Kansas is well known as the perennial subject of ridicule of the international scientific community. Here’s more of why that is.
The Kansas school board has implied that Intelligent Design falls outside of the definition of science. So they will attempt to redefine science to include pseudoscience.
From the AP article:

TOPEKA, Kan. — The Kansas school board’s hearings on evolution weren’t limited to how the theory should be taught in public schools. The board is considering redefining science itself. Advocates of “intelligent design” are pushing the board to reject a definition limiting science to natural explanations for what’s observed in the world.

Instead, they want to define it as “a systematic method of continuing investigation,” without specifying what kind of answer is being sought. The definition would appear in the introduction to the state’s science standards.

It’s hard to find the words… How about, Kansas is the rectum of American science education.

Looks like the DRM that was tacked onto the most recent Dave Matthews CD crashes Windows machines. And the music industry can’t figure out why we’d rather download music than buy CDs.

Some Swede has designed a glowing door handle called Brighthand. It lights up red when the door is locked and green when it’s unlocked. Only available in Scandinavia. Aside from looking toyishly like lightsabers, these will only uncourage laziness among Nordic burglars.

For the tech-savvy sportsman, now there’s “internet hunting” (unrelated to MILF hunting). Here’s how it works:
You pay with your credit card to log onto a site. Once they’ve got your money, they give you access to a web cam that’s attached to a rifle. You stare at your screen, wait for animals to pass, and then click your mouse which fires the actual gun, hoping you can kill the real animal. If you do, the owner goes out, collects the carnage, has it butchered, and they send it to you. The only stipulation is that you have to apply for a hunting license in Texas, the state where the animal is actually being shot.

This is what happens when red states get technology.

Apparently, “noodling” is a kind of fishing where you dive underwater, grab hold of a catfish with your hands, and then pull it to the surface. Noodling has been illegal in Missouri since 1919, but for a limited time this summer the Missouri Conservation Commission is allowing it in three rivers. From the guy in the picture:

I’ve had them clamp down so tight on my arm that I didn’t know if they’d ever let go. They have rows of tiny teeth, and when you try to pull your arm out of their mouth, they’ll just skin you. I even had one fish that tore my tennis shoe right off my foot. I couldn’t walk for a couple days. But that’s all part of it.

Why isn’t this universally popular?

This guy made a parody of the Star Wars: Episode 3 trailer by adding subtitles of leetspeak… similar to the Jive-to-English translation in Airplane. But then Lucas’s laywers sent him an angry “cease and desist” takedown notice. This guy gets the last laugh, though, by posting the notice and a leetspeak translation of it. An excerpt:

n00bz:

Clan Luc@ss and krew (aka. “Griefers”) are so ubAr 133t that we even made Star Warz, The Empire Respawns, and The Jedi Go PvP. We also made some crap about some fag named Jar-Jar, but that was totally teh SUXXOR!!!1!!11! (oops. our bad) But we still totally pwn those flix. Those movies are mega ph4t lewt and we even found some sploitz that let us re-release them and make MAD BANK!
Even tho the 133t trailR was TOTALLY THE WINxorz, we f’in PWNt you! You are a dam dirty pirate-haxor-n00b and you can’t join our clan. You duped our items and somehow (must be h4x) stacked buffs on them. You best do what we say or we’ll petition the GMs and they will B4N your account! Oh noes!

Only the finest in tooth-modding. The jewels in the top set spin to emulate spinning hubcaps. There is now a second meaning to “pimp my mouth”.

BOW, N.H. — A decision to take Advanced Placement biology instead of gym will cost a Bow High School senior her diploma, but it won’t keep her from going to college in the fall. Though Isabel Gottlieb is a good student, a trumpet player in the school band and holds varsity letters in three sports, she discovered last fall she was one gym class shy of having enough credits to graduate next month.
She asked for a waiver, but the school wouldn’t budge, telling her instead she had to drop a class to take gym.

Via Boston.com