Elizabeth Mort went to Jameson Hospital in New Castle, Pennsylvania, and delivered a healthy baby. Three days later, Lawrence County Children and Youth Services came to her home and took her newborn baby away. The county claims Mort failed a drug test, testing positive for heroin. Elizabeth Mort claims poppy seeds in a bagel caused […]
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Bland Dinner? Blame Background Noise
Posted 10/15/2010 8:30 am by Ron HoganThe major strength of the human race, besides brains and opposable thumbs, is that our senses are tied together. All five of our senses work together to process information. That’s also our greatest weakness. If you have a stuffy nose, you can’t taste. Visual cues are linked to how food is perceived. Apparently, hearing is […]
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Google’s Multi-Billion-Dollar Profits
Posted 10/15/2010 8:00 am by Ron HoganRecession? What’s a recession? That’s a question that Google executives and stockholders could conceivably be asking themselves right now, as the technology giant has beaten Wall Street expectations for quarterly profits. Google didn’t just beat the estimated $5.2 billion revenue estimate, they crushed it with $7.29 million in net revenue. Google made $2.17 billion in […]
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NYC UFO? More Like Balloons
Posted 10/15/2010 7:30 am by Ron HoganRemember yesterday’s UFO sighting in Manhattan? Well, it turns out that it’s not an actual UFO, nor is it some prankster pulling one over on Manhattan’s more gullible souls. What caused a UFO frenzy was actually a bunch of balloons tied together to celebrate an engagement. At art teacher Andrea Craparo’s engagement party at an […]
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Top Gun 2 Is Happening (With Tom Cruise)
Posted 10/15/2010 7:00 am by Ron HoganIt’s one of the defining movies of the 1980’s. For the United States Navy, it was the greatest recruting tool that could have ever been written. For a youngster, it was the most awesome job anyone could ever have. In retrospect, it’s one of the most latently homoerotic movies ever written. It’s that blast from […]
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Verizon Will Carry iPads
Posted 10/15/2010 6:30 am by Ron HoganThe long-running, long-festering flirtation between Verizon and Apple seems as though it is entering the next phase, as the talking has started to cease and the action is starting to happen. Verizon is getting its first Apple product, but it’s not the iPhone (that won’t be until 2011); Verizon is actually going to start carrying […]
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Japan’s Pop-Singing Robot
Posted 10/14/2010 12:00 pm by Ron HoganRobots are our future. If the Japanese have taught us anything, it’s that one day we’ll all be living alongside, working alongside, and possibly sleeping with sentient machines with the power to rend us in twain with the whir of a servomotor and the gush of pneumatic fluid. I’m slowly growing to accept this new […]
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Back To The Future, 25 Years Later
Posted 10/14/2010 11:30 am by Ron HoganIt’s by far the best time-traveling science-fiction teen comedy ever written, and it’s celebrating 25 years since it first hit the big screen in 1985. It’s Back To The Future! In honor of Back To The Future‘s 25th anniversary, the Scream Awards and Spike are hosting a 25th anniversary reunion of the BTTF cast and […]
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Hotel Bargains-Only $671,000 A Night!
Posted 10/14/2010 11:00 am by Ron HoganDo you want to look like you own a billion-dollar house without actually having to buy or build a billion-dollar house? Well, the Mandarin Oriental Tokyo Hotel has a bargain for you. You can rent out the entire hotel, including 9 restaurants and a spa, for the low price of $671,000 per night! When you […]
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UFOs Over Manhattan
Posted 10/14/2010 10:30 am by Ron HoganDid you just think it was The Kremlin and Chinese airports that had UFO problems? No sir! In fact, we’ve got a nasty alien problem in the skies over The Big Apple. Right here in America, people in New York City’s Manhattan borough are in a frenzy after mysterious flying metallic orbs were spotted in […]
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Rent-A-Goat
Posted 10/14/2010 10:00 am by Ron HoganWhen Brett Milligan’s company, Greenworks, needed to clear a 2-acre vacant lot in southwestern Portland, Oregon, he didn’t turn to the gas-powered weed eater. Instead, he turned to nature’s perfect weed-eating machine, the goat. Rather than hiring a crew of men, Milligan rented a crew of 50 goats from Goat Rental NW to clear the […]
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The Social Network Changing Perceptions Of Facebook
Posted 10/14/2010 9:30 am by Ron HoganWhen I reviewed The Social Network for Den of Geek, I described Jesse Eisenberg’s take on Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg as, “equal parts genius and monster, both the wittiest guy in the room and the one least able to conduct a conversation with others.” It’s a great movie, but it’s also a hard movie to […]
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New Mammal, The Scruffy Ferret, Discovered
Posted 10/14/2010 9:00 am by Ron HoganThere is nothing as rare as a new carnivore. Hence the excitement when a Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust group discovered a new creature dubbed a scurffy ferret, or the Durrell’s vontsiras, a cuddly little mollusk-eating weasel-type animal. The critter was discovered in the Lac Alaotra region of Madagascar, the species has been spotted four times […]
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Courtney Cox Offered $1-Million-Dollar Cougar Life Endorsement
Posted 10/14/2010 8:30 am by Ron HoganCourtney Cox, in more ways than one, is a cougar. At 46, she finds herself separated from her younger husband (39-year-old David Arquette) and, presumably, she’s back on the dating market. As an actress, she’s always available for the right price, and the star of a show about an older woman romancing younger men is […]
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Rapper T.I. Stops Suicide Attempt
Posted 10/14/2010 8:00 am by Ron HoganClifford Harris is one of the richest and most successful men in music. Of course, you might not know Clifford Harris by his real name, but by his rap name: T.I. (No, I don’t know what T.I. stands for, nor do I want to know.) He’s done a lot of things in his short lifespan, […]
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The World’s First Billion-Dollar Home
Posted 10/14/2010 7:30 am by Ron HoganWhen you’re the richest man in India, and the fourth-richest man in the world, you can pretty much do what you want. For Mukesh Ambani, what he wants to do is fairly reasonable. He eats home cooking. He dresses like a normal Indian male and not a billionaire jet-setter. However, Ambani has indulged in one […]
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Airline Pilot Dies In Midflight
Posted 10/14/2010 7:00 am by Ron HoganIt’s the kind of thing that happens in movies, not real life. During a Qatar Airways flight from Manila, Philippines, to Doha, Quatar, there was a horrifying accident. The pilot of Qatar Airways Flight QR645 died as a result of a heart attack during the flight. The terrible event worked out to only mild discomfort […]
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Brett Favre In “Man Getting Hit By Football”
Posted 10/14/2010 6:30 am by Ron HoganBrett Favre has been in the news a lot lately, but not for his on-the-field exploits. It’s more like his off-the-field sextsploits that get Favre media attention these days (because he’s been terrible on the field and should have stayed retired). Now, I’ve avoided covering Brett Favre’s groin until now, but finally something happened with […]
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Sewer Pipe Hotel Rooms
Posted 10/13/2010 12:00 pm by Ron HoganTalk about your unusual hotel suites. The Park Hotel in Ottensheim, Austria, is a pretty nice hotel, but it’s also the pits. Specifically, sewer pits. While guests don’t stay in the sewer, the Park Hotel does have rooms that are available in converted sewer pipes that customers are raving over. It’s quite possibly the weirdest, […]
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Topless Woman Attacks Cops With Meat Cleaver
Posted 10/13/2010 11:30 am by Ron HoganThere’s a longstanding PopFi tradition of naked women interacting with the police in some manner. Either she’s greeting the cops with beer or she’s running from them. Whether she got naked and stole a cab or just doesn’t like clothes, naked women and cops are always interesting reading. Unfortunately for Portland, Oregon, police officers Michael […]
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Giant Radio Flyer Pickup/Wagon
Posted 10/13/2010 11:00 am by Ron HoganYou can never underestimate what you can do with some plywood, foam, and a dream. Fred Keller and Judy Foster were at a car show when they saw a hot rod rigged up to look like a bright red Radio Flyer wagon. The pair were instantly inspired. Here’s the end result– a human-sized big red […]
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Pizza Express Employees Get Flirting Training
Posted 10/13/2010 10:30 am by Ron HoganHow do you get customers to relax and enjoy a dining experience? Well, obviously, you chat with them, be friendly, and go out of your way to engage them. That’s why British restaurant chain Pizza Express has hired a professional actor to train workers in the art of flirting. Karl James is a classically-trained actor […]
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The 6-Month-Old Happy Meal Shows No Signs Of Aging
Posted 10/13/2010 10:00 am by Ron HoganIt started with an idea. Sally Davies, an artist living in Manhattan, wanted to say something about the state of food in New York City. So, she headed to a random fast food place and picked up a meal. In this case, it was a McDonald’s Happy Meal. Six months later, and the food looks […]
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Dogs: Pessimists or Optimists?
Posted 10/13/2010 9:30 am by Ron HoganWhen it comes to people, some folks see the glass as half-empty, while others see the glass as half-full. Apparently, if you believe researcher Mike Mendl at Bristol University in the UK, dogs and their owners have more in common than we thought. Just as people can be optimist or pessimist, dogs can also be […]
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Improv Everywhere’s Mummy Dance Party
Posted 10/13/2010 9:00 am by Ron HoganImprov Everywhere does some awesome stunts. They gather large groups of people together, pick a place that’s very public, then show up and just do something incredible. For example, for their latest in the MP3 Experiment series, they started out in stores in Midtown Manhattan, they cleaned up the displays, walked down to Bryant Park […]
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Band Arrested After Traffic-Stopping Performance
Posted 10/13/2010 8:30 am by Ron HoganThere are a lot of ways to get your band some attention, but one of the most common ways seems to be the inspired impromptu concert. The Beatles did it way back when, and since then bands have been randomly showing up at places and giving concerts in the hope that they, too, can be […]
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Vigilante Justice Stops ComicCon Thief
Posted 10/13/2010 8:00 am by Ron HoganWhen it comes to stopping criminals, sometimes the best defense is a good offense. Richard Turner had a plan. While attending the New York Comic Convention at Javits Center, he was going to make off with something valuable. At the booth rented by Worldwide Comics, he saw just what he wanted to steal: Action Comics […]
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Oil Drilling To Resume In Gulf Of Mexico
Posted 10/13/2010 7:30 am by Ron HoganJust under six months ago, a BP-leased oil well in the Gulf of Mexico suffered a blowout that leaked thousands of gallons of crude oil into the waters off the coast of the United States. It took forever to seal the leak, and some say it’s still kind of leaking a little oil, but that […]
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“Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” Stopped
Posted 10/13/2010 7:00 am by Ron HoganDon’t ask don’t tell, the United States Military’s policy on gays and lesbians in the armed forces, has been on the books for 17 years, but with a stroke of her pen, California judge Virginia A. Phillips has banished the anti-gays in the military law from the books. The moment she handed down her ruling, […]
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Watch Chilean Mine Rescues Live
Posted 10/13/2010 6:30 am by Ron HoganThe tunnel has been finished, with the rescue tube in place. Overnight, at a rate of about one every hour, the 33 Chilean miners that have been trapped underground are being rescued, one by one. At the time of this writing, seven of them have been lifted to safely, but more are being pulled out […]
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