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At a family celebration on December 26, Isolde Beesley from Leicestershire, England, wanted to enjoy a nice bottle of wine.  Personally, my family gatherings drive me towards stronger drink, but I digress.  Anyway, she found a bottle of Moscatel de Valencia wine from Asda, opened the top, and poured herself a big glass.  Then, she […]

See that pencil lead up there?  Technically, it’s not lead, it’s graphite.  Graphite is what’s in all our pencils these days, so I don’t know why we still call it lead.  Graphite itself is nothing new, but graphene?  Now that’s new.  Graphene is basically carbon, extracted from graphite and arranged into sheets one atom thick, […]

Paul Ewing is not a man to be trifled with.  His neighbor owed him money for drugs, but refused to pay.  So Ewing got a little creative and decided that revenge is a dish best served via murder.  Ewing, a 35-year-old from Bradenton, Florida, didn’t kill a person, he just killed his neighbor’s plants using […]

If the people of Brazil can elect a clown to their version of the Senate, why can’t Americans elect a naked cowboy as president?  It seems like a good question, since we have an action movie governor and all.  Why not elect the Naked Cowboy the Naked President?  That’s why Robert Burck, AKA The Naked […]

John McTiernan is best known as the director of action movies like Die Hard, in which a cop goes up against terrorists, busts the bad guys, and saves his wife and all the other hostages.  Now, John McTiernan is on the wrong side of the law.  McTiernan was sentenced to a year in jail on […]

Director Zack Snyder, who burst on the scene with 2004’s remake of the George A. Romero classic Dawn of the Dead, has a reputation for filming the unfilmable.  He scored a huge hit with 300, took on a superhuman task by adapting Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon’s Watchmen, and has just released Legend of the […]

I love 3D.  I know it’s lame, and I hate paying extra for those glasses and the surcharge for renting the equipment needed to project it, but when it’s done in the proper spirit and not just tacked-on or in an exploitative sense, it can be a lot of fun.  That’s why I’m generally pro-3D […]

When you think of fat, you don’t think of healthy.  At one point in human history, pudge was desirable because it meant wealth, and wealth means food.  However, these days, fat is bad, lazy, and unhealthy.  However, fat might not be unhealthy (just genetic).  For some people, you can be obese and healthy. “Weight isn’t […]

Sometimes, all it takes to break a world record is planning and a few friends.  When Palantine Beds in Newcastle, England, wanted to get a little free advertising by breaking a world record, they got creative with it.  Their goal was to topple 400 mattresses like dominos, to break the mattress dominos world record.  Even […]

You probably don’t know Kimbra Hickey’s name.  You don’t know her face.  You’ve probably never seen her in your life, but you know her hands.  We all know her hands.  Kimbra Hickey is the person behind the hands on the cover of Twilight.  That’s right, Kimbra Hickey IS Twilight Hands, and she wants to sell […]

Winston Churchill has won just about every honor a person can win.  He’s a knight, he’s a decorated veteran, he’s Britain’s greatest leader of the modern era, and he’s one of history’s great inspirations.  Now he’s got another award to put in his posthumous collection of honors:  Winston Churchill has a hit single with the […]

It was, by far, the ugliest football game supposedly played by professionals all year, and I’ve watched pretty much every available preseason and regular-season football game that’s been on television this year.  In more ways than one, this game was brutal, but nobody’s feeling the pain more than Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler.  Not only […]

In the words of Boston Fire Department spokesman Steve MacDonald, “Smoke doesn’t discriminate.”  In that spirit, Boston’s fire department has received a pretty interesting gift:  pet-sized oxygen masks designed for animals.  Boston’s fire trucks each received one of 60 small, pet-sized oxygen masks designed for small snouts and cuddly little noses, in an attempt to […]

We know a lot about dinosaurs, right?  I mean, we all know which dinosaurs were huge, which ones were tiny, and we know all about the various in-between size dinosaurs.  However, some long-standing thoughts about estimated dinosaur size might not be true.  Thanks to the fact that dinosaur joints were mostly cartilage and not bone, dinosaurs might […]

When you pay several thousand dollars for a car, you want it to be reliable and dependable, as well as well-manufactured.  However, if you’ve bought a BMW 5, 6, or 7 series, then you might be kicking yourself.  BMW has announced a monster recall of some 350,000 Rolls Royce and BMW large-engine (V8 and V12) […]