Tag: CULT

Paz do Senhor Amado, a Brazilian evangelical Christian cult, has asked its members to abandon USB devices because the symbol for the port resembles a trident -- which, of course, Satan wields to torture souls in Hell. The cult's leader, Welder Saldanha, says that anyone using a USB is, in fact, a Satanist. Saldanha suggests using Bluetooth instead, but we're too lazy to pair everything. So ALL ...

At last week's D8: All Things Digital conference, Facebook CEO found himself sweating bullets while being grilled onstage by the Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher. It got so bad, in fact, that Swisher felt compelled to ask him if he was OK, and suggested that he perhaps take off his trademark hoodie. "I never take it off," Zuckerberg reportedly replied. When he realized how ...

Behold, worshipers at the altar of the keyboard! Since we've all lent our whole-hearted support to one particular operating system or gadget at some point, and since we're committed to promoting peace and understanding between rival tech factions, we pass on to you a canon of tech cults -- complete with a list of their practitioners' strange habits. The list, courtesy of the scribes of ...

Well, it looks like the war is on. The Church of Scientology's attempts to squash circulation of a video of Tom Cruise last week seem to have been the final straw for a group that calls itself "Anonymous." According to a recent report in Wired, the cryptically-named organization recently stated that its main goal is to destroy the leadership of the Church of Scientology. The first public salvo ...