In one of the most fascinating sites I’ve seen in a long time, 10×10 shows the top 100 pictures/words of news from the globe from around the world. I tried to get a screencap but you just need to see it to believe it. Fascinating. Here is how it works in their own words. Every […]
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Take Flight (Or At Least Fall Awesomely)
Posted 4/30/2008 1:45 pm by Ron HoganYou know, in my youth, I was a big fan of the movie The Rocketeer. What could be cooler than throwing on a bullet-shaped helmet, donning your asbestos underpants, strapping on a big tank of explosive and flammable jet fuel, then sparking a match and taking off in a leg-charring woosh of flame and gel […]
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New Meteor Crater Spotted Via Google Earth
Posted 4/30/2008 12:18 pm by Stephanie SturgisThere are just certain things anyone with a computer and access to the Internet eventually do. I’ll admit I’m no different than anyone else. I’ve Googled my own name and I’ve plugged in my address to Google Earth to get a sky high view of my neighborhood. It turns an Australian scientist put Google Earth […]
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Curious Cats Avoid Catastrophe
Posted 4/30/2008 11:51 am by Stephanie SturgisI’m more of a dog person than a cat person, so sometimes all the LOL cats on the web drive me a bit crazy. However, I did take note of two stories of adventurous cats in the news recently. No, not this lost pet poster from earlier on PopFi. These stories were about actual cats. […]
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Naked Penguin Gets Wet Suit
Posted 4/29/2008 12:44 pm by Stephanie SturgisWhat is it with birds losing their feathers lately? Just the other day, PopFi had a story about a naked cockatoo. Now we get another featherless feature. Pierre the penguin has puzzled biologists at the California Academy of Sciences. The 25-year-old African penguin began to lose his feathers due to age. The feathers act as […]
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Da Vinci’s Parachute Design Successful
Posted 4/29/2008 12:28 pm by Stephanie SturgisI’m not the daredevil type. Don’t expect me to jump out of an airplane anytime soon, but if I did you can bet I wouldn’t be using a parachute design that had never been successfully tested. That’s what Olivier Vietti-Teppa did, risking his life on a chute based on a design from a time when […]
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“Falling Towers” Actually Supposed to Look Like That
Posted 4/29/2008 6:00 am by Ron HoganThe Chinese government has launched a building (and demolition) frenzy the likes of which hasn’t been seen since the Works Progress Administration was launched by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935. One of the most interesting of the 300 new buildings that are going to be built in Peking’s business district is the so-called Falling Towers, […]
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Free Ice Cream From Ben & Jerry!
Posted 4/29/2008 5:30 am by Ron HoganMy two favorite hippies have done it again. Today, Tuesday April 29th, is Free Scoop Day at any one of 580 Ben & Jerry’s Scoop Shop locations throughout the world. Ice cream is delicious normally, but there’s nothing as good as free ice cream! That’s the sweetest scoop of all. Not sure where your closest retail […]
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Nope, It’s Not A Cat
Posted 4/28/2008 4:44 pm by Trace SharpThe Internet is a wild and wonderful place. Several weeks ago, I was sent an email that made me laugh so I posted it on my personal blog. Today, I wish to share it with the wonderful world of PopFi. Yes, we call him Bitey the Possum around where I live but I guess you […]
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Orangutan Fishes With Spear
Posted 4/28/2008 12:38 pm by Stephanie SturgisThe line just keeps on blurring between how we as humans differentiate ourselves from the rest of the mammals. PopFi has already let you know that chimps will trade grooming for sex. Now, wildlife photographers have captured the first shot ever of an orangutan using a tool. The primate had watched local Borneo fisherman use […]
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Pointless And Dumb USB Gadgets For Your Computer
Posted 4/25/2008 12:37 pm by Ron HoganThere is a staggering amount of pointless and downright stupid USB peripherals available for sale out there on the weird, wild world of the Internet. Just in case you don’t have enough weird things plugged into your computer’s very limited USB slot spaces, forcing your power supply into working overtime, Cracked has just what you […]
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Japanese Anatomy
Posted 4/25/2008 12:02 pm by Stephanie SturgisIn our pop culture saturated world, Grey’s Anatomy is a hugely popular television show featuring McDreamy in its cast. Prior to the hit TV drama, Gray’s Antomy of the Human Body was a hugely popular book filled with precisely accurate drawings of the human body and all that it entails. The book released in 1918 […]
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The Subway Survival Kit
Posted 4/25/2008 11:23 am by Ron HoganAny good motorist has some emergency supplies in their car. Even most of us bad motorists carry around extra oil, radiator fluid, and a spare tire. If you’re prepared, you’ll have a pry bar, maybe a flashlight or some flares, and even a spare blanket. Even if you don’t have any of that stuff, you’ve […]
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Bread Fights Back
Posted 4/25/2008 10:45 am by Trace SharpSome of the most joyous things about the Internet is the insane things you can find if you look around a little bit. In honoring a couple of those sites, you can see some great photography as well as Photoshopping at it’s best. Today, take a look at Eat Liver, where the above picture is […]
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LARPing For Cool Kids
Posted 4/25/2008 5:15 am by AJ StarDon’t worry. I’m entirely skeptical, as well. I mean, I’m pretty sure this guy is the one person to have figured out the only “cool” way to LARP: the Gary-Busey-style plastered way. However, with their collection of “5 LARP Games That Aren’t For Losers,” OMG Lists tries desperately to give secret-LARP lovers the go-ahead to Live Action […]
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8 Sports Designed For Your Dog
Posted 4/25/2008 4:45 am by AJ StarThe Air Bud movies, despite how seemingly useless all of the sequels have been, have taught us one thing: dogs are super athletic. They love sports, they are good at sports, and we should let them play sports. But first they will need a selection of athletic events to choose from. Thankfully, Mental Floss blog […]
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Freaky Fish Festival
Posted 4/24/2008 1:13 pm by Ron HoganI think that the oceans are incredibly fascinating, if only for the wide variety of creatures, both cute and frightening, that live beneath its waves. While even stuff on the ocean is neat, there’s nothing that compares to the freak show that is your average bottom-dwelling ocean fish. They’re like slippery nightmares from H.R. Giger’s […]
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Darth Vader Beats Up His Neighbors
Posted 4/24/2008 11:01 am by Stephanie SturgisI’ve tried to wrap my mind around the fanboys and geeks who spend hours recreating meticulous costumes and performing scenes from their favorite movies. I’ll admit I don’t get it. But I certainly appreciate when these guys go so far over the top that the cops have to be called in. That happened in the […]
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Sci-Fi Accessories That Boggle the Mind
Posted 4/24/2008 9:57 am by Ron Hogan and AJ StarThe science fiction genre is known for its heavy reliance on outlandish gadgetry. However, the gadgets work best when they’re somewhat realistic. If you stray too far from realism, into the realm of the farcically fantastic, then your audience response goes from “Oooh, neat, I want that!” to mocking laughter. Unfortunately, as Io9 points out, […]
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Davis Likes Garfield Without Garfield
Posted 4/24/2008 9:21 am by Trace SharpGarfield creator Jim Davis says he likes Garfield Minus Garfield. A viral phenomenon hit the innertubes several months ago when Dan Walsh of Dublin created a website that just has cartoon character Jon Arbuckle by himself with all images of Garfield removed from panel. The comic creates a very odd and surreal experience and to […]
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5 DVD Commentaries Worth Watching
Posted 4/24/2008 5:29 am by AJ StarPeople watch movies. Collectively, we spend millions, and I mean millions, of dollars on movies every week. We go to the theater, and when we really like the movie we buy it when it gets released on DVD so we can watch it again. Those DVDs come with a lot more than just the movie on them. […]
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Superpowered Fashions Exhibited At the Met
Posted 4/24/2008 5:01 am by AJ StarLadies, if you’re anything like me, when watching superhero movies or television shows it is sometimes difficult to remember when the chicks are evil and when they’re on the side of good. How could anyone with such great fashion sense be bad? Finally, a brilliant group of people has taken the initiative to put together […]
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Space-Age Fiberglass Bike, Circa 1960
Posted 4/23/2008 12:19 pm by Ron HoganI’ve written before about how much I love the retro-future look when it comes to design. I want my cars to be gigantic and have fins, I want my robots to look clunky, and I definitely want my bicycles to have headlights (and taillights). When I win the lottery, I’m going to buy a 1960 […]
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Interactive Holograms
Posted 4/23/2008 11:48 am by Stephanie SturgisWho wasn’t mesmerized the first time they saw R2D2 beam out a version of Princess Leia begging Obi Wan for help? Come on. Admit it. That was pretty cool. Especially if you saw the movie on the big screen back in 1977. The hologram has advanced pretty far since then and now LM3Labs has come […]
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Rocking Out With The Dead (Not The Band, Actual Ghosts)
Posted 4/23/2008 10:19 am by Ron HoganAll the good musicians die way too young. Jimi Hendrix? Dead. John Bonham? Dead. Jim Morrison? Dead. Elvis? Still alive, but pretending he’s dead. As we all know, the best way to contact the spirits (aside from moving into a haunted house) is to break out the trusty Ouija board and make yourself a conduit […]
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Balloons Found, Priest Still Missing
Posted 4/23/2008 9:36 am by Stephanie SturgisA Brazilian priest’s stunt to raise money seems to have backfired and hopes for his safety are getting gloomier. Rev. Adelir Antonio di Carli rose high into the air in a chair suspended below hundreds of helium-filled balloons on Sunday. di Carli was attempting to set a record for time in the air supported by […]
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The Backwards Bus
Posted 4/23/2008 7:45 am by Trace SharpThe one thing about a good ad is, in these times, it’s about not only paying for promoting what you are trying to sell, but getting Internet buzz. An ad for an insurance company in Amsterdam has gone viral. On the back of a bus, the illusion of that the bus is backing up is […]
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30 Non-Sandwich Wrapping Ways to Use Aluminum Foil
Posted 4/23/2008 6:36 am by AJ StarI know how it is. You get tired of only using your 100-foot-long roll of aluminum foil for wrapping up turkey and lettuce on rye sandwiches. You need to break the cycle, get beyond baked potatoes and pre-made casseroles in the freezer. The Life Hackery is here to help. They’ve compiled a list of 30–count them–“30 […]
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The Awful Truth About the World of Blogging
Posted 4/23/2008 5:29 am by AJ StarEarlier this month, the New York Times published an article about the dangerous world of blogging after two men died–one from a heart attack and one from a massive coronary. Writer Matt Richtel chalked it up to stress from the demands of blogging. I am not at liberty to say whether or not I agree […]
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I Want To Be A Judge At The World Beer Cup
Posted 4/22/2008 1:06 pm by Ron HoganLet’s all be honest. Nobody likes the middle of the week. Monday through Thursday, for most of us with traditional jobs, is a terrible period where work leads to dreading more work the next day. Sometimes, I’m not ashamed to admit, I like to take the edge off with a beer or two with dinner […]
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