the race the monkey was farting in the bears general direction the whole time, that would piss off anyone</description><link>http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=28884398</link><pubDate>5/9/2013 11:21:23 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>[Jorj X Mckie] The monkey was in the lead the whole time.  He was owning that bear. That bear i...</title><author>Jorj X Mckie</author><description>The monkey was in the lead the whole time.  He was owning that bear. That bear is definitely a sore loser.  The monkey, nicknamed "Lance" is rumored to have been using performance enhancing drugs.  This may have angered the bear and thus likely precipitated the attack.</description><link>http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=28884164</link><pubDate>5/9/2013 10:00:33 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>[arno] Husband accidentally shoots wife in the mouth with a harpoon  Brazilian health o...</title><author>arno</author><description>Husband accidentally shoots wife in the mouth with a harpoon  Brazilian health officials say a 28-year-old woman miraculously survived  after her husband accidentally shot her in the mouth with a harpoon.       [graphic]   Elisangela Borborema Rosa was  rushed to the hospital and underwent emergency surgery after being...</description><link>http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=28884036</link><pubDate>5/9/2013 9:01:02 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>[arno] Horror as bear on a bike EATS a monkey at the end of sick circus cycle race  dai...</title><author>arno</author><description>Horror as bear on a bike EATS a monkey at the end of sick circus cycle race  dailymail.co.uk </description><link>http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=28884021</link><pubDate>5/9/2013 8:53:00 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>[Charlie_R]  boston.cbslocal.com   At least he got a Rastafarian banana.   </title><author>Charlie_R</author><description /><link>http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=28866736</link><pubDate>4/30/2013 1:34:38 PM</pubDate></item><item><title>[longnshort] Now That’s A Bad First Day On The Jobotb8 30</title><author>longnshort</author><description /><link>http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=28851654</link><pubDate>4/22/2013 1:29:47 PM</pubDate></item><item><title>[arno] If you're bored or have some time to kill.....   you might want to peruse the po...</title><author>arno</author><description>If you're bored or have some time to kill.....   you might want to peruse the posts on this thread  [graphic]Subject 52140</description><link>http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=28848670</link><pubDate>4/20/2013 4:23:25 PM</pubDate></item><item><title>[arno] Homebuilders Phase Out “Master Bedroom” Because It’s Racist   The power of polit...</title><author>arno</author><description>Homebuilders Phase Out “Master Bedroom” Because It’s Racist   The power of political correctness know no bounds.  It’s latest victim?   The builder’s lexicon:   [graphic]The “owner’s suite.”   A survey of 10 major Washington, D.C.-area homebuilders found that six no longer use the term “master” in their floor plans to ...</description><link>http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=28846786</link><pubDate>4/19/2013 3:27:21 PM</pubDate></item><item><title>[Steve Felix] Eel Shoved Up Man's Anus Eats Its Way Through His Intestines  ( no gross photos ...</title><author>Steve Felix</author><description>Eel Shoved Up Man's Anus Eats Its Way Through His Intestines  ( no gross photos )   natureworldnews.com </description><link>http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=28844910</link><pubDate>4/18/2013 7:54:41 PM</pubDate></item><item><title>[Cautious_Optimist] If they strike neighbor now, it will be over very quickly for them.  Overs-and-u...</title><author>Cautious_Optimist</author><description>If they strike neighbor now, it will be over very quickly for them.  Overs-and-unders at 31 minutes.    Dennis Rodman will be installed as their new leader, and all the Generals who survive will have to wear dresses for President Rodman.  Its a tragedy, I shouldn't make light of a country that has death camps for criti...</description><link>http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=28819942</link><pubDate>4/6/2013 3:26:52 PM</pubDate></item><item><title>[arno] [graphic]</title><author>arno</author><description /><link>http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=28819761</link><pubDate>4/6/2013 1:14:58 PM</pubDate></item><item><title>[Steve Felix] Some WTF, but mostly cool old stuff, pictures, advertisements, etc...  retronaut...</title><author>Steve Felix</author><description>Some WTF, but mostly cool old stuff, pictures, advertisements, etc...  retronaut.co   [graphic]  1500s artificial hand [graphic]</description><link>http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=28807847</link><pubDate>3/30/2013 6:38:11 PM</pubDate></item><item><title>[Steve Felix] I'm sure somewhere there will be a cry of " how do the ladies play? " I'll be th...</title><author>Steve Felix</author><description>I'm sure somewhere there will be a cry of " how do the ladies play? " I'll be the first to suggest that their game include bombing runs! Too funny!  Urinal gaming system' coming to minor-league park   cbssports.com </description><link>http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=28800463</link><pubDate>3/26/2013 2:19:35 PM</pubDate></item><item><title>[Joe Btfsplk] the greatest threats to citizen privacy are from the conservatives, the party of...</title><author>Joe Btfsplk</author><description>the greatest threats to citizen privacy are from the conservatives, the party of oaths and witch hunts in the 20th century  Oaths and witch hunts? Like silly worrying about the threat of Communists in positions of power here?  In any stark choice between "conservative" threats and the left I'd take my chances with the ...</description><link>http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=28785854</link><pubDate>3/18/2013 6:34:05 PM</pubDate></item><item><title>[longnshort] "You are way too political about such matters. It is both parties."   so our onl...</title><author>longnshort</author><description>"You are way too political about such matters. It is both parties."   so our only nhope is the tea party which both sides hate. That should tell you something..but you hate the tea party also ? why ?   "  "In general, the greatest threats to citizen privacy are from the conservatives, the party of oaths and witch hunts...</description><link>http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=28783362</link><pubDate>3/17/2013 2:40:24 PM</pubDate></item><item><title>[Cautious_Optimist] You are way too political about such matters.  It is both parties.  You want it ...</title><author>Cautious_Optimist</author><description>You are way too political about such matters.  It is both parties.  You want it so badly, in your bias, to be an Obama conspiracy -- but it is not.  Bush was President of Sales and clueless on such matters, it was from Cheney's office and other shadowy types who trace back as far as the Nixon Administration who were/ar...</description><link>http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=28783343</link><pubDate>3/17/2013 2:24:48 PM</pubDate></item><item><title>[longnshort]  Using Government SecrecyIn March 2010, AP  documented that – under Obama – 17 m...</title><author>longnshort</author><description> Using Government SecrecyIn March 2010, AP  documented that – under Obama – 17 major agencies were 50 percent more likely to deny freedom of information requests than under Bush.  An ACLU staff attorney  puts it:         In some ways, the Obama administration is actually even more aggressive on secrecy than the Bush ad...</description><link>http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=28783009</link><pubDate>3/17/2013 11:01:43 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>[longnshort] "The Obama administration is drawing up plans to give all U.S. spy agencies full...</title><author>longnshort</author><description>"The Obama administration is drawing up plans to give all U.S. spy agencies full access to a massive database that contains financial data on American citizens and others who bank in the country, according to a Treasury Department document seen by Reuters.  The proposed plan represents a major step by U.S. intelligence...</description><link>http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=28782979</link><pubDate>3/17/2013 10:43:57 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>[Cautious_Optimist] These are estensions of policies from the Bush administration and the U.S. Patri...</title><author>Cautious_Optimist</author><description>These are estensions of policies from the Bush administration and the U.S. Patriot Act -- that also reflect the efforts of John Poindexter in 2002 (remember him from the Reagan Administration??)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Awareness_Office   Fortunately, the Courts have found most of these efforts unconstit...</description><link>http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=28782702</link><pubDate>3/17/2013 1:41:58 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>[longnshort] (Reuters) - The Obama administration is drawing up plans to give all U.S. spy ag...</title><author>longnshort</author><description>(Reuters) - The Obama administration is drawing up plans to give all U.S. spy agencies full access to a massive database that contains financial data on American citizens...    reuters.com   So much for the Fourth Amendment:........"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, aga...</description><link>http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=28781760</link><pubDate>3/16/2013 11:10:20 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>[longnshort] I don't know ,read what the ultra libs at snopes said, it was from NK and was ab...</title><author>longnshort</author><description>I don't know ,read what the ultra libs at snopes said, it was from NK and was about the failure of democracy in Europe. pretty much the same thing.  but snopes would be the last source I would use for truth detecting.  be like asking obama about the sequestration</description><link>http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=28781737</link><pubDate>3/16/2013 10:52:34 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>[Cautious_Optimist] False   Too stupid even for North Korean propaganda. </title><author>Cautious_Optimist</author><description /><link>http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=28781489</link><pubDate>3/16/2013 1:40:57 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>[longnshort] North Korean Propaganda video. Incredible. Simply has to be seen.  msnvideo.msn....</title><author>longnshort</author><description>North Korean Propaganda video. Incredible. Simply has to be seen.  msnvideo.msn.com     h/t tideglider</description><link>http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=28780778</link><pubDate>3/15/2013 4:26:46 PM</pubDate></item><item><title>[longnshort] this is hilarious   [youtube video]</title><author>longnshort</author><description /><link>http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=28776537</link><pubDate>3/13/2013 3:03:05 PM</pubDate></item><item><title>[longnshort]  Have you ever slapped your forehead and asked yourself,     "Just how the hell ...</title><author>longnshort</author><description> Have you ever slapped your forehead and asked yourself,     "Just how the hell did this happen? "   [graphic]     [graphic]     [graphic]     [graphic]     [graphic]     [graphic]     [graphic]     [graphic]</description><link>http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=28776025</link><pubDate>3/13/2013 10:43:15 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>[Alan Smithee] I've driven that road 100+ times...didn't really pay attention the last time as ...</title><author>Alan Smithee</author><description>I've driven that road 100+ times...didn't really pay attention the last time as I'm usually dodging idiots climbing the grade coming up out of Denver. thing that bothered me most driving in Colorado was all the bicyclists. They act like they own the road, yet for the ostart don't abide by the rules of the road. They're...</description><link>http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=28772005</link><pubDate>3/11/2013 11:15:40 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>[arno] oh, I don't know...I just think I remember reading somewhere they were going to ...</title><author>arno</author><description>oh, I don't know...I just think I remember reading somewhere they were going to tear it down.  I may be wrong...probably am.  I've driven that road 100+ times...didn't really pay attention the last time as I'm usually dodging idiots climbing the grade coming up out of Denver.</description><link>http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=28768949</link><pubDate>3/8/2013 7:58:33 PM</pubDate></item><item><title>[Neeka] We drove on a lot of different roads. I think we saw it off of I-70 on our way o...</title><author>Neeka</author><description>We drove on a lot of different roads. I think we saw it off of I-70 on our way over to the western slopes 20 or so miles out of Denver?</description><link>http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=28768911</link><pubDate>3/8/2013 7:38:38 PM</pubDate></item><item><title>[Alan Smithee] Yep.  It's about 15 or so miles west of Denver, in the Genessee area.    Lynne's...</title><author>Alan Smithee</author><description>Yep.  It's about 15 or so miles west of Denver, in the Genessee area.    Lynne's brother used to live near there back in the 1980s.</description><link>http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=28768084</link><pubDate>3/8/2013 2:12:39 PM</pubDate></item><item><title>[Neeka] I believe that is the house we saw way up on a hill from the freeway while we we...</title><author>Neeka</author><description>I believe that is the house we saw way up on a hill from the freeway while we were in Denver last yr?</description><link>http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=28768024</link><pubDate>3/8/2013 1:56:12 PM</pubDate></item><item><title>[Alan Smithee] I do believe that house no longer exists. What makes you say that?  It was forec...</title><author>Alan Smithee</author><description>I do believe that house no longer exists. What makes you say that?  It was foreclosed on in 2010.    denverpost.com   Unless the new owner tore it down, it's still there.  I didn't make it over that far east when I was in Colorado last summer, so I can't provide an eyewitness report.</description><link>http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=28767960</link><pubDate>3/8/2013 1:36:55 PM</pubDate></item><item><title>[Neeka] [graphic]   On August 27th 1943, a German Luftwaffe long-range photo reconnaissa...</title><author>Neeka</author><description>[graphic]   On August 27th 1943, a German Luftwaffe long-range photo reconnaissance bomber, a Junkers Ju-390 took off from its base in Norway and flew out across the Atlantic Ocean. Among its four man crew was a brave and daring woman Anna Kreisling, the 'White Wolf of the Luftwaffe'. A nickname she had acquired becaus...</description><link>http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=28767567</link><pubDate>3/8/2013 11:46:38 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>[arno] I do believe that house no longer exists.</title><author>arno</author><description /><link>http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=28765055</link><pubDate>3/7/2013 9:39:49 AM</pubDate></item><item><title>[Alan Smithee] That house certainly outdoes the Woody Allen Sleeper House, outside Denver in Ge...</title><author>Alan Smithee</author><description>That house certainly outdoes the Woody Allen Sleeper House, outside Denver in Genesee Park.  [graphic]  [graphic]</description><link>http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=28764240</link><pubDate>3/6/2013 6:23:42 PM</pubDate></item><item><title>[Alan Smithee] [graphic]  LOL.  Reminds me of when my wife and I moved from the DC area to Seat...</title><author>Alan Smithee</author><description>[graphic]  LOL.  Reminds me of when my wife and I moved from the DC area to Seattle.  We had the movers pack us up.  Once we were in the new place, there was a box about 12" on the sides and 36" tall.  It was labeled "Standing Items."  What the hell???  Opened it up and it was a glass vase in which my wife had stood so...</description><link>http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=28764230</link><pubDate>3/6/2013 6:19:44 PM</pubDate></item><item><title>[Alan Smithee] is that a booger in her left nostril? I just stumbled across this.  Might not be...</title><author>Alan Smithee</author><description>is that a booger in her left nostril? I just stumbled across this.  Might not be a booger. She might have a piercing and you're seeing the inside of the little twistie thing that goes inside the nostril.   Just sayin' . . . </description><link>http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=28764221</link><pubDate>3/6/2013 6:15:59 PM</pubDate></item><item><title>[arno] It's out of this world! Bob Hope's space age Palm Springs home goes on the marke...</title><author>arno</author><description>It's out of this world! Bob Hope's space age Palm Springs home goes on the market for $50million   It looks like a home from the future.  And now Bob Hope's legendary Palm Springs mansion has gone on the market for an eye-watering $50m.  It is the most famous property owned by the legendary comic, who was extremely pas...</description><link>http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=28763253</link><pubDate>3/6/2013 12:32:42 PM</pubDate></item><item><title>[arno] [graphic]</title><author>arno</author><description /><link>http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=28753264</link><pubDate>2/28/2013 10:17:55 PM</pubDate></item><item><title>[arno] Man shot and killed while urinating from balcony  3:23 pm September 19, 2012,  b...</title><author>arno</author><description>Man shot and killed while urinating from balcony  3:23 pm September 19, 2012,  by George Mathis   If there’s one thing growing up in the rural South taught me, it’s that you should never urinate off a porch onto someone with a loaded weapon.  Unfortunately, such wisdom is not common in Pennsylvania.  My Cox colleagues ...</description><link>http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=28753263</link><pubDate>2/28/2013 10:17:11 PM</pubDate></item><item><title>[Steve Felix] The Onion couldn't have done better.  Somewhere down the line is the department ...</title><author>Steve Felix</author><description>The Onion couldn't have done better.  Somewhere down the line is the department of drivel and butt wiping. ng</description><link>http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=28750279</link><pubDate>2/27/2013 5:14:32 PM</pubDate></item><item><title>[longnshort]  Egyptian Cleric: Christianity Emerged From “Worship Of The Penis”… -     Who kn...</title><author>longnshort</author><description> Egyptian Cleric: Christianity Emerged From “Worship Of The Penis”… -     Who knew?  Egyptian cleric Abu Islam: I swear to God the Almighty – and believe me, I am not lying – that the Church worship originated in the worship of the penis. I swear to God. This is documented in dozens of pictures.  Let me tell you someth...</description><link>http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=28750275</link><pubDate>2/27/2013 5:12:35 PM</pubDate></item><item><title>[Charlie_R] Great.  washingtontimes.com </title><author>Charlie_R</author><description /><link>http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=28750214</link><pubDate>2/27/2013 4:50:10 PM</pubDate></item><item><title>[arno] that's nice...  :)</title><author>arno</author><description /><link>http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=28737166</link><pubDate>2/20/2013 5:40:30 PM</pubDate></item><item><title>[SmoothSail] He had a hard time leaving the 3rd grade, so he reverts back as often as he can.</title><author>SmoothSail</author><description /><link>http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=28737120</link><pubDate>2/20/2013 5:19:49 PM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>