In Case You Missed It…Assorted Oddities from Around the Web

Denver News Station Screws it Up

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Fight Club meets reality: While attempting to broadcast a photo of last Tuesday’s Seattle news helicopter crash, Denver, CO Fox affiliate KDVR instead aired a shot of what Tyler Durden succinctly describes in the brief clip immediately below.

Gawker’s post on the gaffe includes the full, uncensored news clip.

The photo came from an as-yet unidentified Twitter user’s feed, with the station broadcasting a montage that opens with the Seattle Space Needle, continues with Edward Scissorhands, moves on to an omelet, and concludes with the offending member. The clip includes KDVR’s news anchors’ awkward reactions immediately following the breach of broadcast standards.

KDVR duly noted the photo “did not come from the tablet many viewers saw being used by one of our anchors.”

Time Magazine Offers Career Advice to Psychopaths

Time magazine posted a helpful guide of which 10 professions most appeal to psychopaths. Friday’s post ranks, unsurprisingly, CEO at #1, lawyer at #2, and TV/Radio Media (personality?) at #3. Chef was perhaps the sole unexpected entry, coming in at #9. Writer Eric Barker didn’t cite any singularly lamentable dinner-out experiences.

On the flip-side, Care Aid, Nurse, and Therapist are careers of particular disinterest for psychopaths.

Barker’s source is The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success, in which author/psychologist Kevin Dutton informs us we all possess psychopathic tendencies and sit on a “scale of ‘madness'”. The book is currently out of stock on Amazon.

Need some career advice? See the complete lists here.

Shorty Trailers Wanted for Blobfest

Phoenixville, PA’s Blobfest, an annual three-day homage to the 1958 sci-fi classic, The Blob, is accepting applications for this year’s Shorty Contest – a short film competition. Entries must be family friendly, under 5 minutes, and be “centered on The Blob, Blobfest, and/or sci-fi in general.” Professional filmmakers are exempt.

Blobfest is held each mid-July in Phoenixville, and culminates in a screening of The Blob from which audience members run screaming into the streets from the town’s Colonial Theater. The event reenacts the film’s climactic scene – originally shot at the Colonial – in which the goo-monster oozes threateningly into a packed theater and incites a panic. This year’s Blobfest runs from Friday, July 11 to Sunday, July 13.

The deadline for Shorty entries is 9AM on June 23. Details can be found here.

Georgia Congressman Displays a Distressing Misconception of Earth Science

Congressional Representative Hank Johnson (D-GA) shared a unique environmental concern for the people and island of Guam, expressing that the island might “tip over” if the Navy were to station a planned 25,000 marines and their families there. Johnson’s worry stemmed from Guam being 24 miles long but only 7 miles wide at its narrowest point. Admiral Robert Willard, whom Johnson addressed, didn’t share his apprehension, saying the Navy didn’t “anticipate that”, but agreeing that Guam is a “small island”. The Navy’s Environmental Impact Statement concurred.

The hearing at which Johnson spoke was held in 2010. Johnson is still in office, proudly representing Georgia’s 4th District. A prominent tagline on his website advises constituents to “Stay Informed”.