Tag: EMBARRASSING

Last week, we discovered that the Xbox Kinect had already claimed its first victim less than 24 hours after landing on shelves in the U.S. -- and, since then, there have been many more casualties. Here's a kid taking a vicious left elbow to the face. Here's an aunt belligerently reminding her nephew who's boss. Here's a brave gamer looking ridiculous -- and miserably failing to land a 360(?) on ...

We all feel a certain degree of attachment to our phones, but most people probably wouldn't be willing to stick their arms down a public toilet to retrieve their submerged cells. This anonymous guy from China, however, is apparently not "most people." After dropping his phone in a toilet (not as rare an event as you'd think) in China's Jiangsu province, the man decided to go fishing for it with ...

We're sure Al Gore is drafting his thank-you letter to CNN right now as we speak. The 24-hour news channel carelessly revealed the former Vice President's e-mail address to the entire Web-viewing public. In an article covering the announcement of Al and Tipper Gore's separation, the network linked to a PDF copy of the e-mail announcing the break up. While CNN took care to black out the text of Al ...

Share It's three o'clock in the morning. You're seeing double, your mouth is parched, and you're prowling Facebook. For reasons that will only become apparent tomorrow, you're suddenly overcome with the urge to post a scandalous video on your co-worker's Wall. It seems like a great idea now, but come tomorrow morning, you're guaranteed to find yourself stricken with not only a pounding headache, ...

Ithaca may be "Gorges," but an ugly e-mail blunder has recently rocked the New York college town, eliciting a region-wide cringe. A married consultant employed at Cornell University, known as John, recently sent a long series of salacious e-mails to his mistress, a Cornell Business School employee named Lisa (also married). And now the entire school knows about it. See, in a recent email to his ...