Navigation » Unusual Stuff | Videos | Images | Monthly Archives

The announcement was as clear as day:  “Attention, Walmart customers: All black people, leave the store now.”  The question is, who said this announcement and why?  That’s what Walmart (and local officials) wants to know after an announcement was made at their Washington Township, New Jersey, location commanding that black people vacate the store.  Of […]

It’s getting to be that time of year again.  About this time every year, the tax forms start arriving, and thus, the looming April 1 deadline starts to make its presence felt.  It’s tax time, and if you work from home like I do, then you’ll want to have your write-offs prepared.  PC World has […]

As often as three times a week, Rose and Walter Martin are greeted at their front door by cops brandishing guns.  Far from criminal masterminds, the innocent 80-something couple are upstanding citizens who are the victims of a mistake in the NYPD’s computer system.  Apparently when the department put in a new system in 2002, […]

The theory behind invisibility has been long known by scientists.  They’ve even managed to do it before now on two dimensional objects.  However, they’ve never been able to do it in three dimensions, until a team from Germany’s Karlsruhe Institute of Technology managed to crack the key.  The team, lead by Tolga Ergin, developed a […]

Faith and begorah!  The luck of the Irish wasn’t with one unlucky bank robber on St. Patrick’s Day.  Police say two men, including a man dressed as a leprechaun, held up a Fifth Third Bank branch on Wednesday.  After the robbery, the unnamed men hopped into his car and sped away, leading police on a […]

There’s a fundamental difference between food that is weird because of its shape or its combination of contents, and food that is weird because of what it simply is.  Pepsi AM is strange, but not as strange or troubling as, say, horse meat ice cream.  Horse is a delicacy in Japan, but that is only […]

It’s one of the accepted realities of technology.  If you buy something with a screen, from clocks to iPads, there’s going to be that little sheet of thin plastic film that covers the screen.  Whether to protect it from scratches, protect it during shipping, or just to keep grubby fingerprints off of it, that little […]

For one Mt. Washington, Pennsylvania, resident, it was the weirdest night of his life.  For Michael Karanja Kamau, it was just a really cold, drunk night.  Police say the 33-year-old Kamau, from nearby Cranberry, broke into someone’s apartment and, in an attempt to get warm, crawled into bed with a strange man.  The sleeping man, […]

One of the more popular items at Texas Auto Center, a car dealership in Austin, Texas, is an anti-theft GPS system that enables police and users to disable a stolen car’s engine in the event of a theft.  The car gets stolen, cops turn it off, and then they use the GPS to track it […]

If you want to feel ashamed of yourself, then I suggest you read this story about parachute-jumping, bomb-sniffing, special forces dogs.  Seriously, these dogs are more accomplished than anyone I know, and they doesn’t even have thumbs!  The dogs earned theirwings as part of Operation Cold Response, Europe’s biggest war games operation in Norway.  The […]

As the Elvis estate could tell you, being dead is a great business deal.  Michael Jackson’s estate is living proof of that, as his heirs, controllers, and various business managers have negotiated the biggest record deal in history for the singer, who died only 9 months ago in mid-preparation for a string of comeback concerts. […]

It’s no secret that the Internet has changed how we do everything since it took hold of the world.  There’s a reason that improving the Internet is one of the FCC’s top goals.  That’s not hyperbole; from shopping to music, reading to communication, the Internet has changed everything and here are the 15 websites responsible […]