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Posting a banner promoting your newspaper’s dream holiday contest above a shot of one of the worst cruise ship accidents in a long, long time is a really, really stupid idea. Hopefully the good folks working at the Belfast Telegraph have learned something from this experience. Thanks Shane!...

Although a large part of this author really hopes that a bunch of people raised enough money to raise this billboard somewhere near Harold Camping’s Oakland headquarters – something tells me it is just a quick and easy Photoshop effort. For the record, the Gimp traces in the file...

In case you have been living under a rock for the last few days you will have probably already heard that Osama bin Laden shuffled off this mortal coil with a little help from double-tap to the side of the face. By now his body would have reached its...

In case you didn’t know, there was a solar eclipse on January 4th and Japan’s Hinode x-ray telescope satellite (which was set up to study the Sun’s magnetic fields) was in prime position to capture one of the best eclipse photographs that I have ever seen. [National Geographic via...

As the year comes to a close, I present to you the top ten stories of the year based on on the number of page views. I hope everyone has a great, safe and happy new year and thanks for reading We Interrupt. Special thanks to everyone who linked...

I am going to go out on a limb here and say that this is the world’s only Darth Vader – Winnie the Pooh mash-up. I get the distinct impression that these two tattoos were applied separately. This assumption is based on two observations: the redness around Vader and...

Meet “Ron” (if that is his real name). He is putting his stainless steel appendage to good use making the neighborhood safer and amusing fellow members of the Hampshire Constabulary. Design fails don’t come any better or more amusing than this....

While I would like to believe that this photograph is part of a highly amusing prank (it wouldn’t be the first time that people had messed with product labels in a store), a big part of me is genuinely afraid that it isn’t and that someone was actually stupid...

This incredible panorama of the city of London is the biggest 360-degree panorama made to date – and weighs in at a hard disk crushing 80 gigapixels. To put that in some sort of perspective, a single 18-megapixel image fills an A2 page. This is an 80-gigapixel panoramic photo,...