There’s absolutely nothing I love more than a crazy conspiracy. Alien abductions are real, as far as I’m concerned. The moon landing was filmed in a sound stage in Burbank. Area 51 houses the remains of the saucer crash that happened in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947. The Great Seal on the back of the United States’ currency is a constant reminder that the country is governed by the Freemasons. Sure, the government denies it. They’ve even published an article ‘explaining away’ all the symbols that make up the Great Seal.

It all makes me laugh! Everyone knows that the more you try to explain something away with perfectly reasonable, non-crazy explanations of how all the symbols in the Seal are simple heraldry, and that famous Freemasons Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and Ben Franklin had nothing to do with the design of the seal itself. You might even explain that the Freemasons use symbols like the ones on the dollar because they predate the Ancient Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, and that there’s nothing inherently evil about the vaguely threatening giant eagle or the all-seeing eye. Puh-lease.

It’s cute what you’re trying to do, government. I appreciate the great lengths you’re going to in an effort to debunk years of wild speculation, but if I wanted perfectly reasonable explanations for the design of the dollar, I’d peel off my tinfoil hat and let the CIA beam the thoughts directly into my brain. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m running late. I have to meet Bigfoot and the frozen head of Walt Disney for brunch in the center of the earth.

Margaret O’Callaghan had a need for a new type of kitchen utensil.  The round-bottomed ladle and the spatula are just not good enough when you’re dealing with things like crock pots and serving dishes.  That’s why she invented the scrudle, a combination ladle and spatula designed to scrape the deliciousness from any sort of cooking […]

Every day, Tom Baker deals with the issue of traffic.  Given Southern California’s massive concentration of cars, it’s no wonder that Baker would get frustrated dealing with the daily traffic routine.  That inspiration resulted in these great images of Los Angeles without the cars.   Here’s the full image gallery, and it’s awesome.
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Have you ever wondered where salt comes from?  I mean, salt is in everything from fertilizers (potassium chloride) to the dinner table (sodium chloride), but where does it actually come from?  Why, salt mines, of course!  They’re not just for horrible industrial accidents or mad scientist lairs anymore.  English Russia has a great look inside […]

For some reason, the kids these days love the Twilight saga.  Believe me, it pains me to call it the Twilight saga, because to me a saga is a great, sweeping work of masterful literature, not a teenage vampire romance novel.  Either way, the latest movie based on the Twilight books, New Moon (officially The […]

People worry about all kinds of crises as the world ends, but as the movie Zombieland taught us, sometimes it’s our snack foods that are most important to our happiness.  For Tallahassee, it was his beloved Hostess Twinkies.  If your favorite food is the humble Eggo waffle from General Mills, then you’d best head to […]

I love goofy little websites like this.  From the Wal-Martians to quality engineering, I love a nice, odd corner of the Internet to investigate.  If it’s something that can result in some comedy thanks to random word generation, even better.   That’s why when Mysterio offered to predict my holiday gifts, I jumped at the […]

Linguist d’Armond Speers is an odd bird.  How else could you explain someone that taught his son Klingon as his first language? For the first three years of his son’s life, Speers spoke to his son only in the fictional alien language Klingon from the Star Trek universe.  His reasoning?  It was an experiment to […]