So you’re tired of dining on McDonald’s and you want something different. Something fancy. You’ve got the cash saved up and you’re willing to fly anywhere in the world for the best meal you’ve ever had in your life. Well, if you listen to the S. Pellegrino guide to fine dining, chef René Redzepi’s restaurant […]
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Minimalist Super Hero Posters
Posted 4/27/2010 11:30 am by Ron HoganI love movie posters, both the real and the reimagined. I probably have 10 or so on my walls right now, and I’ve got at least another 25 or 30 in storage that I could bust out and add to my walls at any time, depending on my mood or the amount of wall I […]
Read »Only In Japan: Crying Babies, Evil Spirits, And Sumo Wrestlers
Posted 4/27/2010 11:00 am by Ron HoganThat’s right, you’re not hallucinating. That picture you see is a couple of sumo wrestlers holding crying babies while a high priest appears to be conducting an orchestra. It’s all part of an ancient Japanese ritual mixed with kind of a game-show event. For over 400 years, parents have been bringing their babies to the […]
Read »Tiny, Adorable Horse
Posted 4/27/2010 10:30 am by Ron HoganI love a tiny, healthy animal. Like the teacup pig? Obviously I’m crazy about them, because I’ve featured them twice due to their adorable nature. Then, I saw Einstein, the newborn miniature horse. Now, miniature horses are small in general, but Einstein is possibly the smallest miniature horse ever born. At birth, he was 14 […]
Read »Hugh Hefner Saves The Hollywood Sign Again
Posted 4/27/2010 10:00 am by Ron HoganOver 40 years ago, Hugh Hefner saved the Hollywood sign. In 1978, Hef was one of nine people to buy a letter of the deteriorating Hollywood sign and restore it. (Hef bought the Y in case you were wondering.) Now, Hef is once again stepping in to save the iconic Hollywood landmark. On top of […]
Read »Gizmodo Blogger Searched By Police
Posted 4/27/2010 9:30 am by Ron HoganIt has been one of the biggest scoops of the journalism world. Gizmodo got their hands on a prototype Apple iPhone G4 and religiously dissected it, exposing its planned features and giving the world an exclusive look at one of the most hotly-anticipated items from one of the most secretive companies in the world. And […]
Read »Depressed People Eat More Chocolate
Posted 4/27/2010 9:00 am by Ron HoganIf you’re a chocoholic, are you also more likely to be depressed? That’s what a recent report in the Archives of Internal Medicine suggests. Researchers at University of California-San Diego, lead by Dr. Natalie Rose, have suggested that people who eat a chocolate bar a week are more likely to be depressed than those who […]
Read »Everyone Go Look At The Giant Stinky Flowers!
Posted 4/27/2010 8:30 am by Ron HoganThe beautiful Amorphophallus titanium, or Titan Arum, is a very beautiful flower, as you can see by its giant purple bloom. It’s one of the rarest flowers in the world, found only in the jungles of Sumatra. When it blooms, it’s noteworth for a few reasons. First of all, it blooms only very rarely in […]
Read »McAfee To Repair All The Computers It Broke
Posted 4/27/2010 8:00 am by Ron HoganWere you one of the millions of people affected by McAfee’s broken antivirus patch that caused their antivirus program to mistakenly identify the harmless Windows file svchost.exe as a piece of malware? If so, you’re not alone. While the company spin is that only a few people were affected, it’s hit more people than even […]
Read »Fernando Alonso’s $13-Million-Dollar Thumbs-Up
Posted 4/27/2010 7:30 am by Ron HoganWhen you’re a world-class athlete, you want to protect your livelihood. There have been other people to get insurance policies against weird injuries, most of them as publicity stunts. However, double world champion driver Fernando Alonso’s insurance policy is pretty unusual. Santander, the sponsors of Alonso’s Formula OneFerrari, have insured his thumbs for 5 […]
Read »Dog Rescued From Recliner
Posted 4/27/2010 7:00 am by Ron HoganDogs are wonderful animals. I love dogs to death, but they’re not the smartest of creatures on the planet. Especially smaller dogs, who have more freedom and ability to explore places they shouldn’t go. When a dog got a little too roaming-happy, firefighters had to be called in to rescue the dog from a recliner. […]
Read »TV Appearance Leads To Arrest For Fake Paul McCartney
Posted 4/26/2010 10:30 am by Ron Hogan“Help! I need somebody!” is a snipped from a popular Beatles song. Help! is the name of a popular Beatles tribute band, in which four guys grow shaggy comb-forwards and matching black suits and play covers of Beatles tunes. “Help!” is also what Ted “Theodore” Felicetti, who plays the Paul McCartney role in Help!, is shouting. […]
Read »Stalking The Wild Haggis
Posted 4/26/2010 10:00 am by Ron HoganHaggis is kind of a punchline. It’s possibly the most awful-sounding food product to have ever been invented: the heart, liver, and lungs of a sheep minced with onion, spices, suet, and oatmeal boiled within the sheep’s stomach. You’d think something like that would be well known, but the food website Just Eat commissioned a […]
Read »Twins And Twins
Posted 4/26/2010 9:30 am by Ron HoganWhen twins Adrian and Hannah McInnes were looking for prom dates for their senior prom at Jamestown High School in Jamestown, North Dakota, they knew exactly who they wanted. The twins wanted to try their luck and ask out another set of twins, Josh and Jerimiah Dockter, whom they worked with at the local grocery […]
Read »The Stimulus Package Didn’t Save Jobs
Posted 4/26/2010 9:00 am by Ron HoganOne of the benefits for the stimulus package wasn’t the support of flagging companies directly. The stimulus package was supposed to create and save jobs. That’s what most of the money was earmarked for, what it was intended to do, and what it did NOT do. According to a survey by the National Association for […]
Read »Pimp My Stolen Ride
Posted 4/26/2010 8:30 am by Ron HoganIt had to have been inconvenient for Amanda Pogany to lose her car. I mean, she’s a school teacher in Brooklyn, so she probably needed that car to get around the city when she had to go anywhere. In 2006, her 1996 Honda Civic was stolen. She and her husband assumed that the car was […]
Read »Fishing Up A Box Of Active Grenades
Posted 4/26/2010 8:00 am by Ron HoganWorkers at the Fair Tide Shellfish plant in New Bedford, Massachusetts are used to fishing up weird stuff. After all, there’s always something strange to be found in the water, from weird fish to unusual wreckage. However, the plant uncovered a potentially explosive problem when they fished up a crate of World War II-era grenades. […]
Read »Hydrant Thief Caught Wet-Handed
Posted 4/26/2010 7:30 am by Ron HoganBrian Burian (which I read as Brian Brian, but that’s probably not the case) is pretty brazen. He made all his thefts in broad daylight, in plain sight of the world. Then again, when you’re stealing fire hydrants, which weigh 80-100 pounds, you probably need all the light you can get. Burian, from Rubidoux, California, […]
Read »911 Is Not The Number For A Ride
Posted 4/26/2010 7:00 am by Ron HoganThe fine folks who run the lines at the local 911 number are hard-working, stressed-out people whose job entails them saving lives and property for a living. They’re the ones who are responsible for getting first responders to respond, so they’re the most crucial element in the chain of life-saving. As such, they generally don’t […]
Read »Ghost Sightings On The Rise
Posted 4/26/2010 6:30 am by Ron HoganWe live in a modern world full of lights and sound and technology. The old monsters, the ghosts and ghouls and goblins, have been replaced, right? These things are merely just remnants of our old life, huddling in the dark around a fire and explaining away the sounds of animals in the forest. Well, maybe […]
Read »Stephen Hawking Says, “E.T. Go Home!”
Posted 4/26/2010 6:00 am by Ron HoganIn his new Discovery Channel, Into The Universe With Stephen Hawking, the renowned British physicist and scientific theorist turns his formidable mind towards other matters concerning humanity, with some interesting ideas. For example, Professor Hawking believes that humanity’s constant search for extraterrestrial life in the depths of the universe is “a bad idea.” Given Prof. […]
Read »A Winning Collection Of Informercial Failures
Posted 4/23/2010 9:00 am by Ron HoganInfomercials are actually pretty fascinating. I mean, it’s a half-hour ad disguised as a television show designed to sell you something you don’t need. Generally, it’s something that you know you don’t need, too, like colon cleanser kits or a Snuggie, with some loud interjection like “Ouch!” or “There’s GOT to be a better way!” […]
Read »Two-Headed Lizard Found; One Head Hates The Other!
Posted 4/23/2010 8:30 am by Ron HoganIt’s kind of like that old movie with Ray Milland and Rosie Grier, The Thing With Two Heads. Only in this case, rather than some kind of weird science experiment in life-saving and head grafting, you’ve got a weird animal mutation that has resulted in a two-headed bobtail skink, or Shingleback. The two-heade little critter […]
Read »$62,000 In Cursed Money Stolen
Posted 4/23/2010 8:00 am by Ron HoganAs the old saying goes, money is the root of all evil. I just don’t think it’s literally the root of all evil, as two swindlers from Chicago have proclaimed. By telling a Park Ridge, Illinois, woman that she had gotten some cursed money and that the curse had spread to all her other money, […]
Read »The Cheeseball Vigilante Murder
Posted 4/23/2010 7:30 am by Ron HoganEli Westlake and his friends were walking home, and as a prank, they were throwing food. When 21-year-old Eli tossed a handful of cheeseballs at the car of 39-year-old Sarah May Ward, he made a fatal mistake. Ms. Ward was so incensed that she ran him over with her car in what is being described […]
Read »NCAA Tournament Votes To Expand Games, Increase Coverage
Posted 4/23/2010 7:00 am by Ron HoganNot content to give up the spotlight to the NFL Draft, the NCAA Tournament has big news of its own. While March Madness could not be farther away at this point, there’s big news concerning the threatened expansion of the greatest thing ever invented in sports. Yes, the NCAA tournament is going to get bigger; […]
Read »Killer Fungus Migrates To The US
Posted 4/23/2010 6:30 am by Ron HoganThere’s a new breed of killer stalking the woods of America’s Pacific Northwest region, and it’s something that strikes silently and dangerously. It’s called Cryptococcus gattii, or C. gattii, a rare tropical fungus that infects the lungs of people and animals who breathe it in. The reason why C. gattii is so dangerous is that […]
Read »Bradford Goes Number One; Tebow’s Shocking First Round
Posted 4/23/2010 6:00 am by Ron HoganLike a lot of NFL fanatics, I’ve always made it a point to watch the NFL Draft, and last night’s 2010 NFL Draft was no different. Well, it was a little different, as for the first time in league history, the first round of the draft took place during prime time, and on a weeknight. […]
Read »Woman Arrested For Cocaine Possession After Recovering Lost Purse
Posted 4/22/2010 9:30 am by Ron HoganWhen cops in Perth, Scotland, found a lost purse, they figured they’d never see the owner again. After all, the purse they found contained a bag full of cocaine. If you lost a purse full of drugs, would you go to the cops to recover it? Katrina Purll did, and when she showed up and […]
Read »Dying Man Sells Ad Space On His Urn
Posted 4/22/2010 9:00 am by Ron HoganAaron Jamison is dying. Not in the sense that we’re all dying, in the sense that he has somewhere between 3 and 9 months to live, based on how successful his current chemotheraphy treatments are. He was initially diagnosed with colon cancer, only to discover too late that it had spread to his liver and […]
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