Chuck Shephard is the father of odd-news reporting, starting in the 1970s with his zine “View from the ledge”, Chuck has been collecting, reporting and syndicating odd news bites long before Fox News was ending their broadcasts with their feel-good puff pieces or stupid crook stories. Chuck’s column is currently published in over 250 daily and weekly newspapers throughout the U.S. and Canada. Posting weekly round-ups on his site and daily blasts via his blog, Chuck documents just about every odd or strange news snippet you could imagine, from dead cow carcasses mysteriously placed in trees to incompetent crooks to just plain weird tales of a detiriorating society. Chuck works from morning until night documenting judgment-challenged people committing weird news and is an inspiration to all of us here at Bunch of Nerds. One such example of Chuck’s work:

Ernest G. Johnson, 42, was arrested in Shreveport, La., in May after he, posing as an insurance company employee, roamed the corridors at LSU Hospital seeking to photograph women wearing casts. Said a police detective, “It’s like all he wants is to be in the presence of a woman with a cast on and have her attention.”

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We love Arrested Development here at Bunch of Nerds, as many of you (hopefully) do. Naturally with it’s horrid treatment by Fox (boooo, hisssss) we were pretty bummed out when the final nail in it’s coffin was hammered in, resulting in the show’s cancellation. But with the latest Emmy nominations comes a bit of interesting gossip that the idea of an Arrested Development movie is (still) being tossed around. Though the chances are pretty slim, it’s still great to know there’s SOME sort of life left in Arrested Development, though how much money is actually left in the property remains to be seen.

…I’m pretty sure that, obviously it rests on Mitch [Hurwitz], any sort of project like that would have to come from him. It would be something that he would be really passionate about. If the story was right and you felt like that the story was right, and by story I mean money, was large enough, then he’d do it…

[Will Arnett on an Arrested Development movie]

Indie superstars Introversion Software have confirmed their next title, Defcon, will finally see the light in September 2006. After missing their previously announced deadline for April, and having a problematic Alpha/Beta testing phase, it’s good to finally see the War Games inspired title coming out! I know a group of dudes waiting for some online multi-player thermonucleur destruction (of the virtual, digital kind of course).

[Defcon | Introversion confirms Defcom September release]

I love reading about North Korea, it naturally sickens me to think of their human rights violations and other atrocities, but the fact that they are such an isolated nation with some pretty wonderous architecture leads me to search out any bit of information I can find coming out of the country. So to be able to witness their mis-information machine in motion is even more interesting. Enter the Korean Central News Agency, which is the state-run propaganda machine of the DPRK, founded in 1946 and the sole creator and distributor of ‘news’ within the DPRK. They transmit their news in several languages and appear to have ties to a foreign news agency in Japan who re-publishes their news on the internet for all of us to witness.

Some choice quotes and links to articles after the jump…

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