Pop Fi has brought all sorts of homes to your attention. We’ve had houses made of newspaper, “backpack” additions to condos and houses made from recycled trash. Even dog houses that would make some people jealous. The latest unusual home is a house made of umbrellas. The structure by Japanese designer Kengo Kuma is comprised […]
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The Penalty For Assault With A Dead(ly) Hedgehog
Posted 5/30/2008 9:10 am by Ron HoganWe’ve all been hedgehog-throwing mad. I know I sure have. It’s important, when you’re at your angriest, to step back, take some deep breaths, and slowly put down the Erinaceinae, because if you’re anything like the New Zealander who threw the last hedgehog, you’ll end up paying a hefty fine. While $545 is a pretty […]
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Intelligent Digital Pot Reveals Pertinent Plant Info
Posted 5/29/2008 10:40 am by Stephanie SturgisIt doesn’t take long to figure out I don’t have a green thumb. One quick look at the window sill where my few pitiful potted plants reside shows my sheer lack of intuitive human/plant interaction. Only the heartiest greenery survives my care. There may be a rescue in sight for my not-so-green house plants. It’s […]
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Wacky Packages Stuck on the Coffee Table
Posted 5/28/2008 11:10 am by Stephanie SturgisWho doesn’t love some gross humor. Come on, admit it. The lowbrow can still be funny. We were taught this at an early age thanks to the folks at Topps who produced Wacky Packages stickers. You remember don’t you. A pack of stickers with parodies of actual products available on the local grocer’s shelves reformed […]
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Vintage Photos – Pics from the Past
Posted 5/27/2008 11:38 am by Stephanie SturgisThere’s nothing like looking back at society through the snapshots of the people. I can spend hours scrolling through vintage photos and wondering how the lives of the people depicted were different from mine or just same as what I go through. If you enjoyed Tracy’s earlier link to vintage photos here at Pop Fi, […]
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Gamers Can Buckle Up Old School
Posted 5/22/2008 9:35 am by Stephanie SturgisI have to admit I’m anxious to get to play with the new Wii Fit. The stand-on board from Nintendo looks like a real test of balance and, considering I’m not the most graceful, it will be a challenge. One thing about the Fit, I don’t imagine the big white rectangle will be turned into […]
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Robot Mouth Chomps on Apples
Posted 5/20/2008 10:55 am by Stephanie SturgisSometimes I wonder how scientists in lab think of new things to study. I envision it something like this. There’s a chemically-enhanced man in a white lab coat standing next to a counter top covered with a bunsen burner with a blue flame shooting out of the top of it and a computer nearby. He […]
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Creepy Kids in Ads
Posted 5/19/2008 12:05 pm by Stephanie SturgisNothing wigs me out quicker than a creepy kid. It’s even worse when an advertising agency thinks that what they consider a darling cherub but I see as an evil devil spawn is fawning over their product in a commercial or ad. Is it just me or does that kid at the top look like […]
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Happy Birthday Converse
Posted 5/16/2008 12:43 pm by Stephanie SturgisChuck Taylor All-Star tennis shoes are everywhere. I know they are in my closet. I’ve got two pairs tucked in there. That makes me part of 60 percent of all Americans, according to a survey that says more than half of all US citizens own or have owned a pair of the low tech athletic […]
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The Vrolik Is One Morbid Museum
Posted 5/16/2008 12:17 pm by Stephanie SturgisThe human body is a crazy gizmo. When you start thinking about how it works it can be overwhelming. I pop in a couple of slices of pizza for fuel and the thing just keeps on ticking. Curious doctors, scientists and anatomists have tried to solve the puzzle that is the human body for centuries. […]
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Mmmmmm – Meat Water
Posted 5/14/2008 12:43 pm by Stephanie SturgisStrolling up to the beverage coolers in the local quick mart now presents too many options. It’s no longer just a question of with which soda will I quench my raging thirst. Now, thirsty consumers have to wade through shelf upon shelf of chilled energy drinks, sodas, bottled waters, flavored waters, teas, flavored teas and […]
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Gruesome Bread Heads
Posted 5/14/2008 12:02 pm by Stephanie SturgisThe picture above is not part of the promotional advertising for the latest addition to the Saw movie series. The heads are actually available in a bakery in Thailand. Thai artist and baker Kittiwat Unarrom brings dough and anatomy together in truly creepy form. Kittiwat’s family owned the bakery and he added his ghoulish artistic […]
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Nuclear Waste as Art
Posted 5/13/2008 2:30 pm by Stephanie SturgisNuclear waste and art are rarely combined in the same sentence. However, a storage facility for nuclear waste in the Netherlands is bringing a new approach to the problem. The Habog Facility has been painted a bright orange and is covered with giant equations to capture the attention of passersby. Inside the building, in addition […]
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Red Hot Lover Captain Kirk and his Alien Women
Posted 5/13/2008 1:46 pm by Stephanie SturgisMy dog wakes me up every morning about 5 a.m. to go outside. The only good thing about this canine habit is that it coincides nicely with TV Land’s morning schedule in which Star Trek (The Original Series) has a prominent place, airing every Monday through Friday. So while I doze back off for another […]
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Skeeter Eaters
Posted 5/12/2008 9:41 am by Stephanie SturgisOnce again, it’s Mother Nature to the rescue. You can’t turn on the news on television or click online to a news site without hearing about the housing foreclosure crisis. All across America, houses are empty and abandoned due to money woes. Many of those homes in warmer states like California, Florida and Arizona have […]
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Floating Shelves Are Decor Magic
Posted 5/12/2008 9:05 am by Stephanie SturgisI love a clever design trick that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg or necessitate a trip to one of those giant furniture stores. Roaming the Intertubes, I ran across a shelf on Neatorama that pulls off a trick worthy of Kris Angel and David Blaine. It’s a “floating” shelf and you don’t have […]
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ManBabies
Posted 5/09/2008 8:10 pm by Trace SharpThere is a new site on these tubes called ManBabies. I think the picture is self-explanatory where the heads of fathers and their sons are transferred. I know. Very odd.
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To Infinity and Beyond on NASA’s Kepler Mission
Posted 5/09/2008 4:31 pm by Stephanie SturgisI’ve finally found a way to travel into outer space without having to die and have my ashes hurled out into oblivion. NASA is affording me (and anyone else inclined) an opportunity to send my name into space as part of the Kepler Mission. The Kepler mission is a search for Earth-size and smaller planets […]
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Annoying Kids Get Their Payback
Posted 5/08/2008 1:29 pm by Stephanie SturgisWhat’s more annoying than a cutesy kid on a Hummel figurine? How about annoying kids in real life. They run around like maniacs while their parents are often oblivious to the distractions and mayhem their “little darlings” are causing whether it’s during a concert or ceremony, at restaurants and stores or just in the neighborhood. […]
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The Devil’s Playground
Posted 5/08/2008 12:56 am by Ron HoganThe playground is supposed to be a happy place. Filled with kids running around, having fun, screaming with laughter and delight as they gambol and cavort about like beasts in the field. Sure you might get the occasional skinned knee, but mostly the playground is a place for kids to be kids and revel in […]
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Bringing The Noise With Toys
Posted 5/07/2008 1:07 pm by Stephanie SturgisI’m still a kid at heart. I love me some toys. Among the clutter on my desk is a hula dog bobble head, some Simpsons stuff and an old Pee Wee Herman “action figure.” So imagine my delight when I ran across a woman who combines toys to create “music.” Yep, Kitty Clark has some […]
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Phone Sheep
Posted 5/07/2008 12:22 pm by Stephanie SturgisIn an age of cell phones, ye olden dial phone with the curly cord is quickly becoming a thing of the past. So what to do with all those useless coils of cord. How about creating a flock of sheep that you don’t have to feed, shear or clean up after. The art was created […]
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Anti-Pirate Discrimination Laws Still Exist!
Posted 5/07/2008 12:54 am by Ron HoganYarr, matey. A father of four in England be lookin’ at a trip to the brig thanks to his raising of the black flag of yore in honor his his wee daughter’s 8th birthday party. David Waterman, a firefighter by trade, raised the Jolly Roger as part of a party theme and since then has […]
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Chunky Monkeys = Obese Chimps on a Diet
Posted 5/06/2008 11:10 am by Stephanie SturgisPopFi proves once again that it loves a primate tale. From spear-tossing orangutans to chimps pimping out grooming for a little monkey-bumping sex, PopFi has the scoop. From a scoop of one kind to maybe two or three or four scoops of another kind. Some Chunky Monkeys in Japan may have been the inspiration for […]
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When Different Species Get Along
Posted 5/06/2008 10:39 am by Trace SharpIt’s squirrel week at Pop Fi! Image credit
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Deja Vu: New Nine Inch Nails Album is F-R-E-E
Posted 5/06/2008 5:12 am by AJ StarAlthough this post is being categorized under our “Unusual Stuff” banner, the habit of releasing new music for free has certainly become anything but unusual for Nine Inch Nail’s mastermind and frontman Trent Reznor. The group released yet another full-length album yesterday for free download off of their official website. The album, titled The Slip, […]
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Mechanical Animals Or The Adventures of Cyborg J. Squirrel
Posted 5/06/2008 1:15 am by Ron HoganNo, I’m not talking about the Marilyn Manson album Mechanical Animals, but close to it. One of the greatest things humans can do is rebuild things they’ve damaged. From bionic tails for dolphins and artificial coats for featherless penguins, to an artificial beak for a wounded eagle named Beauty, humans have come a long way […]
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Kinder, Gentler Grand Theft Auto 4
Posted 5/05/2008 9:32 am by Stephanie SturgisUnlike classic video games which people search high and low on the Internet to find, certain video games get a bad rap. You shoot a few people, including some cops, steal some cars, boats and planes or blow up some stuff and suddenly you’re the scourge of the gaming world. The Grand Theft Auto game […]
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Bionic Dolphin
Posted 5/05/2008 8:48 am by Stephanie SturgisI may be showing my age, but I’ll admit I watched the original episodes of the $6 Million Dollar Man when they aired way back when. Steve Austin was pretty cool. Winter the dolphin may not be a $6 million dollar version of the aquatic mammal, but she is sporting a tail that scientists had […]
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Mexican Witch Hunt
Posted 5/04/2008 6:30 pm by Stephanie SturgisA newspaper in London has revived the flurry of interest surrounding the video of a “witch” flying off a Mexican cliff and soaring over the local terrain around Monterey, Mexico. Is it a balloon? Is it a witch? Is it a UFO? If’ it’s a witch, could it be Endora or the Wicked Witch of […]
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