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 hour, 10×10 scans the […]
You 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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There 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 to better […]
I’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.
One involved a […]
What 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 an insulating […]
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I’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 man […]
The 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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My 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 store […]
The 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 could […]
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The 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 a spear […]
There 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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In 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 includes […]
Any 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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Some 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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Don’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 Role Play […]
The 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 has […]
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