Technology is great for a lot of things.  But one thing it’s bad for, is letting you forget the stupid stuff you’ve done.  Because these days, there are cameras everywhere.  In the skies.  On the phone of pretty much everyone around you.  On buildings.  Everywhere you go, cameras are trained on you, ready to catch you in your greatest moments of ignominy.

Take, for example, this Texas cop, who tasered himself while trying to bring in the bad guy:

So remember folks, while we all make mistakes, let’s hope that the next time you do something stupid, somehow, no one captures the moment.

Yes, it’s that time again.  Time when I look at all of the negativity on my blog and ask myself WTF.  Time when we need a shot of fluffy bunnies and sunshine.  Time for some hamsterballin’!

There’s almost nothing in this world that’ll put a smile on your face faster than a long-haired grey hamster named Goose running around in a sparkley pink plastic ball

That cute face as he bonks into furniture.  The fur flying everywhere as momentum keeps him going when the ball stops.  You just can’t not smile.

He’s a fuzzy little blur, comin’ at ya!  He’s so gosh darn cute.  There’s just nothing like a hamster running around in a hamster ball.  Hamsterballin’ is great fun!

It’s technology that lets him get out of his cage for a workout and a bit of fun in something different.  And it’s technology that lets you laugh your behind off.  It’s win-win! 

It’s one of those weird Tinker Gnome idiotisms. (Did I just make up a word?) Why have one highly functional device when you can add more bells and whistles to defeat its purpose?

And so we have “Ron” Tajima of Japan who turns his completely automated robotic floor vacuum Roomba into a manually controlled unthinking robot driven by a Wii Fit.

Functional? No, not really. But hey, who cares? When it’s geek enough, you hardly need any reason to do it. Because sometimes in life you just have to have a little fun.

Of course there have always been doubters of the faith. There always are, with every faith. If we all believed the same thing then we’d have nothing left to argue about. So it’s only human nature to disagree.

But now there’s one less thing to disagree about in the universe, and that’s the existence of the Flying Spaghetti Monster! Pastafarians rejoice, He has been found!

NewScientistSpace reported on the discovery and study of galaxy NGC 1275. They describe it thusly:

“Long-lived magnetic fields are sustaining a mammoth network of spaghetti-like gas filaments around a black hole.“

“As the black hole sucks in gas from its surroundings, it powers jets of matter that produce bubbles of energetic particles in the surrounding cluster gas. As these bubbles grow and rise, cooled gas from NGC 1275’s core gets drawn into long tendrils in their wake, like the strings that trail behind balloons.“

So it would seem that His Noodly Appendages are magnetic. And at the center, the Flying Spaghetti Monster contains a black hole. Which is no surprise really, as a black hole is made of cosmic forces beyond our reckoning.

Quite what His Noodliness is doing so far away from Earth is unknown at this time. Perhaps He is gathering more pirate regalia for His followers. Or maybe He just needs a break from the discussion of Intelligent Design taught as science lessons. Who is to say really? But the important thing is, we have found Him. And He’s even more beautiful than we ever could have imagined.

It’s one of those strangely heartwarming stories that’s been traveling the web. An Eastern box turtle, unimaginatively named Turtle Number 72, was set loose upon the Earth equipped with a GPS tracking device so that Ken Ferebee, a National Park Service researcher, could monitor Turtle No. 72’s whereabouts during daily walkabouts through Rock Creek Park.

Only when Ferebee decided to pay Turtle No. 72 a visit on July 14th, he got an interesting surprise.

“I was walking in the woods, following the signal with my receiver, trying to find the turtle, and I walked into an area where some large trees had fallen down. So there’s a big hole in the tree canopy, so there’s a lot of light getting down to the ground, and there’s a lot of vegetation growing there. But as I’m walking, I could see a patch of bare soil that didn’t look quite right. And when I got closer, I could tell it had been cleared and some plants had been planted. They looked like they’d been grown somewhere else and then actually replanted in the park. I could tell they were marijuana plants, I’ve seen pictures of the leaves before. I’ve actually seen marijuana plants before, too. . . . And I was a little surprised to see them right there. They’ve been found in the park before, but it’s been a long time. I called the police to come see, because I knew they’d be interested in that.” said Ferebee as he recounted his experience.

Cindy Gossage, who walks her dog in Rock Creek Park, said she was not in the least bit surprised. “Through the years of walking my dogs in the park, I have found several different fields of marijuana, some as high as me.” Hmm … yes. Perhaps a poor choice in words? Please do try to not take that statement the wrong way…

So there you have it. The GPS-enabled Turtle Number 72 has become the park’s newest drug-buster. Let’s hear it for technology!