Former IBM worker sues IBM for not treating him for the sexually-explicit net chat room addiction he was sacked for, and seeking damages of $5 million. Uh huh.

OJ’s book has been cancelled by Rupert Murdoch, but he’s already spent the advance.

The Myer Christmas windows go X-rated.

A Dutch group are trying to break the record for the world’s biggest joint. (Thanks Marie)

British spies admit: Unlike 007 James Bond, they have no licence to kill. (Thanks Pratap)

Auckland mystified by a strange humming noise. (Thanks Amanda)

Huh? OJ to write a book about how he would have killed his ex-wife if he was guilty of doing so? Is this just him laughing in the face of the courts? (Thanks Marie)

Attention: the USA has NOT banned Vegemite.

The man behind Borat finally speaks in his first interview as himself since 1998. “The joke is not on Kazakhstan. I think the joke is on people who can believe that the Kazakhstan that I describe can exist — who believe that there’s a country where homosexuals wear blue hats and the women live in cages and they drink fermented horse urine and the age of consent has been raised to nine years old.”

Grand Theft Playstation! Armed robbers hold up a line of people waiting for the Playstation 3 release, and even shoot one man who refused to hand over his money. (Thanks Peter)

Burglar steals TV, goes back for remote control, only to be caught. (Thanks Pratap)

A dead man wins an election and another one takes the blame for numerous speeding tickets. (Thanks Marie)

Belgian tourist slaps a stick on the water to try and get a better picture of a crocodile… bitten, survives, described as stupid by authorities. Obviously hadn’t learnt his lesson, either, having been previously bitten by a monkey.

Tributes for resigned Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, including this page with some of the stupid things he’s said over the years.

Man who is trying to find out if a cheque he’s been given is counterfeit ends up arrested himself.

Stupid criminal of the week: woman using amphetamines in a car illegally parked in a police vehicles-only space outside the mounted branch headquarters.

Borat’s in Australia, and “I would very much like to find Australian wife … ladies, please send me photograph, preferably erotic.”