Everyone wants faster high speed Internet. Once Topeka, Kansas, changed its name for the day to Google, Kansas, the flood gates opened and now everybody is racing to be as weird and interesting as possible in an attempt to lure Google to their town. The resulting flood of freaky, odd, funny, and just plain dumb […]
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First With An iPhone, First With An iPad
Posted 4/05/2010 9:30 am by Ron HoganThere are early adopters, and there’s Greg Packer, the king of the early adopters. Way back in 2007, Greg Packer, a highway maintenance worker in New York City, was the first person in line to buy a first generation iPhone. Three years later, and guess who is at the front of the line at New […]
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Smooching Brits Banished From Dubai
Posted 4/05/2010 9:00 am by Ron HoganRemember the story about the two British citizens who were arrested and jailed in Dubai for the heinous crime of kissing one another on the cheek in greeting? Well, it looks like Charlotte Adams and Ayman Najafi will not be able to worm their way out of their punishment. A judge denied their request for […]
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US Air Force, Boeing, To Launch Unmanned Space Shuttle
Posted 4/05/2010 8:30 am by Ron HoganThe project has been in development for many years. Like the inflatable space station, it started out as a project for NASA, but has since been shuffled off to the United States Air Force, who has worked closely and quietly with Boeing on an experimental space craft. The craft, known as the X-37B Orbital […]
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World’s Fourth-Largest Lake Is Drying Up
Posted 4/05/2010 8:00 am by Ron HoganIt’s one of the most shocking environmental disasters in the entire world, and it’s completely man’s fault. Unlike climate change, the drying up of the Aral Sea can be directly traced to the Soviet Union. To increase cotton production in the region, they diverted, dammed, and disturbed the waters that feed the Aral Sea, the […]
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Drug Dealers Text Cops, Get Busted
Posted 4/05/2010 7:30 am by Ron HoganThere’s a danger inherent to any texting that you might do. Given how texts work, and how you have to use your phone’s contact list to make your comments, then you run a significant risk of accidentally texting the wrong person. Sometimes, that’s how your significant other finds out you’ve been cheating. Other times, you […]
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Topless Parade Draws Dozens Of Marchers, Hundreds Of Gawkers
Posted 4/05/2010 7:00 am by Ron HoganThe goal of the event was to show that women could be as topless as men in public, yet not cause some sort of crazy public outrage. Organizer Ty McDowell believes that she and other women have the same rights as a man does when it comes to things like topless gardening or not wearing […]
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Dog Causes Car Wreck, Has License Suspended
Posted 4/05/2010 6:30 am by Ron HoganDogs, once man’s best friend, are becoming increasingly more bold in their violent attempts to overthrow human society and start their own caninocracy. How else can you explain stories about dogs shooting humans and attacking us with poisonous snakes? More recently, dogs turning our cars against is and trying to kill us? Of course, the […]
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Prostitute-Crossing Sign Confuses Motorists
Posted 4/05/2010 6:00 am by Ron HoganActually, while the sign is warning of prostitutes, locals (and pretty much everyone else) are confused by the meaning. Does it mean prostitutes might be crossing the road? Does it mean that the neighborhood where the sign is located in Treviso, Italy, is a working girl work zone? Does it mean wild prostitutes might come […]
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Pants On The Ground, Ad Campaign Style
Posted 4/02/2010 10:30 am by Ron HoganWhen Larry Platt sang the song “Pants on the Ground” during American Idol, it was more than just some goofy old fellow singing a song about the young people, it was a rallying cry for an entire movement. People have decried sagging, or the wearing of pants low enough to show off your underwear, since […]
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Math Books That Can’t Do Math
Posted 4/02/2010 10:00 am by Ron HoganApparently, you don’t have to be smarter than a fifth grader to make elementary school text books. After all, how else could you explain why the new math textbooks in both the Sacramento City and Folsom Cordova school districts contain some significant mistakes. The classes (the kids, not the teachers) have uncovered more than 90 […]
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Chexting Troubles Abound
Posted 4/02/2010 9:30 am by Ron HoganIf you thought Tiger Woods and Jesse James were the only two men to get caught cheating on their wives thanks to incriminating pictures and text messages, think again! As it turns out, chexting, or cheating through texting, is the hot new trend among those with the seven-year-itch and a penchant for adultery. More […]
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Stand By Me, Muppets Style
Posted 4/02/2010 9:00 am by Ron HoganAnother week, another Muppet cover song. After having their way with Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody and Kansas’ Dust In The Wind, The Muppets and the mad folks over at Jim Henson Studios have gotten the band back together, blown the dust off the karaoke machine, and muppetized another classic song. This time, they’re doing Stand By […]
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Muggers Make It Really Easy To Get Caught
Posted 4/02/2010 8:30 am by Ron HoganAs an outside observer, sometimes it’s really hard to believe people are this stupid. However, given how some people drive, and given just how unlucky some people are, it’s perfectly believable. In Medford, Oregon, two men tried to mug a guy outside of a convenience store. They jumped out on him, brandishing a knife. He […]
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Scorpion Venom May Replace Morphine
Posted 4/02/2010 8:00 am by Ron HoganAs anyone who has ever had any kind of surgery can tell you, morphine is the greatest thing ever discovered by humans. Of course, its pain-relieving qualities come with the nasty side effect of addiction for those who use too much of the substance, but as a pain reliever goes, it’s pretty tough to top. […]
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Virgin Mary: Now On Shower Tiles
Posted 4/02/2010 7:30 am by Ron HoganJust call her the patron saint of home furnishings! After showing up in a man’s dresser wood grain the other day, the Virgin Mary is back. This time, the mother of Jesus appeared in the swirl pattern in Danell Griego’s shower tiles in Belen, New Mexico. She was also holding the recently crucified Jesus, rather […]
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Twins Born A Week Apart!
Posted 4/02/2010 7:00 am by Ron HoganJennifer Renz wasn’t due to deliver her twin babies for another 12 weeks. That’s three months! However, when she showed up at her doctor’s office on March 22, it was clear that baby Grace wasn’t going to wait a full nine months before coming out. Jennifer was in labor, and that baby wasn’t going to […]
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Airport Security To Get Tighter
Posted 4/02/2010 6:30 am by Ron HoganIf you plan on flying to the United States any time soon (or plan on flying out of the United States, then coming back), prepare to face a new level of airport security. The Obama administration and the Department of Homeland Security are preparing to set new international airport security screening standards based on real-time, […]
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Give Me That Fish!
Posted 4/02/2010 6:00 am by Ron HoganMuch like the fish in that commercial, a man in South Brunswick, New Jersey could not wait for his Filet-O-Fish sandwich. So, he took matters into his own hands and got the fish himself. He crawled out of the back window of his car, and climbed into the drive-thru window of the McDonald’s restaurant he […]
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A Protest Strip
Posted 4/01/2010 10:30 am by Ron HoganThe hard-working air hostesses of Spanish airline Air Comet are used to taking off. After all, the average flight crew probably experiences thousands of take-offs and landings throughout her career. Now they’re experiencing a different sort of taking off, as a dozen or so of Air Comet’s sexiest stewardesses are taking off their clothes for […]
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Toads Can Predict Earthquakes
Posted 4/01/2010 10:00 am by Ron HoganThe common toad is just that, common. Toads are literally everywhere. Aside from having the cool scientific name of Bufo bufo, the toad is otherwise unremarkable save for its adaptability. Oh yeah, and the fact that toads can predict earthquakes. At least, that’s what a team of British researchers from Open University have discovered. […]
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Silicone-Stealing Sister Snagged
Posted 4/01/2010 9:30 am by Ron HoganLike most people, Yvonne Jean Pampellonne knew her trouble spots. She felt like she had too much belly and not enough bosom. So, she did what any reasonable person might do: she went out to get a line of credit to pay for her surgeries. Now, here’s where she diverges from us. She got her […]
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The Divine Dresser
Posted 4/01/2010 9:00 am by Ron HoganThey say that God is omnipotent and omnipresent, meaning he knows all and is everywhere at once. If God is everywhere, then the Virgin Mary has to be in the top five, because she’s just about everywhere else. She’s in every Catholic church, most religious art, and, of course, she regularly appears in miracle […]
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Laughter Is Serious Business
Posted 4/01/2010 8:30 am by Ron Hogan“Quit laughing, this is serious!” is a common refrain. After all, there’s not much funnier than the misery of others, hence the popularity of the April Fool’s Joke after several thousand years. However, to people like Robert Provine of the University of Maryland Baltimore County, the saying is more like, “Keep laughing, this is […]
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Who Pays The Most For Gas?
Posted 4/01/2010 8:00 am by Ron HoganEveryone loves to complain about the price of gas, but like all commodities, the price of gas is not equal across all 50 states. So the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) got together, compiled the data, and broke down the numbers to determine two sets of numbers: who pays the most for gas per year […]
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Jay Leno says, “Conan Got Screwed. I Got Screwed”
Posted 4/01/2010 7:30 am by Ron HoganMonths after Jay Leno took over The Tonight Show from Conan O’Brien, only to discover that ratings aren’t what they used to be before Jay burned off all his good will with most of America by stabbing Conan in the back like he stabbed Johnny Carson in the back, Jay’s doing interviews on the subject. […]
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Youtube Overhauls Its Look
Posted 4/01/2010 7:00 am by Ron HoganSo you like videos, huh? Sure, we all do! That’s the spirit behind Google’s release of a brand-new YouTube look today. The site has been redesigned from the ground up to put the showcase more on videos, rather than text. I’ve been playing around on there for a little while, and I have to […]
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Tony The Tiger Rescued From Moat
Posted 4/01/2010 6:30 am by Ron HoganThose Tigers just can’t stay out of trouble, can they? First there was the Tiger Woods incident, and now officials at the San Francisco Zoo have had to rescue a 360-pound Siberian tiger named Tony from the moat around his enclosure yesterday. The officials had to sedate the tiger before strapping him to a gurney […]
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April Fool’s Day Is Here, So Be Wary
Posted 4/01/2010 6:00 am by Ron HoganBe wary what you read on the Internet today, because today is the first day of April. That means it’s April Fool’s Day, and pretty much every website out there is going to be doing something in an attempt to play a prank on you, the reader. Now, personally, I’d never do that, because while […]
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