Going Ape in Tenerife

What happens when the zoo veterinarian mistakes you for a runaway gorilla?

Meanwhile the different branches of the zoo staff might want to get on the same page finally, y'think?  Communicate, people!

UPDATE: The zoo has denied that the guy was wearing a gorilla suit.

Mind the Gap: Apparently Size Does Matter

As France's national rail company has found out to its chagrin.

Nerd News: When College Admissions Essays Go Viral

Do you really want people reading stuff you wrote when you were 17 and clueless?

Chinese Paper Falls for Onion Joke

You might remember me giggling about the Onion's take on People magazine's annual silliness.  Even funnier?  Two Asian newspapers thought the Onion was real news and in all seriousness published stories about the unbearable hawtness of Kim Jong-Un. I laughed out loud.  The gaffe is now all over the international news whenever you care to look.  Even better: the Onion has amended its original story to include the following:

For more coverage on The Onion's Sexiest Man Alive 2012, Kim Jong-Un, please visit our friends at the People's Daily in China, a proud Communist subsidiary of The Onion, Inc. Exemplary reportage, comrades.

Well played, Onion.  Well played.

UPDATE: Plenty of other people have been fooled by the Onion too.

Awful or Awesome? San Diego's Fireworks Snafu

I'm going to call it "accidentally awesome." San Diego mistakenly set off all its fireworks at the same time last night.  It's being called the "Big Bay Boom." Check out the pyrotechtastic video of the biggest darn fireball ever at a Fourth of July bash: 

Felix peccatum.