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The Weekly Whatever: Who was that masked man?
May 3, 2020
Woodpecker engineering Trouble with the IRS web site? Try entering your info in all caps. Sheffield city council stores number plate recognition logs in...
The Weekly Whatever: Lysoltini over ice
April 25, 2020
Quote of the week “I was thinking this morning, and this is just kind of a thought experiment because I was thinking about this — why don’t we just put...
The Weekly Whatever: Stink-flirting
April 19, 2020
Quote of the week We found no pattern of sexual misconduct by Biden, beyond hugs, kisses and touching that women previously said made them uncomfortable —...
The Weekly Whatever: The Machine Starts
April 11, 2020
Quotes of the week “You’ll be pleased to know that we do consider both the tooth fairy and the Easter Bunny to be essential workers, but as you can imagine,...
The Weekly Whatever: Hippity skippity hoppity ho
April 4, 2020
Quote of the week “The models show hundreds of thousands of people are going to die and you know what I want to do? I want to come way under the model. The...
The Weekly Whatever: Still very viral I'm afraid
March 28, 2020
Quotes of the week 'You know, we don't shut down the economy to save every single life that's threatened by a wide-spread disease. We just don't.' — Brit...
The Weekly Whatever: Very nasty questions
March 21, 2020
Quote of the week “What do you say to Americans who are watching you right now, who are scared?” “I say that you are a terrible reporter, that’s what I say....
The Weekly Whatever: Gone viral
March 14, 2020
Quote of the week "And again, when you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that’s a pretty good job...
The Weekly Whatever: NOW WASH YOUR HANDS
March 8, 2020
(Not much to include this week, and unlike newspapers I don't have to fill space, so here's a really short TWW.) Threat Level Orange Government introduces...
The Weekly Whatever: Actual good news edition
February 29, 2020
Woodpecker engineering Small strip of black tape convinces Tesla “autopilot” to accelerate to 85 MPH. Internet connected pet feeder fails, leaving animals...
The Weekly Whatever: More fun than a 220kg feral hog
February 23, 2020
Quote of the week Stephen Miller, on blocking asylum seekers: “It’s just that this is all I care about. I don’t have a family. I don’t have anything else....
The Weekly Whatever: This isn't the Brexit I voted for
February 16, 2020
Quote of the week One day somebody will explain to me why it is that, at a time when science has never been wiser, or the truth more stark, or human...
The Weekly Whatever: Antarctic pool party
February 8, 2020
Quote of the week So I quit then. So I’m safe, folks. I got out of it long before I hit 44. It’s like I never smoked, because of this research today. Yeah, I...
The Weekly Whatever: OK Bloomberg edition
February 1, 2020
Wait, what? Great moments in product naming: Pro Lapse. 8000 BC Zeta Reticulon spacecraft for sale. There are too many impeachments these days, and we...
The Weekly Whatever: Not contagious
January 26, 2020
Threat Level Orange Antisemitic end-times conspiracy theorist gets White House press credentials to broadcast from Davos. Reminder: Trump eliminated the...
The Weekly Whatever: Tuna-friendly dolphin
January 19, 2020
Woodpecker engineering Microsoft outsourced your Skype and Cortana audio to China with no security measures in place. Wait, what? American Library...
The Weekly Whatever: Vulture culture
January 11, 2020
Quote of the week “I give up my salary – it’s $450,000, approximately $450,000 presidential salary – I give it up, it goes to – usually I give it to drugs, I...
The Weekly Whatever: New year, new war
January 4, 2020
Woodpecker engineering HP SSDs have a firmware bug causing them to lose all data after exactly 32768 hours of operation. 6,500 Swedish police computers wipe...
The Weekly Whatever: Dregs of 2019 edition
December 28, 2019
Quote of the week Stars like Adam Driver and Daisy Ridley lit up the 'Star Wars' premiere blue carpet, but noticeably absent were creator George Lucas and...
The Weekly Whatever: Merry Impeachmas!
December 20, 2019
Wait, what? Wakanda listed as free trade partner on US government tariffs website. Family finds owl hiding in their Christmas tree. Australia created fake...
The Weekly Whatever: Last full moon of the year edition
December 14, 2019
Dystopia technologica If you use your Ring camera’s “Neighbors” app, your Ring system can be pinpointed on a map. Threat Level Orange Trump admin’s pick to...
The Weekly Whatever: Making America flush again
December 7, 2019
Quote of the week So we’re looking very seriously at opening up the standard. And there may be some areas where we’ll go the other route — desert areas — but...
The Weekly Whatever: Revenge of the Feral Hogs
November 30, 2019
Quote of the week 2 minutes of erection is enough to conclude the coitus and fecundate the female. Anything beyond that is perversion, degeneracy and...
The Weekly Whatever: Squid pro crow
November 23, 2019
Quote of the week ”…we have to keep punching at it and punching at it and punching at it.” — Joe Biden, explaining what he thinks we need to do about...
The Weekly Whatever: Revenge of the Feral Hogs
November 16, 2019
Wait, what? Bigfoot watcher chasing chemtrails records UFO. T-Mobile claims it owns the color magenta. Rod Stewart has spent 23 years building an incredibly...
The Weekly Whatever: Old McDziedzic had a troll farm
November 9, 2019
Quote of the week “[She] cried her eyes out when I met her at the hospital that fateful day… I mean not many wives would react that way to tragedy, I know...
The Weekly Whatever: They Fixed The Server After We Broke It Edition
November 2, 2019
Quote of the week “Half our customers are drunk and vaping like mo-fos, who the fuck is going to notice the quality of our pods?” — former Juul exec,...
The Weekly Whatever: The Quest For Last Week's Tagline
October 26, 2019
Quote of the week “Why is it that every family goes into politics and enriches themselves?” — Eric Trump, criticizing the Biden family. Woodpecker...
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October 19, 2019
Thought for the week Imagine you got a new job on the day Columbus reached the Americas. Imagine you earned $5,000 a day. Imagine you saved every penny of...
The Weekly Whatever: I guess we forgot after all
October 12, 2019
Quote of the week “Kurds are great people, great fighters, I like them a lot. We are trying to help them a lot. Don’t forget that’s their territory. They...
The Weekly Whatever: Orange in peach mint flavor 🍊🍑🌿
October 5, 2019
Quote of the week “The secret Tory steering committee has always intended Boris Johnson to be leader of the party and Theresa May has only been put in place...
The Weekly Whatever: Ukraine-a-Lago Scandal edition
September 28, 2019
(Historical) quote of the week For this type of reason and historical experience with other media, we expect that advertising funded search engines will be...
The Weekly Whatever: Earth, Wind and Fire Day edition
September 21, 2019
Quote of the week That’s when I realized that while this might have been the first time I was allowed on social media, it was far from the first time my...
The Weekly Whatever: Yellowhammer supplement
September 14, 2019
Quote of the week “British politics today is what results from the collision of an unstoppable force, an immovable object and a clown car.” — Globe and Mail...
The Weekly Whatever: Not written by bedbugs
September 7, 2019
Quote of the week The year is 2040. There have been riots in the streets of London after Britain has run out of petrol because of an oil crisis in the Middle...
The Weekly Whatever
August 30, 2019
Wait, what? Death Row Records acquired by Hasbro. Japanese temple introduces new robotic Buddhist priest. Eurovision Song Contest winner will stand for...