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National Cheesecake Day, Om Nom Nom!

Posted 7/30/2010 11:00 am by

Listen, between you and me?  I hate cheese.  That’s not a secret.  However, weirdly, I LOVE cheesecake.  I don’t know how, or why, and I know it makes absolutely no sense, but I really do dig a nice cold slice of cheesecake straight out of the fridge.  I don’t eat it often, but I do […]

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Vicar Conducts 360 Sham Marriages

Posted 7/30/2010 10:30 am by

It’s the kind of scam you’d expect from Nigerians, the scam masters of Africa.  However, they had a little help in obtaining sham marriages when it was time to stay in Great Britain after visas had expired.  Rev. Alex Brown, the vicar of St. Leonard-on-Sea church in Sussex, England, has been found guilty of performing […]

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Art On The Head Of A Pencil

Posted 7/30/2010 10:00 am by

There’s just something about pencils that make them perfect for art.  The graphite is soft and easily manipulated, making pencils awesome for drawing and shading traditional sketches, but for some reason, pencils also lend themselves to nontraditional forms of art, too.  Like, for example, the weird and creepy pencil faces or, in this instance, the […]

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Drew Carey Drops 80lbs. After Getting Sick Of Being Fat

Posted 7/30/2010 9:30 am by

Drew Carey is known for a few signature things.  He’s got those black horn-rimmed glasses.  He’s got a flat-top.  He makes Cleveland jokes.  And, oh yeah, he’s a bit on the pudgy side.  Well, he was a bit on the pudgy side, but thanks to a change in dieting habits and a serious exercise regiment, […]

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Oldest Man In Tokyo Actually Dead For 30 Years

Posted 7/30/2010 9:00 am by

For years, it was believed that Sogen Kato was the oldest man in Tokyo.  The man in the above picture, Shigechiyo Izumi, is 120 years old; Kato was thought to be a relatively spry 111 years old.  However, when officials from Tokyo’s Adachi ward went to congratulate him on his 111th birthday, they discovered something […]

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Jennifer Lopez To Take Song And Dance Act To American Idol

Posted 7/30/2010 8:30 am by

Say what you want to about the TV show American Idol.  While it’s seen better days, ratings-wise, and is no longer the force it once was, it’s still the most popular show on TV, a pop-culture staple, and it’s still bringing in millions of dollars for Fox.  Say what you want to about Jennifer Lopez.  […]

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Goldman Sachs To Ban Cursing, Ignore Real Problems

Posted 7/30/2010 8:00 am by

In the federal hearings on the financial crisis and the billions of dollars in toxic assets the government purchased from financial firm Goldman Sachs, one of the key players in this whole mess, one thing kept coming up as a sticking point in federal investigations, and it’s nothing that grown adults should ever be worrying […]

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Bear Mauls Three Campers Near Yellowstone

Posted 7/30/2010 7:30 am by

There’s a reason why Stephen Colbert has dubbed bears as the greatest threat to America.  Of course, since he’s a TV comedian he’s obviously joking, but bears are nothing to be trifled with.  Three campers found this out the hard way at the popular Soda Butte camp ground outside of Yellowstone National Park in rural […]

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Another Week, Another World’s Strongest Beer

Posted 7/30/2010 7:00 am by

It’s apparently update day here at PopFi.  On Friday of last week, I wrote about BrewDog’s 100-proof beer served in a dead animal, known as The End Of History.  Well, a Dutch brewer by the name of Jan Nijboer has announced that it’s time to start the future with, appropriately, Start The Future.  It’s the […]

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Lost Ansel Adams Photos Might Not Be Real

Posted 7/30/2010 6:30 am by

Earlier in the week, I wrote about a box full of lost Ansel Adams photos that were bought at a yard sale for basically nothing and that might be actually worth $200 million dollars.  Assuming they’re actually the work of Ansel Adams, that is.  However, since the news of the photos broke and spread, there […]

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Porsche Unveils Green 918 Sports Car

Posted 7/29/2010 11:00 am by

Green is in, kids.  Everything is going green, and thanks to the hard work of Elon Musk (an awesome villain name) and Tesla Motors, even the supercar you’ll never be able to afford unless you win the lottery is getting a greener outlook (and we ain’t talking about the paint).  Porsche has unveiled the Porsche […]

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Fan Wearing Miami Heat LeBron James Jersey Thrown Out

Posted 7/29/2010 10:30 am by

LeBron James has moved on with his life and NBA career, but fans in Cleveland aren’t quick to forgive, or forget.  Not just LeBron James, either; they’re taking their ire out on LeBron supporters, fans of the Miami Heat, and pretty much anyone they can.  I suppose that’s why a fan wearing a LeBron James […]

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Flying Manta Rays

Posted 7/29/2010 10:00 am by

It’s one of the most unusual mating behaviors ever caught on film.  Giant manta rays, which can weigh several tons when fully-grown, have been caught leaping up to 10 feet out of the water and flapping their fins in an attempt to glide in order to attract a mate.  Apparently, the big air and massive […]

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Restaurant Debuts $69 Hot Dog With Truffles

Posted 7/29/2010 9:30 am by

If you’re looking for a tasty treat, there’s nothing quite like a good old hot dog (especially if you grill it).  That’s the spirit behind events like National Hot Dog Day (July 23 of last week) and why every year, people just chow down on hot dogs by the ton.  That said, you’ve never had […]

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100 Million Facebook Users Have Personal Details Leaked Onto BitTorrent

Posted 7/29/2010 9:00 am by

Are you still using Facebook?  Are you ready to freakout?  Well, the details of over 100 million Facebook users have been gathered together by a cybersecurity expert/activist named Ron Bowes, and they’ve been released onto BitTorrent downloading sites for the perusal of the general, computer literate public.  That’s right, your Facebook information is all over […]

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Relationships Key To Long And Healthy Life

Posted 7/29/2010 8:30 am by

It’s often said that humans are social animals, but as a recent study in PLoS Medicine states,”The idea that a lack of social relationships is a risk factor for death is still not widely recognized by health organizations and the public.”  That is, until two professors at BYU, Julianne Holt-Lunstad and Timothy Smith, analyzed data […]

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Lock Picking Competitions

Posted 7/29/2010 8:00 am by

In Las Vegas, skilled computer hackers work day and night on figuring out ways to circumvent the electronic safeguards that protect our computer systems from complete and total failure.  Meanwhile, in towns and cities all throughout the United States, people are setting to work trying to figure out ways to circumvent the physical safeguards that […]

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ATMs Hacked To Spit Out Cash

Posted 7/29/2010 7:30 am by

One of the most enduring scenes in the 1994 action movie classic Terminator 2: Judgment Day, is the scene in which a young John Connor (Edward Furlong) uses a computer-type device with a fake card to hack into an ATM machine and clean out someone’s bank account in the process of getting himself a little […]

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China Drafts Fur Farm Foxes To Fight Rats

Posted 7/29/2010 7:00 am by

When the Chinese province of Xinjiang developed a problem with rats, they were a bit hamstrung as to how to take care of them.  The province, in remote Western China, is about 5.5 million acres of grasslands and prairies, so setting a whole lot of traps isn’t exactly a good solution to the problem.  So, […]

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Teen Calls Cops On Drunk-Driving Mom

Posted 7/29/2010 6:30 am by

It has to be the most awful choice any teenager can make.  Do you make a call to the police that might save lives, including your own?  Or do you let your mother avoid being arrested.  That was the choice Jamie S. Hicks’ 13-year-old daughter had to make.  She chose properly, calling the police and […]

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Catalonia Bans Bullfighting

Posted 7/28/2010 11:00 am by

You can call it a victory for the forces of good over animal cruelty.  You can call it a deathblow to a time-honored cultural tradition.  You can call it a sport banned, a tourist trap sprung, or the first battle in a war guaranteed to rend Spain in two.  No matter what you call it, […]

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Snake Found In Washing Machine

Posted 7/28/2010 10:30 am by

As a mother of two boys, Wendy Foley is used to doing laundry.  Lots of laundry.  So, when she went to the washing machine and saw what she thought was a snake, she dismissed it as some kind of kids’ toy or a prank or something.  After all, the laundry had been going and the […]

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Tiger Escapes From The Vet

Posted 7/28/2010 10:00 am by

It’s not the kind of problem you generally have in America, but I imagine it might be more of an issue in, say, South Africa.  That’s the home of Rose Fernandes and her beloved 17-month-old tiger cub Panjo.  Well, it was Panjo’s home, until the 310-pound tiger escaped from a vet’s office in Springs, a […]

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Klingon Tourists Get Cave Tours, Too

Posted 7/28/2010 9:30 am by

As seen in the above image, Klingons who end up on earth are generally the friendlier sort.  Well, friendly as a race of alien warriors go, anyway.  For example, the above Klingons aren’t shredding the human in the middle’s face off, so thus they’re probably peace ambassadors or something.  Now, if they want to take […]

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Butt-Groping Knife Fight

Posted 7/28/2010 9:00 am by

Be careful where you put your hands, because you never know what might happen if you get a little too gropey for your own good.  A friend of 22-year-old Laquita Mattox kicked off a chain reaction when she fondled her friend.  She got her fingers near the friend’s gluteal cleft, the friend clenched her booty, […]

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Southwest Airlines Bumps Skinny Woman For Fat Passenger

Posted 7/28/2010 8:30 am by

Southwest Airlines is in trouble, yet again.  Once more, there are waves being made about the airline and its policy of size discrimination between customers.  Rather than booting off another chubby customer, as they did when they threw Kevin Smith off the plane, now they’re turned their practices on the slim and trim!  A skinny […]

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Rare Zedonk Born In Georgia

Posted 7/28/2010 8:00 am by

It’s not a combination that is normally seen, but it’s happened enough to get a name.  When a zebra father has a baby with a donkey mother, the end result is what is called a zedonk.  It only happens in wildlife preserves, which makes it very rare, so the zedonk baby born in captivity at […]

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Man Buys $200-Million-Dollar Photos At Yard Sale

Posted 7/28/2010 7:30 am by

Rick Norsigian used to be a commercial painter, now the 64-year-old from Fresno, California, just might have found himself his retirement nest egg (though he’s still working for the moment).  Ten years ago, he bought two boxes of old photographs, envelopes, and glass negative plates at a yard sale.  That $45-dollar investment (Norsigian talked the […]

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Tarantulas Invade England

Posted 7/28/2010 7:00 am by

It’s a spider-phobic person’s worst nightmare.  Apparently, two massive Chilean Rose tarantulas, both the same age and gender, were discovered in British backyards within two miles of one another, and the RSPCA feels that this might be the beginning of a trend.  They believe that 20-year-old Lisa Broad’s tarantula capture in Sharples near Bolton, Greater […]

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Chevy Volt Gets A Price Tag

Posted 7/28/2010 6:30 am by

It looks like the year of the electric car is upon us.  Two of the most high-profile electric car releases from mainstream companies, the Chevy, err… Chevrolet Volt and the Nissan Leaf are slated to be hitting showrooms within the next few months and, fittingly, details are starting to leak out about both of them.  […]

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