Last Wednesday, Fox News correspondent Major Garrett tweeted a link, ostensibly to notes about the State of the Union address. The only problem? His link actually went to a site for hiring call girls in Las Vegas. Oops!

Following this, Garrett deleted the tweet and said:

I apologize. Bit.ly turned my original link to SOTU excerpts to a soft-porn link. NOT my intention. [Link]

and then:

For those suckling snide syrup. I publicly acknowledged an innocent mistake and corrected it. [Link]

An "innocent mistake"? Really, Major? The first follow-up appeared to be an attempt to blame the URL shortener, bit.ly. That is, of course, bunk. It doesn't happen, bit.ly doesn't screw up links like this. But later, it instead became an "innocent mistake"? Come on!

Major, if you're going to use bullshit guns, at least stick to your bullshit guns, no matter how many flies you attract or how disgusting your hands start to smell.

Newsday is a major paper in Long Island. In 2009, it's weekday circulation rate was 11th in the country, at nearly 400,000. Back in October, Newsday.com got put behind a paywall, forcing readers to pay for access.

So, three months later, how many people have signed up to pay $5 a week, or $260 a year, to get unfettered access to newsday.com?

The answer: 35 people. As in fewer than three dozen. As in a decent-sized elementary-school class.

Ouch.

Inappropriate URLs such as this one reading "Great tits color sperm" sometimes happen when a URL is auto-created by a content management system. However, a human wrote the headline:

Flashier Great Tits Produce Stronger Sperm, Bird Study Shows.

I've got a sneaking suspicion the editor who wrote that knew exactly what he was doing.

At $3500, the Lexicon BD-30 Blu-ray player is quite a bit more expensive than the Oppo BDP-83, a $500 Blu-ray player. What do you get for that $3000? A different body, a bogus THX certification, and nothing else, because inside the case, this is the exact same player, with identical hardware. Lexicon has purchased the Oppo player in bulk, then taken it out of the original chassis and put it into their own, and raised the price sevenfold.

The original Audioholics review shows fantastic comparison pictures, as well as testing of the audio. While in the Wired article THX claims that Lexicon somehow improved things, the actual audio comparisons prove otherwise.

Here's the real topper: because the Oppo has been improved (via firmware upgrades) and the Lexicon has not received those upgrades, the $500 player has better audio performance than the $3500 player. So $3000 actually buys a slightly crappier Blu-Ray player. Fantastic!

This is just bizarre. Multiple Holiday Inns in England are now offering a human bed warming service, where a staff member will lie down in your bed to pre-warm it for you. There's no indication as to whether they can be persuaded to stay, for an additional fee, but it seems like the next logical step.