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It’s so hard not to make a Polish-based dumb joke.  When you have criminals in Poland (specifically Lublin, Poland) who do things like try to rob a bank with a spoon, then accidentally expose the spoon and get laughed out of the bank, it’s hard NOT to make comments about the intelligence of all things […]

Of all the dangerous stuff we use every day, among the most dangerous pieces of equipment in the house is the stuff we use to clean.  From the detergents that can be dangerous if swallowed to the very machines themselves, there’s nothing quite as potentially dangerous as the washer and dryer in your laundry room.  […]

Four budding high-school rappers ran into some serious trouble when they made the mistake of mimicking a famous McDonald’s moment in American Fork, Utah.  The four teens, led by Spenser Dauwalder, were imitating a popular viral video in which a guy raps his order at McDonald’s.  The franchise’s owner says they were holding up the […]

Japanese eyeglass manufacturing company Masunaga Optical has launched a revolutionary pair of spectacles.  Called Wink Glasses, the specs are designed to prevent eye wear and eye strain via modern technology.  How they work is a liquid crystal sheet on the lenses fogs up and forces blinking.  Every five seconds, if you don’t blink, sensors tell […]

Despite being of advanced age and wearing an oxygen mask, an elderly criminal known as the Geezer Bandit or the Oxygen Tank Bandit has become the latest serial bank robber to emerge in California.  He’s struck four times in two months, and seems to favor those bank locations inside grocery stores like Von’s, robbing two […]

There’s nothing quite as life-changing for a small town as a blockbuster movie.  They swoop in, film for a few months, then leave town again, but that little town is never the same again.  Mental Floss takes a look at some small towns changed by blockbuster movie fame. For example, Forks, Washington, the town in […]

It’s getting down to the last minute.  If you’re like me and are a procrastinator, you still don’t have a Halloween costume.  Why yesterday, at my work’s Halloween pot-luck lunch, I threw together a great last minute costume.  It wasn’t one of the ones on ABC’s list of great last-minute costumes for kids, but it’d […]

Imagine waking up and finding someone in your house.  You’d be pretty freaked out, right?  Well, take that one step farther and imagine yourself waking up to find someone parked in your house.  Namely, someone that drove through the wall of your home and into your bedroom.  That’s the nightmare Trent Wood and Kristin Palmer […]

Let’s say your favorite baseball team is going for its second World Series title in as many years.  Just what would you give up for the chance to catch one of the most important Major League Baseball games of the season.  If you’re Susan Finklestein, a 43-year-old “desperate blonde” from Bensalem, Pennsylvania, who needs World […]

As an American, it’s hard to picture a land without McDonald’s.  I mean, they’re everywhere here, from stand-alone locations to gas stations and truck stops.  You can’t throw a rock without hitting a pair of golden arches.  However, in other countries, that’s a different story.  For example, Iceland only has 3 McDonald’s locations, all of […]

For a lot of us manning blogs today, our first exposure to owning our own parcel of electronic landscape was GeoCities. Founded by David Bohnett and John Rezner in 1994, it was pretty much the first free web hosting site, as well as an early precursor to targeted marketing via its neighborhood system.  By 1997, […]