Last month I ridiculed a cocaine-ruined money launderer who tried to jack the Feds for a $15 trillion tax refund. This month we’ve got a number even more inconceivable: $23,148,855,308,184,500. That, according to MSNBC, is how much Visa erroneously charged several of its credit card customers.

Much as I love newspapers, there’s only one way for the newspaper advertising spend of intelligent businesses to go: down

A man who tried to steal more money than the U.S. owes China was indicted this week. A no-brainer nominee for world’s dumbest criminal, Marlon T. Moore — also known as “X-Large Moore” — filed an income tax return that sought a refund of nearly $15 trillion, The Miami Herald reported today.

Fellow nerds, check out this math quiz on The New York Times’ website that tests your ability to estimate colossal quantities with eight Fermi problems.