Category: Oddities

Israel sent me another web blooper, this time from the Bezeq site. This one is much better than the last one, which was just a typo. This one actually requires someone to have applied stupidity:

When registering a user, the site asks you to choose a secret question to identify yourself (in case you forget your password), such as “in what country were you born?”, “what was the name of your high-school?”, and what was your father’s family name before he married?

I’ve never seen this, so I assume it’s part of a new user registration system implemented by Bezeq. I’m pretty fed up with how annoying things like mybills and the electric company’s site have become, so I’ve moved to paying all my utility bills by phone.

The Pizza Meter online menu offers a salad containing a “female blogger in Olive oil”:

Via an odd blog called Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society, an article about the Blue people of Appalachia (scroll down past the science to the bit called The Blue People Of Troublesome Creek:

Four of the seven Fugate children were born with bright blue skin that lasted their entire lives

Someone linked to photos of blue people, who have from a condition called argyria, which they got from silver supplements: one is a US Senate candidate, the other a woman who got rid of it with cosmetic surgery.
They look sorta black-and-white.

Steve Jackson brings to my attention a Reuters story about Russian president Putin facing serious questions from the public about the Russian Giant Robot defense initiative and its Cthulhu contingency plans:

It was not clear what had prompted 8,600 Russians to ask Putin if he planned to employ “giant, humanoid war robots” or why 7,300 people were interested in the Cthulhu, a cosmic cephalopod invented by novelist H. P. Lovecraft which is said to be sleeping beneath the Pacific Ocean.