I know you’re worried about it. We all are. Finally, there’s a website that, once and for all, answers the question on everyone’s lips, “Do I have swine flu?” Maybe you’re not concerned about swine flu. Maybe you’re concerned about swine flu’s cousin, pig flu. Well, there’s also a website that answers the question, “Do […]
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Surgical Masks Are The Latest Fashion Trend
Posted 4/30/2009 9:30 am by Ron HoganAs the swine flu spreads, more and more people are hitting up the stores for surgical masks in the hopes that a little layer of paper will protect them from receiving (or giving others) the dreaded swine flu. Even semi-celebrities like reality TV stars Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag have donned the surgical mask, as […]
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Impressive Melon Carving Art
Posted 4/29/2009 10:19 am by Ron HoganSome days it feels as if spring has been skipped entirely and the world has decided to jump straight to summer. Here, we went from 30 degree freezes straight to 90 degree swelter without ever bothering to explore that middle ground of pleasant 68-75 except on the days that it rains. While the heat, humidity, […]
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ESPN Unicorn Invasion
Posted 4/28/2009 8:53 am by Ron HoganESPN normally caters to sports fans. While plenty of women watch sports, most sports fans are men ages birth-death. It’s a pretty sizable demographic that enables ESPN to do really well, even in a recession. That doesn’t mean they’re going to sit on their audience and not try to expand, though. Yesterday, ESPN’s website took […]
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Swine Flu and You
Posted 4/27/2009 10:03 am by Ron HoganThe big news topic this weekend was the outbreak of swine flu, which has hit Mexico hard already and via Mexico, has spread to the United States. Experts are troubled by this flu outbreak and how quickly it has spread from person to person, so in the spirit of public health, CNN has a FAQ […]
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Mad Science Gone Cute: Fluorescent Puppies
Posted 4/24/2009 12:15 pm by Ron HoganI’m just going to come out and say this: I love science. Science is awesome. I wish like crazy I was good at science, or felt like working hard to make myself into a scientist. Why? Sometimes scientists do things not because they should, or because there’s a need to. At its core, science is […]
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The Alphabet According To Google Maps
Posted 4/24/2009 11:43 am by Ron HoganCoolbuzz posted a brilliant image today of Rhett Dashwood’s Google Maps alphabet. That is, he found landmarks and natural formations and put them together in order to craft an A-Z map of the world, so to speak. Now this is just awesome! I see a lot of people try to decipher the hidden letters or […]
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The Tony Hawk of Chimpanzees
Posted 4/24/2009 9:10 am by Ron HoganIt’s been a long, hard week. Everyone I know is grumbling as we round the corner into the last day of the work week. They may not have jobs, they may have jobs they hate, they may be having problems with husbands and wives and kids. No matter what’s got you down this week, I […]
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An Ogre-Green Shrek Wedding
Posted 4/23/2009 11:09 am by Ron HoganKeith Green and Christine England had a fairly nontraditional wedding. The bride didn’t wear white and the groom wasn’t in a tux. Instead, both parties in the wedding wore green from head to toe. Not green clothing, green paint, as the couple united in costume as ogre and ogress in a Shrek-themed wedding. Usually it […]
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Gigantic, Beautiful Sand Sculptures
Posted 4/23/2009 9:45 am by Ron HoganWhen I was younger, I loved to play on the beach. Swimming in the water, riding the waves, and trying to build sand castles were just too much fun. Unfortunately, I wasn’t very good at building sand castles, so I never would have made it in the World Sand Sculpture Festival. I couldn’t even […]
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The Perfect Muppet Caper
Posted 4/22/2009 9:55 am by Ron HoganI love these neat little editing challenges. I’m not sure what else to call them, but Henson’s 11 is an absolutely perfect mash-up of The Muppets and Ocean’s 11, with Muppets taking over the roles of all your favorite members of Danny Ocean’s gang. It’s amazing, and Gonzo (even as Matt Damon) always makes me […]
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Lyuba The Mammoth Reveals The Secrets Of The Ice Age
Posted 4/21/2009 12:40 pm by Ron HoganIn 2007, Russian scientists made an incredible discovery. In the Artic, they stumbled across the little body of a month-old baby mammoth that had been buried in mud and preserved for over 40,000 years. Her skin and hair are still intact. Her bones and organs? Still intact. Little Lyuba is quite possibly the most well-preserved […]
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Special Edition Video Games
Posted 4/21/2009 9:44 am by Ron HoganI’m a big fan of classic video games and movies, so when someone finds a way to reinterpret a familiar game, I’m all ears. Or in the case of these awesome video games redesigned as collector’s edition DVDs, I’m all eyes. Flickr user(s) Cossix and Daphny were inspired by the famous Criterion Collection of arty […]
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Vatican City Goes Green
Posted 4/20/2009 10:00 am by Ron HoganEurope’s largest solar power plant is in development as we speak. The money is together to pay developers Solarwold AG, the site has been chosen, and is scheduled to be pumping out power by 2014. What nation is playing home to this massive installation? It’s not France or England, two nations with plenty of […]
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Holy Buildings Become Luxury Hotels
Posted 4/17/2009 10:11 am by Ron HoganFor some, a trip abroad is more than just a desire to go for a swim in the ocean or see strange new tourist traps. For some, traveling is a spiritual event, a chance to revive the body and awaken the spirit. This combination of physical and spiritual activity, as well as the cloistering away […]
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Real Life Snakes On A Real Life Plane
Posted 4/16/2009 1:38 pm by Ron HoganIt had to happen sometime. Samuel L. Jackson did his best to warn us about this in 2006, but we didn’t listen. He said, loudly and hilariously, that he was quite weary of the presence of elongated legless reptiles in airborne mass transit vehicles, but we didn’t listen. What was the result? A Quantas flight […]
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Miramax Is Watching You Tweet
Posted 4/16/2009 5:00 am by Ron HoganFor those of you out there who might engage in illegal activities by downloading movies, it might be in your best interests not to post your intentions to the whole of the Internet. Movie studios are out there, and they are keeping an eye out for their properties. After posting a message complaining about the […]
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A Fir Tree In A Human Lung
Posted 4/15/2009 9:16 am by Ron HoganFor two weeks now, I’ve had a cough and a constant tickle in my throat. I went to the doctor and they told me it was an upper respiratory infection. I got some pills, cough syrup, and a shot. I hope he was right, and that I actually had an infection and not a tree […]
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Buy Michael Jackson’s Old Junk
Posted 4/14/2009 11:26 am by Ron HoganI mentioned Michael Jackson earlier today in passing. I needed an excuse to link to something back in PopFi’s massive archives and him using his fortune to buy all the Beatles music seemed appropriate given that I was talking about eccentric, wealthy weirdos. I mean any story about rich and weird has to mention Michael […]
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The King’s Enema Kit And Other Strange Habits Of Royalty
Posted 4/14/2009 10:42 am by Ron HoganThe richer and more powerful someone is, the stranger their personal habits become. Look at Michael Jackson. He used his billions of dollars to buy his own amusement park and the career of The Beatles. Just imagine how crazy ol’ Wacko Jacko would be if he were above the law, rather than routinely dragged into […]
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Harry Kalas, Voice Of The Philadelphia Philles And NFL Films, Passes Away
Posted 4/13/2009 6:54 pm by Ron HoganIf you’ve read PopFi for awhile, you know by now I’m a huge fan of voiceover guys. From Don LaFontaine to Vin Scully, I’ve always admired a guy who can convey so much with only the way he speaks a few words. I’ve always kind of wanted to go to broadcasting school and get involved […]
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Celebrate Dyngus Day The Proper Way
Posted 4/13/2009 1:12 pm by Ron HoganI’d be remiss if I didn’t wish all of PopFi’s readers a Happy Dyngus Day! Err, wait… what’s Dyngus Day? Apparently, it’s the traditional Polish holiday celebrated on Easter Monday in which folks take to the streets for parades, eat sausage, listen to polka, hit one another with pussy willow branches, and sprinkle the opposite […]
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Fishing On Stilts
Posted 4/13/2009 12:46 pm by Ron HoganSpring is coming, slowly but surely. The sun’s a little bit brighter, the day’s a little bit warmer, and the grass is a little bit greener as, day by day, the earth awakens from its winter slumber. It’s a great time of year for outdoor activities like golf or fishing. If you’re looking for a […]
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Giant Lego Jesus Joins Easter Celebration
Posted 4/13/2009 9:25 am by Ron HoganThe Onsta Gryta church in Vasteras, Sweden has taken the lyrics of an old folk song by Ed Rush and George Cromarty to heart. Namely, the following snippet: “I don’t care if it rains or freezes/’long as I got my plastic Jesus”. For Easter Sunday services, the Protestant church did something special, unveiling a 6-foot-tall […]
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Easter Cuteness
Posted 4/12/2009 9:59 am by Ron HoganIt’s Easter, it’s early, and I’m still too tired to be awake this early. I need some cute video in my day, and the above video is one of the cutest things I’ve seen in months. There are lots more videos of Sharky and his chicken friends at texasgirly1979’s YouTube home. It’s the video equivalent […]
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Cadbury Eggs Are Filled With Sugary Heaven
Posted 4/10/2009 9:34 am by Ron HoganWhen it comes to candy, I have a lot of things I like a great deal. However, there’s only one candy treat that I cannot get enough of, and that is the Cadbury Egg. It is quite possibly the world’s most perfect piece of candy, and the availability of those little chocolate eggs every season […]
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Reporter Versus The Easter Bunny
Posted 4/10/2009 5:00 am by Ron HoganYou know how your local news organization will always send an investigative reporter and cameraman to harass someone on their way to their car or inside their place of business in pursuit of a story? That’s always kind of bothered me. In some ways, I can understand that the reporter is just doing his job, […]
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Greasey Thieves Steal Grease
Posted 4/09/2009 10:03 am by Ron HoganI’ve always joked with people that as the price of gas goes up and more people convert their cars to alternative fuel sources, like human fat or electricity, that someday someone would break into the dumpster behind the local fast food restaurant to get at all that used grease inside. After all, the grease used […]
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European Culture For A Greener America
Posted 4/08/2009 1:26 pm by Ron HoganThey say the grass is always greener on the other side. When it comes to living in Europe, it seems everything has the potential to be greener than the United States. Part of that is due to Europe being significantly smaller and more densely populated than the United States, and some of it is due […]
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Nature’s Perfect Hangover Cure: Bacon
Posted 4/07/2009 1:16 pm by Ron HoganAs it turns out, the obsession with all things bacon is no longer just the domain of the hungry. If you are nursing a massive hangover after a night of too many adult beverages, just slap a little bacon on bread for the ultimate hangover cure! That’s right, bacon is both good and good for […]
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